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    Protecting their natural rights

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 03/12/2014

    » Some animals are considered man's best friend, and we love them as long as they don't become a burden. When love fizzles out, as all love does, those once cute pets or loyal beasts can be subject to mistreatment. 

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    On the same page

    Muse, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/01/2017

    » When Nalin Vanasin, a 43-year-old entrepreneur and mother of two, volunteered to work for Neilson Hays Library, she remembered seeing many eyebrows raised. A few of her friends even asked whether people still go to the library. Such a condescending attitude is somehow understandable. In our digital world, physical books are going out of date. Libraries, known as the fortresses of intellectuals for over two millennia, have become relics of the past.

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    Drought, fishing scandals and winding roads

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/12/2015

    » In the past year, environmental disasters once again proved how much of an impact they have on everyone's lives: the air we breathe (the haze in the South, blown over from Indonesia); the water we use (the contentious Chao Phraya roads); the lights we see (the coal-fired power plants); the ground beneath our feet (the gold mining scandals); the food we eat (the fishery disputes). In all of this, local communities and the rural poor feel the heat and the fire more than Bangkok's urbanites and they're the people who keep showing public resistance against environmental problems and the depletion of natural resources, despite the grip of military rule.  

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    Encroaching on villagers' rights

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 07/01/2015

    » As a New Year's gift, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has promised to return happiness to the people by giving 53,000 rai of state land to landless villagers. On paper, it looks like a generous present.

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    Fostering in the forest

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 12/11/2014

    » Many decades ago, the village of Baan Pang Chum Pee, in the Mae On district of Chiang Mai, resembled an ecological Armageddon. All of its trees had been cut down, leaving the mountains looking like rocky sand dunes. After decades of extensive logging, the trees had disappeared from the forest and the villagers learned some harsh lessons, as the rivers dried up and farmers and fishermen struggled to make a living.

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    A golden opportunity for change

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 04/06/2014

    » Everything that glitters is gold, but not for villagers at Ban Na Nong Bong, who live at the edge of a gold mine in Loei province. Since Thung Kham arrived to extract gold in 2003, villagers have complained that the company is poisoning its water source and farmland and harming their health.

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    Lack of funds could stymie sterling work

    Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/04/2014

    » In forests around the world, wild animals are killed for their meat, hides or body parts or trapped for sale as pets. In our rivers and oceans, fish is harvested in huge quantities and coral is removed for use in construction. Despite concerted attempts to stamp it out, the trade in illegal ivory continues and the smuggling of endangered species is still rampant.

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