I not surprise at all, anymore, about Thai ability at public relation, like turing news today with Japan on decarbonization, into great image for Thailand on the environment. These great Thai public relation skill do keep burrying many important issues, like Thailand’s budget cut-backs, going to decimate numbers of forest protection rangers, Thailand should have,…
The global tourism business is swamped by public relation news. Thailand is the worse. Thailand was a global leader in tourism, registering over 30 million tourists, before Covid 19 pandemic. Today, reading the news about Thai tourism, nothing much has changed, the industry is still swamped by public relation news, meaning there is a spin…
“Thailand’s school system performs poorly on international assessments across all subject areas. The average years of schooling there are also lower than the regional average, meaning that Thai adults are less educated than many other Asians,” stated EF, an international education company specializing in language training, educational travel, academic-degree programmes and cultural exchanges. As a…
Thailand’s non democratically elected PM, sent Thais a New Year greetings today, with a statement, mostly, about of the governments accomplishments, with a short wishing the Thai people the best, in closing. The message was sent via a Facebook post, with about 2.8K pressing the emotion button, dotted with laughter and angry Facebook emoji and…
Thailand’s economy is heavily dependent on tourism, in fact, in any financial institution’s projection of Thailand’s GDP growth, such as by the Bank of Thailand, the estimated numbers of foreign tourist to Thailand is used for GDP estimates. On this tourist numbers, thus, on Thailand’s GDP estimate, the Straights Times reported: “Thailand is once again…
The global arms sales industry is gigantic. Those countries, who are heavily involved in buying arms, are usually governed by some form of authoritarian, where the rule of law is weak, and little transparency to anything. And, often, when governments, changes from democratic, to authoritarian, usually, the spending on the military, sky-rocket, such as the…
Most globally, recognizes Thailand as a very Orwell 1984 society, with many units set up, with a mission statement to do this and that, but in fact, is mostly just a political tool of the traditional ruling elite, to project a “Face” across society. This is part of the so called “Thai Way” of doing…
Last check, from available news reports, there are about 20 to 30 Thais, that have exiled themselves out of Thailand, to escape Thailand’s Dictator prosecution, for various activity, such as lese majeste. Under the Yingluck government, while the government continued to crack-down on lese majeste, the space for discussion was much more open than under…
Thailand’s Dictator is changing the name of the ICT Ministry to the Ministry of Digital Economy development, but as the following article says, Thailand’s internet is less free than Myanmar’s internet these days. The following is from Prachatai (source) Myanmar Internet freer than Thailand’s: Freedom House Submitted by editor1 on Fri, 05/12/2014 – 11:14 Freedom…
Andrew Stroehlein, European Media Director of Human Rights Watch & former Communications Director of Crisis Group, covering human rights worldwide, media & conflict, says of Thailand’s Dictator, Prayuth’s words: Priceless! Thailand PM on why they’ve blocked HRW‘s website: “Go and read what they wrote.” Also, in another Orwell’s 1984twist, Thailand’s Dictator, insisted yesterday on his…
Robert Amsterdam, the iconic international lawyer, twitter, yesterday, concerning the on-going purge in the Thai police force, saying, quote” “The deeply corrupt Thai military govt singling out a few police officers on corruption charges is a corruption of due process in & of itself.” Robert has a point, as over at ISRA News, a Thai…
Thailand’s Hunger Game protesters of the “Dao Din” group, went to meet the UN’s human rights arm and the European Union political affairs department Bangkok office yesterday, reports several Thai press. According to several Thai press, the Dao Din Thais was assured by the UN that the UN was following closely, the human rights situation…
Several local reports that Thailand’s Dictator appointed The National Legislative Assembly (NLA), which is dominated by soldiers, Neo fascist Royalist and Bangkok’s traditional elite, yesterday dismissed a request by ex-prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s legal team to submit more documents to support her claim that she was not negligent in relation to corruption in the controversial…
ThaIland’s Dictator, Prayuth, told the press, quote: “I am willing to listen to all opinions. The students may send me what they have in mind.” But then the Dictator sends the military and police, to investigate and arrest, Hunger Games students activist. Then also, instructed universities, to crack-down on students activist. So it is public…
North Korea Model for Thailand? From the Wikipedia: Mind Control (also known as brainwashing, reeducation, coercive persuasion, thought control, or thought reform) is a theoretical indoctrination process which results in “an impairment of autonomy, an inability to think independently, and a disruption of beliefs and affiliations. In this context, brainwashing refers to the involuntary reeducation of…
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