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Change starts from within, says The Body Shop
Life, Noko, Published on 20/12/2022
» As Christmas nears, The Body Shop Thailand makes finding gifts easy at its stores with a collection curated for a good cause.
Thai activist honoured by US as hero in fight against human trafficking
Published on 20/07/2022
» A Thai activist dedicated to improving the lives of workers in the fishing sector has been honoured by the US State Department for her work in the fight against human trafficking.
Seen yet still invisible
Life, Published on 27/12/2021
» No one wants to be stateless -- with no nationality and no legal identity. Having a nationality is a right enshrined and guaranteed in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet close to 300,000 children in Thailand have no such status. They live in fear, with their fundamental rights and future dreams diminished.
Bogus romeo bust, motorcycle taxi thug, teacher lust
News, Mae Moo, Published on 21/02/2021
» 'I kept sending him money'
Age-old debate on the world's oldest profession
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 25/11/2020
» Should sex work be considered a crime? Thais have debated this for several decades. Prostitution was legal until the Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act was launched in 1960 and later replaced with the current law. Even though 1996 law claimed to protect prostitutes and prevent human trafficking, it had the opposite effect because it still makes sex work illegal.
Hope for every child by protecting the most vulnerable
Published on 12/10/2020
» "Last night my father said that we should kill ourselves." This isn't meant to shock or sensationalise. It's real, it fell from the lips of a Thai teenager not long ago on social media, and it's an illustration of a serious problem in our society.
Green recovery
Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 31/07/2020
» The streets of the city have roared back to life, rush hours are a thing once more and the busyness of Bangkok has returned. On one hand, it's great that everything seems to be coming back to normal.
Spreading the love, frankly
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 06/03/2020
» Rebecca "Frankie" Mok and Matt Love are leading social movement builders in the Asia-Pacific region with more than 10 years experience in mobilising populations around critical social issues. Together they form Love Frankie, a Bangkok-based social change creative agency.
The key to breathing easy
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 28/01/2020
» First, the number of coronavirus-infected cases in China was only 27 when first reported at the end of December. Then, only three days later, the number rose to 44, before hitting 59 two days after that.
A seat at the table
Life, Published on 08/01/2020
» On Jan 10, 1920, 42 states embarked on a revolutionary experiment. On that day, a radically new organisation came into being via the Treaty of Versailles: the League of Nations. This was the world's first go at creating an international organisation for maintaining peace. One of its founding members was the Kingdom of Siam.