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'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.
Enforce laws to save seas
News, Published on 21/11/2014
» If we want to save our ever more depleted seas from overfishing, we need to stop illegal fishing and punish commercial trawlers and their environmentally destructive fishing methods.
Bridge saga shows public still left out
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/09/2014
» When the country's longest wooden bridge in Kanchanaburi's Sangkhla Buri district collapsed last year from torrential rains, the locals who had built the bridge wanted to fix it themselves. No, said the governor.
Here we go again
News, Published on 19/07/2014
» Re: "NACC seeks Yingluck’s indictment" (BP, July 18).
Fisherfolk fight trawler amnesty push
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/07/2014
» When a whole day of fishing at sea gave him only 1-2 kilogrammes of catch, Jaroen Toh-eetae knew he had to do something to stop the ravages of big trawlers.
South needs education autonomy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/07/2014
» Ask state educators what the education problems are in the far South, and they will — without fail — blame it on the locals.
End slavery, save our seas
News, Published on 27/06/2014
» The fishing industry is under fire, and for the right reasons. Earlier this month, the industry was hit with a damning report by British newspaper The Guardian which revealed the use of forced and slave labour on commercial trawlers that sell trash fish to make feed for prawn farms.
Close net on slave trade
News, Published on 13/06/2014
» In the wake of the May 22 coup, the international community has once again cast grim looks at Thailand following a damning report in <i>The Guardian</i> newspaper on the use of slave labour in our fishing industry.
Act now to save our seas
News, Published on 28/03/2014
» For decades, local fisherfolk and environmentalists have been trying in vain to stop destructive fishing by commercial trawlers from annihilating the country’s coastal seas. Now they are pinning their hopes on market forces to save the country’s once abundant seas from the menaces of big trawlers and the fish meal industry.
Kids suffer in the South
News, Published on 07/02/2014
» Was it political vengeance? Or was it the deadly result of a personal conflict? As the police and the military scramble to answer the questions and catch the culprits behind the deadly ambush on the Maman family in Narathiwat early this week, one thing is clear.