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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The unlikely tale of the two dead elephants
Things keep getting fishier and fishier at the Kaeng Krachan National Park, following the slaughter of two wild elephants, one burned to cinders and the other left rotting in a field, minus their tusks and sexual organs. Scandalous? Let's look at the news chronologically. Shortly after New Year, two ...
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23 December 2011
Patients ailing without justice for malpractice
The quest for justice is never easy. It is also very expensive. Bang-on Sangchote knows that painful fact first hand. But she has chosen to give up her kidney rather than her fight for justice. An ordinary housewife, Bang-on fought like a tigress when her husband Sanoh became nearly blind and ...
Read this blog post | comments (3)04 November 2011
Drowning in prejudice
External threats usually unite a quarrelling country. That is the rule of thumb, isn’t it? Joint efforts to help ease the suffering of victims in times of natural disaster also usually trigger the best in ourselves, doesn’t it? I used to believe this was the case. I am not so sure any more. If ...
Read this blog post | comments (6)04 October 2011
Nazism in our brainwashed upbringing
Who is not shocked to see teenage girl students happily dressing up in full Nazi regalia, outfitting themselves as Adolf Hitler and SS Guards to celebrate their Sports Day -- totally unaware that they were also celebrating the world's murderers who killed six million Jews in a state-sponsored ...
Read this blog post | comments (16)13 September 2011
A different war in the deep South
There is another kind of war raging in Pattani. It is not the fight for power in the restive South. Nor is it for the locals' right to an ethnic identity. It is the struggle of ordinary fisherfolk to be able to make a living from their seas.Not a tall order, is it? What the Pattani fisherfolk want ...
Read this blog post | comments (2)31 August 2011
Transparency call for new women's fund
Women's rights groups are watching closely the one-province-100-million-baht fund for women's development. And they should. In her policy address, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra kept the women's fund promise she made to the National Council of Women of Thailand, where her elder sister and a ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)24 August 2011
When monks still have the answers
Fed up with rogue monks? Losing hope in ability of the lax and closed clergy to lead the way? Meet Luang Por Ang, Luang Por Chair, and Phra Kru Somsri. All Isan monks. All dedicated to lift the livelihood and spirituality of their villagers. All are living examples of why monks still matter. ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)15 August 2011
Scapegoats in helicopter crashes
When three army helicopters crashed in the space of nine days, killing altogether 17 people in the heart of the Kaeng Krachan jungle along the Thai-Burmese border, a stunned country struggled to understand why.One crash is already a big enough tragedy. But three in a row? On the same mission, in the ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)26 July 2011
Bias against ladyboys adds to hurt
What should you do when your son turns out to be a ladyboy? Ask Dem Jinakul, a photographer at Bangkok Post. His answer would make any transsexual teen green with envy. "Give your child love and acceptance," says Dem emphatically. "It's his life. Your job as a parent is to make ...
Read this blog post | comments (8)01 July 2011
Stop the hazing
Lying face down en masse in the scorching sun. Crawling on one's abdomen. Running until one vomits. Shouting at the top of one's voice for hours to declare love and loyalty to one's university. Like their predecessors, the first-year students at Maha Sarakham University this year had to undergo ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)14 June 2011
Sisters in Buddhist spirituality
Has the clergy's stern frown on female ordination stopped women's determination to pursue a monastic life? If you drop by the Sathira Dhammasathan nunnery-cum-dhamma centre this week, you will realise how the clergy's attempts to keep women down are ineffective and irrelevant. For one whole week ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)14 June 2011
Absurd policy to 'kill off' small schools
This is absurd. To win votes, they promise 15-year free education for all. Yet they will punish poor children in remote areas by closing down their schools and force them to travel long distances to study far from home.We are talking about more than 500,000 children in more than 14,000 small schools ...
Read this blog post | comments (1)01 June 2011
Gender blindness in election policies
A commodity prices guarantee. A farm chemicals subsidy. Flood insurance. Credit cards for farmers. Financial aid for first-home owners. Debt refinancing. Five years' income tax exemption for first jobbers. An increase in the monthly support for the elderly from 500 to 1,000 baht... The list goes ...
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