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Rights agency strives for relevance

ASEAN's commission for women and children's rights is three years old, but few know about it, says Yuyun Wahyuningrum, a senior adviser on human rights at the Human Rights Working Group, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. ...

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Do Asean countries offer benefits of diversification to Thai businesses?

BANGKOK, Apr 1 (The Bangkok Post) - Thai businesses are increasingly looking to expand their operations abroad over the next few years. For many, Asean countries look like attractive destinations for a number of reasons, such as good growth prospects, production factors such as labour and natural resources, cost advantages, familiarity with their business cultures, and the approaching single market under th ...

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Tobacco Control Good for Farmers Too – Advocates

The tobacco industry says that tobacco control measures hurt farmers who cultivate the crop, but South-east Asian anti-smoking campaigners say this isn't the case. They present a Filipino farmer who says he is much better off switching to white corn, reports Abigail Lee ...

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Myanmar needs to admit rape of minority women

Myanmar's central government has yet to acknowledge the military's use of rape as a weapon of war against ethnic women, but it has to do so if there is to be real peace in the country, argues Christine Leah and Nan Paw Gay in this analysis. ...

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Speaking Peace To ASEAN

'ASEAN' and the 'ASEAN' Economic Community have become mantras of sorts in Thailand, but unresolved political tensions could undermine the gains from the regional economic interdependence expected by deeper economic linkages in the coming years, argues Thitinan Pongsudhirak of Chulalongkorn University. ...

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