China: the target of US’s lifting of arms sales ban on Vietnam?
LinkedinTwitterFacebook0By Loke Hoe Yeong Since US President Barack Obama’s announcement of the US’s decision to lift the ban on arms sale on Vietnam during his…
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Education in Thailand: A weapon of mass assimilation?
LinkedinTwitterFacebook0By Jolene Yeo “In Thai schools, a drill sergeant’s dream of regimentation rooted in the military dictatorship of the past, discipline and enforced deference prevail.”…
Beyond Obama’s bun cha dinner in Hanoi
LinkedinTwitterFacebook0By Jolene Yeo While the US president’s stealth escape from the platitude of politics to enjoy a bowl of Vietnamese bun cha in Hanoi has…
With Russia, a new power for Philippines’ next president to contend with?
LinkedinTwitterFacebook0By Timothy Misir, in Moscow For ASEAN Today One of the foreign policy challenges facing Philippine’s incoming president Rodrigo Duterte is balancing the country’s security relations with the US,…
With Duterte, will the South China Sea be on the brink of war?
LinkedinTwitterFacebook0By Loke Hoe Yeong Just days after the victory of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippine presidential election, the Philippines and France have signed a defence…
Vietnam banks dominate ASEAN top 100 – but the future’s in your pocket
LinkedinTwitterFacebook0By Holly Reeves Vietnamese lenders make up a fifth of the top 100 ASEAN banks in 2016 says The Banker, a leading financial industry publication….
A window of opportunity for reforms in Vietnam
LinkedinTwitterFacebook0 As the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam prepared for its five-year national congress, suspense built over who would take over the party’s helm. When…
Sunny days in Sunnylands? ASEAN goes to America
LinkedinTwitterFacebook0Next week on 15-16 February, US President Barack Obama will host a special US-ASEAN summit at the Sunnylands resort in California. It will be the…
Vietnam: Same leader, but better for the neighbourhood?
LinkedinTwitterFacebook0By Loke Hoe Yeong Last week’s congress of Vietnam’s Communist Party re-elected Nguyen Phu Trong as its Secretary-General, de facto the most powerful position in…