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Women are not simply walking vaginas
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 31/08/2017
» If you think it's shameful for a poet and academic to ridicule former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra for fleeing the country by reducing her to a vagina in their spoonerism poems that went viral on social media, wait until you read the one penned by a monk encouraging gang rape.
Organic rice a saviour for struggling farmers
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/11/2016
» When the government gave rice farmers 13,000 baht per tonne to shore up the all-time-low paddy prices, Boonsong Martthong and hundreds of organic rice farmers in Yasothon province just could not care less.
Stricken govt buys strife on two fronts
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/02/2014
» The political stalemate which has dragged on for three months took a dangerous turn yesterday with an unrepentant speech by caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on the faltering rice scheme and the government’s crackdown on rally sites.
Drums of war imperil 'good people's rally'
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/12/2013
» One of my best friends works in an office building next to Lumpini Park, where a hard-core anti-Thaksin Shinawatra group staged a protest for several months with little public support.
Some stay organic
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/08/2012
» When the government pays almost 50 per cent more than the domestic market price for "every single grain" farmers produce, they naturally pump farm chemicals into their paddy fields to push up yields and grow as much rice as they can. Not Somboon Daeng-aroon, however.