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Decentralise, or Pracharath bound to fail
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/09/2015
» When Thaksin Shinawatra was looking for innovative policies to launch his Thai Rak Thai Party, he looked for inspiration from activists leading social movements and was not disappointed. Universal health care and village funds became his landmark policy successes that subsequent governments could only try to outdo by pouring in more money to expand the programmes further.
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Revoke the licence to kill our oceans
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/03/2024
» Despite efforts to rein in rogue trawlers and overfishing in the past decade, the Thai seas are still in crisis. And if the Srettha government has its way, things will go from bad to worse.
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Outrage over old-age allowance cut
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/08/2023
» This year's viral video clip on Thai Mothers' Day wasn't about motherly love. It featured a furious mother's outburst, which, surprisingly, gained overwhelming support from viewers across the country.
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Fanaticism, hate speech and Buddhism
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/09/2020
» If your ultra-royalist friends say we need to uphold the Nation-Religion-Monarchy state ideology to protect the country's peace, order and national identity, ask them whose nation and what religion they are talking about.
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Govt continues to exploit pandemic
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/06/2020
» While we dread the novel coronavirus and wish it would go away, the government is prolonging the Covid-19 pandemic scare to strengthen its iron grip on the country.
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Racism holds back economy as society ages
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/02/2018
» The government's policy to encourage more births of "Thai" children to help offset the cost of a rapidly approaching ageing society reflects deep-rooted racial prejudice in policy formulation.
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Punish corruption, not migrant workers
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/07/2017
» What does it take to effectively regulate migrant labour? A tougher law? The Labour Ministry believes so. So does the military government. Hence the draconian decree on migrant labour management -- and the subsequent red faces all around.
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NESDB survey reeks of ultra-nationalism
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/09/2016
» A news item about migrant workers created a big nationalistic stir last week. It was about a survey showing migrant workers becoming self-employed and active in small, informal trading as small vendors in fresh and community markets.
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Clipping civil society's wings spells peril
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 13/01/2016
» The good news first: Buddhism will not be enshrined as Thailand's national religion in the draft charter. Now the bad news: the protection for human dignity, freedoms, rights and equality for everyone in the country -- a principle recognised in previous charters -- will now be no more.
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Prayut must make good on UN promises
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/09/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said all the right things in his speech at the UN summit. Congratulations. The question is whether he will make good on his promises to do the right things to make the world a better place. The challenge is right here at home.
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