In 2006, I made a number of posts highlighting the situation of Rohingya asylum seekers who are being detained on Nauru by the Australian government. Today - for the first time in a long time – there has been some media coverage of their plight. The Age has a long report on the men and their [...]
Rohingyas on Nauru, part IV
February 16th, 2007 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment
Tags: Burma · Trans-Border Issues
Mekong Post
February 16th, 2007 by Book Zone, Guest Contributor · 2 Comments
Mekong Post is a bi-monthly journal of life in Chiang Khong District in Northern Thailand. The journal takes a down-to-earth approach to the lives of ordinary people living along the northern reaches of the Mekong, and highlights the importance of the river for their lives. It began publication in early 2006, and the National Library [...]
Tags: Book Zone · Publications · The Mekong · Trans-Border Issues
Populism
February 16th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 5 Comments
In recent times there has been a lot of discussion of the “populist” nature of the Thaksin’s government’s policies. Yesterday I came across this description of the main elements of “populism.” It comes from Kevin Hewison’s account of localism in Reforming Thai Politics (edited by Duncan McCargo). Hewison is drawing on the work of Kitching in Development [...]
Tags: Sufficiency Economy · Thailand · Thaksin