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AT&T Buying HBO and CNN Owner Time Warner for USD$85.4 Billion

NEW YORK — AT&T is buying Time Warner, the owner of the Warner Bros. movie studio as well as HBO and CNN, for $85.4 billion in a deal that could shake up the media landscape.

7-Eleven Dumps AIS Services

BANGKOK — Those looking to top up their 1-2-Call cards and other AIS services will need to be more creative than walking into 7-Eleven.
A model for a proposed high-speed rail train in July 2017. Photo: Prachachat

Govt Approves 179 Billion Baht for Controversial High-Speed Railway Project

BANGKOK — Starting from 2021, traveling from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima province – the gateway town to northeastern region – will take only one hour and 17 minutes, the interim cabinet said Tuesday.

Govt Floats Long-Term Land Leases for Foreigners

BANGKOK — Foreigners may be able to actually own land in Thailand – even if it’s just temporary.

With Money in Reach and Eyes on Fintech, Thai Startups Turn Corner at Techsauce...

BANGKOK — This past weekend’s Techsauce Summit provided insight into the ever-expanding Thai startup ecosystem where financial technology is red hot, venture capital infrastructure is booming – and above all – mobile is still king.

RML Moves Into New Home At OCC Thailand’s Tallest Office Building

RML (Raimon Land Public Company Limited) has recently moved head office to OCC (One City Centre)’, the tallest grade A+ luxury office building in...

VinFast CEO Reveals 4 New EV Models for Thai Market in 2024

BANGKOK - Exclusive with CEO VinFast revealing strategic plans for Vietnamese car manufacturers Entering in Thailand market As the 45th Bangkok International Motor Show kickstart,...

On Asiola, Superfans Support Artists for Swag and Goodies

BANGKOK — Log into Facebook recently and it would be hard to miss an event or two organized by Asiola, a new digital crowdfunding platform for people to support the creative projects they want to see happen.

Everything You Were Afraid to Ask About Thai Rice Subsidies

BANGKOK — When the military government approved spending at least 20 billion baht to guarantee prices for rice farmers, two questions were raised: How...

5 Tech Tools Tackling Overfishing, Slavery at Sea

BANGKOK — Fishing boats used high-tech systems to find vast schools of fish for decades, depleting stocks of some species and leading to the complete collapse of others. Now more than a dozen apps, devices and monitoring systems aimed at tracking unscrupulous vessels and the seafood they catch are being rolled out — high-tech solutions some say could also help prevent labor abuse at sea.

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