Studies in the Geography of South-East Asia: A Selection of Papers Presented at the Regional Conference of South-East Asian Geographers, Kuala Lumpur

1966 ◽  
Vol 132 (2) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Marion W. Ward
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Regional Conference ◽  
Selection Of

North Korea-South-east Asia ties face headwinds

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
North Korea ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The Sea Of Japan ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dialogue Process

Significance Last week, Pyongyang and Kuala Lumpur imposed travel bans against each other’s citizens following the February 13 murder in Malaysia of Kim Jong-nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother. South-east Asia has worked to integrate North Korea into the Asia-Pacific region through the ASEAN dialogue process. However, Pyongyang’s missile launch into the Sea of Japan on March 6 is likely to have greater impact on South-east Asian views of North Korea than Malaysia's diplomatic spat over Kim Jong-nam. Impacts Likely North Korean efforts to expand trade with South-east Asia will see limited success. The Kim Jong-nam murder and China’s position may add further strain to the Philippines-US relationship. South-east Asian states are unlikely to support China’s wish to punish South Korea economically for deploying the THAAD system.

Malaysia-Vietnam TPP deal is likely by year-end

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Content Type ◽  
White House ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Trade Unionism

Subject Outlook for the Trans-Pacific Partnership in South-east Asia. Significance Chief negotiators for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal will meet July 24 to 27 while trade ministers convene July 28 to 31. US President Barack Obama's administration hopes to submit the final TPP agreement to Congress before end-2015. However, domestic and foreign political dynamics could slow that schedule. The White House will push for congressional approval and a formal TPP launch before Obama leaves office in January 2017, with the deal including South-east Asian members Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam. Impacts Malaysia's services and Vietnam's apparel/textiles sectors would gain under the TPP. Hanoi's TPP entry would strain its relationship with Beijing. The TPP could bolster Vietnamese factory-level trade unionism. Kuala Lumpur will need to manage domestic disaffection over the TPP carefully. Brunei and Singapore are unlikely to find difficulty ratifying the TPP.

The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
East Asian ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Global Understanding

Writing from a wide range of historical perspectives, contributors to the anthology shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial and postcolonial times in South and South-East Asia. In doing so, this anthology addresses an important gap in the global understanding of documentary discourses, practices, uses and styles. Based upon in-depth essays written by international authorities in the field and cutting-edge doctoral projects, this anthology is the first to encompass different periods, national contexts, subject matter and style in order to address important and also relatively little-known issues in colonial documentary film in the South and South-East Asian regions. This anthology is divided into three main thematic sections, each of which crosses national or geographical boundaries. The first section addresses issues of colonialism, late colonialism and independence. The second section looks at the use of the documentary film by missionaries and Christian evangelists, whilst the third explores the relation between documentary film, nationalism and representation.

‘Insolence and pride’: problems with the representation of the South-East Asian Portuguese communities in Alexander Hamilton's ‘A New Account of the East Indies’ (1727)

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-235
Author(s):  
STEFAN HALIKOWSKI-SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes

AbstractOne of the most influential European printed sources on South-East Asia at the turn of the eighteenth century was the Scottish sea-captain Alexander Hamilton's memoirs. The picture he paints of the Portuguese communities that had existed since the period of Portuguese ascendancy in the sixteenth century is overwhelmingly negative. But a close textual and empirical analysis of his text shows that not only was he frequently misinformed in terms of the historical developments relating to that community, but that he merely conforms to a set of standard rhetorical tropes we can associate with the Black Legend, which had grown up in Protestant countries of northern Europe since the 16th century to denigrate Portugal and her achievements. This article urges that this key text consequently be used with far greater circumspection than has hitherto been the case.

Parts of South-east Asia may adopt nuclear post-2030

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Electricity Grid ◽  
Renewable Energy Development

Significance It is the only country in South-east Asia with a large-scale nuclear plant, although this was never loaded with fuel. Other countries in the region have tentative plans to develop nuclear power programmes. Impacts The current absence of nuclear power programmes will help avert the diversion of capital from renewable energy development in the region. South-east Asian countries with small, non-power reactors, built for research, will try to maintain these facilities. Across the region, the need for electricity grid investment will increase as more decentralised generation sources are deployed.

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