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Dark clouds hover as political heat rises
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 06/03/2021
» Three members of the cabinet and several others were given jail sentences last week for their roles in toppling the Yingluck Shinawatra government.
Culture of apathy must be rooted out
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 24/08/2019
» Earlier this week, a one-minute video clip widely shared on Facebook showed a woman in university student uniform standing at a bus stop blocking the path of two motorcycles while waving them off the pavement.
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.
Street vendor culture can't be stamped out overnight
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 22/08/2014
» The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) made a big splash when soldiers moved on to Phuket's world-class Patong Beach and moved out vendors who had turned the beautiful shoreline into a public nuisance and major eyesore.
Floods are a wake-up call from mother nature
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/10/2013
» A short video clip posted on YouTube recently is poignant. In it a teenage girl in working clothes pleads for the authorities in Sukhothai to open the flood walls of the provincial airport to allow floodwater to drain from surrounding rice fields.