Here is a useful brief overview of issues along the Salawin River, produced by the Southeast Asia Rivers Network. Some may think that framing the issues in ethnic terms is a strategically useful move. I’m not convinced. (For a previous comment on a related publication see this post.)
Salawin
December 8th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 1 Comment
Tags: Burma · China · Trans-Border Issues
Thailand’s ‘‘Good Coup’’: the Fall of Thaksin, the Military and Democracy
December 8th, 2007 by Nicholas Farrelly · 6 Comments
The Journal of Contemporary Asia has just published a special issue edited by Michael K. Connors and Kevin Hewison. The issue is titled - Thailand’s ‘‘Good Coup’’: the Fall of Thaksin, the Military and Democracy.
It includes articles by Thongchai Winichakul, Oliver Pye and Wolfram Schaffar, Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker, Andrew Walker, Somchai Phathararathananunth, Ukrist Pathmanand, Michael [...]
Tags: Coup · Publications · Thailand
Rohingya to settle in Australia
December 8th, 2007 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment
Very long-term readers of New Mandala may recall my posts starting in August 2006 about the Rohingya asylum-seekers the Australian government incarcerated on Nauru.
According to a report in today’s Sydney Morning Herald they will now be allowed to settle in Australia. Some sense seems to have finally prevailed in the way Australia deals with “unauthorised arrivals”. [...]
Tags: Burma · Trans-Border Issues