Recently added articles from Southeast Asian Affairs:
THE WAR ON DRUGS
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction This article demonstrates the inadequate response of the international community to the suppression of drugs in Myanmar1 and the lost opportunity by the United States to reverse its policy toward interdiction since 2002. First, it provides a brief history of drug production ...
THAILAND IN 2008: Democracy and Street Politics
Jan 01, 2009; ... The UDD protesters are Thais like us, but they are just misled. For this reason, please just beat them until they are unable to walk, not beat them to death. Captain Songklod Chuenchupol PAD weapons trainer Bangkok Post, 7 September 2008 Now my daughter asks me ...
THE SINGAPORE OF MY DREAMS
Jan 01, 2009; ... This essay is on the Singapore of my dreams. My dreams have obviously changed over the years. I will begin with my school boy's dreams. A School Boy's Dreams I grew up in colonial Singapore. After the Second World War, my parents sent me to a Chinese primary school. After a few ...
EAST TIMOR IN 2008: Year of Reconstruction
Jan 01, 2009; ... The near-fatal shooting of East Timor's president, Jose Ramos-Horta, on 11 February 2008, by members of renegade Major Alfredo Reinado' s gang, and the death of Reinado himself, broke a deadlock in East Timorese politics that had threatened to keep the country in a state of perpetual crisis ....
LAOS: The Chinese Connection
Jan 01, 2009; ... The title of my first contribution to Southeast Asian Affairs in 1980 was "Laos: The Vietnamese Connection". A great deal has happened in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR) over the past three decades, both internally, and in its relations with its neighbours. The Lao People's ...