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Fight like a bulldog, persevere like a bee
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 12/08/2017
» Two decades ago, Jintana Kaewkhao found herself thrust into the public limelight as she led local opposition against a coal-fired power plant project close to her home in Ban Krut of Prachuap Khiri Khan province.
Going round in rubbish management circles
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 08/07/2017
» Junta leader Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has been featured in the current campaign to reduce the consumption of plastic bags. The campaign, being run by the Department of Environmental Quality Promotion, urges people to use cloth bags instead.
Prayut's questions attract ridicule, not input
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 16/06/2017
» Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha's proposed four questions must have many people stumped. What is he thinking? What's the purpose of posing such questions out of the blue?
With river sacrifice, regime yields to Beijing
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 19/05/2017
» The only thing that stands between China and its ambition to co-opt the Mekong as its own is opposition by Thai grassroots activists.
Tale of activist's 'stupidity' hard to swallow
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 24/03/2017
» Chaiyapoom Pasae must have been really stupid. He was a local Lahu boy. He knew where the military had set up their semi-permanent checkpoint. He had with him 2,800 tablets of ya ba, a knife and a hand grenade -- all stuff that could put him in jail.
A fresh chance to boost renewable energy
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 24/02/2017
» Cheers went up at the protest site when it was announced that Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha had promised to "set zero" the coal-fired power plant project in Krabi.
To reform police, let's start with the military
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 27/01/2017
» The Thai police are not in a good mood these days, not after finding unflattering headlines about them plastered around.
Bad sign from climate change sceptic Trump
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 25/11/2016
» So Donald Trump, the soon-to-be American president, is backtracking on his position about climate change.
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.
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.