The wife of former Thai Prime Minister Pridi Banomyong, Thanpuying Poonsuk Banomyong, passed away on Saturday. She was 95 years old. Prachatai has some details on her passing.
Readers hoping to learn more about the lives of Poonsuk and Pridi will find the biography on the Pridi Banomyong Institute website helpful. Some relevant photographs are online and a [...]
Thanpuying Poonsuk Banomyong
May 14th, 2007 by Nicholas Farrelly · 4 Comments
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Gross National Happiness down in Thailand
May 14th, 2007 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment
A Thai survey “based on responses from 4,363 people in 22 provinces” gives an overview of happiness in Thailand. The index compiled by the ABAC Poll Research Centre fell from 5.74 in November 2006 to 5.11 in May 2007. The ABAC survey uses a composite ten-point scale where 10 indicates extreme happiness and one is reserved for extreme unhappiness.
The [...]
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Harmony conference at Mahidol
May 14th, 2007 by Nicholas Farrelly · 3 Comments
Mahidol University International College, Thailand, and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, are jointly organising a conference with the theme, “Defining Harmony in Southeast Asia: Competing discourses, challenges and interpretations”. It will be held in Bangkok from 29 November – 1 December 2007. Abstracts are due on 31 June 2007.
The conference announcement [...]
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Sticking to the southern script
May 14th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 32 Comments
Can Thailand’s southern crisis really be understood in terms of cultural and linguistic difference?
This is the question that was left hanging in the air at last weeks ANU-hosted seminar on “The Crisis in Southern Thailand: Cultural Policy, Gender Issues and Reconciliation Prospects“. As the title suggests, the discussion was primarily on cultural issues. Considerable emphasis [...]
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