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Certification showdown
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 08/05/2017
» Efforts by Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore to "green" the palm oil supply chain have gathered momentum despite some hiccups. The question is whether the outcome will be in time to make a difference for the world.
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Into the forest
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 07/10/2015
» It is hard to believe Sahwing Indharangsri when he says his village and the forest around it was once inhabited by wild animals.
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Tourism can be made sustainable
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 01/05/2017
» On the surface, the Andaman sea off Phi Phi Island is calm and clear, its emerald green colour is ever attractive. Yet, the underwater situation with an extensive area of bleached coral reef make this popular world-class dive site a red-alert tourism spot.
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Cleaner energy for all
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 20/02/2017
» It sounds like a pipe dream when Liu Zhenya talks about China's aspiration to become the regional leader in renewable energy. Such talk appears at odds with the image many people have of smoke-belching fossil-fuel power plants and some of the world's most polluted cities.
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Solving a problem, organically
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 17/01/2017
» Organic products are known to promote safety to human health and the environment. While demands have increased, organic products are still considered non-mainstream, partly because of limited supply and higher retail prices, which are around 20-30% more than farm products harvested using chemical fertilisers and pesticides.
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New sugar policy has a bitter taste
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 12/09/2016
» Last week, the government announced a policy to expand the sugar industry. The strategy, initially, sounds good, because it will catapult the Thai agriculture sector from a raw material supplier to a high value industry. FarmVille version 4.0, if you will.
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Documenting a niche
Muse, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 27/02/2016
» When Thida Plitpholkarnpim — editor of the respected film review magazine Bioscope — floated her idea to launch a Documentary Club for screening of documentaries, her friend simply told her to drop off the plan.
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Razing 'cane
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 30/03/2016
» March and April are months of haze. The white-grey smoke may be just a seasonal nuisance that exists only in the northern and southern regions in Thailand, but in a sugar plantation in Dan Chang of Suphan Buri province, haze has long been a part of the people's daily lives and of the worrisome harvesting cycle. Villagers in Dan Chang get used to dry-coughing. Smoke hangs over the roofs of their houses and seeps indoors.
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Nation's biomass industry faces myriad challenges
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 28/11/2015
» There is no question that clean energy has merits. Among many sources, biomass power plants are championed as the most appropriate choice for Thailand — a country with abundant farm waste such as rice husks, and organic waste from sugar mills and palm oil factories.
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Asia 'must unite in climate fight'
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 20/08/2015
» Asian countries need to work as one in the fight against climate change because the region will bear the biggest consequences from rising temperatures, a UN official warned yesterday.
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