Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha eyes packaged rice at a farmers' stand. When the emerging pro-military party claims credit for saving the rice farmers, it will just be a factual statement, right? On one rail, the government has set up a programme to help and pay rice farmers. Those farmers' rice also is currently worth peanuts and those farmers also will need -- no, will noisily demand -- subsidies. The prime minister acerbically criticised the female ex-premier last week and told her to take her complaints to court.

Source: Bangkok Post November 05, 2016 22:20 UTC