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Cabinet approves draft liquor regulations

Move ‘unlikely’ to help small producers

People listen to live music at a protest demanding changes to the law to make it easier for small-scale distilleries to operate, outside parliament in February last year. (Photo: Pornprom Satrabhaya)

The cabinet on Wednesday approved three draft ministerial regulations to give small-scale liquor producers a better chance of selling their products and developing the production of local liquors, but the regulations may end up doing the opposite of what they intend, according to experts.

The drafts are being designed in line with another ministerial regulation on liquor production, which came into effect on Nov 2 last year, deputy government spokeswoman Traisuree…

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