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Hair saga reflects authoritarian culture
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 13/07/2020
» If you want to understand why dictatorship persists in Thailand, or the reason why the culture of bullying and impunity is so deep-rooted here, what happened at a public school in Si Sa Ket earlier this month offers an answer.
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Historic ruling offers pro-choice hope
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/02/2020
» This is historic. This is final. Abortion is no longer illegal in Thailand. Women and girls now can end pregnancies without risking arrest, imprisonment, and even death, thanks to the Constitutional Court's ruling on Wednesday.
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Lawsuits aggravate forest poor's plight
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/07/2018
» The polluters must pay. Most definitely. But when state authorities encroach on indigenous peoples' customary land, send them to jail for living in "protected" forest and -- on top of that -- demand exorbitant compensation for causing global warming, this is not the "polluters pay" policy. This is oppression beyond being unjust. It's pure malice.
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Mixing monks with money corrupts clergy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 20/06/2018
» Fear and fury is gripping the clergy. Following the arrest and defrocking of high-profile monks for temple corruption, temples nationwide are fearful of financial inspections while monks are up in arms against the idea of prohibiting them from receiving money from the laity.
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Why Buddhists fail simple test of compassion
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/12/2017
» When Pope Francis avoided addressing the Rohingya genocide directly during his recent Myanmar visit, questioning his silence is missing the crux of the problem.
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Sangha crisis won't end with defrockment
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/03/2017
» Is it a political exchange? Has the government agreed to abort the legislative effort to regulate monks' money and assets in exchange for the clergy's ruling to disrobe the fugitive Dhammakaya sect leader?
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NESDB survey reeks of ultra-nationalism
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/09/2016
» A news item about migrant workers created a big nationalistic stir last week. It was about a survey showing migrant workers becoming self-employed and active in small, informal trading as small vendors in fresh and community markets.
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At sea in illegal fishing battle
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/10/2012
» It's crunchy. It's delicious. It's deep fried baby mackerel, a popular calcium-boosting snack that is quickly annihilating mackerel stocks in the Gulf of Thailand.
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Con artists fleece the stateless
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 17/10/2012
» Who in their right mind would pay anyone any money for "world citizen" cards which promise the card bearers the right to travel anywhere in the country and around the world without ID cards and passports?
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