• TECH

  Nurturing young talent

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 15/02/2017

  » Tor Kla Hai Terb Yai, which means nurturing saplings in Thai, is an initiative that aims to support talented youngsters in making use of information technology to benefit society, and is now in its fourth year. The programme is designed to show the competence of young Thais, demonstrating their work has the potential to be further developed in the future.

• LIFE

  Just getting going

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 14/12/2016

  » There were only three start-ups in Thailand four years ago. Today the country has over 100, with the total value of investment in 2016 around 7 billion baht -- a figure likely to only increase.

• TECH

  Technology seedlings for our future

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 19/08/2015

  » Whenever a training course for information and communication technology (ICT) is held outside the classroom, it definitely allows learners to have hands-on experience and truly opens the world view of students.

• TECH

  You play, You pay

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 24/06/2015

  » Bee7, an android games monetisation platform, and Vserv, a smart data platform for mobile marketing in India and Southeast Asia, recently teamed up to help solve mobile game monetisation in the region. It has been notoriously difficult to monetise mobile games in Southeast Asia due to a weak payment infrastructure and low credit card usage, which makes paying for games or in-app purchases practically impossible. 

• TECH

  Silky smooth scientific performance

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 03/06/2015

  » Thai youths proved their talent at the recent Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), held in Pittsburgh, USA, winning nine awards in the categories of animal science, plant science and environmental engineering. A team from Damrongratsongkroh School in Chiang Rai won four awards at the competition. They were also the event's youngest contestants. Their project, a new method of silk sheath production, was developed from their observation of the spinning behaviour of silkworms. It won the best of animal science (US$5,000 prize), first place grand and physical science from Sigma Xi awards, as well as a trip to the European Union Contest for Young Scientists in Italy this September.

• LIFE

  Language tool of the trade

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 03/06/2015

  » Proficiency in different languages will no longer be a hindrance to communication among people from Asean countries, thanks to a new innovative Asean language text translation machine.

• THAILAND

  Programming in the mountains

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 11/03/2015

  » The Mae Hong Son IT Valley project is a collaboration between public agencies, private companies and local communities to broaden job diversity and improve opportunities for young people in the remote mountainous province.

• TECH

  Chaos Sphere wins MSeed Accelerator's first prize

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 22/10/2014

  » The puzzle RPG Chaos Sphere won the first prize at the MSeed Accelerator programme, making its team developer Snooze Fox the first in Thailand to showcase its work at the Game Development Conference (GDC), the world's largest and longest-running professionals-only game industry event to be held in San Francisco in March next year.

• OPINION

  If you start them up, they'll never stop

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 28/11/2014

  » During the past few years, we have heard a lot about start-ups.

• TECH

  Gaming, Japanese-style

  Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 28/05/2014

  » With the steady growth of the digital content market in Japan during past years, a shortage of domestic resources and skills has led firms to outsource work to other countries, with Thailand as a top priority.

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