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Retaining royal legacy after final farewell
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/10/2017
» As the final farewell to our revered monarch draws closer, the outpouring of public grief for the "Father of the Nation" is reaching its height. The sense of loss is immense. So is fear and trepidation about the future.
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Klity Karen wait for justice after legal victory
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/09/2017
» After 19 years of struggling for justice, the country's biggest lead poisoning lawsuit finally ended early this week with the polluters punished at long last. Unfortunately, the victims' decades-long suffering is far from over.
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No poison paradise for toxic farm chemicals
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/09/2017
» The refusal to ban two highly toxic farm chemicals by the Department of Agriculture (DOA) is not only scandalous, it makes the agency complicit in a crime against public health and the environment.
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Racism blinds monks to Rohingya plight
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/10/2017
» An abbot at a Buddhist temple in Bangladesh has a very simple reason for helping the Rohingya Muslims who fled for dear life from the atrocities they faced in Myanmar.
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Playing ugly legal tricks to serve agro giants
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/10/2017
» Most Thais still engage in agriculture. Yet the agriculture officialdom chooses to serve agro giants, not farmers. This is a travesty.
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When power trumps people and forests
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/08/2017
» After decades of violent forest evictions, the Forest Department has announced it is making a U-turn to embrace the forest dwellers as partners in forest conservation. If you think this is too good to be true, you're absolutely correct.
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Stop the racist monks before it's too late
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 07/09/2017
» Will the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state stoke tensions between Buddhists and Muslims in the region? Definitely.
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Women are not simply walking vaginas
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 31/08/2017
» If you think it's shameful for a poet and academic to ridicule former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra for fleeing the country by reducing her to a vagina in their spoonerism poems that went viral on social media, wait until you read the one penned by a monk encouraging gang rape.
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Punish corruption, not migrant workers
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/07/2017
» What does it take to effectively regulate migrant labour? A tougher law? The Labour Ministry believes so. So does the military government. Hence the draconian decree on migrant labour management -- and the subsequent red faces all around.
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Ministry's power trip bad for people's health
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/07/2017
» If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Public health authorities are not paying heed to these cautionary words however, because their plan to fix the National Health Security Act is not about how to better serve the 49 million people under universal healthcare coverage. It's about their own power.
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