The title of this post is exactly what the tooktook driver told me when I returned from a meeting in Central Bangkok to my well appointed but still super budget hotel near Bangkok’s version of Banawe Street, Quezon City. I couldn’t take a cab and getting to the MRT was out of the question as [...]
A show with everything but Bayani Fernando!
June 6, 2009 By 58 Comments
Bangkok Thailand: I just returned from Chulalongkorn’s field station on the Gulf of Thailand. This is my first good look at the Thai capital. Colleagues from Chula and Thammasat tell me that the recession hit Thailand bad. They say that the city isn’t crawling with Westerners unlike in the past. They took me to the [...]
On the future of ASEAN.
March 7, 2009 By 14 Comments
When former President Fidel V. Ramos visited my university as guest lecturer last Thursday, I took the opportunity to ask what he thinks the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must do to be more relevant in the coming years. President Ramos has a deep appreciation of the ASEAN. His father, former Secretary of Foreign [...]
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