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Undo hazing shackle
News, Editorial, Published on 07/08/2015
» August does not only mark the start of the first semester of universities and colleges. It also kicks off the hazing season which refuses to go away despite numerous premature deaths from hazing violence.
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Global refugee crisis cries out for action
News, Editorial, Published on 06/09/2015
» Now, it’s personal. Until last week the world’s migrant crisis was abstract, a procession of humanity as statistics. The 59.5 million people forcibly displaced by the end of last year, two-thirds of them uprooted from home within their own country. The 1.9 million Syrians living in Turkey, mainly in camps, having fled a country torn between the atrocities of Bashar al-Assad and the Islamic State. The 140,000 men, women and children who have entered Hungary from the border with Serbia this year alone, hoping for asylum in richer western European countries. The hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have entrusted their lives to traffickers, their very exodus abetted by the regime they seek to escape. The Uighur who have turned to criminal networks to escape persecution in China. The Iraqis, Afghans and Sudanese who made perilous journeys to Australian waters only to have the navy pay their traffickers to turn away.
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Answers needed on the latest oil spill
News, Editorial, Published on 01/11/2015
» The sight of an oil-drenched crab clawing its way across the beach of Hua Hin, dragging a trail of viscous black goo across the sand, is hardly the image authorities have in mind when promoting Thailand as an idyllic tourist destination. It is perhaps for this very reason men in clean navy blazers with government insignia brought out shiny shovels and posed for the cameras on Wednesday morning. The Hua Hin Tourist Police chose a particularly white and clean stretch of beach to show social media they were busy extracting black gold.
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Stop sadistic hazing rituals
News, Editorial, Published on 05/12/2015
» Despite concerted attempts by education authorities to root out hazing, new and more violent forms of initiation activities keep on surfacing. It is clear all parties concerned including youngsters themselves must unite in making the practice completely unacceptable.
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Cowardly attackdamages tourism
News, Editorial, Published on 01/05/2016
» Thailand's tourism reputation took a severe beating last week, but nothing as vicious as the one handed out to a holidaying British family.
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Home truths hidden in child sex abuse
News, Editorial, Published on 15/05/2016
» We all know the stereotype: white, male, middle-aged, prone to creeping around beach bars and strip clubs of Southeast Asia's tourist playgrounds, often seen in the company of those who are much younger. This is the sort of person who comes to mind whenever stories of foreign paedophiles or child sex tourism come around, and they are the sort targeted by NGOs who are determined to save the children.
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Support our ecosystem
News, Editorial, Published on 21/05/2016
» The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation deserves praise for its decision to close the popular tourist spot Koh Tachai off the coast of Phangnga indefinitely to allow the island's ecosystem to recover from degradation caused by excessive tourist activity.
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Scrap rail link to Hua Hin
News, Editorial, Published on 23/02/2017
» The State Enterprise Policy Office seems to have made the right decision in delaying the nearly 95-billion-baht Bangkok-Hua Hin high-speed rail link.
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No painting over 'sin city'
News, Editorial, Published on 25/02/2017
» The bold declaration by a sustainable tourism organisation to turn Pattaya from "sin city" into a family entertainment destination has been greeted with disbelief. Some people told the organisation to be more realistic while others simply dismissed its vision as an April's Fool joke that came early this year.
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Communities have rights
News, Editorial, Published on 22/11/2017
» The campaign by residents of Phitsanulok for a proper investigation of the old Akara Resources gold mine is well taken. The request, filed directly to the prime minister, notes that their complaint is over two years old. No progress has been reported by the Department of Special Investigation (DSI). As compelling as this single case is, the Phitsanulok group is but a stark illustration of the military regime's poor or absent handling of community problems.
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