Bangkok Governor M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra Monday signed an agreement with True Internet to resume the Bangkok Wi-Fi project that will provide free Wi-Fi internet connection from 20,000 hotspots around the capital. The governor said Bangkok residents can use their identification card to register for username and password for using the free service. Read more: The […]
BANGKOK, 26 April 2012 (NNT) – Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra said Thai media should vie for nothing but the truth in their news reports and constantly evolve to become adept at utilizing social media for the benefit of news propagation. On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of Thai Television and the 35th […]
Bac Ninh, April 24 (VNA) – On April 23 the Nokia Corporation began the construction of a factory to manufacture mobile phones in the northern province of Bac Ninh. The facility, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, reaffirms Nokia’s long-term commitment to Vietnam as well as its strategy in the region. The factory, […]
So you want to save the world and use less fuel in your car? Or are you just looking to cut down your consumption and save a few dollars at the pump? Think again because the initial cost of owning a hybrid in Thailand would put the “but the batteries do more damage to the […]
All telecommunication operators should be given a chance to grab equal blocks of the 2.1-gigahertz spectrum in the upcoming auction to ensure fair competition in third-generation cellular service in the future, True Corp chief executive officer Suphachai Chearavanont said. He added that there should be a cap restricting each bidder to receiving 15 megahertz bandwidth […]
The popular social networking site Facebook agreed to purchase the Instagram photo-sharing mobile app for US$1 billion in cash and stock Monday. The app, which can be used to apply faux-vintage filters to photographs, allows users to share photos with one another both directly and through posts to social networking sites. Instagram was founded less […]
Almost every day, Chue Her sits down at his computer, pulls out his Hmong-English dictionary and starts typing 10 to 20 words into an online translator. He hopes his contribution to Microsoft’s translation project will be the key to reviving the Hmong language that he worries is disappearing. “I believe if we don’t have the […]
China lifted its three-day block on 16 of the country’s Twitter-like services, including the two largest, which are Sina’s and Tencent’s microblogging sites. China said it carried out the ban on the sites’ commenting function because microbloggers were using the sites to spread conspiracy theories and rumors about the disappearance of politican Bo Xilai on […]
