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Local voting offers clues to reconciliation
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 30/01/2017
» The charter drafting process is dragging on. Again. Another national reconciliation effort -- which have historically led to irreconcilable differences -- is back on the horizon. Again. These hurdles are enough to make many of us wonder whether a general election will occur as the junta promised. This year? Next year?
Myanmar races ahead as we back-pedal
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 17/03/2016
» All eyes have been on Myanmar this week as it finally voted a new president, Htin Kyaw, into office, in so doing becoming the latest debutante into the democratic club. A close aide (for many he is a proxy) of democracy icon Aug San Suu Kyi, who is blocked from taking up the role due to constitutional hurdles, Htin Kyaw is the first civilian leader of the country since 1962.
Environmental court offers hope for pollution victims
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 12/09/2015
» Teerasak Chiukuntod, veteran environmental lawyer, breathed a sigh of relief when learning that the draft charter was shot down by the National Reform Council (NRC).
Democracy, monarchy and prehistory
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 03/03/2014
» In Before Siam: Essays In Art And Archaeology, scholars and historians go beyond the Sukhothai and Ayutthaya kingdoms, bringing readers back to prehistory when the area where Bangkok is now located was a sea, its shoreline in modern day Ang Thong province.