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Revoke the licence to kill our oceans
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/03/2024
» Despite efforts to rein in rogue trawlers and overfishing in the past decade, the Thai seas are still in crisis. And if the Srettha government has its way, things will go from bad to worse.
Sex, money and monkhood don't mix
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/05/2022
» The latest sex scandal of a popular preacher "Luang Pi Kato" once again reveals how rotten the cleric system is.
Women are not simply walking vaginas
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 31/08/2017
» If you think it's shameful for a poet and academic to ridicule former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra for fleeing the country by reducing her to a vagina in their spoonerism poems that went viral on social media, wait until you read the one penned by a monk encouraging gang rape.
Kaeng Krachan and the state's charade
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/03/2016
» In his column "From the Prime Minister's Heart" in the government's newsletter, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha reaffirms his administration's commitment to sustainable development and the sufficiency economy. The gap between words and actions is as wide as an ocean.
Is the coup a symptom of deeper ills?
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/10/2015
» Forty-two years ago today, the kids did what their parents never dreamed of doing. Fired up by youthful courage and idealism, they led the popular uprising that finally overthrew the "tyrant trio", ending the country's three decades of military oppression.
Agro giant needs to listen to the people
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 13/05/2015
» The boycott of 7-Eleven last week may have failed to put a financial dent in the country's largest convenience store franchise. But it has succeeded in raising a big question mark over how agro giant CP is conducting its business.
Misbehaving monks need reform, too
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/01/2014
» When the anti-government movement brands its protest as a battle between good and evil, we should not be so surprised to see monks among the protest leaders, should we?
People's council can't succeed minus dialogue
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/12/2013
» When anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban said he wanted to set up a "People's Council" to reform the country, he made almost everyone scratch their heads and say, "What on earth is he talking about?"
Let Buddha's words unify our divisions
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 20/11/2013
» As we are holding our breath in fear of what the political confrontation will bring, we begin to hear words of caution from many groups of people. Not from our monks, though.
Politicians ignore plight of the poor
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/10/2013
» Every October, we get to revisit two significant events in contemporary Thai politics _ the Oct 14 students' uprising in 1973 and the Oct 6 massacre three years later.