New Mandala readers who closely follow the Burmese political scene may benefit from having a looking at a recently announced website. Called Burma Review, it carries a number of long analytical pieces on current issues – including some significant commentary on the United Nations Security Council’s role in Burma.
The website also welcomes contributions. To my eye, it looks like it [...]
New Burma blog
January 3rd, 2007 by Nicholas Farrelly · 5 Comments
Tags: Burma · Online Issues
Another opportunity for Okas
January 3rd, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 11 Comments
New Mandala readers may recall my earlier post about Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) dark horse Okas Tepalakul. Okas, a car dealer from Chachoengsao province (and classmate of coup supremo Sonthi) gained the most votes from members of the National People’s Assembly (NPA).
In the latest development the junta has announced its selection of 100 CDA members (from [...]
Tags: Surayud regime · Thailand
Thaksin and the occult
January 3rd, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 3 Comments
Anthropologist Charles Keyes has published a paper on “The Destruction of a Shrine to Brahma in Bangkok and the Fall of Thaksin Shinawatra: The Occult and the Thai Coup in Thailand of September 2006.” The paper can be downloaded from the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. Here is the [...]
Tags: Coup · Publications · Thailand · Thaksin