Yesterday one of our readers wrote (in relation to my appalling lack of intellectual rigor!):
The most objective and fact-based analysis of any of Mr. Thaksin’s programs that I’ve seen was a British Medical Journal report about the inevitable insolvency of the 30-B health care program – an outcome entirely predictable based on health financing trials [...]
Evaluating the 30 baht health care program
February 6th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 13 Comments
Why do we even call it ‘Thai’-land?
February 6th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 9 Comments
A New Mandala reader has referred me to one of the latest statements by the Asian Human Rights Commission which documents ongoing human rights abuses in southern Thailand. He writes:
In the South, they’re chaining Thai citizens to dogs and burning their genitals with cigarettes! I type that and want to cry. Why do we even call it [...]
Tags: Southern Thailand · Thailand
Sufficiency Supreme Command Headquarters
February 6th, 2007 by Nicholas Farrelly · 17 Comments
“A series of seminars on His Majesty the King-initiated Sufficiency Economy Theory is going to take place this month, as the Supreme Command Headquarters (SCH) embarks on a mission to create the right understanding about this concept.The Council for National Security (CNS) has tasked SCH with the mission.
“We have worked on the promotion of the [...]
Tags: Sufficiency Economy · Surayud regime · Thailand