Think twice about revealing contact details when you buy an Acer
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When you buy your Acer laptop - or turn it in for repair - think twice about revealing your telephone number when asked.
Doing so may have you disturbed several times, during your working day, by SMSs arriving to your mobile phone. "Acer Hot Item", "Hot Promotions" etc. kindly informing you about the latest offer. Maybe you want to buy one more laptop?
If not, the idea of signing off from the spam list may occur to you. This may take considerable time for the unprepared, me it took at...... (read more)
BANGKOK, Jan 24 - Thailand's Food and Drug Administration will revoke its order totally banning the advertising of alcoholic beverages next month, FDA secretary-general Siriwat Tiptaradol said on Wednesday.
The FDA's move is to comply with the recent Cabinet instruction that the state agency must act according to the Council of State's resolution that the FDA had no authority to impose the ban.
In November last year, the Ministry of Public Health proposed a total 24-hour ban on all forms...... (read more)
Internet traders protecting themselves against credit card fraud will easily find that their validation procedures scares off legitimate customers. In addition, the procedures lead to risky practises where credit card information is transferred in the open, in itself increasing the risk for fraud.
Customers trying to book from Air Asia, Thailand, with a foreign credit card is in the moment frequently met with the message "A problem seems to have occurred with the credit card you used. This...... (read more)
Thai Union Frozen Products Pcl, the world's second-biggest tuna canner, said first-quarter profit fell 8.3 percent to its lowest in seven quarters as its costs rose faster than sales.
Profit in the quarter ended March 30 fell to 432.8 million baht ($11.45 million), or 0.49 baht a share, from 472.1 million baht, or 0.54 baht a share, a year earlier, the Bangkok-based company said in a statement on the Thai exchange today. This is the company's lowest quarterly profit since the first quarter of...... (read more)
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