New Mandala

Thai artist Manit Sriwanichpoom has, since 1997, used his “Pink Man” to demonstrate his distaste for elements of modern life.  According to his introduction to this series of critical pieces, “Pink…is considered generally by high class group of Thai people as tastelessness and vulgarity which is used commonly by night-life girls and comedians”.
In 2001, having taken [...]

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[Nicholas Tapp is an anthropologist in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the ANU.]
There is nothing wrong with links between academic and trading organisations, and our hats off to the organizers of the recent EuroSEAS Conference in Naples for obtaining co-funding and sponsorship for the event not only from the Campania Region [...]

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From The Nation:  Surapong Towijakchaikul, right, a candidate for the People Power Party in Chiang Mai, walks with a supporter wearing a mask of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra during the first day of registration for election candidates at Chiang Mai Municipality.  
(Perhaps it is just my suspicious mind, but I think the photo looks like [...]

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