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
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 […]
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 […]
BroadcastAsia 2012 turned a spotlight on technology growth in Asia. This year’s event welcomed participants and exhibitors from more than 56 countries worldwide. The four-day event, which concluded on June 22, 2012, saw around 49,000 attendees and nearly 2000 exhibitors presenting the latest technologies of the next generation fiber broadband, cloud security, as well as […]
BANGKOK, 20 June 2012 (NNT) -The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) is planning to summon Channel 3’s executives, for a clarification on the latter’s decision to air a female contestant painting on a canvas with her bare breasts. Lieutenant-General Peerapong Manakit, chairman of the NBTC’s subcommittee on programme schedules and content, said the commission […]
The efficacy of the first dengue fever vaccine is expected to be known by September when results of tests on thousands of Thai children will be revealed, the pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur said Thursday. Sanofi Pasteur has been collaborating with Thailand’s Ministry of Health and Mahidol University in conducting dengue vaccine research and trials for […]
Chinese Internet censors are considering widening their control over what is posted on the country’s popular microblog websites and other online forums. The government released a list of proposed changes to its Internet law Thursday, that aim to put greater pressure on social media websites to crack down on users posting anonymous comments. Read more: […]
BANGKOK, 13 June 2012 (NNT) – The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has denied True Visions the right to broadcast the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2012. True Visions and GMM Grammy executives held a meeting last Friday to discuss enabling True Visions subscribers to view the Euro 2012 […]
