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Latest Travel Warning in Thailand
24 countries have issued travel warnings about traveling to Thailand, 10 of the 24 countries have raised the level of alarm of travel warning following the government’s violent and abusive crackdown on PAD anti-government protesters. The 10 countries are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Japan and the UK, ten counties [...]

Thai Exports of Honda products manufactured in Thailand up 18%
Exports of Honda products manufactured in Thailand is up 18% in 2nd quarter of 2008, Honda Motor Company Thailand announced today. Thai Honda Exports for the 1st half of 2008 was 55.6 billion baht. Honda has been using Thailand as an export base since 1987.
Honda manufactures [...]

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. [...]

Japan Says No to Thai Rice Because Price Not Nice
After the price of rice doubled in one month, Japanese importers have decided to decline an order for 60,000 tons of Thai rice, according to the Thai Rice Exporters Association. For centuries, Japan did not import rice at all, so that their local farmers could maintain [...]

Price of Rice Not Nice in Hong Kong
(1com Thai News)
A rice shortage is to Hong Kong what Godzilla is to Tokyo.
A 30 per cent rise in the cost of rice has led to hoarding and panic buying among residents of Hong Kong as the specter of living a day without rice casts a shadow across [...]