Premier plans surprise for children
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is preparing a surprise for children on upcoming National Children's Day.
Held to mark the importance of children, it falls on the second Saturday of each January, which next year falls on January 14.
“I am not going to tell you about it now. I want to give children a surprise,” Yingluck said when asked about gifts she had prepared for the young members of Thai society.
Yingluck yesterday unveiled the motto for 2012 National Children’s Day: “Unity, Knowledge, Wisdom, Thainess and Technology Savvy”.
The prime minister said she hopes the motto will encourage children to embrace unity, seek knowledge and wisdom, conserve their Thai character, and know how to use technology.
Yingluck has said her government would not be able to hand out tablet computers to children under the One Tablet PC per Child policy by National Children’s Day.
“We are working on content for children’s learning. The handout should start in the next academic semester,” she said.
Asked whether her son would join the special activities to be held for children at Government House on January 14, Yingluck said, “I think so.”
She did not confirm whether children would be allowed to sit on the prime minister’s desk this year.
“I think there should be some surprises for the children,” she said.
Yingluck said she planned to attend the National Children’s Day activities at Government House on the morning of January 14, before heading to Chiang Mai for her government’s first mobile Cabinet meeting.
