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A former army commander who once declared "the army should never be involved in politics", Surayud Chulanont, was appointed Thailand's interim prime minister at the weekend. But the irony of this appointment matters little in a coup marked by paradoxes.
If the Federal Government is serious about history, it should be devoting as much time to having us understand the history of our neighbours, and having our neighbours understand our sense of our own. It's mostly virgin territory.
It is crucial that Australia increases its knowledge of Asia
Reviews of Western Horizon: Sydney’s heartland and the future of Australian politics; Body and Soul: A Spirituality of Imaginative Creativity; One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A memoir of life and death on the Burma–Thailand Railway; What’s Right? and Giving it Away: In praise of philanthropy.
Frank Brennan’s Tampering with Asylum prompts Peter Mares to look at this issue again.
David Glanz on the World Social Forum’s agenda.
An interview with Asian culinary master, Rosemary Brissenden, by Christine Salins.
Madeleine Byrne finds Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, by Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis, vivid and timely.
Mark Raper on Australia’s changing attitudes to refugees
Many Thai women come to Australia on the promise of a work visa and a well-paid job, but end up in brothels.
Hope emerges for the Karen people forced to flee Burma for refugee camps just over the border in Thailand.
Michele M. Gierck reviews Arch and Martin Flanagan’s The Line: A Man’s Experience of the Burma Railway; A Son’s Quest to Understand.
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