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Open heartsneeded in royalty debate
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/05/2012
» After eight failed attempts to obtain bail on lese majeste charges, 62-year-old Ampon Tangnoppakul, or Ah Kong, finally won his freedom when he was no longer breathing, his body stiff and cold.
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Temple danger clear as Jobs talk gets crazy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/08/2012
» Should we just dismiss it as crazy when a Buddhist monk claims he knows about the late Steve Jobs's afterlife and that Jobs's spirit is now blessed with a sacred crystal ball inside his body?
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Dropouts from a failed school system
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/09/2012
» Meet Bank, a school dropout. When he became bored with herding cattle in his village in Ubon Ratchathani, he agreed to toil in a small garage of my car mechanic to learn the ropes. He was 16 then. After only three years, the teenager is now earning 15,000 baht a month, which is equivalent to the salaries of new university graduates, and dreams of setting up his own business in his hometown.
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Old-world bigotry is a trap for us all
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/09/2012
» If we Thais think the anger in the Muslim world against the incendiary video insulting the Prophet Mohammed is not our problem, then we need to think again.
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Public health pioneer ousted for big pharma
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 22/05/2013
» What do you do to the man who helped you win a landslide election through pioneering the 30-baht universal healthcare scheme?
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Mining threat comes back to haunt us
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 29/05/2013
» At first I could not believe my eyes. We were driving along a rugged dirt road in a protected forest in Kanchanaburi. Then, all of a sudden, a vast barren landscape covered with a thick white mass sprang up in the midst of green tropical forest.
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Abuse abides as lawmakers flout own rules
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/07/2013
» It was indeed a close call. Had it not been for a last-minute intervention by a law reform agency, Thailand's new labour regulations would have still condoned the use of child labour in the fishing industry.
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Unprincipled capitalists need to feel the heat
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/10/2013
» Rows and rows of denuded mountains stretch as far as the eye can see. That is what many of the once green mountains in Nan have have now become.
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Drums of war imperil 'good people's rally'
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/12/2013
» One of my best friends works in an office building next to Lumpini Park, where a hard-core anti-Thaksin Shinawatra group staged a protest for several months with little public support.
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Hatred and Buddhism don't mix
Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/02/2014
» With anger and bitterness a common sight in these politically strained times, let’s pause and ask how we can still call ourselves Buddhists after allowing ourselves to sink this deep into the politics of hatred.
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