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Thailand to distribute 1.7 million tablets to schools

Thai children take part in a training session of a computer animation program provided at a school in Bangkok, May 6, 2006. (AFP)

Thailand plans to distribute about 1.7 million tablet computers to students and teachers this year in the world’s largest handout of the devices for education, officials said Thursday. Nine firms from countries including China, India, Germany and the Netherlands are set to join an online tender in April to supply…

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Thai activist jailed for royal slurs

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A Thai political activist has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison in the latest in a series of convictions under the kingdom’s controversial royal defamation laws. The Criminal Court in Bangkok found Surachai Danwattananusorn guilty of insulting the monarchy during several public speeches he gave to…

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