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Last-ditch fight against forest tyranny
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 01/02/2021
» After two decades of hunger and hardship -- and a life without dignity in a prison-like resettlement village -- a group of indigenous forest dwellers decided to return to their ancestral home deep in the Kaeng Krachan jungle in Phetchaburi province.
Demolition, lies, nepotism and impunity
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 01/07/2020
» Seriously? The national park authorities in Phrae province outraged the whole nation by razing a historical heritage house to the ground, and are we still going to let them get away scot-free?
Racism is fuelling more than wildfires
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/05/2020
» With the May rains coming to our rescue, we can now put the forest fires and toxic haze nightmares behind us -- until they return to haunt us again next year.
Forest peoples key to climate solutions
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 13/08/2019
» With Greenland's ice sheet now melting at a rate of up to 4.4 million swimming pools per day, Bangkok could be submerged under water much sooner than we had thought.
Perpetuating sexism through prayers
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 29/04/2019
» Is it possible that women's lower status in Thai society has something to do with the way we Thai Buddhists pray?
Prayer for the dying: will, morphine, peace
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/02/2018
» My parents were not only my role models in the way they lived their lives as fearless journalists and compassionate human beings, but in the way they passed -- quietly on their beds, in our family home, in the midst of the night, without any fuss, successfully avoiding frantic attempts to prolong their lives.
Clergy's monopoly over Buddhist teachings is over
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/02/2018
» The controversy surrounding a new religious group called Techo Vipassana led by a self-proclaimed enlightened woman should remind the clergy that, short of Sangha reform, it is fighting a losing battle in the modern faith market.
Shelter from the storms of life
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/11/2017
» In a run-down rented house on the outskirts of Tak's Mae Sot district over 50 orphans live in cramped conditions. It's the only home 17-year-old Pawarit has ever known but he realises how fortunate he and his siblings are to be there.
Playing ugly legal tricks to serve agro giants
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/10/2017
» Most Thais still engage in agriculture. Yet the agriculture officialdom chooses to serve agro giants, not farmers. This is a travesty.
Klity Karen wait for justice after legal victory
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/09/2017
» After 19 years of struggling for justice, the country's biggest lead poisoning lawsuit finally ended early this week with the polluters punished at long last. Unfortunately, the victims' decades-long suffering is far from over.