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Volunteers get on the right track
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 18/03/2017
» Who would have thought that an underground train station could be a hub for volunteers?
Promenade spat spoils riverside mood
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 16/09/2016
» An episode in the saga known as the Chao Phraya riverside promenade development just ended when its consultants decide to scrap their design of the plan's central landmark.
Will the charter fix community rights?
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 19/02/2016
» As a journalist, I am often asked what I think is the most severe, important or urgent environmental problem facing Thailand.
Emissions target begs a clear explanation
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/12/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha pledged at the Paris Climate Conference to slash Thailand's greenhouse gas emissions by 20-25% within 2030.
Anti-plastic bag campaign needs legal teeth to succeed
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 09/10/2015
» I can say with confidence that most of us have stashed away surplus plastic bags at home and we don't know what to do with them, besides dumping them together with other trash.
Villagers' perseverance paying off in mining battle
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 25/09/2015
» Something extraordinary happened on Tuesday at Government House.
Frustration brews as life becomes harder for rural folk
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/09/2015
» The rejection of the draft constitution has caused a major brouhaha among political pundits, academics, and journalists. But for the normal folk outside the capital, it is just another episode of lakhon nam nao, a brainless soap opera.
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.
When a single tree falls in the forest ... everyone hears
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 19/09/2014
» "Someday I'm going to climb Phu Kradung mountain," I've been telling myself for years, but still have never made the trek. Pretty soon I'll be at an age when it may not be possible for me to make it there on foot, which is currently the only way for visitors to do it.