TRT Becomes CRT

CRPT exactly. Former prime minister Thaksin’s old ruling party Thai Rak Thai (TRT) becomes Chan Rak Prathet Thai, in short: CRT. I Love Thailand.org. Initiated by? Our dear prime minister’s office.

Well, CRT is not exactly a party. And not that anyone would accuse Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of imposture. His programs and ideas are genuinely his own, aren’t they.

At least some of them. Which is why his new website offers interactive dialog. Something Thaksin didn’t think of, even though he as a telecom tycoon seemed ahead of the time.

Live chat, instant messenger, a forum and polls, what are you waiting for? Sign up here and make your voice heard. I mean, Khun Mark is even going global. The site’s bilingual, quite a statement in revisionist Thailand. Just to mention this neo-socialist logo:

A question from the website: “What will you do to show your love for the country?”

A neat inversion of Kennedy’s’s “Don’t ask what your country can do for you, ask …”

(BD: For basic translations from Thai into English use Google Translate)




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July 2, 2009 | Filed Under News & Media, Politics, The Thai Mind 

Comments

6 Responses to “TRT Becomes CRT”

  1. ThaiCrisis on July 3rd, 2009 1.16 am

    It’s obvious, this fancy new website is going to solve the problems … in the south … and fix the economy … and the political divide as well.

    And the royal succession. And the globalwarming problem. And the increasing taxes on wine. And of course -what a fool I forgot- the swine flu.

    Being cool, and westernized, is an obsession for Abhisit.

    He’s running pathetically behind his 15 minutes of fame.

    Look at his stupid but ecstatic smile with Obama (well, sorry … behind Obama), at the G20 summit in London:

    http://thaicrisis.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/lese-majeste-madness-10-years-of-prison-for-a-picture/

    What Abhisit does not understand is that such coolness is so … cheap. And so old fashioned.

    I mean to launch a “website” in 2009, is just the end of the road for any politician …

    The current situation would demand something … different. On another scale … Something greater.

    But Abhisit is stuck at the end of the 20th century.

  2. KConsciousness on July 3rd, 2009 3.37 pm

    Actually it’s “Chan Rak Prathet Thai,” so I guess it’s CRT not PRT …

    PRT would be a bit sexist.

    Anyway, if Abhisit really wants to show how IT-savvy he is, he could start be sacking the entire Ministry of ICT and the NTC for their ongoing attempts to weasle every last satang out of 3G at the expense of the country.

    Similarly he could review the 2007 Computer Crimes Act and encourage the government to focus their efforts on ways to use technology to move the country forwards instead of backwards.

    Sadly however I think we all know by now that this is never going to happen.

  3. BangkokDan on July 3rd, 2009 3.51 pm

    And I thought it’s feminist to use chan …

    Adjusted to the literal and not just rough translation, thanks KC, even though PRT sounds so much juicier.

    BangkokDan

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  5. rikker on July 7th, 2009 6.50 pm

    Dan, I assume you mean “feminine” not “feminist”?

    It’s not feminine per se. In general use, it’s more common for women, but it in informal settings it’s commonly used by both genders – virtually never in formal speech by either gender.

    It’s used by men among friends and well-acquainted social equals, and by men speaking familiarly to women. (Think: chan rak ther — employed equally by men and women, especially in love songs.)

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