Thailand Wants To Be The Kitchen For A Hungry World, Yingluck Says In U S

[Bagwan]

When is the price of bacon going down?

Not until all those Thai pigs return to terra firma.

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

Her brother can be the Chef

Yes I remember that he once tried to cook Chickens on a TV show to try to convince Thais to eat chicken meat during the Chicken flu epedemic.

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra invited foreign reporters to join his cabinet for a chicken lunch yesterday as he tried to soothe public fears after an outbreak of poultry cholera.

“Come and join us. Are you scared?” Thaksin called out as the cabinet sat down in the dining room of Government House to a lunch of Hainanese chicken rice, roast chicken and spicy chicken soup as well as raw salmon and octopus.

“It’s the best chicken in the world, Thai chicken,” he said. “This is exactly what we export to Japan. It’s very good. It’s safe.”

Thailand insists it is free of the bird flu which has jumped to humans in Vietnam and killed at least five people there, but the cholera outbreak has dented confidence in a major export industry that raises one billion chickens each year.

Many Thais are shunning chicken, hence the cameras watching the cabinet eat a range of poultry dishes, even though experts say poultry cholera cannot skip to humans, unlike bird flu.

Finally, on January 23, a few days after reassuring the EU food safety commissioner and putting on the poultry-eating media event, the Prime Minister admitted that bird flu was ravaging poultry flocks in Thailand’s enormous commercial poultry industry, and that two people had caught the highly fatal disease. He more or less admitted the cover-up – and more or less defended it:

• From UPI: “It’s not a big deal. If it’s bird flu, it’s bird flu. We can handle it.”
  
  • From the BBC: “‘There has been a lot of talk that the government has been trying to cover this up,’ Mr Thaksin said in a weekly radio address on Saturday. ‘That we didn’t say anything doesn’t mean we weren’t working. We’ve been working very hard.’”
    
  • From the Sydney Morning Herald: “Please trust the government. It did not make an announcement in the very beginning because it did not want the public to panic.”
    

[Albacore]

Another "white lie." Her (or her brother's) government policies are what caused Thai rice to be non-competitive, thus letting India take the lead.

"India has always had a price advantage over Thailand, which sells at a premium in the world market. Last year, the export price of Thai rice ranged between $525 and $575 per tonne. But this year, the price swelled to $660 tonne on the back of the Thai government's high support price to farmers. The government paid farmers 15,000 baht a tonne for 100% white paddy and 20,000 baht for fragrant paddy to fulfill its election promise. This raised the export price of Thai rice, making it non-competitive in global markets. India recently raised its export quota of non-basmati rice from 2 million tonne to 4 million tonne to boost exports further.

"Rice-importing countries got a good alternative in India to expensive Thai varieties. While Indian rice costs $500-$530 per tonne, Thai rice costs $660 per tonne. This has led a surge in demand from countries like Indonesia and other African countries," said Om Prakash Arora, president Punjab-Haryana Rice Broker Association."

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-02-21/news/31083018_1_export-price-rice-exports-thai-rice

[mrtoad]

Her brother can be the Chef

He's good a at cooking the books.

I am guessing this is a new variation of "hub"

[55Jay]

"Yingluck also attended a dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama where she spoke briefly with the president on the 180th anniversary of Thai-US diplomatic relations"

Briefly? At a dinner specifically celebrating Thai-US relations? Obama avoiding her?

"She told Obama that Thailand was ready to cooperate with the US as a strategic partner and increase people-to-people relations."

It's too bad NASA is not a person. Strategic....only if China gives permission for said cooperation. Brief? No wonder.

[Markaew]

I'm convinced this is just a tourism ploy to get free advertising while trying to show Thailand isn't as bad as you have heard. Yingluck is hoping nobody is listening to foreigners on TV.

[Markaew]

"Yingluck also attended a dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama where she spoke briefly with the president on the 180th anniversary of Thai-US diplomatic relations"

Briefly? At a dinner specifically celebrating Thai-US relations? Obama avoiding her?

"She told Obama that Thailand was ready to cooperate with the US as a strategic partner and increase people-to-people relations."

It's too bad NASA is not a person. Strategic....only if China gives permission for said cooperation. Brief? No wonder.

I think Obama only gave her a few minutes to see if he could get a Thai lap dance.

[pomchop]

"Yingluck also attended a dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama where she spoke briefly with the president on the 180th anniversary of Thai-US diplomatic relations"

Briefly? At a dinner specifically celebrating Thai-US relations? Obama avoiding her?

"She told Obama that Thailand was ready to cooperate with the US as a strategic partner and increase people-to-people relations."

It's too bad NASA is not a person. Strategic....only if China gives permission for said cooperation. Brief? No wonder.

I think Obama only gave her a few minutes to see if he could get a Thai lap dance.

So i guess all the bashers think the PM of Thailand should just stay home and not attend a dinner with the President of the US and other world leaders or try and pitch whatever products she can pitch? Would that make all of the thai visa keyboard warriors happy??

[rogerdee123]

"Yingluck also attended a dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama where she spoke briefly with the president on the 180th anniversary of Thai-US diplomatic relations"

Briefly? At a dinner specifically celebrating Thai-US relations? Obama avoiding her?

"She told Obama that Thailand was ready to cooperate with the US as a strategic partner and increase people-to-people relations."

It's too bad NASA is not a person. Strategic....only if China gives permission for said cooperation. Brief? No wonder.

I think Obama only gave her a few minutes to see if he could get a Thai lap dance.

So i guess all the bashers think the PM of Thailand should just stay home and not attend a dinner with the President of the US and other world leaders or try and pitch whatever products she can pitch? Would that make all of the thai visa keyboard warriors happy??

Yeah! That sounds good . Who does she think she is anyway ?

[hanuman2543]

Do they actually believe in the verbal vomit they utter day after day, after day, after day? I can't understand that politicians from a country where facesaving is the top priority, jump at every chance they get, to demonstrate their massive incompetence.

Edited September 26, 2012 by metisdead
: Font fixed.

[Nickymaster]

And Thaksin will provide recipes on how to cook major corruption deals.

Edited September 26, 2012 by Nickymaster

[TommoPhysicist]

Clearly she isn't in the know about the potential effects of climate change - Mainly that agricultural output is expected to fall in tropical and dry countries

Off topic, but in reply to your statement.

Increased CO2 in the atmosphere should theoretically increase crop yields across the world, assuming water is available.

(plants need sunlight, CO2, water and nutrients to grow)

[TackyToo]

Maybe we all got the wrong message.

Thailand Wants To Be The Kitchen For A Hungry World...

She probably wants to start with the ever hungry pimps in Isan?

Surapong Towichukchaikul said he had invited investors |from Belgium to join in development of the Dawei special economic zone in Myanmar, during a bilateral meeting with his Belgian counterpart Didier Reynders

I wonder if their two personal translators fell in love already

[Markaew]

"Yingluck also attended a dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama where she spoke briefly with the president on the 180th anniversary of Thai-US diplomatic relations"

Briefly? At a dinner specifically celebrating Thai-US relations? Obama avoiding her?

"She told Obama that Thailand was ready to cooperate with the US as a strategic partner and increase people-to-people relations."

It's too bad NASA is not a person. Strategic....only if China gives permission for said cooperation. Brief? No wonder.

I think Obama only gave her a few minutes to see if he could get a Thai lap dance.

So i guess all the bashers think the PM of Thailand should just stay home and not attend a dinner with the President of the US and other world leaders or try and pitch whatever products she can pitch? Would that make all of the thai visa keyboard warriors happy??

At least if she stayed home she wouldn't embarrass herself. "Other world leaders", Yingluck? That's really a stretch. Yingluck doesn't qualify as a world leader. World leaders come from first world countries, not corrupt third world countries.

Edited September 26, 2012 by Markaew

[Markaew]

Do they actually believe in the verbal vomit they utter day after day, after day, after day? I can't understand that politicians from a country where facesaving is the top priority, jump at every chance they get, to demonstrate their massive incompetence.

Actually, the answer to that is in your statement. The fact that they cannot lose face means nobody can call them imcompetent so they can spew anything they want.

[puipuitom]

Maybe she can get some lessons from the Chinese: Zhangzhou area ( Xiamen port) for vegetables and fruits, or Guangxi ( Beihai port) to see how real developments have to be.

Vietnam is in the meantime a bigger rice exporter as Thailand.

All other nations are a lot more active as the slow Thai exporters.

10 years more, and .. Thailand will be the kitchen for their own hungry people as all overseas buyers are so fed up with Thai suppliers, ythey are willing to put the workd updside down to find alternatives.

Look at coming food fair: SIAL Paris, 21-25 Oct: 5773 exhibitors of which 983 from China and 155 from Thailand.

[Puyai]

Seventeen Thai restaurants in New York received "Thai Select" awards from the prime minister to guarantee their food quality, according to the government website.

Any restaurant wanting to qualify for the "Thai Select" award must use copious amounts of monosodium glutamate (MSG) in every dish they make!!

[bendejo]

“It’s the best chicken in the world, Thai chicken,” he said

Talk about sending the wrong message!

[bamukloy]

another hub perhaps ?????

Thai food= hub of MSG

[philw]

I have to comment.

With 1 exception, 49 posts of miserable negativity.

What is wrong with you all ??

Quite astonishing, but I guess you all deserve each other.

Don't bother responding, I won't read it.

[GentlemanJim]

I have to comment.

With 1 exception, 49 posts of miserable negativity.

What is wrong with you all ??

Quite astonishing, but I guess you all deserve each other.

Don't bother responding, I won't read it.

I bet you 1 million pounds you just read this !

[Nickymaster]

I have to comment.

With 1 exception, 49 posts of miserable negativity.

What is wrong with you all ??

Quite astonishing, but I guess you all deserve each other.

Don't bother responding, I won't read it.

I guess red glasses are sold out.

Don't bother responding, I won't read it.

BTW, my comment was positive.

Edited September 26, 2012 by Nickymaster

[siampolee]

I have to comment.

With 1 exception, 49 posts of miserable negativity.

What is wrong with you all ??

Quite astonishing, but I guess you all deserve each other.

Don't bother responding, I won't read it.

Fair comment,however where is your positive spin on the matter ?

Can you not find something positive to say or is the truth too big to overcome ?

[pomchop]

I have to comment.

With 1 exception, 49 posts of miserable negativity.

What is wrong with you all ??

Quite astonishing, but I guess you all deserve each other.

Don't bother responding, I won't read it.

Thai visa has turned into a bunch of thai bashing whiners...i dont' care what the PM says or does or doesn't say they whine about it...come on guys ...ever heard of trying to be at least a little bit positive once in a while?...

[jcw]

BBQ Rat and Issan Border Puppy is the new export HUB.

[mrtoad]

I have to comment.

With 1 exception, 49 posts of miserable negativity.

What is wrong with you all ??

Quite astonishing, but I guess you all deserve each other.

Don't bother responding, I won't read it.

Yawn

[bigbamboo]

I have to comment.

With 1 exception, 49 posts of miserable negativity.

What is wrong with you all ??

Quite astonishing, but I guess you all deserve each other.

Don't bother responding, I won't read it.

Thai visa has turned into a bunch of thai bashing whiners...i dont' care what the PM says or does or doesn't say they whine about it...come on guys ...ever heard of trying to be at least a little bit positive once in a while?...

I do try but it's getting more difficult every day.

Never used to be like this.

[Payboy]

Imagine global diarrhea.

I'm sure they'll have a toilet paper roll on every table.

Edited September 26, 2012 by Payboy

[americaninbangkok]

I have to comment.

With 1 exception, 49 posts of miserable negativity.

Seems to me your post is also negative.

Does make it 50 posts of miserable negativity?

[americaninbangkok]

So i guess all the bashers think the PM of Thailand should just stay home and not attend a dinner with the President of the US and other world leaders or try and pitch whatever products she can pitch? Would that make all of the thai visa keyboard warriors happy??

I'm sure she was busy impressing other world leaders...

"Herro, Mr. Plethident... I am Yingruck. I am so glad to be overcome to Amelica. Have you ever been to Thailand? We have many great praces to visit. You should go to Soi Nana. Many beautiful things to see (some are even 15 years old... please don't mention this in your human trafficknig report). And there is yummy seafood to eat (like shrimp cleaned by 9 year old children with adorable small hands made just for cleaning shrimp). And if you aren't 'in the mood', you can always buy Cialis on the street (can you please remove us from the intellectual property violators list?). Let me introduce you to my Foreign Minister (who doesn't speak English better than me)..."