Month: September 2022

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THAI RED CROSS DELEGATES JOIN THE 11TH NATIONAL CONGRESS OF VIETNAM RED CROSS SOCIETY

On 30 August 2022, Mr. Tej Bunnag, Secretary General of Thai Red Cross Society, and Dr. Apichart Chinwanno, Assistant Secretary General for External Relations together with the delegates from Lao Red Cross Society, Cambodian Red Cross Society, Singapore Red Cross Society, the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) participated in the 11th National Congress of Vietnam Red Cross Society in Hanoi. The congress reviewed its humanitarian works in 2017 – 2022 and presented vision & targets for the tenure 2022 – 2027. The event also included reports on the election of the congress and adoption of the resolutions. On this occasion, the participating delegates made a courtesy call to H.E. Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Source: The Thai Red Cross Society

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Thai police seeking 3 people allegedly involved in B300m cryptocurrency scam

Police from the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) are looking for three partners in P Miner Cryptocurrency Ltd. They are wanted on fraud charges for allegedly cheating investors out of over 300 million baht.

TCSD police have raided the house of one of the partners, identified only as Kittikorn, in the Mae Taeng district of Chiang Mai, and seized numerous valuable items, including six luxurious cars, six motorcycles, two pickup trucks and about 50 pieces of equipment used in the trading of digital assets.

The seized assets are estimated to have cost about 100 million baht.

According to TCSD Commander Pol Maj-Gen Ronnachai Chindamuk, 380 investors have already filed complaints, claiming that they were lured into investing with promises of high returns.

Kittikorn, his wife and his brother set up a limited partnership three years ago to operate a cryptocurrency exchange, with a start-up investment of 500,000 baht.

According to the police, the three suspects have already left the country and police are trying to locate their whereabouts.

Source: Thai Public Broadcasting Service

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Doi Mon Jam villagers to march to Bangkok to protest against the resort demolitions

Doi Mon Jam villagers from Mae Rim district of Chiang Mai are planning a protest march from their mountainous retreat to Bangkok, via the provincial seat, this Monday to petition the Royal Palace against the threatened demolition by forest officials of several illegally-built resorts.

A leader of the protesters claimed today (Friday) that over 1,500 villagers will join the 700km march.

The owner of one of the resorts in this famous tourist destination, favoured by tourists during the cold season, admitted that his tent resort is virtually empty after forestry officials and local police arrived earlier this week to dismantle it, prompting a confrontation with the villagers who rely on tourism as their major source of income.

He also complained that many tourists have cancelled their advance bookings.

Protesting villagers have been keeping vigil at a view point in Mon Jam, watching for officials to return to carry out the demolition.

The authorities arrived at Doi Mon Jam on Monday, but were forced to retreat after they met strong resistance from the villagers. They claim that the five resorts are not owned by local villagers, but by outsiders, in violation of the Forest Act,which allows local villagers to use the land to make a living, but cannot sell it.

Cheewapap Cheewatham, deputy director-general of Royal Forest Department, told Thai PBS that the department has to enforce the law strictly, because the land in question belongsto the state.

He said that the resort owners had been given the opportunity to appeal against the demolition to a court or to dismantle the resorts by themselves, before officials move in to do it.

He disclosed that similar resistance by local villagers had been reported in other mountainous tourist destinations in Phetchabun and Chiang Rai provinces.

Source: Thai Public Broadcasting Service

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Chart Pattana and Kla parties enter formal political alliance

The Chart Pattana and Kla parties formally announced the formation of a political alliance today (Friday), to compete in the next general election and in the hope of becoming a major party in the future.

Korn Chatikavanij, leader of the Kla Party said, however, that the political alliance is not a “merger” of the two parties and that Kla remains a political party.

Korn and Suwat Liptapanlop, chairman of Chart Pattana Party, were present at the event held today to announce their alliance to the media.

Stressing the importance of economic issues, as Thailand faces its worst economic crisis, due partly to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, Suwat said that the alliance can capitalise on the extensive economic expertise of Korn, formerly finance minister in the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.

He said that he hopes the cooperation will give them the strengths needed to guide the country through the crisis.

Suwat said that the two parties have not yet decided whom they will nominate as the candidate for premiership in the next election, as he stressed the party’s policy guidelines, which emphasise creativity, compromise, no conflict with other parties and the upholding of national interests as paramount.

He said he does not want to try to predict how many House seats the alliance will win in the next election, but said that he hopes they will, one day, become a major party.

Korn, meanwhile, said that it didn’t take him much time to decide to form an alliance with the Chart Pattana Party, as both parties share a common interest in economic issues and in the need to improve the livelihoods of the people as priority.

The Kla Party was established in February 2020, after Korn was defeated by Jurin Laksanawisit in the race for the Democrat Party’s leadership after the resignation of Abhisit Vejjajiva.

Chart Pattana is a long established party, with its main stronghold in the north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima. Its popularity has declined in recent years and it won just four constituency seats in the 2019 general election.

Source: Thai Public Broadcasting Service

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Parts of Phuket international airport flooded Friday morning

Parts of Phuket international airport was flooded for a while this morning (Friday), following a heavy downpour which led to the inundation of several areas around the airport and the Thalang district.

The general manager of the airport, Monchai Tanod, said that only a part of the airside apron, used by private jets, was flooded and that the water drained away about an hour after the rain stopped.

He did, however, advise passengers to leave their hotels or homes 3-4 hours before their flight departure time due to heavy flooding in the approaches to the airport.

In Thalang district, about 40 cars and 20 motorcycles, which were in the parking lot of a condominium, were flooded this morning.

Governor Narong Woonsiew visited the flooded areas in Thalang district and ordered agencies concerned to help the people affected and to speed up draining water from the condominium.

Source: Thai Public Broadcasting Service

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DJIB Launches First Ever Enterprise Grade Decentralised Data Storage Drive

Business Users Can Save Any File as NFT

ZUG, Switzerland, Sept. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today DJIB launched the first ever end-to-end encrypted, enterprise grade decentralised data storage drive with embedded multi chain non-fungible token functionality. It enables the widespread adoption of NFTs in business applications.

Cloud data storage is dominated by services such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. However, in the age of blockchains, users find traditional storage limiting as it is centralised in the hands of individual corporations. User data can be potentially accessed without their knowledge by employees of such providers. The currently missing ability to save objects as NFTs will be increasingly required in business applications.

This is why, while being AWS S3 compatible and blazingly fast, the DJIB data storage drive for the first time addresses all of these concerns by being end-to-end encrypted, censorship resistant, and with built-in NFT functionality. It reimagines the concept of NFTs, treating them as a new type of file format, whereby users can “Save as NFT” any file stored on the drive, thus demystifying the creation of NFTs. Files can be up to 5TB large, which removes currently existing technical constraints. Users can either attach custom business logic to their NFTs, or use pre-defined templates from a library without knowing how to code. For example, a musician can publish a song with pre-defined licensing rights, or a pharmaceutical company can allow patients to share and profit from their medical data with very granular permissions and usage rights – all without the need of any intermediaries or use of specialist software. Any asset can now be tokenised. Any financial director can issue share certificates in NFT format.

Such NFTs are immediately interoperable with all the blockchains with which DJIB has a connector. It started from Solana, Ethereum and BSC, but will soon cover all key networks. DJIB is already working on connectors with teams from major blockchains, starting with those that are enterprise focused and see this as an opportunity to foster the development of applications within their ecosystems.

Moe Sayadi, DJIB CEO whose background is of a solutions architect at Microsoft and Avaloq, says: “Making our decentralised drive available to enterprise customers and removing the mystery behind the creation of NFTs opens an unimaginable trove of opportunities. It puts a powerful tool into the hands of non-technical domain experts. They can focus on the business logic attached to any document and potentially physical item, and move entire business processes to the cloud. This enables Object Oriented Business Process Management and many other exciting innovations which are in our pipeline and will be announced soon. We are discussing with corporate CTOs some very interesting use cases and I can confidently say that NFT evolution has finally passed the apes stage.”

Contact: Max Atanassov max@djib.io +41-79-566-3797

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DJIB Drive is high-availability S3-compatible decentralised enterprise object storage that allows business users to save any file as multi-chain ready NFT.

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