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'The Thai Way' clogs up our flooded city
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 02/06/2017
» After a long period of hot and humid but rainless weather, the sky finally opened up in Bangkok. The rain came in torrents that quickly overwhelmed the city's drainage capacity.
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Fixing social chaos a matter of culture
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 07/04/2017
» Strategically speaking, the military junta's attempt to enforce traffic laws through absolute power under Section 44 has been a total flop.
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Life can be trying when you live near a dump
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 09/12/2016
» Few people care what happens afterward to the leftovers from items they consume. Once they drop the rubbish in their hands into a bin or whatever, that's the end of it as far as they are concerned.
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Sweet tastes of freedom often short-lived
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 14/10/2016
» <i>Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose</i>. That French expression could well be a Thai political saying.
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Promenade spat spoils riverside mood
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 16/09/2016
» An episode in the saga known as the Chao Phraya riverside promenade development just ended when its consultants decide to scrap their design of the plan's central landmark.
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Regime on shaky ground as 'Pai' rebels
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 19/08/2016
» I don't know Jatupat Boonpattararaksa personally. Like many people, I first got to know of him from news reports when he and a group of his friends joined a villagers' protest against gold mining in the northeastern province of Loei three years ago.
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Thais should become less pragmatic
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 12/08/2016
» So the circus-like referendum came and went. And the vote came down decidedly on the side of the junta government.The constitution drafters and supporters are understandably ecstatic. Their work in drafting the country's supreme law will not go to waste, and, with the public mandate on its side, the junta can now carry on with its national reform agenda and returning the country to a democratic path.
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Rotten system gives root to nation's denuded forests
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 20/05/2016
» Reforestation is in vogue again.You know this when celebrities start emerging from their studios to urge the public to help restore our fast disappearing forest land.
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Deadly consequences of doing things the 'Thai way'
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 22/04/2016
» By now, we have all learned about the toll that road accidents exacted on Thai motorists during the "seven dangerous days" of Songkran.
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The politics of 'commission' payments
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/04/2016
» Corruption and Thailand are not exactly synonymous. But one can say they have co-existed for a very long time and at almost all levels of Thai society.
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