Yesterday the Health Ministry claimed that China issued a national ban on smoking in all indoor public spaces. The ban is included in the government’s 12th Five-Year Plan. Also banned is smoking in outdoor public areas where pedestrians pass. The ban will begin May 1. China, with a third of the world’s smoking population at […]
The Public Health Ministry is planning to raid entertainment places and arrest any people they find selling alcohol-infused sweets, which are allegedly being sold to people under 20. Saman Footrakul, chief of the Tobacco and Alcohol Control Bureau, said the sale of such candies could be in violation of the Alcohol Control Act 2008, which […]
Two foreign subsidiaries of Virginia-based Alliance One International Inc. pleaded guilty on Friday to bribing officials in Thailand and Kyrgyzstan to secure contracts and purchase tobacco leaf, the Justice Department said. Alliance One International AG, a Swiss corporation, was charged with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act and violations of the anti-bribery and […]
Bangkok – Hundreds of Thais on Wednesday protested outside a tobacco industry congress in Bangkok aimed at expanding cigarette consumption in Asia, already the fastest-growing market for tobacco products. “We would like the world to see we are opposed to the tobacco industry using Thailand as a base to promote and expand its markets in […]
