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    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

    Defence: Thaksin not meddling

    Online Reporters, Published on 01/09/2012

    » Defence Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat has denied reports that fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was behind the transfer of the ministry's permanent secretary to an inactive post.

  • 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

    Noppadon: Thaksin in Japan

    Online Reporters, Published on 16/06/2012

    » Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is now in Japan, not in Hong Kong as the Democrat Party claimed, according to Thaksin’s legal adviser Noppadon Pattama.

  • 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.

  • News & article

    Reds gathering just 'for justice'

    Online Reporters, Published on 04/08/2012

    » Partisan verbal sparring continued on Saturday over plans for a rally on Thursday at the Criminal Court ahead of its ruling on the bail status of red-shirt co-leader Jatuporn Prompan.

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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 : Apparently the farmers are now hiding in the fields! The news was dominated last week by revelations of mass purchases of Thai farmland by foreigners, particularly Arabs, bent on growing crops, particularly rice, to fend off the imminent starvation of their own citizens. The conspiracy is widespread, with the foreigners paying off and using farmers as proxies for the land purchases. The only problem is that no shred of proof was presented to back up the stories. The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry tried to debunk this outlandish tale, saying it had been unable to find a single case where foreigners or their companies were using Thai nominees for rice farming. The Commerce Ministry also investigated and was unable to find any such case. That proved that the foreign takeover was massive, apparently. As a Bangkok newspaper (not the Bangkok Post) put it: The farmers 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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    A law unto themselves

    By Adem, Created on: 23/02/2009, Last updated on: 23/02/2009

    » I am a foreigner living in Thailand, respecting the laws of the land, the culture of the people and contributing to the economy. My infant son and baby girl have been abducted by their (Thai) mother, her boyfriend and his family. For twelve months I’ve visited police stations, The Department of...

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