BANGKOK (Reuters) - Business at Thailand's Government Savings Bank has returned to normal, the central bank said on Friday, after big withdrawals this week by customers unhappy with the bank's lending to a farm bank running a controversial rice-buying scheme.
The GSB said on Sunday it had lent 5 billion baht ($154 million) to the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC), which manages the government's rice programme, but has run out of money to pay farmers.
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