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New Mandala readers who have been following Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s visit to Canberra will enjoy this brief report (in Thai) on her time in Canberra. It covers a number of events at Parliament House, a wreath-laying ceremony at the Australian War Memorial and a tree-planting at the National Aboretum. If you watch the video closely you get taken on a “who’s who” tour of Australian and Thai “movers and shakers”. Pictured above is ANU Vice Chancellor Professor Ian Young enjoying the lunch mentioned in Andrew Walker’s recent New Mandala post.
I am more interested to see/hear PM Yingluck’s speech, in English of course, to the Aussie people. Has she polished her grammar and diction yet? I am crossing my fingers Yingluck does not humiliate herself again as she did atrociously at last year’s Davos event.
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Vichai, I think they’d prefer it if foreign representatives’ English is worse than the rest of the audience, so no chance of humiliation. Especially with benign ANU drunkards with remarkable ability to forget and deny blurred events present. Obviously lots of people to offend at this dinner. Was there any music played at the event, or was that too taboo for Ian Young? Can’t see the rest of the video, so that’ll have to do. Clearly I was needed to give a speech to unite everyone in hatred of something other than themselves.
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Vichai
In all honesty the Thai electorate don’t seem to give a single thought to Yingluck’s English.
That’s the only constituency she needs to answer to.
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” . . . the Thai electorate don’t seem to give a single thought to Yingluck’s English.” – Spooner
But of course the Thais do Spooner! The Thais endlessly comment (gossip) about Yingluck daily: her stunning clothes/jewelry, her fantastic fashion sense, her mood today versus the other day, her crying and giggling moments, her good sense and nonsense . . . everything! The Thais already take it for granted that the Yingluck English is Thailand’s best diplomatic weapon for disarming (disarmament!) Thai foreign friends and adversaries.
Even George Bush Jr. is no equal to Yinluck. For hilarity and rip-roaring comic entertainment, Yingluck’s English accent and delivery is a class all her own.
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Not only did Peter Slipper somehow gain the pleasure of shaking Yingluck’s hand, but he did it for an inordinate amount of time…
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