1 - 10 of 124 results for "pledging scheme fraud"

  1. 1. business | 25 Mar 2013

    Pledging scheme revamp will sync with farm zoning

    AGRICULTURE

    By Phusadee Arunmas, Newspaper section: Business

    » The government is preparing to restructure the rice pledging scheme for the second crop of the 2014 season to make it comply with a new agricultural zoning plan by which the government will no longer promote growing rice...

  2. 2. opinion | 04 Apr 2013

    Come clean on rice pledging

    EDITORIAL

    Newspaper section: News

    » Finally, the government has agreed to accept the hard truth that it can no longer buy every grain of paddy from rice farmers as promised when it launched the populist rice pledging scheme two years ago.

  3. 3. news | 31 Mar 2013

    B105 bln approved for rice-pledging

    By Patsara Jikkham

    » CHACHOENGSAO - The cabinet on Sunday approved the Commerce Ministry's proposal for a budget of 105 billion baht for use in the rice-pledging scheme for the off-season produce of the 2012-2013 crop year, government sp...

  4. 4. opinion | 21 May 2013

    Wall around failed rice scheme starting to leak

    By Veera Prateepchaikul

    » Most people still know little or nothing about the rice pledging scheme, with the actual details fiercely guarded by a handful of officials at the Commerce Ministry, including Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapriom.

  5. 5. business | 11 Apr 2013

    BAAC ready to fund rice scheme shortfall

    AGRICULTURE

    By Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Newspaper section: Business

    » The state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) will use its excess liquidity to advance payments for the rice pledging scheme if the government falls short of its target in selling rice stockpi...

  6. 6. business | 16 May 2013

    BAAC probes possible pledging fraud

    By Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Newspaper section: Business

    » The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) is launching an investigation into about 100,000 tonnes of unmilled rice suspected of being fraudulently pledged based on statistics.

  7. 7. business | 29 Mar 2013

    Government scales back cassava pledging scheme

    AGRICULTURE

    By Chatrudee Theparat, Newspaper section: Business

    » The government may not need to subsidise cassava in the 2013-14 season, as tapioca prices have recovered amid high demand for its use in alternative energy, especially in China.

  8. 8. opinion | 01 Apr 2013

    Only half-truths about infrastructure megaprojects

    By Veera Prateepchaikul

    » The government appears to be treating the infrastructure development megaprojects like the rice pledging scheme - withholding key information which is supposed to be disclosed publicly and releasing details only when pre...

  9. 9. business | 19 Apr 2013

    State frets about pledging overages

    RICE

    By Phusadee Arunmas, Newspaper section: Business

    » The government tightened rice-pledging measures for fear the amount pledged for the 2012/2013 season will exceed the 22 million tonnes budgeted.

  10. 10. news | 15 Apr 2013

    Foreigners arrested for fraud, theft

    By Online Reporters

    » Two French nationals and a Tunisian have been arrested on charges of credit card fraud in Phuket, and a Vietnamese man for stealing from revellers during the Songkran celebration on Silom Road.

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