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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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26 June 2009
Fear of foreigner on the farm
Hands off! The back-breaking rice farming work is only for Thais. If you are a foreigner wanting to invest in farming here, our laws allow you to partake only in the more profitable business of food processing and other agriculture-related investments which require high capital and technology.No, ...
Read this blog post | comments (40)18 June 2009
The South: Consult the locals first
Remember the public's reaction when the idea of setting up a special administrative zone for the Muslim-dominated South was introduced five years ago? The proposal came from former PM Gen Chavalit Yongchaiyudh. And boy, how that was torn to shreds!The criticism stemmed partly from his image problem. ...
Read this blog post | comments (19)11 June 2009
Shocking pix need a call for moral outrage
On Sunday June 7, we were shocked by the photo of actor David Carradine in Thai Rath, the country's biggest and most influential newspaper.The next day, we were left speechless by the photo of a dead teenager, with two gunshot wounds oozing blood on to her barely covered breast in Khaosod, Thai ...
Read this blog post | comments (61)05 June 2009
A living will that allows us to die in peace
When I was little, I used to believe that death was inevitable for everyone else except me. Such is the arrogance of childhood. Now that the person I see in the mirror is a totally different being from that unknowing girl - with each strand of grey hair confirming a step closer to the inevitable - ...
Read this blog post | comments (18)28 May 2009
No turning back on land reform
Looking for good news from trouble-plagued Thailand? Here's one item. An important one: Community land reform is becoming a reality.After years of struggle against death threats from land mafia and jail sentences from the legal system, the landless movement's demands for a more equitable land ...
Read this blog post | comments (16)21 May 2009
Organic farming will save the day
The strong stench from the black concoction never fails to put people off. But for Somboon Daeng-aroon, the foul-smelling black liquid is but a magic potion. And he is very proud of it. It has been five years now since Somboon, a farmer at Tambon Praeg Namdaeng in Samut Songkhram's Amphawa district, ...
Read this blog post | comments (16)10 May 2009
Annihilating ourselves
Last year's Oct 7 crackdown happened during Buddhist Lent, a time for restraint and self-contemplation. This year's violent Red Songkran struck during festivities traditionally reserved for family reunions to celebrate the virtues of thankfulness and gratitude.The sacred Visakha Bucha Day this month ...
Read this blog post | comments (11)23 April 2009
Battling destructive policies
Is there any good news when the country is paralysed by political turmoil and strangled by the global economic meltdown? Is there anyone left that I can talk to, who is not caught in the pro- and anti-Thaksin camps, or not trapped in the ivory tower of political theories and ideological wars?I ...
Read this blog post | comments (20)17 April 2009
The lie is out, now see truth for what it is
Nukid used to be fervent fan of Thaksin Shinawatra. Not any longer."I used to like him because his policies helped us rural folk," explained my household helper, referring to the 30-baht medical scheme and the one-million-baht village fund which are dismissed by his critics as handouts and ...
Read this blog post | comments (122)04 April 2009
The dawning of new realities
Not too long ago, it was an unspoken rule in Thai politics that if you were ousted from the seat of power, you just stayed low, kept your bitterness to yourself, let the dust settle, and you would soon be allowed to return home to enjoy the riches you had accumulated, minus the political power you ...
Read this blog post | comments (17)20 March 2009
University admissions: a tragic mess
Is this a farce or a tragedy? Whatever the answer, it is our children who must suffer from the maddening university admissions system.No one is happy with the poor judgement of the autocratic Council of University Rectors which designed the system and exercises its power through frequent changes ...
Read this blog post | comments (39)13 March 2009
No end in sight to milk corruption
No more zoning regulations for the school milk programme. More UHT milk with a longer lifespan for the kids, instead of pasteurised milk which spoils easily.If we believe these new rules will solve the problem of corruption in the school milk programme while absorbing raw fresh milk from the local ...
Read this blog post | comments (19)22 February 2009
Hope on the hills
The Assembly of the Poor is still alive and well. So is its determination to pressure the government into solving land rights problems. That message was loud and clear when hundreds of villagers staged a protest at Government House recntly. The Assembly of the Poor champions different grassroots ...
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