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'Legal war' on dissenters destined to fail
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/09/2020
» When Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha visited Rayong in mid-July to lend moral support to its residents following a coronavirus scare, the security detail around him was, as usual, tight.
The politicisation of crisis and suicide
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 02/05/2020
» Suicide has become a hot-button issue after a group of researchers recently released a report on the impact of Covid-19 on the urban poor.
Bushfires augur irreparable catastrophe
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/01/2020
» Except for the US-Iran conflict, no other current news is arguably more riveting than the bushfires that have been ravaging Australia since September last year.
Unusual couple blazes a trail for rights
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 02/11/2019
» Sai and Luther left Thailand on Thursday for the US where Sai will enrol in an intensive course of life skills training for the blind before going on to graduate school.
The girl and her dog making gains for the disabled
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 27/07/2019
» A Facebook page has gone viral. In just two weeks, the number of its followers has gone from 300 to over 90,000.
Rising star Piyabutr will enrage FFP foes
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 29/06/2019
» The first two-day meeting of the House of Representatives this week has probably set the tone for the remainder of the parliamentary session. Opposition debates look set to be hard-hitting, and rebuttals from the government aisle are expected to be equally fierce.
The circus is coming to town
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 29/07/2016
» A grand circus is coming to town with the one-and-only show to take place just over a week from now. It has a nifty way of advertising itself, or at least that's how the circus master has planned it, I suspect.
Our distorted referendum process
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/07/2016
» Great Britain's referendum to leave the EU inevitably has been compared to the upcoming referendum on the newly drafted constitution in Thailand.
Govt, business alliances silence locals' voices
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 31/01/2015
» The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same. Except, this time, it is even more of the same than before. Let me elaborate.
Development forges on, but at what cost?
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 19/12/2014
» US President Barack Obama on Tuesday used his executive authority to impose an indefinite ban on oil and gas exploration in Alaska's picturesque Bristol Bay, home to beluga and killer whales and the endangered North Pacific right whale.