Popular Post webfact Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 Thailand’s secretariat of the Cabinet has allocated some Bt2.6 million of taxpayers’ money to buy 111 iPhones for its high-ranking officials, citing efficiency and good governance, but attracting considerable public criticism as well. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, who is eligible to receive one as head of the Cabinet, has forgone this particular privilege. After the procurement document went viral and drew criticism on Tuesday, an advisor at the prime minister’s office, Nattariya Taweewong, explained that smartphones issued to the office’s executives are due to be changed, hence the purchase. Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/senior-thai-officials-to-get-taxpayer-funded-iphones/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-11-24 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tomacht8 Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 23423 Baht per piece. Are these originals? Or China Copies? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post lujanit Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 I'm sure they get a lot more than iPhones. They just don't want to tell us about it. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ezzra Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 Those "senior officials" can buy a 10,000 iPhones and still have many millions left in the bank, that how much they need them... 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AhFarangJa Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 I believe it could be a deliberate leaking of news to act as a diversion. While citizens are questioning the drop in the ocean figure of 2.6 million Baht, they are not looking at the BILLIONS of Baht that are siphoned off every year into other "pockets"....... 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RafPinto Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 Tomorrow's news: We apologise for the "printing error". It should have said: Senior Thai officials to get taxpayer funded Huaweis. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stocky Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 57 minutes ago, tomacht8 said: 23423 Baht per piece. Are these originals? Or China Copies? iPhonies at that price 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gottfrid Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 Yeah! That´s why the country will always be at a stand still. It´s accepted for people to take advantage of their positions and pay what they need with tax payer money instead of their fat salaries. These people can afford to buy their own phones. If they were to put all the unnecessary spending in funds for old people, maybe the families can have a better standard and not have to live a life paying for others. 16 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RafPinto Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 Not the smartest, working for the government. They won't notice the difference. 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RafPinto Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 I just put my name on the list for the "iphone 26", coming out in 2025. 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post webfact Posted November 24, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 PM’s Secretariat Buys 111 iPhone Devices BANGKOK, Nov 24 (TNA) – The secretariat of the prime minister spent 2.6 million baht on 111 iPhone devices because the procurement was due to replace old phones, according to an advisor to the prime minister. Natreeya Thaweewong, the advisor, said that the prime minister’s secretariat ordered the phones for its executives who needed such devices and the contracted price was lower than the median price of 2.8 million baht. According to her, the newly ordered phones have the specifications that the secretariat needs for use by executives at the level of directors and higher. Full story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-829953 -- © Copyright TNA 2021-11-24 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Willy Wombat Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 Isn’t it good to be a fat pig in the trough 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RafPinto Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 China won't like this deal. Is Thailand not trusting the Chinese anymore? Spying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tomacht8 Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 (edited) That's not a good idea. 111 phones only. All officials who get one are then super VIPs who run the country. What about the other officers who didn't get one and who believed they were VIPs? There is bound to be envy and disapproval, among those who didn’t get one. Ultimately, it's a mark / symbol of how important each are. One or the other general will definitely be pi$$ed off. Edited November 24, 2021 by tomacht8 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post trainman34014 Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 'Efficiency' and 'Good Governance' have never been on the Menu for Civil Servants in Thailand; especially Senior 'Officials', as they love to call themselves. More money wasted when half of the country is wondering where the money for a next meal is coming from ! 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tomacht8 Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, trainman34014 said: 'Efficiency' and 'Good Governance' have never been on the Menu for Civil Servants in Thailand; especially Senior 'Officials', as they love to call themselves. More money wasted when half of the country is wondering where the money for a next meal is coming from ! In principle you are right, but 2.8 million THB is nothing in comparison to the other billions of expenditures for questionable state projects where parts of the money evaporates in a wonderful way and nobody knows where it has gone. Edited November 24, 2021 by tomacht8 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jacko45k Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 Interesting, Police buy their own guns, high officials are gifted phones and watches, and some police get free Ferraris.... one messed up place! 5 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Does it have a bigger screen to better watch illegal porn online? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RichardColeman Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 3 hours ago, webfact said: Thailand’s secretariat of the Cabinet has allocated some Bt2.6 million of taxpayers’ money to buy 111 iPhones for its high-ranking officials .............................while the deliberately made poor, destitute, jobless and homeless get handouts from farangs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoreFarang Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 That's good news. Because now all those phones are owned by the tax payers. So the tax-payers, we, should get regular updates from the data of those phones. Where did they go? Show the GPS coordinates. Publish the meta data of their phone conversations, text messages, etc. I am sure that would be interesting information. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiexpat Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 (edited) I don't understand why this is unusual? When I was working I was always updated with the latest phone so why shouldn't the 111 most senior officials in Government be given one? It's $75,000, peanuts for a government Edited November 24, 2021 by aussiexpat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will B Good Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 From 2013 All students will receive free tablet computers as part of the second phase of the government's "One Tablet PC Per Child" policy by December, Education Minister Chaturon Chaisaeng says. Hope they can wait 8 years for their iPhones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThailandRyan Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 3 hours ago, webfact said: Thailand’s secretariat of the Cabinet has allocated some Bt2.6 million of taxpayers’ money to buy 111 iPhones for its high-ranking officials, citing efficiency and good governance, but attracting considerable public criticism as well. Good Governance. Are they allowed to use them for everything and anything, are they restricted for only business related calls and work. In my prior life, my issued phone was restricted to use only for business related work calls etc. Once a week I would be notified by the IT unit they had found suspicious activity on my phone and that I had used the phone to call my own house phone. I was reminded the phone was not for personal business (PB), but for work related content only. To say the least I took that phone and tried to return it to the IT unit who had issued it out. They said I had to keep it and upon either separation or moving to a new location they would retain the phone and give it to my replacement since it was on that units inventory. I had one of my own office techs at the time forward the number for that phone to my personal one, and I removed the battery and stuck it in my top drawer. However, this is Thailand and their personal use of the telephone will never be looked at, just another phone for them to have like the many phones the girls have, one for each boyfriend....lol 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chickenslegs Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 IMHO they need upgrading for better screen definition ... (Remember this Thai MP during a budget debate) 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThailandRyan Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 42 minutes ago, chickenslegs said: IMHO they need upgrading for better screen definition ... (Remember this Thai MP during a budget debate) Oh he needs an upgrade he only had the low level Gik-A-Phone 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burma Bill Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 5 hours ago, webfact said: 111 iPhones for its high-ranking officials, Well I never - maybe they can now check in/check out via QR Codes!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inactiveposter Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Someone is going to have upgrade their watch collection to smart watches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Will B Good Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 1 minute ago, inactiveposter said: Someone is going to have upgrade their watch collection to smart watches. He'll have a friend who has a spare one he can borrow, I'm sure. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 6 hours ago, webfact said: Thailand’s secretariat of the Cabinet has allocated some Bt2.6 million of taxpayers’ money to buy 111 iPhones for its high-ranking officials, citing efficiency and good governance, but attracting considerable public criticism as well. Surely that would be better spent on giving school kids access to tech equipment so they can study. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 4 hours ago, RafPinto said: China won't like this deal. Is Thailand not trusting the Chinese anymore? Spying? CIA aren't so squeaky clean either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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