Govt moves ASEAN summit to Hua Hin

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You guys are going to have some excitement! The summmit February 27 to March 1 has been switched from Bangkok to Hua Hin for security reasons.

Good move in that the red shirts probably won't do much with the King in residence. Pete Cheers

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buksida · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject:

Changed your headline ... here is the article:

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced on Wednesday the change of the venue of the 14th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to be hosted by Thailand.

The summit, which was earlier planned to be held in Bangkok, will be moved to the resort town of Hua Hin in Prachuap Khiri Khan province for security reasons, Mr Abhisit told reporters.

The summit would be divided into two parts, he added.

The first part of the summit will be held from February 27 to March 1, while the second part will be held around the end of April.

The decision came after the anti-government group United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) threatened to block the summit.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/135751/govt-moves-asean-summit-to-hua-hin
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SHADOW · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject:

So no beer for three days and even bigger traffic jams.
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Babylon · Amateur Joined: 12 Dec 2008 Posts: 42 Location: Hua Hin

Why will there be no beer?

I thought all politicians were permenatly pissed, if I am wrong what is there excuse?

The understudy · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject:

Hallo there Y'All

ASEAN Summit held in Hua Hin ey? Hmm... would be very interesting to see which Hotels get to hold a major meetings and consultations will take place. I heard that 215 Cars & Vehicles would be used to carry all ASEAN dignitaries and delegates around.

Wow this would be an interesting part to see The Motorcade with all them 215 Limosines heading off to Hua Hin!!!

Your's The understudy!!!

spitfire · Ace Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 1732 Location: Thailand

I remember the one they hosted in Khon Kaen about 5-6 or so years ago and that was fairly chaotic in a city like that. Khon Kaen is well planned with wide roads etc.

HH, well, that'll be intertesting to say the least. OK, understand the security benefits of having it in HH but the practical ones are almost non-existant.

Where are they(delegates) going to stay, the Hilton, the Marriot? Interesting traffic situations will arise.

I can just imagine the posts coming in from all on the related threads. Sure there will be a few rants. Mr. Green

fft100 · Member Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 64

thats HH effectively closed for those 4 days and the few days before hand as security will be very tight, and HH doesnt have the ring roads to divert traffic round town. And when they are moving delegations from hotels to the conference, then it will be like when the king moves, except that we will have a lot more delegations, and each one will be moving more than once a day.

Does anyone know which locations will be used for the conference ?

I suppose its one way of filling the hotels here, and the high class escort girls (who dont go to bars) from BKK will come down, but i have a feeling it will cripple the rest of the area.

elem · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:28 pm Post subject:

Don't complain -this is GOOD news for HH if it's going through...
The town can do with some more international meetings/conferences -most of us will benefit from it in the long run, if not in the short...

Norseman · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:43 pm Post subject:

spitfire · Ace Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 1732 Location: Thailand

Beat me to it, ha ha.

Confused

They will come and go, discuss stuff that is not relevent to HH, make their presence felt to all and sundry, disrupt normal life, remind everyone of all the problems, bring Hua Hin to grid-lock etc etc.

Few local businesses will benifit, it's not like it's a rock concert etc that is running for a week. As mentioned, the expensive hookers should do well, along with the Marriot or Hilton.

Elaboration would be cool Elem, please.

redzonerocker · Legend Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2097 Location: England

i suppose it would be on a par with gordon brown moving an E.U. summit from london to ramsgate Shocked

on a more serious note, the volume of people & traffic from the participating nations will be bad enough.
add in the media reps, political groupies & the general public interest & the volume of people doubles at least Shocked

hopefully a few thousand red shirted protesters won't turn up too Shocked

or else it will be bedlam Shocked

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moja · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:24 am Post subject:

Thank goodness we leave for Ko Lanta on the 22nd and do not return until after it is all over!

Yes certain hotels and businesses will reap the benefits but the rest of us....?

Wanderlust · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:02 am Post subject:

It wouldn't surprise me if it were held somewhere like the Evason, which although listed as Hua Hin is really more Pranburi and they would use the bypass to get to it. The Royals and numerous celebs use that resort regularly because it is out of the way; I think Joe Cole and David Beckham have both stayed there, but i don't know what conference facilities it has. It would be a much easier location to secure as well; I think the only disruption to the town would be the journalists coming to cover it who may well stay in the town centre but as far as I know they never arrive in motorcades!

buksida · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject:

It could be good and bad, good because Hua Hin will get some international media and be introduced to many people that otherwise have never heard of the place.

Bad because the red shirted savages may rock up as they have promised to cause carnage. Hua Hin is majority democrat and royalist so they wont get a good reception here.

As said above it is likely to be held at one of the outside resorts that can be completely secured.
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prcscct · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject:

How about at a secure military base. Do you have any nearby with fancy digs for VIP's? Pete Cheers

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