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Going global
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 24/07/2023
» Why are Thai small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) unable to penetrate foreign markets as other countries do? Apart from a lack of courage in tackling obstacles to international trade, Thai SMEs' lack of research and development (R&D) is one of the key factors hindering them from entering the global market.
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.
Taking stock of rice woes
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 24/07/2013
» The rusted metal door rolls upward with a groan, as if reluctant to give up its secrets. The light rays entering the dark cavern flicker with haze and dust mites, and our nostrils wrinkle from the musky odours that assault our senses.
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.