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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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