Kajohnjak Nuanphromsakul, Governor of the Rubber Authority of Thailand (RAOT), recently revealed that the Malaysian authorities have ordered the reopening of the Padang Besar checkpoint in Songkhla, in Thailand’s Sadao district, effective April 6 to allow the import of concentrated…
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