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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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08 March 2010
Why we need Bhikkhunis as dhamma teachers
Why should we meditate? There are tons of books out there explaining how meditation can help us cultivate equanimity so we can face external storms without losing our inner balance.In Buddhism, meditation - more specifically insight meditation - is the only way to realise Nature's Law of ...
Read this blog post | comments (27)26 February 2010
And we still call ourselves Buddhists?
It says a lot about our country when the day we chose to expel millions of destitute migrant workers to face violent oppression back in Burma is the same day as Makha Bucha Day.Makha Bucha is the day the Lord Buddha set forth the fundamental principles of his teachings: abstain from all evil, ...
Read this blog post | comments (54)19 February 2010
Suffer the little children
As the country is struggling with seemingly endless political emergencies on a daily basis, it is a cause for alarm that the IQ and development of Thai children have fallen below international standards. According to the Health Department of the Ministry of Public Health, the World Health ...
Read this blog post | comments (27)15 February 2010
English medical school programmes under fire
When there are not enough physicians to serve the people in Thailand and with the serious urban/rural gap in health personnel distribution, it is little wonder why the effort to set up international medical schools to serve wealthy patients from abroad has drawn fierce criticism.According to the ...
Read this blog post | comments (6)08 February 2010
Land security comes first, not money
The rationale is simple enough. If you want the services that are crucial to your well-being, you must be willing to pay for them.This economic reasoning is behind the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), an incentive measure which is being adopted in various parts of the world to convince farmers ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)22 January 2010
Forest eviction plan to steal from the poor
Ulterior political motives aside, the Khao Yai Thiang controversy highlights how draconian central land control, legal impotency and endemic corruption are causing systematic land theft from the poor.But it is a pipedream to hope that the government will use the controversy to clean up the ...
Read this blog post | comments (18)18 December 2009
Time for monks to let go
Now that not many Thai men want to become Buddhist monks, isn't it strange that when women want to be ordained, the answer from the clergy is a fierce, firm "No"?When misconduct by clerics is rampant from top to bottom, isn't it sad that the Council of Elders insists on closing its eyes ...
Read this blog post | comments (52)30 November 2009
Thailand's shocking inequity statistics
How will this political mess end? Will Thaksin Shinawatra finally return to haunt us with his bottomless greed? Or will the old, oppressive system that perpetuates social injustice prevail to suffocate us?Is there any way out of this madness?Ask historian/thinker Nidhi Eeo-seewong, and his answer is ...
Read this blog post | comments (95)20 November 2009
Sangha split opens door for women
When the monastic elders in Thailand were busy with the Wat Sothorn monks' protest two week ago over who would get to be the abbot of their rich temple, their Western counterparts were simultaneously facing a serious split over the ordination of bhikkhuni (female monks).Here in Thailand, we just ...
Read this blog post | comments (15)13 November 2009
Bhikkhuni and Western Sangha split
The late forest monk and meditation master Luang Por Chah was a true visionary.While his peers did not bother with training Western monks, he did. And he did it seriously at his Wat Pah Pong forest monastery in Ubon Ratchathani.Not only that. The far-sighted master also sent his fleet of phra ...
Read this blog post | comments (31)23 October 2009
For a better train service, break the monopoly
Taking a train in Thailand is always a gamble. We know it is going to be late, but how late? Thirty minutes? An hour? The last time we took a train ride on a family holiday, it was four hours late. We were lucky. At least it was only a gamble with time. Now a train ride has become a gamble with ...
Read this blog post | comments (22)16 October 2009
Corrupt police are 'major problem'
When overwhelmed by a barrage of entangled problems, we often let ourselves sink into hopelessness simply because we just don't know where to start.Thailand's money politics, for example. Where to start to undo it?Heavy punishment for vote-buying? But the canvasser system is not working only on the ...
Read this blog post | comments (38)12 October 2009
There's still hope for Thai democracy
If you, too, have lost hope in Thailand's messy politics which is mired in proxy wars driven by the political elite's fiery greed, hatred, revenge and back-door bargaining, head to Kuanru in Songkhla province. It is where Thailand's hope in democracy lies - on the ground.A decade ago, Kuanru was a ...
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