RUBBER
Thai-Malaysian Rubber City in the pipeline
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Thailand and Malaysia agree to create the "Rubber City" along their border, to boost the rubber prices.

Commerce Minister Niwatthumrong Boonsongpaisan said on Wednesday that after a discussion with Mustapa Mohamed, Malaysia’s minister of International Trade and Industry, both agreed to strengthen their cooperation in trade and investment particularly in the areas that shared strength is obvious like Halal food and rubber.

"Malaysia proposed the establishment of the Rubber City along the border, for the mutual benefits of both countries. We have surveyed the potential sites for the city.

If this cooperation succeeds, the rubber industry of both countries will prosper and this will lift the rubber prices," Niwatthumrong said.


-- The Nation 2013-10-02

So will this Rubber city stretch across both borders ? think this is a stretch of the imagination.

regards Worgeordie

So will this Rubber city stretch across both borders ? think this is a stretch of the imagination.

regards Worgeordie

It won't stretch across the border but will bounce back and forth between the two countries.

This may prove to involve another pipeline that will be tapped and most of the proceeds siphoned off. With all the farm product, Thailand has in storage (we are told) all of which have a shelf life which is reaching it 'use by date', the time/cost to build a city or another cartel may be a bit longer than the "short time" paid for.

Hub of Rubber Dubba Doo.

Preposterous notion to contemplate something like this in the middle of a twelve year old separatist terrorist insurgency with daily bombings and killings of thousands.

Preposterous notion to contemplate something like this in the middle of a twelve year old separatist terrorist insurgency with daily bombings and killings of thousands.

Considering that all the new investment and production is in the north and north east, what a bizarre plan