Govt vows to protect public interest in high-speed railway

Good to know. I’ll sleep better now. Should be awesome: Chinese engineers supervised by Thais... What could possibly go wrong?
Starky

In my opinion the best way to protect Thai interests, regarding the Chinese medium-speed freight-line to Laos and southern-China, would be to get the Chinese to pay for it, since it’s their economy which will benefit the most. 
Thailand should only pay the marginal cost of the extra rolling-stock and track-work and stations, which might be necessary to run a few medium-speed domestic passenger-services. 
But a cynic might say that that would mean smaller brown-envelopes (wink). 
China should be very happy, to see Thailand pay (as currently proposed) for this section of their new export-route, as it relieves them of the economic-risk involved.
Ricardo

Well, I think we all know what interests will be protected.....
Candide

If they truly cared about the public interest, they wouldn’t build it.
Emster23

How about a comment on the use of Section 44 to eliminate transparency or perhaps on why there were no international bids, or how about an explanation for the extra Bt39 billion?
 
Oh, no, no, no ... Thaksin is the devil.
Smarter than you

I’m trying to imagine the reactions if the previous government had forced through the high-speed-rail ‘project’ via a decree from on high?
The yellows would have hand-clapped and whistled themselves into apoplexy.
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