The article was first published by TODAY on September 15, 2016.
Dr Jackson Ewing is Director of Asian Sustainability and Ms Karissa Domondon is an Intern at the Asia Society Policy Institute, Asia Society. A more comprehensive study of the subject is included in the recent ISEAS book The SIJORI Cross-Border Region. Transnational Politics, Economics and Culture. Edited by Francis E. Hutchinson and Terence Chong (2016). For more information about the publication, visit ISEAS Publishing Online Bookshop here.
Editors of the new book “The SIJORI Cross Border Region: Transnational Politics, Economics and Culture“, Dr Francis E. Hutchinson, Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the Regional Economic Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, and Dr Terence Chong, ISEAS Senior Fellow, Coordinator of the Regional Social and Cultural Studies Programme and Co-coordinator of the Thailand Studies Programme, along with two authors, Dr Su-Ann Oh, ISEAS Visiting Fellow and Ms Anne Gasco, spoke on the publication at a Singapore-ETH Centre Seminar, jointly organised by the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) and ISEAS on Wednesday, 14 September 2016.
The newly-launched book examines the interaction between Singapore, Johor, and the Riau Islands over the past quarter-century, and seeks to shed light on how these territories could develop in the future.