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ASEAN Integration: Translating A Vision into Reality
As 2015, the date set for accomplishing an integrated regional community, looms near, for members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), there is much debate and discussion on how much...
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Buddhist Women As Agents of Change: Case Studies from Thailand and Indonesia
While in Thailand the majority of its population are adherents of the Theravada Buddhist ‘tradition’, in Indonesia, Buddhism is a minority religion with the Theravada Buddhist ‘tradition’ embraced by...
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Chiangmai: the Future of the Creative Economy in Thailand
Since the early 1990s, Southeast Asian governments have turned their attention to a new kind of economic activity, sometimes dubbed the “creative economy.” At the center of this movement are those...
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The Challenging Circumstances And Future Prospects For Thai Rice Farmers
The general question of Thai rice production, and its prospects – as a problem, or series of problems, requiring and necessitating further investigation – interlinks with a number of other important...
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Uncertainties for Malaysia’s Opposition after Nik Aziz’s death
On Friday 13th January 2015, thousands gathered at the Pulau Melaka Mosque to pay their last respects for Tok Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat. The Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) spiritual leader, who was also...
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Ugly Americans, Ugly Thais
On January 26, 2015, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, Daniel R. Russel, delivered a speech at Chulalongkorn University, urging the end of martial law throughout the...
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China’s Three-Pronged Strategy on Regional Connectivity
Since the BRICS summit in July 2014 in Brazil, when five developing member countries announced the establishment of the New Development Bank (NDB), there has been widespread media coverage on regional...
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Civil Discourse and Civil Society: The dysfunctional culture of Thai academia
It is a strange irony that in Thailand a small group of people can take over the country at gun point, yet no one can turn round and tell them to f*ck off without somehow occupying the moral low...
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Enticing Patriotism: Thai National Anthems and Elites’ Political Interests in...
In May 2014, a video clip of an illegal Myanmarese immigrant singing the Thai national anthem with native-like proficiency at the order of the Thai police went viral, becoming an ironic spectacle for...
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The Real Crisis of Philippine Democracy
The Philippines is one of the poster boys for democracy’s disintegration in Southeast Asia. Current President Noynoy Aquino’s successive blunders, from pork barrel scandals to the Mamasapano incident,...
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Energy Security in Southeast Asia? Let’s start with the Future
The Fukushima nuclear disaster demonstrated the magnitude of devastation when energy security is prioritized over human security. No doubt, the task of balancing the two needs is immense and difficult...
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Myanmar Oil and Gas: Managed by the People for the People
“We want to use the EITI to ensure that these resources (Myanmar’s petroleum resources wealth) are developed and managed in a transparent manner for the sustainable benefit of our people”.President...
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“Family” making in Sino-Thai Relations
This article is to set a broad proposition about examining the Sino-Thai relations through cultural linguistic aspects. In this regard, today it is common to hear leaders from China and Thailand...
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The Constitutional Court in the 2016 constitutional draft: A substitute King...
On 29 January 2016, the Constitution-drafting committee presided by Meechai Reechupan issued the official draft of a new constitution. This draft is the third since the 2014 coup took place on 22 May...
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Vietnam’s Urban Middle Class: Rapidly Growing, Slowly Awakening
Approaching the three decades anniversary of the introduction of the Doi Moi reforms, Vietnam is often presented as a poster-child of economic development. Vietnam’s successes like poverty alleviation...
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Revitalising Cooperatives of Agricultural Communities: OTOP Organisations in...
Thailand’s OTOP (One Tambon One Product) project was initiated in 2001 in line with the government’s policy for encouraging economic growth in local communities. Since farmers and other...
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The good child’s duties: childhood in militarized Thailand
The Thai national children’s day (wan dek), the local version of the International Day for Protection of Children, is celebrated in Thailand on the second week of January. For the occasion, various...
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An Arms Race in Southeast Asia: The Claims and Realities
This paper sets out to challenge the conventional wisdom that structural factors consist of the China threat, and that the ongoing South China Sea disputes are the prime factors in the current military...
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The Production of Shared Space: Notes on Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong...
Our modern world is often characterized as fluid, in which the flow of capital, the stream of people and the flood of products follow multiple paths to keep the pulse of our modern life beating....
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The rise of mass-mobilizing politics in Indonesia
Indonesia prepares for “war!” The glorious time of the “peace dividend” following the 2005 Aceh conflict settlement seems to be over (Honna 2008). The “enemy” has succeeded in weakening the country’s...
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