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It bodes ill for Thai democracy that a limited and narrow street-based movement has the upper hand in overthrowing an elected government.
- Thitinan Pongsudhirak quoted in “Standoff”, Bangkok Post, 21 June 2008.  I should add that if anyone finds an arguably better quote on the current stalemate in Bangkok please feel free to post it in the [...]

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Last year I highlighted an interesting conference at Thailand’s Mahidol University on the topic of Buddhism and Science.�
The same institution, the College of Religious Studies at Mahidol, has now issued an announcement for a conference on Buddhism and consumerism.  It will be held at the Salaya campus from 1-3 December 2008, and hopes to attract 200 monks [...]

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