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Temple graft shows need for reform
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/04/2022
» The country's latest temple corruption scandal occurred at a first-class royal monastery; the centre of a sect founded by reformist monarch King Mongkut to clean up the clergy. What an irony!
Last-ditch fight against forest tyranny
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 01/02/2021
» After two decades of hunger and hardship -- and a life without dignity in a prison-like resettlement village -- a group of indigenous forest dwellers decided to return to their ancestral home deep in the Kaeng Krachan jungle in Phetchaburi province.
Indigenous people hold climate key
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/10/2019
» Tackle the climate crisis. Support indigenous rights. When religious and spiritual leaders from all major traditions begin to make these demands, we should listen. Not out of respect. But for our own survival.
Buddhism and freedom of speech
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/01/2015
» How to be truthful in a hostile environment? How to say things that need to be said to avoid coercion and violence from low tolerance of criticism? What should we respect more in an open society where different cultural norms often compete and clash — freedom of expression or cultural sensitivity?
So close and yet so far on sex equality
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 01/10/2014
» In 1995, Thailand pledged to empower women and make gender equality a reality at the UN's historic conference on women in Beijing. But how are Thai women faring now? What has improved? And what obstacles remain?
Teaching our children how to kowtow
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/07/2014
» No sooner had the sounds of military marches died down after the May 22 coup than the Education Ministry ordered all schools to play patriotic songs to please the junta.