Political changes since the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998 have had a significant impact on linguistic and discursive practices in Indonesia. The language policy of the state has become less restr
Late Industrializing countries are able to pick strategies for economic development based, on the experiences of countries that preceded them. Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (the CLMV countries)
The course of economic change in twentieth-century Cambodia was marked by a series of deliberate "conscious human efforts" that were typically extreme and ideologically driven. While colonisation, pro
British imperialism helped shaped the modern world order. This same imperialism created modern Singapore, controlling its colonial development and influencing its post-colonial orientation. Winston Ch
Gambling with the Land surveys and analyzes systematically the production and trade of all major agricultural crops throughout Southeast Asian between 1960 and the late 2000s. After reviewing the spec
Rice is a staple part of the diet of virtually every Malaysian, to the extent that in each of the major languages used in Malaysia, rice means food and food means rice. Drawing on a wide range of sour
George (information studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) is a ten-year veteran of Singapore's mainstream national press. Drawing on American and European scholarship as well as Asian
The idea of "Asian space" is undergoing a transformation as a result of rapid technological, economic, social and cultural changes. Following the shift to a global economy and an urban population expl
In northern Sumatra, as in?Malaya, colonial?rule embraced an extravagant array of sultans, rajas, datuks and?uleebalangs. In Malaya the traditional Malay elite served as a barrier to revolutionary cha
Stupa and Swastika examines urban structures in the city of Patan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. The religious architecture and overall design of the city illustrate the co
This collection of essays is a selection of papers presented in the 2006 First International Conference on the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia. Authors include experts in the history of medicine
Based on recent field research and excavation finds, the contributions in this volume focus on cultural practices and materials which reflect processes of integration, specification and diversificatio
Asia is undergoing a dramatic and rapid urbanization. Across the continent, there is unrelenting, large-scale migration from the countryside to the cities. Asian cities are getting denser and growing
Revising her Ph.D. dissertation at Leiden University, Dijk draws on the records of the Dutch East India Company in The Netherlands to shed light on Burma and the interaction between Burma and the Comp
This book discusses the operations of the various types of financial institutions operating in Singapore. These include the full-licence, restricted-licence and offshore banks, merchant banks, money b
