<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247</id><updated>2011-04-21T21:34:36.309-07:00</updated><category term='Ahka'/><category term='Hmong'/><category term='christmas-promotion-2008'/><category term='Karen Traditional Handmade'/><category term='News and Activities'/><category term='Karen'/><category term='Tote Bag'/><category term='Visitors'/><title type='text'>Fair Trade Movements</title><subtitle type='html'>Hand made products, handicrafts from Thailand and Lanna Coffee are presented here for your review. It's famous to buy as souvenir or special gift to your family, relatives and friends.

These products are reviewed from Fair Trade Product Industries.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>29</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-7286865010098496215</id><published>2008-11-04T19:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T19:45:06.678-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas-promotion-2008'/><title type='text'>Christmas Promotion 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;A re you ready to get special Christmas gifts to decorate your sweet home or give someone you care? Then our collections will hit your ideas and fulfil your needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once in every years, it is the most enjoyable time and holiday for everyone since they gear up to celebrate Christmas and welcome new year. With the happiest time together, we come out to bring you hot and completely new Christmas items so that you can get them in advance before it has gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surely, all these items will bring you memorable gifts and peace in different styles and colours. In our Christmas fantastic items, it will includes Christmas tree decoration items, living room decorations items and gift bags in both cottons and basketry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make a change and promote in a better way for your customers if you own a shop or just get for yourself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ttcrafts.co.th/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265013883702388034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 239px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Christmas Promotion, Xmas Gift" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SREWO2OUpUI/AAAAAAAABmU/_i2yD4qzscQ/s320/Xmas-Col-Final.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-7286865010098496215?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/7286865010098496215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=7286865010098496215&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/7286865010098496215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/7286865010098496215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2008/11/christmas-promotion-2008.html' title='Christmas Promotion 2008'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SREWO2OUpUI/AAAAAAAABmU/_i2yD4qzscQ/s72-c/Xmas-Col-Final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-3227389458170553561</id><published>2008-09-09T21:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T21:26:56.403-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Visitors'/><title type='text'>Who were with TENOHIRA?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SMdMUwO8HGI/AAAAAAAABTY/8dpt4cXhCOI/s1600-h/DSC00038.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244244210524888162" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SMdMUwO8HGI/AAAAAAAABTY/8dpt4cXhCOI/s320/DSC00038.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There was a group of professional photographer, movie director and some students from Japan who spent their time in exposing hill-tribes’ culture and have a corner view of Fair-trade at TTC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is known that promoting awareness of inter-change culture is one of the missions that TENOHIRA organization has been doing apart from women trafficking issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr.Keigo Momose, study tour organizer from TENOHIRA said “the group visited to Karen village near by Chiang Mai to see Karen culture and life. Then brought them to TTC show room where handicraft products from villages are sold to provide sustainable income for the tribe people.” Some comments suggested that to have more information of the producers and the product story itself to display on each items. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-3227389458170553561?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/3227389458170553561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=3227389458170553561&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/3227389458170553561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/3227389458170553561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2008/09/who-were-with-tenohira.html' title='Who were with TENOHIRA?'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SMdMUwO8HGI/AAAAAAAABTY/8dpt4cXhCOI/s72-c/DSC00038.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-2661928259768315722</id><published>2008-09-07T19:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T19:38:32.082-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News and Activities'/><title type='text'>FAIR TRADE PROMOTION</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The beauty of culture has great attraction to many tour programs and visiting to hill-tribe people who live around northern Thailand is one of the unforgettable things for many visitors and tourist. At the same time, study tours become more popular for international students’ exposure trip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is sure that some will see only how the people, the places and villages look like but some will have a bigger interest into historical trail and traditional arts. On the other hand, it creates another pathway of promoting fair trade for TTC as its dedication of fair trade principles by presenting, discussion and showing the real products in the market to all visitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We really appreciate for our friends and students who were with us during their study tours. It does not necessarily need to be only a trade buyer or partners but there are a lot more to expose with TTC and its producer groups. Knowing only the simple life of the hill-tribe people in the villages will not be enough but it is good to see their world standard beautiful hand made products in fair trade market industry.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-2661928259768315722?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/2661928259768315722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=2661928259768315722&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2661928259768315722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2661928259768315722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2008/09/fair-trade-promotion.html' title='FAIR TRADE PROMOTION'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-7813952932150950617</id><published>2008-09-07T19:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T19:35:26.277-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News and Activities'/><title type='text'>TTC Will Join the BIG &amp; BIH Fair 2008 in Bangkok</title><content type='html'>With arrangement of Department of Export Promotion in Thailand, Bangkok International Gift Fair &amp;amp; Bangkok International House-ware Fair 2008 is coming up once again in this October. It is awesome time in Bangkok and hope international buyers are ready to cheer up to join these trade promotion days from 14-19 October where TTC is also planning to take a part as one the biggest Fair Trade exporters in Thailand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The schedule is known as 14-17 (10.00-18.00 hrs) will be Trade Days and 18-19 (10.00-21.00 hrs) will be Public Days. It is our great pleasure to show up with our own booth in Bangkok BIG &amp;amp; BIH Fair by displaying our special recommended items, best sellers and other Christmas items to promote fair trade handicrafts in colourful fashion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just visit us to say “HI” or any Trade purpose if you are in Bangkok on those promotion days. Most welcome and we love to hear from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; For detail BIG Fair, October 2008, please visit: &lt;a href="http://www.thaitradefair.com/fairin/bigoct08/"&gt;http://www.thaitradefair.com/fairin/bigoct08/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-7813952932150950617?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/7813952932150950617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=7813952932150950617&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/7813952932150950617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/7813952932150950617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2008/09/ttc-will-join-big-bih-fair-2008-in.html' title='TTC Will Join the BIG &amp; BIH Fair 2008 in Bangkok'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-5275856318948451460</id><published>2008-08-17T23:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-17T23:54:27.836-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Karen'/><title type='text'>Behind the CRAFTs</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKkcezpTx0I/AAAAAAAABTQ/j6Cet8zIaQE/s1600-h/DSC00017.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235747357380036418" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKkcezpTx0I/AAAAAAAABTQ/j6Cet8zIaQE/s200/DSC00017.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With the tittle of “Meet the People Tour”, we (TTC) have one more time to welcome Traidcraft customer group here is Chiang Mai and spent half day trip to Mea Ka Pyiang where they met some Karen Producers. A group was led by Thai Craft (Bangkok) with net work arrangement of Traidcraft UK and Phu Phiang Tour Company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This group has special interest in visiting northern Thailand, especially craft producer groups in villages to see their life and working process. It is also known that some will present about what they have seen here in Thailand when they return back home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of us are mentioning what the handicraft look likes and how the quality is but we forget sometime to dig up and see who make it and where it comes from. It is the main purpose of the tour group to meet the people behind the products. In other words, it is opportunity to feel the real life of craft producers in villages. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-5275856318948451460?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/5275856318948451460/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=5275856318948451460&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/5275856318948451460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/5275856318948451460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2008/08/behind-crafts.html' title='Behind the CRAFTs'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKkcezpTx0I/AAAAAAAABTQ/j6Cet8zIaQE/s72-c/DSC00017.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-4369129923658803955</id><published>2008-08-14T20:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-14T20:30:15.718-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hmong'/><title type='text'>“Return to Sender” film crew in Huay Luak</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKT3S6GRp9I/AAAAAAAABTA/fYS2SjelEaY/s1600-h/DSC00024.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234580571116644306" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKT3S6GRp9I/AAAAAAAABTA/fYS2SjelEaY/s200/DSC00024.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;It is a time to see “Real life and Real arts” of Hmong producer group from northern Thailand in Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life is simple with colourful traditional dress and its own beauty among hill-tribes people. Hmong is one of those tribes who rich in cultures and specialized in making Hmong traditional Batik Cloth in multi pattern designs. No more only in hidden jungle but time to bring up their hand made skill to global stage &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKT3SqNAFRI/AAAAAAAABS4/6-fLll5FHnc/s1600-h/DSC00061.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234580566849885458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKT3SqNAFRI/AAAAAAAABS4/6-fLll5FHnc/s200/DSC00061.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;and seeking more markets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 23rd July - 2008, with the arrangement and program of “Return to Sender” from Netherlands, Huay Luakk was selected as representative village of Hmong producer groups where TTC is providing Artisans Training. The truth Artisans life and working process of Hmong Batik Cloth production was taken as film story record by “Return to Sender” group during that specific training day and accompanied by some TTC staffs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKT4EOtBgDI/AAAAAAAABTI/ar86ZcN-ljI/s1600-h/DSC00100.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234581418461462578" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKT4EOtBgDI/AAAAAAAABTI/ar86ZcN-ljI/s200/DSC00100.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKT3SN5ve9I/AAAAAAAABSw/ucxl7BkT_pQ/s1600-h/DSC00005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234580559252913106" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKT3SN5ve9I/AAAAAAAABSw/ucxl7BkT_pQ/s200/DSC00005.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In film story, famous Netherlands TV star Ms.Katja was main performer where she passed through the village and met Hmong women producer group to learn about current project and future market possibility. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-4369129923658803955?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/4369129923658803955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=4369129923658803955&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4369129923658803955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4369129923658803955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2008/08/return-to-sender-film-crew-in-huay-luak.html' title='“Return to Sender” film crew in Huay Luak'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/SKT3S6GRp9I/AAAAAAAABTA/fYS2SjelEaY/s72-c/DSC00024.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-4946862982250464669</id><published>2008-08-14T20:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-14T20:10:05.161-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ahka'/><title type='text'>Padu Village and Ahka Embroidery</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Padu, three hours drive from Chiang Mai, is one of Ahka villages where Ahka embroideries have been conserved and brought up to international fair trade markets through TTC sales channel. Patterns and designs are eventually developed by Ahka Artisans based on current market demands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, it will never come to the global markets unless there are overseas partners, another sales channel in other word, who can provide solid orders throughout the year and spread to the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through our network, we create communities and increase overseas partners. While spreading the missions, 18th July, 2008 become a time to welcome Liz and Mark from ExoticWORLDgifts.com who spent one day trip to Padu producer group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wonderful Ahka embroidery may take more spaces in the market soon. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-4946862982250464669?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/4946862982250464669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=4946862982250464669&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4946862982250464669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4946862982250464669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2008/08/padu-village-and-ahka-embroidery.html' title='Padu Village and Ahka Embroidery'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-165155498874013936</id><published>2008-08-14T02:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-14T02:25:39.660-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Visitors'/><title type='text'>Meet Our Visitors</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;“Our Visitors”&lt;br /&gt;In each and every month, we have special visitors and valued customers from the Globe who spend more or less time with us whenever they are in Chiang Mai. Some just drop by and some stay few more days to share knowledge and experiences especially with our DPD (Design and Product Development), staffs and even visit our producer groups in villages. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s our pleasure to welcome below VISITORs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 4th 2008 – Eileen Kardos from Eileen Import Co. UK, was on her business trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand and visited to the Office where she had craft items business discussion and spent time to expose our main shop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 25th 2008 – Vi Cottrell from Trade Aid – New Zealand, visited us and had discussion on our current partnership and how to increase our future trading in a way of Fair Trade principles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 10th – 13th 2008 – Creative Days where TearCraft partners from Asia joined design forum at Porn Ping Tower Hotel which is located in the heart of Chiang Mai, Thailand. We are proud of being a host and thanks to forum conductor Rebecca Spender (a designer from TearCraft&lt;br /&gt;UK).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the forum, she was accompanied by Cecile (a designer from Artisanat SEL – France) and visited TTC local main shop, Fair Trade shop and our producer group in&lt;br /&gt;Lisu village to see the real life of being a&lt;br /&gt;producer. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-165155498874013936?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/165155498874013936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=165155498874013936&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/165155498874013936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/165155498874013936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2008/08/meet-our-visitors.html' title='Meet Our Visitors'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-897636068756124235</id><published>2007-11-09T20:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-09T20:14:52.232-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Karen Traditional Handmade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tote Bag'/><title type='text'>Karen Natural Dyed Tote Bag</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RzUvLtnm-GI/AAAAAAAAA2g/MJfRBBzYpWU/s1600-h/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131059228729342050" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="Tote Bag in Beige color with traditional embroidery of Karen tribe" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RzUvLtnm-GI/AAAAAAAAA2g/MJfRBBzYpWU/s320/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;With the code number of 02-09-013-12, Karen Natural Dyed Tote Bag with Hemp Embroidery &amp;amp; Seeds-Beige is come out as new product. The size is 48 x 33 cm and weight 230 g. It's made of 100% cotton materials which is good to bring along for shopping and travelling. The price is 294 Baht. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DESCRIPTION :&lt;br /&gt;Tote Bag in Beige color, made of handwoven cotton decorated on one side with traditional embroidery of Karen tribe. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-897636068756124235?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.ttcrafts.co.th/cgi-ttcrafts/product.cgi?ProductID=02-09-013-12' title='Karen Natural Dyed Tote Bag'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/897636068756124235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=897636068756124235&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/897636068756124235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/897636068756124235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/11/karen-natural-dyed-tote-bag.html' title='Karen Natural Dyed Tote Bag'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RzUvLtnm-GI/AAAAAAAAA2g/MJfRBBzYpWU/s72-c/1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-2859048840538336859</id><published>2007-07-21T04:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-21T04:53:00.458-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thai Craft | Thai Hand Made in Thailand</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thaicraft.org/new/craft-gallery.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5089616589295059314" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RqHzUm_eAXI/AAAAAAAAAdc/wZsD-1ao1_4/s400/bulrush%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Visit new arrival on Thai Craft  Thai Hand Made and all are collected from Thai Hand Made producers especially &lt;a href="http://www.thaicraft.org/new/craft-gallery.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5089616589295059330" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RqHzUm_eAYI/AAAAAAAAAdk/t_Z4wmpCEg8/s400/coconut-shell%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;from the tribe people in Northern &lt;a href="http://www.thaicraft.org/new/craft-gallery.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5089616589295059346" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RqHzUm_eAZI/AAAAAAAAAds/nbnVHsfG75I/s400/water-hyacinth%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Part of Thailand. Thai Craft can be easily buy in Bangkok as they monthly sale promotions and tourist and visitors and crowded every months.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-2859048840538336859?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/2859048840538336859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=2859048840538336859&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2859048840538336859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2859048840538336859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/07/thai-craft-thai-hand-made-in-thailand.html' title='Thai Craft | Thai Hand Made in Thailand'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RqHzUm_eAXI/AAAAAAAAAdc/wZsD-1ao1_4/s72-c/bulrush%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-5549123488745887233</id><published>2007-07-21T03:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-21T03:59:49.317-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hand Made| Fair Trade Gift in Thailand</title><content type='html'>Unforgetable day in Bangkok fair trade show and sale promotions. Current customers and end users from Japan, Korean and other Europeans are enjoying the fair trade sales promotion in the heart of Bangkok, Embassador Hotel monthly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RqHlhW_eAUI/AAAAAAAAAdE/hhVIzJryIoc/s1600-h/DSC05531.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5089601415175602498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RqHlhW_eAUI/AAAAAAAAAdE/hhVIzJryIoc/s400/DSC05531.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Enjoy monthly trade and hand made products in Bangkok and most of the producers are from Northern Part of Thailand and they belong to Tribe people. They sells the products of their culture, traditional clothes, thai clothes and cultures belongings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RqHlh2_eAVI/AAAAAAAAAdM/T7jAWxvHuso/s1600-h/DSC05534.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5089601423765537106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RqHlh2_eAVI/AAAAAAAAAdM/T7jAWxvHuso/s400/DSC05534.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Visit monthly sale promotion of Fair trade, hand made gift at Embassador Hotel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RqHliG_eAWI/AAAAAAAAAdU/3iFJf-5y3BI/s1600-h/DSC05532.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5089601428060504418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RqHliG_eAWI/AAAAAAAAAdU/3iFJf-5y3BI/s400/DSC05532.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-5549123488745887233?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/5549123488745887233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=5549123488745887233&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/5549123488745887233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/5549123488745887233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/07/hand-made-fair-trade-gift-in-thailand.html' title='Hand Made| Fair Trade Gift in Thailand'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RqHlhW_eAUI/AAAAAAAAAdE/hhVIzJryIoc/s72-c/DSC05531.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-3338407512694486137</id><published>2007-06-27T10:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-27T10:14:48.757-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fair trade market, shopping, hand made product promotion in Bangkok, Thailand</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Fair Trade promotion, Fair trade products, hand made markets, gifts, fair trading day in Bangkok, Thailand. Visit them, there is once in a month at Ambassador&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080792993184156722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RoKaTuAJDDI/AAAAAAAAARU/IVLVGIVy1P4/s400/DSC05533.JPG" border="0" /&gt; Welcome to Fair Trade promotion..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080792988889189410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RoKaTeAJDCI/AAAAAAAAARM/9Ej4GUmRkdo/s400/DSC05528.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tourist and vistors from world wide, enjoying shopping, hand made products&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080792976004287506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RoKaSuAJDBI/AAAAAAAAARE/Z5Di7N18udE/s400/DSC05527.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-3338407512694486137?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/3338407512694486137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=3338407512694486137&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/3338407512694486137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/3338407512694486137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/06/fair-trade-market-shopping-hand-made.html' title='Fair trade market, shopping, hand made product promotion in Bangkok, Thailand'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RoKaTuAJDDI/AAAAAAAAARU/IVLVGIVy1P4/s72-c/DSC05533.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-4836088250197084230</id><published>2007-05-30T06:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-30T06:33:04.613-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fairtrade, Hand Made, Handicrafts shopping in Bangkok</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I was there for some time although i can't be ther every month. See those people quite interested in fiar trade products, handmade, handicrafts from Thailand. It was crowed day at Embassador Hotel in Bangkok. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070346008436425954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/Rl181LEsROI/AAAAAAAAAIA/dY1lTv-HC7A/s320/DSC05525.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Most of them are Japanese as far as I know but other farang are interested for shopping fair trade products. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;You can find out all sorts of traditional clothes, handicrafts, lanna coffee and so on.. For the month of May, there were more than 40 producer groups were participating in fairtrade promotion in Bangkok. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070345995551524050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/Rl180bEsRNI/AAAAAAAAAH4/5qFEiCNN7zs/s320/DSC05524.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;See some photos of Fairtrade movements in bangkok and will be added more very often..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-4836088250197084230?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/4836088250197084230/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=4836088250197084230&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4836088250197084230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4836088250197084230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/05/fairtrade-hand-made-handicrafts.html' title='Fairtrade, Hand Made, Handicrafts shopping in Bangkok'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/Rl181LEsROI/AAAAAAAAAIA/dY1lTv-HC7A/s72-c/DSC05525.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-4744324850121678897</id><published>2007-05-26T06:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-26T06:33:43.487-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fairtrade movements in Bangkok</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.misyou.net"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068861912552064114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/Rlg3DbEsRHI/AAAAAAAAAHI/iZm3YhnZTsE/s320/1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Fairtrade movements in Bangkok is moving and most traditional value things are sold every month at Embassador Hotel Bangkok. I was there to have more experiences in Fairtrade. During this month May, more than 40 groups from villages and other organization were there and more than 60 group used to be there during seasonal holiday like October, December and summer holidays.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;At the entrance of Embassador hotel, you will see that Karen Lady is welcoming you.. Will post more later days...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-4744324850121678897?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/4744324850121678897/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=4744324850121678897&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4744324850121678897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4744324850121678897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/05/fairtrade-movements-in-bangkok.html' title='Fairtrade movements in Bangkok'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/Rlg3DbEsRHI/AAAAAAAAAHI/iZm3YhnZTsE/s72-c/1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-4986840974857043166</id><published>2007-05-17T02:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-17T03:07:03.427-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Silver-Earrings (More Style)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.ttcrafts.co.th/cgi-ttcrafts/producttype.cgi?producttype=Earring" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065467492523852706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/Rkwn2LEsQ6I/AAAAAAAAAFg/WDW6x95xPmw/s320/06-16-005-31%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Silver hand made lovers, believe that you love to see this kind of Silver-Earrings which is hand made by tribal people who live in Northern part of Thailand. In this pictures, there are new design of Lawa (One of the Ethnic Tribal in Northern part of Thailand) hand made. They are one of producer groups from &lt;a href="http://www.ttcrafts.co.th" target="_blank"&gt;Thai Tribal Crafts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RkwmeLEsQ4I/AAAAAAAAAFQ/jTOfk-cXBps/s1600-h/06-16-008-31%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Chiang Mai. &lt;a href="http://www.ttcrafts.co.th/cgi-ttcrafts/producttype.cgi?producttype=Earring"target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065467492523852722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/Rkwn2LEsQ7I/AAAAAAAAAFo/kzwh_UFbt5I/s320/06-16-008-31%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Among hill tribes people products in northern part of Thailand, Lawa hand made Silvers are popular. As you can see from &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RkwmebEsQ5I/AAAAAAAAAFY/Muu5Wq45DG0/s1600-h/06-16-011-31%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the design, you will know how they created and made from their traditional value.. The silver price will be according to fair trade market systems and whenever you buy a product, you are helping for marginalized and disadvantaged workers in Northern Part of Thailand...&lt;a href="http://www.ttcrafts.co.th/cgi-ttcrafts/producttype.cgi?producttype=Earring" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065467496818820034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/Rkwn2bEsQ8I/AAAAAAAAAFw/w8AH9DF-QmI/s320/06-16-011-31%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-4986840974857043166?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/4986840974857043166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=4986840974857043166&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4986840974857043166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4986840974857043166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/05/silver-earrings-more-style.html' title='Silver-Earrings (More Style)'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/Rkwn2LEsQ6I/AAAAAAAAAFg/WDW6x95xPmw/s72-c/06-16-005-31%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-4746849911342014445</id><published>2007-05-14T23:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T23:23:35.395-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fair Trade Coffee | Lanna Coffee</title><content type='html'>Sale volume of Fair Trade Coffee is increasing daily in both local markets and international markets. Exports and Imports process are well going and it is good result for Fair trade coffee producers and Fair Trade Buyers..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RklReg5lo2I/AAAAAAAAAD8/RW-LcwP6T24/s1600-h/LannaCafefront_pic2%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064668840624235362" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RklReg5lo2I/AAAAAAAAAD8/RW-LcwP6T24/s320/LannaCafefront_pic2%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;According to International Principles of Fair Trade, fair trade market is focusing on disadvantaged and marginalized worker especially in the south of the world..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Among many fair trade coffee, i would like to present one of best seller fair trade coffee in Thailand which is orginally from Chaimaing, northern part of Thailand. The fair trade company is a member of internatinal fair trade by the name of "Lanna Cafe"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Lanna cafe is a non-governmental organization (NGO), initialted in 2001 by Wakachiai Project, NOG which has been importing coffee (in accordance with the fair trade standards) from Hilltribe growers in Northern Thailand (Lanna) since 1997.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;They have high fair trade coffee standards and all of coffee lovers love to drink or buy for fair trade coffee gift. If you have a &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RklRew5lo3I/AAAAAAAAAEE/XEJuqMrGKUo/s1600-h/LannaCafeProducts%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064668844919202674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RklRew5lo3I/AAAAAAAAAEE/XEJuqMrGKUo/s320/LannaCafeProducts%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;chance to visit Chiang Mai, northern part of Thailand, visit Lanna Cafe and have a taste of it... For more info : visit here: &lt;a href="http://www.lannacafe.org/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.lannacafe.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-4746849911342014445?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/4746849911342014445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=4746849911342014445&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4746849911342014445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4746849911342014445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/05/fair-trade-coffee-lanna-coffee.html' title='Fair Trade Coffee | Lanna Coffee'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RklReg5lo2I/AAAAAAAAAD8/RW-LcwP6T24/s72-c/LannaCafefront_pic2%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-4643731443232889914</id><published>2007-05-14T12:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T12:22:33.623-07:00</updated><title type='text'>International Trade Show|Fashion Fair|Leather Fair..</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;According to Thai Trade Fair, there will be International Trade Show at BITECH and event days will be shown as Fashion Fair, Leather Fair and much more fair things. For Fair Information, please visit the following links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Event : Bangkok International Fashion Fair &amp;amp; Bangkok International Leather Fair 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Duration : 22 - 26 August 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Trade days : 22 – 24 August 2007 (10.00 – 18.00 hrs.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Public days : 25 – 26 August 2007 (10.00 – 20.00 hrs.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Venue : BITEC, 8 Bangna-Trad (Km.1), Bangna, Bangkok 10260, Thailand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Organizer : Department of Export Promotion, Ministry of Commerce,Royal Thai Government 22/77 Rachadapisek Road, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900 Thailand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Tel : (662) 512 0093-104 ext. 217, 262 Fax : (662) 512 0324, 513 2670&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Website : &lt;a href="http://www.depthai.go.th"&gt;http://www.depthai.go.th&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;http:/www.thaitrade.com, &lt;a href="http://www.thaitradefair.com"&gt;http://www.thaitradefair.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;E-mail : &lt;a href="mailto:biff@depthai.go.th"&gt;biff@depthai.go.th&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-4643731443232889914?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/4643731443232889914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=4643731443232889914&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4643731443232889914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4643731443232889914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/05/international-trade-showfashion.html' title='International Trade Show|Fashion Fair|Leather Fair..'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-6964295959121905225</id><published>2007-05-08T23:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T00:02:21.537-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jewelry Box (Thai Hand Made)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;For this time, i am going to fucus on one of the most pupular hand made in Thailand and hope you might like for yourself or your love one.. Hand made gift from Thailand..... Lots of hand made things are increasing sale volume throughout Thailand... and people love to buy while they are travelling around Thailand....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Some people like clothes, weaving clothes.. traditional instruments, fair trade coffee, lana coffee and much more.. Now let's see one of the Jewelry Box which is hand made of tribal people who &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RkFxkQ5louI/AAAAAAAAADA/ewc7nDyrtv0/s1600-h/gid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062452323966886626" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RkFxkQ5louI/AAAAAAAAADA/ewc7nDyrtv0/s320/gid.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;live in northern part of Thailand.. Different size, different colors and different cloths cover....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Here have a look one of the example:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Jewelry Box: heart shape, made of silk cloth decorated with Hmong cross-stitch design on cover and bottom with black velvet cloth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Visit more to see at &lt;a href="http://www.ttcrafts.co.th/cgi-ttcrafts/producttype.cgi?producttype=Jewelry%20Box"&gt;http://www.ttcrafts.co.th/cgi-ttcrafts/producttype.cgi?producttype=Jewelry%20Box&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-6964295959121905225?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/6964295959121905225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=6964295959121905225&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/6964295959121905225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/6964295959121905225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/05/jewelry-box-thai-hand-made.html' title='Jewelry Box (Thai Hand Made)'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RkFxkQ5louI/AAAAAAAAADA/ewc7nDyrtv0/s72-c/gid.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-4122692052443019717</id><published>2007-05-06T03:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-06T03:34:03.733-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hand Made Gift...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I know that Fair trade is quite famous nowadays especially in Europe.. People are trying to find out what is fair trade products and markets...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;There can be samilar product line and quality but fair trade products and markets are reaching to the needy and marginalized people....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;So who wants to help the needy people, then they try to buy fair trade products to support fair trade market....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Among many buyers, some web site are focusing on reselling fair trade products into the market... You can buy fair trade products in a fair way and support to fair markets where people can enjoy the products and producers also satisfied...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Nowadays, you can find many handmade things to give presents or oder for your favorites.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-4122692052443019717?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/4122692052443019717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=4122692052443019717&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4122692052443019717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/4122692052443019717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/05/hand-made-gift.html' title='Hand Made Gift...'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-3893880158526599374</id><published>2007-05-03T22:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-03T22:47:56.734-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fairtrade special Gift</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The fairtrade movement is quite faster than ever before. Among fair trade movement in South East Asia, Thailand is famous for its richness of traditional value and all other hand made things. When people are traveling to Thailand, fair trade lovers are looking for some special fair trade gift to bring back home or their country.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;You can find hand made products from all sorts of markets in Thailand but fair trade market will &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjrIhQ5lonI/AAAAAAAAACI/bhKeYgp7j_k/s1600-h/7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060577605101920882" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjrIhQ5lonI/AAAAAAAAACI/bhKeYgp7j_k/s320/7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;make you fair and you can provide the penefit to all other needy producers..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Here, i would like to present one basket which is hand made of Lahu people in the northern part of thailand and &lt;a href="http://www.ttcrafts.co.th"&gt;Thai Tribal Craft &lt;/a&gt;is working closely with them;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Lahu Trunk Style Basket/L-Bamboo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;1305.- (Thai Baht.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;For more information: please visit to the owner web site: &lt;a href="http://www.ttcrafts.co.th"&gt;www.ttcrafts.co.th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-3893880158526599374?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/3893880158526599374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=3893880158526599374&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/3893880158526599374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/3893880158526599374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/05/fairtrade-special-gift.html' title='Fairtrade special Gift'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjrIhQ5lonI/AAAAAAAAACI/bhKeYgp7j_k/s72-c/7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-2664141586518740965</id><published>2007-05-02T22:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-02T22:39:19.672-07:00</updated><title type='text'>World of Food Asia 2007 in Bangkok</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Exhibitions on "World Of Food Asia" will be held in Bangkok begin on 23 - 25 May 2007 (10.00 - 18.00 hrs.) and Public will be started : 26 - 27 May 2007 (10.00 - 20.00 hrs.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;A big sales and more interesting things will be shown at the biggest show room of Bangkok, Thailand, Impact Venue. It is Organized by Department of Export Promotion, Ministry of Commerce, Royal Thai GovernmentKoelnmesse GmbH (KM)Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Exhibit Profile:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Food &amp;amp; Beverage featuring Halal Food : Halal, Organic, and Various Foods from raw materials and ingredients, processing to Ready-to-Eat Foods of Fruit and Vegetable Products, Meat Products, Poultry Products, Seafood Products, Rice and Rice Products, Grocery Products, Dairy Products, Confectionery, Biscuit, Pastry and Snack, Delicatessen, Supplementary and Dietetic Products, Health Foods, Alcohol and Alcohol-Free Beverages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;For more info: please visit at: &lt;a href="http://www.thaitradefair.com"&gt;www.thaitradefair.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Registeration will be needed before deadline. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-2664141586518740965?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/2664141586518740965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=2664141586518740965&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2664141586518740965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2664141586518740965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/05/world-of-food-asia-2007-in-bangkok.html' title='World of Food Asia 2007 in Bangkok'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-2022919205373655926</id><published>2007-05-02T22:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-02T22:25:50.266-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fair Trade Standards for International Movements</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Dear Fair Trade Lovers,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nowadays, fair trade is moving as quickly as possible and become more popular than before. As it is a popular one, some other trading are copying to be fair or some are doing a real fair trade for international standard.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;To have a clear features of Fair Trade Standard, note that IFAT (International Federation Of Alternative Trade) has 10 standards to follow in fair trade: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;IFAT prescribes 10 standards that Fair Trade organizations must follow in their day-to-day work and carries out continuous monitoring to ensure these standards are upheld: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Creating opportunities for economically disadvantaged producers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Fair Trade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Its purpose is to create opportunities for producers who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalized by the conventional trading system. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Transparency and accountability&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Fair Trade involves transparent management and commercial relations to deal fairly and respectfully with trading partners. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Capacity building&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Fair Trade is a means to develop producers’ independence. Fair Trade relationships provide continuity, during which producers and their marketing organizations can improve their management skills and their access to new markets. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Promoting Fair Trade&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Fair Trade Organizations raise awareness of Fair Trade and the possibility of greater justice in world trade. They provide their customers with information about the organization, the products, and in what conditions they are made. They use honest advertising and marketing techniques and aim for the highest standards in product quality and packing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Payment of a fair price&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;A fair price in the regional or local context is one that has been agreed through dialogue and participation. It covers not only the costs of production but enables production which is socially just and environmentally sound. It provides fair pay to the producers and takes into account the principle of equal pay for equal work by women and men. Fair Traders ensure prompt payment to their partners and, whenever possible, help producers with access to pre-harvest or pre-production financing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Gender Equity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Fair Trade means that women’s work is properly valued and rewarded. Women are always paid for their contribution to the production process and are empowered in their organizations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Working conditions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Fair Trade means a safe and healthy working environment for producers. The participation of children (if any) does not adversely affect their well-being, security, educational requirements and need for play and conforms to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as the law and norms in the local context. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Child Labour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Fair Trade Organizations respect the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as local laws and social norms in order to ensure that the participation of children in production processes of fairly traded articles (if any) does not adversely affect their well-being, security, educational requirements and need for play. Organizations working directly with informally organised producers disclose the involvement of children in production. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;The environment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Fair Trade actively encourages better environmental practices and the application of responsible methods of production. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trade Relations&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fair Trade Organizations trade with concern for the social, economic and environmental well-being of marginalized small producers and do not maximise profit at their expense. They maintain long-term relationships based on solidarity, trust and mutual respect that contribute to the promotion and growth of Fair Trade. Whenever possible producers are assisted with access to pre-harvest or pre-production advance payment. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://www.ifat.org"&gt;www.ifat.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-2022919205373655926?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/2022919205373655926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=2022919205373655926&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2022919205373655926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2022919205373655926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/05/fair-trade-standards-for-international.html' title='Fair Trade Standards for International Movements'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-2501568407302698392</id><published>2007-05-02T08:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-02T08:38:58.024-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fair Trade and Its meaning...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;What is Fair Trade?.. According IFAT (International Federation of Alternative Trade) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;"Fair Trade is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and securing the rights of, marginalized producers and workers – especially in the South.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fair Trade organizations have a clear commitment to Fair Trade as the principal core of their mission. They, backed by consumers, are engaged actively in supporting producers, awareness raising and in campaigning for changes in the rules and practice of conventional international trade. They can be recognised by the FTO Mark.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fair Trade is more than just trading: it proves that greater justice in world trade is possible. It highlights the need for change in the rules and practice of conventional trade and shows how a successful business can also put people first. "&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;This is the thing what we have to consider when we are trying to involve in Fair Trade... Some might use the name of Fair Trade but taking advantage from marginalized and disadvantaged worker and people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-2501568407302698392?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/2501568407302698392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=2501568407302698392&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2501568407302698392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2501568407302698392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/05/fair-trade-and-its-meaning.html' title='Fair Trade and Its meaning...'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-7213148083597005636</id><published>2007-04-29T23:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-29T23:52:47.383-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Craft Journey in Thailand</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjWR7A5lofI/AAAAAAAAABI/KUNoUeed6Ew/s1600-h/p05%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059110199460471282" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjWR7A5lofI/AAAAAAAAABI/KUNoUeed6Ew/s320/p05%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The number of fair trade members are increasing day by day and most of Europe markets are focusing on South East Asia where they can get traditional value and high crafted items.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Among them, I was with &lt;a href="http://www.ttcrafts.co.th"&gt;Thai Tribal Craft &lt;/a&gt;in Chiang Mai for a few month and also have been to &lt;a href="http://www.thaicraft.org"&gt;Thai Craft &lt;/a&gt;promotion sale place at Ambassador Hotel Bangkok from 10am – 2 pm where hundreds of buyers and tourist are spending their time. The program is once in a month and you can look around if you are in Thailand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;As it is focusing on culture hand made things, some sells traditional clothes, baskets, arts, musical instruments, silversmiths, coffee and other traditional things. You will see more than these and enjoy events and occasions of Craft Promotion Sales in Thailand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-7213148083597005636?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/7213148083597005636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=7213148083597005636&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/7213148083597005636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/7213148083597005636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/04/craft-journey-in-thailand.html' title='Craft Journey in Thailand'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjWR7A5lofI/AAAAAAAAABI/KUNoUeed6Ew/s72-c/p05%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-6507914998696307370</id><published>2007-04-26T09:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-26T09:49:16.084-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Origins Of Fair Trade</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;It said that in the early year of 1891, the idea of fair trade was began by some employee to against capitalists in Europe. After sometimes, the market was failed and continued by another groups for a fair price of buyer or some focused in the right of producers' rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Here you can read through with the early years movements of fair trade and it's logo " Fair trade principles have deep roots in European societies long before the first structured alternative trading organizations (ATOs) emerged following World War II. Many of the fundamental concepts behind fair trade actually show a great resemblance with pre-capitalist ideas about the organization of the economy and society.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The notion of the ‘old moral economy’ is a fitting example of such conceptions. E. P. Thompson, in his work on 18th century England, described a society where “notions of common well being, often supported by paternalistic traditional authorities, imposed some limits on the free operations of the market”.[1] Farmers were then not allowed to manipulate prices by withholding their products to wait for price increases. The actions of the middlemen were always considered legally suspect, were severely restricted and the poor were provided opportunities to buy basic staple foods in small parcels. Fair trade was already seen as a way to address market failures; although the concept mainly revolved around consumer, rather than producer, rights.[2]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;There was even a novel produer mentioned in his book of "Max Havelaar"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjDW4w5lodI/AAAAAAAAAA4/tLiGPxg7eBU/s1600-h/180px-Max_Havelaar_9e_druk%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057778652224528850" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjDW4w5lodI/AAAAAAAAAA4/tLiGPxg7eBU/s320/180px-Max_Havelaar_9e_druk%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are also a few instances in which fair trade in the 'old moral economy' is focused on producer rights: as early as 1859, Dutch author Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker) questioned the injustice of the colonial and capitalist system towards commodity producers in his novel Max Havelaar. The fictional tale recounts the story of Max Havelaar, a Nederlandse Trade Company employee, who leaves everything to work in solidarity with local Indonesian workers. This account draws a direct correlation between the wealth and the prosperity of Europe and the poverty of the suffering of other parts of the world.[3]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-6507914998696307370?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/6507914998696307370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=6507914998696307370&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/6507914998696307370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/6507914998696307370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/04/origins-of-fair-trade.html' title='The Origins Of Fair Trade'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjDW4w5lodI/AAAAAAAAAA4/tLiGPxg7eBU/s72-c/180px-Max_Havelaar_9e_druk%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-1223089964547126601</id><published>2007-04-26T08:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-26T11:17:48.773-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The History of Fair Trade</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;It is a good source to read more about on fair trade and its history. The real history goes back to secand world war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The documentary report says &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;"The fair trade movement as we know today has undergone several important changes since its early days following World War II. Fair trade, first seen as a form of charity advocated by religious organizations, has radically changed in structure, philosophy and approach: the past fifty years have witnessed massive changes in the nature of fair trade proponents, the products traded themselves and their distribution networks."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;It was and been a charity task and commitment to marginalized and disadvantaged workers and the needy people. As it has been memtioned in the first paragraph, the producers, partners and consumers are treated in a fair way of all the process. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-1223089964547126601?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/1223089964547126601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=1223089964547126601&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/1223089964547126601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/1223089964547126601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/04/history-of-fair-trade.html' title='The History of Fair Trade'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-343181430447122290</id><published>2007-04-25T23:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-26T00:02:32.943-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fair Trade Certified Mark in US and Canada</title><content type='html'>According to &lt;a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/fair-trade-certified-mark"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, we can see many kinds of Fair Trade Certified Mark according to each region or market places. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Here, we can have a look Certified Mark in Us and Canada which started in year of 1997 and 1998.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The Fair Trade Certified Mark is a certification mark used in Canada and in the United States. It appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal. The Fair Trade Certified Mark is the North American equivalent of the International Fairtrade Certification Mark used in 17 countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;For a product to carry either Certification Marks, it must come from FLO-CERT inspected and certified producer organizations. The crops must be grown and harvested in accordance with the International Fairtrade standards set by FLO International. The supply chain is also monitored by FLO-CERT to ensure the integrity of labelled products. Only TransFair USA or TransFair Canada licensees can use the Fair Trade Certified Mark on their products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjBNiw5lobI/AAAAAAAAAAo/vg9rzAz0N8o/s1600-h/100px-Transfaircanada%5B1%5D.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057627641174401458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjBNiw5lobI/AAAAAAAAAAo/vg9rzAz0N8o/s320/100px-Transfaircanada%5B1%5D.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The Canadian Fair Trade Certified Mark was introduced by TransFair Canada on the Canadian market in 1997.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjBN-A5locI/AAAAAAAAAAw/InZz7s890tM/s1600-h/100px-TransFair%5B1%5D.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057628109325836738" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjBN-A5locI/AAAAAAAAAAw/InZz7s890tM/s320/100px-TransFair%5B1%5D.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjBN-A5locI/AAAAAAAAAAw/InZz7s890tM/s1600-h/100px-TransFair%5B1%5D.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The American Fair Trade Certified Mark was introduced by TransFair USA on the American market in 1998.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-343181430447122290?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/343181430447122290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=343181430447122290&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/343181430447122290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/343181430447122290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/04/fair-trade-certified-mark-in-us-and.html' title='Fair Trade Certified Mark in US and Canada'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BbXs7FCaY00/RjBNiw5lobI/AAAAAAAAAAo/vg9rzAz0N8o/s72-c/100px-Transfaircanada%5B1%5D.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-2551489523225963054</id><published>2007-04-25T23:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-26T11:18:26.778-07:00</updated><title type='text'>International Understanding of Fair Trade</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Peoply are looking for what is a fair thing which can make and control discreminations among each nations. One of my chinese friends said "People are always cheating in doing businees. They only think about the money and see the current situation only. They won't think or pity on you." Well, this is a big problem in economic although we can't control anything and it used to happen since the history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;But there are some people who is thinking about fair things in a peace way... Now, fair trading become more and more popular among other trading systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;According to International Organization FINE (Fair-trade Labeling Organizations International, International Fair Trade Association, Network of European World-shops and European Fair Trade Association),&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;"Fair Trade is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, which seeks greater equity in international trade. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and securing the rights of marginalized producers and workers- especially in the South."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Nowadays, people are sufering more from all sorts of economic and political effects which reallly make a big gap among the people. Developing countries and developed countries are quite different in all level of human society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;But to save and do something for the good things to others, we, the people need to think more about how can we create a better human society in fair and peace ways. As we have seen before, the normal markets and fair trade market might be quite different pricing strategies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Of course, normal market will focus only on selling and profit-orented but whereas, fair trade is focusing on fair price for its business partners and all other customers. Moreover, it is working only for marginalized and disadvantaged workers among human soceity..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-2551489523225963054?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/2551489523225963054/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=2551489523225963054&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2551489523225963054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/2551489523225963054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/04/international-understanding-of-fair.html' title='International Understanding of Fair Trade'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7970283846938148247.post-532015922054269120</id><published>2007-04-25T09:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-25T09:13:01.863-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fair 2 Trade..</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Dear Blog reader as it is the day of peace and justice, we all need to be fair in doing things wherever we are and whatever we do. Of course, this is not easy to make it justice in everything, but we can try to think more for a better way of life and consider for others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Fair Trade is popularing nowadays and it really focus on every fair things. The supply chain of this trade is based in Asia (south of the world) and market is focusing in the west which is developed country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;In the mind of this, fair trade blog will focus on the movements of International and local markets of fair trading systems....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7970283846938148247-532015922054269120?l=fair2trade.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/feeds/532015922054269120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7970283846938148247&amp;postID=532015922054269120&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/532015922054269120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7970283846938148247/posts/default/532015922054269120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fair2trade.blogspot.com/2007/04/fair-2-trade.html' title='Fair 2 Trade..'/><author><name>Kumondra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
