NM Guests

Recent guest contributions to New Mandala have included:

Simon Creak, What’s in a region?, 18 December 2009.
Simon Creak, SEA Games update at the halfway mark, 15 December 2009.
Book Zone, A writer’s view of recent history, 14 December 2009.
Simon Creak, Let the games begin, 11 December 2009.
Simon Creak, Spectacular nation, 9 December 2009.
Simon Creak, Video of Vietnam’s goal, 6 December 2009.
Simon Creak, Thailand 1 – Vietnam (and Laos) 1, 4 December.
Nick Nostitz, Abhisit at Samak’s funeral, 1 December 2009.
Nick Nostitz, Samak: Conflict to the end, 26 December 2009.
Brooke Schedneck, Engaged Buddhism Conference in Chiangmai, 25 November 2009.
Simon Creak, SEA Games going to pot?, 25 November 2009.
Book Zone, PAD supporters magazine, 24 November 2009.
Huw Slater, Southeast Asia’s REDD alert, 23 November 2009.
Simon Creak, Games controversies, 20 November 2009.
Nick Nostitz, Saturday red, Sunday yellow: The temperature rises again, 16 November 2009.
Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Religion is the opiate of the masses, 16 November 2009.
Book Zone, Fighting crime Lao style, 12 November 2009.
Kyaw Kyaw, The state of Myanmar media, 10 November 2009.
Simon Creak, Little Laos awaits its big moment, 6 November 2009.
Jim Taylor, Media and images in Thailand, 29 October 2009.
Catherine Ingram, China’s 60th anniversary from the margins, 24 October 2009.
Leedom Lefferts, End of the rains retreat in northeast Thailand: Political commentary on a boat, 22 October 2009.
Violet Cho and Dave Gilbert, Going to Pagan: Gay slang in Burma, 20 October 2009.
Michael H. Nelson, Sondhi Limthongkul takes the helm of the New Politics Party, 19 October 2009.
Preedee Hongsaton, Chuck wow: How the Thai elite loved flying kites, 12 October 2009.
Des Ball (with Nicholas Farrelly), Tear-gas grenades in Bangkok on 7 October 2008, 7 October 2009.
Kishen, When the Indians come marching in, 29 September 2009.
Siaan Ansori, Finger pointing and paper pushing no answer to Malaysia’s corruption crisis, 28 September 2009.
Paul Chambers, Thailand’s military: perpetually political, forever factionalized, again ascendant, 24 September 2009.
Gregore Lopez, ASEAN fragility and Indonesia-Malaysia tensions, 20 September 2009.
Square Table, “Happy Children” kindergartens without children, 17 September 2009.
Gregore Lopez, Malaysia Day?, 16 September 2009.
Gregore Lopez, Is UMNO on its deathbed or is it alive and kicking?, 14 September 2009.
Nick Nostitz, Shot at Dindaeng, 6 September 2009.
Gregore Lopez, Barisan Nasional losing the plot after 52 years, 31 August 2009.
Ian Baird, Resin tapping in Cambodia, 27 August 2009.
Douglas Miles, Review of Jonsson’s Mien Relations, 24 August 2009.
Huw Slater, What it means to be Wa: Identity creation in the Southeast Asian borderlands, 19 August 2009.
Nick Nostitz, 17 August 2009: petition day, 18 August 2009.
Gregore Lopez, The socialists are back, 10 August 2009.
Thomas Borchert, Monk, 7 August 2009.
Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Review of “Tearing Apart the Land”, 7 August 2009.
Martino Ray, Temple of gloom, 6 August 2009.
Gregore Lopez, ASEAN and human rights: can they mix? (Part 2), 4 August 2009.
Tyrell Haberkorn, Questions left unspoken in Thailand, 2 August 2009.
Martino Ray, A Mekong odyssey, 1 August 2009.
Nick Nostitz, Bhum Jai Thai and the business of protests slightly gone wrong, 30 July 2009.
Khoo Gaik Cheng, Tribute to Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian filmmaker (1958-2009), 30 July 2009.
Kyaw Kyaw, Now where did I put that $2.37 billion I earned last year…?, 29 July 2009.
Nick Nostitz, Thaksin’s birthday party, 28 July 2009.
Gregore Lopez, ASEAN and Human Rights – Can they mix?, 27 July 2009.
Square Table, Imports, 23 July 2009.
Gregore Lopez, Murder in Malaysia, 22 July 2009.
Thomas Borchert, Wat Luang Sipsongpanna: a follow-up report, 21 July 2009.
Srithanonchai, Prasert Nasakul: RIP, 20 July 2009.
Gregore Lopez, An open letter to Kevin Rudd, 19 July 2009.
Nick Nostitz, Nick Nostitz at the FCCT, 16 July 2009.
Richard Wong, Problems in Australia’s overseas student program, 13 July 2009.
Gregore Lopez, The pharaoh returns?, 8 July 2009.
Square Table, Swine flu comes between Myanmar journalists, 7 July 2009.
Michael H. Nelson, Thailand’s PAD tries a “New Politics Party”, 7 July 2009.
Dylan Grey, The Secretary-General and the generals, 3 July 2009.
Square Table, Where’d everyone go?, 27 June 2009.
Marc Askew, Signs of the Thai state, 23 June 2009.
Dylan Grey, Government of the Union of Myanmar: Irony of the week, 15 June 2009.
Kyaw Kyaw, Inauspiciousness and mishap, 11 June 2009.
Dylan Grey, Superstition and the Danok Paya collapse, 1 June 2009.
Martino Ray, Replica heritage, 29 May 2009.
Nang Gor, Burma watching and the Internet, 28 May 2009.
Michael H. Nelson, PAD tries a political party, 28 May 2009.
Nick Nostitz, PAD celebrates decision to found political party, 27 May 2009.
Kyaw Kyaw, Building bridges to understanding Sagaing Division, 26 May 2009.
Douglas Miles, Yao agriculture and military confiscations, 22 May 2009.
Tyrell Haberkorn, Certain injustice in Laos, 21 May 2009.
Dave Gilbert and Violet Cho, “No toilet paper but unity!” Burma does social networking, 20 May 2009.
Michael H. Nelson, Political reform in Thailand: Structural and ideological issues, 18 May 2009.
Nang Gor, Doing No Harm, Doing Good or Doing Better? Humanitarian legitimacy in Burma, 15 May 2009.
Nang Gor, Swird Flu, 14 May 2009.
Douglas Miles, The violent suppression of opium cultivation, 5 May 2009.
David Fullbrook, The Sondhi Limthongkul assassination effort, 4 May 2009.
Jim Taylor, Red faces: Unconvincing psych-ops, 4 May 2009
Kyaw Kyaw, Debt and aid: One year after Nargis, 3 May 2009.
Dylan Grey, Aid and politics after Cyclone Nargis, 3 May 2009.
Dylan Grey, The crisis in Northern Rakhine State, 30 April 2009.
Pol Sci 101, Thai monarchy: Political stabiliser or destabiliser?, 28 April 2009.
Gregore Lopez, The survival of Najib and UMNO, 27 April 2009.
Chris Baker, Did Thaksin call for revolution?, 23 April 2009.
Mike Dwyer, Territorial affairs: The production of available land in Laos’ Northern Economic Corridor, 23 April 2009.
Ryan Manuel, Chinese media on recent Thai politics, 22 April 2009.
Nick Nostitz, The crushing of the Red Shirts, 20 April 2009.
Colum Graham, Curry ordeal tests personal constitution, 20 April 2009.
Srithanonchai, Red Shirts on the march, 9 April 2009.
Leif Jonsson, “One missionary plus one Ford equals three missionaries”, 6 April 2009.
Dekchai Kimhan, Student massacres, 5 April 2009.
Square Table, Two new reports on Nargis relief disappoint, 27 October 2008.
Book Zone, Burmese crime magazines, 2 April 2009.
Dekchai Kimhan, Four Prime Minister in one year, 17 March 2009.
Thorn Pitidol, Abhisit’s talk in Oxford: from the inside, 16 March 2009.
Book Zone, I did not sell my country, 15 March 2009.
Jagruti Dave, Talk, 11 March 2009 (Part of New Mandala‘s Four Letter Words series).
Book Zone, Time for an Oxford Scholar, 10 March 2009.
Dekchai Kimhan, Thai democracy wasn’t built in a day, 2 March 2009.
Square Table, Water problems in Yangon, 2 March 2009.
Nick Nostitz, Red Shirt protest at Government House, 28 February 2009.
Lee Jones, Report on “Lèse Majesté in Thailand: The Enemy of Democracy”, 27 February 2009.
Square Table, Rohingya, 14 February 2009.
Erick White, PAD’s last day at Government House, 29 January 2009.
Maylee Thavat, Cambodia evicts its own, 27 January 2009.
Paul Busbarat, Thailand, international human rights and ISOC, 27 January 2009.
Olivier Evrard, A new website for the study of ethnicity in Southeast Asia, 26 January 2009.
Maylee Thavat, Torture, 6 January 2009.
Square Table, Two more publications on life after Nargis, 5 January 2009.
Nick Nostitz, Red Shirts and civil disobedience, 2 January 2009.

New Mandala is always keen to host high-quality guest contributions. Details on how to submit a piece for consideration are available here.