· November, 2010

Stories about Thailand from November, 2010

China: Time for a new conversation about privacy invasion

  28 November 2010

With a broader and perhaps global view of more pervasive privacy issues, poet and professor Rui Shen asks: "Some people disagree with airport security measures that display people's bodies, feeling those to be an invasion of their privacy. Watching the debate on the news, though, I wonder: are these people confused or just stupid?"

Thailand: Two Thousand Dead Fetuses in Buddhist Temple

  22 November 2010

More than 2,000 illegally aborted fetuses were discovered in a Buddhist temple in Thailand and this has reinvigorated the debate on whether it is already time to update the country’s abortion laws. Netizens share their opinion

Thailand's forest monks

  11 November 2010

Paul Garrigan blogs about the forest monks of Thailand. These Buddhist monks left the temples to wander in the forests and live like ascetics.

Southeast Asia: Social media events

  4 November 2010

John Berns links to the upcoming social media events in Southeast Asia. Barcamp Vientiane One! will take place on November 27 and Joomla Day in Thailand is scheduled on November 13

Thailand: #thaiflood hashtag

  4 November 2010

Use the #thaiflood twitter hashtag to monitor the recent flooding disaster in Thailand. Flooding also hit the north part of Malaysia