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Myanmar’s financial opening: No shock therapy please

Myanmar, as ASEAN Chair, has done well to ensure that achieving the AEC 2015 goal…

April 10, 20143 min

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Japan-Australia FTA: A good precedent for compromise

Japan and Australia have agreed on a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA). This is the…

April 9, 20143 min

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Cross-Strait Relations: A Southward Shift in Taiwanese Investments?

Taiwan has seen protests over a trade deal which it signed with mainland China. The…

April 3, 20142 min

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Philippines: One-up Against China?

The decision of the Philippines to lodge a case on disputed waters in the South…

April 3, 20143 min

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Unpredictable future of Asia: the worst climate change is yet to come

Climate change is already altering nature and the livelihoods of humans according to the latest…

April 3, 20142 min

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Solving the Haze – Political Will Is Not Enough

The random bush fires that occurred in Singapore this month are a small reminder of…

March 26, 20144 min

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China’s military spending: an arms race in Asia?

Earlier this month, China unveiled its defence budget for 2014 –US$132 billion, an increase of…

March 20, 20143 min

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Jokowi as president? What to watch out for

Joko Widodo (Jokowi), the wildly popular Governor of Jakarta, has been chosen as the presidential…

March 20, 20143 min

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Anwar’s re-conviction: Implications for Malaysia’s opposition

Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the Malaysian opposition, has been re-convicted on charges of sodomy…

March 13, 20142 min

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MH370: mixed prospects for regional cooperation

More than five days after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 lost contact with air traffic control,…

March 13, 20143 min

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Crisis in Crimea: setting patterns of behaviour

A meeting in Paris last night (5 March) between US Secretary of State John Kerry…

March 6, 20143 min

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Tracking Global Deforestation Real-time

Global Forest Watch, an online forest monitoring and alert system, was launched last week by…

February 28, 20143 min