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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• 10 June 2008

  Is rice cartel a pipe dream?

  By Veera Preteepchaikul

  June 10, 2008Western critics have always held in contempt the idea of a rice cartel by rice exporting countries.  "Impossible!" or "A pipe dream" are some of the standard comments heard each time the idea was raised.Similar comments were heard the other day when Prime ...

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• 02 June 2008

  When shepherd boy rules the country

  By Veera Preteepchaikul

  June 2, 2008Our close brush with what could turn out to be a violent confrontation between police and anri-Thaksin protesters as a result of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's loose tongue reminds me of Aesop's fable about the shepherd boy and the wolf.  But in Aesop's fable, the ...

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