People will be more than happy to have this long holiday break since the 11th-15th April, as this Thai New Year's day will give a chance for Thai people to be back at their hometown, visit their family and go to the temple.
It is also the day that well known to the foreigners for activities such as the water splashing that will appears on every corner of the streets and people will get dirty with the icy powder, in the hottest period of the year in Thailand.
However, the recent news that came out will make the reader, especially Thai people, get a bad feeling for how the political and corruption dragged the country down.
By the research of Political and Economic Risk Consultant (PERC) on 7th April 2009, it's stated that Thailand is in the second place for the Asian countries, along with Australia and USA, that have the problem with Corruption, behind Indonesia who got the worst on this case.
Singapore got the best mark from PERC, followed by Hong Kong and Australia.
The foreign investor said that Thailand still have the problem with the instability of Political situation, which affected to the tourism around the country.
The protest of the United Front Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), who gather up at the Government house during the couple of weeks ago, are getting more serious as the protesters are seeking for the end of the current government, led by PM Abhisit Vejjajiva and his Democrat Party.
The case could be compare to the action of PAD group, who seized the government house and the international airports last year, with the same situation at this moment.
It also leads to the problem of Thai Tourism, for how the foreign group decided not to come to Thailand for what happened recently.
Thai People might wonder that when will this end, as it shows that we never learn from the mistake we did last year, where the airports were seized and many foreigners were suffering from that time.
We might hope that this Songkran festival will make the people cool down, and realize that no matter what happen, the one who will lost in this battle is ourselves...
*photo: www.oknation.net
1 comment:
In fact, the protest of UDD group did many damages to Thai tourism but in my own opinion, I think Thai people did not care much about the protest both "yellow shirt" & "red shirt" that may cause the Thai tourism worse.
There are only few people that get involved in political turmoil but the rest is still continue their daily routines which may not affect much to the overall.
Anyway, I believe in the phrase that widely know "Thai people easily forget"
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