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Decentralise to solve our nation's woes
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 22/04/2015
» Everyone who is involved in the grassroots democracy movement knows about Chartwat Ruamsook and the Amnat Charoen Charter — a bottom-up declaration that development policy in Amnat Charoen must be designed and decided by its citizens.
PM's absolute power no land woes cure-all
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/04/2015
» Anand Duangruenkaew has every reason to be happy. For two decades, Anand and thousands of farm families in tambon Mae Tha in Chiang Mai's Mae On district have been fighting for their land rights with forest officials. Now they can go to sleep without fear of arrest and forced eviction.
Bhikkhuni don't belong under clergy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/03/2015
» During her pilgrimage to sacred Buddhist sites in India, Dhammadipa Bhikkhuni met a senior monk from Thailand. She bowed and paid him respect. He responded with reprimands.
Local control of education empowers us
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/02/2015
» Who should decide whether schools can install condom vending machines on their premises? The headmasters? The parents? The communities? The kids? Or should it be a joint decision by all parties?
Sex workers so much more than statistics
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/02/2015
» They sell their bodies to rescue their families from poverty. Now they are arrested and face imprisonment to rescue Thailand from being branded one of the world's worst human trafficking offenders.
Buddhism and freedom of speech
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/01/2015
» How to be truthful in a hostile environment? How to say things that need to be said to avoid coercion and violence from low tolerance of criticism? What should we respect more in an open society where different cultural norms often compete and clash — freedom of expression or cultural sensitivity?
Land 'gift' to the poor is anything but
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/12/2014
» The Prayut government has announced that it will allocate 53,000 rai of state land to poor, landless farmers as a present to celebrate New Year. Time to celebrate? Not so fast.
'Little people' prove change is possible
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/12/2014
» Buckets of fresh blue sea crabs and transparent sea prawns bigger than our palms are among a myriad of huge catches that are the reason for the giant grins on the sun-drenched faces of the people who live in a fishing community.
Immigrants hold the key to our success
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/11/2014
» Ongto, 11, speaks fluent Thai and Burmese. His classmate Thanapol speaks fluent Thai and Khmer. These boys and some 300,000 migrant children could be our most valuable assets, given our country's aim to boost its economic presence in the region. But our deep-rooted ethnic prejudices suggest this is not to be.
Keep Suan Mokh free from politics
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/11/2014
» Like many people in my generation, Suan Mokh forest monastery in Surat Thani province holds a special place in my heart. It's why I feel uneasy with recent developments there.