VNY – Aug 31, 2016
Vài năm qua, một số tờ báo Việt Nam thường tự nhận Việt Nam đứng đầu hoặc giữ ngôi vương ở một khía cạnh quân sự nào đó. Vậy sức mạnh tổng hợp của quân đội Việt Nam thì ở vị trí nào trong khu vực Đông Nam Á.
Thẻ: Southeast Asia
Urban water pumping raises arsenic risk in Southeast Asia
River water is now flowing into aquifers through highly contaminated sediments
High concentrations of arsenic are making their way from the Red River into aquifers near Hanoi, Vietnam, a new study shows. Mason Stahl tests water at the river’s edge where sediment is being deposited. Photo: Courtesy of Mason Stahl
ldeo.columbia.edu – Large-scale groundwater pumping is opening doors for dangerously high levels of arsenic to enter some of Southeast Asia’s aquifers, with water now seeping in through riverbeds with arsenic concentrations more than 100 times the limits of safety, according to a new study from scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, MIT, and Hanoi University of Science. Tiếp tục đọc “Urban water pumping raises arsenic risk in Southeast Asia”
Chính sách Hướng Đông của Nga và tác động đối với Đông Nam Á và Biển Đông
NCBĐ – Thứ sáu, 29 Tháng 1 2016 07:45
Một năm trước khi Chính quyền Obama công bố chiến lược tái cân bằng sang châu Á, thì Tổng thống Vladimir Putin đã tuyên bố Nga sẽ “hướng Đông”. Điều gì thúc đẩy chính sách Hướng Đông của Putin và liệu kết quả có như mong đợi? Lập trường của Nga và tác động như thế nào đến tình hình Biển Đông?
Tiếp tục đọc “Chính sách Hướng Đông của Nga và tác động đối với Đông Nam Á và Biển Đông”
Requiem for a river: Can one of the world’s great waterways survive its development?
CSIS: Southeast Asia from Scott Circle Jan. 21, 2016
Southeast Asia From Scott Circle – Jan 21: For China, A Race To Retain Appeal In Southeast Asia
For China, A Race To Retain Appeal In Southeast Asia
By Phuong Nguyen (@PNguyen_DC), Associate Fellow, Chair for Southeast Asia Studies (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS
January 21, 2015
The landslide election in Taiwan of pro-independence opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen to be president has led to speculation of a possible recalibration in Chinese foreign policy, at least in the year ahead. Observers believe that stable cross-strait relations over the past eight years have allowed Beijing the bandwidth to explore greener pastures such as the once-dormant South China Sea dispute and expand its footprint across Southeast Asia. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS: Southeast Asia from Scott Circle Jan. 21, 2016”
CSIS: Asia-Pacific Rebalance 2025
Capabilities, Presence, and Partnerships
Contributor: Ernest Bower, Victor Cha, Heather Conley, Zack Cooper, Ryan Crotty, Melissa Dalton, Bonnie Glaser, Rebecca Hersman, Murray Hiebert, Christopher Johnson, Thomas Karako, Stephanie Sanok Kostro, Gregory Poling, Richard Rossow, John Schaus, Sharon Squassoni, Nicholas Szechenyi, Denise Zheng
JAN 19, 2016
In 2015, Congress tasked the Department of Defense to commission an independent assessment of U.S. military strategy and force posture in the Asia-Pacific, as well as that of U.S. allies and partners, over the next decade. This CSIS study fulfills that congressional requirement. The authors assess U.S. progress to date and recommend initiatives necessary to protect U.S. interests in the Pacific Command area of responsibility through 2025. Four lines of effort are highlighted: (1) Washington needs to continue aligning Asia strategy within the U.S. government and with allies and partners; (2) U.S. leaders should accelerate efforts to strengthen ally and partner capability, capacity, resilience, and interoperability; (3) the United States should sustain and expand U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific region; and (4) the United States should accelerate development of innovative capabilities and concepts for U.S. forces.
Publisher CSIS/Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 978-1-4422-5916-4 (pb); 978-1-4422-5917-1 (eBook)
ASEAN and Global Change
John Pang
Synopsis
As we set our eyes on the long horizon of economic integration we should not neglect the important role ASEAN can play in the wider region today.
Commentary
RSIS – THIS HAS been a year of high expectations and of disappointment in Southeast Asia. Rarely has the economic and strategic importance of the region been as apparent. As China’s economy transitions towards “a new normal” marked by lower growth, structural and financial reform, and as the other BRICS markets have also slowed, investors have looked to ASEAN, with its favourable demographics and market-oriented economies, as both an alternative and a complementary market to China.
ASEAN’s prospects have often been approached through the criteria of economic integration. Hopes have centred on the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which is being inaugurated as we speak. The bold language of “a single market and production base” and of the launch of an economic community implies a change in the way business will be done in Southeast Asia. The reality is slow and incremental progress. Tiếp tục đọc “ASEAN and Global Change”
Tại sao hội nhập ASEAN lại qua con đường kinh tế
NCBĐ – Thứ năm, 05 Tháng 11 2015 16:16
Các nước ASEAN tập trung vào hội nhập về kinh tế bởi sự hội nhập về chính trị là điều “không tưởng” ở khu vực này do có những khác biệt lớn về các ý niệm cơ bản như quyền lực, bộ máy lãnh đạo, vai trò của nhân dân.
Trong khi chỉ với chưa đầy 20 tháng nữa là tròn nửa thế kỉ thành lập và phát triển, ASEAN sẽ chính thức trở thành một cộng đồng vào ngày 31/12 tới. Sự hội nhập này về cơ bản đang và sẽ tiếp tục được triển khai trong lĩnh vực kinh tế. ASEAN có tham vọng và chủ động trong việc tạo ra một thị trường và cơ sở sản xuất chung. Tiếp tục đọc “Tại sao hội nhập ASEAN lại qua con đường kinh tế”
Renewables: Asean’s new energy frontier?
Renewable energy is rapidly becoming a mainstream source of power in Southeast Asia, accounting for more than 15 per cent of electricity generation in the region. This number will grow over the next decade and beyond, driven by climate change, energy security and economics.
CSIS: Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – Oct 29, 2015
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Large-scale illegal trade in hundreds of wild-collected ornamental plants in Southeast Asia
Date:September 14, 2015
Source:National University of Singapore
Sciencedaily – Southeast Asia is a widely recognised centre of illegal wildlife trade — both as the source region for species ranging from seahorses to tigers, and as a global consumer of ivory carvings, wild pets, and traditional Chinese medicinal products.
While there are mounting efforts to tackle illegal wildlife trade, including within Singapore to reduce demand for wildlife products, the illegal trade in some species still remains undocumented.
Associate Professor Edward L. Webb, from the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and NUS PhD graduate Dr Jacob Phelps, have uncovered a previously little recognised Southeast Asian wildlife trade — the illegal sale of wild-collected ornamental plants, especially orchids.
Their findings were recently published in the journal Biological Conservation in June 2015.
Uncovering the “invisible” orchid trade
The researchers conducted extensive surveys of wildlife markets across Thailand, including border markets with Laos and Myanmar, and identified more than 400 species of ornamental plants in illegal trade — species widely prized by plant enthusiasts for their beauty, fragrance and/or rarity. Over 80% of these plants traded at the markets are wild orchids. Some of these were even listed in published literature as threatened. Tiếp tục đọc “Large-scale illegal trade in hundreds of wild-collected ornamental plants in Southeast Asia”
Vietnam labor productivity still far behind ASEAN countries: ministry
Thanh Nien News
Thursday, August 27, 2015 20:21
Workers at a footwear factory in Vietnam. Photo: Diep Duc Minh
Vietnam’s labor productivity has managed to narrow its gaps with other Southeast Asian countries, but it will be decades long before the country can catch up with them, the Ministry of Planning and Investment said. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam labor productivity still far behind ASEAN countries: ministry”
CVD 
economist – GUO, the driver, pulls his car to a merciful halt high above a crevasse: time for a cigarette, and after seven hours of shuddering along narrow, twisting roads, time for his passengers to check that their fillings remain in place. Lighting up, he steps out of the car and dons a cloth cap and jacket: sunny, early-summer days are still brisk 3,500 metres above sea level. Mr Guo is an impish little dumpling of a man, bald, brown-toothed and jolly. He is also an anomaly: a Shanghainese in northern Yunnan who opted to stay with his local bride rather than return to his booming hometown.
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