Chiang Mai’s pandas are showing their Thaksinite leanings by refusing to cooperate with the new regime. In an important update on an earlier New Mandala story, the Bangkok Post reports:
Thailand’s Chiang Mai Zoo on Monday resorted to artificially inseminating a female panda after failing to stimulate a natural liaison between two pandas on loan from China [...]
Pandas say no!
April 2nd, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 2 Comments
Tags: Thailand
Boycotts and boundaries
April 2nd, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 23 Comments
Today’s Nation carries a piece by Chang Noi that discusses the idea of a boycott of the 10th International Thai Studies Conference. (For previous New Mandala discussion of this issue see here and here.) The article concludes:
A boycott may or may not be a good idea. But the call for this boycott signals something important. The theme [...]
Tags: Conferences · Coup · Tai Studies · Thailand