Thailand to offer 5 million baht of rice as aid to West Africa

BANGKOK, 3 September 2014 (NNT) – The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) is offering to ship rice worth 5 million baht to West African countries hit by the Ebola outbreak.

The NCPO is extending its assistance through the World Health Organization (WHO) in a bid to provide humanitarian aid to Ebola patients.

WHO representative Dr. Yonas Tegegn has thanked the kingdom for its contributing to provide global aid for West Africa. The WHO earlier requested for assistance related to the outbreak of Ebola in the form of food supplies, medicine, and medical equipment.

According to UN reports, the Ebola outbreak is putting food harvests in West Africa at serious risk. A special alert has been raised for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three worst affected countries.

Medical professionals have also noted that the window is closing on containing the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, stressing that the outbreak will soon be a global problem.


-- NNT 2014-09-03

That's one way of getting rid of it!

It's great to see the government being proactive by offering humanitarian aid. Keep up the good work.

In other news. http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/757191-panadda-says-78-of-thai-rice-inspected-are-inferior-quality/

We all know very well which rice will go to Africa..

Good to see that they want to help and it also gets rid of the unedible rice at the same time.........super face save there for Thailand. Now just make sure you don't pick up any Ebola carriers on the way and bring them back..........please!!

That's one way of getting rid of it!

Aaaaand come to think of it, you can keep the ship it came in too. And the crew.

5 Million Baht (£100,000), big spenders!!

Even Good News brings out the knockers, whats the matter with people!!

Even Good News brings out the knockers, whats the matter with people!!

Good news? 5M baht from a Govnt, sending outdated and sacrificial rice... in a mood of posterity?

What would not be wrong with people if that it was a genuine offer.... ??

And don't forget who invested in West Africa... as an assailant on the run.

Please don't use Thai ship. Don't want to catch ebola and spread to clean healthy Thai people. Better still, use air drop so no contact possible.

well done Thailand - send all that garbage to Africa and make merit. Good job

In other news. http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/757191-panadda-says-78-of-thai-rice-inspected-are-inferior-quality/

We all know very well which rice will go to Africa..

Oh, come on! It's all starch in the end. Unless, of course, the weevils travel along. Then it would be "protein-enriched" starch.

Win-win situation.

Good job and keep the good job on all the way.

Let's make a better world.

5 million is an embarrassingly small amount, especially considering this stuff is ready for the bin otherwise.

I hope its not part of the 78% of lower grade rice in storage. Also, I am afraid that the shipping costs will be worth more than the rice itself.

Just how many tons of B grade Thai rice will 5 million baht buy? Enough to feed Lagos?

Perhaps some of our more avid mathematicians on Thai Visa can figure out roughly how many sacks that is?

"It don't amount to a hill of...................rice in this crazy world."

Good to see that they want to help and it also gets rid of the unedible rice at the same time.........super face save there for Thailand. Now just make sure you don't pick up any Ebola carriers on the way and bring them back..........please!!

I think that anything helps, but this is self-serving. The bad rice they are "not" sending is for illegal trades at the borders and lots of other scams that have been in operation since the 1960's when the world first noticed Thai Rice.You said "gets rid of of the unedible rice"

So, you are praising Thailand for sending toxic waste to those in need?

What a joke!

It's like saying "Government donates dog food to typhoon victims in win-win situation." What a great thing! Yes, something is better than nothing, but..the toxins are deadly in old rice....

Edited September 3, 201411 yr by FangFerang

wouldn't that be funny if West Africa says no thanks the rice id substandard

Just how many tons of B grade Thai rice will 5 million baht buy? Enough to feed Lagos?

Perhaps some of our more avid mathematicians on Thai Visa can figure out roughly how many sacks that is?

"It don't amount to a hill of...................rice in this crazy world."

Indeed, the weevils are probably consuming this amount every few days. The estimated loss is 5,000,000,000, so 5,000,000 is 0.1%

Yum yum; all that free meat content with Weevils and Bugs galore. It will have those skinny types fattened up in no time.

"Thai rice inspected are inferior quality"

and I wonder who's connected buddy gets the contract to ship it?

See? who's said bad rice has no value and can't be even given away??/

They can't give it away,

No, i was wrong they can give it away.

That's one way of getting rid of it!

Is this helping to spread Thai ' happiness ' to Africa, Ebola and contaminated rice ? How lucky can some people be ?

Would perhaps the rice be packaged and labeled in a similar fashion to Tesco's short code products?

Expattaff1308 "Even Good News brings out the knockers, whats the matter with people!!"

Because it is such a "pathetic" gesture?

well done Thailand - send all that garbage to Africa and make merit. Good job

My thoughts too. Let's face it we al know what Thais think of Africans. 5 mililon baht is nothing.

I can't stop laughing about this offer. How on earth will they ship it? There is already a large purchased shipment ( 500,000 tonnes ?) of rice for Africa, which can't be shipped because the Junta scared off more than half of the Cambodian stevedores. Offer all the substandard rice they want, but if they can't ship it until one year later ?

Yum yum; all that free meat content with Weevils and Bugs galore. It will have those skinny types fattened up in no time.

Many west Africans are fat and rice is the last thing they need. Perhaps ship it to Ethiopia?

Is this the stuff already declared as substandard?