New Mandala

Ever wondered what it is like to give birth in Isan? Well, here is your chance to find out.
This beautifully illustrated volume offers a rare study of Isan-Thai customs and belief associated with pregnancy and birth and how they have changed over almost half a century. It discusses the function of various birth rites while [...]

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From 2004 to 2006, Thailand’s poverty headcount fell by almost 2 percentage points (over 1 million people) with most of the reduction occurring in rural areas. This trend is expected to have continued in 2007 and early 2008. But there is evidence that the urban poor, as well as the rural poor engaged in fishing [...]

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The latest edition of Forced Migration Review (published by the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford) is now available online.  Anybody with concern for the human tragedies resulting from Burma’s civil conflicts will find this volume rewards a download.  All 80 pages are available here.  Readers hoping to get a taste of what is [...]

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One of the aims of this volume is to suggest that sufficiency economy does not just apply to the “remote agricultural sector” but also to contemporary business management. So why did they put such an agrarian photo on the cover? Probably because a photo of the king striding through a cement factory, shopping mall or luxury [...]

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