5 January 2015 – (Clockwise photos from top left) Minister and Consul General Edgar Badajos addresses the concerns of the Filipino community in Phayao on October 20; Incoming Philippine Honorary Consul Agkarajit Phanomvan na Ayudhya, who will be based in the neighboring province of Chiang Mai, addresses members of the Filipino community; Philippine Ambassador to Thailand Jocelyn Batoon-Garcia and Consul General Badajos brief members of the Filipino community in Lampang province on major political and economic developments in the Philippines; and the newly-inducted officers of the Lampang Filipino Association, led by Mrs. Rosana Semblante Saromines (5th from left) as President, with Ambassador Jocelyn Batoon Garcia, incoming Philippine Honorary Consul Mr. Agkarajit Phanomvan na Ayudhya (3rd from right), and Minister and Consul General Edgar Badajos (2nd from right).

(Clockwise photos from top left) Ambassador Batoon-Garcia (seated in the middle in the front row), Consul General Edgar Badajos (seated, 2nd from left) and incoming Philippine Honorary Consul Agkarajit Phanomvan na Ayudhya (on immediate left of the Ambassador) and his wife, Mrs. Gina Ayudhya and their daughter (seated, 2nd and 3rd from right), with members of the Filipino community in the province of Lamphun; and in Chiang Mai on October 24, Vice Consul Anna Marie Santos (in the foreground on the left photo) gives a Financial Literacy Seminar to members of the Filipino community as Embassy staff continue to render consular services at the back of the function room.  END