• OPINION

  Stand firm against US on toxins

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 28/10/2019

  » After the National Hazardous Substances Committee (NHSC) voted last Tuesday to ban three toxic farm chemicals -- glyphosate, paraquat and chlorpyrifos -- starting Dec 1, many expected there would be resistance from the agriculture industry which profits heavily from the trio.

• OPINION

  Poor suffering in a changing Phnom Penh

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 25/09/2019

  » Released in Thailand early this month, an award-winning Cambodian documentary film, Last Night I Saw You Smiling, captures the last glimpse of a vibrant residential community in Phnom Penh's iconic White Building before it was closed in 2017.

• OPINION

  No safe spaces in our faux democracy

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 18/09/2019

  » As Asean chair, a Thailand governed by an "elected government" should have been well-suited to hosting meetings between governments and people from the region, and allowing those suppressed in their home countries to voice their plight and needs here.

• THAILAND

  The last sanctuary

  Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 08/07/2018

  » On a lush hill overlooking Da Nang Bay, central Vietnam, red-shanked doucs freely wander in one of their few remaining sanctuaries on Earth. At the Son Tra Nature Reserve, a mountainous peninsula known to American soldiers during the Vietnam War as "Monkey Mountain", sights like a douc couple hanging from a treetop can still be seen.

• THAILAND

  Pulling the plug on power in Cambodia

  Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 23/04/2017

  » The cityscape of Phnom Penh resembles a work in progress. On a strip of land marking the cross-section of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers, a new hotel under construction and empty plots face the centuries-old Royal Palace.

• THAILAND

  The heat is on

  Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 27/11/2016

  » The natural landscape of Southeast Asia has suffered a slew of losses in recent years. As El Nino disrupts world weather patterns, and the region recovers from its worst droughts in decades, Thailand has lost 6.1 million tonnes of agricultural products. That's 15.5 billion baht in gains gone between January 2015 and April 2016.

• THAILAND

  No common ground

  Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 20/11/2016

  » The Khao Banthat range was once shrouded by myths of savage people and mysterious spirits. Then, in the 1960s, the mountains, stretching over southern Thailand, became a battlefield for communist insurgents. As the war ended in the '80s and residents regrouped, the forest fast turned into a hotbed for disputes over what lands belonged to whom.

• THAILAND

  ThaiHealth exec defends spending record

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 28/10/2015

  » The acting manager of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) has insisted on the foundation's transparency in spending state funds.

• THAILAND

  Drug price control bill hits trade snag

  News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 16/06/2015

  » A clause in a revised drugs bill requiring drug companies to reveal their pricing structures in the patent registration process might conflict with various international trade principles, said Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Yuthavong.

• THAILAND

  The power struggle at Salween River

  Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 30/11/2014

  » The Salween River meanders through pristine mountain forests before reaching a camp for internally displaced people at Ei Htu Hta, near the Thai-Myanmar border. Temporary bamboo shelters dot the hills around the camp, with small solar panels attached to the thatched roofs providing power for a few hours a day.

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