Preventing foreigners from owning land and property in Thailand does many things: it protects powerful Thai landlords and agricultural monopolies, forces overseas investors to consider setting up shop in other regional markets, drives Thai capital from the country and provides a pool of nationalist bile for tub-thumping politicians to draw on and whip up a [...]
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LAND OWNERSHIP AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT - Keeping foreigners out serves whose interests?
December 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Bangkok Post · business · economy · opinion · politics · property
THAILAND: BOGGED DOWN IN CORRUPTION: Anti-graft body turns 10, and the cases are mounting
November 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission turns 10 today.
A member of the public peruses documents detailing the assets and liabilities of former ministers in the Thaksin government, as released by the National Counter-Corruption Commission.
Its very existence is testament to the endemic corruption that continues to erode local political, economic and social institutions; it is also symbolic of [...]
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