Activist Sombat suspends packed rice sale

SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2015
Activist Sombat suspends packed rice sale

Activist Sombat Boonngamanong, editor of online Laijud magazine, announced on his Facebook wall Saturday that he decided to stop selling his 5-kilogramme packs of Laijud brand jasmine rice for a while to upgrade his product quality.

He made the announcement after the junta has threatened actions against him, regarding his rice sell as a political ploy. Somsak has sold the packed rice apparently to prove that the government could buy rice from farmers at the rate of Bt15,000 per tonne.