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Light relief

June 1st, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 13 Comments

A joke told by Chaiwat Satha-anand at a recent meeting in Bangkok:
A student is looking on the Reference shelves in a Bangkok university’s library for a copy of Thailand’s Constitution.  She needs it to complete her term paper.  Not able to find any such copies on the shelves, she proceeds to the Help Desk to [...]

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Tags: Coup · Thailand

Catchment complexity

June 1st, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 1 Comment


Two weeks ago I had a one-day trip to Prachin Buri, a couple of hours drive to the north-east of Bangkok (thanks to Man and Pim for taking me there). I was lucky enough to meet with members of a local group (DOF – Development Activity of Citizen Forum) working on integrated watershed management in the Prachin [...]

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Tags: Thailand