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Govt gets Fs for protecting women
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/03/2020
» If you fail but still keep trying to reach your goal, that is noble. But if you keep telling the world you are trying to do good but are the actual perpetrator, then you are not just a hypocrite. When it involves violence and death, you are a criminal.
No poison paradise for toxic farm chemicals
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/09/2017
» The refusal to ban two highly toxic farm chemicals by the Department of Agriculture (DOA) is not only scandalous, it makes the agency complicit in a crime against public health and the environment.
Passing the buck won't end evil trade
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 27/05/2015
» When Malaysia and Indonesia ended their policy of pushing Rohingya boat people back to sea last Wednesday, Thailand was hard-pressed to come up with something to avoid being seen as the heartless one in the bunch.
Local control of education empowers us
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/02/2015
» Who should decide whether schools can install condom vending machines on their premises? The headmasters? The parents? The communities? The kids? Or should it be a joint decision by all parties?
Immigrants hold the key to our success
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/11/2014
» Ongto, 11, speaks fluent Thai and Burmese. His classmate Thanapol speaks fluent Thai and Khmer. These boys and some 300,000 migrant children could be our most valuable assets, given our country's aim to boost its economic presence in the region. But our deep-rooted ethnic prejudices suggest this is not to be.
Easing the haze problem in the North
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/04/2014
» When I was in the border town of Mae Sot in Tak province over the weekend, the sky was not only cloudy and grey, the air was also dangerous to breathe.
Help teenage mums, don’t hurt them
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/03/2014
» What should we do when the teenage pregnancy rate in Thailand is among the highest in the world? Help them, or punish them for deviating from good-girl norms?
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.
Haunted by the oppression of our women
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/08/2013
» When I went to see <i>Women of Asia</i> last Saturday, I knew I was going to see a play that deals with the bonds that bind Asian women together. Shackles, perhaps, is a more accurate word.
Public health pioneer ousted for big pharma
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 22/05/2013
» What do you do to the man who helped you win a landslide election through pioneering the 30-baht universal healthcare scheme?