Tag: Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisarn
Thailand’s 2013 export growth: academic says 2%, minister says 4%
BANGKOK, Oct 23 – A leading academic said that Thailand’s 2013 exports would grow only 2 per cent but the commerce minister insisted on...
Finance Ministry confirms Bt200 billion loss from rice pledging scheme
BANGKOK, Oct 21 – A senior Finance Ministry official has reaffirmed the government’s loss of Bt200 billion annually from the rice pledging scheme though...
China to buy huge volumes of rice, rubber from Thailand
BANGKOK, Oct 14 – China has agreed to buy one million tonnes of rice and 200,000 tonnes of rubber from Thailand annually, Thai Prime...
Commerce Min presses on with rice pledging, shrugs off funding lack
BANGKOK, 8 October 2013 - Commerce Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisarn has confirmed that the ministry will continue the rice pledging scheme while requesting the Ministry...
Rubber City project hoped to increase rubber price in Thailand and...
BANGKOK, 2 October 2013 Thailand and Malaysia have agreed to cooperate on the “Rubber City” project aimed at developing the rubber industries of both...
Gloomy export performance for Thailand this year
BANGKOK, Sept 23 - Thailand must speed up its exports given disappointing growth at only 1 per cent in the first eight months of...
China to ink deal for 1.2 million tonnes of Thai rice:...
China has pledged to buy 1.2 million tonnes of Thai rice, along with another several hundred thousand tonnes of agricultural produce with the contracts...
Commerce Minister expects to see positive export growth rate this year
BANGKOK, 31 August 2013 Commerce Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisarn expresses confidence that Thai exports will not see minus growth this year as forecast by many...
PM dismisses economic recession, saying growth only missing target
BANGKOK, 23 August 2013 Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has affirmed that the Thai economy is not in recession but the current growth is below...
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Foreign tourist found dead in Pattaya Beach incident
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya City officials and police from Pattaya City Station responded to reports of a foreign man found drowned near the entrance...
Pattaya tightens city regulations following fireworks festival vendor complaints
PATTAYA, Thailand – Deputy Mayor Wuthisak Rermkijakarn chaired a meeting with the Pattaya City Administration Division to evaluate progress on prior directives and address...
Pattaya’s traffic has hit a breaking point
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