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Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor company, running a marketing campaign at Pantip Plaza, Bangkok’s IT shopping mall

I found it amusing to see the way these fellows acting as if they’ve just been landed on earth after a long distance travel from space

Pantip Plaza is probably comparable to Singapore’s Sim Lim Square. The shopping malls are huge and tall from what I see as a Cambodian. Sorya shopping mall in Phnom Penh is the largest and tallest one, where consumers can find lots of stuff, from clothes to electronic stuff, unlike Pantip Plaza and Sim Lim Square, where tech enthusiasts find nothing beside gadgets and computer products.
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Wi-fi and flower everywhere

Jeremy Mak telling his experience as a Chinese-American who has been working in Thailand for a couple of years

Apple fan Somphop Krittayaworagul

All in one

Klaikong Vaidhyakarn kicking off the Mekong ICT Camp 08

Go Suzuki talking about ‘Do & Don’t’ early in the morning before the ICT campers going to attend their learning sessions

Before his IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T61, computer network lecturer Huy working on an assigned project with great determination

Somsak holding both his BenQ laptop and Asus Eee subnotebook. He’s setting up the small and lightweight portable computer, which runs on Ubuntu (Debian derived Linux-based operating system), as a thin client.

A week-long Mekong ICT Camp 08 took place at Thammasat University Learning Resort, in Chonburi province, Thailand, where nearly 70 people (mostly from the Mekong region) participated. It’s a five-day capacity development workshop on information and communications technology to enhance the skills of young people.