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20 Asean
Image is Everything
One Region, One Economy |
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22 Brunei
Shrouded in Secrecy |
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24 Cambodia
Behind the Property Boom |
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26 Indonesia
Growth Ahead
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28 Laos
Power Out of Water |
30 Malaysia
The Rise of Najib |
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32 Myanmar
Immune to Sanctions? |
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34 Philippines
Prime Minister Arroyo? |
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36 Singapore
Recipe for Disaster
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38 Thailand
Re-enter Amazing Thailand
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40 Vietnam
Battle against Corruption
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Your Views |
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From the FOUNDER |
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Subscription Form / Index of Advertisers |
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Asean Manoeuvre
ISKANDAR RESETS MALAYSIA-SINGAPORE TIES |
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After years of
bitter rivalry, Malaysia’s plan to transform the southern corridor of
Johor into a bustling economic centre could be the turning point in
easing long-standing tensions with neighboring Singapore. |
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MESSAGE OF PEACE
Personal Attributes for True Happiness and
Success Excerpts from ‘A Manual of Peace- 38 Steps to
wards Enlightened
Living’, in which Luang Phaw Dattajeevo explains in detail how Lord
Buddha has used th
e 38 Blessings as a means of helping humankind to
cultivate certain desirable personal attributes, and how they can help
individuals meet true happiness and success in life. |
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Asean Talk
SHIFTING THE FOCUS BACK ON THE REGION |
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The current
crisis is teaching Asean, ‘taken hostage by the markets in the West’,
to rethink and restructure their business models to build products that
are more suitable to supply domestic markets. Speakers at the recent
Asean Leadership Forum in Bangkok may be signalling the rise of
regionalism. |
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Asean Traveller
CHIANG MAI- THEN AND NOW
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Asean-trotter
Reinhard Hohler, a long-time ‘foreign’ resident of Chiang Mai in
Thailand’s North remembers what the city used to be and how it has been
threatened by huge infrastructure and other mega-projects. |
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Featured Companies
West Sands Phuket
Harrow International School |
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Asean Money
GOLDEN OPPORT UNITIES IN GLOBAL CRISIS
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How one can
find gold nuggets of opportunity in bad times will make a difference in
the developing world and usher in a new financial hierarchy in the
coming decade, writes ASEANAFFAIRS financial columnist Rohit Bajoria |
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Asean Tech
CRACKING THE IT MARKET IN ASEAN-III |
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Build Your Value-adding Sales Channel
The
best option is to build a value adding sales channel, usually a local
IT system integrator, solution provider or the like, which they have a
propensity to know the customers from experience and know the local
do’s and don’t’s a lot better than you do. |
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Asean in Figures |
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Asean Events |
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Asean Bazaar |
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OUTSOURCING MYTHS
With
recession still looming in the horizon, the western world feels that
outsourcing is the sole culprit that has snatched people off their
living, and in the process, more often than not, the fingers point to
the outsourcing hot spot of the world – Southeast Asia.
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