New Mandala

NM Guests

Recent guest contributions to New Mandala have included:

• Simon Creak, What’s in a region?, 18 December 2009.
• Simon Creak, SEA Games update at the halfway mark, 15 December 2009.
• Book Zone, A writer’s view of recent history, 14 December 2009.
• Simon Creak, Let the games begin, 11 December 2009.
• Simon Creak, Spectacular nation, 9 December 2009.
• Simon Creak, Video of Vietnam’s goal, 6 December 2009.
• Simon Creak, Thailand 1 – Vietnam (and Laos) 1, 4 December.
• Nick Nostitz, Abhisit at Samak’s funeral, 1 December 2009.
• Nick Nostitz, Samak: Conflict to the end, 26 December 2009.
• Brooke Schedneck, Engaged Buddhism Conference in Chiangmai, 25 November 2009.
• Simon Creak, SEA Games going to pot?, 25 November 2009.
• Book Zone, PAD supporters magazine, 24 November 2009.
• Huw Slater, Southeast Asia’s REDD alert, 23 November 2009.
• Simon Creak, Games controversies, 20 November 2009.
• Nick Nostitz, Saturday red, Sunday yellow: The temperature rises again, 16 November 2009.
• Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Religion is the opiate of the masses, 16 November 2009.
• Book Zone, Fighting crime Lao style, 12 November 2009.
• Kyaw Kyaw, The state of Myanmar media, 10 November 2009.
• Simon Creak, Little Laos awaits its big moment, 6 November 2009.
• Jim Taylor, Media and images in Thailand, 29 October 2009.
• Catherine Ingram, China’s 60th anniversary from the margins, 24 October 2009.
• Leedom Lefferts, End of the rains retreat in northeast Thailand: Political commentary on a boat, 22 October 2009.
• Violet Cho and Dave Gilbert, Going to Pagan: Gay slang in Burma, 20 October 2009.
• Michael H. Nelson, Sondhi Limthongkul takes the helm of the New Politics Party, 19 October 2009.
• Preedee Hongsaton, Chuck wow: How the Thai elite loved flying kites, 12 October 2009.
• Des Ball (with Nicholas Farrelly), Tear-gas grenades in Bangkok on 7 October 2008, 7 October 2009.
• Kishen, When the Indians come marching in, 29 September 2009.
• Siaan Ansori, Finger pointing and paper pushing no answer to Malaysia’s corruption crisis, 28 September 2009.
• Paul Chambers, Thailand’s military: perpetually political, forever factionalized, again ascendant, 24 September 2009.
• Gregore Lopez, ASEAN fragility and Indonesia-Malaysia tensions, 20 September 2009.
• Square Table, “Happy Children” kindergartens without children, 17 September 2009.
• Gregore Lopez, Malaysia Day?, 16 September 2009.
• Gregore Lopez, Is UMNO on its deathbed or is it alive and kicking?, 14 September 2009.
• Nick Nostitz, Shot at Dindaeng, 6 September 2009.
• Gregore Lopez, Barisan Nasional losing the plot after 52 years, 31 August 2009.
• Ian Baird, Resin tapping in Cambodia, 27 August 2009.
• Douglas Miles, Review of Jonsson’s Mien Relations, 24 August 2009.
• Huw Slater, What it means to be Wa: Identity creation in the Southeast Asian borderlands, 19 August 2009.
• Nick Nostitz, 17 August 2009: petition day, 18 August 2009.
• Gregore Lopez, The socialists are back, 10 August 2009.
• Thomas Borchert, Monk, 7 August 2009.
• Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Review of “Tearing Apart the Land”, 7 August 2009.
• Martino Ray, Temple of gloom, 6 August 2009.
• Gregore Lopez, ASEAN and human rights: can they mix? (Part 2), 4 August 2009.
• Tyrell Haberkorn, Questions left unspoken in Thailand, 2 August 2009.
• Martino Ray, A Mekong odyssey, 1 August 2009.
• Nick Nostitz, Bhum Jai Thai and the business of protests slightly gone wrong, 30 July 2009.
• Khoo Gaik Cheng, Tribute to Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian filmmaker (1958-2009), 30 July 2009.
• Kyaw Kyaw, Now where did I put that $2.37 billion I earned last year…?, 29 July 2009.
• Nick Nostitz, Thaksin’s birthday party, 28 July 2009.
• Gregore Lopez, ASEAN and Human Rights – Can they mix?, 27 July 2009.
• Square Table, Imports, 23 July 2009.
• Gregore Lopez, Murder in Malaysia, 22 July 2009.
• Thomas Borchert, Wat Luang Sipsongpanna: a follow-up report, 21 July 2009.
• Srithanonchai, Prasert Nasakul: RIP, 20 July 2009.
• Gregore Lopez, An open letter to Kevin Rudd, 19 July 2009.
• Nick Nostitz, Nick Nostitz at the FCCT, 16 July 2009.
• Richard Wong, Problems in Australia’s overseas student program, 13 July 2009.
• Gregore Lopez, The pharaoh returns?, 8 July 2009.
• Square Table, Swine flu comes between Myanmar journalists, 7 July 2009.
• Michael H. Nelson, Thailand’s PAD tries a “New Politics Party”, 7 July 2009.
• Dylan Grey, The Secretary-General and the generals, 3 July 2009.
• Square Table, Where’d everyone go?, 27 June 2009.
• Marc Askew, Signs of the Thai state, 23 June 2009.
• Dylan Grey, Government of the Union of Myanmar: Irony of the week, 15 June 2009.
• Kyaw Kyaw, Inauspiciousness and mishap, 11 June 2009.
• Dylan Grey, Superstition and the Danok Paya collapse, 1 June 2009.
• Martino Ray, Replica heritage, 29 May 2009.
• Nang Gor, Burma watching and the Internet, 28 May 2009.
• Michael H. Nelson, PAD tries a political party, 28 May 2009.
• Nick Nostitz, PAD celebrates decision to found political party, 27 May 2009.
• Kyaw Kyaw, Building bridges to understanding Sagaing Division, 26 May 2009.
• Douglas Miles, Yao agriculture and military confiscations, 22 May 2009.
• Tyrell Haberkorn, Certain injustice in Laos, 21 May 2009.
• Dave Gilbert and Violet Cho, “No toilet paper but unity!” Burma does social networking, 20 May 2009.
• Michael H. Nelson, Political reform in Thailand: Structural and ideological issues, 18 May 2009.
• Nang Gor, Doing No Harm, Doing Good or Doing Better? Humanitarian legitimacy in Burma, 15 May 2009.
• Nang Gor, Swird Flu, 14 May 2009.
• Douglas Miles, The violent suppression of opium cultivation, 5 May 2009.
• David Fullbrook, The Sondhi Limthongkul assassination effort, 4 May 2009.
• Jim Taylor, Red faces: Unconvincing psych-ops, 4 May 2009
• Kyaw Kyaw, Debt and aid: One year after Nargis, 3 May 2009.
• Dylan Grey, Aid and politics after Cyclone Nargis, 3 May 2009.
• Dylan Grey, The crisis in Northern Rakhine State, 30 April 2009.
• Pol Sci 101, Thai monarchy: Political stabiliser or destabiliser?, 28 April 2009.
• Gregore Lopez, The survival of Najib and UMNO, 27 April 2009.
• Chris Baker, Did Thaksin call for revolution?, 23 April 2009.
• Mike Dwyer, Territorial affairs: The production of available land in Laos’ Northern Economic Corridor, 23 April 2009.
• Ryan Manuel, Chinese media on recent Thai politics, 22 April 2009.
• Nick Nostitz, The crushing of the Red Shirts, 20 April 2009.
• Colum Graham, Curry ordeal tests personal constitution, 20 April 2009.
• Srithanonchai, Red Shirts on the march, 9 April 2009.
• Leif Jonsson, “One missionary plus one Ford equals three missionaries”, 6 April 2009.
• Dekchai Kimhan, Student massacres, 5 April 2009.
• Square Table, Two new reports on Nargis relief disappoint, 27 October 2008.
• Book Zone, Burmese crime magazines, 2 April 2009.
• Dekchai Kimhan, Four Prime Minister in one year, 17 March 2009.
• Thorn Pitidol, Abhisit’s talk in Oxford: from the inside, 16 March 2009.
• Book Zone, I did not sell my country, 15 March 2009.
• Jagruti Dave, Talk, 11 March 2009 (Part of New Mandala‘s Four Letter Words series).
• Book Zone, Time for an Oxford Scholar, 10 March 2009.
• Dekchai Kimhan, Thai democracy wasn’t built in a day, 2 March 2009.
• Square Table, Water problems in Yangon, 2 March 2009.
• Nick Nostitz, Red Shirt protest at Government House, 28 February 2009.
• Lee Jones, Report on “Lèse Majesté in Thailand: The Enemy of Democracy”, 27 February 2009.
• Square Table, Rohingya, 14 February 2009.
• Erick White, PAD’s last day at Government House, 29 January 2009.
• Maylee Thavat, Cambodia evicts its own, 27 January 2009.
• Paul Busbarat, Thailand, international human rights and ISOC, 27 January 2009.
• Olivier Evrard, A new website for the study of ethnicity in Southeast Asia, 26 January 2009.
• Maylee Thavat, Torture, 6 January 2009.
• Square Table, Two more publications on life after Nargis, 5 January 2009.
• Nick Nostitz, Red Shirts and civil disobedience, 2 January 2009.

New Mandala is always keen to host high-quality guest contributions.  Details on how to submit a piece for consideration are available here.