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Patience can lead to virtue and rotten rice
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/10/2012
» Taxpayers should not be surprised if they are occasionally confused by the conflicting statements made by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her ministers, Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom in particular, pertaining to anything related to the rice pledging scheme _ because the government is treating everything as a trade secret which must be kept confidential and disclosed to the public only at the end of next year.
Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/10/2012
» Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapriom remains tightlipped on goverment-to-government (G-to-G) rice deals, claiming the details are secret, as the Transport Ministry is asked to help provide storage space for this harvest's crop. In Bangkok the "sandbag row" was supposed to be settled at a meeting on Friday between City Hall and the Water and Flood Management Commission. And more violence in the deep South.
Lotus leaves will not cover up rice problem
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/10/2012
» "You cannot cover up a dead elephant with lotus leaves." So goes this popular Thai saying, which means that a scandal or something evil which is widely known can never be concealed or covered up because the truth about it will, sooner or later, be exposed.
It's not rice 'pledging'
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/10/2012
» The name itself, the rice pledging scheme, is misleading. It is not at all a pledging scheme because every grain of harvested paddy "pledged" by farmers is actually bought by the government.
Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/08/2012
» The power struggle in the Senate ended with the elected members putting their candidate in the speaker's seat, while in the House the government was grilled by the Democrats over a lack of transparency and corruption in the spending of funds for mega-projects such as the rice pledging scheme and flood rehabilitation programme, and in the far South the violence continued unabated.
Facing up to rice error
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/08/2012
» Ammar Siamwalla, the honorary economist at the Thailand Development Research Institute, warned aboutb it back in September last year during his talk at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.
Army prefers to risk lives than admit mistake
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/07/2012
» Two years after the controversy first erupted, the Department of Special Investigation has released a report which claims the GT200 and Alpha 6 bomb detectors are completely ineffective in explosives detection and that the devices were excessively overpriced.