The soothsayers surrounding Than Shwe, the paranoid general at the apex of Burma’s monstrous military regime, are in high favour. Their prophecies of civil unrest followed by a great natural disaster swayed his decision three years ago to move the capital north to Naypyidaw (“abode of kings”), an isolated eyrie remote from storm-blasted Rangoon and [...]
Perversions and soothsayers in Burma today
May 12th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment
Tags: Burma · Cyclone Nargis
Stuck in time: 2 May 2008
May 12th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment
Under normal circumstances I check the official websites of the Myanmar military dictatorship on a daily basis. They are, afterall, “the ultimate guide to Myanmar”. Right now, as some New Mandala readers may have already discovered, they are stuck on 2 May 2008. Obviously nobody has had the time (or the capacity?) to get fresh content for The [...]
Tags: Burma · Cyclone Nargis
“Now the companies have come”
May 12th, 2008 by Andrew Walker · Add a Comment
New Mandala readers in Canberra may be interested in my seminar on Wednesday:
“Now the companies have come”: local values and contract farming in northern Thailand
Andrew Walker
Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program
Anthropology Seminar
9.30 am Wednesday 14th May
Seminar Room A
Coombs Building
The Australian National University
Over the past five years the farmers of Baan Tiam, a small lowland village in [...]
Tags: Northern Thailand