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Thailand says key agencies/sectors Y2K ready

04:15 a.m. Dec 09, 1999 Eastern BANGKOK, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The Thai government on Thursday confirmed that key state agencies were 100 percent ready to meet any Y2K computer problems at the turn of the century.

``I can confirm that computer systems at our 31 most critical agencies are 100 percent ready to meet Y2K-related problems,'' deputy premier Trairong Suwankhiri told reporters.

The Y2K-ready state agencies are involved in the electricity and energy sector, telecommunications and transport sector, banking, finance, insurance and social welfare sector.

The millennium bug is a computer glitch which could cause date-sensitive computer systems to malfunction when the year 2000 begins.

Trairong said a local media campaign and a newly-composed song ``Thais are not afraid of Y2K'' would be featured soon and five million copies of handbooks advising people on how to cope with any millennium computer bug problems would be distributed.

Representatives from the Justice Ministry said the government would set up a joint state and private sector mitigation center to handle any Y2K related problems between businesses and businesses and businesses and consumers.

The center, which could be used by Thai and foreign parties, was aimed at speedily resolving any disputes that may arise, rather than to let them become long-running court battles.

Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited

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There is no such thing as "100% ready". Period. Every industry will have problems. Period. Claims of "100%" anything vis-a-vis Y2k are meaningless. Yet, they are dutifully noted by an ignorant media, and swallowed whole by the gullible masses.

Other than that, this is truly great news.

-- Steve (hartsman@ticon.net), December 09, 1999

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And I can hardly wait for the song. Y2k needs a feel-good anthem. Leave it to the Thais.

-- Steve (hartsman@ticon.net), December 09, 1999.

Unless this is a mistranslation, what he said is (my bold) "100 percent ready to meet Y2K-related problems". There's no implication that they won't have problems, just that they're "ready" for them, whatever that means.

I like the song though. We should come up with one.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 09, 1999.

``I can confirm that computer systems at our 31 most critical agencies are 100 percent ready to meet Y2K-related problems,'' deputy premier Trairong Suwankhiri told reporters.

Here's another WAKE UP call. People will read this and think "Thailand is compliant!", not so. Thailand is ready to deal with problems as they arise.

F-O-F, what a way to run a country !.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 09, 1999.

Trairong said a local media campaign and a newly-composed song ``Thais are not afraid of Y2K''

Is the Rendon Group working with them too???

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), December 09, 1999.

100% Y2K Ready. Uh huh.

The company I work for took the official position that our software was Y2K compliant. Uh huh ... I fixed 3 Y2K related problems in it this week!

I love what my bank is saying to us - "Why YES, We're ready!".

Uh huh ...

-- CodeBubba (codebubba@yahoo.com), December 09, 1999.