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Face of pain must rid us of slavery sins
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 06/05/2015
» The photo of Rohima Khatun in the Bangkok Post yesterday should be on the desks of all officials who have promised to arrest trafficking kingpins and stop Thailand from being a slave trade hub.
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Decentralise, or Pracharath bound to fail
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/09/2015
» When Thaksin Shinawatra was looking for innovative policies to launch his Thai Rak Thai Party, he looked for inspiration from activists leading social movements and was not disappointed. Universal health care and village funds became his landmark policy successes that subsequent governments could only try to outdo by pouring in more money to expand the programmes further.
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Revoke the licence to kill our oceans
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/03/2024
» Despite efforts to rein in rogue trawlers and overfishing in the past decade, the Thai seas are still in crisis. And if the Srettha government has its way, things will go from bad to worse.
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Locals resist environmental dictatorship
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/09/2020
» Drenched with a heavy downpour on Tuesday night while picketing in front of Government House, Anong Kuson looked up at the ferocious sky, her face wet with tears mixed with merciless rain.
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Land rights the key to forest conservation
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/03/2016
» Agro-giant CP has finally admitted to "being part" of deforestation in the mountainous North and has promised to stop buying corn grown in forest areas. So the forest should soon regain its health and the conglomerate will be off the hook, right? Not so fast.
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Poor suffer as regime goes back to old ways
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 27/01/2016
» If you want to get Kanya Pankiti going, ask her about the coup-makers' self-proclaimed mission to return happiness to Thais. "Are you serious?" she asks. "What happiness? Can't you see people on the ground are suffering across the country?"
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Ignore fishery threat, let seas return to life
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/06/2015
» Freeze our fishing boats and prepare for the consequences, the National Fisheries Association of Thailand (Nfat) threatened the government on Monday.
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Fisheries law alone won't do the job
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/07/2015
» The message from the fisheries boss is loud and clear. "Illegal fishing gear must go," declared Joompol Sanguansin, director-general of the Fisheries Department. Right on. But I doubt if he will have the last say.
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Trawlers of destruction
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 29/04/2015
» As Thailand is racing against the clock to avoid being red-carded by the European Union and a subsequent ban on Thai seafood exports, veteran activist Banjong Nasae says dodging the restrictions is easy to do.
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Agro giant needs to listen to the people
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 13/05/2015
» The boycott of 7-Eleven last week may have failed to put a financial dent in the country's largest convenience store franchise. But it has succeeded in raising a big question mark over how agro giant CP is conducting its business.
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