New Mandala

A New Mandala reader has urged us to feature this letter from the Bangkok Post.
Letter writer Mr Warner (”Isan and self-reliance”, Postbag, July 5), who has resided in a small northeast village for five months, cites health care as an enduring gift from Thaksin Shinawatra.  Forty years ago, when I first came to Thailand, one [...]

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Some good sense from the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of China:
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China is appalled to learn that our colleagues, the entire board of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand, have been accused of committing lese majeste, a crime which could carry a prison sentence of up to 15 years.
Police will investigate the [...]

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This month at the National Library of Australia’s Asian Collections we have put together a display of Thai ephemera: late 19th and early 20th century advertisements and cigarette cards. The images of advertisements we display are reproduced from the books by Anake Nawikamune; the cigarette cards are originals which we acquired recently.
Anake Nawigamune was born in Songkhla [...]

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