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E-cigarette fines rise to discourage sales
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/05/2024
» The Customs Department will fine e-cigarette importers double an item's value plus tax to discourage further sales among the public, especially teenagers.
It's important to know your onions
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 12/02/2023
» There was a news photograph recently in which a Filipina bride in Iloilo on the island of Panay carried a bouquet of onions down the aisle rather than flowers. She explained that while flowers would soon be thrown away the onions would last and ensure the newlyweds have something to eat in the ensuing weeks. Now that is a practical housewife.
Department of Internal Trade tracking pricey veggies
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/10/2022
» The Commerce Ministry's Department of Internal Trade (DIT) will closely monitor increases in vegetable prices, and pledges to come up with price-control measures.
A day for mustard and relish, but no ketchup
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/07/2021
» Despite not being American I attended several July 4 celebrations in Bangkok back in the days when they were held at the old ISB campus on Sukhumvit Soi 15. A colleague's recommendation of "cheap beer and heavenly hot dogs" was enough to convince me it was possibly not the worst way to spend a Saturday afternoon in Bangkok.
One-day reopening boosts border trade
News, Piyarach Chongcharoen and Chaiwat Satyaem, Published on 28/10/2020
» KANCHANABURI: Trans-border trade with Myanmar at the Three Pagodas Pass was bustling yesterday as the crossing was reopened for one day to clear up a backlog of goods.
Royal water project to reinvigorate farming
News, Chatrudee Theparat & Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 06/05/2020
» Pid Thong Lang Phra, a foundation dedicated to promoting the sufficiency economy vision of King Bhumibol Adulyadej The Great, has launched water-development schemes to address the scourge of mass unemployment caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Brits can go back to their hot-water bottles
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 02/02/2020
» When Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, a Newsweek columnist likened it to "a bored nation sticking its fingers into a tempting-looking electrical socket just to see what happens". What happened was far from electrifying, but more than three years of mind-numbing debate and verbal jousting that left most people fed up with the whole thing.
Thailand through the looking glass
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 06/01/2019
» I trust everyone is recovering from the silly hats and hangovers season. Soon it will be back to the grim reality -- hangovers without the silly hats.
Rain prompts closure of Unesco site
News, Published on 25/07/2018
» Wan gets bail after nightclub fracas
Brand-name goods, onions seized
News, Published on 16/07/2018
» Customs officials in Tak's Mae Sot district, with support from a local military unit, have seized about 3-million-baht worth of brand name goods ordered on eBay and 1,156 kilogrammes of onions smuggled from Myanmar.