Bangkok Post: Opinion

Sunday, November 25, 2012

A rice deal that never existed in the first place

By Veera Preteepchaikul

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.There is a popular Thai saying that goes along these lines: “A dead elephant cannot be covered up by lotus leaves.”This is exactly ...

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• 11 April 2008

  Time to rethink our rich farm land

  By Veera Preteepchaikul

  We have been blessed and lucky all along. The so-called Golden Peninsula on which this country is located is endowed with plentiful natural resources although vast tracts of forests have been stripped bear of trees by greedy urban land grabbers and landless villagers. Yet, there are still fishes ...

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