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Tourist cash cannot buy back lost beauty
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 27/10/2018
» Tourism is a big deal for many developing countries; it brings in a lot of money. But it is also a disruptive force and ruins a lot of good things.
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Mad axe: Social fury is OK but getting even?
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 03/03/2018
» People are getting mad. They are mad because the country's elite is making such a mess of things and the public can do nothing but watch events unfold.
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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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Mae Wong dam, cable car debates rear their ugly heads
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 04/03/2016
» Why am I not surprised that someone has proposed that two development projects be revived, again?
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Anti-plastic bag campaign needs legal teeth to succeed
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 09/10/2015
» I can say with confidence that most of us have stashed away surplus plastic bags at home and we don't know what to do with them, besides dumping them together with other trash.
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When a single tree falls in the forest ... everyone hears
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 19/09/2014
» "Someday I'm going to climb Phu Kradung mountain," I've been telling myself for years, but still have never made the trek. Pretty soon I'll be at an age when it may not be possible for me to make it there on foot, which is currently the only way for visitors to do it.
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Two feet rout a bad dam plan, trigger reform
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 27/09/2013
» Sasin Chalermlarp, who walked 388km to protest a proposed dam project in Mae Wong National Park, has done more than just spread his anti-dam messages.
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Floods are a wake-up call from mother nature
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/10/2013
» A short video clip posted on YouTube recently is poignant. In it a teenage girl in working clothes pleads for the authorities in Sukhothai to open the flood walls of the provincial airport to allow floodwater to drain from surrounding rice fields.
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Police needs lessons from Georgia
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/02/2013
» The news barely made the papers - investigating officers in Kaeng Krachan district of Phetchaburi had decided to drop charges against a police officer for illegal poaching in a national park, a small story for the back pages that probably would have gone unnoticed had some outraged readers not posted it on social media.
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