Thursday, November 20th, 2008
The First National Economic Development Plan continually emphasized development in Thailand. The Second National Economic Development Plan continually emphasized the development of infrastructure in such areas as communication and transportation. The Third Plan was named, the National Economic Development Plan, as it combined social economic development along with economic development in efforts to improve the [...]
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
The Second Plan (1967-1971): The Foundation of the Infrastructure
The Thai economy was now in a new era of development since the initiation of the First Plan. Toward the end of the First Plan. Toward the end of the First Plan. Thailand had an increase in political conflict. Both internally and externally. These conflicts led to [...]
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Economic Background for Investment in Thailand
Until quite recently, Thailand had a reputation for being primarily a country which relied heavily on commodity exports, it used to be the world’s largest rice exporter.
However, this is no longer true, the agricultural exports used to represent more than 40 percent of the country’s export in the mid-80s. Now [...]
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Why is the U.S. the most loved and the most hated country in the world at the same time?
It is the country that people love to hate because of its wealth, power, kindness and resilient spirit. Although the United States of America is often criticized, when there is a problem, they are usually the ones [...]
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
For decades the people and government of the U.S.A. have worried and obsessed over occupation or disaster brought on from the outside. The Cold War was all about the fear of annihilation by the Communists and Russia (the Soviet Union). We have so obsessed over that fear that we often forget the truth behind the [...]
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Benji, the computer entity, was guiding the exploration of Saturn’s moons by Capt. Marcos and his team of spatons (space robots) with his space ship ‘Napolean.’
Napoleon was roving about ‘Find 68’ mapping the region for radio activity carefully. It was not long before Capt. Marco sent message to Benji that the radio active (RA) source [...]
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
The amount of warning time a tsunami warning system can provide depends on the distance between your location and the location of the undersea event. A tsunami can travel 500 to 600 mph in deep water, slowing as it approaches shore. If the undersea earthquake that starts the tsunami is 500 miles offshore [...]
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
It is a matter of record that both President Dryden of the Prudential and President Knapp of the Metropolitan were close students of the Prudential of London. Both went to London and witnessed the functioning of the business at first hand. In fact, Mr. Knapp and the Metropolitan’s Attorney, Stewart L. Woodford, and an expert [...]
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
The Worldwide General News (WGN) TV channel was inundated with questions about the danger from the LHC which was commissioned. They decided to devote their next ‘Space Talk’ program to this subject. For the purpose, they invited Albert Burman and Kalpa, the experts to their Studio.
On the appointed day and hour, Larry Newton the presenter [...]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Is Australia’s present drought a sign of global warming?
In our examination of the international controversy that is climate change and global warming, we’ve looked at the positions of both parties - the Scaremongers who fully support the theory, and the Idealists who want more concrete evidence. However in Australia much of the so-called support for [...]
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