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Thai crackdown on fake goods nets results
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 18/12/2025
» The Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) has intensified a nationwide crackdown on intellectual property (IP) infringement, seizing more than 3.3 million counterfeit and pirated items with damages exceeding 1.14 billion baht during the first 11 months of this year.
Hurdles blur durian export outlook
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 03/02/2025
» Projections for Thai durian exports are more uncertain than a year ago as the Chinese market softens.
Department mulls strict controls on waste paper imports
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 18/09/2024
» The Foreign Trade Department is preparing to impose stringent import control measures on waste paper to protect public health and the environment.
Going against the grain
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 16/05/2024
» The government's plan to sell old rice stored in warehouses for a decade in northeastern Thailand stunned some onlookers, leading to concerns about the adverse impact on public health.
New incentives put focus on trucks
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 22/02/2024
» The National Electric Vehicle Policy Committee (EV Board) on Wednesday approved incentives to motivate companies to transition their commercial fleets of large trucks and buses to battery electric vehicles (BEVs).
Chinese New Year spending set to dip
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 21/01/2020
» Spending by Thais during the Chinese New Year festival is expected to drop for the first time in 12 years as people fret over economic uncertainties.
Rice exporters back ban on three toxic chemicals
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 09/11/2019
» Rice exporters have thrown their full support behind the ban on three toxic farm chemicals, saying importer countries have tightened their order of crops based on food safety.
US move 'a retaliation' for toxin ban
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 27/10/2019
» US President Donald Trump's decision to suspend $1.3 billion (39.2 billion baht) in trade preferences for Thailand under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) has raised suspicion it is in retaliation for Thailand's ban on the use of herbicide glyphosate.
Sowing the seeds of self-reliance
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 01/12/2018
» Wiwat Salyakamthorn, aka Ajarn Yak, made his name over the decades preaching to farmers the sufficiency philosophy conceived and developed by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej to sustain Thailand's agricultural sector.