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Tests show 10-year-old rice 'safe to eat'
Gary Boyle, Published on 20/05/2024
» The government will auction off the rice from Yingluck Shinawatra's pledging scheme that had been stored in two warehouses in Surin for 10 years, after a laboratory test result showed that the rice is still safe to eat.
Govt wants to sell 10-year-old rice
Gary Boyle, Published on 14/05/2024
» Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai on Monday said that the government wants to sell the last stocks of decade-old rice.
Thaksin: I'll be back
Gary Boyle, Published on 21/07/2022
» Ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra has responded to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's come-home challenge, saying he will return to Thailand.
Ex-cop shoots dead Yingluck's lawyer in court
Gary Boyle, Published on 12/11/2019
» CHANTHABURI: A retired senior policeman shot dead the plaintiff and his lawyer before being fatally shot by an on-duty police officer in a Chanthaburi courtroom on Tuesday morning.
Cambodian PM cancels passports
Gary Boyle, Published on 16/01/2019
» Cambodia's decision to revoke the diplomatic passports of non-citizens demonstrates the strong ties between Cambodia and Thailand, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said Tuesday.
Cops chasing tails in hunt for Yingluck
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 01/06/2018
» Deputy national police chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul said on Thursday it would be harder to track fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra if she has obtained a UK visa, as reported by the media.
Prawit dismisses Thaksin's forecast of Pheu Thai polls win
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 30/03/2018
» Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has shrugged off former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's prediction that the Pheu Thai Party will see a landslide victory in the next general election.
Yingluck's home, assets seized
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 01/02/2018
» Over 30 assets belonging to former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra have been seized by the Legal Execution Department to cover some of the losses of her administration's failed rice-pledging scheme, her lawyer said on Wednesday.
Yingluck denies all charges
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 10/01/2015
» Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has denied all charges against her in connection with the rice-pledging programme, asking the NLA why she was being impeached when she had already lost her position.
Bananas, not rice, the future for this farmer
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 21/04/2014
» Forty-six-year-old Wichian Sonchaiying has been a rice farmer his whole life, but not this year. Problems with government support programmes have caused him to turn to growing bananas.