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Lethargic response to unpredictable weather
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 04/08/2018
» This year's season of deluges, mudslides and other weather-related disasters arrived innocently enough with 12 boys and their assistant football coach taking what they thought was to be a relaxing stroll in a cave after training.
Fixing social chaos a matter of culture
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 07/04/2017
» Strategically speaking, the military junta's attempt to enforce traffic laws through absolute power under Section 44 has been a total flop.
The politics of 'commission' payments
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/04/2016
» Corruption and Thailand are not exactly synonymous. But one can say they have co-existed for a very long time and at almost all levels of Thai society.
Wake up: There is no future for coal
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 14/08/2015
» Outside of Thailand, the signs are everywhere that nations are taking steps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the single most important factor -- for the time being at least -- to have caused numerous natural disasters in the world.
Putting humanity back into Thai education
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 13/02/2015
» One of the most excruciating experiences of being a parent in Thailand is looking for the right school for your children, starting as early as pre-school age.
Egat needs to listen to locals over coal power plant
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 03/10/2014
» What were soldiers armed with war weapons doing at a public hearing on a proposed sea port for transporting coal to a proposed coal-fired power plant in Krabi last week?
Centralising power won't solve plague of corruption
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/09/2014
» ML Panadda Diskul stirred up a hornet's nest when he suggested that some local administrations could not be trusted to spend taxpayers' money.