Diary of Kosa Pan (Ok-Phra Wisut Sunthon) Thai Ambassador to France, June-July 1686, The Resistance Movement win hearts and minds in

win hearts and minds in rural Thailand—and make him and his underpaid buddies a pile of money

the less-than-democratic outcome of the 1993 elections set in motion two decades of internationally assisted elections manipulated and controlled by the losers in 1993 led by the current Prime Minister Hun Sen and his ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP)

On the dock she could see hundreds of well-wishers displaying banners

tacking between the lives of individual toms and dees and the larger context of social norms and political events and discourse within Thailand

(The Irrawaddy

Diary of Kosa Pan (Ok-Phra Wisut Sunthon) Thai Ambassador to France, June-July 1686, The Resistance Movement win hearts and minds inTranslated by Visudh Busayakul Edited by Michael Smithies This account from Kosa Pan's journal describes in great detail the arrival in Brest in 1686 of the first full Siamese embassy to reach France. The author is the first ambassador of that embassy, also known as the rachathut Ok phra Wisut Sunthon, who became phra khlang in 1688 under King Phetracha after the death of King Narai This fragment is apparently all that survives of a massive report of