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Rubbery figures
News, Postbag, Published on 22/01/2016
» Our goal is to help rubber farmers, not to buy their product. The most cost-efficient way to help them is to give them only the subsidy portion (about 15-20 baht/kg) while letting them freely sell their crop to the highest bidders in world markets. This will save taxpayers about 30 baht/kg, or 3 billion baht in total, equal to two thirds of the approved budget, plus 979 million baht to hire private parties to process, stock, and manage the crop, a total of almost 4 billion baht — while helping farmers as much as now planned.
Playing with fire
News, Postbag, Published on 21/01/2016
» There are several controversies involving Somdet Phra Maha Ratchamangalacharn, aka Somdet Chuang, who is likely to be appointed as supreme patriarch.
Coal has black future
News, Postbag, Published on 23/01/2016
» Coal is having a rough start to the year, but there are still some voices that continue to tout its benefits for humanity. Sopon Pornchokchai, in his article “Is Greenpeace being flexible with the truth?” (Bangkok Post Sunday, Jan 10) claiming coal is cheap, safe and abundant, is one of them.
Lessons for Thailand
News, Postbag, Published on 15/12/2015
» Re “Euphoria greets climate deal”, (BP, Dec 14).
Media plays villain
News, Postbag, Published on 14/12/2015
» Re: "Playing the Trump card in our backyard" (Opinion, Dec 12).
US fiscal end is nigh
News, Postbag, Published on 16/12/2015
» Re: “No need to rush on TPP”, (Editorial, Dec 15).
Workers' woes
News, Postbag, Published on 19/12/2015
» I read all the “hopes, woes and concerns” expressed by US envoy Daniel Russel (BP, Dec 17), and I am quite sure that government officials also did and are, in fact, seeking to right all that can be seen to be wrong. There is a threat here, that failure to act will mean that "provisos" will be enacted until we agree with what our Yankee "friends" tell us to do.
The wrong thrust
News, Postbag, Published on 18/12/2015
» Re: “Apples and oranges”, (PostBag, Dec 17). I feel that Clara Holzer has completely misunderstood and is giving an incorrect interpretation of the thrust of my comments.
Apples and oranges
News, Postbag, Published on 17/12/2015
» I beg to differ with David Proulx (PostBag, Dec 16) regarding the similarity between American whistleblowers and Pol Maj Gen Paween Pongsirin.
Our World Needs a Savious
News, Postbag, Published on 20/12/2015
» Several decades ago I was fortunate to meet and talk privately with Mother Teresa in a very simple room at her nunnery in Kolkata.