Benefits for farmers from the rice mortgage scheme urgently designed by the government to end a road blockade threat amid anger about decreasing prices are in question.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is hoping the success of its pilot projects, which includes forests on the Thai-Burmese border areas, will lead to common guidelines on forest protection and ecological management in all Mekong countries.
Two low-magnitude earthquakes rocked Wiang Pa Pao district which houses the ancient city of Wiang Kalong yesterday, putting officials on alert for further tremors in the area. There were no reports of damage to the ancient city, believed to be built more than 2,000 years ago. However, officials at the Meteorological Department have been told to keep a close eye on the Mae Tha fault line, which goes under Wiang Pa Pao and triggered the quakes yesterday, officials said.
The disciplinary committee set up to investigate adultery and corruption charges against Wallop Ploytubtim, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, is not illegitimate as claimed by the government, former deputy minister Poldej Pinprateep said yesterday. Dr Poldej, who earlier warned the Samak Sundaravej government not to interfere with the probe, made the comment yesterday, a day after Deputy Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat announced his decision to put a halt to the investigation due to its ''illegitimate'' status.
The month-long Euro 2008 tournament has drawn a yellow card from the Education Ministry, which is concerned students will shift their attention from books to betting. The ministry has mapped out measures to prevent students illegally gambling on football matches with the internet as its main target.
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Rice farmers' leader Wichian Puanglamjiak gives an insight into rice price manipulation. He talks to Sunthorn Pongpao about who stands to gain from a swing in rice prices, leaving farmers up to their necks in debt.
The Democrat party yesterday accused the People Power party-led government of brow-beating civil servants involved in the legal processes against former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and other members of his cabinet. Opposition spokesman Ong-art Klampaiboon said such attempts to intervene in corruption cases against Mr Thaksin and his associates are dangerous.
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej should listen more to the public if he wants to ease political tension between his government and the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), Supreme Commander Boonsang Niampradit said yesterday. Mr Samak can play a major role in solving the problem, he said. But Gen Boonsang added that only a national leader who can ignore his ego and is willing to sacrifice self-interest for the sake of the nation could do that.
Around 300 people joined the anti-People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) rally which kicked off in Chiang Mai_home province of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra_yesterday. The demonstrators, led by the Northern People Council, gathered near the Tha Phae gate around 5pm. Red banners were put up around the area, calling for charter amendment and reinstatement of the 1997 charter_a move initiated by the ruling People Power party (PPP).
A man wanted over the killing of two marines died in a gunfight during a bloody night that claimed five more lives in the Muslim-majority South, police said yesterday.
