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Old-world bigotry is a trap for us all
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/09/2012
» If we Thais think the anger in the Muslim world against the incendiary video insulting the Prophet Mohammed is not our problem, then we need to think again.
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Dropouts from a failed school system
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/09/2012
» Meet Bank, a school dropout. When he became bored with herding cattle in his village in Ubon Ratchathani, he agreed to toil in a small garage of my car mechanic to learn the ropes. He was 16 then. After only three years, the teenager is now earning 15,000 baht a month, which is equivalent to the salaries of new university graduates, and dreams of setting up his own business in his hometown.
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The real enemy of our forests
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/08/2012
» Kanya Pankiti's rubber smallholding in Trang's Ratsada district in the Khao Bantad mountain region is not an ordinary one.
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This is racism, not Buddhism
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/09/2012
» How do you feel when you see rows of stern-looking Buddhist monks marching through the streets in full force to call for violent treatment of the downtrodden?
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Violence won't save forests
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/08/2012
» When maverick forest chief Damrong Pidech ordered a lighting attack on a plush resort in the Tap Lan National Park by thousands of fully armed men last week, he was hailed as a national hero by the media and forest conservation NGOs.
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Temple danger clear as Jobs talk gets crazy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/08/2012
» Should we just dismiss it as crazy when a Buddhist monk claims he knows about the late Steve Jobs's afterlife and that Jobs's spirit is now blessed with a sacred crystal ball inside his body?
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Myanmar's chance to help Rohingya
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/06/2012
» Is the sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Rakhine state threatening the nascent democracy in Myanmar? That is the question the world is asking.
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This very fishy business
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/07/2012
» What do you do when big trawlers violate the law, annihilate the seabed with their destructive fishing gear, and wipe out marine life from our coastal seas?
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Insane uni entrance
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/07/2012
» GAT. PAT. GPAX. Onet. SAT. CU-ATT. TU-GET. These acronyms used to be meaningless gibberish to me. Now they are making my life hell.
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2,600 years on, we're stuck fast in a moral rut
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/08/2012
» Two thousand and six hundred years ago today, the Buddha gave his first sermon which was to become the cornerstone of Buddhist teachings: Avoid extremism, understand the reality of suffering, its nature and its cessation, and then follow the middle path of eight practices to free oneself of suffering.
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