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Democratic flame is on a knife's edge
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 15/06/2019
» We thought we were creeping back to democracy. We thought we were regaining our freedoms. After all, we have just welcomed a new government which has tried to convince the world that it came to power by democratic means.
Govt ill-prepared to tackle climate woes
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 30/10/2021
» One and a half hour's drive from Bangkok is Bang Ban district of Ayutthaya. Here, most of the rice fields and entire villages have been under water for the past couple of months.
No rationale left not to abandon fossil fuels
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/09/2018
» It has become clear to many that the global trend of renewable energy development, particularly solar energy, is unstoppable.
Prayut's questions attract ridicule, not input
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 16/06/2017
» Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha's proposed four questions must have many people stumped. What is he thinking? What's the purpose of posing such questions out of the blue?
Waste treatment alone cannot purify putrid canal water
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 06/11/2015
» When one looks at the state of Bangkok canals today, it is hard to imagine that they were once filled with clear, clean water teeming with aquatic life.
Bad sign from climate change sceptic Trump
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 25/11/2016
» So Donald Trump, the soon-to-be American president, is backtracking on his position about climate change.
Rebel with a cause Netiwit riles 'adults'
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/03/2022
» When I read a while back that Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal -- a young political activist, was going to Chulalongkorn University, it struck me as inconceivable.
Our bloated bureaucracy bodes only ill
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 22/01/2022
» The government has grown ever larger over the past decade. The fact would be hailed as positive news if the affairs of governance were a private enterprise.
Wild Wild Web's pandemic of lies needs a vaccine
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/12/2021
» We have all encountered false information spread on the internet before.
Police power must belong to the people
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 04/09/2021
» The case of a police officer brutally torturing a drug suspect, that has gone viral in a leaked video clip, is just an infected sore that happened to burst in public.