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The Philippine Star
|May 06, 2025
Grounded in love. She actively pursued a labor agreement with Thailand to protect Filipino migrant workers.
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Since arriving in Thailand during the pandemic, she also actively promoted Philippine visibility by joining key Thai government meetings and royal events, including celebrations for His Majesty the King’s sixth cycle birth anniversary. She chaired and spoke at UNESCAP meetings and advocated blood donation to the Thai Red Cross.
“Besides showcasing the beauty of the Philippines to my fellow ambassadors, I was here on a tourism platform organized by the Philippine Embassy in Bangkok — something we had been working on for some time,” Ambassador Millicent Cruz Paredes shared.
“This initiative was meant to address the gap,” she explained, pointing to the stark difference in tourist flows: according to the Philippine Department of Tourism, the Philippines welcomed 5,949,350 foreign tourists in 2024, while Thailand, based on the Thai Ministry of Tourism data, received 35,545,714. In the same year, 598,124 Filipinos traveled to Thailand — but only 45,896 Thais visited the Philippines.
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