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Thai Rath ran a picture on its front page of a ravaged bamboo hut in Rangoon left in a flooded rice field.

Daily News ran a picture of a US ship on its way to provide aid to Burma. Thai readers are obviously concerned about the situation in Burma.

Most of the articles focused on whether the junta there would allow foreign personnel to enter Burma to assist the victims of cyclone.

Daily News also ran an editorial urging the Thai government to be prepared for a storm that may hit the country. It said that Thailand is located between the Indian and Pacific oceans and the country is vulnerable to storms from both sides.

Provinces along the border should be ready to deal with the aftermath of any possible storm.

A downpour may come as good news to farmers, but it could bring on flooding.

There are some 3,000 areas in 51 provinces in Thailand that are vulnerable to mudslides, thus the impact from mudslides could be severe.

Provincial governors and the public in these provinces should be fully prepared. They should follow reports from the Meteorological Department.

Thai Rath warned the government not to let farmers down in its editorial. It said Thai farmers had a chance to see heaven, but only for a brief period when the rice price rose to a record high. But now they have to die in hell because of the sudden drop in the price.

Rice-millers have tried to reduce the purchasing price of paddies to only Bt5,000 to Bt6,000 per tonne. But the drop of paddy prices hasn't been reflected in the rice sold on the market.

Some leading farmers have even blamed the phenomenon of paddies selling for a cheap price while white rice is expensive on the government's decision to use 2.1 million tonnes of rice in its stocks to sell to consumers at a cheap price.

Such announcements cause millers to delay purchasing paddies, while waiting to see how the rice price will go.

Thai Rath said that these developments were due to government mismanagement.

The recent survey showed that most of the respondents were not happy with the government's economic management.

This phenomenon should serve as a reminder to the government to speed up its efforts to solve economic problems, the paper said.

Otherwise, most Thai daily papers ran a story about the new sex video game from South Korea. A group of Internet users urged the government to look into the widespread popularity of this game in many Internet shops, most of which have young children as their clients.