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Pollution victims' photos tell tales of misery
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 17/07/2015
» I looked at their faces and they looked at mine. I gazed into their haunting eyes, trying to feel what they felt.
Prayut's coal plant speech was powered by inaccuracy
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/06/2015
» Whoever drafted the speech on the section about coal-fired power plants for Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha last week ought to be hanged — figuratively speaking of course. He or she should research more, or at least sharpen up their writing skills to do a more credible job.
Dreaming of the police making our roads safe for cyclists
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 08/05/2015
» I was already in my early teens when I got my first bicycle. At the time, Bangkok was just starting to be modernised. New roads were paved and traffic was light. There were electric trams running. Tuk-tuks had just replaced trishaws which were delegated to outer, less-developed parts of the city and beyond.
Public must unite in condemning protest violence
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 28/02/2014
» The summer winds are blowing in just as the political scene has heated up to the extent that no other affairs of state are more urgent now than ensuring peace is restored.
We must not let this divisive election start a civil war
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 31/01/2014
» It now appears that voting will take place this Sunday as scheduled, amid widespread fears of violence. Yingluck Shinawatra, the caretaker prime minister, has rejected a suggestion by the Election Commission to reschedule the poll to avoid violent confrontations and wasting the nearly 4-billion-baht budget needed to organise an election that everyone agrees will not result in a functioning government.
Onus for making peace rests with Yingluck
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 17/01/2014
» Now that caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has decided to go ahead with the Feb 2 election as scheduled, the stage is set for a full-blown confrontation between the two warring parties.
The man with no name exposes justice flaws
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 20/12/2013
» A man, whose alleged multiple crimes of child molestation and murder have shocked the nation, was arrested last Saturday. Though he was believed to have acted alone, he has other accomplices who, one way or another, helped to make sure that the conditions that perpetuate such a crime remain unaffected.
Yingluck government must end public hearings farce
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 22/11/2013
» I'm really amazed at how the Yingluck Shinawatra-led government is capable of ticking people off even as she presents her innocent-looking and ever-smiling face to the world.
Oil spill panel fails to win over public trust
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 30/08/2013
» It's been just over a month since at least 54,000 litres of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the sea off Rayong.
Flood plan follows footsteps of pledging fiasco
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 21/06/2013
» Sometimes you have to wonder what went on in the minds of the cabinet members when they made their decisions affecting the entire country.