Tag: Vatchari Vimooktayon
Thailand enjoys export growth in Q1
BANGKOK, April 23 – Thai exports last month were reported at US$20.769 billion, a 4.55 per cent increase year on year, according to...
Commerce Ministry: THB500,000 cap held for each farmer joining rice-pledging scheme
BANGKOK, 2 April 2013 The Commerce Ministry has asserted its determination to carry out the state-sponsored rice-pledging scheme to help small farmers. ...
Commerce Ministry: No corruption in government rice deals
BANGKOK, March 22 – Thailand's Commerce Ministry today quashed allegations of corruption and gave a clean bill of correctness to the government’s rice...
Commerce Ministry needs Bt320 billion for new round of rice subsidy
BANGKOK, March 4 – A new injection of Bt320 billion (US$10.7 billion) will be needed as subsidy for the Thai government’s rice pledging scheme...
Thailand’s export volume in January breaks record
BANGKOK, Feb 27 – Thailand’s exports last month reached the historic value of US$18.27 billion, a 16.09 per cent increase from the same...
Commerce Ministry to sell pledged rice supply through G2G deals in...
BANGKOK, 10 February 2013 The Ministry of Commerce is set to actively pursue direct rice sales with any government, which could be in...
Another major rice pledging budget approved
BANGKOK, Oct 2 – A Bt240-billlion budget to pledge 15 million tonnes of paddy in the 2012-2013 harvest sailed through the Thai cabinet...
Blue Flag Fair to be held at IMPACT on April 4-8
BANGKOK, 3 April 2012 – The Commerce Ministry is prepared to organize a Grand Blue Flag Fair in order to help ease the...
Commerce Min to start selling Blue Flag goods to flood victims...
BANGKOK, 15 October 2011 – The Ministry of Commerce is planning to launch Blue Flag events in flood-hit areas on 17 October, during which...
DIT: Pork price may be reduced to 140 THB/kg next week
BANGKOK, 31 August 2011 – The Department of Internal Trade (DIT) is planning to revoke the price ceiling for pork and replace it...
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Child’s arm gets stuck in swimming pool drainage pipe, rescue efforts take over two...
SRIRACHA, Thailand – At approximately 5:30 PM, the Sriracha Rescue Unit received an emergency call about a young girl whose arm was trapped in...
British tourist survives fall from hotel balcony into internet café after heavy drinking in...
PATTAYA, Thailand – The Pattaya City Rescue Center received a report of a person falling from a height with injuries at a hotel, located...
Pattaya sets up viewing areas, parking locations, traffic orders for fireworks festival Nov 29-30
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya is gearing up to host its much-anticipated International Fireworks Festival from November 29 to 30, featuring thousands of fireworks displays...
Pattaya woman drives pickup truck into drunk boyfriend in temple after heated spat, monks...
PATTAYA, Thailand – A vehicle collision in the parking lot of Wat Samakkhi Pracharam (Wat Thung Klom Tanman), located in east Pattaya on November...
Youth gang brawl leads to police intervention at Bali Hai Pier in Pattaya
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya Special Operations officers and community volunteer police responded to reports of a brawl involving local youths at the Bali Hai...