New Mandala

Life for journalists in Burma, not easy at the best of times, has reportedly got even harder since the cyclone.  The Irrawaddy has some helpful details on the trying situation for the local media.  But even more interesting is this summary of the experiences of various BBC journalists.  They comment on disparate efforts to get access to the country, travel [...]

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Earlier in 2008 I drew New Mandala reader attention to the academic work of Serhat Ünaldi.  He has recently finished his (undergraduate) degree at the Southeast Asian Studies program at Humboldt University in Berlin.�
His final thesis is, like many of his papers, available online.  It discusses the roles of the current Thai and Spanish kings in [...]

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