Hosting a TV cooking show = GUILTY!
Staging a coup and tearing up a constitution = NO PROBLEM!
Constitutional madness
September 9th, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 38 Comments
A season for stunts
September 9th, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 4 Comments
Many commentators have suggested that the Samak government’s proposal for a referendum to resolve the current political crisis is a stunt.
Of course it is.
What comes of the stunt remains to be seen. The referendum questions need to be clarified. The constitutional implications need to be explored. A legal framework needs to be developed. And a [...]
Interview with a “disaster worker recently returned from Burma”
September 9th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 2 Comments
This New Mandala special interview was conducted in recent weeks. The interviewee is a disaster worker who has recently returned from several months working on emergency shelter in the wake of Cyclone Nargis in Burma. They prefer to be identified simply as a “disaster worker recently returned from Burma”.
Nicholas Farrelly: Could you give our readers an [...]
Tags: Burma · Cyclone Nargis