The offer also comes with a limited edition of collectible items, namely, chic and trendy designs of the Big Mac Gift Card and Big Mac T-shirt for all burger-lovers and big fans of McDonald’s collectible items, the company announced.

Hester Chew, chairman of the executive committee and chief executive of McThai, said on Monday: “Big Mac is an iconic menu of McDonald’s which has been well-received worldwide for over 50 years. And we are delighted to celebrate 50 years of Big Mac.

“In Thailand, we are pleased to offer Big Mac at a special price with high-quality beef patties imported from Australia with food-safety priority in every single process and a traceability system in place, with no artificial flavours or colours and preservatives in the beef patties.

“We are also unveiling collectible items to celebrate this special occasion.” he added.

For domestic flights, passengers shall be served with special menu called Mango Panacotta and Pumpkin Coconut Pudding, according to its press release.

While special menu for passengers on international flights is Pumpkin Macadamia Orchid Cake, sprinkled with macadamia nuts from the Royal Project and Pumpkin Crème Bulee. All menus used the finest raw materials  selected from the Royal Project such as Japanese pumpkin,  macadamia nuts and Royal Project’s fresh milk. Fly with the best airlines in Asia, Thailand’s number one airline and the Travelers ‘Choice Awards in Asia from TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards 2018.

Please note that these special menus are not available for the following flights: WE051, WE011, WE169, WE177, WE208, WE272, WE333 / 334, WE335 / 336, WE343 / 344, WE420, WE426, WE609.

It was designed and created by Elizabeth Romhild, a Danish-Almanian designer who conveyed her idea through oil painting on the canvas with uniquely striking colors, according to its press release.

The model is the Eiffel Tower, a symbol of France where the brand was originated. In addition, the decorations placed on each floor reflect the varied product ranges of Maison Berger Paris.

The smell of the perfume reminds us of the legend of the Bible that the Three Wise Men are searching for a little prince according to the French belief. France is the center of perfume in Europe since the 14th century.

The celebration for the joy of life at Christmas Eve is linked to the essence of the glory of France as reflected in one of the special aroma of Maison Berger Paris, “Elegant Parisian”

Come and witness Maison Berger Paris’s Christmas tree at the Parichat Court of the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel and facebook: Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel from now until December 3, 2018.

For more information, please contact 02 254 2780 or 02 672 0498 ext. 113 or visit us at https://www.facebook.com/maisonbergerthailand and IG: @maisonbergerthailand #maisonbergerthailand.

The firm sees cybersecurity, big data and analytics, automation and technologies as digital technologies that will have opportunity for growth in the near future.

Vatsun Thirapatarapong, managing director of Cisco Thailand and Indochina, said the firm aims to provide its technologies and innovative solutions to support financial, manufacturing, public sector and education industries. These industries will utilise new technologies and innovative solutions such as mobile payment, the Bionic bank, the invisible bank, smart city and industry 4.0 to transform their businesses and organisations.

He said the firm had also expanded its marketing channel by cooperating with telecom operators in providing technologies and innovative solutions to support businesses. It is also building up existing individual software vendor (ISV) into solution partners so that they will be able to help customers utilise new technologies and solutions to transform businesses in terms of digital transportation.

The firm believes that by 2020 around 75 per cent of businesses will be digital or have digital business transformations underway. Around 30 per cent of those will be successful, impacted by lack of specialised talent and technical expertise. About 78 per cent would not have established the capability to manage and transform processes across different parts of the organisation.

“I think that businesses will adopt new technologies to support their businesses such as cybersecurity on cloud that will help protect against cyber-threats. We also expect double-digit growth in the areas of cloud and embrace a full stack of cybersecurity.

“Meanwhile, we are trying to provide innovation platforms such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), system analytics, collaboration and smart city platforms to support the demand of the market,” said the managing director.

The firm is eyeing six digital trends that will power customer experience in 2020: smart retail, hyper-personalisation, intelligent assistants, remote experts, instant fulfilment becomes a reality as well as virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) that blends physical with digital such as workplace transformation.

He said that the top technology trends that would affect businesses in the near future are artificial intelligence and machine learning. The firm forecasts that next year, around 85 per cent of software created will have AI capabilities.

AI would be followed by cybersecurity. Customers understand that they have to protect themselves but they do not know where they are and how to do it. And the third is multi-cloud that will pose challenges to connect and consume multi-cloud with visibility and security.

A study “A Technology Perspective into Asia-Pacific’s Readiness for Digital Transformation” shows that despite the high confidence and awareness of technologies shaping business’s digital future, adoption rates are relatively low across the region. Among respondents in Asean, only 60 per cent have started to adopt cloud, 59 per cent cybersecurity solutions, 55 per cent big data and analytics as well as 48 per cent automation.

In the international market, the firm takes care of Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. It sees Cambodia as having the highest potential for growth as businesses in Cambodia continued to utilise new technologies and solutions to support business growth amid the increasing demand from customers.

He said the firm in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019 (August 2018 to July 2019) was the second top market in the Asia Pacific region behind India.

Chalermpon Punnotok, the chief executive officer of CT Robotics, said that this was the first time the company had developed a robot for the mass market, aimed at people suffering from Alzheimer’s.

Currently, there are around 600,000 people suffering from Alzheimer’s in Thailand with the possibility of the numbers increasing rapidly as Thailand becomes an ageing society. The company sees the opportunity to deliver AI robots as company for these people.

Dinsow Mini 2 is designed with embedded voice recognition, voice command and face recognition and also AI features that allow the robot to learn more about the elderly person’s voice, face, behaviour and lifestyle.

Dinsow Mini 2 also encourages the elderly to do brain exercise. The company claims that Dinsow Mini 2 is the first robot that combines three AI features: voice-AI, face-AI, and pattern-AI.

He said the company aims to sell 5,000 Dinsow Mini 2 within the next 12 months in four markets – Thailand, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong.

The company has local partners in each market. In Thailand, it now partners three retail drug-chain stores – Healthymax, PharMax, SafeDrug.

Dinsow Mini 2 comes with cellular capability and Wi-Fi connection as well as camera, speaker, and touch-screen monitor to facilitate the elderly to instantly communicate with their family.

“The elderly will be in the eyes of their family at all times as Dinsow Mini 2, as their companion, will immediately alert and contact the family if any urgent incident occurs, especially if there is a difference in the face or unusual behaviour,” said Chalermpon.

Saito Masaru, general manager of Japan Genki Group, the operator of 80 elderly nursing centres in Japan, as customers and partners of CT Robotics, said the company initially aims to order 200 Dinsow Mini 2 to use in its elderly nursing centres.

The company will consider bringing Dinsow Mini 2 to the mass market for consumers in the future.

Chalermpon said Dinsow Mini 2 is the latest version of Dinsow Mini, which has been used in almost 20 hospitals in Thailand, including Siriraj Hospital and Chulalongkorn Hospital.

“Almost a hundred units of Dinsow Mini 1 have been sold. Dinsow Mini 1 is designed for corporate use, especially hospitals in Thailand and in elderly nursing centres in Japan, but Dinsow Mini 2 is designed for home use. We plan to launch the next version with the application protocol interface to third party to develop added features,” said Chalermpon.

Apart from Dinsow Mini, the company has also developed a service robot called Dinsow, which is bigger than Dinsow Mini. Three versions of Dinsow are available in the market.

“We aim to sell around 10 units of the latest version of Dinsow Series 3, priced at about Bt800,000 each.

In 2019, we will launch Dinsow Series 4, which will have the functions of a product consultant in a shopping centre. We aim to sell around 200 units of Dinsow Series 4 next year,” said Chalermpon.

Dinsow Mini 2 will be sold at a special price of Bt65,000 instead of the normal price of Bt85,000 on the occasion of Father’s Day.