Author: Vannarith Chheang, CICP This year marks the 10th anniversary of the China–ASEAN strategic partnership. Early this year, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited the ASEAN Secretariat and four ASEAN member countries to strengthen mutual understanding and strategic trust, and show support for ASEAN community building. Chinese Defence Minister Chang Wanquan also visited Brunei and [...]
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China and its Southeast Asian neighbours need more strategic capital
Posted on 23 May 2013.
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The social and economic costs of gender-based violence in Bangladesh
Posted on 11 April 2013.
Author: Andrew Rowell, CARE Australia The UN Commission on the Status of Women met again in New York on 4–15 March 2013, with a particular focus this year on prevention of gender-based violence. In this context, it is timely for policy-makers to contemplate the full social and economic costs of gender-based violence on women, families, communities and [...]
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The Asian Century will be built on human capital
Posted on 02 April 2013.
Authors: Wolfgang Lutz, IIASA and Samir KC, IIASA Asia today is home to more than four billion people — more than 60 per cent of the total world population — yet its influence in world affairs remains disproportionately small. The reason for this imbalance is that, while influence on the world stage is partly a [...]
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Top cop transfered after deadly refugee camp blaze
Posted on 27 March 2013.
The country currently hosts some 84,900 registered refugees and an estimated 62,000 unregistered asylum-seekers from Myanmar in nine camps along the Thai-Myanmar border. Visit link: Top cop transfered after deadly refugee camp blaze Thailand’s open and tightly integrated into global trade economy experienced a V-shape contraction and recovery from late 2008 through late 2009 The [...]
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China’s climate change policy: greener growth?
Posted on 04 March 2013.
Authors: Frank Jotzo, ANU, and Yongsheng Zhang, DRC China’s economic transformation is so rapid that around two decades from now, the country is likely to join the ranks of high-income societies, according to the joint report China 2030 by the Development Research Center and World Bank. Quality of life for most of its people is [...]
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Establishing a Philippine cyber command: points to consider
Posted on 14 December 2012.
Author: Miguel Alberto Gomez, DLSU In the wake of recent cyber attacks launched against the Republic of the Philippines, and in response to the formalisation of cyber-crime legislation, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have recently announced plans to establish an operations centre to address the rising incidence of cyber attacks. Categorised as a [...]
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A moratorium on the territorial disputes in East Asia?
Posted on 31 October 2012.
Authors: Djisman S. Simandjuntak, Indonesia, and Lee Sun-Jin, South Korea Recently, sales of Korean-made cars have surged in China while Japanese-made cars have sharply reduced. Korea and Japan agreed in October not to extend their currency swap agreements when they expire at the end of the month. These new developments may be attributed to the [...]
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China and Asian regionalism in a multi-polar global economy
Posted on 29 September 2012.
Author: Miriam L. Campanella, University of Turin At the 2011 Asia Economic Policy Conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Justin Yifu Lin, then chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, made an unambiguous statement about China’s vital role in the global economy: ‘Whether we are on the verge [...]
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