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Sugar tax a sweet and sour dish
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 02/05/2016
» One of my favourite songs is I Want Some Sugar in My Bowl, a very sultry piece of music sung by the late Nina Simone. The music reminds me that humans cannot live without sweet indulgences in life because we need sweetness deep down in our souls.
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Now we can see the forests and the trees
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 25/04/2016
» The mercury is rising and there is nothing we can do about it. So we hide in our rooms keeping cool to the sound of electricity-guzzling air conditioners and try to ponder the reasons for the heat exceeding 44C.
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Drought, fishing scandals and winding roads
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/12/2015
» In the past year, environmental disasters once again proved how much of an impact they have on everyone's lives: the air we breathe (the haze in the South, blown over from Indonesia); the water we use (the contentious Chao Phraya roads); the lights we see (the coal-fired power plants); the ground beneath our feet (the gold mining scandals); the food we eat (the fishery disputes). In all of this, local communities and the rural poor feel the heat and the fire more than Bangkok's urbanites and they're the people who keep showing public resistance against environmental problems and the depletion of natural resources, despite the grip of military rule.
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Sustaining environmental activism
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/10/2015
» The demography of environmental activists in Thailand has shifted. The pioneering generation, those inspired by the life and death of the late Sueb Nakhasathien, the forest official who committed suicide in what is believed to be a protest against bureaucratic hopelessness, have started retiring, or feel too tired and have moved into other fields.
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Water scarcity calls for nationwide change
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 03/10/2015
» As the threat of prolonged drought becomes imminent, questions mount over whether the country needs new water management in order to better deal with the “new normal” of water scarcity.
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Through the haze
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 30/09/2015
» For almost two months, Southeast Asian countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and some parts of southernmost Thailand are affected by haze -- the result of forest clearance for palm oil plantations in Indonesia, the world's top palm oil producer. Since palm oil production has become a major business in this region in the past two decades -- in Malaysia and Thailand as well -- haze has become a growing problem.
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At our fished ends
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/09/2015
» With 2,600km of coastline, Thailand has always been blessed by its vast supply of seafood. But when it comes to knowledge about the supposed abundance of our sea, most of us are clueless.
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Waiting to exhale
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 24/07/2015
» The work schedule was gruelling: he had three days to take portraits of 200 villagers. For photographer Roengrit Kongmuang, the task was compounded by the simple act of breathing.
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Seafood lovers' dilemma
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 07/07/2015
» Over a month ago, I bought some fresh seafood, comprised of shrimps and mantis shrimps and took it to a party at my friend's house.
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Looking to our neighbours on reform
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 29/05/2015
» Last week, Indonesia blew up a total of 41 foreign fishing boats that were found illegally operating in its waters. Two of the sunken boats were vessels carrying Thai flags. Others were from the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and China.
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