One Young World Summit 2015: Bangkok is ready

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ONE YOUNG WORLD
Bangkok is ready
The Nation

Capital set to roll out red carpet for some 1,000 leaders aspiring to create a better world

BANGKOK: -- BANGKOK IS ready to host more than 1,000 aspiring young leaders who want to change the world for the better, said Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra.

As the city prepares to roll out the red carpet for youngsters and global celebrities and icons attending the One Young World Summit 2015, which will be held from November 18 to 22, Sukhumbhand wasted no time publicising the much-anticipated event.

"We are so proud to be the host of the Sixth One Young World Summit and Bangkok will be Asia's first city to host the event," he said.

"After we learned that the sixth summit would be organised, we sent our team to bid to host and competed with other countries like South Korea and Japan. But we won it," he added.

"Bangkok was chosen to host the One Young World Summit 2015 because Thailand has its charm, we have a multicultural society, magnificent temples, royal palaces, canals, busy marketplaces and vibrant street culture," Sukhumbhand said.

"Although we are faced with an uncertain political situation, we still got this summit. That is proof that the political situation is not more important than Thai traditions. This is the reason why we got to host this summit."

One Young World Summit 2015 will be the stage for youth leaders to share their innovative solutions for the pressing issues in the world. Besides the youth leaders, many world leaders will also join the summit as councillors, such as Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the UN, Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Father Mussie Zerai, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and Manny Pacquiao, a Filipino world champion |boxer.

"These people are world icons and social leaders with a lot of experience. One Young World Summit will be the place that these world social leaders can share their ideas with the youth leaders and also become their inspiration," Sukhumbhand |said.

"What they have done for our society is too much to talk about in three days, but they will inspire the new generation to extend their thoughts."

More than 1,540 Thai youths nationwide applied to join the delegate selection for the summit. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration then submitted the list to the organiser in London before 390 youths were selected to be whittled down to 100 in Bangkok.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Bangkok-is-ready-30272299.html

-- The Nation 2015-11-05

[BlindMagician]

1. https://www.oneyoungworld.com/letter-office-prime-minister

"...assure all participants and organisers that free and open discussions will be welcomed..."

My comment: shall we all keep an eye and an ear open, to look and listen for any young persons comments on democracy. Thai Visa, owned by Choice Group which is a media group I assume with journalist human resources to spare, please can you cover this event rigorously?

2. https://www.oneyoungworld.com/effectiveness

My comment: Seems like the event does have some positive real impact, so thumbs up.

3. http://www.oneyoungworld.com/attend-summit-2015

My comment: Registration cost per head is 2,750 GBP. Initial thought is ... cash cow?

6 named sponsors cover up to 152 young delegates (not just paying the registration fee, but some other costs too), so maybe the rest can find their own sponsorship, hence maybe not a cost to the delegates themselves, but the organisers still receive the 2,750GBP/head. I wonder what the real costs associated with registration are, and hence the profit? I don't begrudge them making a profit, if it is a reasonable %, but suspect the profit is a high %.

[facthailand]

There certainly seem to be mixed messages over OYW's tacit support for Thailand's military coup and present dictatorship. Are these the values we want instilled in our world's future leaders?

https://thailandsfuture.wordpress.com

So Thailand arrests Viktor Bout and extradites him to the US. Now a homegrown Thai is being extradited to India for supplying arms to rebels.

But... Thailand's military plays host to a major int'l arms fair. Guns and bombs kill people--there's no legal and illegal about it.