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Meet world's first edible robot
Kyodo News, Published on 31/05/2024
» KYODO - A cloudy yellow rectangular figure about seven centimetres long wobbles from side to side, waving its gelatinous arms as it makes a friendly greeting, its body resting inside a mug.
China's mobile game Genshin Impact bags $4bn
South China Morning Post, Published on 04/01/2023
» Genshin Impact, the video game launched by Shanghai studio miHoYo in September 2020, bagged US$4 billion in global revenue by the end of 2022 to make it one of the most successful mobile titles of all time and marking the rise of China-developed games.
AI-generated anime selfies propel beauty app to top in Japan
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/12/2022
» HONG KONG: The ability to turn a user’s selfie into an anime character has turbocharged the Meitu app to the top of Japan’s download rankings over the past week, spurring a big jump in the company’s shares.
Transforming robot unveiled in Japan
Published on 26/04/2018
» TOKYO: A Transformers-style, humanoid robot that can shape shift into a sports car in about 60 seconds was unveiled in Japan on Wednesday.
Yahoo launches site for free Hulu television
AFP, Published on 08/08/2016
» SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo on Monday launched a website for watching Hulu television shows in the United States.
Sticker price
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 04/05/2016
» Think of popular sticker characters designed by Thais and what comes to mind are Khan Kluay, Pang Pond and Bloody Bunny. That's perhaps no longer the case, as over 10 outstanding new sticker characters are expected to be born this year.
4chan sold to founder of hit Japanese message board
AFP, Published on 22/09/2015
» SAN FRANCISCO - The popular anonymous online forum 4chan on Monday announced that it has been bought by the founder of hit Japanese-language message board 2channel.
Sticking the world together
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 09/09/2014
» Eighteen billion stickers are sent through Line every day. The emotions they carry with them however, are boundlessly immeasurable. This green-iconed chatting application has changed the way we communicate, merely through its infectious selection of cheeky rabbits and poker-faced bears.
Gaming, Japanese-style
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 28/05/2014
» With the steady growth of the digital content market in Japan during past years, a shortage of domestic resources and skills has led firms to outsource work to other countries, with Thailand as a top priority.
Thai trio go to Tokyo
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 05/02/2014
» While animated Japanese hits like Pongo On The Cliff By The Sea, My Neighbour Totoro or even the Oscar-winning Spirited Away haven't been as popular here as computer generated imagery from Hollywood (films such as Frozen, Despicable Me or Finding Nemo for example), Japan is still a favoured destination for budding Thai animators given that country's firmly established reputation for producing high-quality anime" the idiosyncratic Japanese genre of animated films which are often based on popular manga comic-book adventures.