New Mandala

New Mandala readers will be shocked and saddened to hear about the sudden death of Ananda Rajah. Ananda died suddenly at the National University of Singapore last week. Ananda and I share the same academic lineage having studied for our PhD’s at the Australian National University under the supervision of the late Gehan Wijeyewardene. I [...]

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While Thailand will have no popular elections for the foreseeable future, the Surayud regime’s public relations campaign for all things “sufficiency economy” has now gone to the polls – to an ABAC poll!
MCOT news has announced (my emphasis added) that: 
Over 88 per cent of the respondents said in a recent poll that they were enjoying life [...]

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Clean, well-equipped and free: health care during the revolutionary struggle 
“Phu hang mii bo khaw khuk, phuu thuk bo khaw hoong mo” (the rich don’t go to prison, and the poor don’t go to hospital). Hung mentioned this saying as we walked towards his mother’s village. I had hired Hung that day to take me to [...]

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