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Let's talk about gun control in Thailand
Oped, Boonwara Sumano, Published on 12/10/2022
» Oct 6 marks one of the most tragic days in Thailand's history. Back in 1976, hundreds of students and protesters were attacked and killed at Thammasat University's Tha Prachan campus. Last week, 37 people, 24 of them preschool kids, lost their lives in a gun and knife attack at a childcare centre in Nong Bua Lam Phu province.
A city blind to half of its population
Oped, Boonwara Sumano, Published on 16/03/2022
» At the end of 2021, Bangkok had 5.52 million residents -- 53% of whom (2.93 million) are women.
Factors affecting the decision to act dishonestly
News, Boonwara Sumano, Published on 14/06/2017
» Corruption is something everybody has been talking about and some are even upset about. Unfortunately corruption is a subject which people understand very little about. This is because corruption involves dishonest actions that are both immoral and illegal, which prompts people to conceal it. A number of previous studies attempted to look at how corrupt practices happened by investigating backward, which sometimes led to dead-ends as evidence had been removed to avoid prosecution. To better understand and prevent corruption, perhaps we need to look at the beginning -- what makes a person decide to act dishonestly in the first place?
Let's demand more from donations
News, Boonwara Sumano, Published on 10/08/2016
» For the past five years, Charities Aids Foundation (CAF) has been reporting levels of generosity in countries around the world using three categories: giving money, volunteering, and helping strangers. In 2015, Thailand ranked 19th in the CAF World Giving Index for the overall score of 48%. But in the donating money category, Thailand scored as high as 87% and seconded only to Myanmar, which ranked first in the overall CAF index. TDRI's calculation, based on the National Statistical Office's Household Socio-Economic Survey, also found that Thai households are donating more and more money every year, amounting to more than 75 billion baht in 2014, or around 0.6% of the country's GDP that year. These statistics suggest that most Thais are kind and generous when it comes to giving money to others.