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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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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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Democratic flame is on a knife's edge
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 15/06/2019
» We thought we were creeping back to democracy. We thought we were regaining our freedoms. After all, we have just welcomed a new government which has tried to convince the world that it came to power by democratic means.
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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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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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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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Rebel with a cause Netiwit riles 'adults'
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/03/2022
» When I read a while back that Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal -- a young political activist, was going to Chulalongkorn University, it struck me as inconceivable.
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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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Liberal immigration policies needed
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 27/11/2021
» An ageing population and low birth rate are twin social issues facing many nations.
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