It will kick off at the Anodard Extreme Theatre on December 26 and will be staged 4 times a day at 1pm, 2.30pm, 5pm, and 6.30pm.

“The Mechanism Thai Art: Naga Conquers Demon aims to pass on the heritage of Thai art and culture in a contemporary way through an inspiring story taken from a traditional folk tale and re-designed to entertain the audience by sparking their imagination,” said Wiwat Eurvongvaranont, vice president of Attraction, Property Management at Central Pattana (CPN) and director of Tribhum Theme Park.

“This upcoming new live-show portrays how angels and animals of the Himmapan forest fight to protect the Amarit (holy water) from the Demon, yet they are unable to tackle him. When one of deities joins the blessing ceremony of the Amarit at Krailas Mountain, the Naga is called upon to conquer the Demon. The audience will marvel at the live show created with contemporary Thai art, fusing multimedia elements and a stunning light and sound show delivered with advanced world-class techniques. Large robotic puppets are featured using projection mapping that radiates onto a gigantic mountain. It’s not only entertaining, but the show also inspires the audience with its philosophy, showing how good definitely conquers evil,” he added.

“Tribhum: The Mystical Three Worlds” has been open for nine months and Wiwat says it has been warmly welcomed by both Thai and foreign tourists. “A global destination that is different from other attractions, the Tribhum suits tourists of all genders, ages and lifestyles. Everyone can experience and enjoy their time here together. There are photospots for visitors that feature astonishing day and night landscapes. We have continued to develop new attractions by focusing on branding the Tribhum characters. Our use of technology on our online platform underlines the Tribhum as the world-class man-made attraction landmark that tourists can’t miss.”

The Tribhum Vision 2020 aims to see the theme park become a global destination that delivers exciting experiences through a business roadmap which embraces 9 strategies.

The first is joining forces with partners in public and private sectors, including the Tourism Authority of Thailand, international airlines, telecommunications service providers, financial institutions, hotels and the digital platform business sector.

The second is holding exclusive sales promotional activities for target groups, such as honeymooners, family tourists, adventure and green tour groups. The third is sales promotional campaigns offered at special prices through B2B and B2C agents.

The fourth is expanding the free independent traveller (FIT) market together with online travel agents in both the domestic and international markets. The fifth is consistently creating fresh activities and festival events that respond tothe tourists’ needs.

The sixth is supporting sales efforts to public and private educational institutions, as well as local administration offices to promote tourism that allows for learning. The seventh is expanding ticketing sales at http://www.tribhum.com, so that tourists can buy their tickets from all over the world.

The eighth is emphasising promotion through micro influencers, to increase popularity from real experience by using powerful word-of-mouth approach. The last is growing as an ideal MICE Destination that responds to the needs of new creative events in a comprehensive way.

To celebrate the long holiday, the Tribhum offers special promotions for Thai visitors. Adult visitors can buy a ticket for only Bt750 down from Bt1,500 and pay Bt350, down from Bt750, for children. The offer is valid from December 26 until January 31, 2020 and tickets are valid for 6 months from December 26. Ticket can be purchased at H.I.S. Thailand Tour (02) 022 0917 or visit http://www.tooktrip.com, Line: @tooktrip, or http://www.facebook.com/tooktrip, Ticket2Attraction (02) 138 3921 or (095) 504 8282 or visit http://www.ticket2attraction.com, Line: @ticket2attraction, orwww.facebook.com/ticket2attraction.

On Tuesday, Uber said Kalanick would leave the board “to focus on his new business and philanthropic endeavors,” though it did not cite specifics. Kalanick resigned as the company’s chief executive in 2017 after several chaotic months that ended in a shareholder revolt. That resignation also came in the wake of a series of scandals tied to Uber’s aggressive workplace culture.

“Uber has been a part of my life for the past 10 years,” Kalanick said in a statement. “At the close of the decade, and with the company now public, it seems like the right moment for me to focus on my current business and philanthropic pursuits.”

Kalanick had been winding down his shares of the company. In the past few weeks, Kalanick sold more than $2.5 billion in Uber stock, comprising more than 90 percent of his stake.

Investors will be glad to see Kalanick and Uber part ways, especially given the company’s financial tumble since its initial public offering in May, Daniel Ives of Wedbush Securities wrote in an analyst note.

“With ripping the band-aid off and Travis leaving stage left on the Board, we believe now its about [CEO Dara Khosrowshahi] & Co. taking Uber in the right direction for 2020 and beyond after a rough road so far,” Ives wrote.

In March 2018, Kalanick announced the creation of an investment fund dubbed 10100 that would be “home to my passions, investments, ideas and big-bets.” At the time, Kalanick said the investments would focus on large-scale job creation and that the portfolio would encompass real estate, e-commerce and emerging technologies in China and India. He said he would also work on nonprofit projects surrounding education and the future of cities.

Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Kalanick was also leaning into real estate and the food-delivery business. Through CloudKitchens, Kalanick aims to build commissary kitchens that can be used by food-delivery businesses. The idea is for restaurants to rent kitchen space in industrial buildings to make it cheaper for them to get food out to customers via Uber drivers and other delivery services.

For the second straight year, the Japanese company will run its chip factories constantly through the holidays to try and keep up with demand for sensors used in mobile phone cameras, according to Terushi Shimizu, the head of Sony’s semiconductor unit. The electronics giant is more than doubling its capital spending on the business to 280 billion yen ($2.6 billion) this fiscal year and is also building a new plant in Nagasaki that will come online in April 2021.

“Judging by the way things are going, even after all that investment in expanding capacity, it might still not be enough,” Shimizu said in an interview at the Tokyo headquarters. “We are having to apologize to customers because we just can’t make enough.”

It’s now common to see three lenses on the back of a phone as manufacturers lean on camera specs as a hard number to nudge customers into upgrading. The latest models from Samsung Electronics Co. and Huawei Technologies Co. boast resolutions in excess of 40 megapixels, can capture ultrawide-angle images and come with depth sensors. Apple Inc. this year joined the fray with a triple-camera iPhone 11 Pro. That’s why even as smartphone market growth plateaus, Sony’s sales of image sensors continue to soar.

“The camera has become the biggest differentiator for smartphone brands and everyone wants their social media pictures and videos to look nice,” said Masahiro Wakasugi, an analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence. “Sony is riding that wave of demand very well.”

Semiconductors are now Sony’s most profitable business after the PlayStation. The company in October raised its operating income outlook for the chip unit 38% to 200 billion yen in the year ending March 2020, after second-quarter profit jumped by almost 60%. Sony forecasts revenue from its semiconductor division will climb 18% to 1.04 trillion yen, of which image sensors account for 86%.

The company has also been plowing a lot of the profit right back into the business with plans to invest about 700 billion yen ($6.4 billion) in the three-year period ending March 2021. Most of the spending will go to boosting monthly output capacity of image sensors to 138,000 wafers from about 109,000 now. Samsung, Sony’s biggest rival in this space, said at its most recent earnings call that it’s also boosting production to meet demand, which it expects will remain strong “for quite some time.”

Sony in May said it controls 51% of the image sensor market as measured by revenue and is targeting a 60% share by fiscal 2025. Shimizu estimates Sony’s portion of the pie grew by a few percentage points this year alone.

Like many important technological breakthroughs of the late 20th century — from the transistor to lasers and photovoltaic cells — image sensors were invented at Bell Laboratories. But it was Sony who succeeded in commercializing the so-called charge-coupled devices. Its first product was an “electronic eye” installed on All Nippon Airways jumbo jets in 1980 to project images of landing and takeoff from the cockpit. Kazuo Iwama, who as a vice president was key to pushing through the initial decade-long development slog, passed away before the successful launch of the camcorder business in 1985. Iwama’s tombstone bears a CCD sensor to mark his contribution.

Sony is now looking to a new generation of sensors that can see the world in three dimensions. The company uses a method called time of flight that sends out invisible laser pulses and measures how long they take to bounce back to create detailed depth models. This helps mobile cameras create better portrait photos by more precisely selecting the background to blur out, and it can also be applied in mobile games, where virtual characters can be shown realistically interacting with real-world environments. If used on the front of the phone, TOF sensors allow for hand gestures and facial motion capture for animated avatars.

Samsung and Huawei have already unveiled flagship models with 3-D sensors. Apple is rumored to introduce a 3-D camera to its lineup in 2020. Shimizu declined to comment on specific customers, but said Sony is ready to meet what it expects will be a significant increase in demand next year.

“This was the year zero for time of flight,” Shimizu said. “Once you start seeing interesting applications of this technology, it will motivate people to buy new phones.”