The Australian National University’s National Thai Studies Centre is hosting a seminar later this week that will be of interest to many New Mandala readers. The details are:
Post Coup Politics in Thailand: The Return of Bureaucratic Governance?
Dr Surin Maisrikrod
Venue: Coombs extension lecture theatre 1.04, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Date: Thursday 7 June, 2007 [...]
Thai politics seminar at ANU
June 5th, 2007 by Nicholas Farrelly · 7 Comments
Tags: Conferences · Coup · Surayud regime · Thailand
The ant analogy
June 5th, 2007 by Nicholas Farrelly · 3 Comments
“An ant colony is a super-organism, which has inherited this amazing behaviour from generation to generation for a hundred million years…If Thais perform our duty and hold on to morality as firmly as do the ants, our country will be filled with happiness and development.”
- Privy councillor Amphon Senanarong as quoted at Bangkok Recorder. More [...]
Tags: Sufficiency Economy · Thailand
Stranger than fiction?
June 5th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 8 Comments
From the New York Times:
9 Arrested in Plan to Oust Laos Government
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: June 5, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4 — Federal agents raided more than a dozen homes and businesses in California and arrested nine men on Monday, breaking up what they said was a plot to overthrow the government of Laos. [...]
Tags: Laos