{"id":736613,"date":"2026-06-14T19:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736613\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T19:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:51:27","slug":"thailand-cracks-down-on-foreign-enterprises-that-pretend-to-be-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736613\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand cracks down on foreign enterprises that pretend to be local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/agriculture\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agriculture<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Chinese brokers hold sway over coconut supply chain as bilateral economic ties grow<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260602N Thai 1\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Thanwa, left, says Chinese brokers have undermined the price of coconuts grown on his farm. (Photo by Kenya Akama)<\/p>\n<p>KENYA AKAMA and YUJI NITTA<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BANGKOK\/HANOI &#8212; Authorities in Thailand are clamping down on businesses that pretend to be domestically owned but are actually controlled by foreign interests as growing Chinese influence over farming raises alarms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agriculture Chinese brokers hold sway over coconut supply chain as bilateral economic ties grow Thanwa, left, says Chinese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,7822,99,48458,164,98250,35430,322,58432,3725],"class_list":["post-736613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-be","tag-business","tag-cracks","tag-economy","tag-enterprises","tag-foreign","tag-local","tag-pretend","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}