New Mandala

True to form, the good folk at Liberal Thai have put together a Thai-language translation of Richard Lloyd Parry’s interview with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.  It remains incomplete (with only the first 6 pages of the 12 page interview) but a note at the bottom suggests that the full version will be available soon.

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New Mandala readers who enjoyed our recent post, “Going to Pagan: Gay slang in Burma”, will be pleased to know that it is now available in Burmese.

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The short essay I wrote earlier in the week titled “Thailand and lese majeste” has now been translated into Thai.  It is available here.  The comments that follow the translation may be of interest to those who read Thai.

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Imagined land?: the state and southern violence in Thailand (2009) Chaiwat Satha-Anand (editor) (ISBN: 9874863370210).
The National Library of Australia is pleased to announce that we have recently acquired an English translation of this significant volume (original title: แผ่นดินจินตนาการ?: รัฐและการแก้ไขปัญหาความรุนแรงในภาคใต้ ) previously featured here.
[This post is provided by the National Library of Australia as part [...]

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New Mandala readers who prefer their analysis in Thai will be pleased to see that a translation of “Thailand’s royal sub-plot thickens” is now available.  The title has been translated as “แผนการณ์ร่วมของราชวงศ์ กำลังเข้มข้น”.

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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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The increasing number of New Mandala readers who prefer their coverage in Thai may want to click over to this translation of yesterday’s post about Suwicha Thakor.

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