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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:06:28 -0400 
From: Schitt Laowattana <sl2k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: [REPOST] part(2): S&T Strategies in Metals/Materials Industry in Thailand

                             2. Metal Working
 
* Status(Weakness & Strength)
 
    - Foundry strongest followed by presswork, machining, die making, forging
    - Not enough engineer & metallurgists
    - Not enough qualified skilled workers
    - Technology & equipment not up to date
    - Inadequate testing & certification service and standard systems
    - Too many business tax rates for related metal working
 
* Strategy for Development of Existing Industry
 
    - Increase teaching staff & equipment in needed areas
    - Introduce apprentice program
    - Improve Govt. testing service & encourage private testing service
    - Promote local subcontracting (implementation of VAT) and
subcontracting for foreign companies
 
* Future Strategic Industry
 
    - Ductile iron casting
    - Die making based on newrer technology
 
* Future Technological Capability Needed
 
    - Acquisitive, operative and adaptive capability in specific casting
and die making processes
 
* Strategy to Develop Future Capability
 
    - Same as in basic metal working
    - Training by MIDI and universites and invited foriegn exoertss
 
* Policy Recommendations
 
    - Reduce import duty drastically on machine tools( for 5 years) &
testing equipment
    - Use same (4.4%) rate of business tax for machine shop, specific
machinery producers, general machinery producer
    - Promotion of small industry by providing low interest loan, metal
working technology, information on new machine tools, market and
providing protection especially from newly promoted big joint venture or
foreign owned companies
    - Use of procurement measure e.g. local content requirement
    - Sponsored R&D by MTEC, National Research Council, STDB
    - Govt. funding for education & training aboard
    - MOSTE promote testing & certification
    - MOI improves industrial standard & monitoring of quality
    - MUA increase dynamicsm & excellence in universities
    - Energy conservation should be encouraged while MEA & PEA should
consider reducing electricity demand charge
    - TAX rebate and refund process for export should be revised to
reflect actual taxed amout more accurately and should be speed up
 
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Part(3)..........To be continued.........in this net


Schitt(DJ)  Laowattana

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Current Address in USA:

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
USA
Tel. No. 268-8880
Fax. No. 268-3348
e-mail: sl2k@andrew.cmu.edu


Permanent Address in Thailand:

Center of Operation for FIeld roBOtics Development(FIBO)
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Thonburi
91 Suksawasd 48  Ratburana  Bangmod
Bangkok 10140, Thailand

Tel. No. 428-3374, 427-4421 and 4270151-9 Ext. 461
Fax. No. 427-8077, 427-8787

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From: prp@chulkn.chula.ac.th ("Ms. Puangpen Rayabphand - TIC Chula BKK")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Subject: Election Watch from Thailand - BKK Post Fri 04/09/92
Date: 4 Sep 92 01:29:02 GMT
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CPP CLAIMAS GOVERNMENT PERSECUTING CHATICHAI

The Chart Pattana Party yesterday labelled the Government's refusal
to allow a live satellite broadcast of party leader Gen Chatichai
Choonhavan 's visit to Japan as political persecution


PDP AND DEMOCRATS READY FOR NOMINANCE OF THE SOUTH

Nakhon Si Thammarat - Political observers say the contest
for Constituency Three in this province will be the toughest
between Palang Dharma Party and the Democrats among the 21
southern constituencies.  Both parties are hoping to sweep
all three seats.


CHAMLONG DRAFTS BATTLE PLAN TO WIN BANGKOK HOT-SEAT

Palang Dharma Party de facto leader Chamlong Srimuang plans
step up the battle for Bangkok's Constituency 6 following a
survey which found his party's popularity was on the wane and
it could lose two seats to the Democrats.


POLLWATCH:MONEY- DUMPING IN NORTHEAST TO GET WORSE

Money- dumping and vote-buying are expected to increase in the
Northeast in the next few days before the election with two
major parties - Chart Pattana ans New Aspiration - likely to do
everything possible to domonate the region, according to PollWatch
member.  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
From: noi@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Nittida Nuansri)
Subject: Re: Recipe wanted (Thai pumpkin custard)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 08:51:39 GMT

00njhavert@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:


>	I'm looking for the recipe for this Thai pumpkin custard that
>my girlfriend and I will nearly shoot ourselves through the foot over.
>Can anyone give me the recipe? I wasn't able to get it the first time
>I asked a couple months back.

Could you send me your e-mail address please.  I've replied to your
message (by e-mail) but got the bounced message back.

Nittida
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
From: fstawit@ICOMP01.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tawit Chitsomboon)
Subject: Re: Honorable Attitude
Originator: daemon@Condor.mcs.kent.edu
Organization: Kent Gateway
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:33:00 GMT


Subject: Re: Honorable Attitude? (was Re: US born kids in s.c.taiwan)
Organization: Institute for Computational Mechanics in Propulsion

In article <1992Aug26.032141.5973@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> 
mhmann@nyx.cs.du.edu (Me Mann) writes:

>> of U. of Maryland. She came to Buffalo to do research with her
>> Advisor. She came from Thailand. And she is so small and young.
>> When I told her something about looking for job in US, I was so
>> surprised that she said, "No matter how poor Thailand is, I will go
>> back to Thailand because   it is my beloved country."
>
>
>Me Han Mann

Praise be to this honorable (small and young:-) Thai girl. She sure
would help Thailand's future be bright. However, some of us who elect
to stay here can help their birth countries in ways that we can never
imagine of. I notice that many advanced countries in Asia have had
thriving communities in the 1st world at one time or another.
(Japan, Korea, Taiwan are examples. Does this mean Thailand is next?)

This is not to say that staying here is good and going home is bad.
Both side can help. Those who go back immediately can help immediately
, but may not be as effective (particularly in technical areas).
Those who opt to stay can help indirectly, even though their sole
purpose of staying is a selfish one. 

I ask that all Thai professional abroad finally go back home, atleast
in the final 5 years of the useful life. This is only appropriate
if the word 'gratitude' mean anything to you. We were born in Thailand.
Thai people paid tax to subsidize our early childhood existence in
one way or another. It's only appropriate that we pay something back
in forms of community services.

Of course, we should also show gratitude toward our host countries
in providing us with knowledges and financial prosperity. Hopefully,
someday, we can pay them back, too.

-Tawit

------------------------------------------------------------------
You don't need to be very deep in the dhamma. Just try to be grateful
to everything that helps you exist and prosper and you can help save
the world.   --  Paraphrased from the teaching of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

My Comment: We need to be grateful to even bullshit since it helps
nourish our lives through organic vegetable. So, next time we see
bullshit, I suggest that we postrate to it. :-)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
From: geo@sunburn.waterloo.edu ()
Subject: Re: About Acronym:FIBO
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:59:31 GMT

In article <kebEARS00UhBE2P28E@andrew.cmu.edu> Schitt Laowattana <sl2k+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Sawatdee krub P'Tawit,
>
>
>Excerpts from mail: 27-Aug-92 Re: Still on FIBO budget by Tawit
>Chitsomboon@icomp0 
>> Khun Schitt Krub,
>>  
>> I am intrigued by the name
>> Center of Operation for Field Robotics Development.
>>  
>>  
>> Why the acronym is FIBO? What is the significant of the word?
>
>    FI : FIeld
>    BO : roBOtics
>
>    No significance of the word.  Just easy to remember and to call.
>
>> What's wrong with COFRD? (I would suggest COFRoD.)
>> ( Remember Yon Garafut?)

Why not FIRO ?  I think RO is a little bit more make sense than BO, though.


Korchoke Chantawarangul
University of Waterloo
Ontario, Canada.
From: fstawit@ICOMP01.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tawit Chitsomboon)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Subject: Re: Cheap Airfare to Asia
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:44:26 GMT
Organization: Kent Gateway
Originator: daemon@Condor.mcs.kent.edu


Seems like I now can't pass a day without posting. May I join in
this trivial discussion on this cheap airfare as well? I limit
this post only to sct because it contains some valuable suggestions
which I consider as national proprietary stuffs :-)

My most irritation flying to Asia is being missed out on a meal because
I was asleep. Some airlines adopt as a standard practice to wake you
up to eat while others let you sleep in peace. How about  signs like
those hanging on hotel door's knob indicating "Do not disturb" or
"Please serve meal"? Can this idea be patented? :-)

I agree with Khun Samart that all Asian airlines are using 'feminity'
of their stewardesses to attract customers. What about the other half
of the customers who are female? What I really would like to see is
a stewardess with crepe lip, protuding teeth and face full of pimples.
This would really set Thai Airways a breed apart from all those.
It would be a great promotional stunt for Thai Airways. Patent please.

-Tawit

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Let's declare the entire Solar System demilitarized zone.
From: kamol@munnari.oz.AU (Kamol Hengkietisak)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Subject: Aug 25: 100 days May bloodshed.
Date: 26 Aug 1992 07:02:32 +1000
Organization: Mail/News gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: munnari.oz.au

     About 80 Ramkhamhaeng University students rally in front of 
the Democracy Monument to commemorate protesters of the May 
incident who were killed by troops and who are still unaccounted 
for.
     Yesterday marks the 100th day anniversary of the tragic 
event.
     The protesters demanded that the Government disclose the 
truth about the deaths and disappearance of the protesters.
     They also called on the Government to devise measures to 
prevent coup attempts in the future.
From: aswin@nimbus.worldbank.org (aswin kokilananda)
Subject: Re: new and very good Thai fonts for adobe and windows
Organization: WORLD BANK
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:44:14 GMT

In article <3985@sol.deakin.OZ.AU>, grahamf@deakin.OZ.AU (Graham Fordham) writes:
> 
> 
> I have some very good Thai fonts to use with Adobe Type Manager
> and Windows - the result is good scalable fonts from very small
> to very large. Switching from Thai to English is via the F12
> key (a switcher utility loaded via the win.ini file hooks into
> the keyboard). Fonts are public domain from the Bangkok Post
> bulletin board a few weeks ago.
> 
> I have had a few requests from the US for these, and it would be
> easier if I could upload via ftp to the various people who
> have Thai archives.
> 
> If you are have a Thai ftp site and would like a copy of these
> files give me a yell (not forgetting to tell me your address).
> These fonts really are good - and the result is much better than
> CUW as it enables one to work in word for windows or any other
> windows program (lotus etc) and still to work in Thai.
> 
> The only thing I lack now is that which I need most - a Thai
> language spell checker I can use with WFW - Where to get this ???
> 
> 
Hi,

I too would like to get the thai fonts you have but don't know
of any thai ftp sites in the US. Could you please email them to me
at aswin@nimbus.worldbank.org ? Also, perhaps you would make it 
available on your own host deakin.OZ.AU ? so that one could anonymous
ftp to it ?

Thankyou

aswin@nimbus.worldbank.org
From: prp@chulkn.chula.ac.th ("Ms. Puangpen Rayabphand - TIC Chula BKK")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Subject: Election Watch - BKK Post Tue 01/10/92
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:53:09 GMT
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MINISTER ASSAILS VEERA OVER RESIGNATION CLAIM:VEERA WOULDN'T SIGN IT
UNLESS HE'S WILLING.

Transport and communications Minister Nukul Prachuabmoh denies
he is trying to force Thai Airways International president ACM
Veera Kitchathorn to resign from the post.


CANDIDATES FETED IN RAYONG IN A TOTAL REVERSE OF THE TREND
   
Accusing fingers are often pointed a rural people for accepting
favours, monetary or ortherwise, from politicians and thus
perpetuating the evil of vote-buying.  Villagers from Tambol
Taphong of Muang District in Rayong have changed this immpression.


`GHOST-BUSTING'DRIVE LAUNCHED IN UBON
About 2,920 Pollwatch volunteers are on a "ghost-busting"
mission, checking homes throughout Ubon Ratchatani.The "ghost"
are people whose names have been illegally added to voters
house registration certificates by groups,aiming to cheat in 
the general election, according to provincial poll watch chairman 
Nirun Pitakwatchara.


CFD NOT STAGING ANTI-CHATICHAI PROTEST AS YET

The confederation for Democracy will not organise a rally to
protest the possibility of Chart Pattana Party leader Chatichai
Choonhavan becoming the next premier, CFT member Pratheep Ungsongtham
Hata said yesterday.


GEN ARTHIT DEFENDS PARTY LEADER

Chat Pattana Party deputy leader Arthit Kamlang-ek yesterday
joined the defence of party leader Chatichai Choonhavan by
criticising the Confederation for Democracy of taking"a premature
stance"against the ex-premier.  He said the CFD should maintain
its political neutrality and pro-democracy campaign by refraining
from premature criticism of politicians.

KRISDA DENIES VIOLATING POLL LAW

Bangkok Governor Krisda Arunwongse Na Ayutthaya yesterday claimed 
to have no intentions of violating the election law and denied 
receiving any warning on this matter from Interior Minister.


INTERIOR LISTS TOTAL VOTERS

A total of 31,901,722 people are eligible to vote in the general
election, according to the Interior Ministry's lists, the local
Administration Department said yesterday.  Of these,15,710,114 
people are men and 16,191,608 are women.
Organization: Doctoral student, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:10:03 -0400 
From: Schitt Laowattana <sl2k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: [REPOST] part(5): S&T Strategies in Metals/Materials Industry in Thailand

                        5.Ceramic(fine and advanced)
 
* Status(weakness & strength)
 
    - Just starting with ferrite used as magnet
    - Very little R&D
    - Need of expert fine ceramists
    - Need to survey ores
 
* Strategy for Development of Existing Industry
 
    - Investigate possibility of using local raw materials
    - Increase public R&D
 
* Future Strategic Industry
 
    - Ferrites (there are variety of ferrites)
    - Capacitor made from BaTiO3 etc.
    - Piezoelectric made from BaTiO3 etc.
 
* Future Technological Capability Needed
 
    - Inquisitive, innovative, adaptive &operative capability in fine
ceramics production processes
 
* Strategy to develop Future Capability
 
    - Increase public R&D
    - Cooperation between TISTR, universities & industry
 
* Policy Reccommendations
 
    - Sponsored R&D by NCMM, Nat. Res. council, STDB
    - BOI feasibility study & fine ceramics promotion
    - DMR's survey for minerals for fine ceramics
    - Govt. funding of education & training aboard
 
=============================================================================
posted by


Schitt(DJ)  Laowattana

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Current Address in USA:

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
USA
Tel. No. 268-8880
Fax. No. 268-3348
e-mail: sl2k@andrew.cmu.edu


Permanent Address in Thailand:

Center of Operation for FIeld roBOtics Development(FIBO)
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Thonburi
91 Suksawasd 48  Ratburana  Bangmod
Bangkok 10140, Thailand

Tel. No. 428-3374, 427-4421 and 4270151-9 Ext. 461
Fax. No. 427-8077, 427-8787

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From: prp@chulkn.chula.ac.th ("Ms. Puangpen Rayabphand - TIC Chula BKK")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Subject: Election Watch from Thailand - Nation Thur 03/10/92
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`ANGELS' FEUD SIMMERS : Chun defends role at Rajdamnoen, Chamlong
`ready to be PM'

The violent events of May last night emerged as a bitter bone of
contention between premiership hopefuls Chuan Leekpai and and
Chamlong Srimuang with the Democrat leader denying he had let
down the pro - democracy protesters and the Palang Dharma founder
claiming he didn't lead the demonstration into a fatal confrontation 
with the military.


PALANG DHARMA CITES MAY ROLE

The Palang  Dharma Party's campaign staffers are trying to make
sure voters in Si Sa Ket knows as much as their Bangkok counterparts
about Chamlong Srimuang's"heroic" role during the May uprising.


CHUAN WON'T BE HAPPY WITH LESS THAN 40 SEATS

Democrat leader Chuan Leekpai said yesterday it would be 
a failure for his party if it won fewer than 40 seats in the
forthcoming general election.


POLL: PALANG DHARMA TO BAG MOST SEATS: Majority favour Chuan as 
next PM and want Democrats to form core of next govt

An opinion poll conducted by a major telecommunications
company indicates the Palang Dharma Party will emerge the 
single biggest political force in the House of Representatives
although the majority of people surveyed still favour Democrat
Party leader Chuan Leekpai as the next prime minister.
Organization: Doctoral student, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:05:20 -0400 
From: Schitt Laowattana <sl2k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: [REPOST] part(1): S&T Strategies in Metals/Materials Industry in Thailand

                                1. Basic Metal
 
 
* Status(weakness & strength)
 
    - There are smelting of tin, lead, zinc, antimony
    - There is no smelting of iron, no making of steel sheet, machinery
steel, section steel
 
* Starategy for Development of Existing Industry
 
    - Survey to find additional ores
    - Development of downstream industry of tin, lead, zinc, antimony
 
* Future Strategic Industry
 
    - Sheet carbon steel
    - Sheet stainless ateel
    - Machinery steel
    - Section steel
    - Tin chemicals
        . opacifier for ceramics
        . smoke suppresants
        . pesticide
        . PVC stabilizer
    - Rare earth preparation for application in metal & ceramics industry
    - Titanium dioxide from ilmenite
    - Zirconia
    - Fluorine chemicals from fluorspar
    - Zinc sarficial anode
    - Capacitor from tantalum powder
    - Self lubricator bearing
 
* Future Technological Capability Needed
 
    - Production technology that reduces size of commercially viable steel mil
l
    - Acquisitive, operative and adaptive capability in steel making and
metal based chemicals and rare earth preparation & application
 
* Startegy to Develop Future Capability
 
    - Minitoring of foriegn development of technology
    - Look for chance to leap frog & use new technology that gives
comparative advantage
    - Increase Public & Private Sector R&D
    - Education & training aboard
 
* Policy Recommendations
 
    - BOI promotion for future strategic industry
    - Feasibility study of future industry by BOI
    - Sponsored R&D by National Center for Meatal and Material
Technology, Nat. Research Council, STDB
    - DMR, Universities & Mining Council conduct survey & compile data
on mineral reserve
 
=============================================================================
Part(2).......To be continued........ in the net.


Schitt(DJ)  Laowattana

****************************************************************************
Current Address in USA:

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
USA
Tel. No. 268-8880
Fax. No. 268-3348
e-mail: sl2k@andrew.cmu.edu


Permanent Address in Thailand:

Center of Operation for FIeld roBOtics Development(FIBO)
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Thonburi
91 Suksawasd 48  Ratburana  Bangmod
Bangkok 10140, Thailand

Tel. No. 428-3374, 427-4421 and 4270151-9 Ext. 461
Fax. No. 427-8077, 427-8787

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From: nilsuwan@cae.wisc.edu (Sunchai Nilsuwankosit)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Subject: An opinion from a Thai student.
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:21:51 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering

According to the below message :
  Message-ID: <1992Aug25.141303.14617@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
  Date: 25 Aug 92 14:13:03 EDT

I think the above message misunderstood the point.
To be brave enough to stand against the evil is not the same thing
as to be able to accuse anyone anytime you feel you want to do it.
Again, for someone who had done something wrong, it does not mean
that that one will surely repeat that wrong again (Is it wrong to
give them a chance to correct themselves? For us, I think we have to
trust the others but we should not rely on what is going on. Since
there are so many points of view from so many persons. Their may be
correct sometime and ours can be correct in the others. I do not 
mean that the event will not able to repeat, but I mean it is too soon
to say that they are guilty just because they are from the same
background. 

At least I feel better when that general said he will sue the person
who accuse the army. As long as we are reasonable enough to follow
the common rules, we still have the way out of the problem, right?


Sunchai Nilsuwakosit

PS. Please think this is nothing more than my curiosity. I really 
    appreciate the other people's ideas and would be very glad
    to know the name of the person with that very brilliant suggestion.
    I know that the idea is not good because of the name of the owner
    but a credit should be given to that person somehow.
From: sue@byron.u.washington.edu (Shu-Chen Eclipse)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Subject: wide-open sex in Thailand?
Date: 30 Aug 92 03:07:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug30.030706.516
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Is Thailand really the Scandinavia of the Far East, where any sexual perversion
and deviation, along with the standard fare, can be bought for cheap as the 
U.S. news media appears to claim??