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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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Waste treatment alone cannot purify putrid canal water
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 06/11/2015
» When one looks at the state of Bangkok canals today, it is hard to imagine that they were once filled with clear, clean water teeming with aquatic life.
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Tourism promotion can be threat to Tham Luang
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 21/07/2018
» The 13 members of the Wild Boars have gone home to their loved ones. That, however, is not the end of their story. There will be more stories to tell, movies to make as well as a museum to build and a new "world class" tourist destination to create.
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'The Thai Way' clogs up our flooded city
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 02/06/2017
» After a long period of hot and humid but rainless weather, the sky finally opened up in Bangkok. The rain came in torrents that quickly overwhelmed the city's drainage capacity.
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Mae Wong dam, cable car debates rear their ugly heads
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 04/03/2016
» Why am I not surprised that someone has proposed that two development projects be revived, again?
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PM's promenade dream hits obstacles
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 28/08/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has a dream.
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Two feet rout a bad dam plan, trigger reform
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 27/09/2013
» Sasin Chalermlarp, who walked 388km to protest a proposed dam project in Mae Wong National Park, has done more than just spread his anti-dam messages.
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Floods are a wake-up call from mother nature
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/10/2013
» A short video clip posted on YouTube recently is poignant. In it a teenage girl in working clothes pleads for the authorities in Sukhothai to open the flood walls of the provincial airport to allow floodwater to drain from surrounding rice fields.
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History will not be a kind judge of Yingluck
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/07/2013
» The biggest surprise in the latest cabinet reshuffle, the fourth in as little as two years, must be the appointment of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra as the defence minister.
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Plodprasop must slow the flood scheme flow
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 24/05/2013
» I admit I'm totally baffled by Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi's need for speed in getting the 350-billion-baht water management master plan off the ground.
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