A scientific team, consisting of members of the Gibbon Conservation Alliance based at Zurich University and the Kunming Institute of Zoology, as well as staff members of the Nangunhe National Nature Reserve, carried out a survey in all Chinese forests reported to support white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) during the last 20 years.
The species was last [...]
The white-handed gibbon and science in Southeast Asia
May 20th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 2 Comments
Tags: Asian Studies · China · Research Notes · Yunnan
Samak’s talents!
May 20th, 2008 by Book Zone, Guest Contributor · 32 Comments
Samak Sunthonwet: nayokratthamontri khon thi 25 (Samak Sunthonwet: the 25th Prime Minister) (2008) by Thanomsak Chirayusawat (ISBN: 9789747814514). This modest volume provides useful coverage of Samak’s life, up to his current success. It includes some interesting detail on his early life, his professional and private life, the beginning and progress of his political career, and various achievements and [...]
Tags: Book Zone · Samak · Thailand
“Coup de blogs”: Gordon Brown on “people power” and Burma
May 20th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 2 Comments
The Prime Minister said that in the internet age a reclusive country like Burma, also known as Myanmar, can no longer remain hidden away from the world.
“Direct people power is going to be a force not just for individual countries but for foreign policy as well,” Mr Brown told a conference organised by Google in [...]
Tags: Burma · Cyclone Nargis · Online Issues