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Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew at a Phuket Community Welfare Organization Network event earlier this week titled ‘Phuket People Unite, leaving no person behind’. Photo: PR Phuket

 

By The Phuket News

 

PHUKET: This week we’re going to do something you’re don’t see often: we’re going into bat for the Phuket Governor, Narong Woonciew.

 

The easing of restrictions this week for people to enter Phuket, and most notably the easing of restrictions to allow venues that serve food to also serve alcohol and provide live music – both measures long overdue to many people on the island – did not come by anywhere as quickly as it was played out in the public sphere.

 

There is no way that the Governor publicly issued a written formal request one day to see the easing of measures requested relaxed the very next day. It just does not happen that quickly. The easing of the restrictions in effect in Phuket was not instant; those conversations had already happened.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-opinion-the-problem-with-being-held-responsible-for-everything-81589.php

 

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"And this is certainly not to excuse any krieng jai, the Thai practice of not upsetting the social order by questioning any person in a perceived position of superiority, either officially or socially, which many Thais uphold to be an integral aspect of Thai culture."

 

which explains why thailand is the clusterfxxk that it is

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