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  • LIFE

    Direct links with Brussels seen as untapped opportunity

    Business, Boonsong Kositchotethana, Published on 04/01/2010

    » Many of the passengers flying out of Brussels to Asia travel to and from Bangkok, creating a currently untapped opportunity for point-to-point flights, says Bernard Gustin, co-chief executive of Brussels Airlines.

  • LEARNING

    Students struggle amid economic strife

    Learningpost, Published on 09/02/2010

    » Since the economic crisis hit in 2008, many students have reported hardships, including an inability to repay their student loans and deep concerns over their future after graduation.

  • TECH

    Blogs for the trendy

    Outlook, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 25/02/2010

    » When designer Marc Jacobs created a special collection of handbags and named it after Bryan Boy, a 22-year-old fashion blogger from the Philippines who has became one of the most influential figures in the fashion business, it was among other evidences - especially in the cyberworld - that the force of online critiques are behind the driving force of the up-and-coming fashion trends.

  • TECH

    Orwell would approve

    Database, Published on 28/04/2010

    » The troubles from the Iceland volcano gave one struggling industry a boost; Cisco Systems reported that the closing of all airports in Europe brought a big increase in the use of video conferences by people stuck on the ground; it was more of a claim than report — anecdotal, in the word of Cisco executive Fredrik Halvorsen — but it appeared that grounding airplanes was a big help for the videoconferencing sector; among those who didn’t get the word were the transport ministers of Europe, who whined that they could not hold an emergency meeting on stalled air traffic because they could not fly to some capital city for the meeting.

  • LIFE

    Hotels take a major hit from the red siege

    Spectrum, Nina Suebsukcharoen, Published on 09/05/2010

    » Since the state of emergency was imposed in Bangkok in April foreign arrivals are down at least 20% from the same period a year ago. The impact on some hotels in the capital has been severe, and comes at a time when the industry was just beginning to see a substantial turn around, said Andrew Langdon, senior vice-president of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels.

  • TECH

    Some are more neutral than others in spectrum sector

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

    » Neutrality. It is easy to preach it but sometimes in order to be neutral, one must take sides. Nowhere is this paradox more true than in the mess that is spectrum regulation in the mobile telecommunications sector.

  • TECH

    Internet site of the week

    Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 19/05/2010

    » If you don't know who Justin Bieber is, this week's Internet Site of the Week should prove useful. Assuming, of course, that keeping up to date on the latest in teeny-bopper hearththrobs is something you find important. Even so, it can be quite embarrassing to be clinking cocktails at a party and not know why everyone is laughing at a ''leave it to Bieber'' comment, or busting a belly over the latest Lady Gaga fashion monstrosity.

  • LEARNING

    Degrees of discontent

    Learningpost, Rojana Manowalailao, Published on 01/06/2010

    » Who is responsible for youth unemployment? Ma Wanhua, PhD, of Peking University, posed this question at a recent regional seminar on the employability of university graduates.

  • LEARNING

    Degrees of discontent

    Learningpost, Published on 03/06/2010

    » Who is responsible for youth unemployment? Ma Wanhua, PhD, of Peking University, posed this question at a recent regional seminar on the employability of university graduates.

  • TECH

    Saluting the unsung heroes behind the scenes

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 07/07/2010

    » It is clear that society is focused only on disasters and destruction. When something good happens, it is rarely news, yet in the realm of IT, putting together a disaster recovery plan or business continuity plan is not a trivial job and seeing them work brings a sigh of relief.

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