INTELLECTUAL Property Department deputy director-general Suphat Saquandeekul has been suspended from duty pending an investigation into his theft of paintings from a Japanese hotel, the Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn said yesterday.

COMMERCE MINISTER Apiradi Tantraporn has insisted that his ministry will file a civil liability case against ex-commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and five other people for compensation over the allegedly fake government-to-government rice deals signe