PM Prayut glad paper plane champ receives citizenship

[webfact]

PM glad paper plane champ receives citizenship

 

 

BANGKOK, 8th October 2018 (NNT) – Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is happy to hear that Mong Thongdee, who rose to fame as the champion of local and international folded-paper airplane competitions, has been granted citizenship, according to Government Spokesperson Lt Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd. 

Lt Gen Sansern said today the premier had congratulated the 21-year-old champion on becoming a Thai citizen. Mong was born to Myanmar parents who came to Thailand as migrant workers. At the age of 12, Mong won an international paper-plane contest in Japan and has continued to have outstanding success in competitions in the years since. 

The spokesperson said Mong will soon receive his identification card and a residence registration certificate. 

 

He said Mong has been an exemplary model for children as he continues to teach youngsters about working hard and not giving up on a dream. His presence in Thailand will be significant to local and national development the PM added. 

On another matter, Lt Gen Sansern said the prime minister was pleased to hear that a private collector in the US, Katherine Ayers-Mannix, had returned 12 ancient artifacts to Thailand. The items are believed to have come mostly from a prehistoric civilization that existed more than 4,000 years ago around Ban Chiang, in what is now Thailand's northeastern province of Udon Thani.

 

-- nnt 2018-10-08

[ezzra]

So if you're a stateless person who lived in Thailand for many years and have been an good, hard working and studying law abiding and person, you have to win some sort of international competition to receive a citizenship while all the others are languishing in a limbo existence?

not taking anything from the young man achievements in paper airplanes making, is this something that will benefits Thailand or humanity for that matter?...

[starky]

11 minutes ago, ezzra said:

So if you're a stateless person who lived in Thailand for many years and have been an good, hard working and studying law abiding and person, you have to win some sort of international competition to receive a citizenship while all the others are languishing in a limbo existence?

not taking anything from the young man achievements in paper airplanes making, is this something that will benefits Thailand or humanity for that matter?...

Well a cynical person may say how do me know anything about him? Is an exemplary student? What are his academic achievements? Is he a particularly law abiding citizen or an example to students? All we really know is that he is a 21 year old man who is particularly good at making paper airplanes. Congratulations on receiving his citizenship though. Pity so many will miss out due to them not being so equally capable in the ability to fold paper.

 

[bluesofa]

53 minutes ago, ezzra said:

So if you're a stateless person who lived in Thailand for many years and have been an good, hard working and studying law abiding and person, you have to win some sort of international competition to receive a citizenship while all the others are languishing in a limbo existence?

not taking anything from the young man achievements in paper airplanes making, is this something that will benefits Thailand or humanity for that matter?...

Of course it will benefit Thailand - helping with the sale of A4 paper.

 

[Esso49]

4 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Of course it will benefit Thailand - helping with the sale of A4 paper.

 

And with that means there will be a massive push for recyclable origami -  paper boomerangs  ????

[bluesofa]

7 minutes ago, Esso49 said:

And with that means there will be a massive push for recyclable origami -  paper boomerangs  ????

That comment will come back to haunt you.

 

[holy cow cm]

revamp - revamp the system.

[ikke]

Quite strange that if you are stateless you can travel to Japan, on what passport then ? 

[bluesofa]

15 minutes ago, ikke said:

Quite strange that if you are stateless you can travel to Japan, on what passport then ? 

IIRC, the Thai government issued him with an emergency travel document, allowing limited travel abroad.

 

[RichardColeman]

This was the one that really won

[Darcula]

Looks like Mong has folded him a nice shirt out of gift wrapping paper.

[newnative]

As my Mom used to like to say, "Don't you have anything more useful to do?".

[Media1]

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

So if you're a stateless person who lived in Thailand for many years and have been an good, hard working and studying law abiding and person, you have to win some sort of international competition to receive a citizenship while all the others are languishing in a limbo existence?

not taking anything from the young man achievements in paper airplanes making, is this something that will benefits Thailand or humanity for that matter?...

Give some exception. His a 70 year old man. At that age things slow down

[Lupatria]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is happy to hear that Mong Thongdee, who rose to fame as the champion of local and international folded-paper airplane competitions, has been granted citizenship,

Over one million people in Thailand are estimated to have no citizenship. Most of them belong to ethnic minorities like Karen, Hmong, Mien, Akha, Lahu, Lisu, Lua, H’tin, Khamu and Mlabri. Now I wait for the brothers in arms to generously establish training centers for them to learn how to make paper planes.

[Cadbury]

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

PM glad paper plane champ receives citizenship

Very nice of the PM to say that and give himself some pre-election publicity.

I think he is after the origami vote.

[connda]

I wonder if he feels the same about the other 'stateless' residents of Thailand or does citizenship for the stateless require a media event such as being stuck in a tunnel or being a paper airplane champ?

[Langsuan Man]

National disgrace that it took this long.  Kid was promised by the last government that he would get his citizenship for bringing great credit to Thailand and they just forgot about him once the glare of the headlines were over

 

Prayut and crew didn't do a damn thing to make this happen, only the kid's patience and guts got it done, not these two faced politicians and their promises 

[chama]

Yep, another vote in the bank!