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News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 10/09/2018
» Just a few days after a Thai Rath journalist reported on the Ministry of Finance's ideas to turn the tax-funded Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC) into a healthcare programme for the poor, the ministry was quick to announce the report as "false". Such a reaction is no surprise.
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 27/08/2018
» At a glance, the drafting of the National Action Plan (NAP) on Business and Human Rights appears to be good news for many.
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 15/07/2018
» Bangkok has attracted millions of migrants seeking economic opportunity. They will be forced to handle the impacts of climate change in coming decades.
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 01/07/2018
» The arrival of May once reminded Lin Na that the first rain of the year was on its way. The ground in her small village of Prey Veng province in southern Cambodia would start to soften, dampened by rainfall. This time each year, she would help her family cultivate a two-hectare rice field, the main source of food and income for them throughout the year.
Oped, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 21/06/2018
» A key factor continues to elude those on a quest for the truth behind the tragic death of ethnic Lahu activist Chaiyaphum Pasae — missing evidence.
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 14/06/2018
» Myanmar's "forgotten war" in Kachin state has received little public attention despite the scale of the impact it has had on people who have become internally displaced and the casualties caused by the fighting between ethnic rebels and the army.
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 24/05/2018
» A still whale shark dangled from a crane on a trawler floating offshore Phuket. Its tail was tied to a lifting machine with a rope. As a by-catch, the heavyweight whale was lifted up by the machine and placed on one side of the vessel's deck. Some crewmen then pushed its massive body into the water.
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 17/05/2018
» When San Dar Aye, a young ethnic Mon woman living in Ye town in the south of Myanmar, showed me a vast mudflat where her fellow villagers had replanted a mangrove forest, she told me the saplings would be "the future" of their communities.
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 19/04/2018
» 'People and forests can live in harmony." I believe this saying is true and practical for guarding forests in a long run. Ironically, government officials have recently cited it in their defence of a new housing project for judicial officials that involved massive forest clearance.
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 29/03/2018
» With fierce determination, a group of nine former workers of the giant automotive company General Motors (Thailand) on Monday braced a city downpour, kicking off a march that began at the company's head office in the Chatuchak area.