New Mandala

On Wednesday evening, the exciting new website, Burma Gateway, will be officially launched in Sydney.
As the site continues to grow, and more resources are added, it should become an outstanding resource for those, in Australia and around the world, who are keen to learn more about the Burmese story. An increasing number of Burma-related [...]

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A remarkable little article that describes Hmong resettlement in North America has been published by the Appeal-Democrat, a newspaper from Yuba County, California.
Billy Yang, who is featured in the article, is quoted as saying:
What’s really shocking is that in Laos, children thought the Earth was flat. And I believed it. I never saw the ocean [...]

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Bangkok Pundit – in his continuing efforts to highlight contradictions in the rhetoric surrounding post-coup Thailand – has a nifty little post on Anand Panyarachun’s comments about Western leaders. The way the Adelaide Advertiser has reported the comments, former Prime Minister Anand targets Australia’s leaders who he says are “not Asians yet…[they] have an [...]

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