Green light for high-tech Cabinet meeting room
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Government House's Cabinet meeting room will be ready for ministers' meetings by Tuesday, PM's Office Minister ML Panadda Diskul said yesterday.
Panadda boasted that the new technology adopted for the meeting room was on par with that of the White House.
Known as Room 501, it has a sound system operated by a touch screen, a first for Thailand. It is also has a special computer programme and comes with an anti-snooping system.
A total of 89 new microphones have been installed, and each cost Bt145,000. There is also a 55-inch high-definition video wall and videoconference facilities. The room, together with the upgrading of two other conference rooms, known as Room 301 and 302, cost a total of Bt69 million.
Panadda said he was proud that the rooms were now updated, as well as the renovated Naree Samosorn Building that is ready to welcome foreign dignitaries.
He led a group of senior bureaucrats to inspect Room 501 yesterday.
