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Rice bran wax wins award for adding value
Business, Published on 20/09/2012
» Rice bran wax extracted from bran oil has won a 2012 Rice Innovation Award.
Biogas production goes home
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 19/09/2012
» After six years of delays, the first biogas production unit for households is taking shape.
Third generation not taking a powder
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 18/09/2012
» Seventy-five years ago, the Vongsurakrai family operated a small noodle factory. Two generations later, Cho Heng Rice Vermicelli Co Ltd, the company founded by the family, exports its products throughout the region and has earned widespread recognition for its innovative approach to the business.
NSTDA to push R&D activities
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 11/09/2012
» The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) has come up with 50 research projects that will be available for private companies to buy and use to develop their own products.
In raising cane, He proved able
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 10/09/2012
» For Samart Leethirananon, 52, who grew up on his parents' sugar-cane plantation, more than a decade of perseverance has paid off.
Consumer confidence down again in August
Business, Published on 05/09/2012
» Consumer confidence fell for a second straight month in August on concerns about export recovery, the relatively high cost of living, political instability and the ailing world economy.
PTT pins hopes on algae-based biofuel
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 04/09/2012
» National oil conglomerate PTT Plc expects algae-based biofuel will be commercially viable by 2017 at the price of US$150 per barrel, says chief executive Pailin Chuchottaworn.
Back to school
Asia focus, Published on 20/08/2012
» The increasing flow of investment into Asean, especially manufacturing, has exposed one of the region’s more serious shortcomings: education systems that do not fit economic realities.
A fertile imagination
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 02/07/2012
» Assoc Prof Kanjana Chansa-ngavej of the Microbiology Department of Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Veterinary Science is happy and proud to have discovered something that could change soybean and rice planting forever.
NIA director vows to quit if found guilty
News, Published on 26/06/2012
» National Innovation Agency director Supachai Lorlowhakarn has said he will leave his post if the Administrative Court rules that he plagiarised his thesis or if the agency's board orders him to resign.