Latin letters on name tags not allowed anymore

[jackdd]

At some point in the last year (presumably) Thailand enacted a law that forbids having latin letters on your name tag if you are a soldier (maybe all government workers, my GF couldn't tell me)

Before this they had name tags that looked like the name tag of the second person on the right, which had the name in Thai, name in latin letters and the rank of the person (in latin letters). Now these name tags are not allowed anymore, but instead they have to get name tags like the one the person on the left is wearing, with only the name in Thai letters.

So if you can't read Thai and do ever have any problem with them you don't even know their name. Usually for the army that's not of much relevance, but if this change is affecting the police too it could be relevant.

And don't they have anything better to do than thinking about laws like this? What's next? Remove latin letters from street signs?