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  • LEARNING

    Acronyms vs initialisms

    Learningpost, Heather Vlach, Published on 05/01/2010

    » An acronym (pronounced AK-ruh-nihm) is a word formed from the initial letters of other words and can be pronounced as a word. For example, the acronym laser is much easier to say than its components - light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. The same goes for radar (radio detection and ranging) or Nasa (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Ielts and Toefl.

  • TECH

    MRA to cut equipment testing costs

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 06/01/2010

    » Attempting to promote local telecom entrepreneurs, there is a need to make an equal level of standard testing equipment through a mutual recognition agreement which the government should consider in Asean Community 2015.

  • LIFE

    Asean overhauls its promotion strategy

    Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 07/01/2010

    » Asean is attempting to redefine the collaborative marketing of the region as a tourism destination with support from the United States.

  • LEARNING

    Critical thinking

    Learningpost, Steve Graham, Published on 12/01/2010

    » It has taken a period of 10 years since the 1999 Education Act before the executives of the ministry's education agencies agreed to the proposal to reduce the role of rote learning and to adopt analytical thinking as a fundamental teaching protocol. This has been a long time coming.

  • TECH

    Software innovation expands domestically and internationally

    Database, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 13/01/2010

    » Software Park Thailand will join forces with alliances and provincial parks to achieve its 2010 mission of "Differentiation of business with IT innovation".

  • TECH

    HDS adopts agile cloud strategy

    Database, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 20/01/2010

    » Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Thailand addressed Agile cloud storage, Managed services, Dynamic tiering and Dynamic provisioning are its key to tapping the growth of virtualisation this year.

  • TECH

    A small price to pay

    Database, Published on 20/01/2010

    » Your TOT board put huge red Xs across all the recent auctions and three billion baht worth of contracts to build a fibre-optic network for broadband Internet, and vowed to call new contracts; the decision followed remarks by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva over the high prices of some of the bids, and your TOT will be certain to write new terms of reference for new auctions; the rather complicated auction was run in portions, for various parts of the country, but luckily for TOT turned out to total 3.03 billion baht, a full 0.01 billion below the budget; now they will have to do it all again, and despite what Mr Abhisit says, prices do go up, don't they?

  • TECH

    3G demand surges across Indochina

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 27/01/2010

    » A surge in demand for 3G licensing in the Indochina region has brought accelerated expansion in investment from Internet gateway providers to address new market potential and present Thailand as a connecting hub in Asean.

  • LIFE

    Recovery gathers pace in December

    Business, Published on 30/01/2010

    » The economy grew steadily and more broadly in December in line with stronger exports and a better domestic economy, says the Bank of Thailand.

  • LIFE

    Goodbye 'Brand Asean', hello southeast asia

    Business, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 01/02/2010

    » Asean tourism ministers have admitted failure in their efforts to promote Asean as a single destination and develop the Asean tourism brand. As a result, they have embarked on a new campaign built on the fact that "Southeast Asia" has greater recognition in international source markets than "Asean".

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