TrueVisions, the leading subscription-based cable-television operator, has announced an expansion of high-definition services in a bid to broaden its subscriber base. Managing director Thiti Nantapastsri said yesterday that the company until now had operated three HD channels – Reality HD, HBO HD and True Sport HD – as a pilot project via its digital fibre-optic […]
CAT Telecom in association with Pattaya City has agreed to improve Pattaya’s communications by installing fiber-to-the-home connections throughout the city. Pattaya Deputy Mayor Ronnakit Ekkasing said, “Pattaya will be the first city in Thailand to have fiber-to-the-home connections or FTTH broadband connections. It is a fiber optic cable connection for individual residences. Such optics-based systems […]
Thailand enjoys a rapid expansion of Russian tourists visiting Thailand but has to deal with an unwanted side effect – the presence of Russian organized crime networks around the popular beach destinations of Pattaya and Phuket. The biggest headline grabber of 2008-09 has likely been the arrest of Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, whose extradition […]
A helicopter of a private firm accidentally hit a power cable and crashed onto the Chao Phya River Saturday, police said. The accident happened at 10:30 am near the pier of Wat Klang Pakkret Temple in Nonthaburi’s Pakkret district. Two pilots and two other staffs of the firm, Helilux Co, exited the helicopter before it […]
