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Epson creates Thailand base for world sales

Epson, a Japanese printer manufacturer, has selected Thailand as a base to produce inkjet printers for export. The firm late last week officially launched the first shipment of printers made in Thailand to Indonesia. According to Seiichi Hirano, the director and chief executive of the imaging and information products division, the company has co-operated with Muramoto Electron (Thailand), a Japan-based electronic appliance manufacturer, to produce inkjet printers in Thailand under an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement.

Soken Electrics upbeat on Thai MP3 market

As the fad for cell phones starts to fade, what comes next for gadget fans? Almost certainly the answer is MP3.

Ministry spends big to lift Net speeds for 35,000 schools

The Education Ministry will invest Bt4 billion to provide Internet access at speeds of up to 512 kilobits per second to 35,000 schools nationwide in the coming four years.

Technology Licensing Centre a work in progress

So that research can become a source of revenue for the country, the National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Biotec) is drafting a framework to establish a permanent government body – what it calls the Technology Licensing Centre (TLC).

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