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Hidden realities of carbon credits
Editorial, Published on 31/03/2024
» Thai governments -- be they Prayut Chan-o-cha's or Srettha Thavisin's -- have hailed carbon credit programmes as vital to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, they can become wolves in sheep's clothing if they favour businesses, leaving local communities and nature vulnerable to exploitation. Despite promises to mitigate greenhouse gases, carbon credit programmes often sideline local communities and worsen social and environmental injustices.
Wrong turn in the Valley of Windmills
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 12/01/2020
» At my age, any new sensation tends to either be an ache or a pain, however, on New Year's Day I was up at 6am, which was definitely a ground-breaking feeling. I hasten to add this wasn't because I hadn't made it to bed after a night's revelry. Admittedly in the distant past there might have been several occasions in Bangkok when I've witnessed dawn on Jan 1 before hitting the sack, but we won't go into that.
The farthest fall
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/07/2019
» I once attended a birthday party at a house in Soi Ari where I was introduced to a middle-aged man with a rotating jaw.
Pressure mounts on Suu Kyi over Rakhine
News, Larry Jagan, Published on 21/05/2018
» Myanmar's civilian government is coming under increasing fire on all fronts. Or so it would seem. Pressure on Myanmar is mounting, especially from the UN and the US, as the government tries desperately to arrange for the return of nearly a million Muslim refugees -- who fled to Bangladesh to escape the violence in the strife-torn western region of Rakhine.
All fired up on a one-way trip to purgatory
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/11/2013
» Finally, we've arrived at the point where Suthep Thaugsuban wants to be Jennifer Lawrence (I shudder). If not in looks and curves, then in the spirit of her character: the Girl on Fire who sparks hope and conquers fear and plays the unvanquishable Mohican and leads the people - the validly frustrated people - on a path of revolution against the evil president. Soon he'll be asking for a bow and arrows and order a special screening of The Hunger Games on the giant screen at his Ratchadamnoen fortress. Jesus Buddha Mohammed help us, our Man on Fire doesn't seem to realise what Dante and Jatuporn Prompan (another J-Law lookalike) did a few years back: Going to hell is easy, it's coming back alive that is the problem.