"PLANTATION"

Panasonic Group in Thailand, led by Chief Operation Officer Hidekazu Ito, along with 475 participants including the company’s management, staff and their families, recently participated in “Panasonic Mangrove Planting and Biodiversity Learning”

Twelve Cambodians were arrested early on Sunday after they were suspected to have gathered at a rubber plantation in tambon Khok Khrachai in Nakhon Ratchasima province with the intention of cutting down Siamese rosewood trees in the Thap Lan National Park.

A huge fire ravaged a 400-rai rubber plantation in Chacheongsao province and also raised worries of adding to Bangkok’s air-pollution woes.

Floods have forced a herd of 11 wild elephants to flee their natural habitat and enter plantation areas located near a residential compound in Tapung district, Kampar regency, Riau province.

An oil palm plantation owner was robbed and murdered at his house in Nakhon Si Thammarat, where he lived alone, police said on Monday.

HANOI - South Korea's CJ Group will set aside US$2.1 million to grow chilli in southern Ninh Thuan Province after successfully conducting a pilot project for six months in the locality.

SARAVAN - Saravan provincial authorities have agreed to approve a 200 hectare land concession to a Korean company, the J.S Farm Co Ltd to encourage farmers in the province to grow French custard apples and phakehoum for domestic supply and export.

VIENTIANE - The negative impacts from banana plantations in Laos could be outweighing the benefits, the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute reported at the workshop in Vientiane on Thursday.