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A rice deal that never existed in the first place
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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08 January 2009
The red shirts and the Law of Karma
January 8, 2009 The image of two red-shirt leaders, Jatuporn Promphan and Nathawut Saikua, taking cover from missiles hurled against them by their 'rebel' red-shirt supporters at an election campaign rally in the northeastern province of Buri Ramon January 7 would be unthinkable just a ...
Read this blog post | comments (13)08 October 2008
Appearance can be deceptive
October 8, 2008 An uneasy lull has returned to the City of Angels after a day of bloodletting on the streets which left two people dead and 443 injured, including four who lost one of their legs or arms from what suspected to be bomb explosions. The only incident today is that hundreds of ...
Read this blog post | comments (5)18 August 2008
Will Bangkok face a huge flood from a storm surge?
August 18, 2008 Mr Smith Thammasaroj, the man who first blew the whistle about the potential of a tsunami hitting Thailand, Indonesia and other countries in the Indian ocean which actually took place six years after he had made the doomsday's forecast is back to the limelight with a new ...
Read this blog post | comments (15)11 August 2008
Thaksin's overseas refuge may not be temporary
August 11, 2008 By now it is obvious that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, Khunying Potjaman, will not return to their home country for a long time and will not stand trial in court on all the cases against them as well as other cases which are yet to reach the court of ...
Read this blog post | comments (31)20 July 2008
Time for extreme restraint from both sides
As the July 27 election in Cambodia is only a week away, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen appears intent to play the Preah Vihear temple card to the fullest for his political gains despite the high risk of further straining the tense relations with neighbouring Thailand.The Cambodian complaint to ...
Read this blog post | comments (10)10 June 2008
Is rice cartel a pipe dream?
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 ...
Read this blog post | comments (5)02 June 2008
When shepherd boy rules the country
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 ...
Read this blog post | comments (10)20 May 2008
Noose is tightening around Jakrapob
May 20, 2008Jakrapob Penkair, the bisieged prime minister's office minister, is probably busying himself with translating into Thai language the long speech he gave to the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand last August shortly after he was released on bail from jail for involvement in a violent ...
Read this blog post | comments (5)13 May 2008
Wanted: Balding Provocateur
May 13, 2008I nervously looked myself in the mirror the other day as I shoved the hair above my forehead to see if they are retreating or whether I am balding. Which will make myself fit Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's profile of the ai hua theok or the balding man who alleged to be the ...
Read this blog post | comments (4)06 May 2008
Chart Thai should stall charter bid
May 6, 2008Â I am not an alarmist. But like you and me, I am very concerned that the ongoing self-serving attempt by the People Power party to amend the current Constitution may unnecessarily bring about undesirable consequences probably worse than those confronted by this country before the ...
Read this blog post | comments (2)11 April 2008
Time to rethink our rich farm land
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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