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Rice pledging scheme deja vu
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/11/2016
» In the early 1980s, as a post-Vietnam war peace took shape in Southeast Asia, Thailand made an important decision. To be more correct, Thailand decided not to decide about rice.
The big issue: If not 30 baht, how much?
Alan Dawson, Published on 20/07/2014
» An old meme cropped up in a new place last week, triggering debates, disputes and differences of opinion over a decade-old question of whether the free state medical programme deserves more respect, called co-pay.
The big issue: Tick-tock
Alan Dawson, Published on 04/05/2014
» For six months, it has been a death match, but politics has suddenly taken on the air of a death watch. In a matter of days, the actions of caretaker prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra will be judged by two bodies generally seen as critics or worse, and the top man at either one can literally throw her out of office as easy as snapping his fingers. Easier.
THE BIG ISSUE: Blowing the whistle on graft
Alan Dawson, Published on 06/07/2013
» The rear wheels of the national train wreck known as the rice-pledging scheme will not come flying off the tracks until September, after the second crop is in.
The Big Issue: Reaping what you sow
Alan Dawson, Published on 22/06/2013
» You had to figure, a week ago, that the near-total disaster known as the rice-pledging scheme couldn't get any worse. And then it did.