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Southern planters should rethink their tough stand
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/08/2013
» With most rubber planters in other regions accepting the government's offer of a subsidy and rejecting the call for a Sept 3 nationwide protest, southern growers find themselves isolated in their demand for guaranteed higher prices.
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MFP must dare to rebuke dubious deals
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/03/2024
» Convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's first foreign visitor since his release on early parole from Police General Hospital on Feb 18 was Cambodian Supreme Privy Council President Hun Sen.
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A gift? Pump prices still way too high
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/12/2014
» The latest "New Year’s gift to the people" from Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is the oil price cuts that were decided by the National Energy Policy Council on Monday and came into effect on Tuesday morning.
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Who really benefitted from the rice scheme?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/06/2013
» Better late than never. The Yingluck government is finally back-peddling on its most ambitious and, perhaps, most destructive populist policy, the rice pledging scheme -- which set the purchase price of paddy about 40% above market price and cost taxpayers 136 billion baht in losses, according to official estimates, in just the first year, with more to come.
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Government brings trouble on itself
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/06/2013
» Resentful farmers angered by the cutback in the rice pledging price have threatened to protest in various parts of the country, putting the government in the hot seat with the possibility it may have to backtrack to appease its major voter base.
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Can the Commerce Ministry be trusted even now?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/07/2013
» On June 18, the National Rice Policy Commission slashed the rice pledging price by 20% from 15,000 baht to 12,000 baht per tonne. Less than two weeks later it made an about turn, reverting to the old price and putting its own credibility and that of the government at rock bottom.
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Govt leaves Thamanat sore to fester
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/09/2019
» Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thamanat Prompow must have been a valuable asset of the government to justify both Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam coming to his defence over his criminal past in connection with a drug trafficking case in Australia about three decades ago and over his questionable educational background while other cabinet ministers keep their distance from the scandal.
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Korn shows how Sansern flunked test
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/12/2017
» Government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd appears to have shot himself in the mouth -- once again.
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Another 'honest mistake', really?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/10/2014
» Over a decade ago the Constitutional Court famously found that then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra made an "honest mistake" in finding him not guilty of assets concealment by a vote of 8:7. Two of the eight votes which ruled Thaksin not guilty in 2001 came from sitting judges who abstained from voting.
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China rice deal real, or illusion?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/09/2013
» It was no surprise when Democrat deputy party leader Korn Chatikavanich expressed his suspicions on his Facebook page on Monday about an announcement by Commerce Minister Niwatthamrong Bunsongphaisan that China would buy 1.2 million tonnes of stockpiled rice and 200,000 tonnes of rubber from Thailand this year.
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