Why has it Taken so Long to Establish Asia’s first Genocide Tribunal? Will it Achieve Justice both for the Living and the Dead? 274th INTG Meeting – A Talk by Tom Fawthrop About Tom Fawthrop Tom Fawrhrop is a British journalist covering SE Asia and has been reporting on Cambodia since 1981 for international newspapers … Read more
273rd INTG Meeting – A Panel Discussion on the Mega-Projects Proposed for the Northern Capital Do Citizens Have a Voice? What are they Saying, and What are they Planning to Do? The panel consisted of experts in various fields: political, economic, environmental, communications, etc. from the 48 Chiang Mai organizations that Pakee Kon Hak Chiang … Read more
272nd INTG Meeting – A Talk by Bertil Lintner Summary of the Talk This summary has been compiled by your convenor from the (scant) notes that Bertil used for his talk. Bertil started by saying that after studying and writing about Burma for 20 years, he decided it was time for a change. Casting around … Read more
267th INTG Meeting – A Talk and LCD Presentation by Dr. Katharine McKinnon About Dr. McKinnon Katharine was recently awarded her PhD in Human Geography at the Australian National University. Her dissertation was written following a year of fieldwork based in Chiang Mai. She is now a post-doctoral research fellow in Development Studies at Massey … Read more
266th INTG Meeting – A talk by Dr. Mark Tamthai, Institute for the Study of Religion and Culture, Payap University, Chiang Mai About the Speaker Mark Tamthai was a professor at Chulalongkorn University for 30 years and is now the director of the Institute for the Study of Religion and Culture at Payap University. For … Read more
258th INTG Meeting – A talk by Henri Locard About Henri Locard Born in Lyon in 1939, I first came to Cambodia as a student in the summer 1964. After the Agrégation d’Anglais in 1965, I had the luck to be appointed at the Lycée Descartes for two years. Teaching a foreign language in a … Read more
250th INTG Meeting – A talk and presentation by Dr. Duangchan Charoenmuang Dr. Duangchan writes “Chiang Mai air quality has been worse than you may have thought. The critical period is in dry season. At this time the air contains an increased amount of fine particulate matter (PM10), much more than the allowable amount. Statistics … Read more
249th INTG Meeting – A talk by Gary Sue Merritt Suwannarat Gary Suwannarat writes – Here’s a little bit of my background regarding American politics. I have been a member of Democrats Abroad-Thailand for something like 15 years, served as the Vice-Chair in 1996, and then found myself Chair as the elected Chair moved to Great Britain. Between the … Read more
