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Opening minds with an ancient 'mandala'
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/09/2019
» Travelling around Thailand is a good way to learn about local history and culture. The challenge, however, is how to understand the country's ancient past beyond the usual nationalistic fervour.
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Democracy? Don't hold your breath
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/07/2015
» As long as our culture is deeply rooted in militarism and racism, don't expect a smooth ride towards democracy. I've come to this conclusion after trying to understand why a large number of educated middle-class people still support military dictatorship or why the so-called pro-democracy groups refuse to question Thaksin's authoritarianism.
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Rogue monks are here for the long haul
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/04/2014
» The controversial Phra Yantra is back. Despite his past scandals over sexual relationships with female followers, a series of lies, and his refusal to accept the late Supreme Patriarch's order which expelled him from the monkhood, many still flocked to him when he returned to his hometown in Nakhon Si Thammarat's Pak Panang district early this month.
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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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Private health bias puts cash ahead of lives
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/06/2013
» When the 2011 Central Plains flood crisis ravaged industrial estates in Ayutthaya and destroyed the country's biggest dialysis solution production plant, more than 40,000 patients' lives were endangered.
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Teen girls need more than a pill to gain freedom
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/04/2013
» After reading about the decision by a court in the United States to allow teenage girls under 17 to buy morning-after pills over the counter, I decided to ask my teenage daughter if she knew about emergency contraceptives.
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Migrant mum plan a killer
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/06/2012
» If Labour Minister Padermchai Sasomsop's plan to send pregnant migrant workers home becomes a reality, he simply cannot escape being condemned for having blood on his hands.
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This very fishy business
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/07/2012
» What do you do when big trawlers violate the law, annihilate the seabed with their destructive fishing gear, and wipe out marine life from our coastal seas?
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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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Kasian warns hatred could get out of hand
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/02/2012
» Kasian Tejapira, a former student activist who went through the atrocity of Oct 6, 1976, in which state forces cracked down brutally on left-leaning students, gives his view of the controversy regarding the proposal to amend the lese majeste law and the order by Thammasat University, where he teaches, to ban political activities relating to the move from its campuses.
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