How much things cost
- February 10, 2002
Rice barges: Now most rice barges
have been sold to hotels and restaurants to
be transformed into floating dining rooms....
Since 1973, trucks have overtaken barges as
the main way to get rice from the mills to Bangkok.
Most barges sold to hotels and restaurants recently
have brought between Bt250,000 and Bt300,000
to their owners. (from "Mighty river,
changing ways," The Nation, February
10, 2002)
Illegal software profits: ``We can
sell up to 60,000-70,000 baht worth of goods
during weekends...." He said he usually
made profits of almost 80% selling pirated CDs.
But his profits would halve if he sold legal
CDs.... Another employee at an illegal CD shop
on the second floor said her boss telephoned
her to close the shop yesterday after he found
out police would raid the shopping mall....``Employees
at most CD shops normally get notice from their
bosses and some police before plainclothes policemen
arrive for an inspection. That's why they usually
leave Pantip Plaza empty-handed,'' she said....Nattaphol
Tangsuksant, 18, said he chose to buy pirated
CDs at between 100-150 baht because it was much
cheaper than legal ones of the same quality....``As
long as the price of CDs and software remains
almost ten times more expensive, people will
always come to Pantip and buy pirated CDs.''
(from "Pirates unfazed by police crackdown,"
Bangkok Post, February 10, 2002)
How much things cost
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