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Thai tourism numbers are forecast to increase this year at the same rate as in 2019, with the sector’s lingering shortcomings offset by government pushes for sports tourism, street-food promotions and homestays.

With the prices of rubber and palm oil so low, some farmers in Nuea Khlong district at Krabi province have turned to growing straw mushrooms, which bring in a daily revenue of Bt600 to Bt1000, Asara Chindapol, a mushroom growing pioneer, said yesterday (December 6).

The government will provide support to farmers to grow revenue-producing trees on their lands, said Agriculture Minister Surasak Karnjanarat on Saturday.

The search for 12 young footballers and their assistant coach trapped in a Chiang Rai cave resumed on Thursday following a night of heavy rainfall that only made conditions worse.

Monks and a lawyer in Phrae are calling out what they see as malfeasance by past authorities and requesting that the government intervene on behalf of villagers to allow them to cut and sell teak trees planted on their land-reform plots 24 years ago.

CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ANTI-GRAFT MEMBERS REMAINING IN OFFICE WIDELY QUESTIONED

BULLFIGHTING has been booming in Thailand’s South, attracting tourists and stimulating local economies.