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Jailed activists put justice system to test
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/05/2021
» A request for bail for pro-democracy protesters languishing in jail was rejected for the ninth time on Thursday.
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Army stuck protecting and serving itself
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 27/06/2020
» In news photos, Thanet Anantawong was dwarfed by soldiers who surrounded him. The diminutive man was 25 years old when the arms of the military snatched him for saying bad things about them.
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Rising star Piyabutr will enrage FFP foes
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 29/06/2019
» The first two-day meeting of the House of Representatives this week has probably set the tone for the remainder of the parliamentary session. Opposition debates look set to be hard-hitting, and rebuttals from the government aisle are expected to be equally fierce.
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Regime must forget 'face' and do right thing
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 28/04/2018
» 'Face" remains an aspect of Thai culture that often poses an obstacle to attempts to resolve various sticky problems.
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Doi Suthep: Judiciary not the villain
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 14/04/2018
» It is now almost certain that officials at the Region 5 Court of Appeal in Chiang Mai will not move into the new housing project on the slope of Doi Suthep after all.
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Justice for villagers shows Thailand is moving forward
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 03/06/2016
» May 2016 will be remembered as an auspicious time when justice, up to a fashion, was served for villagers living near gold mines in three provinces.
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Prospects look grim for citizens fighting developers
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 23/10/2015
» A group of people have wasted a good chunk of 13 years of their lives going to-and-fro to fight unnecessary lawsuits in court, and for what? To simply reiterate a constitutional principle that people have rights to peaceful assembly and free speech.
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Wake up: There is no future for coal
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 14/08/2015
» Outside of Thailand, the signs are everywhere that nations are taking steps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the single most important factor -- for the time being at least -- to have caused numerous natural disasters in the world.
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Pollution victims' photos tell tales of misery
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 17/07/2015
» I looked at their faces and they looked at mine. I gazed into their haunting eyes, trying to feel what they felt.
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Public must unite in condemning protest violence
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 28/02/2014
» The summer winds are blowing in just as the political scene has heated up to the extent that no other affairs of state are more urgent now than ensuring peace is restored.
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