For the last three weeks, the Voice of America Burmese Service has run an interview series that has attracted many interested listeners.
The cause of their interest has been a former officer of Myanmar’s disbanded Defense Services Intelligence agency, Major Aung Lin Htut. In 2005 while Aung Lin Htut was working as deputy chief in the [...]
Does Than Shwe have anything to fear from international law?
June 13th, 2008 by Square Table, Guest Contributor · 14 Comments
Tags: Burma · Cyclone Nargis · Square Table
JSEAS special issue on Burma is out now
June 13th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 80 Comments
The new issue of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies is out. The umbrella for this batch of articles is “Communities of interpretation and the construction of modern Myanmar” and there are contributions from Michael Aung-Thwin, Robert H. Taylor, U Chit Hlaing, Juliane Schober, Bob Hudson and Terry Lustig, and Maitrii Aung-Thwin.
New Mandala readers with even a [...]
Tags: Asian Studies · Burma
Alan Rabinowitz and the Colbert Report, etc
June 13th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 5 Comments
New Mandala readers who follow efforts to implement a conservation agenda in mainland Southeast Asia are probably already aware of the work of Dr. Alan Rabinowitz. He has been mentioned on this site a few times in the past. But, if the New Mandala daily traffic summary is anything to go by, a lot of other [...]
Tags: Asian Studies · Burma · Kachin State · Trans-Border Issues