Prawit heads overseas for 'health reasons'

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Prawit heads overseas for 'health reasons'
By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan will be on vacation from Tuesday to Sunday so he can travel overseas on a personal trip, a Government House source said.

 

The source said Prawit would be absent from the weekly Cabinet meeting on Tuesday and a meeting of the National Council for Peace and Order in the afternoon.

 

The leave letter says he wants to make the foreign trip for health reasons and he will return to Thailand on Sunday. The letter does not state which country he will visit.

 

The source said Prawit complained that he was tired and stressed after being hit with a series of problems.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30311988

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-04-11

[Eric Loh]

That's unusual as he is going oversea during Songkran which is full of symbolic traditions and merit making and when people pay their respects. More than meets the eye. Maybe an important oversea assignment. Things are certainly happening. 

[JoePai]

Nothing serious I hope    

[PatOngo]

The "International Community" wishes you the speediest recovery. 

[colinneil]

Going over-seas, ok whos paying for this little trip?

Maybe he has gone to a health spa, to lose a bit of blubber  

[Sphere]

It can't be too serious, otherwise he would've stayed back in the leading hub of medical tourism. 

[jonclark]

Pull the other one its got bells on it. It Songkran - all the rich and well heeled are off on their New Year holiday. My bet is its the Maldives he's heading too.

 

[ddavidovsky]

Anyone know what happens if Prayuth dies? This is the danger with this kind of government. The current unelected guy may mean well, but the next unelected guy may be Stalin.

[KhunBENQ]

16 minutes ago, jonclark said:

My bet is its the Maldives he's heading too.

Hawaii ?

[MorristheRunt]

Preparing for retirement, I wonder id he is taking a lot of baggage with him?

[MorristheRunt]

43 minutes ago, ddavidovsky said:

Anyone know what happens if Prayuth dies? This is the danger with this kind of government. The current unelected guy may mean well, but the next unelected guy may be Stalin.

3 Years of state mourning

[Eric Loh]

He was not in the group that visited Prem for the annual well wishes Songkran tradition. It's surivival of the better aligned and he may be gone for good. 

[bheard]

He'll be off to Japan for a "health" massage I reckon.

[beautifulthailand99]

Maybe having a face transplant somewhere ? We had John Prescott back in the heady days of Bliar - these deputies seem to be of a type.

[KIWIBATCH]

Shopping trips overseas are always good for the soul.

[funandsuninbangkok]

Hum, healthier to go than stay huh?

 

 

[beautifulthailand99]

2 hours ago, ddavidovsky said:

Anyone know what happens if Prayuth dies? This is the danger with this kind of government. The current unelected guy may mean well, but the next unelected guy may be Stalin.

Or a Thai equivalent which is more like an unfunny Stan Laurel in a uniform. It's a good job humour other than slapstick is effectively banned in Thailand - or folk would never stop laughing until the rivers ran with tears of their mirth - mixed of course with those of sadness.

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

Who is paying for the trip ? How many security is going with ? And where to Japan ?

[brucec64]

Preparing for retirement, I wonder id he is taking a lot of baggage with him?

30% of 36 billion for subs fills a lot of bags...

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[Godang]

Good time to arrange a few accounts spread the money. But wait you not have money from Yingluck yet. That could be a tidy sum. 

[whatawonderfulday]

4 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

That's unusual as he is going oversea during Songkran which is full of symbolic traditions and merit making and when people pay their respects. More than meets the eye. Maybe an important oversea assignment. Things are certainly happening. 

not another coup surely ?

[beautifulthailand99]

6 minutes ago, whatawonderfulday said:

not another coup surely ?

Be patient everything in time. They have got to take this shiny new constitution out for spin yet. As is the  wont of Thai drivers they will crash that one , get off scot free , and mint another one maybe with or without added coup.

[ChrisY1]

3 hours ago, MorristheRunt said:

Preparing for retirement, I wonder id he is taking a lot of baggage with him?

I would imagine that the pallets have already gone.

[Eric Loh]

55 minutes ago, whatawonderfulday said:

not another coup surely ?

More like Steve Bannon being removed from NSC and slowly manoeuvred out of White House. Prawit has not attended cabinet and NCPO meetings. 

[chainarong]

It's indicative of this persons negative thinking, that's if he thinks at all, he has at least four hospitals in Thailand that would only be to happy to take care of Pawtwit, the ones that have run out of money such a slight against the fine people in the medical field, that not unlike the education of Thailand ,  struggle daily with shoddy treatment from the  government.................................

[wakeupplease]

brucec64

You nailed it bang on

[Lemonltr]

Maybe he's been bitten by a soi dog. Thais call it 'rok glua nam' - (disease afraid of water). Better clear off for Sonkran...

[FitnessHealthTravel]

3 hours ago, KIWIBATCH said:

Shopping trips overseas are always good for the soul.

That's Seoul for a nip and tuck!

[fish monger]

3 hours ago, KIWIBATCH said:

Shopping trips overseas are always good for the soul.

Ask Yingluk...

[fish monger]

And here we were led to believe that Thailand was a major medical hub.....Guess not. Have not heard from Kobkarn as of late...........