The great rice fiddle
>>When Commerce Minister Niwatthamrong Bunsongphaisan told the sad story of how the current political brouhaha cost Thailand and its noble rice farmers a 1.2-million-tonne rice sale to China, the most common reaction was,”Huh?” This was the sale announced with fanfare last year, proving government-to-government rice sales were viable and successful. To put it another way,it […]