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The Urban Development Of Phnom Penh: "A Happy Garden With An Ever-Bright Sun", Christina Warning
The Urban Development Of Phnom Penh: "A Happy Garden With An Ever-Bright Sun", Christina Warning
Asian Review
Phnom Penh has been one of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing cities. Throughout the past decades the urban development processes throughout Southeast Asia have led to evictions, many of which have been violent. In many countries, evictions and the violent removal of entire communities has become a defining feature of modern urban development. Phnom Penh is no exception. This paper provides a condensed account of some of the essential urban policy decisions over the past four decades that help to understand the conflicts and fault lines that have shaped the contemporary urban landscape of Phnom Penh. Using the example of an …
Discourse "Eat Boys, Become Immortal": The Reflection Of Conflicts Between Thai Women And Thai Social Values, Somprasong Saeng-In
Discourse "Eat Boys, Become Immortal": The Reflection Of Conflicts Between Thai Women And Thai Social Values, Somprasong Saeng-In
Asian Review
This research aims at studying the discourses from various genres on the Internet containing the sentence 'กินเด็ก เป็นอมตะ" (eat boys, become immortal) or the same meaning in order discover the conflicts between Thai women and social values. By using Critical Discourse Analysis in all examples, the following conflicts were found: A Thai woman should not love a younger man; Thai women should not be single; Thai women are not equal to men; Thai women can overpower men but it is inappropriate; Love between Thai women and younger men is materialistic and temporary; The discourses reflect the conflict of love in …
Asean In The Brave New World: Rising China And Southeast Asia In The Post-Cold War, Wasana Wongsurawat
Asean In The Brave New World: Rising China And Southeast Asia In The Post-Cold War, Wasana Wongsurawat
Asian Review
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An Analysis Of The Constraining Factors On Greater Mekong Subregion Cooperation: A Case Study Of The Kunming-Bangkok Channel, Zhao Shulan
Asian Review
Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) cooperation from the perspective of regional development is restricted by political, economic and cultural factors in the process of promotion. The Kunming-Bangkok corridor is the central line of the GMS SouthNorth Economic Corridor, which was jointly launched by the Asian Development Bank and China to connect China and ASEAN Countries. But as soon as the Corridor was built in 2013, it was found to be diffi cult to break through the bottleneck of development. Th is can be seen as a common point in diff erent aspects of GMS cooperation. Moreover, the diff erent demands and …
Political Economy Of Pragmatic Refugee Policies In Indonesia As A Transit Country, Yanuar Sumarlan
Political Economy Of Pragmatic Refugee Policies In Indonesia As A Transit Country, Yanuar Sumarlan
Asian Review
After some influence by the Australian government through the Bali Process, Indonesia—out of its typical pragmatismcum-flexibility type of approach to refugee issues—began obviously to apply a more securitization-based refugee and asylum-seeker policy in the early 2000s. This paper asks a simple question, “Has Indonesia been truly capable of (1) restricting refugees and asylum seekers’ movement and (2) to processing the refugees’ and asylum seekers’ claims to concluding parts?” This paper argues that the alleged securitization-based policy on refugees or asylum-seekers has had little impact on refugee rights such as freedom of movement and the right to get a claim processed. …
Vulnerability To Poverty Of Rural Farm Households In Thailand, Thitiwan Sricharoen
Vulnerability To Poverty Of Rural Farm Households In Thailand, Thitiwan Sricharoen
Asian Review
This research intends to estimate vulnerability to poverty, specify vulnerable groups and identify strategies that households use to address the exposure to risk of rural farm households in Northeastern and Northern Thailand. This study was conducted in four provinces of Thailand in the Northeastern region (Kalasin and Buri Ram provinces) and the Northern region (Chiangmai and Nan provinces). Data on a total of 1,400 households was collected in the year 2014. The research methodology applied was the feasible generalized least square (FGLS) method, which was employed to determine how log consumption impacts the welfare status of households. The result on …
Ageing And Modernization Theory, Marie-Helene Thomas
Ageing And Modernization Theory, Marie-Helene Thomas
Asian Review
Societies are moving towards a greying-nation at the fastest rate the world has ever seen with increasing numbers of centenarians each year. Current life-expectancy rates indicate that a person can expect to live 20 to 30 more years past the age of retirement. However, the modernization theory argues that the value of older people in society is decreasing with modernity and as a society moves away from tradition and towards a youth-oriented ideology, older people are left behind and deemed to be less important. Research is demonstrating that, with modernity, the concept of filial piety in Asian countries is declining, …
A Short History Of The Transformation Of Ethnic Chinese Organizations In Thailand: From Seditious Secret Societies To Patriotic Cultural Ngos, Zhang Ying Ying, Wasana Wongsurawat
A Short History Of The Transformation Of Ethnic Chinese Organizations In Thailand: From Seditious Secret Societies To Patriotic Cultural Ngos, Zhang Ying Ying, Wasana Wongsurawat
Asian Review
Ethnic Chinese organizations in Thailand were transformed and developed through the past century and a half of the modern era in three major phases. In the early-19th century, an influx of Chinese labor migrants followed the tradition of establishing fi ctive kinship networks in their host country through sworn brotherhoods and secret societies. Towards the end of the 19th century, however, the modernization and nation-building processes of the Thai state came into confl ict with the culture and lifestyle of Chinese secret societies and they became criminalized. Consequently, the ethnic Chinese community in Thailand entered the second phase of registering …
Administrative Reform For Public Administration Capacity In Bangladesh, Muhammad Azizuddin
Administrative Reform For Public Administration Capacity In Bangladesh, Muhammad Azizuddin
Asian Review
This paper aims to understand the reform-led administrative capacity for service delivery in Bangladesh. It also explores the links between administrative reform and service delivery capacity in the context of local administration relating to MDGs universal primary education. It represents a qualitative empirical study with gleaned data and seeks to answer the question of whether the Bangladeshi administration is sufficiently capable of delivering public services. Findings show that the capacity is limited and not up to the standard of a contemporary public service ethos. In addition, the management of local administration is conservative in their approach. The research implies an …
Changing Asia, Jirayudh Sinthuphan
Recording The Past Of "Peoples Without History": Southeast Asia’S Sea Nomads, Barbara Watson Andaya
Recording The Past Of "Peoples Without History": Southeast Asia’S Sea Nomads, Barbara Watson Andaya
Asian Review
This essay has been developed from the conviction that scholars of all disciplines, particularly from Southeast Asia, must work together to prioritize the task of recording the traditions of “marginalized peoples” before practices, beliefs and memories disappear completely. Although anthropologists dominate contemporary studies, historians have much to offer, especially in dealing with the relationship between such groups and the state. Here I provide a background to historical work on sea peoples, tracking the evolution of the now accepted view that, traditionally, they were respected by land-based states and that this relationship was mutually beneficial. However, the demise of reciprocity combined …
Communist Defeat In The Second Indochina War, Paul T. Carter
Communist Defeat In The Second Indochina War, Paul T. Carter
Asian Review
Once I talked with them (his North Vietnamese captors) about captured soldiers at the front line. They asked me which front line? I was thinking of Plain De Jars and Sky Line Ridge, so I told them. They laughed and told me that’s not the front line. They said their front line was Thailand. (Thai Forward Air Guide CROWBAR, captured by the North Vietnamese in Laos in 1972 and kept captive for over four years.) (Warriors Association 333 1987, 6)
Introduction, Wasana Wongsurawat
Dealing With Diversity: State Strategies On Ethnic Minority Management In Southeast Asia, Hansley A. Juliano, Matthew David D. Ordoñez, Enrico Antonio B. La Viña
Dealing With Diversity: State Strategies On Ethnic Minority Management In Southeast Asia, Hansley A. Juliano, Matthew David D. Ordoñez, Enrico Antonio B. La Viña
Asian Review
Southeast Asia’s ethnic, political and cultural diversity continues to pose major policy and governance hurdles in enforcing a common community born out of the post-colonial nationalist baggage of almost all the region’s countries. ASEAN’s “non-interference” clause gives leeway to each member state to respond to its ethnic diversity with nation-building projects through exclusionary governance. With this leeway, each Southeast Asian country’s nation-building policies legitimize a particular, existing ethno-nationalist or “ethno-religious” majority at the expense of democratic accountability. This study proposes a preliminary quantitative model which uses regression analysis to compare Southeast Asian countries’ data on their religious and ethnic populations. …
South China Sea Contestations: Southeast Asia’S Regional Identity And Asean’S Sustainability, Victor R. Savage
South China Sea Contestations: Southeast Asia’S Regional Identity And Asean’S Sustainability, Victor R. Savage
Asian Review
Current global news is focused on China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea and the ensuing clash with the United States over the “freedom of marine navigation.” Against this background of territorial claims lies the complex history of old Asian civilizations which undergird no easy resolution of such territorial issues. This paper interrogates the region’s cultural identity paradigm arising from China’s territorial claims, the US-China hegemonic global contestation, the US-China trade war and ASEAN’s responses to the changing geopolitics and extension of China’s geography. It argues that both domestic changes and externalities are affecting ASEAN’s regional cohesion.
Civil Service And Oligarchy: American Colonial Principles In Early Twentieth Century Philippines And Hawai'i, Lance D. Collins
Civil Service And Oligarchy: American Colonial Principles In Early Twentieth Century Philippines And Hawai'i, Lance D. Collins
Asian Review
This paper surveys the history of the introduction of an American-style merit-principle in the creation of a classified civil service system in the Philippines and Hawai'i. The paper illustrates how the implementation of the idea of the "merit principle" in civil service and in organizing public workers in the Philippines and Hawai'i was undermined by opposing forces within the American colonial governing apparatus. The Philippines was an early adopter of the Progressive-era “merit principle” reforms being pushed in the United States proper while Hawai‘i was one of the last—implemented halfway through the New Deal era. This paper attempts to understand …