Local News
Feature: From banana politics to banana farming
- TNR staff
- April 27, 2022
- banana
- plantation
- politics
- Thailand
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MP-TURNED-FARMER Boonmark Sirinaovakul says he has no idea whether bananas should be figuratively likened to cash which might possibly be handed out in hush-hush fashion to prospective voters or politicians in exchange for their votes at polling units or parliament. But Boonmark says he himself has been literally tending to a […]
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Local News
Lightning kills man at rubber plantation hut
- TNR staff
- September 12, 2020
- hut
- kills
- lightning
- man
- plantation
- rubber
- Thailand
A BOLT of lightning hit a car battery used to power light at a hut in a rubber plantation at coastal Rayong province severely injuring the owner who was sitting close by and leading to his death a short while later, Thai Rath newspaper reported. The tragic incident occurred at 2 p.m. yesterday (Sept. 11) […]
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