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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 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 ...
Read this blog post | comments (16)19 July 2010
Grasping at straws
What's in a name? If you are not a close follower of Thailand's civic movements, most of the names on the two national reform committees led by former prime minister Anand Panyarachun and social reformer Prawase Wasi will not mean anything to you.So it would be perfectly understandable if you feel ...
Read this blog post | comments (10)13 July 2010
A milestone for landless farmers
Smiles were all around when Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva welcomed elderly rice farmer Chuay Sitthisunthorn at Government House to inaugurate the newly set up office to support community land ownership.For Grandpa Chuay, it was a dream come true. The threat of landlessness is now over at his ...
Read this blog post | comments (21)06 July 2010
Gender equality cannot wait
The red shirt movement has captured the hearts and minds of the downtrodden nationwide with its fiery rhetoric on double standards and inequality. While a larger number of its followers are women, one of the country's most severe problems - gender inequality and double standards - were never its ...
Read this blog post | comments (32)29 June 2010
Education, angry youths, and political crisis
Amid an ocean of analyses on Thailand's political crisis, our education system emerges as the one of the main culprits.But don't be too quick in making the poorly-paid teachers our scapegoats.If we really believe that our children are our future, we must ask what we have done wrong to give them so ...
Read this blog post | comments (1)29 June 2010
The breaking up of a country?
The month of May was a nightmare for Bangkok. But it was only for a month. For the restive South, where casualties have exceeded 4,000, the Muslim-dominated region remains trapped in a six-year-long nightmare with no end in sight.Some southern Muslims may feel the capital deserves it. After all, ...
Read this blog post | comments (38)31 May 2010
Back to normal, are we?
Normal. How sweet the word sounds, after two weeks of excruciating political tension which culminated in the torching of central Bangkok.Indeed, we have taken our normal lives for granted, complaining no end about the horrendous traffic, the perennial work and money worries, the endless family ...
Read this blog post | comments (21)27 May 2010
Saying ‘good riddance’ is no answer to our problems
If you are in the Thai Facebook social media network, you surely will have seen the video featuring the moving speech of actor Pongpat Wachirabanjong expressing his deep, protective love for His Majesty the King.Becoming an instant talk of the town, the speech has been circulated on social media ...
Read this blog post | comments (9)07 May 2010
Hate speech, free speech, and lese majeste law
Throughout the current political crisis the mainstream mass media has been under fire for playing along with state demonisation of the red shirts, which fans up hatred instead of fostering understanding for peace moves.Indeed, the media must seriously rethink its role in times of conflict. But in a ...
Read this blog post | comments (52)23 April 2010
How many more coffins?
Twenty-five people have died. More than 800 people have been injured. Yet the April 10 violence has not been violent enough to shock us to our senses. With both sides hungry for more blood, there is widespread fear and anxiety about another round of violence. The chilling question: how big must the ...
Read this blog post | comments (78)08 April 2010
There's hope for peace through faith
Malaseng Jehteh believes he has the answer not only for the restoration of peace in the deep South.The village head of Ban Laweng in Tambon Donsai, Pattani province, is also confident that his approach to governing is applicable nationwide.And if national leaders pay attention, he believes it would ...
Read this blog post | comments (22)23 March 2010
No peace and little justice
When will this madness be over? How is this going to end? Why do we have to go through this again and again without any end in sight?Are you asking these questions while watching the March of the Red Shirts, or when human blood was being splattered as a grim warning against what is to come?The ...
Read this blog post | comments (94)16 March 2010
Fighting mars the battle for 'katoey' rights
Beauty-queen glamour and moving oratory have made Yolada Komklong the champion of transwomen in Thailand. Three cheers for that.Indeed, our society needs to accept that there are indeed people who are struggling in bodies that do not fit their innate gender identity. Many need sex reassignment ...
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