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In pratica dicono che si potrà installare Mac OS X sul vostro PC.

Permetterà di acquistare OS X, il dvd originale, e installarlo sul vostro PC senza preoccuparsi di patch o modificare file o altre cose simili.

L’uscita è prevista per il 23 di giugno 2008.

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“EFiX is the best solution for installing and using Mac OS X on your PC.
It allows its user to install Mac OS X straight from the original DVD without having to worry about patches,
replacing files and anything like that.
That means you can buy a regular PC, Mac OS X and EFiX and enjoy what the Mac users have always enjoyed:
unmodified Mac OS X on your computer, safe, easy and fast, exactly the way it should be.

The development of EFiX took a lot of time.
During the development phase, we had to deal with various problems, including sabotage.
This process also involved testing, which has been conducted for the last 6 months in production environments.
Industry leading professionals(who work for TV stations, recording studios and many others) rely on EFiX and Mac OS X running on standard PC hardware to get their tasks done.

EFiX is in the final testing phase.
All the testing has went far better than what we expected and the testers have given positive feedback.

We have planned to release it on 23rd of June, 2008. More information will be added soon.”

Mosaico incontra le adv più fidelizzate assieme al partner di sempre, Thai Airways. Il binomio indissolubile fra il t.o. romagnolo specializzato nel Sud-est asiatico e la compagnia aerea porta alla creazione di itinerari e pacchetti su misura, ricercando e proponendo idee e strutture sempre nuove per affiancarle a quelle più classiche. Alle agenzie che parteciperanno all’evento sarà presentata anche la linea Royal Orchid Holidays, dedicata alla clientela più esigente. Una delle peculiarità di Mosaico è di essere l’unico operatore italiano ad avere un proprio residente italiano a Chiang Mai, oltre a quelli basati a Bangkok, Phuket e Koh Samui, che svolgono un ruolo importante di assistenza e monitoraggio dei servizi offerti. Fra le novità che verranno presentate il Kura Kura Resort, nell’arcipelago di Karimunjawa. Da notare anche il Losari Coffee Plantation, resort che nasce dalla meticolosa ristrutturazione di una fattoria coloniale del 1828.

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Magneti Marelli (gruppo Fiat) e Endurance Technologies Pvt. Ltd. hanno sottoscritto un accordo per la creazione di una joint venture in India e Thailandia, finalizzata alla produzione di ammortizzatori per autoveicoli.

In base all’accordo, si legge in una nota, la joint venture, che sara’ partecipata pariteticamente dalle due societa’, sara’ operativa entro il primo trimestre 2009. Le attivita’ industriali saranno dislocate a Chackan, nell’area di Pune, Maharashtra. E’ previsto anche l’avvio di un’unita’ produttiva in Thailandia, presso Bangkok, area dove il Gruppo Endurance e’ gia’ presente. La joint venture sara’ mirata in particolare alla progettazione, produzione e commercializzazione di ammortizzatori, inclusi moduli “semi corner” e molle a gas, per vetture e veicoli commerciali. Le attivita’ saranno rivolte ai carmakers locali e internazionali presenti nell’area del continente indiano e regioni limitrofe.

“L’accordo con un partner importante come Endurance, leader in India e con un’impronta industriale gia’ internazionale -ha dichiarato Eugenio Razelli, Ceo di Magneti Marelli- conferma la nostra strategia di presenza diretta in uno dei mercati piu’ strategici. La combinazione fra le nostre tecnologie, l’ampia gamma prodotto, le innovazioni come il sistema di smorzamento elettronico delle sospensioni “SDC” e la nostra presenza globale, rende la nostra offerta nell’ambito degli shock absorbers molto competitiva e in grado di soddisfare i nuovi mercati strategici come ad esempio l’area BRIC (Brasile, Russia, India, Cina) e la Turchia”.

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Un workshop per presentare la programmazione estiva dei Viaggi dell’Elefante. Il tour operator, dopo le serate dedicate alla destinazione Libia, il 18 e il 19 giugno organizza a Torino e Milano due workshop riservati agli agenti di viaggi e alla distribuzione. Insieme ai responsabili prodotto, verranno presentate le novità del prodotto estivo su Thailandia e Sud Est asiatico, la programmazione Mediterraneo estate 2008 e le proposte Cina e India per l’estate. Nel corso degli incontri, Viaggi dell’Elefante distribuirà agli agenti di viaggi presenti il materiale relativo alle destinazioni.

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Thai Airways International is adjusting its fuel surcharge on international and domestic flights, effective 25 June 2008, due to the massive increases in the price of jet fuel.

The company has adjusted its fuel surcharge for international and domestic flights, calculated on all classes of passenger travel on THAI flights and air tickets issued by THAI’s sales and ticketing offices worldwide, which is based on the policy agreed upon by the Civil Aviation Department for commercial airlines and includes agreements with other countries, as follows:

Impose the fuel surcharge rate of US$ 60 per sector, on the return routes: Bangkok-Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok-Hanoi, Bangkok-Vientiane, Bangkok-Phnom Penh, Bangkok-Penang, Bangkok-Yangon, Hong Kong-Taipei, Dubai-Kuwait, Chiang Mai-Kunming, and the route between Bodhgaya-Varanasi.

US$ 75 per sector, on the return routes Bangkok-Singapore and Bangkok-Kuala Lumpur.

US$ 90 per sector, on the return routes: Bangkok-Kunming, Bangkok-Guangzhou, Bangkok-Dhaka, Bangkok-Kolkata, Bangkok-Brunei, Bangkok-Hong Kong, Bangkok-Chittagong, including the route between Taipei-Seoul.

US$ 105 per sector, on the return routes: Bangkok-Bangalore, Bangkok-Hyderabad, Bangkok-Chennai, Bangkok-Bodhgaya, Bangkok-Varanasi, Bangkok-Jakarta, Bangkok-Manila, Bangkok-Chengdu, Bangkok-Colombo, Bangkok-Kathmandu, Bangkok-Xiamen, Bangkok-Hyderabad, Bangkok-Taipei, Manila-Osaka and Hong Kong-Seoul.

US$ 146 per sector, on the return routes: Bangkok-Perth, Bangkok-Denpasar, Bangkok-Muscat, Bangkok-Islamabad, Bangkok-Delhi, Bangkok-Mumbai, Bangkok-Kuwait, Bangkok-Dubai, Bangkok-Karachi, Bangkok-Lahore, Bangkok-Beijing, Bangkok-Shanghai, Perth-Phuket and Chennai-Dubai.

US$ 152 per sector, on the return routes: Bangkok-Tokyo, Bangkok-Osaka, Bangkok-Nagoya, Bangkok-Fukuoka, Bangkok-Seoul, and Bangkok-Busan.

US$ 185 per sector, on the return routes: Bangkok-Melbourne, Bangkok-Sydney, and Bangkok-Brisbane.

US$ 210 per sector, on the return routes: Bangkok-Auckland, Bangkok-Munich, Bangkok-Milan, Bangkok-Rome, Bangkok-Athens, Bangkok-Copenhagen, Bangkok-Stockholm, Bangkok-Zurich, Bangkok-Moscow, Bangkok-Johannesburg and Bangkok-Frankfurt.

US$ 230 per sector, on the return routes: Bangkok-London, Bangkok-Paris and Bangkok-Madrid.

US$ 281 per sector, on the return route Bangkok-New York and Bangkok-Los Angeles.

The airline will suspend its flights on the return route Bangkok-New York, effective 1 July 2008.

As for domestic flights on all sectors, Thai Airways will collect a fuel surcharge rate of THB 850 per sector, excluding the route Chiang Mai-Mae Hong Son whereby THB 600 will be collected per sector.

–Asia Travel Tips 2008-06-13

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(AGO PRESS) “A celebration of the Italian way of life in Bangkok”. E’ questo il titolo della mostra che si svolgerà nell’ambito dell’Italian Festival 2008, in corso a Bangkok fino al 30 giugno. L’evento, organizzato dall’ambasciata italiana a Bangkok, in collaborazione con l’Ice, Istituto nazionale per il commercio estero, è nato per esportare all’estero la cultura, il cinema, la musica e la cucina italiana. Nel corso della manifestazione, infatti, saranno proiettati nove film di registi italiani che hanno ritratto la vita contemporanea nel nostro Paese, a cui seguiranno diversi appuntamenti con il design italiano, la musica classica ed incontri con artisti ed architetti italiani.

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BANGKOK: — The Bank of Thailand on Monday intervened in the foreign exchange market to halt a rapid slide of the baht currency, officials said.

Suchada Gillakul, assistant to the central bank’s governor, said the intervention was deemed necessary after the baht dropped to 33.41 to the dollar Monday morning, its lowest rate in five months. It had closed Friday at 32.96.

“We will investigate whether foreign investors are speculating on the baht,” she told reporters.

After the intervention, the baht traded at 33.22 to the dollar Monday afternoon.

Like most Asian currencies, the Thai baht has steadily appreciated against the dollar, gaining almost 20 per cent over the past two years before starting to weaken last month in the wake of rising inflation, growing political instability, declines on the stock market and slowing growth projections.

By midday Monday, the Stock Exchange of Thailand index had fallen 1.3 per cent largely in response to a dramatic fall on Wall Street Friday.

– dpa 2008-06-09

Related link:
Thai Baht Currency Exchange Rates

Toyota produrra’ vetture ibride anche in Thailandia e Australia per far fronte al continuo aumento del prezzo del petrolio. La casa automobilistica giapponese conta di vendere ogni anno un milione di veicoli ibridi a partire dal 2010. La produzione iniziera’ entro la fine dell’anno in Thailandia ed entro il 2010 in Australia: il modello che verra’ prodotto sara’ la versione ibrida della Camry, funzionante alternativamente a benzina o a elettricita’.

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The Thai Government is currently taking steps to reassure foreign investors, one of Thailand‘s biggest money earners, that the present wave of political protests is a short term affair and isn‘t indicative of long-term instability.

Apparently, Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama thought it necessary to reassure the British business community, in particular via the UK‘s Foreign Minister, David Miliband, that all was essentially well in the Land of Smiles and what discontent there was was merely a symptom of the democratic process.

Everybody here understands that street protests are normal in any democratic country and they don‘t have to hurt government stability,” Noppadon said in a press briefing in London on June 3, 2008.

Mr. Noppadon’s attempt to reassure both foreign investors and potential tourists was apparently in response to a recent report that Asian tourists in particular are shying away from Thailand because of the political protests, Malaysia and Indonesia, apparently issuing travel warnings to their citizens contemplating Thai holidays. Highly respected Thai commentator, Prawase Wasi, also warned that the Thai poltico-economic conflicts were discouraging investment and tourism and proposed the establishment of a national government as a solution.

All this popular mass protest recently witnessed in the streets of Bangkok, doesn’t seem to have radically affected Russian and Scandinavian investors, particularly in Pattaya, however. In 2007, 889,656 Russians visited Pattaya, up 84 per cent from 2006, making them the leading market for the resort. According to Raimon Land’s CEO, Nigel Cornick’s recent edition of the definitive property guide “Why invest…… Pattaya”, the Russians and Scandinavians have now displaced the Brits and Germans as the main property investors in Pattaya, which is particularly good news for developers in this fair city. And although the Russians have been coming here for the past 10 years, it’s only in the past two that they have started to buy up Pattaya properties. Last year, according to Raimon Land, Russian property purchases accounted for 22 per cent, (USD 7.7 million) of condominium sales in their upmarket developments Northshore, The Lofts, Southshore and Northpoint.

The Russians, however, not exactly being super-linguists as any Pattaya-Jomtien baht-bus passenger can readily attest, do tend to place their trust in their own language speakers, which is why recently so many Pattaya Real estate agents have begun to recruit Russian speakers, as a glimpse at the classified Jobs Offered sections of the local media will confirm. Although some longer term Russian Pattaya residents have begun placing their children in the local international schools where learning English is far cheaper than back in Russia.

One new trend, however, won’t gladden the hearts of the established Pattaya real estate agencies, however, that of the recent setting up of real estate agencies by authentic Russians, many of whom have direct links with the lucrative CIS tourist group market. Uriy Segal, the Russian president of Russian House, a newly set-up Pattaya property agency, stated “I think this year (2008), Russians will account for 40 per cent of property sales in Pattaya.” Segal also commented that compared to Moscow, property prices in Pattaya are a bargain.

Although there is a growing trend for Russians to open their own real estate agencies, their local Western brethren can still count on substantial Russian custom, however, as can be vouched for by the likes of Raimon Land, CB Richard Ellis and Siam Best Enterprises.’ ultra prestigious, Ocean 1 Tower. Russians, apparently, love to boast of their purchases back home and ownership in Siam Best Enterprises.’ ultra prestigious, Ocean 1 Tower, as SE Asia’s potentially tallest building comes top of the list.

For most Pattaya real estate agencies however, the Scandinavian local investor market is much less lucrative. Although there is a prediction by Colliers International of a huge incipient surge from Nordic RSH (retired and second home) investors, with Pattaya investments estimated at Bt1550 billion (2008-9), local real estate agents can expect to see little of this as the Swedish and Norwegian market in Pattaya is effectively sewn by up savvy Scandinavian developers who often sell Pattaya properties to their compatriots even before they come to what is now termed the Asian Riviera or mini-Bangkok, i.e. Pattaya.

– Pattaya Daily News 2008-06-06

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È indirizzata alle donne la nuova campagna marketing della Tat, l’Ente del turismo della Thailandia.

Significativo lo slogan: ‘Her Own Way: Thailand - The Woman’s Paradise’, a supporto di una serie di prodotti indirizzati specificamente al sesso femminile e del microsito http://HerOwnWay.TourismThailand.org, che propone offerte all’insegna di golf, shopping, spa & beauty, ma anche alberghi che applicano tariffe preferenziali alle donne. In aggiunta a tutto ciò il sito contiene informazioni su locali, negozi, sicurezza personale e altre curiosità.

I mercati di riferimento sono soprattutto quelli mediorientale, giapponese, di Hong Kong e Singapore

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