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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.
Forest agency rhetoric hurts the landless
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 17/09/2014
» Because of the pouring rain it was difficult to say whether there were tears on the faces of the forest "encroachers" in Krabi's Plaipraya district as they faced a crackdown by about 800 armed personnel on Monday.
Cracking the religious wall of prejudice
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/06/2014
» How would you feel if you were invited to speak at an international conference, flew thousands of miles to be there, and were told at the very last minute before the opening ceremony that your talk had been banned?
Brutality a sad fact of our daily life
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/05/2014
» While the country is still debating whether martial law is actually just a coup, people across the country are subjected to daily brutality, whether from deeply ingrained militarism in officialdom or our own psyche.
Help teenage mums, don’t hurt them
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/03/2014
» What should we do when the teenage pregnancy rate in Thailand is among the highest in the world? Help them, or punish them for deviating from good-girl norms?
Misbehaving monks need reform, too
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/01/2014
» When the anti-government movement brands its protest as a battle between good and evil, we should not be so surprised to see monks among the protest leaders, should we?
Blanket bill will only stoke deep South tensions
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 06/11/2013
» If Thaksin Shinawatra believes that he can "set zero" for the deep South by extending the power of his blanket amnesty bill to also cover the southern insurgency, then he is dead wrong.
Free trade deal threatens farmers
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/09/2013
» Is Thailand no longer an agricultural country? Many people believe so and they have the statistics to prove their point. I beg to differ.
Deforestation woes have their roots in money
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/12/2012
» With our country's forests dwindling dangerously, it has become common to hear forest bosses talking about themselves as heroic guardians.
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.