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BANGKOK: -- Prayut vows to improve corruption rankingPrime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha voiced satisfaction for the country's improved ranking of corruption perception index to third place among ASEAN countries, pledging he would make better ranking next year.

Speaking at a special lecture entitled “Transparency in Organisational Management in Thailand”, to award organisations with outstanding performances in transparency at the 4th NACC Integrity Award, Gen Prayut said his government has placed anti corruption task as a national agenda to create confidence among foreign investors.

He said it was necessary to make transparency a value for all organisations as it could obstruct the country from moving forward if there is no transparency.

Currently, he said, his government is asking both local and provincial level administration their needs before driving forward good governance in these bureaucratic administrations.

He said the country has fallen into the ” transparency trap”, comparing the country to a crawling tiger but with weakened back legs.
“So it can’t crawl forward as it has not enough strength to move, ” he said.

He said his government wants private sector’s participation in the anti-corruption drive to make it a shield.

He encouraged all the people to have moral constraint, and feel ashamed of committing corruption.

He admitted that restructuring bureaucracy is difficult as he has limited time of just a year, thus he required all state agencies to report their performances every three months.

However he said he was satisfied with the recent ranking of the country for corruption perception index which ranked Thailand on the third among ASEAN countries.

He pledged he would try to make better ranking next year.

Thailand’s corruption perception index improves this year with ranking moving up from 102nd place last year to 85th place and score rising to 38 from 35.

But the country still remains among two-thirds of 175 countries with score below 50, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean).

In ASEAN, only Singapore and Malaysia are ahead of Thailand. But Thailand was ranked 16th out of the 28 countries in the Asia Pacific region.

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) organises the Integrity Award to honour and support the conduct and morale of those who have served as outstanding role models, and to further the growing societal commitment to running businesses with ethics and integrity as well as to dedicating solemn responsibility for the entire national community

Earlier a NACC executive said he believed the country could improve to 50th place in 2017.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/prayut-vows-improve-corruption-ranking

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-- Thai PBS 2014-12-08

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1- Is prostitution illegal in this country?

2- Is there some easy to find places where prostitution is available in this country?

If answers YES at both question:

3- Why police does not close these places?

If answer at 3 is linked to "corruption", either

1- Legalize prostitution (why not, after all: Thais like prostitutes, no shame at all about that)

or

2- Fight corruption

At this step I don't see any movement to fight corruption in Thailand.

Now, as we survive easily and like it that way, maybe the best way is, for the Phuu Yai, to have business as usual.

When the first brothel will shut its doors, we'll chat some more.

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Changes start at home ... so how about dear Leader coming clean about where some of his money came from, cos I simply don't believe these top guys either marry rich wive's, inherit it from Daddy or are financial whiz kids on the stock market.

And when checking for corruption, it still counts if it's in your wife's, son's, niece's, nephew's, uncle's, aunt's, driver's, gardener's, maid's or some random stranger's name you pulled out of the air to use on the paperwork ...

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If he wants the ranking higher how about the dear leader come clean on his 600 million baht land deal .

Didn't one of the newspapers report all the details of that already?

More interesting to know would be where he got his other 180 million baht.

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Singapore is rated as the 3rd least corrupt country in the world, lessons to be learnt here as Singapore will take the lead in ASEAN, much to everyones elses surprise.

When corruption is institutionalised, it can become hard to perceive as such, the Lee's are true (Chinese) 'magicians' in that field, ALL the BIG money and deals run through their hands, but I guess you think Chinese businessmen are HONEST... Sweet dreams then.

P.S.: The Shins tried the same 'system' in Thailand, but, thankfully, in the end, they did not totally succeed as they failed to gain the FULL control over the country, my guess being that 'some persons higher-up' didn't really like their concept...

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1- Is prostitution illegal in this country?

2- Is there some easy to find places where prostitution is available in this country?

If answers YES at both question:

3- Why police does not close these places?

If answer at 3 is linked to "corruption", either

1- Legalize prostitution (why not, after all: Thais like prostitutes, no shame at all about that)

or

2- Fight corruption

At this step I don't see any movement to fight corruption in Thailand.

Now, as we survive easily and like it that way, maybe the best way is, for the Phuu Yai, to have business as usual.

When the first brothel will shut its doors, we'll chat some more.

As there are MILLIONS of Thais living from the officially non-existing prostitution, this might not be the first 'angle' I would choose when I would (really, truly...) want to fight corruption here...

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From the headline and stories of what is going on on the ground it wasn't immediately clear whether improvement meant going up or down.

Since he is concerned about overseas image and the tourist dollar at least he should get the Thonglor police to stop the random harassment and extortion of foreign tourists during his watch.

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1- Is prostitution illegal in this country?

2- Is there some easy to find places where prostitution is available in this country?

If answers YES at both question:

3- Why police does not close these places?

If answer at 3 is linked to "corruption", either

1- Legalize prostitution (why not, after all: Thais like prostitutes, no shame at all about that)

or

2- Fight corruption

At this step I don't see any movement to fight corruption in Thailand.

Now, as we survive easily and like it that way, maybe the best way is, for the Phuu Yai, to have business as usual.

When the first brothel will shut its doors, we'll chat some more.

As there are MILLIONS of Thais living from the officially non-existing prostitution, this might not be the first 'angle' I would choose when I would (really, truly...) want to fight corruption here...

The same argument could be applied to casinos which cannot operate without police involvement.

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