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Pandemic of abuse
Asia focus, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 27/07/2020
» Stay-at-home and lockdown measures have helped to contain the greatest public-health threat the world has seen in decades. But as Covid-19 receded in many countries, a new public-health crisis was emerging behind closed doors, with increased domestic violence against women and children.
Our disappearing rights
Asia focus, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 15/06/2020
» It's been over a week since the disappearance of Wanchalearm Satsaksit, an exiled Thai activist living in Cambodia, touched off a heated debate in Thai social media and beyond.
Open-source evangelist
Asia focus, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 09/03/2020
» Most young graduates expect that when they enter the job market, they will be able to find positions in the field they've spent four years studying. Ben Henshall was one of them.
Saving the world's water
Asia focus, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 13/01/2020
» Despite being an essential component of life, water is a commodity that humans usually take for granted. For many, water scarcity is impossible to imagine because after all, 70% of our planet's surface is covered in water.
Govt urged to ramp up action on greenhouse gas emissions
News, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 10/10/2018
» Thailand will have to balance economic, social and environmental concerns to achieve the country's climate change policy and related action plans, according to Phirun Saiyasitpanich, a senior official on climate policy at Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
ACT claims billions in state funds saved
News, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 30/08/2018
» The Anti-Corruption Organisation of Thailand (ACT) celebrated its 7th anniversary Wednesday, with chairman Pramon Sutivong saying the organisation has helped save 25.1 billion baht of state funds that could have been lost to corruption over the past seven years.
Attitude blamed for rising domestic violence deaths
News, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 24/08/2018
» The public should stop perceiving physical abuse as a common component of domestic affairs, a seminar was told on Thursday. Speakers called on witnesses to intervene to help prevent deaths from domestic violence.
The perils of big hydro
News, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 05/08/2018
» The collapse of a saddle dam in the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydroelectric power project in Attapeu province in Laos on July 22, unleashed a massive volume of floodwater which inundated villages in the province.
Rights groups call for end to child marriage
News, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 31/07/2018
» Rights activists have called on the government and Muslim leaders to take legal action against a 41-year-old Malaysian man who controversially married an 11-year-old girl from Narathiwat province and prevent such a case from happening again.
The great rail dilemma
News, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 22/07/2018
» Being erected along green fields in the outback of Vientiane, where Lao farmers still busily grow rice, are a great number of meticulously situated colossal concrete columns waiting to support a high-speed railway which will connect China with Laos and change this agrarian society into a prosperous economy. Or so they say.