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Trekking in Chiang Mai, Trekking in Northern Thailand
In the cooler climate of Northern Thailand there are many hills and mountains spread throughout the region of the North, all these hills and mountains make trekking a tropical experience of a lifetime in Northern Thailand.
Many tourists from all over the globe come to Chiang Mai and Chiang [...]

A-Power Energy Generation Systems to Build New Power Plant in Thailand
China: Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd. today said it has signed a memorandum of understanding to build and invest $300 million to build a power generation plant in Thailand.
The Chinese company, Power Energy Generation Systems ltd. rose $1.98, or 8.3% to $25.93 in morning on [...]

Burma Faces Cruel Times
One thing Burmese junta rulers can expect in the next few months following in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which has killed more than 80,000 people and ruined the country’s rice bowl: Resentment, and no end to it.
The Burmese people have been in torment under martial rule for the past 46 years, [...]

More to Know about Thai Rice
Rice prices in Thailand are likely to remain strong, regardless of yesterday’s fall by about 5-10% after the Philippines abandoned its largest rice purchase of the year. ”Demand still exists, the Philippine government is believed to have just modified its buying method from government-to-government basis,” according to Nitus Patrayothin, head [...]

Everyone’s Still Talking about Rice
Vietnamese leaders have rejected Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej’s assertion that a Southeast Asian rice price-fixing cartel was soon to be in business. According to the Vietnamese government, the Thai negotiators who were scheduled to visit them in Vietnam to thrash out the issue last month had never even shown up. [...]

Biofuel in Burma Brings More Bad Times
An arrangement by Myanmar’s ruling junta for large-scale growing of a promising but little-tested biofuel crop has turned into an agricultural disaster, activists linked with the exile-based resistance claimed in a report issued Thursday.
The sternly critical statement said the policy hurts an already ailing agriculture quarter. It came as [...]

More Thai Rice, Anyone?
The Thai government announced that its decision to release rice from the state’s stockpiles for sale in the marketplace will ensure that consumers will be paying reasonable prices for rice for the rest of the year. The new step, which was authorized by the cabinet yesterday, quickly brought down the standard-grade rice [...]

Thai Rice Millers and Exporters who Benefit, not Farmers
Thai Rice farmers aren’t seeing all the gains as a result of the shortage of rice in Thailand, and the record high prices. The cost of growing rice has also risen exponentially in the last year. Seed prices, land rental and fertilizer have all increased in cost [...]

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Vietnam Competes for Food Exports
Thai food exporters are facing stiff and growing competition for food exports to Europe from Vietnam. Thailand’s National Food Institute reports that the value of produce exported to Europe last year was 20.2 billion baht, down from 20.6 billion a year before. The association estimates that Vietnam now controls [...]