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Rein in online stars
News, Editorial, Published on 22/11/2025
» When citizens resort to legal action against social media influencers for misinformation, dangerous stunts, or inappropriate behaviour, it is time to discuss curbing such behaviour online.
Educate, not shame, litterbugs
News, Editorial, Published on 20/09/2020
» More than 20 million tourists visited the nation's 154 national parks in 2019, generating some 2.2 billion baht in revenue, according to the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP). Besides providing a much-needed cash influx, human carelessness or perhaps ironically a lack of care for the environment also meant that these visitors brought with them rubbish -- and lots of it -- in the form of plastic, styrofoam, glass, metal and more.
Red tape mounts up
News, Editorial, Published on 11/06/2018
» The cancellation of the long-promised meeting this month between the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and political parties is a worrying development. Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam rushed in to assure that there will be such a meeting, eventually. This delay is a serious matter. Mr Wissanu, backed strongly by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, said the NCPO-politicians meeting would bring an end to the ban on political activities. The indefinite delay on this meeting thus keeps the public in the dark about just what the government and the junta are up to.
Preventable marine deaths
News, Editorial, Published on 05/06/2018
» At the very moment Thailand has begun to worry about massive imports of mostly dangerous foreign waste, the most dramatic proof possible exposes one of the country's most dangerous exports. Marine biologists on the weekend released details and highly disturbing photographs of the death last week of a pilot whale in the Gulf off Songkhla province. An autopsy by the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) after the animal drifted ashore and died on the beach showed the cause of death. It either starved or strangled on more than 80 large plastic bags.
Tackling plastic waste
News, Editorial, Published on 29/01/2018
» A study of Thai and neighbouring underseas life, published last week, proves beyond doubt that people are killing coral. Specifically, the plastic items that wind up in the area of Thai reefs is literally the death of coral. Ocean currents, sand and rocks bash and cut bags, bottles and trash to tiny bits. The coral, living animals, eat the plastic, choke and die.