Friday, April 24, 2009

Thai Information Centre to be opened in Imphal soon

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IMPHAL, April 22 – A Thai Information Centre will be opened here soon in association with a local voluntary organization. This was disclosed by Tharadol Thongruang, Counsellor (Commercial), office of the Commercial Affairs, Royal Thai Embassy in a brief interaction with reporters at Manipur Tourism Festival 2009 at Mapal Kangjeibung on Monday evening.

Responding to a question, he said his office would be initiating it soon. He, however, added that so far there is no official talks with the Manipur Govt in this regard.

Expressing happiness over the response of the visitors at the Thai stalls in the ongoing 10 day Tourism festival,the Thai diplomat said,We would like to send more companies next time. Hopefully 20-30 companies would join the Festival next time, he added.

Three Thai stalls including one food court, one jewellery and one fashion accessory in the on-going Festival have become the main crowd pullers.

Thai diplomat Tharadol, who missed the formal inaugural function of the 10-day Festival, came here later along with his wife and daughter to attend the closing function of the Tourism Festival and Best of Asia Expo on Tuesday with internationally acclaimed theatre personality Ratan Thiyam as chief guest.

Advocate General of Manipur N Kotiswar, GOC 57 Mountain Division Major General Shakti Gurung and BB Sharma, Secretary Tourism, Govt of Manipur also attended the function.

Source: http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=apr2309/ne1

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