Participants at the HBF office compound in Chiang Mai

More than 40 people, among them academics, representatives from local government, civil society and the private sector, attended the first lead up event to HBF's Southeast Asia Regional Office's 10th anniversary to discuss solutions to the problems in the city’s transport sector. The event was opened by Dr. Pramual Pengchan who introduced the short film “Walking through Memories”. Afterwards, the invited guest speakers Dr. Duongchan Apavatjrut Charoenmuang, Roland Haas, Dr. Axel Friedrich and Prof. Rungsun Udomsri gave comprehensive presentations of their approaches to the topic of sustainable transportation in Chiang Mai, stimulating an intense discussion.

A more detailed report and speakers' presentations to follow soon...

at Chiang Mai University Art Center's auditorium and the Center for Promotion of Art and Culture, Chiang Mai

The short films "Far from Home" (Thursday, 18 June, 19:10) and "Just a Boy" (Thursday, 18 June, 17:00 and Friday, with Q&A with the director, 19 June, 19:20) from Myanmar/Burma have been directed by students of Yangon Film School, with support of Heinrich Boell Foundation.

by Prof. Prasart Meetam, Faculty of Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, supported by Heinrich Boell Foundation Southeast Asia, first publishing in February 2009 

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By Stephen Croall, translated to Thai by Kannika Promsao, published by Komol Keemthong Foundation, 2nd edition, 2009

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Can China save Cambodia from the Global Economic Crisis? by Heike Baumueller, March 2009

The analysis of China's role regarding the impact of the economic downturn on Cambodia by Heike Baumueller is part of a comprehensive dossier by the Heinrich Boell Foundation asking for ways out of the global economic crisis. 

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It is not even spring yet but 2009 is already being termed a recession year. The global financial crisis hit the real economy everywhere and stimulus packages are frantically being thrown together. The pressure for change is rising on the “construction sites” of globalisation...

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When emerging Asia’s boom turned to bust in 1997, Thailand was famously on the vanguard of the regional collapse. Now with the United States and Europe repeating several of those same mistakes - albeit on a larger and more expensive scale – Thailand’s post-1997 crisis experience is back in the spotlight...

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"Women in the Space of Community Radio: The Experience from Northern Thailand"
by Sarintip Mansap
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"Women and Community Radio Technology, Thailand"
by Sarod Wellmanee
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"Gender Mainstreaming – Possibilities and Limits of a Radical Social Concept", by Barbara Unmüßig, member of the board of Heinrich Boell Foundation

Gender Mainstreaming needs to be taken more seriously and a topic for society as a whole. Besides legal frameworks, we need bottom-up policies, a strengthening of initiatives that target equality and more men on board to fundamentally change the relationship between the genders.

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New director of HBF's Southeast Asia Regional Office in Chiang Mai!

  With the beginning of the new year, we have welcomed Ms. Jana Mittag as the new director of Heinrich Boell Foundation's Southeast Asia Regional Office in Chiang Mai/Thailand. She has taken over from Dr. Heike Loeschmann who has been our regional director for 9 years.

Cambodian women remain largely marginalized within the political sphere. This is especially true for indigenous women in local decision making. To better understand and promote indigenous women’s participation in both traditional and formal political institutions, the Cambodia Country Office, together with GTZ, has launched an action research project. The project was conducted during the months of May, June and July 2008 among indigenous communities in Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri, Stung Treng and among Khmer communities in Kratie....

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