Five tourism mega-projects tabled for Thailand - The Tourism and Sports Ministry yesterday outlined five mega-projects that are expected to cost Bt3 billion. The projects are part of a five-year tourism development plan starting this year. The projects are:
- to create a "civilisation tourism route" between Thailand and Burma. It is expected to require funding of Bt40 million this year and another Bt225 million over the next two years.
- to build eco-tourism, which is expected to consume Bt900 million to Bt1 billion.
- the "Thailand Riviera" project, which was initially proposed some years ago. It aims to build new tourism magnets along the Gulf of Thailand. This project will require Bt260 million this year and Bt500 million in the next two years.
- promote the Mekong River as a new destination. It will require Bt130 million this year and another Bt420 million through 2009 and 2010.
- build the Thai-Khmer cultural route. It is budgeted at Bt500 million.
[via The Nation]
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- Rumour has it the Stereo Bar on Soi Buakhao has changed hands and will become a coyote bar.
- UN expert slams India, Cambodia, Thailand over sex tourism - India, Cambodia and Thailand are not doing enough to protect children against the risks associated with sex tourism for fear of damaging their economies, a UN human rights expert charged.
"Sometimes there are big pressures on governments, explicitly or implicitly, when there are enormous touristic activities going on, making millions of dollars," he told journalists. [via KeralaNext]
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- Save Web Pages to Google Docs
You can now easily store web pages, images and other HTML content to Google Documents using gDocsBar - a recommended Firefox add-on for Google Docs users.
Google Docs maintains the original formatting of web pages and the hyperlinks very similar to Google Notebook or other web clipping software discussed before.
To save web pages in Google Docs, highlight the content with your mouse and drag that selection onto the gDocsBar window. Your web clipping will be saved as a new document in Google Docs.
GDocsBar 0.5.6 - Note that this method works only with websites and won’t allow you to save clippings from Word Documents or PDF files onto Google Docs.
If you want to save web pages to Google Docs in IE, open a blank Google Document in a new tab and then drag-n-drop content from that webpage onto this Google document. Alternatively, you can do a simple copy paste. [via Digital Inspiration]
- Firefox Configuration Mania - Many Firefox settings can only be changed in the about:config dialog that appears when you type the phrase in the Firefox address bar. The settings in there however have rather cryptic names and it can sometimes be quite hard to figure out what they do, actually not that hard because every setting is explained on the Mozilla website. Still, it takes some time to look them up.
Configuration Mania is a Firefox add-on that displays many of those “deeper” settings in a menu that resembles the Firefox options menu. Users can access five main tabs, like Browser or Security, which lead to several subtabs that provide access to the settings.
Let me give you an example that helped me actually. Clicking on the Browser tab opens a menu with several like User Agent, Location Bar and Download. A click on Download revealed the option to disable the alert that you receive when a download finishes. I would have a hard time finding that option in the about:config settings.
Users who would like to keep the alert can chance the interval in that it is shown and even increase or decrease the speed of the animation. You can find dozens of such helpful settings in Configuration Mania. [via gHacks]
- Tweak Leopard's Hidden Features with Secrets [Featured Mac Download]
Free, open source application Secrets rolls every hidden feature of Leopard into an easy-to-use preference pane in your System Preferences. Developed by the author of the much-beloved Quicksilver, you can browse Secrets by application to see what tweaks are available for the apps you have installed. There's a ton to look into with Secrets, but the one secret that blew my mind off the bat was the "Arrows link to library instead of store" tweak in iTunes, which may be the most useful thing I've ever done to iTunes. Secrets is free, Mac OS X only. [via Lifehacker]
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