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For almost two decades, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit's "A History of Thailand" has been a compass for anyone trying to navigate Thailand's mysti

Formalizan a sujeto por grave agresión contra joven de 21 años Los hechos ocurrieron durante la madrugada del sábado 3 de julio en la vía pública, específicamente en la población Ampliación Pablo Neruda de la capital regional. Redacción, Diario El Divisadero - 06-07-2021 Detectives de la Brigada de Homicidios de la PDI detuvieron este martes a un sujeto de 25 años por su responsabilidad en el delito de lesiones graves con arma cortante en contra de un hombre de 21 años.  Los hechos ocurrieron durante la madrugada del sábado 3 de julio en la vía p�...

From prostration to prostration published : 5 Mar 2021 at 04:00 364 After leading a coup in 2014, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha announced a code of "Twelve Thai Values", telling people how to think and behave. It is difficult to imagine Angela Merkel announcing "Twelve German Values", or even Narendra Modi announcing "Twelve Indian Values". Since the mid-19th century, there have been lots of Thai manuals about proper body language and oral language in social encounters. These books tell a story about power and hierarchy that Patrick Jory narrates in fascinating detail. In 1873, King Chulalongkor...

Drew Pavlou, holding the megaphone, is attacked by Chinese Communist Party supporters, July 24, 2019. The next day, Chinese state media named Pavlou as a leader of the protest. Xu Jie, Beijing’s consul general in Brisbane, praised the “spontaneous patriotic behavior” of those who had attacked him. It was an unusual statement for a diplomat, especially considering Xu’s other position: adjunct professor at the university’s School of Languages and Cultures. His dual roles were an example of the increasingly close ties between Australian universities and China, their biggest source of...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA An Australian student denounced his university’s ties to China. Then he became a target [Los Angeles Times] Before the text messages threatening to kill his family, Drew Pavlou gathered a small group of students on a busy walkway at the University of Queensland to protest the Chinese government’s repression of Uighur Muslims and crackdown on Hong Kong. “Hey-hey, ho-ho — Xi Jinping has got to go!” As he denounced the Communist leader, hundreds of counter-demonstrators massed around a colonnade at the campus in Brisbane, Australia. Some were students from ...