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    By Anonymous, Created on: 13/09/2006, Last updated on: 25/12/2008

    » I supported my gf through colleage and Uni (her parents are not rich), now that she has graduated, i wanted to marry her. But her parents are asking for 1Mil Baht for dowry. I had the money through hard earned savings (i am just a salaried worker), but i find the dowry excessive. I am afraid this...

    • Anonymous commented : r is working in England for a telecom business and married an English woman. So all these bull droppings about Thai men and foreign men are just that bull droppings. It is still best to follow the established cultural tradition of insuring marriage and protecting Thai women. With the modern day of 50% plus of marriages ended in divorce...love does not mean much, and it is the financial future of the single moms and their support networks that are more important. Western men will discard and or support anythings that would not inconvenienting them. With their cavalier attitudes toward love, sex, finance, family, and indifferent of foreign cultures, I would doubt very much that they will be of any better than local men. Anyway, well educated westerners with quality of their cultural backgrounds will treat Thai culture and Thai women badly. Beside, these men do not very gone out to seek out foreign women for wives since their local women would seek them out for themselves.

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    Last one in, again

    Database, Published on 06/01/2010

    » Never in Thai history has a story that didn't happen so dominate the news and clearly emerge as the Technology Story of the Year; just before the New Year, your TOT flipped a switch that started providing bandwidth of the third-generation kind in a couple of obscure corners of Bangkok, but in truth, 2009 was the year that Laos and Cambodia totally humiliated the telecoms state enterprises by leaving Thailand a far, distant last among Asian countries providing 3G service to yuppiephone subscribers.

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    MRA to cut equipment testing costs

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 06/01/2010

    » Attempting to promote local telecom entrepreneurs, there is a need to make an equal level of standard testing equipment through a mutual recognition agreement which the government should consider in Asean Community 2015.

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    Google unveils new smartphone

    AFP, Published on 06/01/2010

    » Google has unveiled its new Nexus One smartphone in a direct challenge to heavyweight Apple's iPhone handsets.

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    Talk is cheap

    Database, Published on 13/01/2010

    » Technology monitor Fast Market Research of America reported that domestic Thai consumers and companies bought $2.7 billion worth of computers in 2009 - almost 89 billion baht in real money; the research firm said this was "slight growth" from 2008; the report said personal computers still had only about 14 percent market penetration, leaving lots of room for future growth; phone sales will continue to be dominated by lower-priced handsets, the report confirmed (see later item in this summary); the last full report showed overall electronics sales in Thailand around $4.9 billion in 2008 - 163 billion baht in today's currency.

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    HDS adopts agile cloud strategy

    Database, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 20/01/2010

    » Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Thailand addressed Agile cloud storage, Managed services, Dynamic tiering and Dynamic provisioning are its key to tapping the growth of virtualisation this year.

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    More complaints

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 20/01/2010

    » Changes in tariff data charges without notification have led to complaints from customers, especially from Twitter users.

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    IBM backs 'Creative Thailand' initiative

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 27/01/2010

    » Big Blue is looking to bring technology to support the "Creative Thailand" initiative while leveraging its expertise in business analytics and optimisation to help organisations to become more intelligent enterprises.

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    3G demand surges across Indochina

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 27/01/2010

    » A surge in demand for 3G licensing in the Indochina region has brought accelerated expansion in investment from Internet gateway providers to address new market potential and present Thailand as a connecting hub in Asean.

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    Promises, promises

    Database, Published on 27/01/2010

    » She earned the title of Thailand's Best Information and Communications Technology Minister of 2009, and just two weeks into the new year, she showed she has no intention of slowing down; Thailand, declared Ranongruk Suwanchwee will definitely have third generation phone service in 2011, or if not, then in a year shortly thereafter; as Korea, Japan and other countries worked on startup up 4G service, Mrs Ranongruk insisted that 3G service for Thais was a top priority, and she fully intends to spend 20 billion baht this year alone.

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