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Promoting Thai cuisine and culture in the US
Jon Fernquest, Published on 20/12/2010
» Policies to preserve a country's ancient culture, language and culinary traditions and promote them to the outside world are an essential part of economic and political development.
Reinvigorating vocational education
Jon Fernquest, Published on 01/12/2010
» Skilled manual workers are essential to quality worksmanship is in several industries. Vocational insititutions are failing to attract and prepare students for these roles in Thailand's economy.
Knowledge galore at Bangkok Teachers Network Conference
Learningpost, Purich Trivitayakhun, Published on 30/11/2010
» Recently, KIS International School (KIS) hosted the 5th BTN (Bangkok Teachers Network) Conference under the theme of "Sharing Best Practices". Over 600 teachers from more than 40 schools were present.
Free labour market for ASEAN
Jon Fernquest, Published on 29/11/2010
» Setting aside differences and conflicts, free labour markets across ASEAN may be the best path to prosperity and antidote for poverty in the region.
The future of the Thai economy
Jon Fernquest, Published on 26/11/2010
» An economics seminar this week began the informed debate that is needed more than ever after the redshirt-yellowshirt mudslinging of the last few years.
Open Source has won precisely because we no longer notice it
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/11/2010
» Open source has won. Oh, how time flies. When I started writing in Database in May 2003, my first column was about how the ICT Ministry had got the budget PC programme all wrong. ICT Minister Surapong had announced his great success at negotiating the inclusion of Windows XP and Office XP at just 1,500 baht, a 90 percent discount. He saw it as success. I saw it as capitulation.
Academic enjoyment
Learningpost, Purich Trivitayakhun, Published on 13/10/2010
» The teacher's loud laughs penetrated the green, dense palm orchard and rubber trees surrounding Ban Tang Yang School, a small school in Thailand's southern province of Satun. It might sound far-fetched if one is told that the teachers were actually conducting a training session for they sounded like they were participating in some fun game.