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,...
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British woman reunited with son after Pattaya Tourist Police help
PATTAYA, Thailand – A British woman who was too intoxicated to return to her accommodation on her own was safely escorted back by Pattaya...
Police check on Russian tourist sleeping drunk in Pattaya hotel for safety
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya Tourist Police were called to a hotel on August 13 after staff found a heavily intoxicated foreign tourist sleeping on...
Rescue volunteers suspended after taxi driver assaulted near Bangkok MRT Station
BANGKOK, Thailand – A group of rescue volunteers has been suspended from duty after a video showing several volunteers allegedly assaulting a taxi driver...
Kating Lai Park off North Pattaya faces erosion threat, safety barriers installed
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya City officials have inspected damage at Kating Lai Beach Park after waves eroded more than 20 metres of the shoreline,...
Pattaya motorcycle taxi driver arrives at police station with bat seeking help
PATTAYA, Thailand – Police officers and members of the public at Pattaya City Police Station were left puzzled when a motorcycle taxi driver arrived...