An anti-government protester walks past a wire barricade during a rally near the Interior Ministry in Bangkok February 10, 2014. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom
BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai government said on Tuesday it could not renew its controversial rice-buying scheme when it expires at the end of February because it has no authority to do so.
"We are just a caretaker government, which has no power to extend any policy. The rice-buying scheme will end automatically on February 28," Varathep Rattanakorn, a minister in the prime minister's office, told Reuters.
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