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Globalization means transnational marriages and intimacies become increasingly viable options for women and men. Patcharin Lapanun explores the marriages of Thai women with *farang* men,  and complicates conventional views about materiality and intimacy in these settings.The sentiments and life stories of women and men engaging in ...

Join us for the 6th Open Government Partnership Global Summit!  Together with the Open Government Partnership, the Government of Canada is hosting the Summit in Ottawa, Canada, from May 29-31st, 2019. The Summit will bring together the 79 member countries and 20 local governments of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). ...

Date: July 5th-13th, 2019  Venue: National University of Management (NUM), Phnom Penh, Cambodia RCSD invites graduate students (Master’s and PhD) from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University to participate in the ASEAN Water Platform and workshop, organized and held atNational University of Management, Cambodia in Phnom Penh ...

This year’s edition of the Mekong Tourism Forum (MTF) will be held on May 28 and 29, hosted by the Ministry of Culture & Tourism of China (MCT) and the People’s Government of Yunnan Province in collaboration with the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO). The two-day ...

This conference will bring Asian journalists and media professionals together to exchange their experiences in using smartphones to support their journalism and newsrooms. We will bring experts from across the region to Bangkok for panel discussions, workshops and masterclasses on video reporting and production, photojournalism, ...

Data4Change Hackathon (#Data4ChangeMM) will be hosted in Myanmar by Phandeeyar on Saturday, May 25, 2019, 09:00 am – Sunday, May 26, 2019, 09:00 pm.  This is a local event. Each team is required to have 3 to 5 members. Every member of your team needs to REGISTER! ...

Launched in 2010, the ICIRD Knowledge Network is a platform for academic cooperation among five of Thailand’s foremost providers of research and higher education, namely the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, the Master of Arts program in International Development Studies (MAIDS), Chulalongkorn University, the ...

When China took action to protect its borders from foreign plastic pollution by effectively shutting its doors to plastic waste imports in the beginning of 2018, it threw the global plastic recycling industry into chaos. Wealthy countries had grown accustomed to exporting their plastic problems, with ...

In 2014, the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) established the Asia Young Leaders for Democracy program (AYLD), aiming at strengthening democracy in Asia through young people’s collaborations. Each year, young practitioners advocating for democracy or human rights across the countries in Asia are selected to ...

The Mekong River Commission was established as a multi-lateral cooperation mechanism between the four Lower Mekong Basin countries (MC) of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam with the mission of promotion and coordination of the sustainable management and development of water and related resources ...