Earlier this year , Her Royal Highness the royally sponsored trophies to the winners of the 14th and 15th Annual NJ Spelling Bee competitions : Supawat Kongthong from Triamudom Suksa Scgool and Nuntarruth Chenboonthai from Satriwittaya II School, respectively.
NJ, part of nation Multimedia Group, stressrs the importance of English-language development among Thai youth, especially in the run up to the ASEAN Economic Community [AEC] in 2015.
The NJ Spelling Bee - - a nationwide competition supported by Her Royal Highness, state agencies and private corporations - - is just one of the publication's creative initiatives.
Students applied for the competition by sitting an online pre-test of 50 questions. The top 1,000 students frome each of the country's four regions won a place in the regional qualifiers this year held in two sites per region - 500 students from the upper part of the region and 500 students from the lower part of the region - - to facilitate the maximum number of participants and reduce travelling times for students and teachers.