Thammanat urging rice farmers to give up 3-harvests-a-year farming
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AGRICULTURE & COOPERATIVES MINISTER Thammanat Prompao said today (Jan.3) rice farmers are being encouraged to give up their three-harvests-a-year occupation and grow another cash crop as an alternative. During the first day of floor debate on the 2024 budget bill, the agriculture minister confirmed that the Agricultural Extension Department plans […]
Read MoreOnly the third time in the world an electric train wheel fell off
UPON suspending the operation of the whole batch of Yellow Line electric trains after a wheel fell down and landed on a taxi’s bonnet last evening (Jan. 2) Deputy Transport Minister Surapong Piyachote said this is only the third time in the world something like this has happened, TV Channel 7 said. It was […]
Read MoreJustice Minister defends Thaksin over prolonged stay outside prison
By Thai Newsroom Reporters JUSTICE MINISTER THAWEE Sodsong today (Jan.3) defended de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra from allegations surrounding his extended stay outside a prison. On the first day of floor debate on the 2024 budget bill today, Thawee called Thaksin a “peacemaker” who has returned from 17 years of […]
Read MoreNew Year festival spending tops 54 billion baht
CONSUMER spending during the New Year festival reached 54.4 billion baht while foreign tourism income last year totalled 1.2 trillion baht, TV Channel 7 said today (Jan. 3). Mr. Chai Watcharong, a spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office, said tourism promotion such as waiving visa requirements for tourists from China, Kazakhstan, India and Taiwan, […]
Read MorePM taken to task over Thaksin case during budget debate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin was today (Jan.3) taken to task for allegedly doing nothing about de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra since he returned from self-exile abroad last year. During today’s budget debate at parliament, former deputy prime minister-cum-former commerce minister Jurin Laksanavisit took the floor to […]
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