Khon Kaen will host Sufficiency Economy Fair

Khon Kaen (ขอนแก่น) Governor Panchai Bowonrattanapran (ปานชัย บวรรัตนปราณ) will declare the intention to apply His Majesty the King’s Sufficiency Economy philosophy in the provincial administration at the Sufficiency Economy Fair.

Khon Kaen province is scheduled to host the Sufficiency Economy Fair on September 5th, 2007 at Khon Kaen University. Mr. Kittisak Sinthuvanich, the Deputy Secretary-General of the National Economic and Social Development Board, will preside over the opening ceremony of this event.

The Sufficiency Economy Fair will be held from September 5th to 9th, and many renowned people will attend the fair such as Dr. Sumet Tantivejkul, the Secretary-General of the Chai Pattana Foundation as well as many artists and celebrities.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 01 September 2007

This could be interesting.

I am going to the University tomorrow (Monday 03 September) and will find out more.

If anybody has anything that they would like me to enquire about please contact me on here, or by PM, or by e-mail. (That is just my name 'martinallinson' at hotmail.com)

I'm glad someone reads the community happenings bulletins that I post here sometimes.

I was beginning to think that you Isaanites knew everything that was going on all the time...

Yes, we do read your bulletins. Thank you for providing the community news. However, we will be in Nakon Rachasima for tha annual finals of the Dance for the Queen, sponsored by Sponsor the sports drink. The event is held on Sept. 7.

This could be interesting.

I am going to the University tomorrow (Monday 03 September) and will find out more.

If anybody has anything that they would like me to enquire about please contact me on here, or by PM, or by e-mail. (That is just my name 'martinallinson' at hotmail.com)

If you attend the event sure would appreciate feedback on what you hear/observe. The whole "sufficiency" issue seems to have taken on a life of its own. Would be interesting to see what version/spin this gathering is proposing.

I have had a busy week and only managed to get to it late yesterday afternoon.

And then I couldn't get much of an idea of it, because everything was in Thai.

It is being held in the huge Convocation Hall of the University. (The building by the road to the airport, that is as big as, and looks a little like, Sydney Opera House.)

It has clearly been very competently organised. They are bussing in hundreds and hundreds of secondary pupils and junior college students from all over the province, and marshalling them in to see stage and film presentations class by class. I was very impressed by the excellent behaviour.

One long corridor was lined with display boards that clearly had handwritten 'brainstorming' suggestions on them, and they were all different. I would be interested in how they organised the logistics of that for so many groups.

Had one chuckle. Downstairs there was about an acre of trade stalls selling all the OTOP stuff, but right in the middle Isuzu had an MU-7 gas guzzler on show. Insufficiency personified!

The few Uni staff that I have mentioned to whom I have mentioned the Sufficiency Fair and big panjundrums coming from the capital have given a wry smile and said words to the effect that Bangkok should be getting the beam out of its own eye before pointing to the splinter in the Isaan eye.

But didn't Oscar Wilde point out that, unless the poor set an example to the rich, there was no point in having the poor?