Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Monday gave a keynote speech at the annual dinner of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) at the Intercontinental Hotel in Bangkok. The Thai premier had once again met with FCCT members and guests after 14 months, and this year’s speech of his seems to have reflected a lot of things, not only in relation to what have been going on and what will be happening in Thailand but also, of course, what the Oxford-educated prime minister of Thailand is thinking now.
Here is the …

 
On January 14, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has accepted an invitation of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) to deliver a keynote address to FCCT’s members and guests at a gathering at the Grand Ballroom, Intercontinental Bangkok.
Here is the full text of his address entitled “Meeting the Challenges of Change”:
 
Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
 
It’s a great pleasure for me to be back here again in this forum. I suppose you want to make it as an annual forum. I wondered about that, I actually asked Khun Panitan (Dr. …

Here is the speech by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at the opening of the Thailand Competitiveness Conference 2009, entitled “Thailand Competitiveness: Potential and Placement in the World Arena”, held yesterday at Four Seasons Hotel in Bangkok.
 
Your Excellency Alongkorn Polabutr, Deputy Minister of Commerce,
Khun Dusit Nantanakorn, Chairman of the Board of Trade of Thailand,
Prof. (Stephane) Garelli and Ms. (Suzanne) Rosselet, Directorate, IMD’s World Competitiveness Center,
Distinguished Participants,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
 
(On Thailand As Is – Rankings by the Institute for Management Development, the World Economic Forum and the World Bank)
It is a great …

In marking the official opening of the 14th ASEAN Summit at Dusit Thani Hua Hin Hotel in Cha-am, Phetchaburi Province, the speech of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was yesterday made as follow:
 
Your Majesty,
Your Excellencies,
Secretary-General of ASEAN,
Ministers, Parliamentarians,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
 
(Overview — From Lam Taen to Cha-am/ Hua Hin: a Forty Year Journey)
More than four decades ago, ASEAN’s Founding Fathers met at Lam Taen, Chonburi, a seaside sub-district, just across the Gulf of Thailand from where we are today. They were motivated …