Arrested pro-democracy group members brought to Bangkok
SATURDAY, JANUARY 02, 2021
Police on Saturday brought the arrested We Volunteer (Wevo) members from the Border Patrol Police Region 1 headquarters in Pathum Thani province to Dusit Kwaeng Court in Bangkok.
Protest leader ‘Toto’ among 12 arrested for selling prawn to help farmers
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2020
Pro-democracy activist Piyarat “Toto” Chongthep, founder of the We Volunteer (Wevo) network of protest guards, was reportedly among a group arrested at Bangkok’s Sanam Luang at around noon on Thursday as they tried to sell over 5 tonnes of fresh prawn.
A tonne of prawns sold out outside Government House, pro-democracy group says
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2020
The leader of pro-democracy "We Volunteer" group, Piyarat Chongthep, on Saturday decided to sell a tonne of prawns in front of Government House, in response to a decrease in seafood sales across the nation due to the new Covid-19 crisis in Samut Sakhon province.
Prawn industry more or less escapes fallout of Covid-19
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2020
The Thai Prawn Association announced on Wednesday that Thailand will produce some 310,000 tonnes of prawns in 2021, 15 per cent more than the 270,000 tonnes produced this year.
Fisheries department plans big hike in giant freshwater prawns output
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020
The Department of Fisheries aims to increase the output of giant freshwater prawns to 40,000 tonnes per year by 2022, from the current production capacity of 31,000 tonnes per year, said Meesak Phakdikhong, the department's director-general.
Giant freshwater prawns to go on sale at four PTT gas stations
TUESDAY, JUNE 02, 2020
The Department of Fisheries has teamed up with PTT Oil and Retail Business Public Company Limited to sell giant freshwater prawns at four gas stations in Bangkok as a way to help fish farmers in this Covid-19 situation.
Prawns with your petrol? Farmers given new shop window at filling stations
TUESDAY, MAY 05, 2020
The Department of Fisheries says it will soften the Covid-19 impact for aquatic farmers by enabling them to sell their produce at filling stations and more retail stores.
Thailand, Myanmar sign MoU on financial assistance to prawn breeding farm in Rakhine
THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2018
The officials from Thailand and Myanmar signed MoU on financial assistance of a 34-million-baht to be spent on prawn breeding farm in Yaychanpyin, Rakhine State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday.