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Thai-Chilean pact set for signing today
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 04/10/2013
» Thailand will today sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with Chile that will initially eliminate tariffs on 90% of products between the two countries.
Exports set to sparkle on US rebound
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 07/09/2013
» The prospects for gem and jewellery exports are growing brighter, driven mainly by the US economic recovery and the weaker baht.
Exports seen sparkling again this year
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 22/07/2013
» Thai gem and jewellery shipments may grow by up to 3% this year, an improvement from a 5% contraction in an earlier forecast thanks to the economic recovery in the US and Japan and the weaker baht.
BAAC offers farm band-aid
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 21/06/2013
» The government has pledged to work out measures to placate farmers who fail to sell their paddy at 15,000 baht a tonne in the rice pledging scheme.
Boonsong pins rice deal woes on baht
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 01/05/2013
» Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom has blamed the soaring baht for hampering government-to-government (G-to-G) rice export deals.
Jewellery traders fear slump in exports
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 17/04/2013
» Thai gem and jewellery shipments are expected to fall this year as the industry faces a myriad of negative factors including the sharp surge of the baht, says the Thai Gem & Jewelry Traders Association.
Pledging scheme revamp will sync with farm zoning
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 25/03/2013
» The government is preparing to restructure the rice pledging scheme for the second crop of the 2014 season to make it comply with a new agricultural zoning plan by which the government will no longer promote growing rice in inappropriate areas.
Farmers hanker for pledging handouts
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 09/03/2013
» Rice farmers are threatening to hold a rally to put pressure on the government to step up the launch of the rice pledging scheme for the second crop, saying they are facing difficulties keeping their output stored.
Auctions urged for rice
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 09/03/2013
» The state is being urged to sell its rice stocks via auctions and the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand as a means of curbing losses more nimbly than through "secret" rice sales.
Rice pledging budget set to be slashed
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 05/03/2013
» The budget to subsidise rice pledging for the 2012-13 crop year may be cut from an earlier proposal of 405 billion baht, with drought expected to reduce the harvest of the second crop of paddy this year.