Patsara Jikkham NCPO urged to let public provide input Experts have warned the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to carefully handle water management plans, fearing they could be disorganised, redundant and lacking a clear direction. They raised their concerns after the NCPO told state agencies to propose ideas for dealing with water-related problems […]
Rising clamour for reform as regulator is accused of wielding too much power and not acting in the public interest, write Komsan Tortermvasana and Sriwipa Siripunyawit The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) is another regulatory body that has recently come under fire amid all the changes and restructuring proposed by the military regime. Academics, non-governmental […]
Contents Saowaruj Rattanakhamfu, Somkiat Tangkitvanich, Wirot Sukphisan and Ploy Thammapiranan Relocating Labor-Intensive Industries from Thailand to Neighboring Countries: Possibility and Policy Implications Lasse Gerrits, Peter Marks, Sumet Ongkittikul and Michael Synnott Assessing High-Speed Railway Projects: A Comparison of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom Download
Wichit Chantanusornsiri & Sriwipa Siripunyawit Details and budgets still subject to revision The first-year investment budget for the 2.4-trillion-baht infrastructure plan to be proposed today by the transport strategy committee is expected to reach 100 billion baht. The infrastructure plan will be forwarded to ACM Prajin Juntong, head of the economic team at the National […]
Phusadee Arunmas Ceilings ‘warping market mechanisms’ Authorities are being urged to stop asking for cooperation from businesses to cap product prices, as such practices distort market forces. “In the long term, it is imperative to stop capping product prices,” said Pornsil Patcharintanakul, deputy vice-chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC). “State subsidies should be […]
Post reporters Leading analysts call for rail and road projects and Dawei development, but a rethink on high-speed rail and water management plans. Scaling back, redefining and reviewing are the words analysts used to describe whether megaprojects spearheaded by the Yingluck Shinawatra gov-ernment should see the light of day. Authorities on infrastructure were polled by […]
Once the soldiers are dismissed and a functioning government put in place, the heavy lifting must begin. CHANAT KATANYU The business community wants the forthcoming interim government to immediately address pressing issues that have plunged the Thai economy into recession and spurred idle talk of becoming the region’s “sick man”. The Bangkok Post surveyed business […]
Itsakul Unahakate One little known factor that causes significant slowness in Thai criminal courts is overcriminalisation. By overcriminalisation, I mean that some crimes should be recategorised as civil crimes. Two such crimes that need to be decriminalised are defamation and bounced cheques. As the backlog of cases in the criminal courts pile up, a major […]
Phusadee Arunmas The caretaker government is being advised to set up a credit scheme with financial institutions in a move to accelerate payments to rice farmers and curb further drops in rice prices. Nipon Poapongsakorn, a fellow at the Thailand Development Research Institute, said a rice mortgage scheme should be set up with several banks […]
Contents Saowaruj Rattanakhamfu, Somkiat Tangkitvanich, Wirot Sukphisan and Ploy Thammapiranan Relocating Labor-Intensive Industries from Thailand to Neighboring Countries: Possibility and Policy Implications Lasse Gerrits, Peter Marks, Sumet Ongkittikul and Michael Synnott Assessing High-Speed Railway Projects: A Comparison of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom Download
Somchai Jitsuchon Perhaps there is no better time than now to address one of the fundamental flaws in the Thai democratic system. We adopted the British parliamentary system although we lacked the strength of civil society to ensure proper separation of power between the executive and legislative branches. This fundamental flaw was indeed what ignited the […]
By Nattha Thepbamrung and Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai Criticism of the rice-pledging scheme mounts even higher as farmers who have gone unpaid for months are driven to the streets in protest Mother of two Sasikarn Puang-In, 41, has been waiting almost two months for the Yingluck Shinawatra government to pay her for her rice and if she […]
