Rice corruption crackdown pledged

Published: 13 Oct 2012 at 12.46
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The government will add more representatives and install security cameras at all rice-buying points to deter corruption, Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom said on Saturday.

Currently three representatives -- one each from farmers, millers and the government -- witness the purchases of rice under the state pledging scheme.

Two more people from each of the three groups will be added to ensure transparency, Mr Boonsong said on the government's weekly TV programme on NBT.

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jacksprat
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Discussion 10 : 13 Oct 2012 at 22.3510
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"He refuses to release details, saying they are secret and politically sensitive." That tells you all you need to know. The government could be damaged by their exposure.
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Discussion 9 : 13 Oct 2012 at 21.539
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Promises, and promises, but no arrests, or convictions, and NO looking at sales. If the officials assigned now can't identify the corruption, how are more people, and (sic) the police going to catch corrupt buyers. Send more foxes into the hen house. That sounds like a good idea to kill off all those complaining chickens.

How much of this program stems from Thaksin's attempt to try and control the world price of rice? He failed initially, so now he is trying to form a rice cartel with all those country's around Thailand. I wonder if Vietnam will go along with it as should be revealed shortly.

Too much time spent around oil cartels, and too many visions of grandeur.
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Discussion 8 : 13 Oct 2012 at 21.518
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'Rice corruption crackdown pledged'.

Too late ! The essential corruption is Thaksin's idea that his government buy it at over the supply and demand price to ensure voters' support.

Thaksin lacks an understanding of economics 101. He only knows how to make money corruptly.
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Discussion 7 : 13 Oct 2012 at 20.407
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It would appear many people are having a slice of this big cake.Are we led to believe those monitoring the scheme will not be "nobbled".
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Discussion 6 : 13 Oct 2012 at 18.076
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Chalerm must be dreading this new CCTV idea. It means more work for him trolling around in his pink lady Penelope car telling all the operators to erase the tapes.
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Discussion 5 : 13 Oct 2012 at 17.235
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Thaksin's strategy is so predictable when he is in trouble. Because all the attention is on the corruption in his rice scheme, he is now trying to deflect attention by accusing the Democrats and Gor Tor Mor of siphoning off a billion baht from the flood fund in 2554 and sending it to Hong Kong. If this was real, do you not think Pheua Thai would have revealed this information 6 months to a year ago? It's not like you can hide such massive siphoning off of money.
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Discussion 4 : 13 Oct 2012 at 16.564
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The measures look effective on the surface, but it would be like installing a camera in the offices of all the politicians. If you see no corruption taking place in their offices, one would then say that all politicians are honest, but we know that's not true. The corruption doesn't take place where the cameras are. It takes place before and after the sales, and away from the venue of the sales. On the telephone, especially. The cameras will perhaps reduce the corruption of small-time people while the big corruption goes on unhindered. Will they also install cameras on the border to film the lorries loaded with rice coming from Cambodia, for example?
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Discussion 3 : 13 Oct 2012 at 16.203
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Its like bailing water out of the Titanic .
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Discussion 2 : 13 Oct 2012 at 15.182
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Good idea Pete, but nobody in the current administration wants to effectively fix the current Ricer Scheme. There's just too many opportunities for friends & family to make a few bucks, at the expense of the Poor Farmer, who can't complain.
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Discussion 1 : 13 Oct 2012 at 14.121
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Too little, too late.
Why do the farmers not get government backed IOU's that they can cash at a government bank. That way they would be guaranteed the full 15,000 baht per tonne?
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