New Mandala

The Nation has a post on one of its blogs about a recent overseas trip undertaken by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.  There are lots of pictures and, now, a good many comments on the original post.  It all makes for interesting reading.

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The Asia Research Centre at the London School of Economics has organised a roundtable discussion on Burma.  The details are:
Discussion: Recent events in Burma 
Speakers:
Dr. Jurgen Haacke, LSE
Dr. Gustaaf Houtman, Anthropology Today
Thuyein Kyaw-Zaw, BBC World Service, Burma Section
Professor Robert H. Taylor (Emeritus), SOAS
Chair: Professor John Sidel, LSE
4-6pm, 16 October 2007
Room S221, London School of Economics
Recent events in Burma [...]

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Today, The Jakarta Post’s correspondent in (of all places) ”Tachileik” has reported that “Myanmar’s ruling junta have detained five generals and more than 400 soldiers for disobeying orders to shoot and beat monks and other activists who took part in recent protests in Yangon”.  There are few details in the article but it does go some way towards clarifying some [...]

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[Song Kinh is a Singaporean writer who lives in Northern Thailand.] 
There is no doubt that she had aged… and not well.  The tin roof is rusty and festooned with debris. The colonnades are cracked, and the rendering fallen in places to reveal the low fired red brick beneath. But it is still as elegant a [...]

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Irrespective of how much opium production has really contracted, the GMS remains a frontrunner in the global narcotics trade. In the opium eradication era, regional drug networks have found respite in chemicals comprising both basic materials and final products. The [Greater Mekong Subregioin's] strategic developmental position in between two industrial giants is being exploited for [...]

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