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Perpetuating sexism through prayers
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 29/04/2019
» Is it possible that women's lower status in Thai society has something to do with the way we Thai Buddhists pray?
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'Bleach mum' exposes welfare failure
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/06/2020
» Had not the doctors intervened, a two-year-old toddler may have been poisoned to death by his mother. They could not save the boy's four-year-old sister, however. She was already dead from the same malady.
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Seeing the langsat for the trees
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/09/2018
» Langsat, a sweet fruit with a leathery yellowish skin, once served as the pride of Uttaradit province. Not anymore.
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Ex-inmates find door to freedom closed
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/09/2018
» Hom was full of hope that once her prison term was over, she could immediately use her intensive training in Thai traditional massage to give her and her children a better life and future. But that was not to be.
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Corn subsidies perpetuate old problems
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/08/2018
» The government's decision to pay rice farmers to shift to corn farming raises more questions than it answers.
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Mixing monks with money corrupts clergy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 20/06/2018
» Fear and fury is gripping the clergy. Following the arrest and defrocking of high-profile monks for temple corruption, temples nationwide are fearful of financial inspections while monks are up in arms against the idea of prohibiting them from receiving money from the laity.
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Waging war on farm chemicals
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/03/2018
» Severely sick and on the verge of miscarrying, Supalak Suwan didn't have to think twice when her doctor told her she would have to choose between sticking with her job, which meant continued exposure to toxic farm chemicals, or having a healthy baby.
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Racism holds back economy as society ages
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/02/2018
» The government's policy to encourage more births of "Thai" children to help offset the cost of a rapidly approaching ageing society reflects deep-rooted racial prejudice in policy formulation.
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Shelter from the storms of life
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/11/2017
» In a run-down rented house on the outskirts of Tak's Mae Sot district over 50 orphans live in cramped conditions. It's the only home 17-year-old Pawarit has ever known but he realises how fortunate he and his siblings are to be there.
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The secret of Thailand's biggest female clergy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/11/2017
» The clergy prohibits female ordination. That does not stop the Nirotharam Monastery in Chiang Mai from being the country's biggest community of female monks and novices -- and with strong support from local monks and residents too.
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