ใกล้ตาอาเซียน : วิถีพุทธของผู้คนในเมียนมาร์ (02 ส.ค. 2557)

ติดตามชมรายการท้ายกห้อง ทุกวันเสาร์-อาทิตย์ เวลา 20.16 น. ทางไทยพีบีเอส หรือรับชมทีวีออนไลน์ทาง   http://clip.thaipbs.or.th/file-13104#.U93nZuyifek.facebo...

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War Crimes

Acts that violate the international laws, treaties, customs, and practices governing military conflict between belligerent states or parties.War crimes may be committed by a country's regular armed forces, such as its army, navy, or air force, or by irregular armed forces, such as guerrillas and insurgents. Soldiers may be punished for war crimes, as may military and political leaders, members of the judiciary, industrialists, and civilians who are enlisted by a belligerent to contravene the Rules of War. However, isolated instances of Terrorism...

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Promoting Peace in Myanmar

U.S. Interests and Role By Lynn Kuok May 1, 2014 Myanmar has made important progress toward democratic reform since President Thein Sein’s civilian government came to power in early 2011. Significant challenges, however, remain and could scuttle efforts at change. Key among these are the peace process between the government and armed ethnic groups in the border regions; communal tensions in Rakhine state bordering...

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"รัชกาลที่ 4 กล่าวถึงบรรพชนชาวหงสาของพระองค์ - ေအကရာဇ္ေသမ္ဆီမန္"

"รัชกาลที่ 4 กล่าวถึงบรรพชนชาวหงสาของพระองค์ - ေအကရာဇ္ေသမ္ဆီမန္" ต่อคำถามของ เซอร์ จอห์น เบาวริ่งที่ว่า "I requested the King to favour me with an account of his own dynasty, and received the following reply" พระบาทสมเด็จพระจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว รัชกาลที่ 4 ทรงพระราชทานตอบเซอร์ จอห์น เบาวริ่ง ที่เข้ามาเจริญสัมพันธไมตรีในราชอาณาจักรสยามเมื่อปี พ.ศ. 2398 ในฐานะอัครราชทูตผู้แทนของสมเด็จพระราชินีวิคตอ เรีย ตีพิมพ์ในหนังสือ "The Kingdom and...

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Types of Papers: Argument/Argumentative

While some teachers consider persuasive papers and argument papers to be basically the same thing, it’s usually safe to assume that an argument paper presents a stronger claim—possibly to a more resistant audience. For example:  while a persuasive paper might claim that cities need to adopt recycling programs, an argument paper on the same topic might be addressed to a particular town.  The argument paper would go further, suggesting specific ways that a recycling program should be adopted and utilized in that particular...

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The “Wages of Burman-ness:” Ethnicity and Burman Privilege in Contemporary Myanmar

The “Wages of Burman-ness:” Ethnicity and Burman Privilege in Contemporary Myanmar Ethnicity is one of the primary lenses through which scholars view conflict in Burma/Myanmar. In this paper I examine the dominance of the majority ethnic group in Myanmar, the Burmans, and the ways in which Burman-ness functions as a privileged identity. I draw from the theoretical framework of Whiteness and White privilege in critical race theory to argue that, although there are important analytical differences between race and ethnicity, we can conceptualise...

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Queen Chamadevi

The Story Of Queen Chamadevi SEE RELATED IMAGES @ PICTURES FROM HISTORY According to the chronicles and legends of Lanna, Chamadevi was a strikingly beautiful woman who nevertheless enjoyed a fair measure of personal misfortune. To begin with, she was apparently pregnant but unmarried at the time she was appointed Queen of Lamphun - indeed, this unfortunate condition may have been one reason her father, the ruler of Lopburi,...

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