Two Thai students from Wichai Wittaya School in Chiang Mai have won gold medals and three others silver medals in the 4th International Computer Project Olympiad. The gold medallists, Aphisan Sukosi and Sivakorn Lekprayura, competed in the “Digital Content” category with a project called Introduction to Chiang Mai and Thailand. Read more: The Nation By […]
Police in the North are investigating a Facebook photo of a 2-year-old girl smoking amphetamine with the assistance of unidentified adults. Pol Lt-Colonel Wibool Kedchat said yesterday that the consumption method was popular among adult users. There was a lighter designed to produce a special flame and a sheet of aluminium foil formed into the […]
From January 1 onwards, fuel stations nationwide will stop selling 91-octane petrol, which will force owners of 500,000 vehicles and 500,000 motorcycles either to retrofit their engines or switch to 95-octane petrol. Read more: The Nation
BANGKOK, Oct 4 – Free Wi-Fi service will be accessible at 250,000 sites throughout Thailand next year, with a jump to 400,000 spots in 2015, according to ICT minister Anudit Nakornthap. He said True Corporation became the latest private company to offer free Wi-Fi service for Internet users at 50,000 locations, in addition to 50,000 […]
BANGKOK, Oct 4 – Defence Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat affirmed today that Thailand is willing to permit the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to use U-tapao military airport in Rayong as a springboard for climate studies. He said an agreement on the studies, which will last three months, will be disclosed to the public, […]
It’s clear now that the big three in the cellular service industry will be the only bidders for the long-awaited 2.1-gigahertz spectrum on October 16. The spectrum will be used for third-generation wireless broadband. Subsidiaries of Advanced Info Service (AIS), Total Access Communication (DTAC) and True Corp, and the newly founded firm Tantawan Telecommunications, submitted […]
Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission has won clearance to go ahead with the third generation cellular service on the 2.1 gigahertz spectrum, following acquittal in a court case. The NBTC announced today that the Central Administrative Court has dropped the cases brought by CAT Telecom and TOT against the now defunct National Telecommunications Commission […]
A new immune-deficiency disease similar to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has been detected in Asians, especially in Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Thailand, Dr Ploenjan Chetchotisak of Khon Kaen University’s faculty of medicine said yesterday. Ploenjan said she had treated a patient diagnosed as having scrofula, who received treatment for many years but was […]
