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The problem with elephants
News, Published on 15/04/2013
» Government officials perpetuated a general misunderstanding when they called in the media after the remains of a male elephant were found near Kaeng Krachan National Park in the upper South. On flimsy evidence, they claimed that poachers had killed the animal, and ripped the tusks from its severed head. When animal experts arrived a day later, the story changed. The dead elephant was actually a female in the late stages of pregnancy. There was no ivory, and almost certainly no poaching.
'New' top-down policies ignore plight of poor
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/05/2013
» Twenty-five years on, Sompong Wiangjand's fight to decommission the Pak Moon Dam _ destroyer of the Moon River ecosystem and the livelihoods of thousands of families _ is far from over.
Mystery shrouds the real Jit Phumisak story
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 14/05/2013
» Who was the real Jit Phumisak? The gifted linguist, willing to risk his college career arguing over a single archaic word? Co-translator of the Communist Manifesto? A radical historian who subversively upended centuries of received knowledge with a bold new history of Thailand? Poet? Composer? Loving son? Jungle fighter?
Green space threat is real
News, Published on 25/05/2013
» Re: ''Condo oasis in peril'' (BP, May 21).
Keep heat on reckless palm oil companies
News, Published on 23/06/2013
» For the past week we've been reading about and seeing images of Singaporeans forced to deal with horrible air quality that is none of their doing. Citizens of the island-state are getting irate, and who can blame them? The smoke from fires raging in the Indonesian island of Sumatra is a health hazard and an extreme inconvenience to locals _ many have taken to wearing masks in an attempt to minimise the harmful health effects of the pollution. Elderly residents, children and pregnant women have been advised to avoid all outdoor activity.
Government offers dubious excuses for rice price cut
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/06/2013
» Here is some simple arithmetic. Suppose you are a miller and you pay a farmer 15,000 baht for a tonne of paddy and, after the grain is milled, you sell the produce at 10,000 baht. Your loss is 5,000 baht, which is simple and straightforward.
Sumatra's land-clearing fires ignite Singaporean fury
News, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Published on 24/06/2013
» I lived in Singapore for almost 10 years, from late 2002 to early 2012. Throughout my stay, haze pollution became one of the main health issues facing the city state. This month, the threatening haze has returned. And this time it has managed to break its own record, reaching the hazardous PSI (pollutant standards index) level of 401 at 12 pm on Friday. This is the highest level of haze ever in Singapore.
Landmines are a problem that just won't go away
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 24/06/2013
» Just 12 years ago, landmine-infested areas in Thailand covered a vast 2556.7 square kilometres. As of last year, after a mammoth effort to clear them, the areas have shrunk enormously to a little more than 540 sq km _ or 85% less.
Rethink station rejig
News, Published on 29/06/2013
» Re: "Saphan Taksin takes a stroll into the future" (Opinion, June 21). The removal of the Saphan Taksin BTS station is not an optimal, or even a good, solution to the problem of the train traffic bottleneck at the river.
Resilience needs finance overhaul
News, Published on 09/07/2013
» Resilience, like love, is difficult to define. Yet everyone _ from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to government agencies, company boards and community groups _ is talking about how to build or maintain it. Is resilience a useful concept or just a fleeting buzzword?