BANGKOK, Sept 16 – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said today the government would avoid using force, but rather turn to negotiation, in dealing with rubber growers’ protests in the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat. She was referring to a clash between the authorities and protesters at Kuan Nong Hong intersection of Cha-uad district where […]
Rubber growers in the South are threatening to lay siege to important places like airports and provincial halls if the government fails to answer their demand for a higher price for their produce. Meanwhile, authorities have vowed strict law enforcement against protesters who cross the line. Read more: The Nation
With 10 trains cancelled on the route from Bangkok to Thailand’s south, officials at Songkhla’s Hat Yai Train Station took the opportunity of a quiet Wednesday to organise a “Big Cleaning Day” event to clean and maintain all trains so that they are ready to operate as soon as service resumes. Read more: The Nation
BANGKOK, Aug 27 – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra warned today that continued protests by southern rubber growers could lead to violence and legal action will be taken against excessive actions during the demonstration. Rubber planters in the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat have protested and blocked highways since Friday, and upgraded their activity […]
NARATHIWAT, Oct 13 – A man was shot dead in his own rubber plantation Saturday morning in the latest insurgent attack in the restive southern province of Narathiwat. The victim was identified as Sama-ae Royee, 58, the owner of a rubber plantation in Rangae district. MCOT
Immigration police are looking into a possible human-trafficking scheme in which Cambodian muslims legally enter Thailand through Sa Kaeo as tourists for 14 days but work as rubber tappers in Narathiwat for up to six months. When they want to go home, they let themselves be arrested for illegal entry by abandoning their travel documents. […]
BANGKOK, July 16 – The Myanmar authorities will first release about ten Thai women and children who were detained during a land encroachment incident earlier this month, Deputy Prime Minister Gen Yuthasak Sasiprapa said today. The deputy prime minister reported progress in helping 92 Thai detainees still in Myanmar saying that a group of Thai […]
SURAT THANI, July 10- Some 1,000 rubber growers on Tuesday blocked Asian Highway Route 41 in this southern Thai province, demanding that the government resolve the falling natural rubber price. Surat Thani rubber farmers blocked Asian Highway Route 41, both inbound and outbound, in Tha Chang district. Read more: MCOT
