Thai trade fair pushed back to 2012
The postponed 2nd Thailand Trade Exhibition 2011 will not be reorganised this year due to budget restrictions, according to Jiranan Wongmongkol, commercial counsellor based at the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh. The trade fair was originally scheduled for May 19 to 22 at Phnom Penh’s Diamond Island Exhibition Centre, but was postponed May 13 by order of Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh. Highlighting restrictions on border trade imposed by Thai Military Region 2 following border violence between the two countries, the minister said: “I am of the opinion that this is not the right time to promote Thai products in Cambodia. We cannot guarantee the reaction of Cambodian visitors to such exhibition after such bad behaviour.”
