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Every molecule of Marina
Life, Published on 31/10/2018
» Marina Abramovic, sitting in the tearoom of a Bangkok hotel, was talking animatedly about the first time she learned to cook Thai food in the early 1980s.
Study warns about lack of job skills
Business, Published on 31/10/2018
» A large majority of the nearly 2 billion global youth will not have job skills necessary to participate in the workforce by 2030, says a new report by the consultancy Deloitte and the Global Business Coalition for Education (GBC-Education).
7-Eleven's delivery push fails to rattle
Business, Published on 31/10/2018
» With 7-Eleven offering free-of-charge delivery service from 3,000 stores in Bangkok and the suburbs, food delivery services have found that it's not a big deal.
Gulf closes Oman plant deal
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 31/10/2018
» SET-listed Gulf Energy Development Plc has agreed to run a power plant in Oman, the second overseas market for the Thai company.
CPF pledges sustainable practices
Business, Published on 31/10/2018
» Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc (CPF) vows to fight the use of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) in its supply chain and wants to persuade suppliers across the region to undertake sustainable practices in supply sourcing, traceable systems and good labour practices.
China's Sri Lankan push for power
News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 31/10/2018
» Most people in the island nation of Sri Lanka and its Asian neighbours were stunned last week when President Maithripala Sirisena dismissed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe -- and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapaksa, the populist strongman who had ruled Sri Lanka for a decade before the scrappy alliance between Mr Sirisena and Mr Wickremesinghe forced him out of power in 2015.
Selling pie or the sky?
News, Postbag, Published on 31/10/2018
» Re: "THAI takes up new revenue strategies", (Business, Oct 30).
Important lessons from a chatbot developer
News, Sutapa Amornvivat, Published on 31/10/2018
» The smoother and deeper our conversation with Siri, (or with Alexa, Bixby or Cortana for that matter) the more realistic Dan Brown's Winston in Origin becomes. Many experts are predicting that demand for new mobile apps is slowing down with the next trend for user interface being chatbots. Of course, much more work in conversational AI will be necessary before we reach Winston's level of chatbot advancement. At least now, users are becoming more familiar and as a result, these interactions provide a constant source of data for machines to "learn".
PM, a plan and a canal
News, Editorial, Published on 31/10/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has taken the right steps over the latest resurrection of the Kra Canal. But that doesn't mean he's going to get much support or win over public opinion on the matter. By ordering two new studies into updated proposals for building the canal, he will get criticism from both sides. Proponents of what they want to call the "Thai Canal" think he is taking too long and opponents of the proposal believe he should do nothing.
Calls mount for street vendor aid
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 31/10/2018
» A coalition of vendors, academics and NGOs on urban development has intensified its calls for the government to speed up efforts to alleviate hardship suffered by street vendors who have been purged from the city's pavements.