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Holiday inn Arlington

May 7th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 19 Comments

 
One of New Mandala’s “dedicated lurkers” has sent me the following announcment about the Conference on Thailand-U.S. Relations, to be held at the Holiday Inn, Arlington 9-10 May. I understand that the conference was due to be held in September last year but was called off as a result of the coup. It will be interesting to [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Coup · Thailand

Cambodia’s oil curse?

May 7th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 7 Comments

Today’s Sydney Morning Herald carries a good story on Cambodia’s oil find. Here is an extract:
Still clawing its way out of the ruins of its brutal past, Cambodia has come face to face with an extraordinary new future: it seems to have struck oil. The oil giant Chevron says it has found potentially huge deposits off [...]

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Tags: Cambodia