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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Vietnam’s land law reforms: radical changes or minor tinkering?
Posted on 14 May 2013.
Author: John Gillespie, Monash University The Vietnamese government is currently mulling over six-million public responses to proposed amendments to the Land Law. Most responses concern land grabs by provincial officials, which have dramatically increased since the law’s enactment in 2003. In the last decade, the area of land taken from farmers has reached one-million hectares, [...]
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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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Territorial issues, comfort women, and Japan–ROK relations
Posted on 25 March 2013.
Author: Hitoshi Tanaka, JCIE Strains in Japan–ROK relations, which seriously deteriorated after former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s Takeshima visit stirred tensions and reopened historical wounds, present a challenge not just for the bilateral relationship but also to regional stability. Both countries’ new leaders — South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo [...]
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In China, First Lady’s Fashion a Sensitive Topic
Posted on 25 March 2013.
The triumphant unveiling on an international stage of China’s new first lady has sent the country’s Internet users into a frenzy of enthusiasm over her graceful manner and well-chosen outfits. It has also spurred the country’s censors into action. Annual inflows of foreign direct investment rose to nearly $108 billion in 2008. Economic development has [...]
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Cory Booker: Start-ups Will Define America’s Future
Posted on 21 March 2013.
The Newark mayor and video-site founder spent the past week hanging out with hackers, founders, and tech geeks. Here’s why.Watch out, Mike Bloomberg. There’s competition in the race to be the most pro-entrepreneurship mayor. Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, keynoted at the exclusive f.ounders conference in New York City last week, just after returning home from a few days at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, where he met with entrepreneurs, delivered a talk, and judged a hackathon.That’s where we met him–and where he was hanging out with the founders of some of the most talked-about start-ups of this year. Lady Gaga’s manager, Troy Carter, also chatted up Booker, who has lately become known for his
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Who is the real owner of “Vinacafe”?
Posted on 13 March 2013.
“Vinacafe” is the name the Vietnam National Coffee Corporation used in the transactions with the partners. Meanwhile, Vinacafé Bien Hoa Company affirms that Vinacafe is a brand of its products. View the original here: Who is the real owner of “Vinacafe”?
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