Tag: Rubber
PM shoots down Suthep advice
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ruled out former deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban’s proposal that the government buy rubber from farmers at 60 baht a [Read More…]
Rubber farmer killed in Songkhla
A rubber farmer who previously survived a gun attack died after being shot again near a plantation in Songkhla’s Na Mom district on Wednesday, police [Read More…]
Thai PM: Aid money on the way for rubber growers
BANGKOK, 9 December 2014 (NNT) – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has insisted that the disbursement of financial aid for rubber farmers is being expedited while [Read More…]
Rubber Farmer Self-Immolates As Crop Price Plunges
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT — A rubber farmer in Nakhon Si Thammarat province committed suicide yesterday amid the plunging price of raw rubber, a staple crop [Read More…]
Pattani rubber tapper killed, wife wounded, in gun attack
PATTANI, March 3 – A villager was shot dead this morning, while his wife was wounded in a gun attack as they were riding to [Read More…]
Two villagers shot dead, two rangers wounded in southern violence
NARATHIWAT, Jan 29 – Two villagers were killed and one seriously wounded in a shooting attack early this morning at a rubber plantation in Rueso [Read More…]
Police seek attackers on rubber protest activists’ residences
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, Nov 1 – Police here set a manhunt into motion for assailants who fired gunshots and grenades at the homes of four [Read More…]
Rubber growers clash with police in Nakhon Si Thammarat

The Nation’s senior photographer Charoon Thongnual was in Nakhon Si Thammarat Monday when the rubber growers protesters clashed with police in a brutal crackdown. Police [Read More…]