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Now available at Asia Books & Bookazine stores in Thailand, & at all TBBC offices @ 750 baht.

Nine Thousand Nights: Refugees from Burma, A People's Scrapbook

Almost one year ago, TBBC sent out a call for stories and images from the Thailand-Burma border to be collected together into a border 'scrapbook'.

Now, after many months spent sifting through the extraordinary volume of letters, stories, art and photographs that came in from refugees and those who have known and worked with them - the TBBC is proud to announce the publication of "Nine Thousand Nights; Refugees from Burma; A People's Scrapbook".

This unique publication, 'authored' by many hundreds of people, collects together a rich array of insights, memories

and images to provide a deeply human and intimate portrayal of the life and experiences of refugees from Burma over a quarter of a century.

Many individual stories here may move, outrage, enlighten, or surprise the reader-collectively, the perspectives of so many contributors come together to provide a rare 'peoples' glimpse into an extraordinary place and a period of history that will one day pass and be gone.

Click here to see picture and details of how to purchase the book.

This book will be officially launched on Thursday 2 September at 7pm at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand. Click here for more info.

Current Tenders

What's new New and recently updated
01Sep10 Tender: R-2010-November White Rice 35% for refugee camps in MAe Hong Son, Tak and Ratchaburi provinces. For details of these and other current tenders look here.	TBBC Programme reports TBBC's IDP reports
24Aug10 Job vacancy: Field Administrator-MST For details of this and other current vacancies look here.
17Aug10 2009 Audit of TBBC The Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2009 can now be downloaded (Zipped PDF: 1.3Mb - 30 pages).
13Aug10 News: Eastern Burma Situation Update Click here to see the current situation in Southern Shan State, the Karenni areas, Karen State and the Mon areas. For detailed IDP information go to the overview and the maproom.
03Aug10 Tender: SG-2010-3(Re-tender) Sugar for refugee camps in Tak and Ratchaburi provinces. For details of these and other current tenders look here.
28Jul10 New resource in Burmese Burmese translation of extracts from TBBC's July to December 2009 programme report. This translation incudes Chapters 1 (Executive Summary) and 2 (Refugee situation). (Zipped PDF: 156Kb, 16 pages.) This and other resources in Burmese language can be found here.
13Jul10 TBBC's Deputy Director bestowed an MBE Sally Thompson, TBBC's Deputy Director, has been honoured and recognised for her work over the past 20 years serving refugees from Burma - in the Queen's Birthday Honours list she became a Member of the British Empire (MBE). Christian Aid's Amanda Farrant interviews Sally before receiving this prestigious award. Also see Christian Aid's press release.
08Jul10 News: Mung bean distribution suspended TBBC budget reduced 6% due to unfavourable exchange rates. The most serious cut is the suspension of mung bean distribution until the end of the year. Details.
07Jul10 News: eLetter Issue #10, June-July 2010, of the eLetter has been disributed to all subscribers. It and previous issues can be downloaded here. To subscribe to future eLetters and/or our monthly population map go here.
07Jul10 News: TBBC Executive Director visits Taipei, Taiwan. In 2009 Taiwan became TBBC's 16th govermental donor. Jack Dunford visits the MOFA and TOPS. More.
07Jul10 News: Monthly population map Those interested can now subscribe to receive the UNHCR/TBBC population map on a regular basis.

Complete list of updates


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