Event Highlights

Seminar on Realising the ASEAN Economic Community: Views from Business and Non-Governmental Sectors

 

This seminar examined existing ASEAN mechanisms for government-private engagemen and consultation.

 

 

Seminar on “Their Accent Would Betray Them”: Undocumented Immigrants and the Sound of Illegality in the East Malaysian Borderlands

 

Andrew M. Carruthers shared his views on how state agents denote illegality in Sabah.

 

 

Seminar on Asia and Pacific Regional Economic Outlook

 

In this seminar both speakers from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) highlight the challenges and prospects facing economies in Asia and the Pacific

 

 

The Dig: 100 Days of the Empress Place Archaeology Rescue Excavation

 

Opening of photography exhibition “The Dig: 100 Days of the Empress Place Rescue Archaeology Excavation” at the Asian Civilisations Museum.

 

 

Seminar on Political and Economic Risk in Malaysia beyond 1MDB

 

In this seminar, Jahabar Sadiq goes through the saga and the scenarios that could develop for the next 12 months.

 

 

Seminar on Adenan, Autonomy and the Alternatives: Sarawak Decides 2016

 

This seminar discussed the forthcoming eleventh Sarawak state election to be held on 7 May 2016.

 

 

‘Abode of Kings’: Naypyidaw and the Politics of Reform

 

Dr Nicholas Farrelly’s seminar focused on the city of Naypyidaw and how its evolving role has both supported and accommodated Myanmar’s trajectory and politics of reform.

 

 

Vietnam Forum 2016 reviews thirty years of Doi Moi

 

The Vietnam Forum 2016 covered a wide range of issues, from the development of Vietnam’s private sector and state-owned enterprise reforms, its rural and urban transformations, challenges facing the country’s political system, to Vietnam’s relations with major powers and its international economic integration.

 

 

Exclusive preview of report “Indonesian Students in Egypt and Turkey” in ISEAS Seminar

 

ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute hosted an exclusive preview of a major new report, “Indonesian Students in Egypt and Turkey”, co-authored by Sidney Jones, Navhat Nuraniyah and Anthony Bubalo.

 

 

Professor Donald Weatherbee, ISEAS Visiting Professorial Fellow, discussed Indonesia’s foreign policies under Jokowi

 

Professor Donald Weatherbee delivered a seminar – “Making Sense of Indonesian Foreign Policy Under Jokowi” at ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute.