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Rural poor can't ignore regime threat
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/11/2014
» The May 22 coup returned a semblance of normalcy to the country. What happened last week has shown how fragile that is.
Don’t turn a blind eye to migrant woes
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/06/2014
» When the military junta first announced a policy to clean up the migrant workers’ mess, it certainly did not expect the move to explode so fiercely in its face.
Why can’t we as Buddhists live in peace?
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/05/2014
» Visakha Bucha Day came and went quietly yesterday in our so-called Buddhist country, where people now look ready to tear one another’s throats just for having different political views.
Stricken govt buys strife on two fronts
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/02/2014
» The political stalemate which has dragged on for three months took a dangerous turn yesterday with an unrepentant speech by caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on the faltering rice scheme and the government’s crackdown on rally sites.
Yingluck critics must condemn ugly sexism too
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 22/01/2014
» When a network of women's rights groups issued a statement denouncing a medical doctor for his ugly sexist attacks on caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, I admit I felt quite relieved.
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?
Suthep 'reform' just another empty promise
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/01/2014
» Decentralisation is one key reform idea proposed by the anti-government movement. But if protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban and his supporters believe it will be a piece of cake, they need to think again.
Drums of war imperil 'good people's rally'
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/12/2013
» One of my best friends works in an office building next to Lumpini Park, where a hard-core anti-Thaksin Shinawatra group staged a protest for several months with little public support.
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?"
It's a power grab, not a push for reform
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 27/11/2013
» All parties must come to an end. So must all political protests. The country's biggest anxiety right now is how the anti-government rally will end.