Political Science and MIALS 166-048/9



POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

Graduate School of International Studies

Seoul National University

Fall 2011

Staff

Professor: Jacqueline Aquino Siapno

Graduate School of International Studies, SNU

Telephone: 880-1367

e-mail:

Office Hours for Dr. Siapno:

Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Graduate School of International Studies, Room #617

Seminar Times and Venues:

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Course Description

This seminar is a study of political-economic-ecological developments in Southeast Asia

analyzing the different paths to political-economic development that different countries took, and looking at it from a longue duree historical and ethnographic perspective. We will focus in particular on the hidden work and labor of women and laborers who enrich their families, communities, and countries but are themselves quite marginal, if not hidden in the history of their societies.

We will explore the inter-relationships between political and economic agents, actors, institutions, systems, and social processes, through a multi-disciplinary approach that seeks to combine historical studies, case studies of individual countries, comparative and regional studies, and theoretical analysis. We will read and engage with new political economy perspectives, in addition to more established, historical, sociological, and anthropological studies on the social processes that influence the decisions of peasant farmers, household economic managers, local traders, governing elites, powerful interest groups and change agents in civil society, the private sector, and the government and state bureaucracy.

Some of the thematic issues we will examine include: 1/ economic histories of Southeast Asian countries; 2/ rural development; 3/ the international migration process and labour mobility in the region, and how the social policy framework of the labour exporting states such as Indonesia and the Philippines mediated the increase in labour mobility in a selective manner. (Last year the Indonesian Govt. expected $8 billion in remittance from Indonesian migrant workers). Such a perspective will also relate to similar issues in the Americas and in Africa-Europe; 4/ gender and natural resource management; 5/ Focus on the energy industrial complex in the region, particularly the problem of predominantly supply-sided treatment of the energy issue, which hampers efforts to reframe the issue in the context of social ecological recovery; 6/ the dynamics of the financial markets in the region, including, for instance, the hunt for the richest in Asia Pacific by the top asset management conglomerates. Region-wise, it is increasingly clear that a more serious examination of China is needed. On the other hand, now we need to read India and Russia on the same page; 7/ the political economy of decolonization, nation-building, state-building, development, and the bureaucracy of foreign aid in the region.

 

Seminar participants are expected to familiarize themselves through their own reading and independent research with a broad literature review on this topic.We shall draw upon a wide range of sources from economic history, new political economy and “school of democratic economics”, philosophical and anthropological perspectives, oral history, government documents, WB, ADB, and UN reports, film and media (depending upon availability in the library). On completion of the subject graduate students should have a broad historical, comparative and critical perspective on the dialogues about political economy, social-economic-ecological justice in Southeast Asia and have an in-depth, longue duree perspective on political-economic history.

Assessment/ Student Grades:

1. 20% Class Participation: weekly reading and discussion of books and articles. Each student is required to give a “response paper” of one page, based on close reading of materials, raising questions based on the learning materials, providing analysis for each of the readings.

Students who miss more than 3 classes during the semester without appropriate medical leave or other leave will fail the class.

2. 30% - Individual Student/ or Group Presentation (in-class), chosen from weekly Thematic Topics. Sign-up for Presentation topics during the first and second weeks of the course. Each student is required to choose one book and one article to present during the course. Two oral presentations and two written reports based on critical review of the weekly readings, due on the same day of the Student’s oral Presentation. Wordcount: Total 2,000 words (1,000 words for each presentation). Students are REQUIRED to sign-up for presentation starting the second week of Seminars and not wait until the very end.

3. 50% - research paper of 3,000 words. Due during Final Exam week. All papers to be submitted in Professor Siapno via e-mail attachment.

1. Students are required to complete the readings the week they are assigned. Most of the materials are contained in the Reading Pack. Students are expected to have read thoroughly for each class and to have developed critical questions to raise during seminars based on careful readings of assigned texts.

2. Essays should be submitted to Professor Siapno via e-mail attachment. The instructor will pay close attention to “rhetoric of the bibliography”, so rigorous research and broad reading of literature review is strongly encouraged.

3.Essays should conform to the conventions used for GSIS/SNU students. Sloppy presentation, grammatical errors, and spelling errors will result in reduced marks. Late submission of essays due to mis-adventures, may incur a penalty on the essay mark of 2% per working day. Requests for extension of time need to be made ahead of time before the essay is due.

Syllabus

Week 1, 2, and 3: Introduction to the Course: Explanation of Syllabus and Class Procedures.

On Hidden Work and “Labor Made Cheap” in Southeast Asia: women and laborers who enrich families and societies

Assigned Readings:

Neferti Tadiar, “Unreconciled Lives,” forthcoming.

Sylvia Tiwon, “Articulating the Female in Indonesia.”

Women’s Labor and the Economy: “To Speak with Cloth”: articles on women and textiles in Southeast Asia; Weaver Stories (UCLA Fowler Museum).

Cynthia Enloe, Chapter in “The Curious Feminist”, discussing “Labor Made Cheap”.

Nancy Peluso and Joe Nevins, “Introduction” in Taking Southeast Asia to Market.

---------------------------------also chapter by Anna Tsing on KODECO. Nancy Lee Peluso and Joseph Nevins, editors. Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature and People in the Neolibral Age. Cornell University Press, 2008; SIRD, 2009.

Caroline Hau and Kasian Tejapira: Travelling Nation-Makers; read the chapter on Filipina Migrant Workers; and on “The Itineraries of Mariano Ponce”.

Aljazeera: documentary film on “foreign brides in Korea”, forthcoming 2011.

Carole Pateman, on “Basic Income, Democracy, and Human Rights”, plenary speech.

Siapno, J. “The Politics of Consent in Aceh,” forthcoming, Columbia University, Center for the Critical Study of Social Difference, 2011.

Week 4:

Rodel D. Lasco, “Issues in Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Region,” in Moving Forward: Southeast Asian Perspectives on Climate Change and Biodiversity, edited by Parcy E. Sjise, Mariliza v. Ticsay, and Gil C. Saguiguit, Jr., Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and ISEAS, 2010. E-mail: post@agri.

“Climate Change, Biodiversity, Livelihoods, and Sustainagility in Southeast Asia,” by

Meine Van Noordwijk, in Moving forward…2010.

Additional readings from work of Dr. Hendro Sangkoyo and School of Democratic Economics.

Week 5:

On Colonialism, Imperialism, and Paths to Development

Tuong Vu, Paths to Development in Asia: read the following chapters: Introduction;

Chapter on Vietnam; Chapter on Indonesia; Conclusion.

Byung Kook Kim and Ezra Vogel, Park Chung Hee: The Transformation of South Korea; read the chapter comparing Marcos and Park Chung Hee; and the chapter on “The Labyrinth of Solitude”.

Additional readings on US Imperialism.

Week 6: The Resource Curse

Ed Aspinall, “From Combatants to Contractors,” in Indonesia, 2009.

Andrew Rossner, “Escaping the Resource Curse: The Case of Indonesia,” in Journal of Contemporary Asia 37 (1), Feb. 2008.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The Mute’s Soliloquy.

Week 7: Ideology and Political Economy

James Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed (read as much as you can, specially on “mobility”).

James Scott, “The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis,” in Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed. Yale University Press, 1998.

Highly recommended readings:

Sukarano: Nationalism, Islam, and Marxism.

Ruth McVey: The Rise of Indonesian Communism.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer: This Earth of Mankind, Child of all Nations, The Glass House

Footprints (Jejak Langkah), The Mute’s Soliloquy.

The Bandung Conference (Asia-African Conference in 1955).

Ruth McVey: Southeast Asian Capitalists.

Week 8:

The Importance of Ethnographic Studies in “Rural Development”

Lila Abu-Lughod, “The Active Social Life of Muslim Women’s Rights: A Plea for Ethnography, not Polemic.”

On Indigenous Rice Cultivation: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, “Interface between Traditional Religion and Ecology among the Igorots,” in Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, edited by John A. Grim. Harvard University Press: 2001.

Pramod Parajuli, “Learning from Ecological Ethnicities” Toward a Plural Political Ecology of Knowledge,” in Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, edited by John A. Grim. Harvard University Press: 2001.

Film: Incendies.

Week 9:

Critiques of “Global Governance”

Timothy Mitchell, The Rule of Experts; Chapter on “Nobody Listens to a Poor Man”.

Naomi Klein. Shock Doctrine.

Jomo K.S., “Southeast Asia’s ersatz miracle,” in Southeast Asian Paper Tigers? From miracle to debacle and beyond. RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

Siapno, J. “Are there Good Samaritans?” in AJWS.

Week 10:

Southeast Asian Capitalists

“Rent-seekers and Speculators,” in The Economic Development of Southeast Asia, Volume III, edited by Hall Hill, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2002.

Jamie Mackie, “Changing Patterns of Chinese Big Business in Southeast Asia,” in The Economic Development of Southeast Asia, Volume III, edited by Hall Hill, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2002.

Week 11:

Field-trip to Ansan. Meeting with Migrant Workers from Southeast Asia.

The international migration process and labour mobility in the region,

Aris Ananta and Evi Nurvidya Arifin, editors. International Migration in Southeast Asia.

ISEAS, 2004.

Graeme Hugo and Soogil Young, editors. Labour Mobility in the Asia-Pacific Region: Dynamics, Issues and a new APEC Agenda. A Survey and Analyses of Governance Challenges of Migration for APEC Economies. Coordinated by Korea National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation. Joint Study by the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and the APEC Business Advisory Council, 2008.

Week 12:

Natural resource management

Bernadette P. Resureccion and Rebecca Elmhurst, editors. Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions. Earthscan, 2008. ISEAS, 2009.

Budy P.Resosudarmo and Frank Jotzo, Working with Nature Against Poverty: Development, Resources and the Environment in Eastern Indonesia. ISEAS, 2009.

Week 13:

The energy industrial complex in the region

Hendro Sangkoyo, School of Democratic Economics (google his work on the energy industrial complex in the region).

Week 14: The Hidden Culture and Politics of Global Governance, Aid, Donors, Business and Consultancies in SEAsia

Timor Leste: Foreign Advisors-Remuneration: “East Timorese go begging as foreign advisors rake it in.” The Australian, 25 April 2009.

Assigned research homework:

Search for, google, and read different reports on reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh, East Timor, Southern Thailand, Southern Philippines, Burma, Cambodia, Sri Lanka by international and local agencies and NGOS, including but not limited to: national development plans (of Southeast Asian countries); UN Missions (e.g.UNMIT in East Timor), UNDP and other UN agencies, ADB, WORLD BANK, and other international organizations.

See also: Walden Bello and the work of the Bangkok based “Focus on the Global South.”

Week 15: Class Conclusion. Closing Remarks. Student Essays Due.

New Methods and Models of International and Regional Cooperation?

Homework:

Which methods of “international economic and political cooperation” and “international development”, and/or “solidarity” work best? Do research, mapping, and identification of Southeast Asian communities, Community Organizations, and Korea-Southeast Asian cooperation networks in Seoul and Korea. Students are encouraged to be familiar with, attend, or participate in community events and organizations organized by Southeast Asian migrants in Seoul (e.g. East Timorese, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino, Burmese, Cambodian, Indonesian, and Malaysian communities). Students are also encouraged to get to know, discover various Seoul and Korean-based organizations, institutions, NGOs, working with Southeast Asian women, communities, government.

Internet/Virtual Communities: You are strongly encouraged to check-out websites in the internet on issues, institutions, NGOs, and internet/virtual communities linking Southeast Asian research communities throughout the world. Please see additional attachment for more websites. See also:

Australian National University Asian Studies (Canberra):



Institute of International Asian Studies (IIAS, Leiden, The Netherlands):

Association for Asian Studies (University of Michigan, USA):



Internet resources / Ressources Électroniques

Southeast Asia - Brunei- Burma - Cambodia - Indonesia - East Timor - Malaysia - Laos - Singapore - Thailand - Vietnam - Canadian researchers and Institutions

Notes to users: This list of electronic resources was compiled between January and April 2006by the CCSEAS Bulletin editors. It is based in part on other lists of electronic resources already available on the web (see in particular the General resources section of Southeast Asia). While some of the listed resources were extensively evaluated, others were only superficially explored. This explains why comments on resources have not been systematically provided. We encourage you to download this list and add your own entries. It is our intention to update this document regularly and thus welcome suggestions of new entries of interest. The Bulletin editors email address is ccseas@.

The CCSEAS Bulletin editors acknowledge the contribution and comments of Christine Bonnin, from McGill University.

Notes aux usagers: Compilée entre janvier et avril 2006, cette liste de ressources électroniques se base en partie sur des listes déjà disponibles sur Internet (voir en particulier la section générale Asie du Sud-Est). Certaines des références ont été évaluées avec attention; d’autres n’ont l’objet que d’une exploration superficielle. Voilàla raison pour laquelle la précision et le détail des commentaires varient d’une référence à l’autre. Nous vous encourageons à télécharger cette liste et à y ajouter vos propres références. Bien sûr, nous vous serions gré de nous faire part de vos suggestions d’ajouts. Nous comptons mettre à jour régulièrement la présente liste. L’adresse courriel des éditeurs du Bulletin est ccseas@.

Les éditeurs du Bulletin remercient Christine Bonnin pour sa participation à l’élaboration du présent document.

Southeast Asia

General Resources

Asia Resources on the World Wide Web: asiahtm (many links)

Asian Studies Virtual library, (parts of WWW Virtual Library, reportedly the most comprehensive list of electronic resources on Asian Studies, search engine somewhat difficult to use) See SEA section:

: (info on the multiple bilateral trade agreements; not specific to SEA)

Buddhist StudiesWWW Virtual Library:

Digital Library of the Commons, (papers & bibliography on common property issues – not specific to SEA)

East and Southeast Asia Library, An annotated directory of Internet Resources: (compiled and hosted by the University of Redlands)

Economic Link Lists, (links to economic data –subsection on SEA).

: (bibliography, not specific to SEA)

Hilltribe virtual museum, (general information and short videos on ethnic minorities of mainland SEA, but particularly Thailand)

Internet Resources for Southeast Asia, (compiled and hosted by the Stanford University)

Mekong info, (academic papers on natural resources, agriculture, land use, environment, etc.)

Politics and Political Economy of Southeast Asia, (information and links on politics in SEA)

Population Statistics: (provide historical and contemporary census data, by administrative divisions, not specific to SEA)

Portal to Asian Internet Resources, (well-organized and user-friendly, each resource is briefly described, selection done by area scholars and librarians)

Réseau Asie: (mainly in French)

Southeast Asian Serials, Australian National University: (search engine of articles on SEA)

University of Washington Library, Southeast Asia section, (many resources, including links to ejournals)

(Numerous websites of SEA Studies Institute also provide list of links)

Academic Associations

Asian Studies Association of Australia:

Association of Asian Studies (AAS US):

Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee (part of AAS)

Philippines Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies: (idem).

Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies Group: (news, conferences announcements, new theses, and many other resources; part of AAS)

Vietnam Studies Group: (part of AAS)

Association of Southeast Asian Studies (UK), (news, postgraduate directory)

Association française pour la recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est, (title and abstracts of French theses on SEA available)

European Association for Southeast Asian Studies,

International Institute for Asian Studies: (not only SEA, important resource)

South and Southeast Asian Association for the study of culture and religion:

Vietnam Studies Association of Australia,

Free online Journals

Asia Pacific Cultural Studies:

Asia Rights:

Asian Anthropology:

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde:

Critical Asian Studies: (formerly the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars)

Explorations: A Graduate Student Journal of Southeast Asian Studies:

Far Eastern Economic Review: (some free articles)

Harvard Asia-Pacific Review:

International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies:

Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context:

Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies:

Kasetsart Journal (Social Sciences):

Kasetsart Journal (Natural Sciences):

Kyoto Review of SEA:

Siksacakr: (published by the Center for Khmer Studies)

SOAS Bulletin of Burma Studies:

Southeast Asian Studies:

Southeast Asian Studies Bulletin:

Watershed:

See also the following lists of electronic journals

Asian & Pacific WWW E-Journals:

Electronic Journals and Newsletters, Southeast Asia Section, University of Washington Library:

Register of Asian and Pacific Electronic Journals:

Social Sciences Electronic Journals:

Academic institutions on SEA

In Asia-Pacific

Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University:

International Center for Research in Agroforestry: partners/icraf/index.htm

Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine (IRASEC, Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia), a French research institution based in Bangkok:

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore: Southeast Asian Studies Program, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok):

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University:

Southeast Asia Center, Australian National University:

Southeast Asia Research Center, City University of Hong Kong: (presents many links, several working papers)

Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program:

World Agroforestry Center, SEA office,

In the United States

Asia Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies: aparc.stanford.edu/ (not only SEA)

Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon: (not only SEA)

Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Hawaii University: (many useful links)

Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University:

Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan:

Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin:

Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale University:

East West Center: (not only SEA)

Sigur Center for Asian Studies, University George Washington: (not only SEA)

Southeast Asia Center, University of Washington,

South East Asia Program, Cornell University, (many links offered, well organized in sections, ex; individual countries, language programs, etc.)

The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University:

UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies,

University of California, Berkeley, Center for Southeast Asian Studies,

In Europe

Centre of South East Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London:

Ecole francaise d’Extrême-Orient, (not only SEA)

Department of East Asian Studies, Leeds University (offers a Thai & South East Asian Studies program):

Institut d’études orientales, associated to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (ENS-LSH) et the Université Lumière Lyon 2: (notonly SEA; English version still in construction)

Institut de recherche pour le développement: (not only SEA); see also IRD Indonésie (), IRD Laos (), IRD Thaïlande (), IRD Vietnam () and the (particularly useful) IRD Plein Textesdatabase () for publications by IRD researchers (French and English)

Institut de recherche sur le sud-est asiatique (IRSEA), or , part of the Maison Asie-Pacifique (), Universitéde Provence (Marseille) and associated to the CNRS.

KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies:

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS): (not only SEA)

Southeast Asia Program, University of Bielefeld (Germany):

News- Regional or international

Asia Times,

Asia week, (archive from 1995 to 2001)

BBC,

Courrier International, (weekly journal in French, presents original and translated news articles published in important newspapers worldwide)

Far Eastern Economic Review, (subscription needed)

International Herald Tribune:

Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations

ASEAN,

Asia-Pacific Third World Network:

Asia-Pacific Network for Food Sovereignty:

Asian Development Bank,

Ecology Asia: (provides ecology-related news)

FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific:

Focus on the Global South:

Institute for Popular Democracy: (Manila)

Mekong River Commission,

World Rainforest Movement: (some publications with resonance in SEA)

The Corner House: (Some publications with resonance in SEA)

The US-ASEAN Business Council:

Third World Network: (Malaysia)

Language

SEAsite, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, (language resources)

SEASummer institute,

(see language section in individual countries)

Movies, Literature, Picture Bank

CSEAS Hawaii Picture Bank,

Film Makers Library, Asian Studies:

Photo Galleries at CSEAS (Kyoto),

Southeast Asian Images & Texts: (collection of pictures in Laos and the Philippines, location indicated on maps)

Thai Films:

Other

FAO Tsunami reconstruction website, Forestry dimensions,

FAO Tsunami reconstruction website, Agriculture dimensions,

FAO Tsunami reconstruction website, Fisheries dimensions,

Buying new and used books on SEA

Best Books Buys: (used and new books, shipping to Canada possible)

Book Finder: (idem)

Froogle (Google’s shopping engine): (idem)

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Bookshop: (including ebooks)

Select Books Online: (specialized on SEA)

Silkworm Books:

Singapore University Press: nus.edu.sg/SUP

White Lotus Press:

Brunei

Newspapers & Other news-related resources

Radio Television Brunei:

Blogs & Fora:

Universities & Research institutions:

Universiti Brunei Darussalam:

Projects, researchers and other academic resources

Language:

NGOS:

Government:

Government of Brunei:

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade:

Other:

Annotated bibliography:

Burma

General resources

Burma Virtual Library, (comprehensive database on politics, agriculture, forestry, etc.

Newspapers & Other news-related resources

Burma Daily: (part of World News Network)

Burma Economic Watch:

Myanmar Digest:

The Irrawaddy,

The Myanmar Times:

Blogs & Fora:

Universities & Research institutions:

Center for Burma Studies, Northern Illinois University,

Burma Research at the School of Oriental and African Studies:

Projects, researchers and other academic resources

Burma Online Library:

Digital Resources for Myanmar (Burma) Studies:

SOAS Bulletin of Burma Studies:

Language:

Southeast Asian Studies Summer institute

NGOS:

Karen human rights group,

Shan land,

Free Burma,

Government:

Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

:

Myanmar Tourism:

Other:

Burma debate: (publication of the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundations

Cambodia

Newspapers & Other news-related resources

Cambodia FM: (part of World News Network)

Cambodia Post,

Phnom Penh Post,

The Cambodia Daily:

Blogs & Fora:

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia group of discussion:

Universities & Research institutions:

Cambodia Development Resource Institute:

Center for Khmers Studies (Siem Reap): ; publishes a newsletter entitled Focus ()

Projects, researchers and other academic resources

Association d’échanges et de formation pour les études khmers (numerous resources in French on Khmer studies)

(bibliography compiled by Catherine Morris; general topics and reconciliation)

(bibliography of books about Cambodia)

Language:

Southeast Asian Studies Summer institute

NGOS:

NGO forum on Cambodia,

Government:

National Assembly of the Kingdom Cambodia:

Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia

Permanent mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the United Nations:

Other:

The United Nations in Cambodia:

Indonesia

Newspapers & Other news-related resources

Antara News

Indo Media:

Indonesia Globe: (part of World News Network)

Indonesia Media:

Jakarta Post:

See also

Blogs & Fora:

Universities & Research institutions:

University of Indonesia:

Universitas Terbuka:

Projects, researchers and other academic resources

Indonesian Institute:

Indonesian Newsletter of the Asian Studies Association of Australia:

Language:

Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian and Malays:

Southeast Asian Studies Summer institute:

Tata Bahasa:

NGOS:

Government:

BPS Statistics Indonesia,

Other:

Freelang, (free French-Indonesian dictionary)

The Jakarta Eye:

Laos

Newspapers & Other news-related resources

Lao News agency,

Laos Post (part of World News Network)

Le Rénovateur, (weekly magazine, French)

Vientiane Times, (bi-weekly, Lao and English)

Blogs & Fora:

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia group of discussion:

Soc.culture.Laos:

Universities & Research institutions:

National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute,

National University of Laos, (slow to upload)

Projects, researchers and other academic resources

The Laos WWW virtual library:

Language:

Southeast Asian Studies Summer institute

NGOS:

Government:

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry,

UNDP Laos,

Other:

Freelang, (free French-Lao dictionary)

LaoLink, (general information on Laos, publications, maps, photos, links to other websites. French version available; English version under construction (March, 2006)

Lao software, (Lao fonts)

Lao Vision: ("The Nation’s Premier Lao Publication")

Malaysia

Newspapers & Other news-related resources

Bernama: (Malaysian national news agency)

Daily Express: (Independent National Newspaper of East Malaysia)

Malays Star: (part of World News Network)

New Straits Times:

The Star online:

Blogs & Fora:

Universities & Research institutions:

Universiti Malaya (Kuala Lumpur): um.edu.my/index.htm

Universiti Malaysia Sarawakunimas.my/

Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang)

Universiti Putra Malaysiawvw.upm.edu.my

Projects, researchers and other academic resources

Language:

Southeast Asian Studies Summer institute

NGOS:

Government:

Department of Environment:

Department of Agriculture, Peninsular Malaysia:

Economic Planning Unit, Office of the Prime Minister:

Environment Protection Department, Sabah:

Federal Land Department Authority: (English version in construction)

Other:

Freelang, (Free French-Malay dictionary)

Philippines

Newspapers & Other news-related resources

Newslinks: (offers several links to newspapers in the Ph.)

Blogs & Fora:

Universities & Research institutions:

In the Philippines

Ateneo de Manila University:

De La Salle University:

Institute of Philippine Culture:

Philippine Studies Program: (within the University of the Philippines)

Third World Studies Center:

University of the Philippines Diliman:

University of the Philippines Los Baños:

University of the Philippines Mindanao:

University of the Philippines Visayas:

University of Santo Tomas:

Outside

University of Hawaii at Manoa Center for Philippine Studies:

Projects, researchers and other academic resources

Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao: (Davao)

ISIS-Manila:

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism:

Philippine Institute for Development Studies Socio Economic Research Portal:

PSG Newsletter of the Philippines Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies: psg.csusb.edu/

Scalabrini Migration Center:

Language:

Southeast Asian Studies Summer institute

Tagalog Language Homepage:

NGOS:

Filipino Women in Politics and Governance:

Freedom for Debt Coalition:

GABRIELA Network:

Haribon:

IBON Foundation:

Government:

Government Portal,

Other:

Singapore

Newspapers & Other news-related resources

Business Times:

Singapore FM: (part of World News Network)

The Straits Times ,

Blogs & Fora:

Singapore Review:

Universities & Research institutions:

National University of Singapore,

Projects, researchers and other academic resources

Language:

NGOS:

Government:

Government of Singapore:

Statistics Singapore:

Other:

Thailand

Newspapers & Other news-related resources

Bangkok Post :

Thai Day :

Thailand Monitor, Thai World Affairs Center (Chulalongkorn University)

Thai Radio TV: (part of World News Network)

The Nation:

Blogs & Fora:



soc.culture.thai: (discussion group on contemporary Thai affairs)

Universities & Research institutions:

In Thailand

Asian Institute of Technology:

Chiang Mai University: Library: SEA studies program:

Chulalongkorn University, Center for Academic Resources:

Kasetsart University: , Library:

Khon Kaen University: Library:

King Prajadhikok’s Institute:

Prince of Songkhla University:

Mahidol University:

Silpakorn University:

Thailand Development Research Institute:

Thailand Environment Institute:

Thammasat University: Thai Studies program:

Outside Thailand

National Thai Studies Centre, Australian National University:

Projects, researchers and other academic resources

Chao Phraya Delta Research and reference site,

Forest and people Thailand:

Thai-Yunnan ProjectNational University):

McCargo POLIS (Institute for Politics and International Studies), Leeds University: (bibliography of Thai politics; also available at

Nang Rong Project (University of North Carolina):

Pasuk Phongpaichit:

Song Watershed Interdisciplinary Research Project:

Thai Thesis online, (database, title and abstract of Thai thesis)

Thai Studies: (several papers available, including those presented at the 9th Int’l Conference on Thai studies)

Thailand Project:

Language:

Advanced Study of Thai, courses provided at Chiang Mai University:

American University Alumni : ; (several Thai cities)

Learning Thai Language: (offers web-based lessons to learn Thai)

Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute

NGOS:

Assembly of the poor:

Karen people:

Government:

Bank of Thailand:

Department of Environmental Quality Promotion: (provides data on forest, soil, land use etc.)

Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, (created in 2002, previously within the Royal Forest Department)

Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment,

National Statistical Office Thailand Statistics:

National Economic and Social Development Board:

National Research Council of Thailand:

Office of Agricultural Economics:

Royal Thai Government:

Royal Forest Department,

Other:

Freelang, (Free French-Thai dictionary)

Immersion & volunteering;

Thai fonts: ; ;

Thailand GPS Resources

Thaksinomics:

The Siam Society under Royal Patronage: (publishes the Journal of the Siam Society and the Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society)

Films:

Watching Thai TV abroad: thaitv.

Vietnam

Newspapers & Other news-related resources

Vietnam news agency, (Vietnamese, English, French)

Nhan Dan newspaper, (organ of the Communist Party)

Vietnam Economic News Online:

Vietnam FM: (part of World News Network)

Blogs & Fora:

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia group of discussion:

Universities & Research institutions:

Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh University of Social Sciences and Humanities:

National University of Ho Chi Minh City:

Vietnam National University Hanoi:

Outside

Vietnam Studies Association of Australia,

Projects, researchers and other academic resources

Christopher Gosha’s webpage, (bibliography and historical resources on Indochina)

Language:

Southeast Asian Studies Summer institute

NGOS:

Craftlink:

Government:

National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam:

Other:

Freelang, (Free French-Viet dictionary)

East Timor

Newspapers & Other news-related resources

East Timor Press:

East Timor News:

Blogs & Fora:

Universities & Research institutions:

Projects, researchers and other academic resources

Yale East Timor Project, part of the Genocide Studies program:

Language:

NGOS:

Government:

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries:

Other:

TimoNet: East Timor Internet Resources: (many links to internet resources, including online publications

East Timor - Bibliography and Articles:

Canadian Institutions on SEA and Asian Studies

McGill University

IAIN Indonesia Social Equity Project,

SEA project at Mcgill,

Université de Montréal

Canada Chair of Asian Research, caac.umontreal.ca

Centre d’études de l’Asie de l’Est:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Gosha, Christopher, (bibliography and resources on Indochina)

Pédagogie géographique sur l’Asie du Sud-Est, by Yann Roche:

University of British Columbia

Center for Southeast Asia Research CSEAR

University of Victoria

Pacific and Asian Studies:

University of Toronto

Asian Institute:

Southeast Asia Group:

York University

York Center for Asian Research,

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