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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.
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Haze crisis a symptom of state of failures
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 25/01/2020
» The current air pollution crisis is just one of many symptoms of a system going haywire. The pollution crisis has been an annual occurrence for the past several years. Every dry season, we brace ourselves for the onslaught of toxic smog caused by exhaust fumes, construction dust, forest fires, and fires deliberately set on pre- or post-harvest fields.
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Farms provide crucial economic safety net
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/11/2016
» The only qualifications I can claim as a rice expert is that I have been eating rice for more than six decades and I know a rice plant when I see one.
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Thais should become less pragmatic
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 12/08/2016
» So the circus-like referendum came and went. And the vote came down decidedly on the side of the junta government.The constitution drafters and supporters are understandably ecstatic. Their work in drafting the country's supreme law will not go to waste, and, with the public mandate on its side, the junta can now carry on with its national reform agenda and returning the country to a democratic path.
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Time to stop poisoning our precious land, resources
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 06/05/2016
» All that glitters is not gold. This old saying can aptly apply to Thailand's gold mining industry or, for that matter, the mining industry in general.
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Time for a graceful exit after the rice scheme disaster
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 14/02/2014
» To deal with troubles caused by anti-government protesters, the caretaker government has resorted to imposing a state of emergency on Bangkok and a few surrounding areas. Whether this action is effective enough to quell the dissent instead of provoking even stiffer resistance, we shall see soon enough.
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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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Mining giant fails to cow angry villagers
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 14/03/2014
» Mention Loei and what comes to mind? Probably Phu Kradung National Park and the tourist district of Chiang Khan.
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Onus for making peace rests with Yingluck
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 17/01/2014
» Now that caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has decided to go ahead with the Feb 2 election as scheduled, the stage is set for a full-blown confrontation between the two warring parties.
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We must not let this divisive election start a civil war
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 31/01/2014
» It now appears that voting will take place this Sunday as scheduled, amid widespread fears of violence. Yingluck Shinawatra, the caretaker prime minister, has rejected a suggestion by the Election Commission to reschedule the poll to avoid violent confrontations and wasting the nearly 4-billion-baht budget needed to organise an election that everyone agrees will not result in a functioning government.
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