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1. opinion | 18 Jun 2013
Who really benefitted from the rice scheme?
» Better late than never. The Yingluck government is finally back-peddling on its most ambitious and, perhaps, most destructive populist policy, the rice pledging scheme -- which set the purchase price of paddy about 40% a...
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2. opinion | 10 Jun 2013
Boonsong botches chance to defend rice scheme
By Veera Prateepchaikul, Newspaper section: News
» Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom's press conference last Friday which was supposed to enlighten us as to the actual status of the rice pledging scheme was a farce, a letdown as always as far as the populist sch...
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3. opinion | 06 Jun 2013
Face the truth on rice scheme
EDITORIAL
Newspaper section: News
» The government plans to counter Moody's Investors Service's warning about the perils of the rice-pledging scheme. The rating agency said the scheme's higher-than-anticipated losses could hurt the economy and ...
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4. learning | 28 May 2013
Rice Scheme: Govt leak puts loss at 200 billion baht
About agriculture
» Govt to lose 200 billion on rice scheme not 70-100 billion. Asean neighbors importing less rice, global supply rising.
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5. news | 10 Jun 2013
PT targets Abhisit govt's rice scheme
» The ruling Pheu Thai Party on Monday asked the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to investigate possible irregularities in the former Democrat-led government's rice price guarantee scheme.
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6. news | 18 Jun 2013
Ministers to detail rice scheme losses
» Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has instructed four ministers with responsibilities relating to the rice pledging scheme to hold a press conference Tuesday afternoon.
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7. opinion | 21 May 2013
Wall around failed rice scheme starting to leak
» Most people still know little or nothing about the rice pledging scheme, with the actual details fiercely guarded by a handful of officials at the Commerce Ministry, including Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapriom.
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8. opinion | 23 May 2013
Day of reckoning nears for flawed rice scheme
By Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Newspaper section: News
» It seems like the line drawn in the sand is fading with each day. Policymakers had previously insisted that the 500-billion-baht allocation to the rice pledging scheme was enough to ensure financial self-sufficiency for ...
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9. learning | 07 Oct 2011
High prices but no rice
Easy English news
» Rice farmers should be reaping large profits from the government's rice mortgage scheme, but for many, their harvest has been almost completely submerged by the worst floods in memory.
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10. learning | 23 Sep 2011
Rice scheme mostly helps rich
About agriculture
» Poor stuck buying more expensive rice. Rice exporters, millers, warehousers, richer farmers, the cronies of politicians, the ones who will really benefit.
