An up-and-coming futuristic sport is locking in a blockbuster sponsorship with a technology positioning itself as the currency of the future. The Drone Racing League (DRL) said this week it signed a five-year contract with cryptocurrency platform Algorand that those close to the companies say is worth $100 million. The sum makes the deal the...
The State government is not against setting up of an expert committee to probe the financial irregularities in Sri Guru Raghavendra Cooperative Bank,
Gillian Tett, chair of the editorial board (U.S.) of the Financial Times, is the author of Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life. She discusses what economists miss when studying consumers, businesses, markets, and the wider economy using only massed data and abstract theories. She argues that economics can benefit enormously from anthropological perspectives or perspectives derived from the close-up study of how individuals think and behave in specific group cultures.
By Dana Larsen Published: September 14th, 2021
Don't forget folks this weekend the WDFA is hosting a football groundhop.
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The event takes place in Birmingham’s Utilita Arena
Читать дальше...The pilot program is using a familiar approach to tackle current travel challenges.
Ikea is holding the first-ever "Ikea Festival", a 24-hour virtual event that will allow guests to enjoy home tours around the world and have fun activities, starting tomorrow at 1pm.
At the dawning of the internet age the aim was to provide a platform to share information, initially between higher education facilities. It was a golden age of what was essentially a library of information shared across the United States and later the world. The early fact checkers were academics interested in facts, data and a robust discussion. Skip forward to 2021 and the situation has...
Museum Siam is holding "Online Museum Forum 2021" under the theme "Farsighted Museum: Sighting Forward To Aging Society" from tomorrow to Saturday between 9am to 5pm, via Zoom and Facebook Live: Museum Siam.
An important gathering of documentary filmmakers in Southeast Asia "Doc By The Sea" this year had to move online, though it remains a rich, stimulating event that contributes to the documentary community in the region. Usually held in Bali -- thus the "by the sea" moniker -- DBTS this year was titled "Doc By The Sea Accelerator 2021", with a week-long event that ran from Aug 16 to Sept 4...
At the Thailand Animator Festival 6 (TAF6) last month, organised by Sputnik Tales Studio and the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture under the Ministry of Culture, animations Little Miss Dungjai, Play With Me, The Blue Curtain, Nowhere and A Roadside Story were among the 10 winners selected from 192 entrants.
The largest and most populous city in Thailand, Bangkok is well-known as a perfect tourist destination and street food paradise with plenty of friendly faces. But just like any other big city around the world, only people who actually live here understand that Bangkok can be a facade. On one side is a glamorous city, but the other side presents a very dark place.
Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is not the first leader to latch onto Thai nationals who have "made it" in the international arena before taking the opportunity to train the light on themselves by talking about Thailand's "soft power" and "creative economy".
When two influencer monks -- Phra Maha Praiwan Worawano and Phra Maha Sompong Talaputto -- were summoned to Government House last week for giggling too much in their dhamma talk shows, I expected intellectual duels between the conservatives and the liberals on the monastic codes of conduct and the clergy's need to catch up with times.
Never mind the destruction of the relatively free society of Hong Kong (no emergency airlift like in Kabul, Afghanistan, but the number of people fleeing Hong Kong may ultimately be larger). Never mind the persecution of the Uighurs, or the Orwellian surveillance society that the Communist Party is building, or the tens of millions who died in wars, famines and "cultural revolutions" to bring...
From Australia and Brazil to Nigeria and the United States, countries are putting in place new guidelines and regulations governing the digital sharing of financial data. The aim is to spur the creation of digital-data ecosystems that smooth and speed interactions between financial institutions and their individual and corporate customers. But successful adoption of open financial data could also...
Low-priced condos with attractive designs near job clusters or schools continue to be popular as price-sensitive demand is strong amid poor market sentiment, according to property consultant Colliers Thailand.
Thailand's national trade strategy for 2022 to 2027 should focus on upgrading existing export products and services in alignment with modern technology.
The Bank of Thailand and Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) are prepared for cross-border business expansion under a bilateral Qualified Asean Bank (QAB) agreement.
In this edition of Toronto Maple Leafs’ News & Rumors, I’ll share news and comment about Auston Matthews’ wrist injury. Second, I’ll share a recent video from “The Maple Leafs’…
The COVID pandemic has wreaked considerable damage on the economies of South America’s smaller fiscally fragile countries, with the former Dutch colony of Suriname hit especially hard. During 2020 the impoverished South American nation’s gross domestic product shrank by 13.5%, the continent’s worst performance after Venezuela. A deeply impoverished Suriname now finds itself mired in a severe economic crisis that is threatening an already fragile state that only emerged from an intense political impasse... Читать дальше...
