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Tea Culture Tourism In Southeast Asia : A Comparative Study Of Mae Salong In Thailand And Thai Nguyen In Vietnam, Yanling Guo
Tea Culture Tourism In Southeast Asia : A Comparative Study Of Mae Salong In Thailand And Thai Nguyen In Vietnam, Yanling Guo
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This study attempts to explore the development of tea planting and producing, and tea culture tourism in Mae Salong in Thailand and Thai Nguyen in Vietnam. The findings reveal that tea planting in Mae Salong is derived from KMT villagers in northern Thailand who initially planted tea for livelihood, later developed as a cash crop for substituting opium and reducing soil erosion under the cooperation between the Royal Project and Taiwanese organizations. Nowadays, tea in Mae Salong is selected as "OTOP" and marketed as tourism resources to attract tourists. The tea culture tours in Mae Salong are usually organized with …
Indonesia's Role In Humanitarian Crisis In Rakhine State Of Myanmar (2012- 2017), Muhammad Indrawan Jatmika
Indonesia's Role In Humanitarian Crisis In Rakhine State Of Myanmar (2012- 2017), Muhammad Indrawan Jatmika
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This thesis begins with the question of why does Indonesia consider the humanitarian crisis that occurred in Rakhine State of Myanmar as a very important issue and needs to be taken seriously by conducting soft power diplomacy and humanitarian assistance to address the crisis? Indonesia has the rational choice of conducting soft diplomacy in the form of bilateral and multilateral responses, as well as providing humanitarian assistance in the crisis that occurred in Rakhine state. Theoretical discussion of this paper is carried out on the theory by William D Coplin on various factors that influence the process of foreign policy …
Roles Of Actors In The Development Of Organic Farming In Baan Non-Yang, Amphoe Kud-Chum, Yasothon Province, Yan-Ting Huang
Roles Of Actors In The Development Of Organic Farming In Baan Non-Yang, Amphoe Kud-Chum, Yasothon Province, Yan-Ting Huang
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Organic agriculture in Thailand has been shaped by the agency factors with contestation on development in structural contexts since the 1970s. It emerged and developed as a part of alternative agriculture movement, and transformed in dynamic contexts with involvement of various actors. Organic farming in Non-Yang community can be perceived as the microcosm of the development. POs, NGOs, GOs and private sectors are involved into the community as actors of organic farming network. With negotiation and cooperation in the network, the movement has persisted and become viable until today. The thesis was conducted with a stakeholder analysis on the case …
The Adaption Of Phở In Vietnam After 1986, Kunyarat Saengul
The Adaption Of Phở In Vietnam After 1986, Kunyarat Saengul
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Phở is known as a national dish of Vietnam. It is originated in the north of Vietnam as a labour food. With its popularity, phở spread all over the country adapted to ingredients and way of cooking in each place. After the socio-economic reform (Đổi Mới) in 1986, Vietnam's economy was shifted from centrally planned to market-based. As a result, there are changes in the growth of 3 groups of people; the middle-income class, the overseas Vietnamese, and the rural-urban migrants and low-income class in urban Vietnam. Meanwhile, the reform encouraged the growth of tourism in which pho has been …
Education And Identity Of Myanmar Migrant Children In Samut Sakhon Province, Shan Li
Education And Identity Of Myanmar Migrant Children In Samut Sakhon Province, Shan Li
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The purpose of this research is to explore the educational status and identity of Myanmar migrant children in Samut Sakhon Province and to analyze the different roles and influences of formal and informal educational models on these children's identity. For Myanmar migrant children who live in Thailand, due to their living environment are different from their parents, they seem to face identity challenges. The analysis of the identifying characteristics of Myanmar migrant children is not only contributing to the understanding of the current situation of Myanmar migrant children in Thailand but also can broaden the understanding about the factors that …
New Chinese Migrants Enterpruner In Thailand: The Case Study Of Jong-Thai Jianming Eiw Ea (Group) Co., Ltd., Yuge Liu
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The study of the overseas Chinese in Thailand has been broadly conducted by many scholars. However, such have mainly focused on the overseas Chinese who came from the southeastern part of China, as they were the major part of the Chinese migrants to the Southeast Asian region from the ancient to modern times, and today they still play a great role in this region. Major themes in these studies include the identification of the Chinese migrants (who they were or where they had come from), various Chinese associations, big families of Chinese entrepreneurs and etc. On the contrary, the study …
From “Burmese Brides” To Burmese Wives : Analyzing Transnational Marriages Of Women From Myanmar To Chinese Men Along The Myanmar-Yunnan Frontier, Xuanyi Luo
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Since around 2000, there has a growth of Myanmar women who have married men in Yunnan, China. Media reports from China, Myanmar and the West typically call these women "Burmese brides" and link them to human trafficking, fake marriages, HIV-AIDS, among other issues. This gives the public a negative impression of these women, and views them as mostly vulnerable victims caught in a faceless transnational marriage process. This thesis seeks to correct this limited view and provide a fuller picture of these women and to stress the role of their choice or "agency" in forming their transnational marriages beyond the …
The Effect Of Tranforming From A Colony To A Nation-State On Chinese Diaspora Identity In Southeast Asia : Case Study Of The Chinese Emigration From The Malay Peninsula, 1945-1979, Huiwen Xue
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
During the period between 1945 and 1979, the Malay Peninsula was under a chaotic and turbulent social situation. Decolonization, ideological confrontation, and ethnic conflict all happened in this period. This research adopts the documentary research method to analyze how the turbulent social situation affected Chinese society in Malaya/Malaysia and how the problems that the ethnic Chinese of the Malay Peninsula faced affected the Chinese emigration from the Malay Peninsula. During the anti-colonial period, part of the ethnic Chinese of Malaya identified with China and sympathized with the Chinese Communist Party. Hence, China was the most important destination for them. Afterward, …