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Chiang Mai will host it's first ever BarCamp on May, 17th, 2008. BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences - open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants - often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies. The first Thailand BarCamp was held in ... Read more...

New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Chinese officials have hailed the "successful and peaceful" relay of the Beijing Olympic torch through the Indian capital Thursday that belied their anxieties about Tibetan protesters marring the show. "The torch relay has been successful and peaceful. We are happy and relieved at the way ... Read more...

Xinhua Beijing, April 15 (Xinhua) Visiting Thailand Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama Tuesday supported China's stance on Tibet and its hosting of the 2008 Olympics. Noppadon told Chinese Foreign Minster Yang Jiechi that the Tibet issue was China's internal affair and his country strongly opposed linking the Tibetan issue with Beijing Olympics. He ... Read more...

New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) Top Indian golfer Shiv Kapur Wednesday lambasted Colin Montgomerie for questioning the invitation to Jeev Milkha Singh to play in the Augusta Masters in the US, starting Thursday. "It is case of sour grapes for Monty (Montgomeris). Jeev has been playing well and he deserves ... Read more...

Mumbai April 9 (IANS) Pharmaceutical major Dabur Pharma Ltd Wednesday announced that it has inked a deal with the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) of Thailand to supply its key anti-cancer drug to the Southeast Asian nation. The Delhi-based firm said it would supply Thailand its generic version of Docetaxel injection. The ... Read more...

A hijacker forced a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Malaysia to land at Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport, media reports said. The hijacker was taken into custody as soon as the plane landed in Bangkok. The hijacker was apparently a Malay and was reported to be an unruly passenger named Hasan ... Read more...

Ahmedabad, March 31 (IANS) Synchron Research Services Private Limited, a research organisation based here that helps develop new medicines, Monday announced the acquisition of a laboratory in France. Synchron acquired the bio-analytical and bio-marker lab of PAREXEL located at Poitiers, south of Paris, for $6.7 million. At the same time, ... Read more...

London, Mar 28 (ANI): Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole has for the first time revealed that how her bandmates helped her to overcome the heartbreak after footballer husband Ashley Cole cheated on her. "I often think to myself, if I'm having a sad moment or an angry moment, if I ... Read more...

New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) India's Ronit Bisht won the boys event at the under-14 Asian Tennis Championship at Jakarta Tuesday while Natasha Palha finished runners-up in the girls section. According to information reaching here, in an all-Indian final, Ronit defeated Digvijay Singh 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, while Natasha lost to ... Read more...

Greater Noida, March 18 (IANS) India's Sunitha Rao and Sanaa Bhambri stormed into the second round of the $25,000 Women's Challenger tennis here Tuesday. Second seed Sunitha displayed a flawless performance knocking out Neha 6-0,6-2, while her compatriot Sanaa defeated Veronica Chvojkova of Czech Republic 6-1, 3-1 after the Czech girl ... Read more...

New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Indians golfers are dominating the Asian Tour Order of Merit with four of the top-five players being Indians. As Jeev Milkha Singh soared to second place on the strength of his runner-up finish at the Ballantine's Championships on Sunday, S.S.P. Chowrasia, winner of the Emaar-MGF ... Read more...

Mumbai, March 12 (IANS) India's steel major Tata Steel Ltd posted a net profit of Rs.14.02 billion ($350 million) for the quarter ending Dec 31, compared to Rs.10.55 billion in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal. Total income for the quarter increased from Rs.60.72 billion to Rs.320.96 billion. Diluted earnings ... Read more...

Xinhua Dhaka, March 9 (Xinhua) Bangladesh has withdrawn import duty and the mandatory pre-shipment inspection (PSI) from all kinds of poultry items in view of the heavy financial losses caused to the farmers due to bird flu. Bangladesh's National Board of Revenue has issued an order to wave the import duty ... Read more...

Ranchi, March 9 (IANS) The Jharkhand police Sunday arrested three people and seized heroin and brown sugar worth over Rs.15 million ($375,000) from them. "The market price of the seized narcotic drugs will be around Rs.15 million," said M.S. Bhatia, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Ranchi. "Some bags of heroin ... Read more...

Xinhua Bangkok, March 6 (Xinhua) Thailand's ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday he would request the country's Supreme Court to grant him permission to visit Britain after the first hearing of his case March 12. The online portal of the Bangkok Post quoted Thaksin as saying that he has to ... Read more...

London, Mar.5 (ANI): Girld Aloud singer Cheryl Cole has decided to forgive her love-rat husband Ashley for his past sexcapades, and has reportedly got back together with him. The Sun quoted friends of the singer as saying that Cheryl could not bear to be apart from Ashley any longer. No matter ... Read more...

Colombo, Mar 3 (ANI): The Sri Lankan Navy has rescued 71 Burmese and Bangladeshi migrants from a wooden trawler adrift in the Bay of Bengal and found that at least 21 of migrants died due to starvation and dehydration. The wooden trawler was drifting for two weeks after its engine ... Read more...

London, Feb.19 (ANI): Chelsea star Ashley Cole will come face to face with wife Cheryl tonight in what is predicted to be a showdown talk on their marriage. According to The Sun, Cheryl is expected to reveal her decision about whether to go ahead or not to go ahead with ... Read more...

London, Feb.15 (ANI): Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole has decided to give up her depressive ways and have a little bit of fun at her retreat in Thailand. According to The Sun, Cole romped around on a Thai beach with her Girls Aloud bandmates Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh. She looked well ... Read more...

London, Feb.9 (ANI): Cheryl Cole has fled to Thailand to decide what to do about love rat husband Ashley. The Girls Aloud singer is holed up in a luxury hotel with band-mates Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh. The Sun quoted a band source as saying: Its a make or break ... Read more...

London, Feb 3 (ANI): French designers are developing a luxury airship hotel, which will look like a flying whale. The Massaud Studio is working with the French office of aeronautical research, Onera, to develop the airship named Manned Cloud. The airship would enable the passengers to visit exotic locations without ... Read more...

BarCampBangkok Press Release - By Julie Lavoie Over 200 technology enthusiasts, both Thai and foreign, attended Thailand's first Barcamp in Bangkok on January 26th. Participants gave and attended talks on the hottest new technologies, blogged, made videos, and met other technology lovers. The conference featured talks in both English and Thai, on ... Read more...

Washington, Jan 18(ANI): Actor Sylvester Stallone is not letting his age slow him down as the actor still insists on doing his own stunts. The Rambo star made sure he did his own stunts during filming of the forthcoming Rambo sequel. The 61-year-old actor spent several months shooting for his ... Read more...

Washington, Jan 12 (ANI): Contrary to reports, Brad Pitt will not be getting his own museum in his hometown of Springfield, Missouri. It was reported that the actor was going to be honoured by his hometown with a museum dedicated to the star. However, Susan Wade, Pitts public relations manager for the ... Read more...

Indian Education Exhibition 08 in Bangkok is a one-stop information event for learning about the variety of professional and vocational courses that NRI and Thailand students can pursue in reputed institutions of higher learning. Students, along with their parents will get an opportunity to personally interact with college administrators ... Read more...

Bangkok, Thailand, January 4th -- Bangkok will host Thailand's first ever BarCamp on January 26th, 2008. BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open ... Read more...

REWARD yourself this year as you bid farewell to 2007 and welcome 2008 in a charity fund raising dinner set in a glitzy Broadway-style in Broadway Girls & Countdown Party 2008 at the Pan Pacific Bangkok Hotel on New Years’ Eve December 31st 2007. Celebrate the evening with an incredible musical ... Read more...

The son and daughters of ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra voted at the Bang Plad district polling station and briefly addressed the reporters gathered to watch them log their ballots. Mr Panthongtae, Ms. Pinthongta and Ms. Paethongtan Shinawatra cast their votes at the Consituency 12 or Bang Plad polling station, which is ... Read more...

Various provincial Election Commission offices throughout Thailand are continuing ballot counting. After voting in the general election concluded today at 3 PM all provinces have begun to organize and tally ballots from both the party-list and constituency systems as well as from advanced voting. The counting has gone on without incidents ... Read more...

London, Dec 23 (ANI): It seems that Kate Moss relationship with beau Jamie Hince is set to get a Christmas blow, for the supermodel has invited her ex Pete Doherty to celebrate festivities with the couple in Thailand. Sources say that the Kills star is furious after Moss told him that ... Read more...

The Siam Intelligence Unit (SIU) launches a website, www.politicalbase.in.th, to provide detailed information about politicians to help people decide which Member of Parliament (MP) candidates they should support before casting their ballots tomorrow (December 23rd). SIU Leader Charoenchai Chaipaiboonwong (เจริญชัย ไชยไพบูลย์วงศ์) discloses that people need to be well prepared before voting ... Read more...

Bangkok, December 19, 2007 (PRD), The Cabinet has approved a plan by the Ministry of Transport to ease travel for citizens during the holiday period. The plan will be in effect from December 28th until January 3rd of next year. The plan entails the increasing of transportation from buses to planes ... Read more...

Bangkok, December 18 (Thaindian.com) : Ratana Sagar Jewellery Company Limited Thailand is One of the biggest super markets of Gems and Jewellery in Thailand. They are looking for a Customer Service & Sales Representative holdng a minimum of a bachelor degree, having a work experience of minimum a year in ... Read more...

Washington, Dec 13(ANI): Actor Sylvester Stallone revealed that he was aghast when the crew of the new Rambo flick got caught in crossfire between two warring nations. The crew was shooting for the new film on the war-torn border of Thailand and Myanmar when opposition armies started firing at each other. The ... Read more...

Nakhon Ratchasima, 10 December, 2007 (PRD), Former Olympics silver medallist from Switzerland Daniel Ramseier, who was supervising the Thai national dressage squad prior to his resignation last month, said the problems within the Thailand Equestrian Federation caused its national dressage team to only earn a bronze medal at the 24th ... Read more...

Bangkok, 07 December, 2007 (PRD), The People Power Party leader, Mr. Samak Sundaravej (สมัคร สุนทรเวช),says his party is trying to clarify to the general public that the coup against deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra last year was unreasonable, adding that his party wants the people to understand the actual situation. However, ... Read more...

Bodh Gaya, Dec 1 (ANI): Buddhist devotees from Thailand offered special prayers for peace at Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya in Bihar. In the footsteps of Lord Buddha, the 77-member delegation began a colourful march from Kushagras temple situated at the eastern bank of the river Niranjana and concluding at the ... Read more...

On Tuesday, Greenpeace released the sixth edition of its Guide to Greener Electronics. The latest report, which includes televisions and video games, ranks consumer electronics companies on the basis of how they deal with two issues: corporate recycling and removing toxic chemicals from their products. According to Greenpeace, Microsoft, Nintendo, Philips, ... Read more...

Washington, Nov 28 (ANI): A recent study conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has found that people infected with HIV in Thailand die from the disease significantly sooner than those with HIV living in other parts of the world. The researchers found that, the shorter survival time ... Read more...

Washington, Nov 23: A recent study conducted at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) revealed that prenatal arsenic exposure in newborns may lead to them developing cancer in later life. Researchers have found that the children of mothers whose water supplies were contaminated with arsenic during their pregnancies harboured gene expression changes ... Read more...

Washington, Nov 23: A recent study conducted at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) revealed that prenatal arsenic exposure in newborns may lead to them developing cancer in later life. Researchers have found that the children of mothers whose water supplies were contaminated with arsenic during their pregnancies harboured gene expression changes ... Read more...

Bangkok, November 23 (PRD), The Commerce Minister, Mr. Krirkkrai Jirapaet (เกริกไกร จีระแพทย์), says Thailand exported 1.1 million tons of rice last month. The amount was 70 percent higher than the amount in October last year. He says the total amount of exported rice throughout this year should reach the projected ... Read more...

Bangkok, November 23 (PRD) The Deputy Minister of Transport, Mr. Sansern Wongcha-um (สรรเสริญ วงศ์ชะอุ่ม), has instructed the Airports of Thailand (AOT)’s attorney team to prepare their speeches before they will appear before the Administrative Court on November 26th. The team will explain the AOT’s assistance to the troubled people living ... Read more...

Deputy Chairman of the National Economic and Social Advisory Council (NESAC), Vorapol Socatiyanurak (วรพล โสคติยานุรักษ์), says the economy may lag behind slightly next year but a clearer political situation can help shed light onto it. The deputy chairman states that the overall economic growth next year depends largely on the export ... Read more...

Six distinguished Nobel laureates and a former president of the World Bank will be delivering a series of high-powered lectures in Thailand between November 2007 to April 2008 under the first ASEAN-wide event known as "Bridges — Dialogues towards a Culture of Peace”. The series will kick off with lectures by ... Read more...

Hello, I am the founder of a new technology startup - MarketHero - www.markethero.in - and I think you might be interested in checking it out. The idea behind MarketHero came from the fact that there is an opportunity gap comprising of casual gamers and curious retail investors (Indian and otherwise) interested ... Read more...