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The values dimension of Southeast Asian development and the rise of China
Author: Long S. Le, University of Houston The competitive advantage of Southeast Asian countries in the 21 st century will be about the ability of their governments to create a national environment in which skilled human resources are born, but in which social, political, and economic entrepreneurs are permitted to compete fairly
Ongoing struggles in Thailand
Authors: Andrew Walker and Nicholas Farrelly, ANU Thai politics has been out of the news since May 2010’s bloody crackdown on red-shirt protesters in central Bangkok. But any superficial tranquility hides the ongoing campaign by the government to neutralise their opponents and maximise the vote for Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s Democrat Party at the election due next year. The state of emergency declared in May has been wound back, but is still in force in Bangkok and in three strategic provinces outside the capital
