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No common ground
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 20/11/2016
» The Khao Banthat range was once shrouded by myths of savage people and mysterious spirits. Then, in the 1960s, the mountains, stretching over southern Thailand, became a battlefield for communist insurgents. As the war ended in the '80s and residents regrouped, the forest fast turned into a hotbed for disputes over what lands belonged to whom.
Dead sea: Tourism adding heat to bleaching emergency
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 19/06/2016
» A Chinese woman was perplexed when she saw that her luggage was causing concern as it passed through an X-ray scanner at Don Mueang airport.
Asean plots haze-free future by 2020
Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 03/12/2015
» PARIS – The Asean region is looking to become a haze-free zone by 2020, but reducing forest fires and fossil-fuel use causing the regional problem will take time, said Southeast Asian officials meeting on the sidelines of the international climate conference here.
Pipeline rally ruling nears
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 21/09/2015
» The Songkhla Provincial Court will give its verdict in November over the alleged use of excessive force by police to disperse protesters during an anti-pipeline demonstration in 2002.
Teen trafficking victims disappear
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 03/05/2015
» A Rohingya man who received a chilling phone call from a man demanding 60,000 baht each for the return of his kidnapped nephews is praying they weren’t killed and buried in the mass grave found on Friday near the Malaysian border.
Stifling people’s voices
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 03/05/2015
» It takes effort to tell strangers what people’s unique homes look like, and it’s a lot more difficult when they are seen as an enemy of economic growth. So villagers from Satun, the southern coastal province on the Andaman Sea, drove 14 hours to Bangkok last week to tell people about the value of their distinctive homes through seminars and a three-day photographic exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
Clampdown on free speech dooms reform, activists say
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 21/11/2014
» Consumer rights activists are warning they must be allowed to speak out on behalf of the public or national reforms will fail.
Regime must heed South energy worries
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 30/08/2014
» The arrests of energy reform activists from the South during their march to Bangkok highlights the junta’s desire to stop public protests under martial law. But it also shows the regime’s support for industrial development in the face of locals' struggles to protect the environment, the source of their livelihoods.
Army allows energy march to continue
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 23/08/2014
» The military has said activists calling for national energy reform may continue with their symbolic 950-kilometre march from Songkhla province to Bangkok, but their activities must respect martial law.
Ebola test woman receives all-clear
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 23/08/2014
» Blood tests have cleared a 48-year-old Thai woman who was hospitalised on Thursday with suspected Ebola.