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reuters.com | Orathai Sriring |Thanadech Staporncharnchai |Panarat Thepgumpanat
Prime minister blames U.S. tariffs for scheme delayAnalysts say it damages credibility of ruling partyGovernment distributed about a third of $14-billion schemeCash scheme failed to boost economy, analysts sayBANGKOK, June 2 (Reuters) - Rungthiwa Pimphanit waited months for a long-promised cash handout of 10,000 baht ($307) from Thailand's ruling party, which she backed in 2023 elections, but now the scheme to stimulate a stalling economy has been put on ice.
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reuters.com | Chayut Setboonsarng |Panarat Thepgumpanat
Chickens look out from their cage in the poultry section of Bangkok's Klong Toey market February 4, 2008.
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au.news.yahoo.com | Panarat Thepgumpanat |Chayut Setboonsarng
A Thai court on Thursday ordered self-exiled former premier Yingluck Shinawatra to pay 10 billion baht ($A474 million) in damages over a botched rice-pledging scheme that saw her sentenced in 2017 to five years in prison for negligence.
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canberratimes.com.au | Panarat Thepgumpanat |Chayut Setboonsarng
Yingluck Shinawatra lives abroad to avoid jail for failing to prevent graft in a failed rice scheme. Photo: AP PHOTOA Thai court on Thursday ordered self-exiled former premier Yingluck Shinawatra to pay 10 billion baht ($A474 million) in damages over a botched rice-pledging scheme that saw her sentenced in 2017 to five years in prison for negligence. Subscribe now for unlimited access.
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2 weeks ago | 
bilyonaryo.com | Panarat Thepgumpanat |Chayut Setboonsarng
SOURCE: ReutersBy Panarat Thepgumpanat, Chayut SetboonsarngBANGKOK, May 22 (Reuters) – Thailand is planning to introduce a requirement for medical certificates to be shown when buying cannabis, a senior official said on Thursday, in a move to tighten control of marijuana use, three years after it was decriminalised. Thailand was one of the first countries in Asia to decriminalise marijuana but did so without a law to govern its sale, production or usage.
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1 month ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Chayut Setboonsarng |Panarat Thepgumpanat
25 April 2025 - 07:45 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on April 23 2025. Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been admitted to hospital with a high fever after returning from a two-day visit to Cambodia, a government official said on Friday.
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ca.marketscreener.com | Panarat Thepgumpanat
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Dozens of Thai firms grappling with $60 million losses from China's ban on sugar syrup have stopped production, an industry body said, following unsuccessful negotiation attempts by the Southeast Asian nation to lift the restrictions. China suspended imports of syrup and premixed powder from Thailand, the world's second-largest sugar exporter, in December due to concerns about factory hygiene.
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1 month ago | 
kfgo.com | Chayut Setboonsarng |Panarat Thepgumpanat
By Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat ThepgumpanatNAKHON PATHOM, Thailand (Reuters) -Thai farmer Daeng Donsingha was already worried for her family of nine when rice prices in the world’s second-largest exporter of the staple crashed this year after India resumed exports. Now, she’s also fretting over the tariffs unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump, which could slash demand for Thai rice in its most valuable foreign market and create turmoil in an export industry worth billions of dollars.
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ca.finance.yahoo.com | Chayut Setboonsarng |Panarat Thepgumpanat
NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand (Reuters) -Thai farmer Daeng Donsingha was already worried for her family of nine when rice prices in the world's second-largest exporter of the staple crashed this year after India resumed exports. Now, she's also fretting over the tariffs unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump, which could slash demand for Thai rice in its most valuable foreign market and create turmoil in an export industry worth billions of dollars.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Chayut Setboonsarng |Panarat Thepgumpanat
16 hours agoThailand: Ravenous python swallows pet cat in front of horrified ownerUdon Thani, Thailand - April 19, 2025 This is the gruesome moment a ravenous python swallowed a pet cat in front of its horrified owner. The beast slithered into a yard and pounced on the unsuspecting black-and-white kitten named Longma in Udon Thani, Thailand. It squeezed the life out of the one-year-old feline before swallowing it whole in full view of the horrified owner, Kusuma Tarat, 60, on April 19.
