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Thais need to change shameful driving attitudes
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 16/11/2019
» A viral video seen earlier this week has sparked debates about Thais' lack of road discipline yet again.
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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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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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Will city's pavement madness ever end?
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 20/03/2021
» Navigating Bangkok's pavements is like walking in a mine field or an obstacle course. But everybody who has ever travelled in the city on foot knows that.
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Amid hazy skies, need for reform is clear
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 12/12/2020
» I picked up my older brother who flew down from Chiang Mai a few days ago. The first thing he said to me was that when he looked down as the plane flew over Bangkok, all he saw was haze.
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Pandemic offers chance for real change
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 04/04/2020
» Seeing how Covid-19 has transformed the way we live, it's tempting to say life will not go back to the way it was after this is all over.
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Waiting for disasters is a risky game
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 21/03/2020
» They say every cloud has a silver lining. So, does the pandemic that is wreaking havoc across the globe have one too?
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Culture of apathy must be rooted out
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 24/08/2019
» Earlier this week, a one-minute video clip widely shared on Facebook showed a woman in university student uniform standing at a bus stop blocking the path of two motorcycles while waving them off the pavement.
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Regime's knives are out for Thanathorn
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 04/05/2019
» Drivers on the eastern ring road beware! Keep under 120kph when approaching kilometre 5 in Klong Luang district of Pathum Thani.
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2030 climate target far too 'unambitious'
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 08/12/2018
» The meeting on climate change currently taking place in the city of Katowice, Poland, has occurred so quietly that few pre-conference reports can be found in the media.
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