Does anyone know how we can arrange a visa for Vietnam from Hua Hin in January? We go there by plane (return). And what is the cheapest way?
Outlook for rice exports is bleak
The prospects for the export of Thai rice to the Asean countries are not promising, because most neighboring countries opt for cheaper rice from Vietnam. Vietnam currently serves 70 percent of the market in Southeast Asia; the remaining part is for Thailand.
To Thailand and Vietnam, what about a visa?
Thai jasmine rice is also losing ground to Vietnam
Thailand has already priced itself out of the market with white rice because of the damned mortgage system and now the same is threatening the showpiece of Thai rice cultivation: Hom Mali. Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar are advancing.
Not 136 billion baht, as the government claims, but 500 to 700 billion baht is the loss of the rice mortgage system. This not-nauseous amount was mentioned yesterday during a discussion in Bangkok by Vichai Sripasert, honorary president of the Thai Rice Exporters Association.
In Thailand, many dogs are trafficked to neighboring Vietnam, where they end up in restaurants for human consumption. At present, there is no law in Thailand that can restrict these reprehensible practices. However, the country is working on it. This is reported by the American news website CNN.
New budget airline VietJet Air flies from Bangkok to Vietnam
VietJet Air, a low-cost airline from Vietnam, will fly to and from Bangkok. The airline offers 3.000 seats at a promotional rate. A 'one way' flight ticket Bangkok – Ho Chi Minh City, will be offered from 99 baht, excluding costs such as airport tax.
Dog meat brings happiness and keeps you warm
Every month, 30.000 dogs are smuggled across the border from Thailand. They end up as a tasty snack on a Vietnamese dinner plate. Little by little, transports are intercepted. Will a 'national agenda' offer a solution?
Thailand falls to third place as a rice exporter
After nearly 50 years as the world's largest rice exporter, Thailand has dropped to third place this year. India takes over the top spot and Vietnam is a close second.
Rice export: Vietnam overtakes Thailand
Thailand is in danger of losing its top position as the world's largest rice exporter to Vietnam this year. Rice exports have collapsed, the main culprit being the mortgage system that the Yingluck government has taken from the stable.
Investments in Ayutthaya fall 30 pc
The business community in the five flood-affected industrial estates in Ayutthaya province will invest 30 percent less next year.
Rice may be 19 percent more expensive as a result of flooding
Rice prices could rise by 19 percent by the end of the year due to flooding in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, and as the government has begun to buy up rice through its mortgage system, CP Intertrade Co, Thailand's largest rice packer, expects . The price of Thai parboiled rice may go to $750 per ton from $630 now and the same product from India from $480 to $500, Sumeth Laomoraphorn, president of …
Rice plan becomes a very expensive joke
Taxpayers can expect a 250 billion baht bill as the government reintroduces the much-criticized rice mortgage system. The system could also result in Thailand losing its position as the world's largest rice exporter to Vietnam (which has already taken over the lead in Asia). This says Pridiyathorn Devakula, former Deputy Prime Minister. Next month, the government will launch the system, under which the government will buy up unhusked white rice for a guaranteed price of 15.000 baht per ton…
Thai rice exports are struggling
Thai rice exports are under attack from all sides. Exporters fear that Vietnam, the world's second largest rice exporter and first in Asia, will plunge below the Thai price. In addition, Vietnam expects a larger harvest. Thailand also has to deal with India, which offers pre-cooked rice at an attractive price. On October 7, the much-criticized rice mortgage system will start in Thailand. Farmers receive a guaranteed price of 15.000 baht (white rice) or 20.000 baht (Hom Mali, …
Higher minimum wage drives Hana to Vietnam
Hana Microelectronics Plc may move to Vietnam or China when the minimum daily wage rises to 300 baht next year, as the new Pheu Thai-led government plans to do. The company employs 10.000 workers in Thailand and 2000 in Jiaxing, China, almost all of whom are paid minimum wage. Although personnel costs represent only 6 to 8 percent of operating costs, the increase still has major consequences because profit margins are small. Next one …
Wai Wai wags her tail, mistress in tears
Four families are reunited with their loyal family friend, who was about to be smuggled to Vietnam as a tasty snack. The dogs were with about 2000 others in two trucks that were intercepted at the border with Laos. Yesterday, the four lucky owners were reunited with their family friend. Mother and 14-year-old daughter Araya Khaekwanwong found after a 20-minute search at the Nakhon Phanom Quarantine Center, where the confiscated animals …
The government of Laos is sticking to the plan to build a large dam in the Mekong River. The Mekong is the largest river in Southeast Asia, an important part of the population of Thailand, among others, depends on this river for their livelihoods. Consultations with neighboring countries Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, who fear the consequences for the river's water management and ecology, have so far yielded nothing. Riparian States Yesterday is…