Event Highlights

2-Day Conference on The Malaysian Economy Towards 2020: Issues and Challenges

 

This conference brought together prominent economists working on various aspects of the Malaysian economy with the goal of examining and assessing the extent to which the government’s current economic policies are able to address the challenges of achieving a developed country status by the year 2020.

 

Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre International Workshop and Launch of the Archaeology Unit Gallery

 

This workshop is an open forum sharing experiences of practitioners, policy makers and researchers from Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. The speakers showcase current – many as yet unpublished internationally-projects that give voice to local priorities.

 

Launch of Report, “US-Japan Relations and Southeast Asia: Meeting Regional Demands”

 

The launch by the authors of the report, Dr Satu P. Limaye and Dr Tsutomu Kikuchi, was held at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute on Friday, 11 March 2016. 

 

Handover Ceremony of the Private Papers of Tan Sri (Dr) Tan Chin Tuan

 

Private papers of prominent banker and philanthropist among those added to ISEAS Library’s collection. 

 

9th Outreach Programme for University Students (OPUS) Lecture Series with Niigata University

 

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute held the 9th edition of the Outreach Programme for University Students (OPUS) Lecture Series with Niigata University Students on 4 March 2016.
 

 

Discussion and Launch of Drifting into Politics: The Unfinished Memoirs of Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman

 

The event was occasioned by the publication of the autobiography of Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, Drifting into Politics: The Unfinished Memoirs of Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman.

 

51st Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellow (LKYEF): Visit by HE Say Samal, Minister of the Enviroment, Cambodia

 

HE Say Samal, Minister of the Environment, Cambodia, visited Singapore from the 24 to 30 January under the Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship (LKYEF).

 

Workshop on Islamic Developments in Southeast Asia

 

A full-day public workshop on Islamic Developments in Southeast Asia was held in ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute on the 16th of Nov, 2015 in conjunction with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Singapore.

 

Dialogue on the South China Sea: Keynote Address by Ambassador Arif Havas Oegroseno

 

Ambassador Arif Havas Oegroseno, Deputy Coordinating Minister for Maritime Sovereignty at the Ministry of Maritime Affairs in Indonesia, gave the keynote address at the closed-door Dialogue on the South China Sea on 5 Nov, 2015.

 

Chinese in Vietnam Workshop: Trends and Developments

 

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, under the Regional Social and Cultural Studies Programme, organised a workshop entitled “Chinese in Vietnam: Trends and Developments” on 6 October 2015.