BANGKOK (Dow Jones)–Thailand’s economic ministers Monday agreed to push ahead with a plan to end all existing mobile phone concessions by the end of the year to convert them into telecom licenses for second generation services. However, the government’s attempt to ensure fair competition in the industry is not expected to derail a plan by […]
BANGKOK, July 16 – King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital managers on Friday introduced the first Thai-made robot to help facilitate blood collecting tubes for blood-drawing procedures in hospital. Hospital director Dr Adisorn Patradul and Dr Thewarug Werawatganon, assistant director of Patient Support Service, said at a press conference that the robotic innovation was the brainchild of […]
BANGKOK, 17 July 2010 (NNT) – The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) promises that 2 megabit per second wireless internet will be made available across Thailand at low price within 2 years. ICT Minister Chuti Krairiksh revealed that the ministry was preparing to ask the National Broadband Committee to consider a budget for […]
Therdthanwa Kanama, a 15-year-old student from Maha Sarakham province, won Thailand’s first Doodle 4 Google competition, beating more than 46,000 other submissions with his doodle of a royal barge. The doodle will be visible on the Google Thailand homepage for 24 hours on Her Majesty the Queen’s birthday on August 12. Mr. Therdthanwa said the […]
BANGKOK, 22 June 2010 (NNT) – Thailand has been successful for inventing the first auto rickshaws or so-called ‘Tuk Tuk’, by using solar energy in a bid to help preserve the environment and combat the ongoing global warming crisis. Clean Fuel Energy Enterprise Co Ltd President, Air Marshal Morakod Chansumruard, introduces the solar three-wheeler, namely […]
Siam Nissan Automobile Co (SNA) has launched Thailand’s frst locally produced eco car, the Nissan March. SNA president Toru Hasegawa said Nissan March is a small vehicle with a 1,200 cc three-cylinder engine with carbon dioxide emissions less than 120 grammes and able to use fuel more effcienty by up to 20 kilometres per litre. […]
High-speed Internet, TV, phone for 400,000 households By early next year, people in Bangkok will be able to enjoy what CAT Telecom is calling its “Triple Play” – high-speed Internet, television and telephone – all from one connection to a new fibre-optic cable network. The state agency is planning to deploy a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network […]
The GT200 bomb detector has been found ineffective in field tests and no more of the devices will be purchased, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Tuesday. Mr Abhisit said this at a press conference in the presence of army chief Gen Anupong Paojinda. He said field trials by a committee of the Science and […]
