"In the Thai school curriculums, about 30% of schooling time will be allowed for the teaching of the ethnic language in the schools where are in ethnic people live, and this new policy will provide the opportunity for the survival of Mon langauge, said by General Secretary of Mon Unity League, Nai Sunthorn. Teaching of Mon language will be allowed in the areas where the majority Mon people live in Thailand who migrated over 200 years ago after the Burmese king annexed Mon kingdom. Mon language textbooks will be provided from 1st Grade to 12nd Grade in schools that provides basic education to the children in Thailand. Academics and some Thai-Mon leaders have developed the textbooks with the reference of old Mon story books and palm-leave scriptures. They will apply the draft textbooks to the Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Government, to get the permission for teaching in schools..."