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Brazilian president's alter ego chases votes online
AFP, Published on 24/10/2014
» SAO PAULO - Dishing out advice to Beyonce and chatting about reality TV, Dilma Rousseff's flippant online alter-ego is worlds apart from the actual Brazilian president's image as a stern task-master.
Sticking the world together
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 09/09/2014
» Eighteen billion stickers are sent through Line every day. The emotions they carry with them however, are boundlessly immeasurable. This green-iconed chatting application has changed the way we communicate, merely through its infectious selection of cheeky rabbits and poker-faced bears.
Finland's education success opens new business niches
AFP, Published on 28/01/2014
» Finland's successful education system has become a selling point for companies and institutions specialising in software and courses for educators, even when targeting Asian countries with high-performing students.
A telephone interview is the toughest
Business, Tom Sorensen, Published on 11/10/2012
» 'Be Prepared' is the most important advice I can give you as a candidate regarding telephone interviews. You don't have the advantage of seeing the other person. You can't judge how your answers are received. You can't obviously use your hands and body language to make your point.
The waiting game
Database, Published on 29/12/2010
» The big news in Thailand in 2010 was 3G phone service, or rather the lack of it; but everyone knows that; first, though, the really big news in Thailand that almost no one noticed was that one Thai in 10 is now on Facebook, the social network announcing at year's end that it has 6.5 million registrations from the kingdom; in fact, Thailand was one of the world's fastest growing markets for the only network that had a movie made about it in 2010; for several years, Thais up to and including Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva had scorned the US-centric networks to give their loyalty to Hi5, but they threw Hi5 under the bridge in 2010.