Tag: Yanyong Phuangrach
Finance Ministry assured of Bt20 billion return in May
BANGKOK, March 27 – The Commerce Ministry has given assurances that it will pay back Bt20 billion it borrowed from the central fund to...
Commerce Ministry: A Rice Farmers Bank can be established if without...
BANGKOK, 20 Feb 2014 Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Yanyong Phuangrach revealed it is possible to establish a bank that would handle financial affairs...
Thai Commerce Ministry holding tripartite talks today on aid to farmers
BANGKOK, Feb 19 – Thailand's Commerce Ministry will meet today with rice millers and farmers to find a way to assist the planters. ...
17 bidders take part in AFET rice auction
BANGKOK, 13 February 2014 17 bidders participated in Thursday’s auction to sell pledged rice through the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET). ...
Caretaker PM Yingluck promises rice payments to farmers next week
BANGKOK, Feb 14 – Farmers will gradually receive their overdue payments from the rice pledging scheme next week, according to caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck...
Traders participate fully in rice auction
BANGKOK, Feb 13 – Eighteen rice traders have joined a bidding event to buy nearly 500,000 tonnes of rice under the government’s subsidy scheme,...
Assistance offered to 4 civil servants charged with joining protests
BANGKOK, Feb 12 – Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban has calmed four Commerce Ministry civil servants who were charged with violating the emergency decree with...
The Commerce Ministry to speed up the process of payment under...
BANGKOK, 10 Feb 2014 The Commerce Ministry is reportedly ready to sell more than 200,000 tons of rice stockpiles during the rice auction via...
Rice Mills asked to pay part of pledged value to farmers
BANGKOK, 7 February 2014 The Ministry of Commerce asked rice mill owners yesterday, to provide 50-60% of the pledged value owed to rice growers,...
Modern traders will be stocking extra items during Bangkok shutdown period
BANGKOK, 8 January 2014 Retailers will stock a higher quantity of items than usual in order to guard against a shortage of products during...
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Sinchai concedes defeat in still-unsettled Pattaya mayor race
While the winner of Sunday’s mayoral election has not even been unofficially announced, Sinchai Wattanasartsathorn conceded defeat and congratulated the city’s probable next mayor.
Unofficial...
Weekdays showing signs of life in Pattaya
Only weeks ago, Pattaya tourist businesses bemoaned weekdays. Not so much anymore.
Unlike a few months ago, when weekends and holidays seemed busy in Pattaya,...
Pattaya area kindergarten opens for new term
Tiny tots in Takhiantia subdistrict north of Pattaya went to school for the first time as classrooms reopened for a new year.
The public Takientia...
Le Tenor Yves Baron at a PCEC Words and Music Meeting
Yves Baron was the presenter at the May 18 meeting of the Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC). The PCEC periodically invites musicians to a...
Thailand starts screening arrivals for monkeypox at airports today
The Department of Disease Control has set up an emergency operations center (EOC) to cope with monkeypox as officials concerned are screening arrivals from...