Thanks to a reader for these images from Sala Daeng on 20 April.
Book Reviews
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Review of Ideal Man
24 May 2013 9:12 AM | No CommentsNew Mandala book review editor Michael Montesano reviews this new work on a key figure in Southeast Asian history.
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Review of Misalliance
17 May 2013 1:00 PM | 2 CommentsKeith Weller Taylor argues that this new book is thoughtful, lucid, original, analytical, and readable
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Review of Thailand’s Hidden Workforce
05 April 2013 9:15 AM | 3 CommentsInga Gruß reviews a book about the work conditions of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand at this time of immense change.
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Review of Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets
21 February 2013 9:10 AM | 1 CommentSri Ranjani Mei Hua reviews a book dealing with experiences of women in Southeast Asia.
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Review of Authority of Influence
06 January 2013 5:31 AM | 3 CommentsScholarly treatments of gender in Myanmar, past or present, remain scarce. Jessica Harriden’s book thus fills a gap in our understanding of an important and controversial topic.
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Review of The King in Exile
04 December 2012 8:35 AM | 4 CommentsDonald M. Seekins argues that this book is the story of a dynasty that belongs truly to Burma’s past.
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Review of Buddhist Fury
13 November 2012 7:57 AM | 21 CommentsThis book explores the relationship between religion and violence in far southern Thailand, where Buddhist monks are a marginalized local minority.
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Review of Revisiting Rural Places
30 October 2012 7:54 AM | 2 CommentsRevisiting Rural Places should become an essential reference text for researchers who work on social, cultural, political and economic change in Asia.
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Review of The Institutional Imperative
16 October 2012 7:00 AM | 9 CommentsDe-agrarianisation often isn’t very pretty, but economic disparity may well be the price to be paid for pursuing it as slowly as Thailand has over the past 50 years.
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Review of Imagining Gay Paradise
09 October 2012 6:55 AM | 2 CommentsThe creation of make-shift, idiosyncratic queer paradises provides shelter, community, and belonging for many who have refused to fit into standard narratives of Southeast Asia.
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Review of The Fate of Rural Hell
12 September 2012 7:56 AM | 6 CommentsThe models of eroticism and faith in the Hell Garden have been left behind by the robust urban bourgeois consumerist culture increasingly prominent across contemporary Thai society.
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Review of Revolution Interrupted
24 July 2012 11:46 AM | 6 CommentsQuestioning received notions of revolution, this book offers a passionate and rigorous reconsideration of the period in Thailand between October 1973 and October 1976.
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Review of Land and Loyalty
17 July 2012 9:18 AM | 9 Comments
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Review of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk
11 July 2012 3:44 PM | 9 Comments
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Review of Saying the Unsayable
19 June 2012 6:27 AM | 19 Comments
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hmmm… what is displayed in Thai-Benny (2)?
looks like ball bearings for slingshots????
and does the yellow signify PAD/anti-red supporter?
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I hope those are rubber coated steel riot shotgun shells.
But rubber shouldn’t be that shiny…
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>looks like ball bearings for slingshots????
Shotgun shells, on the front of a Thai soldier. Not designed for killing birds.
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I don’t know where to put this video clip, This is an interesting video clip that explains about who are “Khon Silom” which they clashed with the redshirts again last night.
Some of the Khon Silom siad “I am Military officer (Ku pen Taharn)” in the clip and you can see there are some of the military try to stop the police to desperse them but the military let the police go because there are many journalist there.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k1vpZmdMIXOjki1tVJc?start=2
This is one of the Channel3 journalist’s twitter who was in the clashed between the police and “Khon Silom” last night She siad
“a military officer point gun at one of the police commander’s head ”
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“one the police officer told me that “Khon Silom” are not regular people, they are military officer ”
http://photobucket.com/albums/pp199/landoflies/thapaneeietsrichaiyam3mitionTwitter.jpg
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The shotgun shell pics are interesting. I went down to Silom last night (22 April) around 9 pm and saw a number of soldiers with these shells. Not that I’m a gun buff or anything, but looks like -
12 Gauge Shotshell Ammunition
For personal defense and law enforcement applications, the International Wound Ballistics Association advocates number 1 buckshot as being superior to all other buckshot sizes.
Number 1 buck is the smallest diameter shot that reliably and consistently penetrates more than 12 inches of standard ordnance gelatin when fired at typical shotgun engagement distances. A standard 2 ¾-inch 12 gauge shotshell contains 16 pellets of #1 buck. The total combined cross sectional area of the 16 pellets is 1.13 square inches. Compared to the total combined cross sectional area of the nine pellets in a standard #00 (double-aught) buck shotshell (0.77 square inches), the # 1 buck shotshell has the capacity to produce over 30 percent more potentially effective wound trauma.
In all shotshell loads, number 1 buckshot produces more potentially effective wound trauma than either #00 or #000 buck. In addition, number 1 buck is less likely to over-penetrate and exit an attacker’s body.
http://www.firearmstactical.com/briefs10.htm
As to the coloured ribbons, a soldier told me that it was an identification flash designed to stop ‘third-hand’ infiltrators (“ติดกันไว้พวกมือที่สาม”).
Suffice it to say that there’s a lot of different ordnance being packed by the army down at Silom (saw a couple of guys with seriously scoped HKs). You don’t want to be in front of the business end of any of it.
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In the Burmese army, the standard procedure for a suppression operation against a protesting unruly mob is to re-arm one 3-men squad of a standard 35-men platoon with single barrel 12 gauge shot guns instead of their normal automatic rifles like 7.62 mm G3.
Only that shot-gun squad, not other normally-armed squads, is to fire at the crowd for the shotgun pallets are not as fatal and damaging as the single bullets but they can potentially injure far more people if fired from a far-enough distance.
Thai army might have the same procedure, according to the photos on NM.
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