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Set in the framework of Thailand 4.0—whose four pillars are Economic Prosperity, Social Well-being, Raising Human Values and Environmental Protection—the 2018 EEC Act, together with the new Smart City initiative, is poised to bring about a highly anticipated economic, infrastructural, technological and social transformation. The combined efforts of different agencies of the Royal Thai Government have attracted FDI to the EEC. Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) offers a number of incentives to companies in the technological innovation arena. Incentives available, specifically for Smart City project developers, infrastructure system (for instance, fiber optics and Wi-Fi) developers; and intelligent network developers, include eight years of corporate income tax exemption and other non-tax incentives.

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Only 2 days left before the seminar about Thai Permanent Residence & Citizenship, presented by Mahanakorn Partners Group and hosted by the Thai-Italian Chamber of Commerce (TICC), in collaboration with the British Chamber of Commerce Thailand (BCCT), the Irish Thai Chamber of Commerce and the Netherlands-Thai Chamber of Commerce (NTCC).

The seminar will be held at Garden Villa, The Sukhothai Hotel Bangkok, on Thursday, 3 March 2022 from 16:30 – 17:30 hrs, and it will be followed by a networking aperitif.

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The Asian Institute of Hospitality Management is proud to launch its AIHM Mixology Contest 2022. Open to students, amateur enthusiasts and seasoned pros, contestants are invited to create an original mocktail/cocktail, with prizes worth up to 34,000B on offer.

The Asian Institute of Hospitality Management was founded by Minor Hotels, Asia’s most powerful hospitality company, in academic association with Les Roches, a global leader in hospitality education. Together, they bring Swiss educational excellence to the region. At AIHM, students are encouraged to think outside the box, push themselves further, and develop their creativity. These values are personified in the AIHM Mixology Contest, with participants concocting original mocktails/cocktails and presenting them to a panel of judges made up of industry experts. There are three categories in the competition - mocktail (for students up to the age of 20), amateur and professional. For the first round, contestants submit their recipe and their inspiration online. The judges will then go through the recipes, looking in particular for uniqueness and flair. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to the live final at Riverside Plaza on the Chao Phraya riverbank to present their cocktail to the judges.

Winners of each category will be awarded stays at luxurious Minor Hotels properties, including Avani+ Koh Lanta Krabi Resort, Anantara Vacation Club Mai Khao Phuket and Avani Pattaya Resort. Runners up will receive Minor Hotels e gift cards worth varying amounts up to 10,000B, to be spent on hotel stays, dining or spa experiences at Anantara and Avani properties around the world.

To enter the competition, or for more information, please scan QR Code on the image. The first round closes on 18th March 2022, with shortlisted candidates announced on the AIHM website and social media on 24th March 2022, and the final scheduled for 6th April 2022.

It is considered as one of the romantic Chinese festivals, which often refers to Chinese Valentine’s Day. Kathleen Pokrud, President of Hong Kong Ladies’ Group and Vice Chairperson of Baat Woh Cantonese Opera Association of Thailand recently hosted a friendship dinner in honour of Winnie Poon, Past President of HKLG and Chairperson of Baat Woh together with other members to celebrate this special friendship day at Pathumwan Princess Hotel.

In the photography competition calendar, the Sony World Photography Awards is a biggie. It always attracts a gargantuan number of entries, for starters, and this year is no different. Over 340,000 images from 211 territories were submitted to the 2022 contest and over 170,000 were entered into the Open competition. See our pick of the bunch from this year’s gong-luring entries, from a stunning image of Le Mont Saint-Michel at sunset to a mesmerizing photo of an otherworldly lava field in Iceland…

This transfixing picture shows a tusker elephant (a type of male elephant) named ‘Craig’ standing in front of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Photographer Mohammed Mirza, who nabbed the national award for Kuwait, says: ‘Photographing a giant tusker like Craig was a big challenge for me. Getting so close, within a few meters from this big bull, and shooting from a very low angle with a wide lens, requires some courage! After five days with several attempts at photographing Craig in an open space, I managed to get this shot face to face.’

‘I love the combination of the Milky Way and these unique mountain rocks.’ So says photographer Gonzalo Javier Santile of this striking shot of the sky over the Argentinean town of Cafayate. Santile took the silver medal in the Latin America national award. According to the photographer, a ‘strong, hot wind known as Los Colorados was blowing’ when he went out shooting. ‘I buried my tripod the best I could, using rocks to stabilize it,’ he says. The photographer notes that the final image consists of 20 shots – six of the sky and six of the foreground.

First place in the national award for Russia went to Marianna Smolina for this charming shot. Describing the picture, Smolina says that it shows ‘the frozen flight of an adult ballerina under the gaze of these little girls, dreaming of being able to do this too.’

Feast your eyes on the photo that made Yawar Abbas the winner of the national award for Pakistan. It shows the sun setting over Katpana Desert, also known as the Cold Desert, near the Pakistani city of Skardu. Abbas notes that the desert ‘looks like a golden snake’ in the ‘light from this spectacular sunset.’

The top prize in the national award for Thailand went to photographer Kunuch Chutmongkolporn, for this beautiful image taken in Bangkok last October. In the background, the Buddha statue from the city’s Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen temple can be seen. Chutmongkolporn says: ‘Around the fourth week of October, the sun sets behind the statue. To get a high-impact shot, I used a super-telephoto zoom lens to compress the sun with a bird, the statue, and the city in the foreground.’

This stunning shot was captured by photographer Chihao Wang, the winner of the national award for Taiwan. Wang says: ‘Many bats inhabited this cave in ancient times. They’ve vanished due to today’s environmental changes.’

This spectacular shot, taken by Sonja Ivancsics, shows the Milky Way over Gosausee Lake in the Austrian region of Salzkammergut. Ivancsics, who won the national award for Austria, reveals: ‘I planned this photo for about a year, and on that night in June 2021 the conditions were just perfect.’ According to the photographer, the lake ‘reflects its surrounding mountains beautifully, especially the mountain Dachstein with its glacier’. She adds: ‘The picture blends two images, one taken in the blue hour, and one taken at about midnight.’

Jenny Zhao - the winner of the national award for the U.S - took this spellbinding shot of a polar bear cub ‘staring wistfully into the distance’ in Canada last November.

The national award for Slovakia went to photographer Filip Hrebenda for this powerful image, titled ‘Born of Fire’. It was the first picture that Hrebenda captured during an expedition to the volcanic area of Fagradalsfjall in southwestern Iceland. He says: ‘Volcanoes are a rare opportunity to observe the complete transformation of a landscape. Places that were only recently valleys and meadows became hills, craters and lava fields. Being there was a great experience.’

Hans Kristian Strand snared this magical shot of Bondhusvatnet Glacier in Kvinnherad, Norway. Impressing the judges, Strand landed the top spot in the national award for Norway. Strand says: ‘I love this peaceful place. I visit the Bondhusvatnet Glacier every year hoping to get the perfect picture, and this year I finally got it.’

Thanks to this breathtaking image, Juan Pablo Mendez Garzona was shortlisted for the Latin America national award. The Guatemalan photographer reveals that the picture ‘combines two photos’ that were taken during a trip to Iceland. He says: ‘The first one was taken at the Arctic Henge, a group of structures located in Raufarhofn on the northeastern tip of the Melrakkasletta peninsula. The second one is the sky full of Northern Lights, which I captured a few days later. For me, this composition represents an open door full of possibilities for those who dare to walk into the unknown.’

Photographer Cigdem Ayyildiz, who claimed the national award for Turkey, was behind the lens for this enchanting shot, which shows the French commune of Le Mont Saint-Michel at sunset. Ayyildiz says: ‘For me, this piece of art on the shores of Normandy is a candidate for Eighth Wonder of the World - providing a legendary view and atmosphere especially at sunset and when the tide is low.’

The judges awarded photographer Damon Beckford the national award for Finland in recognition of this entry. Sharing the story behind the picture, the photographer says: ‘In January 2021 the temperature went down to minus 25 degrees Celsius on the south coast of Finland. I went to Emasalo in the city of Porvoo to capture the freezing of the Baltic Sea. As the sea starts to freeze, it creates beautiful ice sculptures on the rocks, and a few days later the sea is frozen.’

Photographer Raido Nurk captured this dynamic image at a surfing festival in The Hague, Netherlands. Nurk, who won the national award for Estonia, recalls: ‘The waves were the biggest I’ve ever seen in the evening when I took this photo.’ He adds: ‘The waves and the pouring rain created quite a unique atmosphere.’

This high-octane picture shows the Swiss snowboarder Gian Simmen ‘in his natural habitat’ on Switzerland’s Grindelwald First. Photographer Tinu Muller, who took the gold medal in the national award for Switzerland, says it was a ‘perfect day in the Swiss Alps’ when he clicked the shutter on this shot.