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A selection of publications:
A Short History of South East AsiaAdded Value - The Life Stories
of Leading South East Asian Business People
by Peter Church
Thailand Business Guide - Bangkok International Associates
A Short History of South East Asia
The
first edition of "Focus on Southeast Asia" was published in 1997 and the second
edition, which was renamed "A Short History of South East Asia",
was published in 1999. With so much change taking place in South East Asia
over the last few years we recently decided to update the book and a fourth
edition was published by John Wiley and Sons (www.wiley.com)
in 2006. The cover set out is of the fourth edition.
To view the online text of the second (complimentary) edition, please click here.
Copies of the fourth edition are available for purchase in bookshops and through the Amazon website (www.amazon.com).
Added Value - The Life Stories of Leading South East Asian Business People
This uplifting
book provides hope and guidance for businessmen and women of all ages as well
as for those about to embark on a business or professional career. It details
face-to-face interviews the life stories of leading businessmen and womenh
throughtout the ten countries of South East Asia (ASEAN) and their own secrets
of success.
It is not a book about the rich and famous, although many of those interviewed are both, Rather, it is about the paths they have followed during their lives adding value to their business and professional sectors and, in many cases, to their nations.
Many have been badly hurt by the current economic crisis but their life stories
show that many have faced adversity before. Indeed, many started on their
paths to success at earlier times of economic and polical disarray and after
the Great Depression, the Second World War and the fall of national leaders
such as President Sukarno of Indonesia.
If you would like to purchase Added Value (published 1999, Hardback, 498pp,
US$20 plus postage) please contact
Thailand Business Guide - Bangkok International Associates
The Thai Business and Legal Guide has been prepared and published by Asean Focus Group’s affiliate, Bangkok International Associates, under the supervision of the firm’s co-founder and senior partner, Ron Cristal (Ronachai Krisadaolarn) and Stephen Frost. The Guide was last updated in January 2008. The Guide provides general advice and no responsibility is accepted for errors or omissions, nor should reliance be made nor action taken on the basis of any information set out in this Guide without receiving up to date Thai legal advice such as that available from Bangkok International Associates (http://www.bia.co.th).
The Thailand Business guide can be viewed by clicking here.
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Continental Drift: Australia's
Search for a Regional Identity (Ashgate Publishing)
by Rawdon Dalrymple
Mr. Rawdon Dalrymple A.O. is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of Asean Focus Group. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney and was Rhodes Scholar from NSW in 1952. During Rawdon Dalrymple’s career in the Department of External Affairs (now Foreign Affairs and Trade) he was involved at one time or another in all aspects of Australia's foreign interests and policy areas. He was one of the architects of the Asian Development Bank and served on its Board, spent a total of seven years in Indonesia and was Australia's Ambassador there from 1981 to 1985. He was subsequently ambassador to The United States of America and then to Japan. To learn more about Rawdon Dalrymple please visit his site on Government and International Relations, University of Sydney web site (http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/content.php?pageid=1076)
Original,
insightful and well-organized, Rawdon Dalrymple studies Australia's sense
of vulnerability and attachment to distant protectors which has coexisted
with tendencies of both assertiveness and complacency. Penetrating and authoritative
the book examines the cautious development of Australian relations with East
Asia during the 1980s and 1990s, with detailed coverage of the background
to the Australian effort and critical analysis of where Australian forays
into the politics of the region leave its standing in East Asia and the world
today.
Contents
Introduction; Living with vulnerability - from the beginning to 1983; Approaching
an independent Australian foreign and defence policy; The persistence and
decline of dependence; Promoting Australia's Asian future; Commitments and
hesitations; Development, values, solidarity and fault lines; Australian efforts
to qualify; Dealing with Indonesia; East Timor and the watershed in policy;
Opportunities and constraints; Bibliography; Index.
Reviews
'Rawdon Dalrymple offers a very perceptive and well founded analysis of Australia's
policies towards East Asia over the past twenty years. Having served as Australian
ambassador to Japan, the United States and Indonesia over twelve years he
is extremely well informed on his subject. He offers trenchant and sometimes
discomforting views on the consequences of Australian foreign policy for Australia's
relationship with East Asia in particular. He lets the reader in on many of
Canberra's secrets as to who did what and why. Well written, the book is hard
to put down before the last page is reached.' Professor Robert O'Neill, University
of Oxford, UK
'Dalrymple addresses Australia's biggest Foreign Policy issue authoritatively
and with profound insight. The story of a hundred years of ignoring and attempting
to reconcile the tension between this country's history and geography leads
into the great challenges ahead. A splendid book in the best tradition of
the top diplomat as reflective author.'
Professor Ross Garnaut , Australian National University, Australia
'A joy to read...The author's insights are penetrating...This book is destined
to be a CLASSIC. It really is a piece of first-rate scholarship and writing.'
Dennis Rumley, Associate Professor, University of Western Australia, Australia