Flashermac Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra ranks third among globe-trotting world figures for foreign trips, Senator Somchai Sawaengkarn claimed on Monday. He was speaking during a Senate meeting debating the 2014 Budget Bill on Monday. Sen. Somchai, who sits on the Senate committee on foreign affairs, said Ms Yingluck ranked No.3 among world leaders travelling abroad, after US President Barak Obama and former US president George W Bush. The senator said information on Ms Yingluck's overseas journeys during the past two years as prime minister has shown that Ms Yingluck had spent about 300 million baht on 52 foreign trips to 41 countries. Sen. Somchai asked if the prime minister's overseas visits had yielded any concrete results that were worthy of the money that had been paid for her journeys. He said the Prime Minister's Office has reported that Ms Yingluck had travelled overseas to promote exports, trade and to encourage foreign investment in the country. But export figures over the past seven months between January and July showed that Thailand suffered a trade deficit of more than US$18 billion during the period, Sen Somchai said. http://www.bangkokpo...-globe-trotting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 No visas for Thais visiting Japan for up to 2 weeks is one thing she pulled off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldFun Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaiRai Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 Sen. Somchai, who sits on the Senate committee on foreign affairs, said Ms Yingluck ranked No.3 among world leaders travelling abroad, after US President Barak Obama and former US president George W Bush. The senator said information on Ms Yingluck's overseas journeys during the past two years as prime minister has shown that Ms Yingluck had spent about 300 million baht on 52 foreign trips to 41 countries. Sen. Somchai asked if the prime minister's overseas visits had yielded any concrete results that were worthy of the money that had been paid for her journeys. If Khun Somchai feels it necessary to compare her to Obama and Bush in order paint her in negative light, lets be fair about it. Obama's singular trip to Africa had an estimated tab of 100 million USD (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/obama-africa-trip_n_3441510.html) At approximately 3 billion baht, the cost of that singular trip = 10 x the sum of Yingluck's 52 trips. Sounds pretty fucking reasonable (on the Yingluck side of the equation). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 It certainly does. Get her to produce the same results as the No. 1 and No.2 and what then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 PM leaves for overseas trip The Nation September 8, 2013 1:44 pm Leaving Thailand on Sunday for an overseas trip, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said that her deputy Pracha Promnok is assigned to keep the rubber farmer protest in control. She also said that she would monitor the situation from overseas. Yingluck will return from the official trip to Switzerland, Italy and Montenegro on September 15. She also insisted that the trip to Montenegro is purely to establish the relation with a new country. The invitation was extended a long time ago and she would just stop by at the country for about 1-2 hours, she said. She was criticised of having a conflict of interest in stopping by the country which in 2009 extended her brotherThaksin Shinawatra the citizenship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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