PM Has A vision: Developed Country Status By 2025

[Sumocakewalk]

Bangkok Post
October 17, 2014
Writer: Online Reporters

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has outlined a bold new vision to turn Thailand into a developed country by 2025.

Speaking on his weekly "Returning Happiness to the People" broadcast, he said the country needed a vision of what it could achieve in the long term.

"I think all Thais need to find common ground. Both the government and the NCPO (National Council for Peace and Order) have already come up with a vision which is 'Thailand Forward 2025', with an aim of turning Thailand into a developed country by the year 2025," he said.

"However, 'Thailand Forward 2025' might be just a temporary name. We might come up with another name that best suits the country."

Gen Prayut recorded his speech before leaving for Milan to attend the Asia-Europe Meeting in the northern Italian city. He will return to Thailand on Saturday.

Details of the 'Thailand Forward' vision have yet to be thrashed out. But the scope of the proposal suggests that Gen Prayut is determined to leave a lasting mark on the country.

Two months after taking power in a coup in May, the general introduced "12 core values" for citizens to follow. They include having love for the monarchy, nation and religion; being honest, patient and good toward the public; showing gratitude to parents, guardians and teachers; persevering in learning; having strength against greed and putting concern about the public and national good above self-interest.

The values also stress that Thais should conserve Thai culture; be moral and share with others; show discipline and respect for the law and elders; live by His Majesty's sufficiency economy philosophy and understand that democracy functions with the monarch as the head of state. The Education Ministry has snapped them up and taken them to all schools for students to remember.

Malaysia has been pursuing Vision 2020 set out by Mahathir Mohamad in 1991 when he was prime minister. Its main aim is to make Malaysia a developed country by 2020.

Deputy Prime Minister MR Pridiyathorn Devakula vowed to make Thailand a trading hub in Southeast Asia and use the digital technology to drive economy.

Gen Prayut also used his address on Friday to urge the public and private sectors to restore confidence among tourists and woo them to the country with better safety measures and facilities for visitors.

The tourism sector has been hard hit by the political unrest late last year, followed by the enforcement of martial law and the coup. The murders of two British tourists last month and subsequent negative publicity about the police investigation have further weakened confidence.

The slump on foreign visitors forced the government to scale down its forecast this year to 26 million, a drop of 700,000 from last year, and to hope that business will bounce back next year. International arrivals of all kinds, including tourists, dropped 5.6% to 51.2 million in the 12 months to Sept 30, at the six international airports, including Suvarnabhumi, run by Airports of Thailand Plc.

"We are renowned for being the Land of Smiles not the land of conflicts because of the outstanding qualities of the Thai people," Gen Prayut said. "We have to be extra careful in order to prevent politically motivated conflicts and violence from recurring," he said.

The government is now banking on domestic travel to bolster the industry by approving tax incentives for those holding seminars in the country until the end of next year. The main issue worrying foreign tourists is martial law which bars them from obtaining travel insurance while travelling to Thailand.

The NCPO has set aside a budget of 200 million baht for travel insurance for tourists coming to the kingdom. But Gen Prayut said that was not sufficient as all Thais need to join hands to help the country recover its position as a favourite destination for tourists.

"The government needs help from all sectors in regaining foreigners' confidence," he said.

Prayut has a vision for 2025 | Bangkok Post: news

Is Lao Khao known to cause hallucinations?

[chassamui]

Deputy Prime Minister MR Pridiyathorn Devakula vowed to make Thailand a trading hub in Southeast Asia and use the digital technology to drive economy.

Bit difficult when you are just completing the roll out of 3G.

Amazing Thailand

[Tarquin Chucklefucc]

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has outlined a bold new vision to turn Thailand into a developed country by 2025.

Be lucky if the roads are fixed by 2025

[thaimeme]

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has outlined a bold new vision to turn Thailand into a developed country by 2025.

Be lucky if the roads are fixed by 2025

Doesn't really matter, does it..?

Just be reminded that these jokers plan to be around for quite a while.

Just as the higher command wants it to be.
Quite convenient for them.


I suppose that Sarit Thanarat or Thanom Kittiachorn won't ring any bells.

[Tarquin Chucklefucc]

Doesn't really matter, does it..?

No, it doesn't.

Just as the higher command wants it to be.
Quite convenient for them.

Yesterday my good Indian friend told me to take my family and leave. I said "go where, England?"

He said no - don't go there - that's worse

Go to Laos - To Cambodia - to Vietnam - to Myanmar, this place is looking very bad and omens look like worse is on the way.

[Sumocakewalk]

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has outlined a bold new vision to turn Thailand into a developed country by 2025.

Be lucky if the roads are fixed by 2025

Where I'm at, road repair is a perpetual endeavor. The Thai way of repairing the highway seems to be flawed. Extensive re-pavement jobs last a few months and then they're back to having cracks, heaves, pot holes.

Just a cog in the bigger graft machine - budget a lot of money for repairs and crooked administrators pocket a big chunk of it, leaving a lot less for decent repair work.

[Tarquin Chucklefucc]

^Yup, exactly how it works. Big budgets - most pocketed - shit material and labour is all that's left.

[thaimeme]

Doesn't really matter, does it..?

No, it doesn't.

Just as the higher command wants it to be.
Quite convenient for them.

Yesterday my good Indian friend told me to take my family and leave. I said "go where, England?"

He said no - don't go there - that's worse

Go to Laos - To Cambodia - to Vietnam - to Myanmar, this place is looking very bad and omens look like worse is on the way.

Actually, one could live in the hinterlands without much [if any] interference with your life and everyday goings on....

Regardless of power structures, things don't change much in rural lifestyle settings. As it's always been forever.

[Tarquin Chucklefucc]

Sure.

He's retired (65 odd)

I'm not even 40 yet and that was the point.

If you're retired - it's cool, but the joke system here doesn't promote or even allow foreigners (even with long term ties) to do business without grief and cost.

[Fondles]

The country is under martial law. this affects tourism because tourist's cannot get insurance.....

fuck off the martial law and the tourist's will return.

[chassamui]

I'm sure he has lots of visions. Unfortunately none of them are psychotropic.

[Hans Mann]

Does this mean that the general is gonna hang around till 2025?

[septimus]

It seems to me that he is doing his best to keep Thailand well and truly entrenched in the 3rd world
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[kmart]

It seems to me that he is doing his best to keep Thailand well and truly entrenched in the 3rd world
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That is the objective. Keep them dumb, subservient, unquestioning.

His "12 precepts for merit" or whatever is one of the funniest things I've ever heard here.

[chassamui]

It seems to me that he is doing his best to keep Thailand well and truly entrenched in the 3rd world sep

And in the last century.

[septimus]

It seems to me that he is doing his best to keep Thailand well and truly entrenched in the 3rd world
sep

That is the objective. Keep them dumb, subservient, unquestioning.

His "12 precepts for merit" or whatever is one of the funniest things I've ever heard here.

His 12 precepts for merit. I've just read that in the link provided in the OP. Yes very funny.

It would be so good to see on him live TV in an open debate, being taken through that with Jeremy Paxman, or Piers Morgan. He might get to item 2 or 3 before throwing his toys out of the pram.
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[zygote1]

Aim for the sky big guy, and please don't forget to add some basics such as potable water and proper sanitation.
Until then, don't be surprised if the developed world just smiles politely, much as they do when parents watch their kid play dress up, pretending to be "grown ups".

[Humbert]

Does this mean that the general is gonna hang around till 2025?

As the weeks go by and he outlines his vision it seems more and more obvious that he intends to hang on to power. A lot of folks are sucked in by his avuncular, no nonsense style.

[pseudolus]

Just an excuse to borrow billions, kick off loads of infrastructure projects, and pocket 1/3 of the borrowed trillions and hand the country over the the faux democracy again in time for all the projects to collapse again.

[Humbert]

I don't think it will be long before he ramps up blaming 'foreign' influences for Thailand's problems. The western press and governments are becoming increasingly critical of him. I fear his reaction will be to introduce draconian laws aimed at foreigners living here.

[Troy]

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha

Fake title to go with the fake press, fake goods and fake visions....

[VocalNeal]

Does this mean that the general is gonna hang around till 2025?

He has to keep it relatively stable until the disliked one takes over.

[Bettyboo]

He has to

Does he? Says who? Oh, says the people that control all the big bucks and do all the things that other folks aren't allowed to look at or question...


Honestly, what did folks think was gonna happen; a minority who never get elected, so go around breaking every law, shooting people, making up their own laws then giving themselves endless authority above the law, changing laws on their own 'authority', the list goes on; and re-education camps for folks who want open discourse... & some of you folks were (are still?) all for it...

[BaitongBoy]

"We have to be extra careful in order to prevent politically motivated conflicts and violence from recurring," he said.

Start with the fckwits on Turtle Turd Island, you fool...

[BaitongBoy]

& some of you folks were (are still?) all for it...

Indeed...Forgive them; they know not what they do...