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Revoke the licence to kill our oceans
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/03/2024
» Despite efforts to rein in rogue trawlers and overfishing in the past decade, the Thai seas are still in crisis. And if the Srettha government has its way, things will go from bad to worse.
Central govt meddling no forest remedy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/11/2018
» The Prayut Chan-o-cha administration has vowed to be the first government to end land rights conflicts in Thailand once and for all through its nationwide communal land use policy. Can it? Mae Tha, the first forest community under this system, has the answer.
Corn subsidies perpetuate old problems
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/08/2018
» The government's decision to pay rice farmers to shift to corn farming raises more questions than it answers.
No poison paradise for toxic farm chemicals
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/09/2017
» The refusal to ban two highly toxic farm chemicals by the Department of Agriculture (DOA) is not only scandalous, it makes the agency complicit in a crime against public health and the environment.
NESDB survey reeks of ultra-nationalism
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/09/2016
» A news item about migrant workers created a big nationalistic stir last week. It was about a survey showing migrant workers becoming self-employed and active in small, informal trading as small vendors in fresh and community markets.
Ignore fishery threat, let seas return to life
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/06/2015
» Freeze our fishing boats and prepare for the consequences, the National Fisheries Association of Thailand (Nfat) threatened the government on Monday.
Face of pain must rid us of slavery sins
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 06/05/2015
» The photo of Rohima Khatun in the Bangkok Post yesterday should be on the desks of all officials who have promised to arrest trafficking kingpins and stop Thailand from being a slave trade hub.
Trawlers of destruction
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 29/04/2015
» As Thailand is racing against the clock to avoid being red-carded by the European Union and a subsequent ban on Thai seafood exports, veteran activist Banjong Nasae says dodging the restrictions is easy to do.
Fisherfolk fight trawler amnesty push
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/07/2014
» When a whole day of fishing at sea gave him only 1-2 kilogrammes of catch, Jaroen Toh-eetae knew he had to do something to stop the ravages of big trawlers.
Public health pioneer ousted for big pharma
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 22/05/2013
» What do you do to the man who helped you win a landslide election through pioneering the 30-baht universal healthcare scheme?