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Smoggy North: Not only capital suffers
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 30/03/2019
» A friend of mine in Chiang Mai recently lamented the double standards regarding the way in which the government and society has responded to the haze problem in the North.
Wildlife, drug trades cross bloody paths
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 08/11/2017
» The Golden Triangle -- an area where Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet -- has long been notorious. In the old days, it was known as Asia's second opium production hub, behind the Golden Crescent in Afghanistan. After opium use declined, the Golden Triangle transformed into a production hub for heroin and recently ya ba, or methamphetamine.
Forest too precious for housing
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 03/04/2017
» Many years ago I visited Mahachai, a fishery port zone in Samut Sakhon province. As I walked around I felt like I was a township in Myanmar. The community is dubbed Little Myanmar, with good reason. It is a place where you can hear many people talk in unfamiliar dialects, posters are written in the round letters of the Myanmar alphabet, and of course, women and men have yellowish tanaka paste on their faces.
Document to a natural wonder
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 06/05/2016
» Harnessing the documentary film as a tool for awareness, Bang Pakong Alliance, a local conservation network, has created a documentary feature, Bang Pakong Sai Nam Haeng Chevit (Bang Pakong, River Of Life) to be aired on Thai PBS tomorrow night at 9.20pm. The Bang Pakong Alliance comprises local villagers, in partnership with a group of respected documentary photographers (10FOTO), and together they believe that the documentary film has the power to tell their story.