PM is confident Thailand can cope with any global crisis

Detailed summary

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul says that Thailand can cope with any global crisis because the country has both food and energy security.

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul says that Thailand can cope with any global crisis because the country has both food and energy security.

He asked the Thai people to pursue a normal life and not to be worried that there will be food shortages. He said that the advice for people to store enough food, drinking water and other necessities to last 72 hours is not a warning that the country will go to war or that there will be a food shortage.

In his weekly ‘Talk with PM Anutin’ TV program today, the prime minister also ruled out impacts on the food chain from cyber attacks, saying that Thailand is a food producing country and has distribution infrastructure across the country, without the need to depend on imports or a centralised food distribution system.

On energy, he said the government has diversified the sources of fuel imports while using tax measures and seeking cooperation from oil…

Opening of the article, excerpted from Thai PBS World. To read the rest, open the article on the publisher's site.