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A Nation treading lightly - Jul 26, 2009

Blogs A little over a week ago, His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei celebrated his 63rd birthday. As with every year he addresses the nation, but this year's speech was a stark ... Read story »

Abstracting national concerns - Jun 25, 2009

Blogs Still on my info-graphics binge. I stumbled upon this site Capital Words. Interesting to note the number of times some words were said over others. Like "Oil" for example, as compared ... Read story »

CAT to take over Hutch network - Dec 30, 2009

Blogs There have been rumblings of a possible buyout and now its official, CAT is to take control of Hutch Telecom. For an expected 5-7.5 billion Baht price tag, CAT will be ... Read story »

Is True Move testing 3G in Chiang Mai? - Dec 16, 2009

Blogs Hot on the heels of TOT's 3G deployment, it seems that True Move may be secretly testing 3G in Chiang Mai as well. Speaking to some iPhone 3G users in the ... Read story »

Dr Money has US$5.5 million for me - Sep 11, 2009

Blogs I was recently contacted by a "Dr" (PhD?, MD?, DDS?) from an African nation who shall remain unnamed. He said there was a bank account which has been domant for the ... Read story »

Obama: "I have never used Twitter" - Nov 16, 2009

Blogs One of the interesting things to come out of his just concluded townhall meeting in Shanghai was US President Barack Obama's admission: "I have never used Twitter". Obama casually divulged this ... Read story »

Angel Locsin, Kris Aquino and friends launches Shop & Share Web site - Oct 16, 2009

Blogs (Story Update): Kim Chiu, Gerald Anderson, Piolo Pascual, Richard Gutierrez, KC Concepcion, Dingdong Dantes, Lucky Manzano and many more have contributed to the project.   A Web site that aims to ... Read story »

An open letter... - Oct 19, 2009

Blogs Dear friends Since the conception of sending out paper with writing to each other in the form of mail, companies have been taking advantage of this system to throw in advertisements ... Read story »

Who is ultimately responsible for the planet? - Oct 30, 2009

Blogs The other day, I went for a talk about changing world views. I learned that in the past, people did not consider it to be the Government's responsibility to provide welfare ... Read story »

My son's Crocs are in Google Street View Singapore - Dec 2, 2009

Blogs Well, my son's Crocs, my house, family car, slippers, stools, umbrellas, car polish are now on Google Street View.No big fanfare, Google Street View was launched today in Singapore at a place which Google ... Read story »

Thailand tackles online censorship again - Nov 9, 2009

Blogs Prathet Thai, or land of the free, is what Thailand is called in the Thai language. Land of the free (and home of the brave) also defines the US. As the ... Read story »

Arroyo State of the Nation Address live blog and live video stream - Jul 27, 2009

Blogs UPDATE: Here's the GMANews.TV live video stream. Also, SONA is now one of the top Trending Topics on Twitter. SONA is now the second most popular Trending Topic, while Arroyo's initials ... Read story »

Why China's "Great Firewall" is so anti-social (networking)... - Sep 11, 2009

Blogs 2009 in China has turned out to be the year of heightened Web censorship, implemented by the nationwide filtering system known--not very affectionately--as "The Great Firewall".Many hoped that the Beijing Olympics ... Read story »

Thai poli-twitter - Aug 7, 2009

Blogs What would you do if you've been ousted by the military, have your political party disbanded, and wanted by the bureaucracy which you used to oversee? If you're Thaksin Shinawatra, then ... Read story »

Mourning the death of the "greatest human being who ever lived" - Sep 22, 2009

Blogs I'll be honest: I didn't know Norman Borlaug, or realize the impact this man's work had on millions of lives, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. ... Read story »

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