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Publications Year 2006
Accession of Cambodia and Lao PDR into ASEAN and WTO by Dararith KIM-YEAT. (Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Economic Institute of Cambodia, 2006.)
This paper aims at giving an answer to the concerns - the welfare redistributing effects particularly on the potential harmful impact on human rights and on the right to health - by looking into the current laws and WTO rules. The publication is divided into 2 parts: Accession of Cambodia and Lao PDR into the ASEAN and the WTO: complementarity of Trade and Human Rights, and Health and the Urbanisation of Poverty: the case of Phnom Penh. Cambodia and Lao PDR are the most recent members of ASEAN.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email eic@eicambodia.org or visit EIC's website.
This publication brings readers to the countries where China's aid and investment programme are being implemented, in places like Luang Prabang, Hoi An and Xishuangbanna where culture collides with tourism, to societies where monks are going beyond the temples to take up social causes, and to border areas where the smuggling of goods and the sex trade meet.
This book is the fourth compilation of articles and photo essays on transboundary issues in the Mekong Region, done by 17 journalists who spent weeks in villages and towns, taking planes, boats and buses, to tell their stories. These journalists are fellows who have completed the 'Imaging Our Mekong' media fellowship programme for 2005-06. This annual programme, which has worked with more than 140 journalists, is undertaken by Inter Press Services Asia-Pacific, together with Probe Media Foundation Inc.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email mekong@ipsnews.net or visit IPS's website.
This research publication presents the study and action research of the project - Enhancing Laotian Migrant Workers' Quality of Life with Thai-Lao Border Area which performed from October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2006 by the Faculty of Nursing, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. The aims of the study are to identify how migrant workers define quality of life, to explore their perceptions of quality of life and their bio-medical quality of life as measured by bio-medical criteria, to explore and describe actual or potential problems, and to develop a program to enhance migrant workers' quality of life.
1 pages (68 KB Acrobat File) 2 pages (88 KB Acrobat File) 5 Pages (148 KB Acrobat File) 5 Pages (138 KB Acrobat File) 9 Pages (129 KB Acrobat File) Chapter 2: Literature Review 237 Pages (138 KB Acrobat File) Chapter 3: Research Design and Method 15 Pages (530 KB Acrobat File) Chapter 4: Quality of Life among Laotian Migrant Workers 20 Pages (271 KB Acrobat File) Chapter 5: Addressing the Problems of Enhancing the Quality of LIfe among Laotian Migrant Workers 10 Pages (206 KB Acrobat File) Chapter 6: Evaluation of Changes 13 Pages (247 KB Acrobat File) Chapter 7: Dicussion and Recommendation 12 Pages (213 KB Acrobat File) References 5 Pages (138 KB Acrobat File) For inquiries on how to obtain hard copies, please email here.
This book brings together for the first time essential cultural information on three of six GMS countries - Vietnam, Cambodia and LAOS - providing summaries of national cultural policy, overviews of the development and current trends in contemporary performing and visual arts sectors, guides to facilitating international exchange and, of course, vital contact details and technical data for arts organisations, artists and related support agencies.
For inquiries on how to obtain hard copy of the book and DVD, please email information@visitingarts.org.uk. The directory is also available on a DVD and is online at Visiting Arts Culture Profile Project website.
This publication describes current use of GIS (Geographic Information System) as a tool to monitor and inform programs that prevent and control infectious disease in the Mekong Region.
Mekong Subregion (GMS) is comprised of countries that are connected by the Mekong River: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Yunnan Province of the People's Republic of China. These countries share common borders across which there is continuous movement of population for various reasons. This population movement, and the presence of common habitats of disease vectors, renders these cross-border areas vulnerable entry points for the transmission and spread of disease, such as HIV, SARS, dengue, malaria, avian influenza, and other communicable and vector-borne disease.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email tmpsh@mahidol.ac.th
This research publication is carried out by Hanoi Medical University with support of the Rockefeller Foundation. The aims of this research study are to describe factors of risk and vulnerability related to Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and to highlight the impacts of the development the impacts of the development of transport roads on these risk and vulnerability factors.
The East-West Economic Corridor in Quang Tri Province plays a significant role in the development plan of the Greater Mekong Subregin and has strong interrelations with other national and local transport road systems in Quang Tri. It forms an important transport axis promoting and serving provincial socio-economic development.
This book analyzes the systematic construction of the image of the Other, that is, non-Muslims, by two radical Islamic groups, Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) and Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI). The author documents discourse patterns in the groups' publications and speeches stereotyping non-Muslims as hostile towards Islam and imagining Islam's imminent victory after an inevitable clash with all other civilizations. Although these groups do not engage in physical violence, the author categorizes their efforts to stereotype non-Muslims as "symbolic violence". Moreover, in the long run, their activities may be counterproductive because of the religious and ethnic pluralism of Indonesian society.
This publication is part of ISLAM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: VIEWS FROM WITHIN series which is the result of a research fellowship program offered by the Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN) with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. Grants are awarded to promising Muslim scholars in Southeast Asia for innovative research on economic, socio-political, and cultural changes taking place in their diverse communities. For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email info@silkwormbooks.com or visit AMAN's website and Silkworm's website.
This monograph is a collection of papers presented at International Conference "Politics of the Commons: Articulating Development and Strengthening Local Practices" held during 11 - 14 July 2003, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
In the RCSD Politics of the Commons Workshop, one of the most important messages was the need for research on the “commons” to address the way ecological and social systems co-evolve through time with both periods of slow change and crisis. Another key message was the recognition that important changes often involve interactions across spatial and temporal scales. In the social system this often depends on the changing structure of social networks. Crises or periods of rapid change can result from the way problems and opportunities are socially constructed through competition and changing dominance of alternative discourses as well as from feedbacks from the ecological systems upon which livelihoods depend. At times of crisis access to resources in the commons may be curtailed or institutional arrangements severely challenged. At these times access may be crucial for securing livelihoods of the poorest households. Crises also provide windows of opportunity for improving governance.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email rcsd@chiangmai.ac.th or visit RCSD's website.
This publication is a record of what happened in 'the International Symposium on Sustainable Highland Development and Networking: Lessons Learned' from the Royal Project held on December 8 - 10, 2004. There are delegates from 11 countries - Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Malaysia, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, Kenya, Colombia, USA, Japan, Australia and UK - attend to this event.
Two hundred and fifty people from 11 countries engaged in highland development and drug-crop reduction came together to give, and attend, the international symposium. The Symposium had three objectives: to present the results of thirty-five years work by the Royal Project in developing areas of the Thai highlands and reducing opium cultivation; to allow more general exchange of experiences and perspectives concerning highland development and drug-crop reduction; to launch a new collaborative network for exchanging knowledge and information in this domain, using the knowledge of the Royal Project as one of its resources.
To download the publication, please click here (93.7 MB, Zipped File).
The authors investigate the country's unwanted role as a buffer state devastatingly drawn into Indochina wars and the Cold War, its recent accession to the Association of SOutheast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and its bilateral relations with Vietnam and Thailand. This publication is an essential read for scholars, policymakers, NGO personnel, and anyone interested in coming to grips with the country today.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email info@mekongpress.com or visit its website.
The Mirror Foundation produces this learning pack acoompanying with a VCD in order to provide information and basic knowledge to teachers and people who are interested in the subject of ethnic groups lving in Thailand and to provide an understanding of the cultures and ways of living of the different ethnic groups. The VCD presents ways of life and culture of the four tribes: Akha, Lahu, Mien and Pakakeyaw, ini the Ban Huay Mae Sai Community.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email team@hilltribe.org or visit the Mirror Foundation's website.
This publication contains provocative, and sometimes conflicting, views about history, geopolitics, and current dilemmas by scholars across the region - Armando Malay, Jr, Vatthana Pholsena, Nguyen Phuong Binh, Doung Chanto Sisowath, He Shengda, Mya Than and Chaiyan Rajchagool.
Flanked by a fast-growing China hungry for markets and energy and other resources, the Mekong region is a target of competing local, national, regional and transnational as well as commercial interests. There are many "Mekong regions" and claims to its water, heritage sites, tourism potential, and other resources affect one or all the countries. The scholars across the region point out their view on this publication. For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email info@mekongpress.com or visit its website.
The special issue of Mountain Research and Development (MRD) presents key findings of the links between human needs and long-term environmental sustainability. It offers direction, potential, and hope for improved stewardship by mountain peoples of ecosystem that provide vital enviromental services for local and downstream societies.
Almost half of the people in Asia depend on mountain ecosystem services for freshwater, hydropower and other livelihood activities. Maintaining healthy ecosystem and associated services is now a key aim of development and research agendas. For mountain ecosystems, the current human needs and long-term environmental sustainability: land use and infrastructure changes in mountain regions often increase the share of energy, water and nutrients devoted to human needs but decrease the share available for other species must be balanced. The Rockefeller Foundation has enabled the organizer to examine these links by supporting a Mobile Workshop - a multi-disciplinary research expedition that treversed the heart of the Moutain Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA) eco-cultural region. For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email mrd@allenpress.com.
This book examines the challenges faced by young Muslim female athletes from Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia in competitive sports. After presenting a valuable socio-historical survey of the Malay world before, during, and after colonization, the author focuses in on contemporary social dynamics, including the emergence of Muslim women competing at the international level. Through surveys and interviews conducted at the Twenty-Second South East Asian Games in Hanoi, she captures the athletes' experiences and perspectives as they complete, often under rules that conflicts with Islamic practices.
This publication is part of ISLAM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: VIEWS FROM WITHIN series which is the result of a research fellowship program offered by the Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN) with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. Grants are awarded to promising Muslim scholars in Southeast Asia for innovative research on economic, socio-political, and cultural changes taking place in their diverse communities. For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email info@silkwormbooks.com or visit AMAN's website or Silkworm's website.
The Federation for the Development of the Book Sector in Cambodia (FDBC) publishes this publication and aims to develop activities and find ways for all interested parties to work together to solve problems currently affecting the book and reading sector in Cambodia. The publication is issued twice a year in June and December and in three languages - English, French and Khmer. It summarizes recent Cambodia Publishing developments to make them easy and accesible.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email Bookfederation@online.com.kh
This exhibit book includes papers by authors who live in the Mekong region such as Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and China (Yunnan), and some American anthropologists who have many years doing research on Tai textiles. The book focuses on three main topics, including the Tai and Tai textiles in connection with the Mekong River; Tai textiles characteristics expresses in different areas; and continuity and change of Tai textiles tradition in the context of economic development and integration nowadays. From Tai Textiles, readers will have a better understanding of the economic and socio-cultural situations of this region.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email vme@18@hn.vnn.vn
"Discussions at public forums must not, thus, simply aim at intellectual rewards, but encourage action towards gender equality and give recognition to the importance of women's human rights." -- Virada Somswasdi.
Although positive changes in Thai women's lives are seen, negative ones are on the increase. Nowadays people often learn about and witness violence against women in all areas, be they, private or public. Violence against women and violation of women's human rights can never be condoned with state's account of responsibility in providing welfare for women. This book collects the author's documents and encourages the women's movement and other social movement to work jointly with civil society in forging a genuine democratic society in which the human rights of all are justly protected and defended.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please visit Chiang Mai University.
