Friday, 30th July 2010

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Watch What You Say in Burma’s Sacred Forests


What’s a more powerful conservation incentive - a government jail or a spiritual punishment? ZEE-O-THIT-HLA, Burma Myint Naing has one of the easier jobs in the Myanmar forestry department.  Since 1999 his task has been to protect the Zee-O Thit-Hla sacred forest, which has been a government forest reserve since 1988.  No one has cut a tree during that period.  Is it the fear of a three-year prison sentence that has kept...

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Exploring Your Personal Odyssey


A creative writing workshop that helps people tell their personal stories ___ Monday October 11, 2010.  08.30-17.00 Sponsored by Neilson Hays Library  Read More »

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles


An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles Lecture on Alfred Russel Wallace __ Friday July 16, 2010  18.00-19.00 National University Singapore Sponsored by National Parks Board-Singapore http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/index.php?entry=/talks/20100716-wallacetalk.txt ___ Charles...

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Almost Famous


Almost Famous A master class in creative non-fiction ________ Sponsored by Neilson Hays Library, Bangkok, Thailand Thursday June 7, 2010.  08.30-17.00 neilson.library@gmail.com  Tel: +66...

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