Palaung in Northern Thailand, The Comics In these wonderful weaves

In these wonderful weaves

Prasit Leepreecha and Kwanchewan Buadaeng are researchers at the Social Research Institute of Chiang Mai University

Concludes that Myanmar is not a client state of China

with important implications for how women were able to exercise social

and reveals how some women were able to gain political influence through their familial connections with powerful men

Palaung in Northern Thailand, The Comics In these wonderful weavesMichael C. Howard and Wattana Wattanapun Today over two thousand Palaunga group of mountain peoples who speak Mon Khmerlive in a handful of villages north of Chiang Mai in Thailand. They fled here from Burma in the 1980s to escape the fighting between communist insurgents and Burmese army troops. Though granted sanctuary, in the late 1990s many of the Palaung in Thailand found themselves involved in a new conflict over land use in northern Thailand's