Visit to Thailand, July 2018
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton with Australia’s Ambassador to Thailand Mr Paul Robilliard at a Thai and Australian business networking event in Bangkok. Photo credit: Seksan Pipattanatikanunt
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton meets members of the Australian Chamber of Commerce (Bangkok) and Australian Alumni at a networking event in Bangkok. Photo credit: Seksan Pipattanatikanunt
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton with members of the Australian Chamber of Commerce (Bangkok) and Australian Alumni at a networking event in Bangkok. Photo credit: Seksan Pipattanatikanunt
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton speaks with Australian business representatives at a networking in Bangkok. Photo credit: Seksan Pipattanatikanunt
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton meets representatives of Australian businesses based in Thailand at a networking event in Bangkok. Photo credit: Seksan Pipattanatikanunt
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton talking to a member of the Australian Chamber of Commerce (Bangkok) at a networking event in Bangkok. Photo credit: Seksan Pipattanatikanunt
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton addresses the members of the Australian Chamber of Commerce (Bangkok) and Australian Alumni at a networking event in Bangkok. Photo credit: Seksan Pipattanatikanunt
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton visits Central Chidlom Food Hall, Bangkok that had just launched the first Australian mandarins for the 2018 Thai season. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok / Adviser
Nick Reitmeier, Executive Vice President of Central Food Retail Company shows Assistant Minister Mark Coulton the Australian produce on display at Thailand’s Central Chidlom Food Hall during his visit to Bangkok in late July 2018. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok / Adviser
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton and Deputy Head of Mission from the Australian Embassy Bangkok talk with Ryan Higgins, Factory Manager and Ms Yanisa Ninlawong, General Manager of ANCA Manufacturing, an Australian engineering company about their Thai operation on the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok / Adviser
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton with Hellfire Pass Museum Manager Mick Clarke inspect the construction of new interactive museum at Hellfire Pass, in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
The Australian Ambassador to Bangkok Mr Paul Robilliard hosts a lunch for Assistant Minister Mark Coulton, to meet Thai CEOs who have invested in Australia at the Australian Ambassador’s residence on 26 July 2018. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton meets Thailand’s HE Kobsak Pootrakool, Minister Attached to the Prime Minister’s Office at Thailand’s Government House on 25 July 2018. Other attendees at the meeting include the Deputy Head of Mission from the Australian Embassy Bangkok, Mr Paul Stephens, Australia’s Senior Trade Commissioner Susan Kahwati and Senior Adviser Cathy Heidrich. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton, Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy Bangkok Mr Paul Stephens, along with other representatives from the Australian Embassy and DFAT meet Thailand’s Board of Investment Secretary-General Ms Duangjai Asawachintachit. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton meets Thailand’s HE Kobsak Pootrakool, Minister Attached to the Prime Minister’s Office at Thailand’s Government House on 25 July 2018. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton discusses the importance of the Australian-Thai agricultural trade and investment relationship with Thailand’s Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives HE Grisada Boonrach on 25 July 2018. Photo credit: Adviser
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton meets with Thai Minister of Education HE Teerakiat Jareonsettasin in Bangkok on 26 July 2018. Photo credit: photographer from the Ministry of Education
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton and Thailand’s Minister of Education HE Teerakiat Jaroensettasin at a bilateral meeting on 26 July 2018 discussing the importance of education in building a productive workforce. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton meets Thailand’s Vice Minister for Tourism and Sports Mr Itthiphol Kunplome. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
A stunning view of the bridge that spans the River Kwai in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi Province, where the Hellfire Pass Museum is located. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton on the bridge that spans the River Kwai in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton pauses at a memorial for the Allied Prisoners of War who worked on the Thailand-Burma Railway during World War II at Hellfire Pass in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton lays a wreath at the Hellfire Pass memorial to pay respects to the Prisoners of War who worked on the Thailand-Burma Railway during World War II. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton lays a wreath and takes a moment of silence to pay respects for the Prisoners of War who worked on the Thailand-Burma Railway at the Kanchanaburi Allied War Cemetery. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton takes a wreath to pay respects to the Prisoners of War who worked on the construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway at the Kanchanaburi Allied War Cemetery, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. Photo credit: Australian Embassy Bangkok
Assistant Minister Mark Coulton with staff from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and Austrade at the Australian Embassy in Bangkok. Photo credit: Seksan Pipattanatikanunt