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City protest plan needs a few tweaks
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 04/07/2022
» The novelty of Bangkok governor Chadchart Sitthipunt designating seven areas for public gatherings invites praise and doubts.
New narrative needed on getting rich
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 17/01/2022
» Tips on how to get rich and succeed in business, if not in life itself, are rife in Thai social media, such advice having already occupied bestseller lists in local bookstores for years.
Public trust in govt is quickly eroding
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 05/07/2021
» The Covid-19 pandemic chaos has worsened in Bangkok and its vicinity in the past week. With the rise of cases, the arrival of new variants, dubious vaccine deliveries and a lack of hospital ICU beds, people are becoming more infuriated about how the government is handling the Covid situation.
Green recovery
Asia focus, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 21/06/2021
» While Covid-19 continues to rage across the world, the Singapore government is pushing ahead with an ambitious sustainability strategy to build back an even stringer economy and society in the post-pandemic era.
Time for govt to show Karen some heart
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 12/04/2021
» After struggling for survival on an empty stomach for days, Karen villagers who fled the war atrocities in Myanmar, from an area under the control of the Karen National Union, took shelter along the Salween River. They received some food and medicine, supplied largely by non-profit organisations, temples, Thais, and fellow ethnic people.
Sharing the Mekong
Asia focus, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 29/03/2021
» "The Mekong River is the source of prosperity," an old saying goes, and it was once true for Pongsak Saitongmart. The 69-year-old former fisherman and his family of five largely depended on income from fishing and a vegetable farm fed by water from the Mekong.
Thai superiority complex harms Karen
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 22/03/2021
» Taking the case of Bang Kloi Karen villagers, there is no further proof needed that indigenous people in Thailand have a hard life. It's an irony, given that the country in 2007 adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Let's learn to coexist with Covid-19
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 18/01/2021
» Once a bustling business district, Khao San Road looked like a ghost town when I dropped by last week. Most of the shops and restaurants in the area, one of Bangkok's top tourist attractions, were closed. There were no visitors; I saw only a few vendors and passers-by.
What K-pop can teach us about politics
Oped, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 07/12/2020
» Tweets by Thai fans of the South Korean boyband BTS, or Bangtan Sonyeondan, over "happy birthday" signs for their idols on the back of tuk-tuks, instead of at mass transit stations, have gone viral.
Violence as yellow shirts overreact
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 16/11/2020
» Last week, a rally by a group of ultra-royalists in Nakhon Si Thammarat turned ugly after some elements from the crowd attacked a car, which they falsely believed to be carrying the co-founder of the Progressive Movement, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, out of a hotel. This is a sign that violent confrontations will be inevitable.