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Monks on the waterfall
Our tourism magnet – the waterfall น้ำตกดาดาด was ordained with a buddhistic ceremony. For this purpose our monks came from “Wat Rattana Khongkha Ram” วัดรัตนคงคาราม and from the Forest Temple “Wat Pa Lam Huai Han” วัดป่าลำห้วยหัน. Our village honour to the Thai traditions and our tourist visitors with the ceremony on the waterfall. Over 100…
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Welcome to the preschool
The accommodation of the children in the preschool (kindergarten) from the age of third is common in Thailand. Today was a celebration to greet the new preschool children in our Tambon Wang Chompphu. The children’s parents were most excited. The children were also very happy about the gifts of their parents and grandparents. The official…
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The climate time-bomb is ticking
The Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) summarises the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. (CNN) The world is running out of time to avoid catastrophe, new UN report warns. The world is rapidly approaching catastrophic levels of heating with international climate…
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Violence and the military coup in Thailand
by Puey Ungphakorn To cite this article: Puey Ungphakorn (1977) Violence and the military coup in Thailand, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 9:3, 4-12,To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1977.10406422 Note: Puey Ungphakorn was in 1975 appointed Rector of Thammasat University. On the evening of the bloody 6 October 1976 Massacre, Puey resigned from his position…
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Magha Bucha Day
Today we celebrated Magha Bucha Day (Pali: Māgha Pūjā, Magha Pucha; Roman letters: Magha Puja). This day is an important day for Theravada Buddhists and a public holiday in Thailand. I asked the Bing Chatbot: Tell me 10 main aspects of thai buddhism! CHAT-BOT: There is no definitive list of the 10 main aspects of…
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Isaan Lyanna
“Societies differ greatly as to the actual physical separation of the living and the dead.” (Silverman, Helaine, and David B. Small, eds. 2002 The Space and Place of Death. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 11. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.) In early December the bones of an indigenous native discovered on the edge…
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Test your knowledge
I would like you to test your knowledge about the world. There are only 13 short questions to be answered. Ready? Let’s go. If you are a teacher, send your class “traveling” on dollarstreet.org and ask them to find differences within countries and similarities across countries. (1 US Dollar = approx. 35 THB)
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Our beauty queen
Isaan is known for the beauty of his women. A competition between eleven villages took place today. Who has the most beautiful young woman? Palmy (น้องปล์ามมี่) was chosen as the beauty queen. She comes from Ban Huai Han – Sai Ngam. She is 20 years old and studies at the Faculty of Law in Khon…
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Necessary changes
On current political and economic paths, we expect continuing rising inequality by design. We also expect slow economic development in low- income countries, causing enduring poverty. As a result of inequalities within countries, social tensions are likely to rise toward the middle of the 21. century. These factors are likely to contribute to inadequate responses…
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In memory of Max Nordau
“Max Simon Nordau (born Simon Maximilian Südfeld; July 29, 1849 – January 23, 1923) was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He was a co-founder of the Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice president of several Zionist congresses. As a social critic, he wrote The Conventional Lies of Our…
