ANGKOK, March 4 – Thailand’s caretaker government will be ready within one week to initiate overdue payments to farmers from the rice pledging scheme after the Election Commission (EC) permitted the government to withdraw Bt20 billion from the central fund, according to caretaker Commerce Minister Yanyong Phuangrach. Mr Yanyong said the money could be payable […]
BANGKOK, Feb 25 – The caretaker Cabinet today approved Bt20 billion from the central fund for overdue payments to farmers from the rice pledging scheme. The National Rice Policy Committee (NRPC) reportedly informed the Cabinet that Bt20 billion would be borrowed from the central fund pending Finance Ministry bond sales which would take at least […]
(21 February) Farmers who have marched to Bangkok to demand payment from the government for their mortgaged rice have dropped their threats to seize the city’s main airport. The rice protesters arrived in the northern suburb of Rangsit district last night after a motorised march on their farming tractors from Ayutthaya. They claimed they had […]
Tens of thousands of farmers, travelling on more than 1,000 farm tractors in a long convoy from the upper northern and central provinces, will today arrive in Bangkok and move to Suvarnabhumi Airport in a concerted attempt to pressure the caretaker government to resign. They believe the government’s exit would remove the legal hurdle impeding […]
BANGKOK, Feb 20 – The Ministry of Commerce was completely sealed off for the second day today as more farmers poured into the capital from several provinces to demand due payment for their rice under government subsidy. More than 500 farm vehicles which left Uthai Thani yesterday and encamped overnight in Sing Buri, 140 km […]
Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her entire caretaker cabinet minister cancelled their scheduled meeting at her temporary office inside the Office of the Defense Ministry’s Permanent Secretary citing mass protest as main reason. The office was crowded with almost ten thousand farmers and anti-government protesters who arrived at 11 a.m. and gathered in front […]
Public rush to withdraw cash from Government Savings Bank, Trang branch, Bt10 million in 1 hour; fearing bank will use deposits for farmers rice payment. Public rush to withdraw cash from Government Saving Bank, Trang branch, Bt10 million in 1 hour; fearing bank (cont) http://t.co/IvoNGsibu4 — MCOT English News (@MCOT_Eng) February 17, 2014
BANGKOK, 14 February 2014 (NNT) –The Prime Minister and Defense Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has reaffirmed that all farmers registered with the government’s rice support program will be paid, starting on February 17th. Amid the ongoing protests by farmers who have not received their rice compensations, the prime minister during a trip to Ayutthaya, reassured growers […]
