The ASEAN Roundtable 2016 organised by the ASEAN Studies Centre was held on 30 August 2016 at the Institute. The theme of this year’s Roundtable is “The ASEAN Economic Community: Towards 2025”. The Roundtable drew more than 80 participants to discuss various aspects of the ASEAN Economic Community and regional economic integration.
This two-hour seminar featured a panel discussion examining the responses to the Tribunal’s ruling from the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
In this seminar, four practitioners shared their perspectives on different aspects of Brexit.
In this seminar, Dr Prajak Kongkirati presented a detailed analysis of the 7 August referendum outcome for the vote on the draft for Thailand’s 20th constitution. He explained the political impact of this outcome, as well as the likely political direction that post-referendum Thailand will take. – Click on to learn more about the seminar.
In this seminar, three distinguished country economists from the region examined the potential short-run and long-run economic impact of the TPP on three Southeast Asian countries participating in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), namely, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam. – Click on to learn more about the seminar.
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute hosted two Myanmar parliamentarians during the 1.5-hour study visit on Friday, 5 August 2016. Click on for more details.
This seminar discussed an inscription that recently surfaced in Paris, arguing that it is changing the history of the ancient Khmer Empire at its apogee in the 12th century. Numbered K. 1297, it shows that Angkor reached its ultimate sway as one of the world’s great empires under Buddhist kings. – Click on to learn more about the seminar.
The seminar attempted to demonstrate, through textual and discourse analysis, that Teo’s poems, although falling into oblivion during Malaya’ s era of decolonisation, constituted a significant part of the post-war Malayan poetry – Click on to learn more about the seminar.
The seminar attempted to discuss issues such as the suspicions about China’s agenda to dominate Indonesia through its participation in Indonesia’s infrastructure projects, and in collaboration with the ethnic Chinese big businessmen and politicians, especially among those who resent the Indonesian government’s close relations with China – Click on to learn more about the seminar.