Wonder Land: มิถุนายน 2010

วันเสาร์ที่ 26 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553

Thai auto sales soar at home and abroad: industry

By Manager Online

17 June 2010 16:38

This photo was taken in March, 2010. Domestic auto sales rose more than 50 percent in May. Increasing sales in the first five months of this year were driven by investment growth and steady fuel prices. AFP Photo.

June 17, 2010
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai vehicle exports in May more than doubled year-on-year while domestic auto sales jumped more than 50 percent despite recent deadly political unrest, the industry said Thursday.

The Federation of Thai Industries said exports for last month were up 135.3 percent to 75,075 units, although this only equated to a 27.1 percent rise in value to 3.3 billion baht from May last year.

Domestic sales soared 53.4 percent to 62,205 units, Toyota Motor Thailand said in its monthly release on behalf of the industry. Passenger cars saw a 60.2 percent rise while commercial vehicle sales were up 48.4 percent.

It was the ninth consecutive month of domestic sales growth.

Weeks of anti-government rallies in Bangkok, which ended with a military crackdown on May 19, triggered a series of clashes between protesters and armed troops that left 90 people dead -- mostly civilians -- and nearly 1,900 injured.

"The political factor has even affected the car market but it was offset by the swift remedy of the rehabilitation process, so the market was not severely hit," Toyota said.

Over the first five months of 2010, domestic car sales were up 52.2 percent on last year thanks to growing investment and stable oil prices, while exports were up by 78.5 percent from last year.

Philippine wrestles with 'Jejemon' cyber-dialect

By Manager Online

17 June 2010 18:16

A Philippine woman shows a text message on her mobile phone in a cyber dialect called 'jejemon' in Manila on June 10, 2010. The Philippines is wrestling with what authorities say is a language monster invading youth-speak in Internet social networks and mobile phone text messaging. (AFP/File/Noel Celis)

by Jason Gutierre, June 17, 2010
MANILA (AFP) – The Philippines is wrestling with what authorities say is a language monster invading youth-speak in Internet social networks and mobile phone text messaging.

The phenomenon has triggered enormous social debate, with the government declaring an "all out war" against the cyber-dialect, called 'jejemon', but the Catholic church defending it as a form of free expression.

The word 'jejemon' is derived from 'jeje' as a substitute for 'hehe' -- the SMS term for laughter -- and then affixing it with 'mon' -- taken from the popular Japanese anime of cute trainable monsters called "Pokemon."

Education Secretary Mona Valisno believes it could blunt the Philippines' edge in English proficiency, which has long helped the impoverished country attract foreign investment and sustain its lucrative outsourcing industry.

"Texting or using wrong English and wrong spelling could be very bad," Valisno told reporters recently as she declared her war on jejemon, urging teachers and parents to encourage the nation's youth to use correct English.

"What I am concerned about is the right construction, grammar. This is for their own improvement, for them to be able to land good jobs in the future."

Jejemon emerged over the past year as young people tried to shorten text messages on mobile phones, language experts say.

It then morphed into a unique language that spawned new words and phrases by deliberately stringing together mis-spelled words without syntax and liberally sprinkling them with punctuation marks.

And the initial idea of tighter texting got lost as many "words" became longer than the originals.

Instead of spelling "hello" for example, jejemon users spell it as "HeLouWH" or "Eowwwh", while the expression "oh, please" becomes "eoowHh.. puhLeaZZ."

Or, throwing a bit of the local language Tagalog into the mix, you can tell your significant other "lAbqCkyOuHh" (I love you) or "iMiszqcKyuH" (I miss you), and convey that you're happy by texting "jAjaja" or "jeJejE."

There are however no hard and fast rules in the constantly evolving jejemon, which perhaps adds to its appeal for teens and the bewilderment of adults.

The jejemon craze quickly spread among the country's more than 50 million mobile phone subscribers, who send a world-leading average of up to 12 text messages each every day, according to industry and government figures.

It then found its way among Filipinos in social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

For Manila high school student Laudemer Pojas, jejemon is an important part of his lifestyle that allows him to talk with friends using coded messages beyond the grasp of his strict parents.

"I am a jejemon addict," said the portly 17-year-old Pojas. "I don't know what the big fuss is all about. It's orig (unique) to people my age, like street lingo but on the net and texting.

"It's also easier to do and can't be read by my parents who check my cel (mobile phone) from time to time."

He said he met many new friends on Facebook after he joined a site defending jejemon from the "jejebusters" -- or those who hate the language.

Gary Mariano, a professor at Manila's De La Salle University and an expert in new media, said he had mixed feelings about jejemon.

"I'm torn between efficiency and formal correctness," Mariano said, pointing out jejemon was borne out of people simply adapting to a digital lifestyle.

"I require my students to use formal language in school papers, but when it comes to ordinary e-mails or text messages, I can be more tolerant.

"There should be no shame in using shortcuts in Internet language, but for the young ones who have not been exposed to proper English, then jejemon will not give them that foundation."

He noted that languages had always evolved, with many of the world's tongues constantly borrowing from one another.

"Even in modern English, there is still a debate on which is better, the one spoken by the British or the Americans," he said. "The history of language has been full of transitions."

Mariano said he used jejemon, albeit sparingly, and that he knew of many English grammar teachers who had taken to it.

English was first introduced to the archipelago more than a century ago when the United States brought in teachers to tutor the locals at the end of its war with Spain in 1898.

By the time full independence was gained in the mid-1940s, English was so widely spoken it subsequently became the medium of instruction in all schools and the unofficial second language next to Filipino.

But educators in recent years have lamented that spoken and written English appears to have deteriorated among the more than 90 million Filipinos.

One key indicator is that outsourcing firms that once relied on the pool of American-sounding Filipinos have recently reported a drop in recruitment.

This has forced the government to allocate more funds to upgrade English proficiency skills among teachers -- which education secretary Valisno warned would be imperilled if the jejemon phenomenon was not stopped.

However, jejemon advocates have found an unlikely ally in the influential Roman Catholic church, whose position on key social issues shapes public opinion.

It said jejemon was a form of free expression, comparing it to the language of hippies decades ago.

"Language is merely an expression of experience," said Joel Baylon, who heads the Catholic Bishop's Conference of the Philippines' commission on youth. What is more important are the values behind the language."

Brunei Sultan divorces third wife

By Manager Online

17 June 2010 16:34

File photo shows the Sultan of Brunei's Hassanal Bolkiah (centre) along with Queen Saleha (left) and his second wife Azrinaz during his 62nd birthday celebration. The royal head of the small oil-rich kingdom has divorced his third wife and stripped her of all royal titles after five years of marriage. (AFP/HO/BRUNEI MINISTRY OF INFORMATION/File/AFP)

June 17, 2010
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (AFP) - The sultan of the small oil-rich kingdom of Brunei has divorced his third wife and stripped her of all royal titles after five years of marriage.

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, 63, divorced Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim, 30, a former Malaysian television journalist, whom he married in 2005, according to state television late Wednesday.

"The Sultan has divorced his wife Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim and all the royal titles that have been awarded to the Sultan's former wife have been withdrawn," Grand chamberlain Haji Alauddin Haji Abu Bakar announced on Radio Television Brunei.

He said the divorce was granted based on "special reasons" but no other details were given. Rumours of the royal break-up had been circulating in the capital in recent weeks.

During their marriage, Azrinaz bore two children, adding to the Sultan's 10 heirs from earlier marriages.

The pair married in a private ceremony in Kuala Lumpur in 2005.

The ruler remains married to his first wife Anak Hajah Saleha and their son Prince Al Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah, is the present heir to the throne.

He married his second wife, former stewardess Mariam Abdul Aziz in October 1981 but divorced her in 2003.

Hassanal Bolkiah came to the throne as the kingdom's 29th sultan in 1967 upon the abdication of his father. He has a reported fortune of 20 billion dollars built on Brunei's oil and gas reserves.

Medical phone, vibrating earphone shine at trade show

By Manager Online

17 June 2010 15:35

An exhibitor holds a EPI Life smartphone that can detect a person's abnormal heart rhythm, at the CommunicAsia 2010 conference and exhibition show in Singapore, on June 16. (AFP/Roslan Rahman)

June 17, 2010
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Are you having chest pains and wondering if you should rush to hospital? The EPI Life, one of the gadgets on show at a Singapore trade fair, could be what you need.

At first glance, the 106-gram (3.7-ounce) touch-screen phone looks like any other fancy smartphone, but its tiny frame also holds an electrocardiogram (ECG) machine, which can put your heart reading literally at your fingertips.

An ECG, which can detect abnormal heart rhythms, is usually carried out at a hospital or clinic, but Chow U-Jin, medical director at Ephone International, which developed the EPI Life, said the device is able to condense the whole ECG process onto a mobile platform, making it a life-saving gadget.

And when it's not on medical duty, EPI Life works just like a normal phone.

"Inside this device there exists an ECG machine, which allows a non-medically trained person to perform an ECG by him or herself just by touching their fingers on the sides of the phone," he told AFP.

The person's chart is relayed to a 24-hour centre in Singapore and read by doctors and nurses. An assessment is delivered to the user within minutes with a text message, enabling prompt action where necessary.

"Instead of having to run off to a clinic whenever you have chest pains, you do the ECG immediately and that's where you have the maximum chance of capturing an abnormal rhythm," Chow said.

The phone, which has been launched in Singapore, is aiming to sell 10,000 to 15,000 units in Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong by the end of this year.

A one-year price plan which includes the device and 10 ECG readings a month costs 1,686 Singapore dollars (1,200 US) before taxes.

Another gadget on display at the CommunicAsia 2010 conference and trade fair is an earphone made by South Korean firm Yeil Electronics.

It vibrates while plugged to the ear and its makers said this can reduce the stress on the eardrums by diverting up to 20 percent of the sound away.

"Our earphones come with vibrations so about 20 percent of the sound is travelling to the bone and the skin, not directly to the ear," said the firm's Singapore-based director David Kwon.

Launched in South Korea, the product is expected to be available in Southeast Asia by the end of this month, and the makers are hoping it will prove popular with videogamers looking for a realistic sound experience.

Lost your phone? No problem.

An application called WaveSecure can help users of mobile phones that run on the Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile operating systems track their lost devices and reclaim data.

Developed by a Singaporean firm called tenCube, WaveSecure allows users to retain control over their lost phones by remote control, said its business developer Saurabh Mandar.

"With the smartphone industry picking up so fast, the amount of information we have on our phones today is highly sensitive and it could be anything from our videos, our photos, our emails to our passwords to banks," Mandar said.

Through the software, a map of the location is provided when the phone is tracked and the owner can even view the phone's SIM card activity.

In addition to remotely locking the phone and wiping off their data, users can back up the information on a WaveSecure portal which has a storage capacity of up to two gigabytes.

Users also have the option of restoring the data to the device if it is recovered, or transfer the information to a new handphone.

วันอังคารที่ 22 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553

Caffeine addicts get no real perk from morning cup

By Manager Online

15 June 2010 11:26

This photo retrieved June 7, 2010 is from www.google.co.th. Caffeine only brings regular coffee drinkers to the baseline levels of alertness.

June 14, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) – Caffeine addiction is such a downer that regular coffee drinkers may get no real pick-me-up from their morning cup, according to a study by British scientists.

Bristol University researchers found that drinkers develop a tolerance to both the anxiety-producing and the stimulating effects of caffeine, meaning that it only brings them back to baseline levels of alertness, not above them.

"Although frequent consumers feel alerted by caffeine, especially by their morning tea, coffee, or other caffeine-containing drink, evidence suggests that this is actually merely the reversal of the fatiguing effects of acute caffeine withdrawal," wrote the scientists, led by Peter Rogers of Bristol's department of experimental psychology.

The team asked 379 adults -- half of them non/low caffeine consumers and the other half medium/high caffeine consumers -- to give up caffeine for 16 hours, and then gave them either caffeine or a dummy pill known as a placebo.

A waitress serves coffee to a customer in a coffee shop in Jakarta July 23, 2008. REUTERS/Supri

Participants rated their levels of anxiety, alertness and headache. The medium/high caffeine consumers who got the placebo reported a decrease in alertness and increased headache, neither of which were reported by those who received caffeine.

But measurements showed that their post-caffeine levels of alertness were actually no higher than the non/low consumers who received a placebo, suggesting caffeine only brings coffee drinkers back up to "normal."

The researchers also found that people who have a genetic predisposition to anxiety do not tend to avoid coffee.

In fact, people in the study with a gene variant associated with anxiety tended to consume slightly larger amounts of coffee than those without it, Rogers wrote in a study in the Neuropsychopharmacology journal, published by Nature.

This suggests that a mild increase in anxiety "may be a part of the pleasant buzz caused by caffeine," he said.

(Reporting by Kate Kelland; editing by Peter Graff)

Vuvuzelas give phones World Cup ring

By Manager Online

15 June 2010 15:27

This photo retrieved June 15, 2010 is from www.google.co.th. South Africa's vuvuzela trumpet can now be blown on a cell phone. A Vuvuzela 2010 app is now available at Apple's iTunes music store.

June 15, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - As complaints about South Africa's vuvuzela trumpets roll in, lovers of the metre-long plastic horns can now blast them from cell phones.

Dutch designers moblio have released a Vuvuzela 2010 app on Apple's iTunes music store.

Their website says they have had 750,000 downloads of the application that lets users blow the horn by touching an image of it on their screen.

One user comment called it "so stupid, it's awesome".

Some players and television viewers have complained about the din created by the vuvuzelas in the stadiums, but FIFA has insisted that fans will not be stopped from blowing the horns that have already come to symbolise the tournament in South Africa.

Book asks: Is Internet ruining our minds?

By Manager Online

15 June 2010 11:31

This photo was taken in February, 2010. Books enable focusing our minds on one topic at a time whereas the Internet leads to distraction. AFP Photo.

By Mark Egan, June 15, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When author Nicholas Carr began researching his book on whether the Internet is ruining our minds, he restricted his online access and e-mail and turned off his Twitter and Facebook accounts.

His new book "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains" argues the latest technology renders us less capable of deep thinking. Carr found himself so distracted that he couldn't work on the book while staying as connected, as is commonplace.

"I found my inability to concentrate a great disability," Carr told Reuters in an interview.

"So, I abandoned my Facebook and Twitter accounts and throttled back on e-mail so I was only checking a couple of times a day rather than every 45 seconds. I found those types of things really did make a difference," he said.

After initially feeling "befuddled" by his sudden lack of online connection, Carr said, within a couple of weeks he was able to stay focused on one task for a sustained period and, thankfully, able to do his work.

Carr wrote a 2008 Atlantic magazine piece that posed the controversial question "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and wanted to dig deeper into how the Internet alters our minds.

His book examines the history of reading and the science of how using different media changes our brains.

Exploring how society shifted from an oral tradition to the printed word and to the Internet, he details how the brain rewires itself to adjust to new information sources.

Reading on the Internet has fundamentally changed how we use our brains, he writes.

Facing a torrent of text, photos, video, music and links to other web pages combined with incessant interruptions from text messages, e-mails, Facebook updates, Tweets, blogs and RSS feeds, our minds have become used to skimming, browsing and scanning information.

As a result, we have developed sharper skills at making fast decisions, particularly visual ones, Carr says.

But now most of us infrequently read books, long essays or articles that would help us focus, concentrate and be introspective and contemplative, Carr writes.

Carr wrote a 2008 Atlantic magazine piece that posed the controversial question "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and wanted to dig deeper into how the Internet alters our minds. Reuters photo.

ARE WE LIBRARIANS?

He says we are becoming more like librarians -- able to find information quickly and discern the best nuggets -- than scholars who digest and interpret information.

That lack of focus hinders our long-term memory, leading many of us to feel distracted, he said.

"We never engage the deeper, interpretive functions of our brains," he said.

To illustrate, he likens short-term memory to a thimble and long-term memory to a large bathtub. Reading a book is like filling the tub with water from one steadily flowing faucet with each thimble of information building upon the last.

By contrast, the Internet is countless fast-flowing faucets, leaving us grasping for thimbles of disparate information to put in the tub and making it harder for our brains to draw connections and have cogent recall.

"What we are losing is a whole other set of mental skills, the ones that require not the shifting of our focus but the maintaining of our focus," Carr said.

"Contemplation, introspection, reflection -- there is no space or time for those on the Internet."

Carr says for centuries books shielded our brains from distraction, focusing our minds on one topic at a time.

But with devices such as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPad, which incorporate eReaders and web browsers, becoming commonplace, Carr predicts books too will change.

"New forms of reading always require new forms of writing," he said.

If writers cater to a society that is chronically distracted, they will inevitably eschew writing complex arguments that require sustained attention and instead write in pithy, bite-sized bits of information, Carr predicts.

Carr has a suggestion for those who feel web surfing has left them incapable of concentration -- slow down, turn off the Internet and practice the skills of contemplation, introspection and reflection.

"It is pretty clear from the brain science that if you don't exercise particular cognitive skills, you are going to lose them," he said. "If you are constantly distracted, you are not going to think in the same way that you would think if you paid attention."

(Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Patricia Reaney)

Exploiting whales, companies eye new products

By Manager Online

15 June 2010 13:06

File photo shows fishermen slaughtering a 10m-long bottlenose whale at Wada port in Minami-Boso city, Japan. Companies in Japan, Iceland and Norway are developing whale-based products ranging from drugs to cosmetics to animal feed, banking on the resumption of global trade, according to a report. (AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

June 15, 2010
PARIS (AFP) – Companies in Japan, Iceland and Norway are developing whale-based products ranging from drugs to cosmetics to animal feed, banking on the resumption of global trade, according to a report.

Ahead of a key meeting of the 88-nation International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Agadir, Morocco next week, debate on the use of hunted whales has centered on the consumption of meat, especially in Japan.

But the three countries harvesting the marine mammals despite a 1982 global moratorium also exploit whales in other ways and are laying a foundation for future commercial applications, said the report prepared by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) and released late Monday.

Thousands of approved patents list whale oil, cartilage, and spermaceti -- a wax-like liquid found in the head cavities of sperm whales -- as ingredients in goods as diverse as golf balls, hair dye, "eco-friendly" detergent, candy, health drinks and bio-diesel, investigators found.

"It is clear that whalers are planning to use whale oil and other whale derivatives to restore their hunts to long-term profitability," said Sue Fisher, who heads the WDCS's whale campaign.

"Iceland, Japan and Norway are betting heavily that the commercial whaling moratorium will be lifted."

These new applications could ultimately dwarf the value of whale meat, whether sold domestically or exported, she said.

Profit-driven whale hunting has been banned for 25 years, and international trade in whales or whale parts is forbidden under CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

All three nations however have used loopholes in the moratorium -- which went into effect in 1986 -- to continue tracking and killing the animals.

During that time the IWC has been paralysed, split between pro-conservation and pro-whaling interests.

But a proposal on the table in Agadir could break the stalemate, leading to a compromise deal that all parties can live with, if only barely.

The whaling states would each be granted annual kill quotas through 2020, totalling nearly 12,000 specimens, in return giving up the right to invoke unilateral exemptions, as do Norway and Iceland, or to hunt for "scientific" purposes, as does Japan.

Conservationists would finally see what they regard as rogue nations brought into the IWC fold and the creation of a DNA-based monitoring system, but at the cost of thousands of whale lives.

The 10-year deal is designed to create a pressure-free zone for hammering out a durable agreement.

But anti-whaling groups fear it will legitimate commercial hunting and provide an incentive to push for an overturn of the ban once the decade-long deal expires.

"We anticipate they will use these new pharmaceuticals, animal feed and personal care products to soften global opposition to whaling and challenge the ban on international trade," said Kate O'Connell, a WDCS trade analyst.

Already today, the report shows, Japan uses whale cartilage to manufacture chondroitin to treat osteoarthritis, collagen for anti-inflammatory treatments and beauty products, and as a common food additive called oligosaccarides.

Norway, the world's top exporter of fishmeal and oil for livestock and aquatic farming, has conducted research on how to integrate whale products in to the manufacturing process.

Norwegian scientists have also researched the use of whale oil for pharmaceutical and health supplements such as omega-3. And at least one clinical trial is testing its efficacy for treating rheumatoid arthritis.

In Iceland, the government recently recommended the creation of an industrial park in Hvalfiroi where fin whales could be transformed into meat, meal and oil.

วันศุกร์ที่ 18 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553

Private rocket launch successful on maiden flight

By Manager Online

5 June 2010 15:40

The SpaceX Falcon 9 test rocket lifts off of pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The privately owned rocket successfully blasted off on its first flight, marking a significant milestone for the space industry in the race to develop commercial carriers. (AFP/Getty Images/Matt Stroshane)

by Sandra Ferrer, June 5, 2010
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A privately owned rocket successfully blasted off on its first flight, marking a significant milestone for the space industry in the race to develop commercial carriers.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket blasted off in mid-afternoon Friday from Cape Canaveral in Florida, reaching Earth orbit as planned nine minutes into the flight.

"All in all, this has been a good day for SpaceX and a promising development for the US space program," said Robyn Ringuette of SpaceX, who provided commentary on the launch from the firm's headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

The two-stage rocket delivered the Dragon capsule, a mockup of the company's spacecraft aimed to eventually facilitate human space travel, into orbit after a 9.5-minute trip.

The first and second stage of the white, 180-foot (55-meter) tall rocket separated successfully just three minutes and six seconds into the flight.

"Congratulations to Space X on today's launch of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement.

"Space X's accomplishment is an important milestone in the commercial transportation effort and puts the company a step closer to providing cargo services to the International Space Station."

Technical glitches initially delayed the launch, including an automatic computer override of the system that led SpaceX to abort its first attempt.

The launch represented a key test in developing commercial launchers capable of ferrying cargo and astronauts to the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).

It came as President Barack Obama seeks to convince a reluctant Congress of the merits of his decision in February to cancel the Constellation program -- designed to return US to the moon by 2020 -- which effectively killed the Ares 1 rocket.

He has turned to the private sector to help fill the gap after the space shuttle fleet is grounded later this year, and before a new generation of spacecraft is developed.

Obama has proposed spending six billion dollars over five years to help the private sector develop reliable and affordable launchers to transport cargo and US astronauts to the International Space Station.

During the transition period, the United States will depend on Russian Soyuz rockets for access to the ISS -- unless the private sector can propose viable launchers.

The president visited SpaceX installations at Cape Canaveral during an April visit to the Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX leaders emphasized that the Falcon 9 launch was just the first in a series of test flights.

"As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit," said Rusty Schweickart, who served as an astronaut aboard the Apollo 9 lunar mission.

Former space shuttle astronaut Byron Lichtenberg said he expected that many more astronauts would travel in space thanks to the Falcon 9's success.

"Lower cost launches means more flights, which means more astronauts," he added.

"We've only had 500 astronauts in the history of the Space Age, but I hope to see thousands more in the decades to come."

NASA has already signed contracts with SpaceX -- or Space Exploration Technologies Corporation -- a start-up founded eight years ago by multimillionaire Elon Musk, who made his fortune by helping found and eventually sell online pay system PayPal.

The NASA contracts, signed in late 2008 and worth 3.1 billion dollars, are to deliver cargo to the ISS between 2011 and 2016.

The US space agency has also signed contracts with another company, Orbital Sciences Corp. Its Taurus II rocket is set for its first flight in 2011.

SpaceX and other upstarts would be up against industry giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin, which together operate United Launch Alliance (ULA), whose stable includes Atlas V and Delta 4 rockets that have logged considerable flight hours.

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วันเสาร์ที่ 26 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553

Thai auto sales soar at home and abroad: industry

Philippine wrestles with 'Jejemon' cyber-dialect

Brunei Sultan divorces third wife

Medical phone, vibrating earphone shine at trade show

วันอังคารที่ 22 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553

Caffeine addicts get no real perk from morning cup

Vuvuzelas give phones World Cup ring

Book asks: Is Internet ruining our minds?

Exploiting whales, companies eye new products

วันศุกร์ที่ 18 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553

Private rocket launch successful on maiden flight

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