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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.
What next after the passing of iconic Ko-ee?
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/10/2018
» At 107, ethnic Karen elder Ko-ee Mimee had only one wish -- to return to his ancestral land deep in the Kaeng Krachan jungle and die there. On Friday, the icon of indigenous forest dwellers' struggles against state violence and injustice passed, his last wish unfulfilled and the future of his people hanging in the balance.
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.
Take the axe to state's war on forest poor
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/06/2015
» Leave the poor alone. That was the order from the country's most powerful man when he ordered troops to evict encroachers to save the country's fast-dwindling forests and return happiness to the country.
Migrant mum plan a killer
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/06/2012
» If Labour Minister Padermchai Sasomsop's plan to send pregnant migrant workers home becomes a reality, he simply cannot escape being condemned for having blood on his hands.