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B350bn megaproject sadly under-studied
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/03/2013
» The massive flooding in 2011 was ranked by the World Bank as the fourth costliest natural disaster up until that year, surpassed only by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in the same year, the 1995 Kobe earthquake and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Conscription should be for all, in fairness
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/02/2013
» The harsh life inflicted on military conscripts has led many students to enrol in the territorial defence course, or <i>ror dor</i>, because it exempts them from the annual military draft for 21-year-old men.
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Government's competency being tested
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/02/2013
» The government is facing two serious problems with potential widespread economic and social impact that will test its wisdom and competency.
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Saudi rejection of Thai maids blessing in disguise
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/03/2013
» Thankfully, Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry has rejected a request by the country's own labour ministry to lift the ban on the recruitment of Thai maids - after other countries cut off the supply because of the high level of abuse.
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Public still kept in the dark about rice deals
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/11/2012
» Despite the admission by Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong that the rice pledging scheme is problematic and will incur losses which are yet to be assessed, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom remain adamant that the scheme is fine and benefits the farmers.
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Real 'big picture' really isn't pretty
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/10/2012
» The big picture! So said Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra as she asked all the critics of the government’s rice pledging scheme to look at it. And the "big picture" is the benefit the scheme supposedly brings to the country’s three million rice farming households.
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Sanity must prevail over rice pledging
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/10/2012
» Three cheers of chai-yo to Dr Adis Israngkura na Ayudhaya, dean of the Economic Development Faculty of the National Institute Development Administration (Nida), and 145 academics and students who co-signed a petition to the Constitution Court challenging the effectiveness of the government's rice-pledging scheme and the sanity of continuing this badly-flawed and corruption-riddled populist policy.
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A simpler way to help farmers?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/10/2012
» I cannot help joining my farming compatriots in an early celebration on hearing the "good news", that they will be out of debt in two years – thanks to the government’s generous rice pledging scheme and, in particular, commerce permanent secretary Watcharee Wimuktayon.
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It's not rice 'pledging'
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/10/2012
» The name itself, the rice pledging scheme, is misleading. It is not at all a pledging scheme because every grain of harvested paddy "pledged" by farmers is actually bought by the government.
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A rice deal that never existed in the first place
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/11/2012
» The truth is out, that the Commerce Ministry's claim of a 15-million-tonne government-to-government rice deal with China over three years is anything but real.
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