By Lim Chong Yah
ISBN-10: 9812387242
ISBN-13: 9789812387240
Southeast Asia goes via super adjustments. The market-oriented economies of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand were displaying strong progress, relatively earlier than the Asian monetary drawback of 1997/98. The transitional economies of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam also are showing symptoms of financial awakening and revival after years of inner political and social turmoil. regardless of those encouraging indicators, the zone nonetheless has an extended highway forward to accomplish built state prestige. Southeast Asia: The lengthy highway forward is a significant and concise examine on a number of vital monetary elements of Southeast Asia. present monetary experiences at the quarter are generally topical in nature. lots of the courses basically try and provide a partial therapy of the problems and fail to envision those matters in a holistic demeanour. the target of this publication is to supply a extra whole cross-country dialogue at the monetary concerns and difficulties dealing with Southeast Asia. The booklet significantly examines the a number of features of alterations and difficulties which have been and may be encountered by means of Southeast Asia.
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56 1/16/04, 2:58 PM Basic Facts and Key Dates of Each Southeast Asian Country 1997 lvii Asian financial crisis erupted. Chuan Leekpai re-elected Thailand’s Prime Minister. Thailand turned to IMF for help. 3 billion to Thailand between 1997 and 2000. p65 2001 Thaksin Shinawatra, the leader of the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party, became Prime Minister. 2003 Loan from IMF fully repaid. p65 Geographical Co-ordinates: 19 00 N, 106 00 E Land: 329,560 sq. p65 1930 Ho Chi Minh founded Communist Party of Indochina.
1970 Tunku Abdul Rahman resigned. Succeeded by Abdul Razak, his Deputy. 1971 Formed Five Power Defence Arrangement (FPDA) with Australia, Britain, New Zealand and Singapore. 1974 Normalised relations with China. 44 1/16/04, 2:58 PM Basic Facts and Key Dates of Each Southeast Asian Country xlv 1976 Hussein Onn succeeded Abdul Razak as Prime Minister. 1977 Agreed with Philippines to end dispute over Sabah in exchange for Malaysia’s implicit agreement not to help the Moro Muslim rebels with arms. 1981 Dr.
1963 Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated. 1964 After the Tonkin Gulf incident, American military involvement in South Vietnam escalated. 1968 Tet Offensive. 1969 Ho Chi Minh died, and was succeeded by Le Duan. 1973 US-Vietnam Peace Agreement signed in Paris. 1975 Communists captured Saigon, and occupied the whole of South Vietnam. 1976 Vietnam reunified as Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Saigon renamed Ho Chi Minh City. 1978 Invaded Cambodia. 59 1/16/04, 2:58 PM lx Southeast Asia: The Long Road Ahead 1979 Sino-Vietnam border war.