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Honour your maid, fight for women's rights
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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Category: Opinion
24 December 2010
Do not use the grass roots for political ends
People's Council. Land reform. Community land ownership. Progressive taxation for social justice. Political decentralisation. Welfare state. Mention those terms four decades ago and you'd have risked being labelled a communist, thrown into jail, or made to disappear forever. Not now. All those ...
Read this blog post | comments (2)17 December 2010
Education woes
Mention any problem in our country - political, economic or social - and you can bet on it that someone will strongly assert that education is the answer.I'd like to believe that, too.But the reality is not that simple, particularly when our education system is actually in a deep mess.True, Thailand ...
Read this blog post | comments (4)26 November 2010
Pregnant and persecuted
If Labour Minister Chalermchai Sri-on has his way, all pregnant migrant workers will be deported to their home countries.What would you do if you were one of these migrant women?Imagine, when you have little bargaining power to ensure protected sex with your partner. Imagine, when life is dominated ...
Read this blog post | comments (2)05 November 2010
Flood relief without terrible singing
Guess what's missing while our country's being hit by the worst floods in living memory? Three hints: TV, money and the terrible singing of big shots.That's right. It's those televised fund-raising stints sponsored by the government whenever we've been hit by major inundations or any other natural ...
Read this blog post | comments (5)26 October 2010
Migrant workers' on-going fight for legal rights
The days of fear and submission are over for Eh Mon and some other 900 migrant workers from Burma. An ethnic Shan woman held on tightly to her passport and work permit as she left a factory in Khon Kaen for another plant in Samut Sakhon province."I don't know what the work situation is like ...
Read this blog post | comments (1)13 October 2010
Two shining beacons of hope
Feeling fed up with the rife misconduct of rogue monks? For a glimmer of hope, meet Phra Maha Supap Buddhaviriyo, abbot of Na Kham forest monastery in Kalasin province.Losing hope about getting out of suffocating debt? Meet Granny Khai, a farmer with only a Prathom Two education whose debt relief ...
Read this blog post | comments (10)24 September 2010
Rugged route to nirvana
On one side is Thailand's famous meditation master. On the other is the country's famous dharma book writer who used to be his closest disciple. Up until the recent controversy that has pitched one against the other, both commanded an impeccable public image. Phra Pramote Pamojjo is the monk of the ...
Read this blog post | comments (6)13 September 2010
Youth violence
Reduce the age of minors from 18 to 15 years, so we can send the delinquents to jail sooner. Shut down the vocational schools, which have failed to rein in rogue students from causing public harm through street violence. Punish the parents also, for failing to keep their children in line.When a ...
Read this blog post | comments (17)08 September 2010
Sexual double standards
There are times when it is not just a non-issue, but it becomes your fault if you start to question it.If you feel offended by your boss' obscene jokes, for example, it is because you lack a sense of humour. If you are uncomfortable with his suggestive look, lewd comment about your appearance, and ...
Read this blog post | comments (14)30 August 2010
Desperate for help on the home front
Ask any middle-class working mother what her biggest headache is and chances are that it is her exhausting quest for the right maid.Ask what she wants most to ease the demands of home-vs-work and the answer most probably will be the same: the right maid. Or any maid at all.In a culture where women ...
Read this blog post | comments (4)24 August 2010
A tiny victory against ethnic prejudice
For a country deeply mired in the myth of cultural homogeneity, the recent cabinet resolution on the indigenous Karen offers a glimmer of hope that the brick wall of ethnic prejudice is starting to crack.I am talking about the Abhisit government's cabinet resolution on Aug 3, which recognises the ...
Read this blog post | comments (16)09 August 2010
How we bully our migrant workers
So we want migrant workers from Burma to be legal with passports and all, yet we still want them to submit to our old oppressive ways, is that it?If not, then why have we refused to give legal migrant workers driving licences - on the grounds that they still pose a threat to national security?The ...
Read this blog post | comments (36)26 July 2010
It's always about income, never ecology
Are they saviours? Or are they ecological monsters in the making? No questions were asked. There were only high hopes when a swarm of African wasps was released in Khon Kaen over the weekend in a bid to save Thailand's cassava export industry from the pestilence of mealybugs.Agricultural officials ...
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