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Everything has now resumed, thanks to the address of Benedict XVI in Regensburg, where he affirmed that religion embraces reason and excludes violence. The most urgent theme: religious freedom, so that every community may be guaranteed ...
Title: Bangkok, Thailand Temple. Photographer: Shawn Siferd. Album: Temples | Next photo ». Categories: Travel | Religion and Spirituality | General. Keywords: Bangkok, Temple, Shrine, Thailand, Black and White, Monochrome, Religion, ...
PAD Mourners. Posted by Bangkok Pundit | 11/21/2008 06:00:00 PM. The below is from the frontpage page of the Bangkok Post: Capture 11-21-2551. BP: Doesn't this look like the Palestinian mourners carrying the body of those who die? ...
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) · hitcounter. Here and Now in Bangkok Taxis. "It is better to travel well than to arrive" - Buddha. This blog is dedicated to the friendly, patient, som tam-eating taxi drivers of Bangkok. ...
Posted by Bangkok Pundit | 11/21/2008 11:00:00 AM. In a letter to the editor, Wesley Hsu writes:. The current use and discussion of the nation's lese majeste laws have created a feedback loop of opposing political camps competing for ...
In all of my subjects -- religion, sex and politics -- I'm failing. The Little Bang Sangha is on hiatus through the Christmas season and I can't seem to meditate on my own. My attempts to find venues for Cyprian when he comes here in ...
"There's a very high risk of the violence increasing,'' said Chris Baker, a Bangkok-based political analyst. `"Protesters have been talking about civil war for the last month and pro-government people have been threatening to bomb the ...
At least one Thai anti-government protester was killed and 24 were wounded in a pre-dawn bomb blast Thursday inside a demonstration site in Bangkok, emergency services said. The bomb went off at 3:28 am (2028 GMT) in front of a stage at ...
I was so impressed with Robert Bellah’s book of essays about Japan and Japanese culture, Imagining Japan, that I tracked down his earliest book, Tokugawa Religion (1958). Again he has some interesting things to say about the Japanese ...
Posted by Bangkok Pundit | 11/20/2008 05:00:00 AM. Reuters:. India, Malaysia and Thailand face the highest political and social risk among Asia-Pacific countries in 2009, mainly because of internal instability, a political risk ...
A by-product of the turmoil in Bangkok itself has been that the bloody insurgency in Thailand's southernmost provinces is becoming a forgotten war. Thais, numbed by the repeated atrocities and in any case unsympathetic towards the ...
Princess Galyani Vadhana, the elder sister of King Bhumibol Adulaydej, was cremated Saturday with elaborate pageantry at Sanam Luang in Bangkok. And I was there, in the midst of the crowd of hundreds of thousands of mourners clad in ...
AP Photo - An injured anti-government protester is wheeled to an ambulance after a bomb attack at their protesting ground of government house in Bangkok, Thailand Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. A grenade attack on protesters occupying the ...
As I write this, early Sunday morning in Bangkok, opposing mobs are gathering across the Chao Phraya River not far from my apartment. One group, calling itself the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), wears yellow shirts and headbands ...
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