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'Odd' case lays bare nation's identity crisis
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 07/10/2015
» Isn't it odd? Nearly two weeks have passed since police issued an arrest warrant for Erawan shrine bomb suspect Odd Phayungwong. Yet police still cannot give the public the guy's identity.
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.
Force is no way to solve our conflicts
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/05/2014
» For the past few months, Pattani had been relatively calm while Yala, Narathiwat, and parts of Songkhla in the restive South took the brunt of deadly car bombs, motorcycle bombs, arson, and M79 grenade attacks.
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.
Time ripe for whole new take on 'Thainess'
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/08/2013
» More than 5,000 people have been killed and millions of people are living in paralysing fear as the insurgency in the far South has now raged for nearly 10 years.
Rural kids falling through the cracks
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 31/10/2012
» When I asked Nukid, my housekeeper, if she thinks it's better for her small sons to grow up in her village rather than in a big city like Bangkok, she vehemently shook her head.
Turkey shows the way out of coup quagmire
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/09/2012
» It used to be unthinkable in Turkey. It is still unimaginable now in Thailand. But this secular Muslim country has shown it can clip the wings of the military to end coup d'etat threats. Can Thailand do the same?
Life is tough for children of migrants
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/01/2012
» Although Chaiyong Hongsa is already 11, he is perfectly happy to be in kindergarten with the toddlers. For him, it is not only where he can learn Thai. It is also where he can have the chance to experience childhood.