Latest Articles
Regional Roundup for Week of 9.16.16
EXSE FOCUS Obama Pledges to Lift All Sanctions Against Myanmar—New York Times President Obama, who met on Wednesday with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s leader, sought to reward the country for its efforts to establish a more democratic government.//while in ...
Regional Roundup for Week of 9.1.16
LEADERS Myanmar’s Suu Kyi faces test at ethnic peace conference – The Nation Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi faces what could be the toughest test of her leadership yet when she opens a major ethnic peace conference Wednesday aimed at ending wars ...
Regional Roundup for Week of 8.26.16
LEADERS Myanmar earthquake kills three, damages scores of ancient temples – Reuters A powerful earthquake shook central Myanmar on Wednesday, killing at least three people including two children, and damaging scores of centuries-old Buddhist pagodas around the ancient capital of Bagan. China, Myanmar ...
Regional Roundup for Week of 8.12.16
Thai Referendum Thailand, seeking stability, approves military constitution – Reuters A democratically elected government will take power in Thailand at the earliest by December 2017, a senior Thai official said on Monday, after the country endorsed a military-backed constitution paving the way ...
Regional Roundup for Week of 8.4.2016
LEADERS Malaysia’s Leader, Dogged by a Billion-Dollar Scandal, Proves Untouchable – The New York Times - The conspirators were confident. They planned to confront Malaysia’s prime minister, Najib Razak, at a cabinet meeting and demand his resignation. Prosecutors had collected evidence ...
Report: Three Parallel Rivers plagued by unregulated mining
One of Yunnan's most famous natural landscapes is under threat from unsupervised mining, according to a new report. A study published by non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace claims industrial activity in the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas is seriously ...
Featured Articles
-
On the Rocks: China’s expected response to tribunal decision threatens to undo soft power gains -
Not a Repeat, but an Echo: ASEAN’s Retracted Statement and the Specter of the 2012 Joint Communique Failure -
China’s Impressive Clean Energy Progress Confronted by Emerging Challenges -
Advancing Gender Advocacy in Myanmar: Beyond False Promises & Deep Divides -
Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Overlooks the Real Key to Peace and Prosperity: Mekong People
Regional relations
-
Looking ahead to Obama’s September visit to Laos -
Improving the US-Laos relationship through UXO cleanup -
An alternate past/future for Mekong River dams under the UN Watercourses Convention: Part 1 -
Thailand bets on China-led AIIB to finance massive infrastructure needs -
Laos’s leadership transition raises questions over regional alliances
Sustainability and Resource Management
- Report: Three Parallel Rivers plagued by unregulated mining
-
Yuxi begins experiment as one of China’s ‘Sponge Cities’ -
The Myth of Sustainable Hydropower -
China initiates enormous Yangtze water diversion scheme -
Kunming-based think tank fighting Myanmar forest loss
Yunnan Province
-
Kunming’s Twin Expos, Bigger, More Important Than Ever - Yunnan border zone slated to cost 200 billion yuan
-
Report: “Mismanagement” stalling building projects across China -
WanDa opens 15 billion yuan resort in Xishuangbanna -
Remembering Yunnan’s Role in World War Two
Review: Great Gamble on the Mekong documentary 
Review: Hun Sen’s Cambodia 
Fire, Spirits and Ritual Self-Injury in Phuket: The Vegetarian Festival 
Book: The Great Game – The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia 
Book: The Mekong – Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future