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    Bail granted, but not for all

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 14/01/2011

    » Two of the seven detained Thais were released on bail yesterday with three more expected today, leaving unlucky Veera Somkwamkid and Ratree Pipatanapaiboon behind.

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    Go somewhere else!

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 12/01/2011

    » The business community in the Ratchaprasong intersection area has had enough of red-shirt political rallies, saying they have caused huge losses.

  • News & article

    Dangerous neighbourhood

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 09/11/2010

    » About 20,000 Burmese refugees have poured into Thailand after fighting broke out just across the border.

  • News & article

    Possible flaws in Sor Por Kor land reform

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 04/10/2010

    » The old scandal-ridden Sor Por Kor system of land reform may be facing even further problems.

  • News & article

    20 years and still counting

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 16/09/2010

    » It has been 20 years since the crimes against Saudis were committed, so why are Thai-Saudi relations still at the breaking point?

  • News & article

    Flood crisis

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 19/10/2010

    » The worst floods in decades continue to ravage parts of the Northeast and Central plains.

  • News & article

    THE BIG ISSUE: Safety restraints

    Alan Dawson, Published on 16/12/2012

    » The road to national reconciliation has become the most divisive issue of the day, but a couple of small cracks appeared in the wall separating the country.

  • News & article

    Ambitious charter change 'unlikely'

    Published on 26/09/2012

    » SINGAPORE : Former premier Thaksin Shinawatra said his sister's government will avoid conflicts like those that led to his ouster in a 2006 coup, even as it presses ahead with efforts to curb the power of the courts.

  • News & article

    Democrats' Suthep turns 63

    Online Reporters, Published on 07/07/2012

    » Prominent Democrat politician Suthep Thuagsuban made merit on Saturday morning at Wat Chonprathan Rangsalit on the occasion of his 63th birthday, reports said.

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    Stop hunting for ‘foreign’ scapegoats

    By bobbyd, Created on: 15/08/2009, Last updated on: 17/08/2009

    » This piece is just hypothetical gossip. The writer says “the recent spate of news on proxy ownership”. Recent spate means journalist decided to jump on the issue of foreign scapegoats because it stirs the waters in a rather dull news week. Writer: Sanitsuda Ekacai Published: 13/08/2009 at...

    • david commented : ers fear to talk. As with any good conspiracy theory, the denial is proof it exists. The inability of officials to find any land-grabbing allegedly demonstrated how competently cunning the foreigners are. After all, newspapers quoted people in the know. In Chiang Rai, Inkham Namwong, head of a local palm oil cooperative, told reporters that 70% of the farmland in the entire province had been rented to foreigners. Unfortunately, he also had no proof, no names and no evidence. All of this did nothing to pinpoint a major failing of Thai agriculture. Low crop prices have kept farmers impoverished even as middlemen and food exporters thrived. This could be the conspiracy elephant hiding in the middle of the room. It is true that farmers have been forced or encouraged to sell their land to investors for many years, but there has never been any proof that foreigners or their companies were behind any such purchases. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva himself jumped into the issue. ``We will do everything in our power to keep the country's rice farming land out of the hands of foreign investors,'' he thundered. That seemed like a fairly simple goal. In all the nationalistic fervour, no one bothered to explain _ or to ask _ how this massive land grab by foreigners would actually work. That is, once the Arab interlopers have actually grown all this rice and fruit and vegetables for their people, how would they get it out of the country? Have you ever seen an Arab in a Thai rice field?

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