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Govt continues to exploit pandemic
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/06/2020
» While we dread the novel coronavirus and wish it would go away, the government is prolonging the Covid-19 pandemic scare to strengthen its iron grip on the country.
When education supports rape culture
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/05/2020
» School rapes in Thailand happen so frequently they no longer shock. But not this one. Not when underage schoolgirls were repeatedly gang-raped by their teachers. Not when other teachers callously defended the rapists and paedophiles as "good teachers and family men", dismissing the heinous crime as consensual sex and blaming the victims as "bad girls".
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.
Covid-19 exposes our broken system
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/04/2020
» The government's constant mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic evokes two images in my mind. One is a badly infected wound. The other is an overblown balloon ready to burst.
A forest lockdown will fuel more fires
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/04/2020
» With strong wind and fast-approaching forest fires, a group of forest dwellers on Doi Mon Dok mountain in Chiang Mai's Samoeng District are racing against time to stop the flames from engulfing their village.
Forests doomed by power and prejudice
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/04/2020
» After nearly two months of being blanketed by a thick toxic haze with zero national attention due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the city of Chiang Mai last week became like a "gas chamber".
Historic ruling offers pro-choice hope
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/02/2020
» This is historic. This is final. Abortion is no longer illegal in Thailand. Women and girls now can end pregnancies without risking arrest, imprisonment, and even death, thanks to the Constitutional Court's ruling on Wednesday.
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.
Battle over land rights law far from over
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/05/2018
» After calling the landless protesters freeloaders, Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha suddenly made a U-turn by sending a close aide to promise the moon and the stars to the forest poor who were demonstrating in Bangkok. Why?
Get rid of fake vaccines, graft, not strays
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 22/03/2018
» The massacre of temple dogs in southern Thailand in the wake of the rabies fear frenzy is not only cruel and sad, it also reflects state authorities' mindset that violence is the way to eliminate perceived enemies.