Business Exit Strategy Intelligence: Cars & chicks crazed Japapese …
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28th, 2011 by cars2scrap – 572 CommentsEarlier today, I discovered a lovely post posted last week, by thaiintelligentnews, and entitled Business Exit Strategy Intelligence: Cars & chicks crazed Japapese … that I would suggest all of you read! Below are some excerpts to whet your appetites!
The school is the most recent location in the North of Thailand where Canon has completed installation of the wind turbines. The clean energy from the wind turbine system will be distributed to light bulbs and other electrical appliances in each school’s “Clean Energy Library by Canon”, in order to reduce harmful carbon dioxide emissions which contribute to Global Warming. Mr. Somkiat explained the background of the “Clean Energy for Green World”, noting that it was initiated to mark 2009 as the 15th anniversary of Canon’s business in Thailand. This CSR activity relates to the company’s philosophy of “Kyosei”, which focuses on “Living and Working Together for the Common Good” – Canon’s policy to conduct business while conserving natural resources and protecting the environment.
Now then, reading thaiintelligentnews’s post started me off thinking so I had a quick search around for more posts on the subject and uncovered some more greatposts. e.g. this post by ellen, posted three weeks ago, over on VERA Files:
Lèse majesté, or bad-mouthing the monarchy, is a crime not just in Thailand but European countries like Spain, Morocco and the Netherlands. It is in Thailand, however, that such an offense is also a ground for violation of Section 14 of the Computer Crime Act. The Thai law goes one step further by making Internet Service Providers (ISPs), under which Chiranuch apparently qualifies, equally liable as the individuals who commit lèse majesté in the internet. Cyber law expert JJ Disini, a professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law, said the Prachatai trial shows that “the easiest way for governments to regulate the internet is to go after the Internet Service Providers or ISPs rather than the content providers.” He added that this form of censorship is similar to the Egyptian government’s shutting down of all telecommunications office and the Chinese government’s euphemistically called “Chinese Great Wall.” Chiranuch insisted in an interview a few days before the trial that the prosecution is not about her, personally.
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” Educator and Social Media Technology Consultant Joel Yuvienco says “the trial could have a chilling effect and can inspire those in power to toy around with their executive position.” From its modest beginnings in September 2004, Prachatai became very popular in the days leading to the ouster of Thai Primne Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006. Aside from news, Prachatai.com has a web board that she moderates where any individual can register and post comments. Chiranuch says the news site now has an average of 50,000 hits daily from 15,000 IP addresses while the web forum has as much as 300,000 hits from as many as 30,000 IP addresses. Prachatai however, had voluntarily shut down the web forum since July 2010. A Thai National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) report said there were 13.4 million Internet users in Thailand by the end of 2008, almost five times more than the number of users in 2000.
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Thai media lawyer Sinfah Tunsarawuth and Toby Mendel,Executive Director of the Canadian-based Centre for Law and Democracy, say the “Computer Crime Act is the single most controversial piece of legislation affecting freedom of expression since its enforcement in July 2007.” In the same legal analysis commissioned by Thai Netizen, Sinfah and Mendel pointed out that the law, specifically Section 14, which includes offences against national security, and therefore lèse majesté, has been the single offence most frequently applied by the Thai authorities against Internet users and ISPs due in part to the recent political situation in the country. Prachatai.com, is still a small and independent online news outfit compared to other professional media companies in Bangkok. The severity of the charges against Chiranuch, the events leading to her arrest and trial and the jampacked first hearing last February 4 underline however, the viral growth and effect of online media in a country where political tension simmers between the yellow shirts and the red shirts, or the factions supporting the monarchy and those loyal to ousted Thaksin. The government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva cracks down on dissenters and a huge red shirt rally caused a traffic jam a few days before the trial. Disini however is optimistic that in cyberspace, Filipinos are not likely to tolerate strong arm tactics from government and telecoms providers. “We are pretty liberal and social platforms here are very effective.
Finally, another fantastic post came from Andrew Drummond on Andrew Drummond posted earlier today, entitled Dabbling with the devil – an old post updated at which is also certainly worth a look.
Its not been written yet! Yes there was a little extra info because I have been there, met them, have reliable sources etc. spoken to all the people, get advice. All the things u suggest. Was I threatened, offered cash? Well both indirectly I suppose.
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I must conclude then, that you are intent on creating a little drama, and getting a nice news story out of whatever unfolds. I am guessing that with the assistance of snitches and/or infiltrators, you know pretty much everything about who is who, locations, and activities. Then, with allies from offshore (perhaps Australian authorities, and UK Police, etc.) you hope to stage a big boiler room bust. How am I doing so far? You already have a lot of material from solid research, as well as anecdotal evidence, and probably quite a few photographs, documents, and so forth. Your story will likely include interviews with snitches, as well as reports from yourself and from infiltrators who are “undercover”, and lots of photos from before, during, and after the bust.
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I have no plans on publishing a story at the moment, but on the other hand I am not going to be coerced into promising not to publish a story in the future. I am sure you can see that. I withdrew the story as a favour to an individual when I realised he could sort out a problem for me or rather a friend. I would like to see that problem solved. Despite that however I have had a menacing incident and am now being blamed for distributing this on the net, even from a site from which I have been banned. So there appears to be little credibility on either side.