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Tech firms in Japan flocking to S’pore

Asia News Network — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:46:34 +0000

A Japanese firm might have cracked the problem that bedevils many mobile game developers – how to make a living when you give your product away for free. Metaps, as the newly formed company is called, believes a virtual button on a game that leads to free upgrades, points or virtual currencies is the answer. [...]

Car industry encouraged to manufacture in Thailand

Yahoo! News — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:46:01 +0000

Australia’s car industry is being encouraged to shift its parts manufacturing to Thailand. A forum held by the country’s Board of Investment in Melbourne on Wednesday was told low wages and tax breaks mean it is cheaper to make parts in Thailand. The forum coincides with the launch of a multi-million dollar Federal Government program [...]

Thailand, Laos To Open More Cross-Border Bus Routes

News Editor — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:23:01 +0000

Thailand and Lao PDR plan to open more cross-border bus routes over the next two years to become a model of expanding transport networks in Asean in the lead-up to the Asean Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. Thailand’s Land Transport Department chief Somchai Siriwattanachok and his Lao counterpart, Viengsawat Sipandon, announced the update on the [...]

Beyond Nuclear Denial – William D. Hartung

Editor - Thailand Times — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:49:48 +0000

Nuclear destruction finds itself at the end of a long queue of anxieties about our planet

G-20 ‘concerned’ over Eurozone

Editor - Thailand Times — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:22:23 +0000

Contemporary Europe has helplessly lost its political ‘left’

How emotions influence perception – Murray Hunter

Editor - Thailand Times — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:03:51 +0000

Research has determined that our cognitive processing has an emotional element

Online shopping: It’s a sell

Asia News Network — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:47:17 +0000

It is boom time for online retailers as increasing numbers of consumers direct their cash to a range of new shopping sites with innovative business models. Home24.sg, Clozette and Zalora are just three that have emerged in the past 18 months, prospering on Internet penetration rates of almost 100 per cent here. Last year, consumers [...]

Phuket | Australian stabbed in heart in Thai bag-snatch tragedy

News Editor — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:16:04 +0000

A 60-year-old Perth woman has been stabbed to death and another woman was hurt in a bag-snatch attempt gone wrong on the popular holiday island of Phuket in Thailand. It is understood Michelle Elizabeth Smith, who worked as a travel agent at RAC Travel in Joondalup, died in front of a Phuket hotel after being [...]

Quebec sisters’ bodies to arrive home from Thailand Thursday

News Editor — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:23:01 +0000

The bodies of two Canadian sisters who died in Thailand are expected to arrive home Thursday, a relative says. Their uncle said that because preliminary autopsies have already been completed, Thai medical authorities have agreed to release the bodies of Audrey and Noemi Belanger. The 20- and 26-year-old Quebec women were found dead at a [...]

Talented boobs get a big hand

Asia News Network — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:24:21 +0000

Thailand thrives on controversy, so big thanks to Channel 3′s “Thailand’s Got Talent” for another heaping helping on Sunday, when a 23-year-old female contestant executed a painting using nothing but her bare breasts. It might not have been a creative landmark, but it was a watershed in Thai television history. Judge Pornchita “Benz” Na Songkhla [...]

Do we have a creative intelligence? – Murray Hunter

Editor - Thailand Times — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:29:44 +0000

Do we have a creative intelligence? Murray Hunter University Malaysia Perlis There is no conclusive agreement about what the concept of intelligence really is. Some concepts of intelligence focused upon achievement, i.e., how much a person really knows relative to others in an age group, or aptitude orientated, i.e., the person’s ability to learn . [...]

A Six-Point Plan for Global War – Nick Turse

Editor - Thailand Times — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:49:50 +0000

The face of American-style war-fighting is once again changing.

Geopolitics of Quantum Buddhism …

Editor - Thailand Times — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:25:24 +0000

Who in politics is sincerely motivated for the long-range policies?

Thailand to finance Vientiane railway

Asia News Network — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:46:59 +0000

Thailand has provided a grant and a soft loan to finance a railway extension from the Lao-Thai border into central Vientiane over the next couple of years, according to the Thai News Agency. Lao Deputy Finance Minister Viengthong Siphandone and President of Thailand’s Neighbouring Countries Economic Development Cooperation Agency (Neda) Acksiri Buranasiri signed an agreement [...]

Money talks and London listens to the yuan

Asia News Network — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:00:37 +0000

The fashionable youths in hot pants flocking to high-end department stores in London and bankers in dark suits walking in and out of skyscrapers in the financial district have one thing in common, a growing interest in the Chinese currency. During the recent holiday to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Harrods, a [...]

China hails Philippines’ pullout from Scarborough Shoal

Asia News Network — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:47:05 +0000

China yesterday welcomed the Philippine government’s decision to order home its two vessels that had been facing off with Chinese ships at Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). The withdrawal of a Philippine Coast Guard patrol vessel and a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) survey ship on Friday ended the [...]

Hu urges G20 to safeguard fragile recovery

Asia News Network — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:23:17 +0000

Chinese President Hu Jintao urged members of the G20 to sustain and strengthen the “hard-won” momentum of economic recovery, which is fragile and faces challenges. Hu made the remark in a written interview with Reforma, a major Mexican newspaper, prior to the G20 summit due to be held in the Mexican resort city of Los [...]

Google helps Thailand to block online content

News Editor — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:23:01 +0000

“The previous page is sending you to http://www.mict.go.th/. If you do not want to visit that page, you can return to the previous page.” So reads Google’s compliance with government requests that sites in Thailand, which would buck international trends in 2011 in seeing access to a wealth of sites removed by the company at [...]

New family visit visa appeal regulations

UKBA — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:46:24 +0000

The government laid the Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 2012 in Parliament on 18 June 2012, which set out who qualifies for a full right of appeal against refusal of a visa to visit family in the UK. These regulations will come into effect from 9 July 2012. No changes are being made to the [...]

Topless Thai painter on talent show stirs debate

Yahoo! News — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:46:01 +0000

An episode of “Thailand’s Got Talent” has stirred a morality debate after a contestant painted a canvas using her bare breasts, drawing a rebuke from the culture minister who called it “very shocking.” Culture Minister Sukumol Kunplome said Monday that nudity on television is not considered appropriate in Thai society. She said the show’s producers [...]