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IBM Thailand predicts AI upheaval in customer service this year
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 08/01/2018
» The next 12 months will bring huge shifts to the call centre and customer service industry, says IBM Thailand. After years of lagging behind customers' needs and expectations, the future of call centres and customer service is being shaped by artificial intelligence (AI).
Subaru XV 2.0i-P (2018) review
Richard Leu, Published on 14/01/2018
» The XV has been redesigned, but so mild is the evolution that buyers new to the brand probably won’t even notice it.
Critics pan move to allow entertainment during election campaigns
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 16/01/2018
» An idea floated to allow MP candidates to sponsor entertainment events during election campaigns has been slammed for going against the grain of reform by giving unfair advantages to large political parties.
Philip Morris bets on a smoke-free future
Business, Jesus Alcocer & Srisamorn Phoosuphanusorn, Published on 16/01/2018
» Philip Morris International is switching its strategy to emphasise its heat-not-burn tobacco products, which, according to studies submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration, contain less harmful agents than traditional cigarettes.
Stagnant emission rules 'threaten clean air progress'
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 18/01/2018
» Ozone and dust particles could be the main factors worsening air pollution in Bangkok over the next decade if the government fails to raise minimum standards for vehicle fuel emissions, an air quality expert says.
Writing’s on wall for our democracy
Oped, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/01/2018
» The other day I saw some graffiti in a public toilet. It read, ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is short, as the popular translation goes. Like a street artist, I decided to vandalise it, scratching out and changing the first bit with my poor Latin: dictatura longa, vita brevis. Dictatorship is long, life is short.
JFin continues to draw retail interest
Business, Darana Chudasri, Published on 31/01/2018
» Retail investors have reaffirmed their interest in JFin coin, saying digital currencies have garnered investment appetite around the globe and are expected to become a lucrative asset class in the future.
Help kids navigate the social media roller coaster
Life, James Hein, Published on 31/01/2018
» A study has come out recently, confirming what we already know. Children spending more than an hour a day engaged in social media can make them less happy. Take something like Facebook for example. You post something, people read it then they give it a like and sometimes make a comment. Now imagine you are a young impressionable child somewhere under 18. You post something and get 50 likes. Sometime later you post something else and get 65 likes and feel better. Then the third time you only get five likes and some comments about how lame it was. Now you feel worse. Multiply this by a few hundred times and the emotional roller coaster can have someone with a developing emotional platform spiralling into their first depression.
Sodexo sees new opportunity
Business, Jesus Alcocer, Published on 02/02/2018
» As wages rise and corporations drastically reduce their workforce, third-party labour provider Sodexo Thailand looks to the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) to drive its growth.
Singapore's new chewing gum bogeyman
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 23/02/2018
» Back in 1992, Singapore feared that its gleaming new subway would be wrecked by people using something sticky to disable automatic train doors -- so it banned chewing gum.