webfact Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Thailand's businesses await Prayuth's red-tape 'guillotine' Hundreds of outdated rules may be headed for chopping block DOMINIC FAULDER, Nikkei Asian Review associate editor BANGKOK -- "Red tape in this country is cut lengthwise," said David Lyman, an American lawyer and former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand. "It goes on and on." Lyman's jest has more than a kernel of truth. In 2014, the People's Democratic Reform Committee chanted "reform before elections" as it used street protests to undermine the caretaker government of then Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, paving the way for a coup by the army chief, Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha. Prayuth's government established a National Reform Council followed by a National Reform Steering Assembly in 2016. In April 2017, a new constitution was adopted and six months later a 20-year National Strategy put in place. The National Reform Committee was created alongside 11 subcommittees to recommend changes in key areas, and a Regulatory Guillotine Project was launched as a subcommittee of one of these. Full story: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Asia-Insight/Thailand-s-businesses-await-Prayuth-s-red-tape-guillotine -- NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW 2019-10-01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dwcrist Posted October 1, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2019 The only way to get through red tape here is by greasing palms. That's what these guys in office live on and live for. No wonder they just keep all the old red tape while adding more. They are essentially a red tape factory. 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RichardColeman Posted October 1, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2019 The fact that these so called Thai officials have more wealth than their american counterparts speaks volumes 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anterian Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Red tape also reduces the need for an official to think, just ''do it by the book''. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowboat Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 cha cha has done nothing to better Thailand. This article is wishful thinking. Things were better for the average Thai and everyone else before the coup. Thailand has wonderful resources that can be better taken advantage of outside of the country, where you are safe from all the hassles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55Jay Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Quite a task. Orig article link suggests the "hopper" of laws, policies, pronouncements, etc., number in the 10s of 1,000s. Somewhere in there is the Immigration Act. My own government is a far worse quagmire. Elected reps work hard at looking busy investigating each other. Menial nug work is heaped onto 20 something year old staffers who, in turn, assign it to lowly interns working in the mop and broom closet, with a due date of yesterday. Pulling the US Tax Code for review and reform. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Grumpy John Posted October 1, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2019 Well that's good news. Hopefully TM30 will be one of the first to go. All I'm good time I guess. I am 67.....would be nice to see some change before I get to 77! ???? 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmen Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 1 hour ago, yellowboat said: hings were better for the average Thai and everyone else before the coup When and under what leadership and how specifically ?successful policy Details and not anecdotes please 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 A post using ALL CAPS and bold font has been removed. Please use turn off the Caps Lock button and disable the bold font option when posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chang_paarp Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 I foresee troubled water for this promise. Kun Prayut should watch "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" as reference source for such unconsidered ideas. The yes nodding bureaucrats will make such reforms seem to be travelling through treacle if they think they are losing any authority by this. I think it will end up in several committees, especially if the MP's can see a free feed out of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkidlad Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 1 hour ago, madmen said: When and under what leadership and how specifically ?successful policy Details and not anecdotes please Anecdotes like seeing people driving Benzes down lower sukhumvit? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomfiddler Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Bring back Khun Anand Panyarachan !!! The only one who really knew how to run this country ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC1701A Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 (edited) nevermind Edited October 1, 2019 by NCC1701A 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soalbundy Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 As do all expats at the IO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexlowe Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, phantomfiddler said: Bring back Khun Anand Panyarachan !!! The only one who really knew how to run this country ! He was never in politics and made it quite clear that when he finished his two stints as interim PM he wanted nothing to do with running the country again. He was also in office during some very trying times for Thailand, and everyone knew they had to back him up, especially the military which was under more pressure than it had ever been before. He also had no-nonsense backing from the King. He left office with well-deserved respect, which he may have seen dissipate had he gone into politics. Edited October 1, 2019 by Dexlowe cleaning up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Easiest way to get rid of red tape is to get rid of Thai officials. Automate it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerojero Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 The variable Rules book, that is. Red tape also reduces the need for an official to think, just ''do it by the book''. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerojero Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 But...but...but...who would spend 100 billion on the Military? Thai people are happy now, having foregone the huge benefits that such money to the citizenry could have went. Medical, education, environment? Heck no. Yay for tanks, subs, guns, troop carriers, boats, and rusting idle aircraft carriers. cha cha has done nothing to better Thailand. This article is wishful thinking. Things were better for the average Thai and everyone else before the coup. Thailand has wonderful resources that can be better taken advantage of outside of the country, where you are safe from all the hassles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerojero Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Wishful thinking, my grumpy friend. Wishful. Well that's good news. Hopefully TM30 will be one of the first to go. All I'm good time I guess. I am 67.....would be nice to see some change before I get to 77! [emoji53] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sydebolle Posted October 2, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2019 The biggest problem in Thailand is their own people, their "democratically elected" government and their patronizing system. It is proven, that over time it will fail miserably, regretfully those who instigated the whole matter will leave the stage unharmed, in glory and the whole exercise was not to their disadvantage. Who speaks about the decision-makers on the Hopewell disaster for which the government has to shell out something like eleven billion Thai Baht. Notabene, the government has no money; it only redistributes money it took from somewhere else (tax payers spring to mind?). The education system sucks big time while cash is burnt by the 10-wheeler for submarines, study cases of a third airport in Nakhon Pathom (rather than kicking the air force out of Don Muang) and, as already predecessor Chavalit Yongchaiyuth suggested, move the capital out of Bangkok. Chavalit wanted eastwards, Prayuth westwards and refer to Naypyitaw in Myanmar. Rangoon was built for logistic reasons, the army forked out USD 4 billion to relocate the capital to Naypyitaw (400kms north of Rangoon or Yangon, as it is called today). The reason was not logistics or common sense but the soothsayers of the junta at that time who warned from "attackers coming in from the sea". Well ........... Thailand is also run by soothsayers, fortune tellers and other funny little clowns in all sorts of rather colourful uniforms with strings, hats and caps ............. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebell Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 18 hours ago, anterian said: Red tape also reduces the need for an official to think, just ''do it by the book''. But the book has many different editions; check out the rules for Immigration Offices And see the variations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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