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'Odd' case lays bare nation's identity crisis
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 07/10/2015
» Isn't it odd? Nearly two weeks have passed since police issued an arrest warrant for Erawan shrine bomb suspect Odd Phayungwong. Yet police still cannot give the public the guy's identity.
Earthquake is wake-up call to change
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 07/05/2014
» Roads torn asunder. Buildings fractured. Roofs caved in. Temples cracked. A Buddha statue broken, its head lying shattered on the ground. The top tier of a sacred temple tilting dangerously.
Let Buddha's words unify our divisions
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 20/11/2013
» As we are holding our breath in fear of what the political confrontation will bring, we begin to hear words of caution from many groups of people. Not from our monks, though.
Politicians ignore plight of the poor
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/10/2013
» Every October, we get to revisit two significant events in contemporary Thai politics _ the Oct 14 students' uprising in 1973 and the Oct 6 massacre three years later.
Buddhism's 'lords' must be challenged
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/08/2013
» When Somdej Phra Buddhajarn (Kiaw Upaseno), the country's second most powerful Buddhist figure after the Supreme Patriarch, passed away over the weekend, the spotlight fell not only on who would succeed him, but also on the functionality of the Sangha Council itself.
'New' top-down policies ignore plight of poor
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/05/2013
» Twenty-five years on, Sompong Wiangjand's fight to decommission the Pak Moon Dam _ destroyer of the Moon River ecosystem and the livelihoods of thousands of families _ is far from over.
Our prejudice rips the nation's image
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 27/02/2013
» Is ours a society obsessed with face? I wish it were. Had we been really serious about our image and how to maintain it, we would have long realised what the rest of the world considers as decent standard practices.