PM Prayut meets Thai citizens in U.S. during ASEAN-US Summit

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PM meets Thai citizens in U.S. during ASEAN-US Summit

BANGKOK, 16 February 2016 (NNT) - Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has met with Thai people living in the U.S. while participating in the ASEAN-US Summit in California.

Gen Prayut has had the opportunity to speak with Thai citizens who are representatives from the Association of Thai Professionals in America and Canada and others belonging to a group of creative professions. Many are working for famous companies in the United States like AT&T, Walt Disney, and Nickelodeon.

They have proposed to the Prime Minister a plan to promote national growth and competitiveness based on scientific development. They encouraged both public and private sectors to take advantage of scientists in order to achieve such growth and economic success.

The Prime Minister congratulated them for their determination to return to Thailand and help move the country forward.

More Thais working overseas have been invited to join groups that have been organized as collaborations between the public and private sectors to establish a global network of Thai professionals.

-- NNT 2016-02-16

[phoenixdoglover]

We know some Thais in LA. They are not going back.

[iReason]

"The Prime Minister congratulated them for their determination to return to Thailand and help move the country forward."

I doubt that very much Uncle Too.

They are the lucky ones who educated themselves and got out.

Not the type to go backward.

More hyperbole from the NNT Propaganda Machine.

[MZurf]

"PM meets Thai citizens in U.S. during ASEAN-US Summit"

Let me correct that for you:

"PM" meets carefully vetted Thai citizens in U.S. during ASEAN-US Summit.

[Rayk]

What, no photo op.

[jaltsc]

"The Prime Minister congratulated them for their determination to return to Thailand and help move the country forward."

If they were truly determined, they would already be back. I know of no restrictions preventing them from returning.

"Many are working for famous companies in the United States like AT&T, Walt Disney, and Nickelodeon."

Perhaps the reason they won't return is that they were hired on their abilities and don't have to take stupid orders from some idiot boss who got his job just because his mother's uncle owns the company.

If he were to congratulate those who have already returned, he would be talking to an empty room.

[Just1Voice]

Coming back to Thailand? Where they would make one tenth of what they make now? Yeah, I can see the lines forming at the airport now.

[Srikcir]

Thais working overseas should thank Prayut for relieving them of the necessity of voting absentee in the elections.

I wonder if they will also loss the opportunity to vote in the draft constitution draft.

Probably just happy to be far removed from the Junta's grip on Thai people's freedoms.

[Nobb]

If we had free press in Thailand they might have told you about all the Thai protesters against him. Lip stick on a pig!

[Reigntax]

Prayut is either ignorant of his inability or is in for a real shock. Or both!

[Lupatria]

What happened? No candlelight dinner with the jet set monk on the agenda?

[Usernames]

Was that Thai dentist at Harvard there, the one that Mahidol is after?

[wabothai]

I bet you he misses Thailand for a number of reasons. Fill in yourself.

[sawadee1947]

congratulated them for their determination to return

555555 does he believe this? If offered I think he would ask for asylum over there...5555

[thelonius]

I can just see him bonding with employees of Disneyland - they have so much in common..........................

Edited February 16, 2016 by thelonius

[arrowsdawdle]

We know some Thais in LA. They are not going back.

Perhaps, you don't know the hand-picked kin folk of the little general and his assigns. Of course, they probably don't plan to go back either but have no problem reading from the script.

[khaowong1]

I know many Thai's who live in California and Arizona. And I know of no-one who plans to go back. They have a good life here. Most are drawing both retirement from their jobs and social security. They live in nice houses, drive nice cars and eat well and their children have gotten decent educations, a lot of the children now in college. Why in the world would they want to go back?

[Trouble]

Quite a few living here on overstays and they would rather live here in LA in constant fear of deportation, than go back to Thailand. There is no future in Thailand for most of them and they know it. Really a sad situation that people want so desperately to have a future here and must live in fear.