New Mandala

Further to my post about Boten, in the far north of Laos, Warren Mayes has provided these great shots from early 2006. The first shows Boten on the Lao side of the border.�
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And this is Mohan on the Chinese side, just a kilometre or so to the north. A nice contrast!

I once stayed a night [...]

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A bomb crater sits among rice fields. Vieng Say District, Laos
As I rode my bicycle to Vieng Say, I passed an old man pushing his own bicycle up the road. He muttered, “It hurts”. I stopped to ask him if I could help. He smiled and declined. I noticed that one of his legs was [...]

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From the Nation this insight into the mind of the junta and the ideological role of sufficiency economy:�
The prime minister and the chief Army officer have both told us that we are facing a “new kind of threat”. It sounds frightening. It is supposed to wake us up from our complacency, and it surely has sparked [...]

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