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  • Stateless boy allowed to leave Thailand for paper aeroplane contest

    09/21/2009 8:52:25 PM PDT · by bruinbirdman · 8 replies · 815+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | 9/21/2009
    A boy with no official nationality who lives in Thailand captured third place in a Japanese paper aeroplane contest on Sunday after his tearful pleas to be allowed to attend prompted authorities to grant him a rare temporary passport for the event. Mong Thongdee prepares to let fly during the individual indoor flight competition Mong Thongdee, 12, won a national paper aeroplane championship in Thailand in August 2008 after he threw a plane that flew for 12 seconds, and was later chosen to attend the Japanese contest in Chiba, near Tokyo. But Mong, who lives in Chiang Mai in northern...