Monday, August 14, 2006

Thailand plans free laptops for kids

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has announced that an ambitious project to provide low-cost laptop computers to <A HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060813/ap_on_hi_te/thailand_laptop_plan">all of Thailand's millions of elementary school students</A> will begin in October. The U.S.-based "One Laptop per Child" project aims to deliver up to 30 computers to Thailand in October and 500 more in November, Thaksin said in a nationwide radio broadcast on Saturday. "If this project is completed, each elementary school child will receive a computer to learn on at school," Thaksin said.

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