Thai scientists unveiled mangosteens’ anti-cancer properties

Thai scientists, led by Professor Dr Pichaet Wiriyachitra, have unveiled their significant breakthrough on Monday, proving that concentrated extracts from mangosteens contain anti-cancer properties. Mangosteens have been cultivated and used as an effective traditional medicine in Thailand for centuries. In 1978, Thai scientific studies showed that mangosteens’ rinds helped boost the body’s immune system, as […]

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TAT creates online application to promote tourism to Ayutthaya

BANGKOK, 3 August 2012 (NNT) – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Ayutthaya Office has created online application to assist tourists with travelling information, particularly activities during August-November 2012. Director of the TAT office in Ayutthaya Pramote Sapyen stated that technology is nowadays playing an important role in people’s life. It is easy to access […]

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Thai schools to get tablets tomorrow

Pathom 1 students in eight provinces are set to get their hands on tablet computers under the government’s One Tablet Per Child (OTPD) project very soon. “We will have 55,712 tablets dispatched to their schools by Friday,” Education Minister Suchart Tadathamrongvej said yesterday. Read more: The Nation

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True Visions to be blacked out late Sunday night

True Visions subscription TVs will be blacked out from late Sunday night to Monday morning when the largest subscription TV operator will make a major upgrade to its clients’ receivers, it has announced. True Visions announced in a press release that its customers of both satellite-based and fibre optics cable-based systems will not be able […]

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TAT invests 3 million THB to launch tourism promotion apps for smartphone

BANGKOK, 5 July 2012 (NNT) – The Thai tourism authority has decided to make sizable financial investment in developing a new application for smartphone, which is intended to help promote the country’s travel industry. Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Deputy Governor Juthaporn Rerngronasa said that, under the 2013 marketing plan and the ambitious goal to […]

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