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People and river's voices sadly ignored
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 30/03/2017
» It is a fact that nature has existed long before us. Unfortunately, she has been abused, bullied, and at times treated badly. It has continued that way as, for most of us, nature has no say.
Like coal? Put it in your own backyard then
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 13/01/2016
» As I was indulging myself with a nice cup of coffee on a lazy Sunday morning, I spotted an article by Sopon Pornchokchai sharing his views on the controversial coal-fired plants in Krabi and Songkhla. I got quite a shock.
Temple destroys 200-year community
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 24/10/2015
» ‘Will you guys return if we are allowed to come back and live here again,” the middle-aged woman says as she finishes a late lunch in a corner of the Wat Kalayanamit community.
Family to dispute temple's land rights
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 15/09/2015
» The original owners of a community land plot claimed by Wat Kalayanamit plan to dispute the temple's ownership rights and reclaim the land after the temple starting evicting its tenants.
Historic Bangkok ’hood unearths its colourful past
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 17/03/2014
» Charoen Chai is an old Bangkok neighbourhood located between Charoen Krung and Plabpla Chai roads, from which names its own is believed to have been derived. In 2010, rumours that residents would be evicted to make way for the construction of a new underground train route (the MRT’s blue line) caused members of this century-old community to band together and form the Charoen Chai Conservation and Rehabilitation group in an effort to save their own homes.
Out with the old
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 26/12/2012
» This year was a tough one for conservationists who have been vehemently fighting to preserve national heritage under threat in the name of "development".
Vintage community's last stand
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 02/07/2012
» Sujitra Assavavirairat always remembers her mother returning home with heaps of joss paper whenever she came back from a shopping trip to the nearby Charoen Chai community.