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A win-win gamble
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 16/03/2015
» The lottery is the one pathway to wealth in which poor people are on an equal footing with the rich. To spend hundreds of baht to become an overnight millionaire is a tempting fantasy, although the chance of winning the top prize is slim — roughly one in a million.
Rating agencies remain vigilant on rice pledging
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 21/09/2013
» Credit rating agencies are watching to see if spending on the state's rice pledging scheme will exceed the 500-billion-baht revolving budget, says a Finance Ministry source.
Kittiratt defends pledging
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 06/11/2012
» The rice pledging scheme, a topic set to figure prominently in the government censure debates later this month, utilises market forces more than past support programmes favoured by the Democrat Party, insisted Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong yesterday.
A bounty of corruption
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 27/08/2012
» Rice farmers over the next several months will be busy preparing their fields for this year's first crop. It will be the second harvest year under the government's rice pledging programme, a controversial scheme that has made the state practically the sole buyer of rice in the country.