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Hong Kong launches first bus route with women drivers only, sets up rest facility for them
Published on 05/07/2024
» HONG KONG: Franchised bus firm KMB has launched Hong Kong's first route with women drivers only and set up a rest facility that prioritises female workers at terminuses as part of its efforts to buck gender stereotypes.
Bangkok to host Asia's first international drone exhibition
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 05/07/2024
» GML Exhibition (Thailand) is keen to launch DronTech Asia 2024, the continent's first international drone exhibition and conference, cashing in on the exponential growth of commercial drones.
PM, Anwar to tour region
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 05/07/2024
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is scheduled to visit the country's three southernmost provinces alongside his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim next month following a deadly car bomb outside police flats in Yala on June 30.
Choose sustainable
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/07/2024
» Re: "PM Srettha touts plans for casinos, nuclear power", (BP, June 22).
AI's brain fog no defence for arts
News, Parmy Olson, Published on 05/07/2024
» Ever notice how science fiction gets things wrong about future technology? Instead of flying cars, we got viral tweets that fuelled culture wars. Instead of a fax machine on your wrist, we got memes. We're having a similar reality check with artificial intelligence. Sci-fi painted a future with computers that delivered reliable information in robotic parlance. Yet businesses who've tried plugging generative AI tools into their infrastructure have found, with some dismay, that the tools "hallucinate" and make mistakes. They are hardly reliable. And the tools themselves aren't stiff and mechanistic either. They're almost whimsical.
Creating gastrocosms
Life, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 05/07/2024
» Virgilio Martínez, Peruvian chef and restaurateur, is synonymous with Central, his flagship restaurant, which has been voted one of the world's best.
Japan faces shortage of a million foreign workers
Reuters, Published on 04/07/2024
» TOKYO - Japan faces a shortage of almost one million foreign workers in 2040 if the government wants to achieve its economic growth goals as the population dwindles, an estimate from a state-backed think tank showed on Thursday.
SCB Partners with Sunline to Modernise Core Banking
Published on 04/07/2024
» Following its "Digital Bank with Human Touch" strategy, Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) continues to improve the banking experience. Its recent partnership with Sunline, a leading global provider of banking technology services, aims to revamp IT architecture for SCB's core banking system modernisation to deliver better financial transaction processing performance for deposits and loans with enhanced efficiency, stability, security, and scalability to cater to an ever-increasing number of transactions. This strategic partnership will enable SCB to quickly offer tailored financial solutions to individual customers and corporate clients. The development of the new core banking system is expected to take four years, progressing toward SCB leadership as a full-fledged digital banking entity.
Question of rights
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/07/2024
» Re: "Thais favour proactive foreign policy", (Opinion, July 2).
World’s oldest cave painting found in Indonesia
Reuters, Published on 03/07/2024
» On the ceiling of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have discovered artwork depicting three human-like figures interacting with a wild pig in what they have determined is the world’s oldest-known confidently dated cave painting — created at least 51,200 years ago.