Overseas Chinese urged to come home 2008-10-29 (Beijing Time) China Daily The government will continue to promote policies aimed at enticing skilled overseas Chinese to return home to develop their careers and build an innovative country. “It is the talent pool that empowers China to compete i... Read more.
HOME REVIEW TT&T puts 3G on hold Bangkok Post Wednesday October 22, 2008 Up-country fixed-line phone peddlers TT&T of Thailand became the third company to explicitly choose caution over valour and postpone indefinitely its plans to develop third-generation mobile phone service; TT&T foll... Read more.
CCEA approves Rs 50 bonus on paddy MSP Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Oct. 16: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today gave its approval for an incentive bonus of Rs 50 per quintal on paddy over and above the minimum support price for the entire kharif marketing season (KMS) 2008-0... Read more.
NOBEL LAUREATE DISCUSSION / Physics laureates criticize education system The Yomiuri Shimbun Two of the three Japanese who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics met with government ministers Friday morning and took the opportunity to take a swipe at the state of education in the country. Toshihide ... Read more.
Science ministry, UN target climate change in Himalayas By Chen Jia (China Daily) The Ministry of Science and Technology and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) jointly launched a three-year program Thursday to address the increasingly worrying effects of climate change in the Himalayas.... Read more.
Minister promotes ‘Smart Thailand’ policy Information and Communications Technology Minister Mun Patanotai has outlined a “Smart Thailand” campaign based on five policies he intends to pursue in his new cabinet term. The policies are the access to information with speed and e... Read more.
HOME REVIEW Telecoms ‘on autopilot’ A new service called TBot is available on MSN and Live Windows Messenger, promising to immediately translate messages to a number of European and Asian languages, although not Thai. The leader of your CAT Telecom workers’ union Somboon Sarpsarn b... Read more.
AEROSPACE Iran satellite gets Thai help REUTERS AND BANGKOK POST TEHERAN / Thailand has helped Iran put a joint research satellite into space. It went into orbit yesterday after being launched atop a Chinese rocket. The launch was announced by Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Soleimani on Irania... Read more.
POLITICS Court refers PAD decree appeal The Administrative Court has forwarded to the Constitution Court the People’s Alliance for Democracy’s (PAD) petition to suspend the emergency decree, saying the issue was outside its jurisdiction. PAD lawyers sought the injunction on Tuesday when ... Read more.
