THAILAND

Farmers rally at Muang Thong Thani

Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 17/02/2014

» A large number of farmers rallied on Monday outside the office of the permanent secretary for defence, the caretaker cabinet's temporary workplace, on Chaeng Watthana Road, and demanded caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra meet them for talks on the government's failure to pay them for grain delivered under the rice-pledging scheme.