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'Bleach mum' exposes welfare failure
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/06/2020
» Had not the doctors intervened, a two-year-old toddler may have been poisoned to death by his mother. They could not save the boy's four-year-old sister, however. She was already dead from the same malady.
Mixing monks with money corrupts clergy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 20/06/2018
» Fear and fury is gripping the clergy. Following the arrest and defrocking of high-profile monks for temple corruption, temples nationwide are fearful of financial inspections while monks are up in arms against the idea of prohibiting them from receiving money from the laity.
Thung Yai shows way to end forest evictions
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 17/02/2016
» Plu Jibong has a burning question: Why must Karen forest dwellers in Kaeng Krachan National Park suffer violent eviction and forced resettlement when his Karen peers in Thung Yai-Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary can live in peace?
Toeing state line no way to ensure reform
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/10/2015
» When top-down control is holding the country back on all fronts, reform is only possible when state abuse can be contained by civil society, grassroots groups and the media.
Boat people or quake victims; all need help
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 20/05/2015
» After a family lunch at a Bangkok mall over the weekend, my daughter and I noticed a big crowd at a booth raising funds for Nepal earthquake victims.
So close and yet so far on sex equality
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 01/10/2014
» In 1995, Thailand pledged to empower women and make gender equality a reality at the UN's historic conference on women in Beijing. But how are Thai women faring now? What has improved? And what obstacles remain?
‘Billy’, forest dwellers need justice now
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/04/2014
» When the news broke that ethnic Karen activist Por Cha Lee Rakcharoen, better known as "Billy", had disappeared without a trace, all eyes turned to the controversial park chief Chaiwat Limlikitaksorn, the arch enemy of Karen forest dwellers there.
Our draconian forestry laws demand reform
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/12/2013
» What do you say to a court verdict giving 15-years imprisonment to a dirt poor, old peasant couple for collecting mushrooms in a national forest?
Our domestic violence shame won't go away
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 13/11/2013
» For most Thais, Monday was an emotionally tumultuous day because of the Preah Vihear ruling and the increasingly heated political situation that risks plunging the country into another round of violent conflict.
Truth about temple cash isn't pretty
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 31/07/2013
» Did the notorious Nen Kham really have sexual affairs with at least eight women while he was a monk? Did he buy a private jet and a mansion in the US which he showed off on social media? Did he sleep with a minor and father her child? Was he involved in drugs and money laundering? Were he or his brother lying beside a woman in a picture?