NORTHEASTERN YASOTHON province residents are perplexed at the construction of a road along an irrigation canal in the middle of rice fields that leads to nowhere with no government agency claiming responsibility for having built it, Amarin TV said today (Nov. 27). Mr. Adul Wandee, director of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) office in
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Stir-fried minced pork with basil and rice but without cooking oil, anyone?
By Thai Newsroom Reporters STIR-FRIED MINCED PORK with basil and rice, better known as Pad Kaprao Moo Sab Rad Khao, may look utterly plain and commonplace anywhere in Thailand. But that particular type of street food is delicately different at a certain food shop in Rayong. At Kalaya ”Auntie Ya” Yai-on’s roadside food shop in
Read moreMan undecided between welding and roasting, literally
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SOMCHAI ”JACK” THONGLO has contemplated giving up on his career as welder at a rice mill in his home district of Manorom in Chainat to concentrate more on what he has only done on his days off as a small-time job and finally turn it into a primary, lucrative one. The
Read moreYingluck’s lawyer: More battles loom after court annulled B35bn fine order
FORMER prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s lawyer is gearing up for further legal battles after the Central Administrative Court today (April 2) overturned an order by the Finance Ministry to fine her 35.7 billion baht over her loss-ridden rice-subsidy scheme, Thai Rath newspaper said. The court said the order, issued in 2016, lacked legal standing. Yingluck’s
Read moreQuit rice or dump climate change?
Commentary by Itthi CT Special to Thai Newsroom WHEN Climate Change activists tell you to stop eating rice and ban rice cultivation, it is time Thailand quit the Paris Accord. Singapore based Channel News Asia (CNA) on Tuesday March 23rd aired a programme calling people to halt consuming rice and meat because they cause deadly
Read moreTo beat the heat, Vietnam rice farmers resort to planting at night
By Minh Nguyen for Reuters, published by US News Hanoi (Reuters) – Under a pitch-black night sky, a group of Vietnamese farmers planted rice this week in a paddy field on the outskirts of the capital Hanoi using head lamps to illuminate the water-logged ground in front of them. The farmers of the Tam Thanh
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