New Mandala

“…a harsher, incumbency coup may be in the offing. It would be a coup staged in the same direction with similar objectives, but with a new leadership and tougher methods and means. Another coup in 2007 would almost certainly delay the already contentious and problematic constitution-drafting and election timetables, and could become a source of [...]

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Last week I was talking to a woman in a rural village in Chiang Mai province. She had eloquent views on the subject of sufficiency economy. For her it meant “khon jon yuu pen khon jon, khon ruay yuu pen khon ruay” (the poor stay poor, the rich stay rich). To this she added an [...]

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