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The Cabinet has during yesterday’s meeting decided to complete the implementation of the THB 15,000 salary base for civil servants with a bachelor’s degree by January 2014 as well as adjust salaries of other types of employees upwards . Read the original here: Salary raise to 15,000 baht for civil servants postponed to 2014 A [...]

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Thailands National Disaster Warning Centre has issued an evacuation order for residents and tourists along the Andaman coast after a huge earthquake struck off Indonesian Sumatra on Wednesday. Read more here: Indonesia quake triggers tsunami alert in Thailand Thailand’s open and tightly integrated into global trade economy experienced a V-shape contraction and recovery from late [...]

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says some senior Burmese officials and parliamentarians will now be allowed to visit the United States and that Washington will lift its ban on the export to Burma of U.S. financial services and investment to help accelerate modernization and reform. Visit link: US lifts travel ban on Burmese officials Domestic [...]

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Thailand has probably the worst and the slower internet service in all Asean countries, except maybe for Myanmar. 3G is still a distant dream, while even Cambodia and Laos have their third generation data netwok. Not to mention widespread censorship wich can hardly stand for an example for other countries of the region. See the [...]

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Authors: Cristina Bonoan, the Philippines, Alejandro Ciencia, UP, and Björn Dressel, ANU On 16 January, the Philippines Senate opened a hearing on the impeachment of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Renato Corona, on eight different charges.

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The telecommunications industry in Thailand is set for a busy year, with new 3G licences expected to be auctioned during the third quarter of 2012   At the end of 2009, real GDP was back at pre-crisis levels, as measured in seasonally adjusted terms. Policies that could contribute to reducing Thailand’s dependence on foreign demand [...]

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At the expected 721 million tonnes, world rice production would be 21.4 million tonnes, or 3 percent, larger than in 2010 and hit a new record. This excellent performance confirms the resilience of the sector and its ability to respond to attractive prices, even against the backdrop of numerous weather setbacks and widespread increases in [...]

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Thailand’s ICT Ministry told Facebook to block more accounts with suspected lèse majesté contents: 26,000 URL in Aug-Sept and 60,000 URL in Oct-[Nov]. Local Facebook users risk violating the computer law unknowingly by pressing the “like” or “share” button included with posted comment on anti-monarchy messages on Facebook, Thailand’s Information and Communication Technology Minister Anudith Nakornthap said.

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