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Thailand’s Rice Science Centre has urged the government to reconsider its decision to sell rice from the controversial rice pledging scheme which is a decade old, and to permit experts to examine the rice…

The scandal ridden ‘rice pledging’ scheme is trending on social media again in Thailand, following Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai’s much criticised eating of decade-old rice, from the Yingluck government…

Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai stated today that the rice from the contentious rice pledging scheme of the Yingluck Shinawatra government, which has been stored in a warehouse in Surin province…