Business magnate Elon Musk is set to discuss potential investment opportunities in Thailand with the Thai delegation via a teleconference. This news was shared by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, who is currently attending the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) in New York.

 

The prime minister revealed that the Thai government is seeking to attract foreign investors and will be meeting executives from major corporations such as Microsoft, Google, and Tesla.

 

“Elon Musk has now accepted an invitation to attend talks with the Thai government’s delegation via teleconference.”

Notably, high-profile executives from Microsoft, BlackRock, JP Morgan, and Estee Lauder have also accepted invitations to these talks.

 

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3 minutes ago, webfact said:

Estee Lauder

Is Elon in Estée's league?

 

 

Lower import taxes on western cars and end the dodgy deals that favor Japanese vehicles. 

Not one of my favourite persons in this world...

by teleconference?
thats no good ...he needs a few days in Pattaya to bring him up to speed

How lucky are we?

 

Maybe he can tell Musk to stop f'ing up Twitter.

7 minutes ago, Nickcage49 said:

How lucky are we?

 

Maybe he can tell Musk to stop f'ing up Twitter.

You mean X yes? and also now he's thinking of charging a small fee to use the app to ' deter an army of bots' as he put it...

He will get some attention, as most world leaders have decided not to attend.

 

Four out of five leaders from the permanent members (P5) of the UN Security Council won’t be present. The only P5 head of state attending is US President Joe Biden. Last year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres sounded the alarm about a world becoming more divided; this year’s General Assembly may be the manifestation of that trend. With the expansion of BRICS to include six new countries, as well as recent high-level attendance at G7 and G20 meetings, smaller but less divided forums may prove more efficient for some leaders than the UN General Assembly.

 

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/un-general-assembly-snubs-fragmentation

2 hours ago, webfact said:

“Elon Musk has now accepted an invitation to attend talks with the Thai government’s delegation

Perhaps he wil offer the Thais an engine for their submarine??

 

Is he flying first class?TIT

The power of BlackRock and Microsoft on the worlds economy, and by this on politics, is way to big already. I hope they keep both out of the Kingdom as much as possible.

6 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

Lower import taxes on western cars and end the dodgy deals that favor Japanese vehicles. 

I am happy with Japanese cars. Might go Chinese for my first EV, but another 3 years down the track.

4 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

Is he flying first class?TIT

No, that's business class. And why shouldn't he? He should fly all the way to NY for a global conference in economy?

12 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

Is he flying first class?TIT

Looks like business class to me. Why TIT ? How do heads of government fly to an international conference in your country? btw, possibly people much shorter than him.

14 hours ago, ezzra said:

Not one of my favourite persons in this world...

Which one?

13 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

He will get some attention, as most world leaders have decided not to attend.

 

Four out of five leaders from the permanent members (P5) of the UN Security Council won’t be present. The only P5 head of state attending is US President Joe Biden. Last year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres sounded the alarm about a world becoming more divided; this year’s General Assembly may be the manifestation of that trend. With the expansion of BRICS to include six new countries, as well as recent high-level attendance at G7 and G20 meetings, smaller but less divided forums may prove more efficient for some leaders than the UN General Assembly.

 

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/un-general-assembly-snubs-fragmentation

ok, but unrelated to the OP. Musk is going to talk to the Thai delegation via telecon, it doesn't matter who is attending or not the GA.

16 hours ago, webfact said:

Business magnate Elon Musk is set to discuss potential investment opportunities in Thailand with the Thai delegation via a teleconference

Wonder if Elon has heard about the new Tax implications for any money he brings into Thailand ????

Didn't Elon have to cough up in a Thai libel case during the cave rescue of the footballers?

1 minute ago, mikebell said:

Didn't Elon have to cough up in a Thai libel case during the cave rescue of the footballers?

Don't think so.

I thought the case was unproven. 

4 hours ago, mania said:

Wonder if Elon has heard about the new Tax implications for any money he brings into Thailand ????

Very true.

But we all know, tax is just for the small fry.

big fish employ loads of people,   so they get very large tax concessions. around this world.

I'm unsure the rights and wrongs of that. 

But investment in Thailand would be good for Thailand.

 

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

Didn't Elon have to cough up in a Thai libel case during the cave rescue of the footballers?

No.