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Time ripe for whole new take on 'Thainess'
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/08/2013
» More than 5,000 people have been killed and millions of people are living in paralysing fear as the insurgency in the far South has now raged for nearly 10 years.
Reflections on religion, graft and teenagers
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/07/2013
» When my teenage daughter, who has never expressed an interest in religion, asked me to take her to a wian tian ceremony to observe Asarnha Bucha Day, I was ecstatic.
Labour Day offers little to millions
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 01/05/2013
» By law, domestic worker Banjong Wilaisri can take a break with paid leave today.
Teen girls need more than a pill to gain freedom
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/04/2013
» After reading about the decision by a court in the United States to allow teenage girls under 17 to buy morning-after pills over the counter, I decided to ask my teenage daughter if she knew about emergency contraceptives.
Get tough with trawlers, win over Muslims
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 20/02/2013
» Want to win the hearts and minds of the Malay Muslims in the restive South? Stop thinking about using military force. Think instead of how to give them back their region's once abundant food.
Decentralise to desensitise in rural South
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 06/02/2013
» They wanted to help. That was why a group of rice farmers from Sing Buri and Suphan Buri ignored their fears and travelled to the restive South to help their southern Muslim peers revive their long-abandoned rice fields.
The misery of the majority
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/01/2013
» We have been hearing a lot of complaints about the 300-baht minimum wage from business operators. What about listening to our maids, food vendors, taxi drivers, and people who are not on company payrolls for a change?
The best gift a mother could receive
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/12/2012
» When my husband drove my daughter home from her piano lesson the other day, she came to me with her eyes moist.
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.
Honour your maid, fight for women's rights
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/11/2012
» Charity begins at home. So do women's rights and gender equality. That's why who is doing the dishes at home is for me not a petty personal issue, but a political one.