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Make way for organic rice
News, Published on 12/07/2013
» When Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra visited Yasothon province last week, she was full of praise for organic rice farmers there and offered to help them improve yields and expand markets overseas.
Right the flood project wrongs
News, Published on 02/05/2013
» The government's 350-billion-baht flood prevention and drought mitigation projects look set to go ahead, despite widespread criticism.
Thailand must help its neighbours get over the dam fad
News, Published on 14/03/2013
» I was born and brought up in a hilltribe village at the foot of Doi Mae Salong in Chiang Rai. My mother was a teacher and social worker. My father was head of the hilltribe welfare unit.
It's time to lay the Kaeng Sua Ten Dam project to rest
News, Published on 14/02/2013
» Last Saturday Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi, who is chairman of the government's Water Management and Flood Prevention Commission, proposed to implement the Mae Wong Dam and resurrect the Kaeng Sua Ten Dam as part of the huge flood-prevention package now being formulated. Neither of these dams, if implemented, would offer enough flood prevention to offset the damage caused to forests and wildlife.
Lost in the post
News, Published on 26/01/2013
» I read with interest your article regarding the expansion of the Thai Post Office International Parcel Service. It sounds absolutely great, let's hope it works better than their current core business. I live 50 kilometres north of Nakhon Sawan.
BBC being obtuse
News, Published on 15/12/2012
» Re: ''The good, the bad and the BBC's ugly Abhisit interview'', (Opinion, Dec 14).
Postbag: Where is the water?
News, Published on 12/11/2012
» I live in Pattaya and manage a large apartment complex. Every time there is a long holiday weekend, or during the peak holiday season when the city swells to capacity, there is an insufficient water supply to meet our residents' needs.
Postbag: Facing down dams
News, Published on 09/11/2012
» Despite the opposition from governments, environmentalists and villagers, it looks like the Xayaburi dam project will go ahead.
Concerns about a China hard landing way overblown
News, Stephen S Roach, Published on 31/08/2012
» Concern is growing that China's economy could be headed for a hard landing. The Chinese stock market has fallen 20% over the past year, to levels last seen in 2009. Continued softness in recent data _ from purchasing managers' sentiment and industrial output to retail sales and exports _ has heightened the anxiety. Long the global economy's most powerful engine, China, many now fear, is running out of fuel.
Rice policy own goal
News, Published on 11/08/2012
» Re: ''Govt shrugs off rice probe'' (BP, Aug 10). I think the Thai officials who came out to defend the government's rice-pledging policy are off target concerning the United States' attempt to scrutinise Thailand's rice policy.