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Thai Premier: ‘One Laptop per Child’ Project to Begin in October

August 14, 2006 /

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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has announced that an ambitious project to provide low-cost laptop computers to all of Thailand’s millions of elementary school students 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.

By Associated Press

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