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Bigwigs try to pass buck on failing schools
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/03/2015
» While our obsolete and authoritarian education system is damaging young minds, making them lag far behind their peers in other countries, education bigwigs have different concerns: how to get out of the blame game.
Sangha feudal hierarchy has to go for good
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/10/2013
» Before Pope Francis was named head of the Catholic Church, the search for a new pontiff triggered much excitement as well as honest criticism of the church system, and hope for reform.
Monk Mitsuo represented the clergy at its best
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/06/2013
» As soon as the news broke that the well-known and widely respected Buddhist monk Phra Ajarn Mitsuo Gavesako had left the monkhood, my Facebook page began buzzing with comments, ranging from shock, sadness and empathy, to sheer ridicule at all the brouhaha.
Lights out for Ladies of the Lamp
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/11/2012
» When I asked my high-school age daughter who is busy preparing for a university admission exam if she wanted to go to nursing school, her answer pretty much summed up why our country is suffering a drastic shortage of nurses.
Old-world bigotry is a trap for us all
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/09/2012
» If we Thais think the anger in the Muslim world against the incendiary video insulting the Prophet Mohammed is not our problem, then we need to think again.
Foreign land grab threat not just an illusion
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/05/2012
» Remember the news three years ago about some Saudi sheikhs trying to buy up paddy fields in central Thailand to ensure a steady rice supply for their oil-rich but food-scarce countries?