Chinese and Thai traditional knowledge could become strong
pillars of new applied understandings of science and technology to
bring about a different world of tomorrow as the curtain-up of a
Sino-Thai seminar on scientific and technological cooperation on
Thursday.
Thai Minister of Science and Technology Pravich Rattanapien said
in a speech delivered at the opening of a Thai-Chinese seminar on
scientific and technological cooperation Thursday morning that the
Bangkok meeting is a crucial step that would lead to joint research
and exchanges on technology and scientists between the two
countries.
Knowledge of ancient Oriental wisdom traditions could prove an
answer for Asia's state-of-the-art technology in the future as
Thailand and China have agreed to expand bilateral cooperation on
sciences and technology, the minister was quoted by the official
Thai News Agency as saying.
Joint cooperation, he said, would result in development of a
knowledge-based society through their Asian traditional wisdom
instead of relying solely on western technology.
In addition, the minister urged stakeholders to speed up
establishment of a Thai-Chinese technological promotion association
to apply the new hybrid technology to the production and investment
sectors in their countries.
Thailand and China recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) on future scientific cooperation in Beijing based on research
and development in major fields such as information technology,
biological technology and biological diversity, as well as the new
epidemiology regarding such concerns as avian influenza (bird
flu).
(Xinhua News Agency June 23, 2006)
