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Tech giants face action over URLs
News, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 22/09/2020
» The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry will on Thursday submit more evidence to police to take legal action against social media platforms that do not obey the law and remove URLs deemed inappropriate.
E-commerce rivalry intensifies
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 01/04/2019
» Competition is ramping up in Thailand's nascent e-commerce industry, with larger players fighting to attract lucrative brand deals and local partnerships.
Social media gains political clout
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 28/03/2019
» Social media has become a main communication channel influencing Thai voters, as politicians are expected to target their advocacy even more in the next election, say social media and communication experts.
Election Commission issues defamation warning
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 19/02/2019
» The Office of the Election Commission (EC) warns that posting text, sharing or commenting on messages that defame political candidates violates the Computer Crime Act.
Survey: Thais online for over 10 hours every day
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 26/07/2018
» Digital lifestyles are seeing Thais online 10.05 hours a day, according to the Thailand Internet User Survey for 2018.
Girding for GDPR
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 21/05/2018
» The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25, raising the bar for data protection and privacy practices and forcing Thailand to speed up passage of the Personal Data Protection Act.
Thais lead world in online time
News, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 06/02/2018
» Thais spend more time online, both on their PCs and smartphones, than any other nation due to their heavy use of social media and streaming videos, a new report claims.
2018 'gold rush' for online giants
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 20/12/2017
» Southeast Asian online retail will be dominated by Alibaba and Tencent, pure play e-commerce will enter the offline world and small startups will raise funds via initial coin offerings (ICO), while Amazon will acquire more companies for a shortcut entry into the region.
NBTC warned over OTT move
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 19/06/2017
» Thailand's move to control foreign over-the-top content (OTT) service providers by making them set up local entities is putting the government on rocky ground as there are no legal provisions for this, legal experts said this week.
Thai Facebook access briefly disrupted on Tuesday
Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 09/05/2017
» Facebook users in Thailand reported experiencing a brief disruption in accessing the world’s largest social media network around 8.30am on Tuesday.