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The crackdown on foreign workers may cause Thai rice exports to drop below the target of 10 million tonnes this year, with many migrants who work in the industry leaving the country. According to Chookiat Ophaswongse, honorary president of the Thai Rice Exporters Association, shipments of Thai rice to other countries
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THE COMMERCE Ministry will formally ask the Legal Execution Department this week to confiscate Bt20 billion from former officials held responsible for losses stemming from allegedly fake rice-export deals announced as part of the previous government’s rice-pledging scheme. The decision was reached at a meeting yesterday between senior officials from the
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Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra will be fined 286.6 billion baht in compensation for losses incurred by her government's rice-pledging scheme following the latest evaluation by a government panel. Jirachai Moonthongroy, deputy permanent secretary at the Prime Minister's Office, who headed a committee looking into administrative offences involving the rice programme,
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Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra appeared in the Supreme Court today for the 10th hearing of state testimonies against her in the rice-pledging scheme which she was charged with dereliction of duties. She arrived in the compound of the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders before 9 am amid
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BANGKOK, 24 June 2016 (NNT) - The Ministry of Commerce has forecast rice exports to rise during the second half of this year, reaching its annual output target of 9.5 million tons. Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn said the expected increase is due to continuous demand in both domestic and foreign markets,
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Japan is set to begin exporting rice from the country's Fukushima region to the European Union, starting with the United Kingdom, next month, local media reported. "With the U.K. as a foothold, we hope to expand the sale of prefecture-produced rice to other EU member countries," the head
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A government committee has concluded that former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra must pay 286.64 billion baht in compensation for her loss-ridden rice-pledging programme. Jirachai Moonthongroy, deputy permanent secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, supplied the figure when he testified on Friday in Ms Yingluck's trial before the Supreme Court's Criminal Division
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Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra stood trial for her controversial rice pledging scheme in the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Political Office Holders for the eighth time today amid a hundred of her supporters. Today’s hearing saw two state witnesses testifying the court about her in the rice scheme which inflicted
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