Readers may be keen to know that Thailand’s Royal Institute is organising a conference with the theme “National Language Policy: Language Diversity for National Unity”. Among many other topics it hopes to include material on “Language policy and socio-economic theory (with special emphasis on the Self-Sufficiency Economic Theory of His Majesty King Bhumibol of Thailand)”.
According [...]
Royal language conference in Bangkok
January 25th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 5 Comments
Tags: Conferences · Tai Studies · Thailand
Manau festival in Myitkyina
January 25th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 4 Comments
Earlier in the month I attended the Myitkyina Manau festival commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the establishment of northern Burma’s Kachin State. Over the coming days I expect to post a range of material from the festival that will give readers a taste of this major cultural, political and economic event.
If there are specific issues that New [...]
Tags: Burma · Kachin State · Manau
Many voices on New Mandala
January 25th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 2 Comments
In recent days an individual has been sending a large number of comments to New Mandala under a number of prominent names. Usually, I would just ignore and delete these types of outbursts. However, the general state of politics in Thailand today means that some readers may find the content and tone of these messages [...]
Tags: Online Issues · Thailand