Bangkok Post: Opinion

Friday, November 23, 2012

Honour your maid, fight for women's rights

By Sanitsuda Ekachai

Charity begins at home. So do women's rights and gender equality. That's why who is doing the dishes at home is for me not a petty personal issue, but a political one. But whenever I raise this topic _ that a couple's equal share of household chores is an an indicator of gender equality in ...

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• 25 September 2009

  A society on the verge of colliding

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  How will this messy politics eventually end? When will these proxy wars between the anti- and pro-Thaksin camps be over?This question is on the mind of every Thai but few dare offer an answer. Not that they cannot see the writing on the wall. Often, they simply want to avoid confronting what looks ...

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• 21 September 2009

  Compassion cuts through the racism

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  A migrant boy and his paper plane dream. A hilltribe girl and her winning name for a baby panda. Many may see their struggle to get due recognition as stories of ethnic discrimination. And rightly so. But theirs is also a story of hope for change.The public was furious when the news broke that a ...

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• 11 September 2009

  Unemployed? Become a monk!

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  It is definitely a good intention. It is also definitely clear that the Ecclesiastical Council's decision to help unemployed men by turning them into monks will be plagued with problems.To help ease the economic stress, the clerical council recently ordered all temples to ordain unemployed men so ...

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