Thai Manipuri diaspora FB group reactivated
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, March 31 2016: Thai Manipuri Diasporas and members of Editor's Guild, Manipur in a simple function reactivated the Thai Manipuri Diaspora Organization with the launching of a Facebook group, Global Manipuri Platform (Thailand) .

Administered by Chingakham Dina, a teacher by profession, the group is to serve as a global platform for Manipuri expats living and working outside Manipur.

The group has Already started drawing several interested persons from countries like Canada, UK, Singapore, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand and India.

Raj Singh from Canada congratulated the Thai diasporas on the venture.

He however said that it was a challenge to mobilise all the Manipuris, around 3000, living abroad.

"This platform should therefore be crafted with a lot of ingenuity and pragmatism so that most people are encouraged and nobody inhibited", he said in a post on the group.

Chingakham Dina, underlining the objective of the Facebook group, said the platform was opened to all Manipuris around the world.

"Please share information about business, job and education", he said in his post.

Editor's Guild Manipur, instrumental in activating the diaspora group assured those gathered at the Hotel Konnect that the Editors' Guild Manipur and its media houses would cooperate to facilitate the group achieves its goal.

The Editors expressed their desire to those residing in Thailand to assist the Manipuris who would like to come to Bangkok or any of the Thai cities either for business or leisure or even seeking employment.

The diaspora members, many of whom are on work visa and working as teachers said that there was demand for computer, Maths and English teachers.

The Thais, weak in spoken English are now realising the importance of the global language as South East Asian countries are grouping into the political and economic organisation – ASEAN.

However, the selection process are very stringent, they added.

They would not recruit based on marks.

The probable recruits have to demonstrate their classroom transaction skills and students were allowed to judge them over a period of two to three months.

Some members of diaspora into business of transportation are eagerly looking forward to the opening up of the Trans Asian Highway and railway.

Already huge volume of goods from Bangkok is moving into different States of NE India, but at a huge cost, they said.

A land route would place Manipur as a strategic point from where goods could be disbursed to the rest of India, they opined.

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