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Samaneri snubbed on Women's Day
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/03/2015
» Imagine you were offered a national award for your social work and ended up being humiliated at the presentation ceremony because you are a female monk.
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PM's absolute power no land woes cure-all
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/04/2015
» Anand Duangruenkaew has every reason to be happy. For two decades, Anand and thousands of farm families in tambon Mae Tha in Chiang Mai's Mae On district have been fighting for their land rights with forest officials. Now they can go to sleep without fear of arrest and forced eviction.
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Local control of education empowers us
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/02/2015
» Who should decide whether schools can install condom vending machines on their premises? The headmasters? The parents? The communities? The kids? Or should it be a joint decision by all parties?
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Martial law a nightmare for the have-nots
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 18/02/2015
» Reform was the buzzword during anti-Thaksin demonstrations that led to the May 22 coup. Reform was also the military junta's promise to the people after its power seizure. So what's happening now on the reform front nine months down the line?
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Land 'gift' to the poor is anything but
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/12/2014
» The Prayut government has announced that it will allocate 53,000 rai of state land to poor, landless farmers as a present to celebrate New Year. Time to celebrate? Not so fast.
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Raw power won't silence forest people
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/11/2014
» Right after the May 22 coup, the junta vowed to kick-start land reform and help those who have no land. But after the junta's promise, a wave of forest crackdowns was launched with a vengeance.
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Immigrants hold the key to our success
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/11/2014
» Ongto, 11, speaks fluent Thai and Burmese. His classmate Thanapol speaks fluent Thai and Khmer. These boys and some 300,000 migrant children could be our most valuable assets, given our country's aim to boost its economic presence in the region. But our deep-rooted ethnic prejudices suggest this is not to be.
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'Little people' prove change is possible
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/12/2014
» Buckets of fresh blue sea crabs and transparent sea prawns bigger than our palms are among a myriad of huge catches that are the reason for the giant grins on the sun-drenched faces of the people who live in a fishing community.
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Bridge saga shows public still left out
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/09/2014
» When the country's longest wooden bridge in Kanchanaburi's Sangkhla Buri district collapsed last year from torrential rains, the locals who had built the bridge wanted to fix it themselves. No, said the governor.
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Forest agency rhetoric hurts the landless
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 17/09/2014
» Because of the pouring rain it was difficult to say whether there were tears on the faces of the forest "encroachers" in Krabi's Plaipraya district as they faced a crackdown by about 800 armed personnel on Monday.
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