“The crushing of the Red Shirts” by Nick Nostitz has now been translated into Thai as “การล้อมปราบคนเสื้อแดง”. It is available from Open Online.
Thai translation of “The crushing of the Red Shirts”
May 5th, 2009 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment
Tags: Abhisit · Thailand · Thaksin · UDD
The violent suppression of opium cultivation
May 5th, 2009 by Douglas Miles, Guest Contributor · 16 Comments
Image 1: Supplementary incising of a poppy capsule with a three-pronged scalpel. Yao who have worked elsewhere compare the intensity and delicacy of the task with embroidery.
Off-farm and Beyond Ockham in the Northern Thai Highlands: Further Philosophising on Opium, Overseas Aid and the Applied Anthropology of Tropical Agricultural Development
Douglas Miles (Anthropology, James Cook University, ex [...]
Tags: Environment · Northern Thailand · Thailand
Nargis coverage inside Burma
May 5th, 2009 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment
Burma’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD) has severely restricted Rangoon weekly journals publishing reports marking the anniversary of Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the southwest of the country on May 2-3 last year, leaving about 140,000 people dead in its wake. According to several editors and reporters, the notoriously draconian censorship board did not allow [...]
Tags: Burma · Cyclone Nargis · Media