Thai-born Burmese boy unable to attend Japan contest
If Interior Ministry agrees to allow a Thai-born Burmese boy to go to Japan to contest in the Origami Airplane contest in Japan, Foreign Ministry will issue a temporary passport for him, FM spokesman Wimon Kidchob said Wednesday.
The one-year passport will enable 12-year-old Mong Thongdee, who was born to alien parents, to travel to Japan to represent Thialand in the contest and return to Thailand.
However the interior ministry reportedly objected his traveling for security reason. Mong was born to a couple of Burmese migrant workers in northern Chiang Mai province.
He received Thai education from primary school in the province but did not obtain Thai citizenship due to his alien parents.
His origami plane could fly for 12.5 minutes in the air, top of the Thai local contest. Japan Origami Plane invited him to join the contest in Japan.
If he gets the document, Mong would be the third non-Thai national who carried Thai travel document to abroad and has the right to return into the kingdom, Wimon said.
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