BURI RAM: A worker was killed when his arm became caught in a rubber sheeting machine at a factory in Prakhon Chai district late on Tuesday night. Pol Capt Suthep Daengmuenwai, a Prakhonchai police duty officer, said the accident was reported by a rubber factory on Chok Chai-Det Udom road in tambon Khok Ma, Prakhon Chai […]
Thai durian has outranked rice and para rubber as Thailand’s top export performer, with export volume last year estimated at about 187 billion baht, compared to 100 billion baht for rice exports and 90 billion baht for rubber, according to the Centre for International Trade Studies at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. […]
Police, local officials and rescue workers rushed to a rubber plantation, in Na Bo Kham sub-district of Thailand’s Kamphaeng Phet province this morning (Saturday), after they were alerted by villagers to the presence of about 20 migrant workers from Myanmar, including some dead and injured. The authorities found three dead, including two women and a […]
SONGKHLA: The body of a man was found in a rubber plantation by a road near Ban Nong Khuan village in Bang Klam district early on Sunday. Police and rescue workers from a charity foundation in Hat Yai went to the scene after local residents found the body at 7am. Full story: Bangkok Post ASSAWIN […]
National police chief Chakthip Chaijinda on Thursday ordered local police to speed up their investigation into a series of explosions at rubber plantations in Yala to bring those responsible to justice. Pol Gen Chakthip issued the order after a rubber tapper was seriously wounded by the latest explosive device, a land mine, on while working […]
Another villager, the 5th in eight days, was wounded in a bomb explosion while tapping rubber in a plantation in Muang district of Yala province early Thursday. Police said the incident occurred at about 3am when Jarin Chanluek, 47, of Ban Thung Ya Mu in Tambon Yupo of Muang district went to the plantation near […]
PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha has said he does not see any money-making potential in the pair of rubber figurines depicting him on display at a rubber product and utility exhibition at Government House yesterday. “Did the figures look good? I haven’t seen them yet,” Prayut joked during a weekly press briefing. Read more: The Nation
The cabinet has approved the purchase by eight ministries of 100,000 tonnes of rubber directly from growers at an above-market price, and appointed eight new people to the 15-member Rubber Board. Announcing the decision, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha did not reveal the buying price but said it would be higher than the current 35 baht […]
