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Govt continues to exploit pandemic
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/06/2020
» While we dread the novel coronavirus and wish it would go away, the government is prolonging the Covid-19 pandemic scare to strengthen its iron grip on the country.
Forests doomed by power and prejudice
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/04/2020
» After nearly two months of being blanketed by a thick toxic haze with zero national attention due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the city of Chiang Mai last week became like a "gas chamber".
Forests cannot grow on state violence
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/03/2019
» Millions of forest dwellers will soon be subjected to more severe state repression than Thai Muslims in the deep South under the suffocating emergency law.
Making Thai Buddhism relevant again
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 01/03/2017
» So the Dhammakaya Temple is a cult. So its leader reportedly claims to be a doomsday saviour who takes rich donors on a tour to heaven to see the Buddha. So it teaches its followers to buy premium spaces in heaven by donating to the temple. So its doctrine on the permanence of self is against Buddhism. So what?
Land rights the key to forest conservation
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/03/2016
» Agro-giant CP has finally admitted to "being part" of deforestation in the mountainous North and has promised to stop buying corn grown in forest areas. So the forest should soon regain its health and the conglomerate will be off the hook, right? Not so fast.
Clergy must drop its dependence on state
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/02/2016
» The Sangha Council and its supporters should realise one thing in their campaign to pressure the government to endorse the supreme patriarch of their choice: They can't have the cake and eat it too.
Strong-arm tactics hold country back
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 29/07/2015
» When you hold a public hearing, the goal is to listen to wide-ranging opinions on the issue at hand, isn't it? In hearings on controversial matters, government officials are supposed to play the neutral role to bring about open discussions to reach a well-informed decision, aren't they?