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...will end in India when shiny new Chetaks and the Maruti 800 disappear from India's streets - an era that marked the emergence of a modern India struggling to align its traditional values with modern aspirations. As Singh put it: "It was good while it lasted, but now its time to move...
Noriega, who is the Director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, highlighted Ortiz as an often under-appreciated influence on modern...
What: Dinner and dessert is on the Harvard Korean Association, as they provide entertainment with traditional Korean fan dancing, modern K-pop adaptations and excitement with special guest AADT. Tickets are $8 pre-sale at the box office and $10 at the door...
...While the coup against Thaksin came as a surprise because there hadn't been one in 14 years, military ousters have been commonplace throughout modern Thai history. The military has staged 18 successful coups since 1932, when a group of army officers and intellectuals overthrew the last absolute monarch. Since then, the military has ruled overtly or has influenced politics from behind the scenes. In May 1992, Bangkok's middle class rose up against a general who usurped power following an election in which he was not a candidate. Soldiers responded with deadly force. King Bhumibol intervened...
...military and abuses of citizens' rights. But unlike Western democracies, in which power is divided among executive, legislative and judicial branches, Thailand has long relied on a balance of power among several institutions, including the legislature, the bureaucracy, the monarchy and the military. While Thailand's governments have promoted modern democracy and most Thai citizens have come to expect it, attempts to radically upset this balance - as Thaksin did by appointing his loyalists to key commands - risk sparking the kind of reaction that resulted in the 2006 coup against him. (See pictures of the 2008 protests in Bangkok...