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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.
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.
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.
NCPO underestimates activists' strength
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 18/03/2016
» Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, things get worse.
Mae Wong dam, cable car debates rear their ugly heads
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 04/03/2016
» Why am I not surprised that someone has proposed that two development projects be revived, again?
Environment under Section 44 attack
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/02/2016
» Ever since the military took power, the environment has come under constant assault on the pretext of protecting national security and accelerating national economic development.
Emissions target begs a clear explanation
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/12/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha pledged at the Paris Climate Conference to slash Thailand's greenhouse gas emissions by 20-25% within 2030.
Waste treatment alone cannot purify putrid canal water
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 06/11/2015
» When one looks at the state of Bangkok canals today, it is hard to imagine that they were once filled with clear, clean water teeming with aquatic life.
Anti-plastic bag campaign needs legal teeth to succeed
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 09/10/2015
» I can say with confidence that most of us have stashed away surplus plastic bags at home and we don't know what to do with them, besides dumping them together with other trash.
Villagers' perseverance paying off in mining battle
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 25/09/2015
» Something extraordinary happened on Tuesday at Government House.