Science and technology

Thailand’s largest industrial estate developer is restructuring its investments to align with the country’s rapidly changing business landscape amid the coronavirus pandemic.Amata has decided to revise its business plan to invest 5 billion baht ($160 million) over five years to 2023 in Thailand and Vietnam, ...

The global cybersecurity company Kaspersky has reported a significant decrease in the number of ransomware attempts it detected and foiled last year among small and medium enterprise (SME) users in Southeast Asia.The company monitored 804,513 ransomware events in 2020, down 58% from the 2019 total ...

Thailand’s spending on public cloud services is expected to surge 31.7% year-on-year to 26.8 billion baht in 2021, in tandem with strong growth seen worldwide due to the pandemic, says global tech research firm Gartner.The company indicated that spending in Thailand could grow 28.2% to ...

The Digital Council of Thailand (DCT) is working with 36 leading tech organisations and the Medical Council of Thailand (TMC) to provide digital technology for field hospitals treating Covid-19 patients.“Digital technology can play an immense role in dealing with the country’s crisis, which is the ...

Cybersecurity has become paramount for businesses and individuals as digital transformation, internet usage and digital asset values are skyrocketing.Thailand encountered more than 20 million cyberthreats last year, according to global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) reported its products detected 20,598,223 different internet-borne cyberthreats on ...

The primary goal of any hospital or healthcare provider is their patients’ health and wellbeing. When it comes to embracing new technologies, it’s more about improving patient care, services and experiences to help them recover than deploying cutting-edge solutions or cost reductions – but an ...

The Thai workforce needs to speed up development of its digital skills, as digital technology is likely to replace human workers faster than previously forecast due to the pandemic, warns the chief of the state planning unit.Danucha Pichayanan, secretary-general of the National Economic and Social ...

The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with SIASUN, China’s leading robotics and automation company, to jointly develop an innovation centre in the Eastern Economic Corridor of Innovation (EECi).The MoU, which the NSTDA signed with the company’s ...

The government aims to accelerate the country’s R&D spending to 2.2% of GDP in seven years to improve economic development and reduce social disparity in the face of future uncertainty.“We are on a roadmap to become an innovation country as we are scaling up efforts ...

The pursuit of artificial intelligence (AI) advantages has been getting more attention in the past few years, with a number of countries making efforts to accelerate AI investments, especially in terms of human resources and digital infrastructure. Among them, is China, where the government has ...