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LATEST OPINIONS
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Toward a functional Chiang Mai Initiative
By Chalongphob Sussangkarn, TDRI | 15 May 2012
The Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI) is a regional foreign exchange liquidity support mechanism that developed as a result of the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis.
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ASEAN: a united front to tackle the South China Sea issue
By Sanchita Basu Das, ISEAS | 13 May 2012
ASEAN concluded its 20th Summit on 4 April 2012. The discussion shifted away from building an ASEAN Community, to debates over territorial disputes in the South China Sea between China, Taiwan and four ASEAN member states (the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam).
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Thailand walks a tightrope on South China Sea
By Kavi Chongkittavorn, The Nation | 8 May 2012
When Thailand serves as the new coordinating country for Asean-China relations beginningJuly, expectations are extremely high that the country, which has an intimate tie with China, would be able to keep peace and stability through managing competing claims in the troubled South China Sea.
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Population in the Asian Century
By Peter McDonald, ANU | 14 Mar 2012
The world’s population is now estimated to be half of what it might have been primarily because of the widespread success that Asian countries have achieved in reducing their birth rates.
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Thailand set to profit from Burma’s new Dawei port project
By Pavin Chachavalpongpun, ISEAS | 24 Feb 2012
Burma is transforming itself from an old socialist state into a modern market-oriented nation. Accordingly, the government has approved plans to develop a large port and industrial estate in Dawei with the Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited (ITD) as a major contractor.
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From baptism by cyclone to a nation's fresh start
By Surin Pitsuwan, the Secretary-General of the ASEAN | 17 Feb 2012
For the past four years, Myanmar has been high on the agenda of my service as secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Barely four months into my five-year term, on May 2, 2008 the ferocity of Cyclone Nargis hit the Delta of the Ayyawadi River, including the commercial capital Yangon.
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The Thai–Australia FTA: discriminatory effects of rules of origin
By Prema-chandra Athukorala, ANU and Archanun Kohpaiboon, Thammasat University | 30 Dec 2011
The proliferation of FTAs over the past two decades has sparked a debate in Australian and international policy forums about their implications for the operation of the global trading system and ways of mitigating likely discriminatory effects on both partners and non-signatory countries.
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Bearing the consequences of population policy in Thailand
By Gavin Jones, ANU | 29 Dec 2011
Thailand went through its fertility transition more quickly than almost any other country, with the average number of children born to the average woman declining from about six to two in little more than two decades, between about 1970 and 1990.
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Problems with human capital in Malaysia
By Shankaran Nambiar, MIU, Malaysia | 27 Dec 2011
The present and future quality of Malaysia’s human capital is of considerable concern for the country’s policy makers.
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Justice denied for Cambodia
By Kevin Boreham and Harry Hobbs, ANU | 22 Dec 2011
The trial of three senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge — Ieng Sary, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan (known as Case 002) — began in November in Phnom Penh before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).
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Thailand, a nation caught in the middle-income trap
By Peter Warr, ANU | 18 Dec 2011
Thailand is caught in a middle-income trap of its own creation. How did this come about?
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International financial crises and the ASEAN economies
By Arief Ramayandi, ADB | 14 Dec 2011
The slow resolution of the European debt crisis has evolved into a liquidity problem which threatens the global financial system.
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The South China Sea dispute: a legal solution needed
By John Hemmings, CSIS, Honolulu | 7 Dec 2011
Tensions over the region have grown steadily since 2009, after China, Vietnam and Malaysia submitted their respective claims under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
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The euro crisis: lessons for East Asia
By Stephen Grenville, Lowy Institute | 6 Dec 2011
Only a few years ago, the European common-currency arrangements were held up as a possible model for Asia.
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South Asia and Asia's middle-class future
By Peter Drysdale, Editor, East Asia Forum | 28 Nov 2011
As they struggle to escape the global financial crisis, the prospect of China's continued, powerful growth both excites and challenges the established economic powers in Europe and North America.
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Burma: a test that ASEAN may be failing
By Julie Sheetz, Harvard University | 26 Nov 2011
Even before the announcement that ASEAN member states had awarded the 2014 rotating chairmanship to Burma, it was already a foregone conclusion.
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Trade regionalism in Asia: new issues and old
By Andrew Elek, ANU | 25 Nov 2011
A revolution in information and communications technology since the 1990s has changed the nature of production, international commerce and the importance of integration.
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US, China role play for ASEAN
By Donald K. Emmerson, Stanford University | 25 Nov 2011
Southeast Asian policy makers looking north to the Asian mainland and east across the Pacific see two major assets to their region: China's biggest-in-the-world economy and America's best-in-the-world military.
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Asian integration and geopolitics
By Shiro Armstrong, ANU | 24 Nov 2011
East Asia's pursuit of policy strategies of openness to trade and investment have resulted in its being economically one of the world's most internationally-integrated regions — both intraregionally and towards the rest of the world.
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The TPP: what are Asia's alternatives?
By Gary Hawke, NZIER | 19 Nov 2011
While in Honolulu for the APEC summit recently, President Obama announced a 12-month timeframe to complete negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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Injecting Business Acumen into ASEAN's Leadership
By Edmund Sim | 15 Nov 2011
CIMB Bank head Dato' Sri Nazir Razak, the chief organiser of the ASEAN Business Club (ABC) and supporter of the CIMB ASEAN Research Institute (CARI*), proposed during the CIMB ASEAN Conference that the next ASEAN Secretary-General come from the corporate sector in order to support the development of the ASEAN Economic Community.
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Asia's role in the G20
By Wook Chae, KIEP | 2 Nov 2011
For many reasons, the G20 may be justifiably considered the world's premier economic forum. These reasons are often associated with problems inherent in the earlier G7 grouping...
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Can Asia keep growing?
By Peter Drysdale | 31 Oct 2011
Getting the right fix on the interaction between macroeconomic policy and structural reforms is crucial to navigating the world's economic woes in the years immediately ahead...
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ASEAN and its impact on industrial specialisation in the automotive sector
By Shamsul Yunos | 2 Sep 2011
Together with Social Progress and Cultural Development, promoting regional economic growth was part of the foundations of the Association of South East Asian Nations but this proved to be a difficult task for the group.
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China's Pacific Accommodation With America
By Juwono Sudarsono, Jakarta | 23 Aug 2011
Talks of growing strategic rivalry between the US and China have gained steam among columnists, book writers, think tanks and strategic analysts. Themes of American imminent decline…
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ASEAN must have a Newspaper
By A. Murad Merican | 28 May 2011
I am a hard copy freak — form, content and soul. I take soothsayers who predict the demise of the newspaper with a pinch of salt. Reading the papers is a daily ritual with a cup of coffee every...
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ASEAN For A New Era
By Dato' Sri Nazir Razak, Group CEO, CIMB Group | 28 May 2011
We stand between yesterday's ASEAN, and tomorrow's ASEAN. A new world is unfolding and we need a new ASEAN to meet its challenges and harness its opportunities.
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Rebalancing US dominance
By Juwono Sudarsono, Jakarta | 30 Sep 2010
For more than 65 years, the United States has maintained a full spectrum of military dominance throughout the world. Since 1990, when America's policy makers proclaimed its "unipolar moment"…
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The ASEAN-India FTA
By Geethanjali Nataraj, Ministry of Finance, Policy Research Institute, Tokyo and NCEAR, New Delhi | 21 Sep 2010
The global surge in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) has continued unabated since the early 1990s. India was an exception to this trend for many years...
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ASEAN+8 – A recipe for a new regional architecture
By K Kesavapany, ISEASBy K Kesavapany, ISEAS | 8 May 2010
As the international centre of economic gravity moves towards East Asia, the challenge for the region is to develop a new architecture commensurate with its growing role in world affairs...
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ASEAN central to the region's future
By Surin Pitsuwan, ASEAN Secretary-General | 2 May 2010
During his visit to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat in Jakarta on 4 March 2010, Kofi Anan, former United Nations Secretary General, commended ASEAN for having regained its profile in the international arena. This profile is something that needs to be nurtured further...
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Will ASEAN benefit from the ASEAN-China FTA?
By Shandre Thangavelu, NUS | 27 Jan 2010
The ACFTA (ASEAN China Free Trade Area) is one the world's largest free trade agreements. As of January 2010, it encompassed 1.9 billion people...
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ASEAN Charteritis
By Razeen Sally | 13 Mar 2009
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently held its annual summit in Thailand. ASEAN leaders signed an FTA with Australia and New Zealand...
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