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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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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/10/2012
» The approach of tropical storm Gaemi and the possibility of another major flood, or not, is dominating the headlines.
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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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Role models for youth
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/09/2012
» Each generation hails its youth as the hope of the country. But are they? I do not have the answer. But given the latest Abac opinion poll about corruption perception of the people in general, and Thai youth in particular, the findings are very disturbing.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/08/2012
» The hoo-ha over the government’s rice pledging scheme is likely to drag on and will probably dominate the coming censure debate against the government by the opposition Democrat Party, which is yet to be scheduled.
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Facing up to rice error
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/08/2012
» Ammar Siamwalla, the honorary economist at the Thailand Development Research Institute, warned aboutb it back in September last year during his talk at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/09/2012
» The political future of Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit, who is also interior minister, hangs in the balance with pressure being applied both inside the party and outside for him to resign from political office.
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Ah Kong's legacy is to inspire a wider debate
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/05/2012
» It should come as no surprise that the government does not want to touch the lese majeste law _ Section 112 of the Criminal Code _ following the sudden death by liver cancer of convicted lese majeste offender Ampon (Ah Kong) Tangnoppakul, alias Uncle SMS, in Bangkok Prison Hospital on May 8.
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Weekly highlights
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/03/2012
» The government says that there is a slim chance of a repeat of the 'big flood' this year but Japanese investors remain sceptical, wanting all the floodwalls and floodways promised by the government to protect their factories to be in place before the rains come.
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Weekly highlights
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/03/2012
» Nitirat group leader Worajet Pakeerat was punched on the face by two brothers who, on their surrender to the police, said they were opposed to the group’s stated aims, to have the lese majeste law changed. Supporters and opponents of charter change began gearing up for a new showdown as the parliament started charter rewriting proceedings.
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