New Mandala

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• 1 Athtia // Sep 2, 2009 at 4:15 pm

  Why?

  Because here is the land of entertainment is the most important thing in life.

  No wonder why there are so many soft-opera programs on Thai TV channels.

  Newly-born panda is one of them. The ruler wants to divert public’s attention from the daily life problems.

• 2 phoenix // Sep 2, 2009 at 6:58 pm

  Very good question. Treating the panda cub like a human baby violates the most fundamental principles of breeding and rearing essentially undomesticated species. One should always avoid imprinting. It is shocking that this sort of thing should be allowed and the cub should be treated like a circus exhibit and subjected to so much human contact and artificial ”toys” made – good lord!! – of coloured plastic!!

• 3 reg // Sep 3, 2009 at 2:58 am

  Why? Probably to boost General Chaovalit’s already vastly over-inflated ego.

• 4 nekochan // Sep 3, 2009 at 7:08 am

  This is a typical Thai media circus which you see it in everyday life, if you are unlucky enough to understand Thai language. The same thing applies to “half Japanese boy desperately looking for his dad” or “a guy who has a snake wife”. Sentimental news sells just like spicy Thai food.

  The only thing I hope is that the little panda and his mom will return to China soon! (case closed)

• 5 CNXJeffrey // Sep 3, 2009 at 12:19 pm

  This wee beast is recieving far more care and attention than any other baby born to Chinese immigrant parents in Thailand.
  Children denied citizenship, schooling and health care.
  Quite bizzare really, but it is the Thai-way!

• 6 shoo // Sep 3, 2009 at 3:32 pm

  i’ve read somewhere that after being the toy for a tot, of course, the prince’s son, noone’s allow to touch the cub no more.

  it’s not a common cub now.

• 7 WLH // Sep 3, 2009 at 3:53 pm

  According to this “news” site, the panda is now the head of the national police.

  http://www.notthenation.com/pages/news/getnews.php?id=819

  Ah, sweet satire. A reflection of sad, sad reality.

• 8 macca // Sep 5, 2009 at 10:58 pm

  Is it receiving some kind of pre-school special agent training?

  PADnda 00555 -seeing red-

• 9 Thai-Mung // Sep 7, 2009 at 3:32 am

  Being Thai myself, I have been asking this same question for several months now.

  Perhaps, it’s true that the baby panda’s promotion is the government’s diversion campaign. To my dismay, it has succeeded to some degree. The baby panda’s popularity is evident by the occurrence of a buffalo panda, man panda on TV every now and then. I believe more variations of artificial pandas are on their way.

  Does this tell us something about the current situation of Thai society? One thing I know for sure, that the Thai society can be easily manipulated by the media–a collection the powerful and prejudice corporations that concern more on how to sedate rather than educate and inform its people. The same goes with the constant feeding of fortunetelling regimen on national TV…

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