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Con artists fleece the stateless
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 17/10/2012
» Who in their right mind would pay anyone any money for "world citizen" cards which promise the card bearers the right to travel anywhere in the country and around the world without ID cards and passports?
Poor reds lose faith as hopes for homes fade
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/10/2012
» 'I'm a red. Totally red," declared Wannee, a Bangkok slum dweller who was among the protesters rallying in front of Government House yesterday.
At sea in illegal fishing battle
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/10/2012
» It's crunchy. It's delicious. It's deep fried baby mackerel, a popular calcium-boosting snack that is quickly annihilating mackerel stocks in the Gulf of Thailand.
2,600 years on, we're stuck fast in a moral rut
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/08/2012
» Two thousand and six hundred years ago today, the Buddha gave his first sermon which was to become the cornerstone of Buddhist teachings: Avoid extremism, understand the reality of suffering, its nature and its cessation, and then follow the middle path of eight practices to free oneself of suffering.
Dropouts from a failed school system
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/09/2012
» Meet Bank, a school dropout. When he became bored with herding cattle in his village in Ubon Ratchathani, he agreed to toil in a small garage of my car mechanic to learn the ropes. He was 16 then. After only three years, the teenager is now earning 15,000 baht a month, which is equivalent to the salaries of new university graduates, and dreams of setting up his own business in his hometown.
Old-world bigotry is a trap for us all
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/09/2012
» If we Thais think the anger in the Muslim world against the incendiary video insulting the Prophet Mohammed is not our problem, then we need to think again.
This is racism, not Buddhism
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/09/2012
» How do you feel when you see rows of stern-looking Buddhist monks marching through the streets in full force to call for violent treatment of the downtrodden?
The real enemy of our forests
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/08/2012
» Kanya Pankiti's rubber smallholding in Trang's Ratsada district in the Khao Bantad mountain region is not an ordinary one.
Violence won't save forests
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/08/2012
» When maverick forest chief Damrong Pidech ordered a lighting attack on a plush resort in the Tap Lan National Park by thousands of fully armed men last week, he was hailed as a national hero by the media and forest conservation NGOs.
Temple danger clear as Jobs talk gets crazy
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/08/2012
» Should we just dismiss it as crazy when a Buddhist monk claims he knows about the late Steve Jobs's afterlife and that Jobs's spirit is now blessed with a sacred crystal ball inside his body?