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Fighting corruption while ignoring the rice scheme
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 30/01/2014
» Rice farmers are waiting anxiously for money from the government for their pledged crops. And taxpayers are also feeling that they are being robbed in broad daylight by the government which has defiantly dismissed all the warnings about the flaws of the rice-pledging scheme.
Rice scheme tests limits of fiscal prudence
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 09/01/2014
» Imagine this scenario. You want to remodel your kitchen with some new cabinets, floor tiles and appliances, which your contractor will do for 50,000 baht and two days' work.
How our political landscape became stuck in an ice age
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 28/11/2013
» For much of the past decade, our political agenda has seemingly been frozen in the past. Rather than debate where we are and where we want to go, the focus of the country's main political parties can be simplified into two diametrically opposing positions: How to bring Thaksin Shinawatra home on one hand, and how to erase his influence from policymaking once and for all on the other.