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Locals plan protest to keep rural doctor
News, Published on 10/04/2017
» Residents are preparing to take to the streets in protest against an impending order by the army to transfer from the area Songkhla's Chana Hospital director Supat Hasuwannakit over his role in the movement against a coal-fired power plant project in Songkhla.
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Army's bullying tactics won't work
News, Editorial, Published on 09/04/2017
» Less than a month after the botched environmental and health hearing for the controversial Pak Bara deep-sea project in Satun was called off, rumours have abounded that there is an attempt to transfer a local doctor out of the area who has been helping southern villagers in their fight against the state project. Dr Supat Hasuwannakit, director of Songkhla-based Chana Hospital and a key figure in the Rural Doctors Society, has emerged as a state target owing to his sympathy for embattled villagers opposing the state's projects, which include planned coal-fired power plants in Songkhla and Krabi provinces that would adversely affect the environment and peoples' livelihoods.
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Govt pushes Krabi coal plant forum
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/03/2017
» The government has pressed ahead with its plan to improve the public's understanding about new environmental and health impact assessments needed for the Krabi coal-fired power plant project, saying a forum have to be organised within a month from now.
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PTT told to mull LNG terminal in South
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 27/02/2017
» PTT Plc, the national oil and gas conglomerate, is considering building a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in a southern province at the request of the government, says executive vice-president Pitak Janyapong.
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Songkhla bombings ignite fears of a southern power struggle
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 15/05/2016
» Rumours of the next bomb target spread wildly last month in Songkhla's Chana district.
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Songkhla bomb attacks linked to power plant
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/04/2016
» A series of bomb attacks in Songkhla may be linked to people protesting about a proposed coal power plant in the deep South, an opponent of the project says.
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Solar power inching ahead in Thailand
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 22/12/2015
» Two years ago, all Kordin Chaihae could do after sunset was to sit quietly by a candle in his small house in Songkhla's Chana district.
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Songkhla project puts villagers' livelihoods at risk
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 30/10/2015
» Not only will 118 families, or some 500 people, in Songkhla's Tepha district be evicted by the Egat coal-fired power plant, but it is also widely feared that the Gulf of Thailand's ecosystem and the livelihoods of the people in the neighbouring districts in Songkhla and Pattani will be affected by sea contamination.
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Chana riot ruling 'to spur activists'
News, Published on 24/10/2015
» The Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday recognising community rights to protest against a Thai-Malaysian gas pipeline project in Chana district has inspired locals in neighbouring Thepha district to fight against other projects.
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Coal burns bright in southern minds
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 22/08/2015
» Somsak Pannak returns from an overnight fishing trip off Thepha district with buckets full of cuttlefish and other edible marine life. He will earn enough from selling the catch to feed his family for a couple of days.
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