Tag: Rubber
PM Yingluck Shinawatra pleas for public order as rubber protests turn violent
BANGKOK, Sept 16 – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said today the government would avoid using force, but rather turn to negotiation, in dealing with rubber [Read More…]
Rubber Growers Protest: Government warned of airport seizures
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 [Read More…]
South: Train services suspended for second day
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 [Read More…]
PM Yingluck Shinawatra pleads with rubber planters to end protest
BANGKOK, Aug 27 – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra warned today that continued protests by southern rubber growers could lead to violence and legal action [Read More…]
Rubber plantation owner killed in Narathiwat
NARATHIWAT, Oct 13 – A man was shot dead in his own rubber plantation Saturday morning in the latest insurgent attack in the restive southern [Read More…]
Thai Police probe ‘trafficking’ of Cambodian muslims
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 [Read More…]
Myanmar to free Thai children, women detainees: Yuthasak
BANGKOK, July 16 – The Myanmar authorities will first release about ten Thai women and children who were detained during a land encroachment incident earlier [Read More…]
Rubber farmers block highway in Surat Thani
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 [Read More…]