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Some stay organic
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/08/2012
» When the government pays almost 50 per cent more than the domestic market price for "every single grain" farmers produce, they naturally pump farm chemicals into their paddy fields to push up yields and grow as much rice as they can. Not Somboon Daeng-aroon, however.
Myanmar's chance to help Rohingya
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/06/2012
» Is the sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Rakhine state threatening the nascent democracy in Myanmar? That is the question the world is asking.
This very fishy business
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/07/2012
» What do you do when big trawlers violate the law, annihilate the seabed with their destructive fishing gear, and wipe out marine life from our coastal seas?
Insane uni entrance
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/07/2012
» GAT. PAT. GPAX. Onet. SAT. CU-ATT. TU-GET. These acronyms used to be meaningless gibberish to me. Now they are making my life hell.
Parents can't shield good kids from all the bad
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/07/2012
» How did you feel when you read in the paper yesterday about the death of a university student who cut short her life because she was unhappy with how her cosmetic surgery turned out?
Migrant mum plan a killer
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/06/2012
» If Labour Minister Padermchai Sasomsop's plan to send pregnant migrant workers home becomes a reality, he simply cannot escape being condemned for having blood on his hands.
Islamic scholar gave Buddhist point to ponder
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/06/2012
» I have just returned from Turkey, one of the world's most beautiful countries. What has stayed deeply in my mind, however, is not the country's picture-perfect postcard beauty, but its people, its modern take on Islam and a host of questions for my own country.
Change will only come from the bottom up
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 05/04/2012
» Constant threats of violence from the divisive, colour-coded politics. Endless bloodshed in the restive South. Fierce resistance against decentralisation from officialdom. Politicians of all shades paying lip service to political reform. An authoritarian education system. Explosive popular resentment against disparity and social injustice.
Crackdown on forest dwellers sheer injustice
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 17/05/2012
» Amnuay Sangkaew believed her farmland in the Bantad mountain region of Trang province was finally safe from eviction threats now that her forest village is under the government's community land ownership programme.
Foreign land grab threat not just an illusion
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/05/2012
» Remember the news three years ago about some Saudi sheikhs trying to buy up paddy fields in central Thailand to ensure a steady rice supply for their oil-rich but food-scarce countries?