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When I was in Japan recently I met a young researcher from Kyoto University, Ikuko Tazaki, who has been working with the Karen in northern Thailand. She recently published a paper (in Japanese) on the dynamics of Karen rice farming in relation to the urban migration of village youth. This sort of solid economic anthropology [...]

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Via the TLC list, Thammasat University’s Professor Charnvit Kasetsiri has launched a new campaign to bring back Siam.  The petition is online here.  At the time of posting it had only three signatures.  This follows last year’s failed effort (which garnered 1279 signatures) to use “Siam” in the new constitution.

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Over the past couple of weeks the world has been trying to watch what is going on in Tibet.  It was the biggest global “guns on streets” story of the month of March.Â
And now, in a footnote to the Chinese government’s wide-ranging crackdown on dissidents, the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) has handed two Tibetan activists back to [...]

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