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The Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) was founded in 1981 as the Southeast Asian Security Studies Program within the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. In February 1982, its status changed when it became an institute officially sanctioned by Chulalongkorn University, entrusted with the task of conducting independent research and disseminating knowledge on international and security issues.

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A Public Forum on “Thailand’s outlook 2013: Politics, Economy, Borders and Beyond”

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A PUBLIC FORUM ON ‘GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN NEPAL AND BHUTAN’

A PUBLIC FORUM ON ‘GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN NEPAL AND BHUTAN’
Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

BHUTAN: GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS?
By Tashi Dorji, Editor and Managing Director, Business Bhutan

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A PUBLIC FORUM ON ‘GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN NEPAL AND BHUTAN’

A PUBLIC FORUM ON ‘GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN NEPAL AND BHUTAN’
Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

Nepal: The Trials and Tribulations of A Republic
By Dr. Nishchal N. Pandey, Director, Centre for South Asian Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal

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Opinion

Governor status quo leaves city as microcosm of nation

The resulting and relative status quo that emerged from Bangkok's gubernatorial polls on Sunday bears cold implications for the national political landscape and the future of City Hall politics.

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Bringing insurgency to an end will be a long, hard slog

The media hype in Bangkok surrounding Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's recent meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in Putrajaya sounded as if peace was at hand in Thailand's restive southernmost border provinces where a deadly Malay-Muslim insurgency has festered for almost a decade.

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Speaking peace to Asean

Never before in its 45 years of existence has the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) received so much public attention in Thailand.

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Japan must rise again, for the common good

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent swing through three of the largest members of Asean has signalled a fluid start to the new year in East Asia's high-stakes regional mix.

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Matthew B. Arnold got a short book review in Foreign Affairs.

Among the many recent books on Sudan’s enormous and persistent potential for violent conflict, these two deserve special notice. Natsios provides a clear and dispassionate general introduction to the country’s history and politics, designed for the lay reader. LeRiche and Arnold, in the first comprehensive analysis of the world’s youngest state, explore the role that government policies played in leading to the birth of South Sudan.

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Thailand's stalemate and uneasy accommodation

Thailand has regained relative calm and stability over the past year. After the worst floods in half a century subsided in early 2012, on the back of political crisis and turmoil that date back to 2005, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government has some breathing space to roll out its consumption-driven "populist" policy agenda.

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Democrats risk political oblivion in city poll

Over the past decade, Bangkok's governor race has provided telling implications for national politics. The winner, in that time, has come from the opposition party in national politics. In other words, the largest national winning party lost in Bangkok consecutively in 2004, 2008 and 2009. This time, ahead of the March 3 poll, the Bangkok governor race is yielding counterintuitive poll numbers that may portend a pattern for the next national election due by 2015.

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-		Japan stocks inch up a day after rout Tokyo - Japanese stocks inched up Friday, recouping some of the 7 per cent lost the previous day after an unexpected drop in a Chinese business confidence index.

-		Urgent: Four rangers killed in bomb attack in Pattani Pattani - Muslim insurgents detonated a road-side bomb to ambush a unit of rangers, killing four of them on the visakha Bhucha Day.

-		Bird flu strain can go airborne, researchers say Beijing - A deadly strain of the bird flu virus can be transmitted between some animals through the air, scientists said Friday.

-		World Heritage status sought for city stretch of Chao Phraya The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to campaign for a section of the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok to be listed as a Unesco World Heritage site.

-		NMG reports good response to share issue as it raises funds for digital TV Nation Multimedia Group is looking forward to successful fund mobilisation to finance its bid for digital TV licences after receiving an overwhelming response from shareholders to subscribe to newly issued shares, president Duangkamol Chotana said Thursday.