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  • LEARNING

    What to expect during your child's first weeks at school

    Learningpost, Sarah Pradit, Published on 23/03/2010

    » Sending a child to school for the first time is an emotional and scary process for the child and the parents. Parents should be on guard and ready to expect a few changes and a lot of surprises.

  • LEARNING

    Climate Cool

    Learningpost, Purich Trivitayakhun, Published on 20/04/2010

    » Last month, 12 teams of over 30 environmentalists completed their projects to make changes to the environment under the first Climate Cool (CC) campaign organised by the British Council (BC) in collaboration with the British Embassy in Bangkok, Youth Venture Thailand, and a day magazine.

  • LEARNING

    Outlying schools in line for facelift

    News, Sirikul Bunnag, Published on 22/04/2010

    » The Education Ministry will kick off its "one tambon, one outstanding school" project this year with almost 2 billion baht for spending on upgrading schools in remote areas.

  • TECH

    Mobile phones offer hope to 'bottom of the pyramid'

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 12/05/2010

    » ISLAMABAD : Sriganesh Lokanathan, senior research manager at LIRNEasia, spoke of the need to address the agricultural sector in South Asia which makes up a large share of the labour pool but a low share of GDP.

  • TECH

    NTBC Act gets green light

    Database, Published on 02/06/2010

    » In a rare all-day session, the senate passed the National Telecommunication and Broadcasting Commission Act by a vote of 85-1 with three abstentions; the upper house put some serious changes in the original law passed by the Lower House, so it could be a while before the act actually takes effect; for example, the senators watered down the national oversight National Telecommunication and Broadcasting Commission (NTBC) by increasing membership from an unwieldy 11 to an unworkable 15; the Lower House can submit to the wise senate, or fight the changes and try to negotiate the final law.

  • LEARNING

    Dog days on a Greyhound

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/06/2010

    » I am not a bus person. I do trains, planes, and people movers with ease and enthusiasm, but buses arouse the dark silhouette of despair that sleeps fitfully in my stomach, waking to attention the moment my backside hits the bus seat. I don't go around advertising this fact; the last time I casually mentioned it was in Sydney trying to find a way to get from Bondi to the casino.

  • TECH

    Bids are in for 3G auction

    Database, Published on 25/08/2010

    » Bidding papers for Asia's last great 3G auction went on sale at the office of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), and five buyers bought eight lots of them; the dark horses from Samart I-Mobile and Loxley plunked down their envelopes of baht, but the Big Boys sent two agents each; there was No 1 yuppiephone firm Advanced Info Service of Shingapore and its subsidiary AWN, No 2 network Dtac of Norway and its subsidiary DTAC Internet Service, and No 3 provider True Move of Thailand and its arm SK Wireless; the big guys are still waiting to see if they can get in on 3G with a "new" firm that isn't beholden to your TOT or your CAT Telecom, and if so, the subsidiaries will be the bidders if licences actually do go under the gavel on Sept 28 - but otherwise the existing companies will bid; the auction could theoretically get hot, but probably cool heads will keep the prices down to a manageable level; setting up and starting a real 3G network will cost at least 30 billion baht on top of the licence fee of 13 to 30 billion, experts believe.

  • TECH

    Riding with the urban drift

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 01/09/2010

    » With 500 million more people expected to be urbanised over the next five years, today's technological systems could struggle to cope with the increase in demand and usage.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Profile of leading rubber hose producer and exporter in Thailand

    Published on 14/09/2010

    » NCR Rubber located in Rayong is one of Thailand's top rubber producers. A profile of the company provides insights into how one of Thailand's export industries works.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Murder and....lack of progress...in modern Siam?

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 23/09/2010

    » Murder as a business strategy has existed for a long time in Thailand. No names this time, but fingers are all pointing towards one "influential figure."

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