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Wastewater sparks local ire
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 08/06/2020
» Farm villagers in Ban Khai district in Rayong province have threatened legal action over wastewater pollution from a local recycling factory.
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City plots to beautify its many unsightly manholes
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 22/09/2019
» Bangkok's streets are known for their potholes, uneven pavements and, especially recently, unsightly manholes that are posing an increasing safety risk for pedestrians.
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A watershed moment for Thai mining
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/03/2018
» This month marks a landmark moment for the mining industry.
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Cooler heads needed to end wildlife woes
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/11/2017
» Following media reports about the killings of three rare, wild gaur in Kao Phang Ma, a forest area near Khao Yai in Wang Nam Khieo district of Nakhon Ratchasima last week, police and national park officials were quick to say poachers were the culprits.
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The Mekong deserves better
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 27/02/2017
» Last week, a regional forum was held in Luang Prabang for countries in the Mekong River Basin to discuss the Pak Beng hydroelectric dam planned by Laos. It was organised by the Mekong River Commission (MRC), the only organisation that works directly with the governments of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam to jointly manage the shared resources and sustainable development of the river.
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Klity offers lessons for us all
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 18/07/2016
» The scene is almost deja vu: A group of Karen villagers dressed in traditional costume and their representative lawyers clad in solemn suits hold their hands high in victory. The location is the Supreme Court. Journalists rush to interview them and file reports that read: "Klity villagers win court battle". Again.
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Unconventional conservationist
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 02/03/2016
» By look and temperament, Sasiprapa Raisanguan, a 22-year-old staff member at the Centre for Protection & Revival of Local Community Rights (CPCR), doesn't fit the stereotype of a Thai conservationist. She is no starry-eyed tree-hugger clad in natural-dye cotton, nor does she have a hemp rucksack or ride a bicycle to reduce her carbon footprint. At our interview in Chiang Mai, Sasiprapa arrives on her motorcycle, which she calls "a practical choice" to getting around the northern city where her office is.
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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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Sustaining environmental activism
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/10/2015
» The demography of environmental activists in Thailand has shifted. The pioneering generation, those inspired by the life and death of the late Sueb Nakhasathien, the forest official who committed suicide in what is believed to be a protest against bureaucratic hopelessness, have started retiring, or feel too tired and have moved into other fields.
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Govt needs to face reality over forest preservation
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 17/10/2015
» Mention “Bang Kajao”, a green area next to Samut Prakan’s Phra Pradaeng District, and what springs to mind? Some may think of an area that is the “lung” for Bangkok or a popular bicycle route that brings cyclists to a traditional orchard landscape.
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