dtac lets customers celebrate Mother Day

Customers who pay for services at least 500baht at all dtac Service on August 9-12 will receive a key chain and also a postcard to write about their feeling to their mother. For customers who visit dtac Centers for services will receive an 'I Love MOM' key chain and also a postcard to write. At the same time, new customers who register their new SIM together with new package or customers who buy iPhone/BlackBerry with a package receive 2 (I Love MOM) t-shirts if they come to receive the service at dtac Centers with their mother from today - August 31

In my opinion this promotion suits for this festival. This month is about mother. This promotion is for children to get gifts for their mother. It support all children to get the importance of their mother. And it is the trade strategy that can lead customer to come to recieve their services.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/08/02/technology/dtac-lets-customers-celebrate-Mother-Day-30135046.html

Microsoft Thailand kicks off online competition 'Microsoft IT Youth Challenge 2011'

Microsoft Thailand has launched this year's 'Microsoft IT Youth Challenge'. The project aims to spark young people's interest in technology and improve their IT skills for Thai primary and secondary school students to showcase their creative IT works.

Application details for students interested in the 'Microsoft IT Youth Challenge 2011' are as follows:

1. Junior primary school students (P1 - P3) should create a project using Microsoft Paint, under the theme of 'Fairy Tales'.

2. Senior primary school students P4 - P6 should submit a math game using Microsoft Excel, under the theme of 'Quiz Games'.

3. Junior high school students M1 - M3 should submit work developing during 15 July -15 November on Windows Live Space, under the theme of 'Amazing Work Development on Windows Live Space'.

4. High school students (M4 - M6) - Thailand Innovative Student 2010 should submit education media by Microsoft MultiPoint that relate on content of 8 key subjects.

Interested students can submit their projects from now until November 15, 2010.The results will be announced at www.pil.in.th on November 30th, 2010.

In my opinion this project is the good idea to improve Thai student's skills about IT. This project will support Thai students to be a professional in the future to develop Thailand to progress. So I think that if Microsoft have this project every year. Thailand will have a lot of intelligent people.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/08/31/technology/Microsoft-Thailand-kicks-off-online-competition-Mi-30136958.html

Somchai: Thaksin still healthy

Former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat said Thaksin Shinawatra is still strong and healthy.The former Thai leader called him on the telephone to wish his happy birthday when he got 63. He said Thaksin is staying silent at this time because he want the country to be peace and didoesn't want to be a political issue. Asked about Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya's visit to Montenegro, Mr Somchai said if the visit was truly to tighten relations between the two countries. Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban this morning denied reports Mr Kasit was in Montenegro to hunt down Thaksin. He said Mr Kasit would explain "the facts" about Thaksin to the Montenegro authorities, who may well have heard only one side of the story, and the purpose was to strengthen ties.

In my opinion if you heard something. You can't trust it immidiately. You have to analyze first because you can't know which one is the truth. So if you don't analyze first and trust about something wrong, maybe it can makes some mistake for you.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/193883/somchai-thaksin-still-healthy

PM: Election when peace takes place

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said the fresh election could happen after the situation return to normal. He respond to a report that he has refrained from dissolving the House of Representatives that fear about the fresh general election would never happen. A general election will happen when the country has peace. If he don't dissolves this problem first. There is a risk that the situation will happen again. There were a lot of examples in many countries that the election holding had brought about social division and violence instead of democracy. This lead to a fail in holding an election.

In my opinion his idea is very well because if he don't dissolve this problem first. This problem will be a bigger problem. So all parties must help to lead to bring about peace to the country.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/193383/pm-election-when-peace-takes-place

Union wants hire-purchase bus fleet

This news is about the Bangkok Mass Transit needs the NGV-powered air-conditioned buses to transport, but the transport worker prefer another way is to rent better than buy. The union would go to submit this suggestion with prime minister Trairong Suwannakhiri who is going straight to the latest cabinet committee to review the Transport Ministry's bus leasing project. He said that if the governments make a plan to give free bus for people they could buy 2,000 hot buses, and the others 2,000 could be air-conditioned for commercial service.

I think they should buy better than lent because our countries have to pay a lot of money to rent many buses and then when the leasing time is over, they have to take the buses back. In the other hands, if they buy it own, they do not have to take the buses back, but they would derive it own for good.

http://bangkokpost.com/news/transport/191664/union-wants-buses-acquired-through-hire-purchase

Airport Link to open for business

The Airport Link connecting Bangkok and Suvarnabhumi airport will begin commercial services next Monday. Airport link’s express service and city line systems will run every 15minutes from 6am to 12pm. The express service is a non-stop line the fare is 100 baht per trip. And the city line will stop at 8 stations from Phayathai to airport. Its fares start at 15 baht. The baggage handling system is still in a testing period but will open before the end of this year. People with many bags may have some problems during this period. And the transport ministry’s project to rent 4,000NGV buses for 64billion baht will plan in the end of this month, should complete in two months.

In my opinion, in Thailand should have more public transports because nowadays a lot of people use their own cars. So we have to campaign to invite people to use public transports instead of use their own cars to solve the traffic problem and reduce energy loss.

http://bangkokpost.com/news/transport/191501/airport-link-to-open-for-business

Thailand opposes lower Mekong dams

Thailand’s representatives resist the plan that Chinese government want to build the dams on the lower Mekong river in Vietnam that would destroy the river’s ecosystem. Prasarn Maruekpithak and Surajit Chiraveth were invited to attend a workshop in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh city which assess the negative impacts likely to cause by China’s dams projects.The meeting concerned four points – to break the dam projects, to study of the possible impacts, to build a dam as pilot project, and to move ahead with plans to build 12 dams. Thailand representatives resist all 12 dam project for prevent the negative impacts in the future. The representatives from Vietnam were agreed because their country would be affected the most. Laos representatives had backed the third point, while the Cambodians would study more about the details of the projects. China’s four dams on the upper part of the Mekong River have already destroyed the river’s ecosystem. But now this nation still plans to build 12 dams more on the lower part of the river. No one can imagine how much it would destroy the fertility of the areas in countries through which the Mekong river flows.

In my opinion we should protect our environment because now in our world has a lot of problem to solve. So we have to conserve our world. We don't improve too much but we dont destroy our world too. The way that representtatives do is the best way that they can do.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/feature/environment/184421/thailand-opposes-mekong-dam-projects

Ayutthya ahead in race to host World Expo

Ayutthaya, Chon Buri and Chiang Mai want to be a city to host World Expo 2020. These three provinces have good quality, residential, local hospital and potential expansion concluded from a six-month study by the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB). Ayutthaya is ranked No 1 because of it is near Bangkok and Ayutthaya has the most potential by the cultural. The host city for a World Expo has to offer a huge space of between 1,000 and 1,500, located near an international airport or not more than 250 kilometres from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport. The city should offer accommodation, hospitals and healthcare of an international standard. Either Ayutthaya, Chon Buri or Chiang Mai will have to about 15 other cities in 9 countries, which want to host World Expo 2020.

In my opinion if Thailand can be the host World Expo 2020, it will make a good result for Thailand such as more income, more visitors and these 3provinces will be known too. So we have to show our potential.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/08/20/business/Ayutthya-ahead-in-race-to-host-World-Expo-30136250.html

Sea turtles hatch in Chiang Mai

Half of the 169 sea turtle eggs at Chiang Mai Zoo aquarium was born, Niphon Wichairat said it is the first time that extinct animals have been hatched. This is a part of turtle festival at the aquarium under a cooperation between Chiang Mai Zoo and navy' sea turtle conservation centre. Other eggs are expected to hatch in 2 or 3 days. Cold weather in Chiang Mai makes males hatched more than females that is a good way to conserve them. This festival has aim to remind people to conserve them.

In my opinion this is the good think that we should do since the past because sea turtle is the beautiful animal that almost extinct. So we have to conserve it and have a strict law to conserve them.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/feature/environment/185172/sea-turtles-hatch-out-in-chiang-mai

King Power seeks football academy

Vichai Raksriaksorn, chairman and CEO of King Power Group who is the takeover of Leicester City Football Club in England. They have plan to develop football in Thailand by takeover this team. And their business's name will appear on players's tees for three years that can promote their business to be known by other country all around the world. Mr.Vichai is now preparing to open the first Leicester City souvenir outlet at King Power duty-free. He plans to set up a football academy in Thailand because he thinks that Thailand has a lot of good players, but doesn't have professional coaches to train them.

In my opinion I think that this is a good chance to develop about football in Thailand and it is a good way to promote their business too because now in Thailand, football is the popular sport but have no professional coaches, no one support them. Nowadays we have the academy that can support them. So in the future Thailand absolutely will be known.

http://bangkokpost.com/business/marketing/191753/king-power-seeks-football-academy

Artists Pay Tribute to Wang Tha Phra

Assoc Prof Yanawit Kunchaethong, vice-rector of Silpakorn University, said that 28 artists ask to contribute one painting, with Wang Tha Phra as the central theme, for a project to mark the 200th Silpakorn anniversary.
''The university is a breeding ground for so many celebrated artists, but no one has done any work on this place before,'' he said.
Judging from its prime location, just a stone's throw away from the Grand Palace, Wang Tha Phra used to be the residence of high-ranking princes in the early Rattanakosin Period. The last turned into the country's first art school before upgraded to Silpakorn University. It is known to the public is Silpakorn University Wang Tha Phra campus.
This project, artists can make his or her impression of the university. All of the paintings will be showed in campus after the exhibition in September.
In my opinion, this project can make people who want to know about art or history of art and Silpakorn University can have more knowledge about them. And this project can support Thai artists to be known by other people from another country.

http://bangkokpost.com/entertainment/art/189554/artists-pay-tribute-to-wang-tha-phra

Concert for the Whole Family

“Khun Phra Chuay (Oh My God!)” a tv show that show about Thai cultural will be staged at Aksra Theatre. Now, it is a chance for fans to watch it live in a concert on Aug12-15 and 21, this theatre has a lot of factor about Thailand. It makes the perfect venue for traditional Thai performances.
This TV show is a stage for artists to shows their cultural heritage, that make appreciation of Thai culture among Thais.
Thongchai Prasongsanti, Teng Terdtueng and Tod Tongdee - the moderators – they proud to know that their shows can revive Thai culture and preserve it for future generations. The nature, culture, Thainess, the Thai smile, love and unity make this country to be a lovely place, so the theme for this concert is Phaendin Thong. This concert have a lot of artists.This concert is for everyone and a great show.
In my opinion, in Thailand should have TV shows or concerts that be like this more than the present. Because nowadays Thai culture is lost from Thai society so we have to support them to revive our culture.

http://bangkokpost.com/entertainment/music/188609/concert-for-the-whole-family