PHUKETWAN recognises the importance of Asean with the Economic Community approaching and marks what's happening around the region with a column, Asean Today, that will cease when Phuketwan closes on December 31.
ft.com The generals need to accept that their best hope of preserving some power in the long run is to work with Aung San Suu Kyi and her allies. If they resist, this will strengthen those who want the military pursued for human rights abuses - and may prompt bloodshed.
nationmultimedia.com Thailand gives importance to cooperating with foreign countries - particularly Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam - and the Kingdom and the rest of the world will walk together, leaving no one behind, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha said. He was speaking at the opening of a meeting of Thai ambassadors and consuls general at the Foreign Ministry in Bangkok.
qz.com Indonesia's chief security minister, Luhut Pandjaitan, indicated the nation could turn to an international tribunal over disputed claims involving the Natuna archipelago, parts of which intersect with the China's nine-dash line. That follows a confirmation that Indonesia deployed seven warships to the archipelago, saying the move is ''a routine patrol program carried out by the navy to safeguard Natuna waters.''
forbes.com Indonesia's Foreign Minister said that his country asked China to clarify its South China Sea claims but had not received an answer. A day earlier Indonesia's security chief said that Jakarta could also take Beijing to international court over the island dispute.
todayonline.com About four in 10 of women in Singapore agree that a wife's first role is to look after her husband and that it is likely to cause problems if a woman earns more money than her husband, according to a global report on attitudes on gender equality.
channelnewsasia.com Those who wish to visit the world's largest particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), no longer have to travel all the way to Geneva: An exhibition that aims to simulate the experience of visiting it is set to open at the ArtScience museum.
pri.org Malaysia was ranked 107th out of 142 countries in the WEF Global Gender Gap 2014, one of the two worst performing country in Southeast Asia together with Cambodia. (East Timor and Myanmar were not ranked.)
bloomberg Malaysia's economy expanded at the slowest pace in more than two years as private consumption eased, adding pressure on policy makers to bolster growth and boost confidence.
bbc.com A Cambodian court has issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sam Rainsy over a conviction for defamation in 2011. It was issued after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened Mr Rainsy with legal action for saying the ruling party would ''derail'' elections in 2018.
cambodiadaily.com Despite failing to meet many of the expectations of its foreign donors over the past two decades, Cambodia's government has never struggled to secure aid from abroad. But as the country's economy strides into middle-income status this year, policymakers will need to carefully navigate the transition from a legacy of aid-based support toward an economy driven by domestic revenue, experts say.
nytimes.com It was Nov. 15, 1965, in the valley of the Ia Drang in the wild mountains of the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. That spring, the Saigon government had begun collapsing under the combined blows of the Vietcong guerrillas and the regular North Vietnamese Army units infiltrating down the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos.
globalresearch.ca The TPP will not bring cooperation or benefits to American or Vietnamese citizens. It is a carefully contrived and very complicated expansion of corporate power over both governments. In the case of Vietnam, this corporate influence may actually threaten the country's sovereign rights as an independent nation with its own laws and regulations.
bbc.com A scam in the Philippines, which allegedly sees bullets dropped into the luggage of passengers as they go through airport security, has sparked anger, fear and social media activism.
travelpulse.com This kind of quaint, quiet, back-to-nature lifestyle is what makes Laos attractive to tourists who are tired of the well-trod trails of Thailand and Vietnam. The Mekong is hugely important to modern Laos too. It is not large-scale fishing or even transportation at the heart of the new water-based economy - it is hydroelectricity.
Burma
ft.com The generals need to accept that their best hope of preserving some power in the long run is to work with Aung San Suu Kyi and her allies. If they resist, this will strengthen those who want the military pursued for human rights abuses - and may prompt bloodshed.
Thailand
nationmultimedia.com Thailand gives importance to cooperating with foreign countries - particularly Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam - and the Kingdom and the rest of the world will walk together, leaving no one behind, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha said. He was speaking at the opening of a meeting of Thai ambassadors and consuls general at the Foreign Ministry in Bangkok.
Indonesia
qz.com Indonesia's chief security minister, Luhut Pandjaitan, indicated the nation could turn to an international tribunal over disputed claims involving the Natuna archipelago, parts of which intersect with the China's nine-dash line. That follows a confirmation that Indonesia deployed seven warships to the archipelago, saying the move is ''a routine patrol program carried out by the navy to safeguard Natuna waters.''
forbes.com Indonesia's Foreign Minister said that his country asked China to clarify its South China Sea claims but had not received an answer. A day earlier Indonesia's security chief said that Jakarta could also take Beijing to international court over the island dispute.
Singapore
todayonline.com About four in 10 of women in Singapore agree that a wife's first role is to look after her husband and that it is likely to cause problems if a woman earns more money than her husband, according to a global report on attitudes on gender equality.
channelnewsasia.com Those who wish to visit the world's largest particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), no longer have to travel all the way to Geneva: An exhibition that aims to simulate the experience of visiting it is set to open at the ArtScience museum.
Malaysia
pri.org Malaysia was ranked 107th out of 142 countries in the WEF Global Gender Gap 2014, one of the two worst performing country in Southeast Asia together with Cambodia. (East Timor and Myanmar were not ranked.)
bloomberg Malaysia's economy expanded at the slowest pace in more than two years as private consumption eased, adding pressure on policy makers to bolster growth and boost confidence.
Cambodia
bbc.com A Cambodian court has issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sam Rainsy over a conviction for defamation in 2011. It was issued after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened Mr Rainsy with legal action for saying the ruling party would ''derail'' elections in 2018.
cambodiadaily.com Despite failing to meet many of the expectations of its foreign donors over the past two decades, Cambodia's government has never struggled to secure aid from abroad. But as the country's economy strides into middle-income status this year, policymakers will need to carefully navigate the transition from a legacy of aid-based support toward an economy driven by domestic revenue, experts say.
Vietnam
nytimes.com It was Nov. 15, 1965, in the valley of the Ia Drang in the wild mountains of the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. That spring, the Saigon government had begun collapsing under the combined blows of the Vietcong guerrillas and the regular North Vietnamese Army units infiltrating down the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos.
globalresearch.ca The TPP will not bring cooperation or benefits to American or Vietnamese citizens. It is a carefully contrived and very complicated expansion of corporate power over both governments. In the case of Vietnam, this corporate influence may actually threaten the country's sovereign rights as an independent nation with its own laws and regulations.
Philippines
bbc.com A scam in the Philippines, which allegedly sees bullets dropped into the luggage of passengers as they go through airport security, has sparked anger, fear and social media activism.
Laos
travelpulse.com This kind of quaint, quiet, back-to-nature lifestyle is what makes Laos attractive to tourists who are tired of the well-trod trails of Thailand and Vietnam. The Mekong is hugely important to modern Laos too. It is not large-scale fishing or even transportation at the heart of the new water-based economy - it is hydroelectricity.
