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Govt ill-prepared to tackle climate woes
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 30/10/2021
» One and a half hour's drive from Bangkok is Bang Ban district of Ayutthaya. Here, most of the rice fields and entire villages have been under water for the past couple of months.
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Thais need to change shameful driving attitudes
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 16/11/2019
» A viral video seen earlier this week has sparked debates about Thais' lack of road discipline yet again.
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No rationale left not to abandon fossil fuels
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/09/2018
» It has become clear to many that the global trend of renewable energy development, particularly solar energy, is unstoppable.
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Rap shines light on regime's archaic thinking
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 10/11/2018
» A couple of days ago I got over my reluctance and clicked on the new rap song on YouTube.
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Thailand wobbles toward its place in the sun
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 09/09/2017
» Thailand may at last be entering the 21st century in terms of energy management, albeit slowly and with a wobble.
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Prayut's questions attract ridicule, not input
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 16/06/2017
» Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha's proposed four questions must have many people stumped. What is he thinking? What's the purpose of posing such questions out of the blue?
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Stifling public discourse will only provoke dissent
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 21/11/2014
» The key phrase, in Thai, is eud ad. It means frustrated, ill at ease, feeling discomfort, cramped, suffocated or stifled.
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Thai tolerance abounds, as long as it's fashionable
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 27/03/2015
» Thai people are generally tolerant towards people different from them — except when they are different from them.
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Law enforcement gets off lightly again
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/02/2022
» If the victim were not a young woman with a bright future as an ophthalmologist and the culprit were not a policeman, the accident on Phaya Thai Road on Jan 21 would have been worth at most of a few inches of coverage, and certainly not its current position as the nation's most talked-about story.
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Our bloated bureaucracy bodes only ill
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 22/01/2022
» The government has grown ever larger over the past decade. The fact would be hailed as positive news if the affairs of governance were a private enterprise.
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