Popular Post webfact Posted November 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2021 The mysterious asphalted road running to nowhere through a rice field in Maha Chaichana district of the north-eastern province of Yasothon, which has been the subject of an investigation by the local office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and which locals suspect may be linked to graft, is apparently just an embankment, not a road. Over the past weekend, the provincial NACC chief visited the site and questioned representatives of the local Rural Roads Department, the provincial irrigation office and the Fa Yad sub-district (Tambon) Administrative Organization. They all maintained that they knew nothing about it. After several days of head scratching and denials from local authorities, officials from the Ubon Ratchathani-based irrigation projects went to Yasothon on Monday to explain the matter to the NACC office. Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/road-to-nowhere-in-thailands-yasothon-is-an-embankment-resembling-a-road/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-11-30 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith101 Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 LOL it definitely looks like a road and probable graft . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elkski Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Follow the money. In this case who owns that land with a road and electric? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMJA Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Nothing slips past these Sherlocks: “National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and which locals suspect may be linked to graft” 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happydays Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Quote Two Pheu Thai MPs, Piyawat Pansaichua and Boonkaew Somwong, said that they will submit an interpellation to parliament to ask the government about the project. I must admit I had to Google that, nice to learn something new ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post worgeordie Posted November 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2021 Could be an Alien landing strip .......anything is possible in Thailand and is a good excuse as any' that those that built it come up with for such a waste of money, regards worgeordie 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chang_paarp Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Good to see they have started to asphalt and lane mark the embankments. Now they have done their practice they can put the learned skills to work on all the roads that need repairing in Yasothon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tomazbodner Posted November 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2021 It's the road to rocket launchpad of the Thailand Space Program 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted November 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2021 4 hours ago, webfact said: Over the past weekend, the provincial NACC chief visited the site and questioned representatives of the local Rural Roads Department, the provincial irrigation office and the Fa Yad sub-district (Tambon) Administrative Organization. They all maintained that they knew nothing about it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKDfella Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Do embankments have central yellows lines then? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GreasyFingers Posted November 30, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 30, 2021 If the puu yai said he knew nothing about it "The village head said that he had not been informed by any agency about the road project, but admitted he saw some workers building the road about three months ago." he must have been in on the graft. The puu yai knows everything that goes on in a village. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Tracy Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Solar lights affecting the rice crops, no water in the irrigation canal. 2km long 'embankment'... Blimey. How do else lights affect rice crops, do they make the crop grow at night? It doesn't look like there needs to water in the irrigation canal, plenty of water in the fields. Rice is cut now, anyway. Nobody knows how a 2km long road was built, along an embankment? Dang, someone do that here. Just dirt and mud on the way to the wife's 3 rai of empty fields. Ps... How was the picture taken? Drone? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elkski Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 So I'm there is a government rubber buying program . Like the rice scandal. Experimental road construction method? Just imagine how much graft on a space program? Many salivating at the mere thought. I hope the idea 9f the space program popping up at this time tells the voters what they need to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andycoops Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 15 hours ago, TKDfella said: Do embankments have central yellows lines then? And also white stripes along the side? I live near Yasothon and all surfaces with those markings are roads. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 18 hours ago, tomazbodner said: It's the road to rocket launchpad of the Thailand Space Program Do you mean The Rocket Launchpaddy ? (The local youths use it for M/C racing they said.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrloy99 Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Looks like the famine roads that the English built in Ireland.,..during the great potato famine. stipulation being that they are ecenomically useless...built to give the locals some little income during the times of crisis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damrongsak Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 On 11/30/2021 at 5:21 AM, Scott Tracy said: Solar lights affecting the rice crops, no water in the irrigation canal. 2km long 'embankment'... Blimey. How do else lights affect rice crops, do they make the crop grow at night? ... If the light is intense enough it can have negative effects. Minimizing nightlight pollution effects on rice https://www.tari.gov.tw/english/form/index-1.asp?Parser=20,15,926,81,,,3009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hammer2021 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 On 12/1/2021 at 12:09 PM, mrloy99 said: Looks like the famine roads that the English built in Ireland.,..during the great potato famine. stipulation being that they are ecenomically useless...built to give the locals some little income during the times of crisis. Why didn't the people eat fish during the potato famine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boyn Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 If nothing else the things that go on in Thailand are damn entertaining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJRS1301 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 On 11/30/2021 at 4:37 PM, DrMJA said: Nothing slips past these Sherlocks: “National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and which locals suspect may be linked to graft” They "watch" everthing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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