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“We will find those who disappear if we look for them, and as the time passes by, we will forget those who passed away…”
- DuckyEgg posted in Toilet SWAT Police Forum, author’s translation (from Burmese).
And so begins a dialogue in Burmese cyberspace on the popular social networking site, Toilet Wall. The carnivalesque dialogue continues with [...]

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Last week I used some of WikiMapia’s marked-up satellite imagery to point to Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence on University Avenue in Yangon.
Since then I have been playing around with the possibilities of this technology and thought I would highlight a few other interesting areas of Burma for the benefit of New Mandala readers.  For [...]

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These photos were taken during a peaceful gathering of concerned Burmese citizens near Insein Prison. More details on this vigil are available here. The gathering was in support of detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose trial on a new set of charges began yesterday.
The photos were taken by activists from Generation Wave.  [...]

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Over at the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter Sam Roggeveen has a post that provides a recent glimpse of the front of 54 University Avenue, Yangon.  It is well worth a look for those who have never strolled that leafy neighbourhood.  WikiMapia zooms right in on Aung San Suu Kyi’s house to give some helpful context.  As [...]

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Readers who pay close attention to New Mandala’s appearance will have noticed a few changes in recent days.  These are part of what is an ongoing effort to improve the blog, and make it as useful (and user-friendly) as possible for all of you.  We have, for instance, added a much more comprehensive summary of how [...]

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Next week there will be a discussion of academic blogging at which I will make a short presentation.  There will also be a presentation from the East Asia Forum team, and an opportunity for questions and discussion.  Readers in Canberra may like to attend.
Seminar: Academic Blogging in the College of Asia and the Pacific
Hedley Bull [...]

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The following notice may be of interest to New Mandala readers who are students at the ANU:

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Today we have updated the site with a consolidated list of all of the guest contributions published by New Mandala in 2009.  This is also an opportune moment to remind readers that we are always very open to considering guest contributions from new voices.  More details on how to make a submission are available here.

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Australian National University students out there may be interested in this advertised opportunity.  As ever, if you have any questions please feel free to get in touch.

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The wonders of technology means that Google now provides a rough computer translation of New Mandala (in fact, of every website out there!).  New Mandala, in Thai, is available here.  The translation is certainly not perfect, and it seems to struggle with “simple” words like in, on, at, etc.  Some of the other grammar is [...]

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