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Back to buddhism's basics in sri lanka
B Magazine, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/05/2013
» 'Ayu Bowan! May you live a long life!" When you hear this greeting, which is often accompanied by a gesture similar to a Thai wai, you know you are in Sri Lanka, a lush green tropical island with an ancient culture.
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Public health pioneer ousted for big pharma
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 22/05/2013
» What do you do to the man who helped you win a landslide election through pioneering the 30-baht universal healthcare scheme?
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Labour Day offers little to millions
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 01/05/2013
» By law, domestic worker Banjong Wilaisri can take a break with paid leave today.
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'New' top-down policies ignore plight of poor
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/05/2013
» Twenty-five years on, Sompong Wiangjand's fight to decommission the Pak Moon Dam _ destroyer of the Moon River ecosystem and the livelihoods of thousands of families _ is far from over.
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Army must keep its pledge to end boot camp violence
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/04/2013
» How are new conscripts being taught military discipline? In not one but two YouTube videos that went viral last week, the public was outraged to see privates being repeatedly kicked and slapped in the face and trampled hard in the back and torso as punishment for disobedience.
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Teen girls need more than a pill to gain freedom
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/04/2013
» After reading about the decision by a court in the United States to allow teenage girls under 17 to buy morning-after pills over the counter, I decided to ask my teenage daughter if she knew about emergency contraceptives.
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Decentralise to desensitise in rural South
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 06/02/2013
» They wanted to help. That was why a group of rice farmers from Sing Buri and Suphan Buri ignored their fears and travelled to the restive South to help their southern Muslim peers revive their long-abandoned rice fields.
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Nets and their ruthless grasp
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 13/03/2013
» Last month, environmentalist Banjong Nasae created a Facebook petition asking billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont and his agro-giant CP to stop buying "trash fish" caught by environmentally destructive trawlers to make animal feed. It attracted more than 30,000 "Likes" and 4,000 "Shares" in a few weeks.
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Central thai cultural melting pot serves up delights
B Magazine, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 17/03/2013
» In a mission to spotlight Thailand's cultural diversity through culinary arts, a group of foodies led by former prime minister Anand Panyarachun were recently in Kanchanaburi province's Sangkhla Buri district on the Thai-Myanmar border.
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Crushing royal critics feels so un-Buddhist
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 20/03/2013
» A decade or so ago, an official letter of warning from the Police Special Branch Division landed on my desk. It was about an article by a physician-turned-monk entitled "How the Buddha died" in the former Outlook section I was working on back then.
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