[Article] Historian advocates joint control of border heritage sites.

January 23, 2011 | The Nation by Supalak Ganjanakhundee

Countries in the Mekong River basin and the Dangrek Mountain range should consider creating a trans-boundary world heritage site of cultural and natural resources to end their border conflicts, prominent historian Charnvit Kasetsiri proposed over the weekend.
Speaking at a seminar "Our Boundaries, Our Asean Neighbours" on Friday, Charnvit said countries in the region had a lot of cultural and natural heritage left by ancestors centuries ago, some of which were sources of conflict.
Thailand and Cambodia have been at loggerheads over the Hindu temple of Preah Vihear for half a century. The proposal by Cambodia to list the ruined temple as a World Heritage site in 2008 fuelled conflict between the neighbouring countries.
A group of Thai nationalists want the government to block Cambodia's attempt to run Preah Vihear and kick a Khmer community out of the area adjacent to the temple.
A ruling by the International Court of Justice in 1962 found that Preah Vihear was situated in territory under the sovereignty of Cambodia.
Bangkok said it respected the court's ruling but argued that the temple's vicinity and even the land where the temple sits belongs to Thailand.
Preah Vihear temple was listed as a World Heritage site in 2008 but the Thai government, with strong support from nationalist groups, opposed its management plan. The two countries remain in conflict and seem to have no way to settle their differences.
Charnvit proposed what he is calling a "Mixed Cultural and Natural Mekong-Dangrek World Heritage" as a model to end the conflict.
There were some examples in the world, he said, where trans-border World Heritage sites had been possible, citing the Iguazu waterfalls - the world's largest - which are situated on the border of Argentina and Brazil.

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[Article] Abhisit sets out Thai position on temple.

Abhisit: Opposes development

22/11/2010 | Bangkok Post

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has clearly told his Cambodian counterpart that Thailand opposes any attempt to develop disputed territory adjacent to the ancient Preah Vihear temple.
Mr Abhisit said he held bilateral talks with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen last week on the sidelines of the Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy meeting in Phnom Penh.
Mr Abhisit said during his weekly talk show yesterday morning that it was the first time the two leaders had seriously discussed issues relating to the proposed development near the temple as part of the Preah Vihear World Heritage project.
He told Hun Sen that Thailand considered the area to be Thai territory but the World Heritage listing in 2008 had led to a proposal for Cambodia to manage the area "and that is unacceptable to us".

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[Article] Stones of contention.

28 September 2010 | Southeast Asia Globe | Charlie Lancaster

For decades, Preah Vihear has been witness to a war of words and sporadic fights between Cambodian and Thai troops over territorial claims.
The 11th century cultural tourist site lies at the heart of a border dispute that harks back 100 years and was re-ignited in 1954 when Thai forces occupied the temple following French withdrawal from Cambodia. Cambodia's successful bid to have the temple listed as a Unesco World Heritage site in July 2008 sparked the recent series of cross-border spats and political posturing. Since then, nationalists, media sensationalists and politicians pursuing private agendas have commandeered the temple. All the while, tourists and cultural enthusiasts are left waiting in the wings for the curtain to finally close on the drama, so they can visit this World Heritage site in peace.
It is in no one's interest for the issue to spiral out of control, for the disputed land surrounding the temple to turn into a 'zone of death', as Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, once threatened or for Thailand to employ military force to resolve the issue, as The Nation quoted Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva as saying in August. Dialogue, with or without Asean as a mediating body, is the best hope for a peaceful solution. But why is this conflict dragging on? Who, or what, is adding fuel to the fire?

The 1907 map, on which the 1962 ICJ ruling was based, placed the temple within Cambodia.

The watershed affair
The 900-year-old temple was built at the height of the Khmer empire. In 1904, Siam and French authorities ruling Cambodia formed a joint commission to demarcate their mutual border along the watershed line of the Dangrek mountain range, which would have placed nearly all of Preah Vihear temple on Thailand's side. However, when France drew up a topographic map to identify the border's location in 1907, the line deviated from the watershed in the Preah Vihear area, placing the entire temple within Cambodia. Crucially, Thailand did not immediately contest this map, on which the 1962 International Court of Justice ruling concluded the temple was "situated in territory under the Sovereignty of Cambodia" was based.

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Revue de Presse : expulsions des "Roms" du territoire français.

Une manière de faire le point sur l'actualité en France, et de se faire aussi une opinion. Bonne lecture.

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"La France donne un prétexte à la Bulgarie pour durcir sa politique envers les Roms" | Le Monde.fr | Alexandre Lévy | 31.08.10

Vu de Sofia, il n'y avait pas de problème avec les Roms. Du moins, pas au début, lorsque le gouvernement bulgare offrait sa pleine coopération pour "établir le nombre et l'identité" de ses citoyens qui devaient être expulsés de France et lorsque les associations tsiganes locales restaient muettes, quand elles ne saluaient pas l'action de Paris. [...]

Chez les Roms, "intouchables" de Bulgarie | Le Monde.fr | Alexandre Lévy | 31/08/2010

Une communauté en manque de leaders | Le Monde.fr | | Alexandre Lévy | 31/08/10
Pour certains, les Roms européens manquent cruellement "d'amis" influents pour défendre leur cause autrement que par les protestations des défenseurs des droits de l'homme. En Bulgarie, les Roms manquent de représentativité tout court – à la grande différence de leurs concitoyens d'origine turque. Pas de "parti rom", de députés, de figures charismatiques ou de sympathisants. Et le problème des nombreuses associations de Roms n'est pas tant qu'elles ne sont pas entendues en Bulgarie, mais le fait qu'on ne les prend pas au sérieux. [...]

Expulsion des Roms : la Roumanie et la Bulgarie haussent le ton | Le Monde.fr | par AFP | 18/08/2010

Les critiques se multiplient en Roumanie et en Bulgarie contre la politique française à l'égard des Roms, alors que la France compte expulser 700 Roms de son territoire d'ici à la fin août. [...]

Les enfants Roms sont les premières victimes des expulsions à répétition qui interrompent leurs parcours scolaires. [AFP/JEFF PACHOUD]

Paris toujours sous le feu des critiques au sujet des Roms | L’Express | par Reuters | 27/08/2010

Les critiques continuent à pleuvoir en France et à l'étranger contre la politique de la France à l'égard des Roms, mais Paris persiste dans sa volonté de démanteler leurs camps et de les renvoyer dans leurs pays. [...]

Eric Besson veut étendre les possibilités d'expulsions des Roms | Le Point | par AFP| 26/08/2010
Le ministre de l'Immigration Éric Besson a annoncé, lundi, un projet d'amendement à la loi permettant de reconduire aux frontières des étrangers en cas de "menace à l'ordre public à l'occasion d'actes répétés de vols ou de mendicité agressive". [...]

Le gouvernement français de plus en plus divisé sur la sécurité | L’Express | par Reuters | 31/08/2010
Le gouvernement français apparaît de plus en plus divisé sur la politique sécuritaire de Nicolas Sarkozy à l'approche d'un remaniement ministériel qui accentue encore la nervosité au sein de la majorité présidentielle.
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La HALDE appelle à la levée des mesures transitoires visant les citoyens bulgares et roumains | Questions d’étrangers / Le blog de Migration Conseil | 21/08/2010

Droits et devoirs administratifs des Roms : conséquences du régime transitoire Roumain et Bulgare.
Ni citoyens communautaires, ni ressortissants étrangers non communautaires, un peuple discriminé.
La Roumanie et la Bulgarie, dont la plupart des Roms de France sont ressortissants, sont entrées dans l’Union Européenne en 2007.
Normalement, les ressortissants européens bénéficient de la liberté de circulation : ils peuvent librement passer les frontières à l’intérieur de l’Europe, s’installer et travailler dans un autre pays de l’UE. C’est ce qu’on appelle l’espace Schengen. [...]

"Il est urgent d'arrêter cette chasse aux Roms" | L'Express | Par Kévin Le Louargant | 26/08/2010

Réuni à l'occasion de la publication de son rapport annuel, le collectif Romeurope a dénoncé la "politique disproportionnée" du gouvernement à l'égard des 10 000 à 15 000 Roms de France. [...]

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Les expulsions de camps illégaux de Roms | La Depeche.fr | par AFP | 28/07/2010

Voici la la liste des principales expulsions de camps illégaux de roms par les forces de l'ordre depuis 2009, généralement à la suite de décisions de justice. [...]

La détresse des Roms | La Libre Belgique | par George Soros |  26/08/2010

Les Roms sont confrontés à une forme de discrimination inédite en Europe depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Hommes, femmes et enfants sont expulsés dans plusieurs démocraties sous prétexte qu’ils constitueraient un risque pour l’ordre public. Une opinion de George Soros, dirige le Fond de gestion Soros. [...]
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Humanistic Report N°8 - Chronique Report au cœur du Sikhisme.

Du 05 au 25 juillet 2010 

" Dans ce numéro, Grégory [Kauffmann] nous amène à Amritsar, berceau du sikhisme. Cette religion monothéiste, qui compte environ 20 millions de personnes, enseigne entre autre la tolérance, le courage, le don de soi, la fraternité et le partage.
Un partage que nous allons apprécier dans les réfectoires situés autour du magnifique Temple d’Or où les Sikhs distribuent bénévolement et gratuitement environ 80.000 repas par jour aux pèlerins, sans distinction d’origine, de religion ou de classe sociale.
Le Temple d’Or, se nommant ainsi car recouvert en grande partie de feuilles d’or, est l’édifice le plus sacré des Sikhs. Ce haut lieu de prières est situé au centre d’un bassin où des hommes récitent en chants et en musique les versés sacrés du Gurû Granth Sahib, le livre saint des Sikhs.
Puis, rejoignant la frontière indo-pakistanaise, Grégory nous invite à une cérémonie peu commune dans la ville de Wagah qui se trouve être le seul passage entre l’Inde et le Pakistan. Chaque soir, des militaires des deux pays entament une marche dynamique aboutissant à leur rencontre et à la fermeture de la frontière. "

Hervé Caroff

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Du Triangle d’or au Quadrangle économique
Acteurs, enjeux et défis des flux illicites transfrontaliers dans le Nord-Laos
 

Danielle TAN, Doctorante Sciences Po/CERI

Téléchargement gratuit à partir des sites www.irasec.com/... & www.mekongantitrafic.com 

Discussion Paper n° 6 - Note de recherche n° 6, Fév.2010, 34p.

Cet article a pour objectif de présenter les principaux acteurs des flux illicites transfrontaliers qui traversent le Nord-Laos et d’analyser les enjeux et les défis que cette question complexe soulève.
L’auteur fait l’hypothèse que la généralisation macroéconomique des phénomènes de l’illicite et du développement délictueux s’affirme comme une mutation économique majeure qui s’explique dans une large mesure par la multiplication des opportunités qu’ont entraînée la libéralisation financière et la mondialisation de l’économie. L’économie illicite en Asie du Sud-Est constitue ainsi un trait majeur de l’économie politique de la région dont les origines prennent racines dans la colonisation. Aujourd’hui, ces activités souterraines constituent une marge de manœuvre certaine pour les États en développement comme le Laos ; elles permettent de contrebalancer les effets négatifs de l’ouverture des frontières et de la libéralisation économique, ce qui explique l’attitude ambivalente de l’État vis-à-vis de la régulation de ces flux.
Nourrie par une série d’enquêtes de terrain réalisées entre 2007 et 2009 dans les trois provinces du Nord-Laos concernées par le Corridor nord-sud (Oudomxay, Luang Namtha et Bokéo) et dans la capitale Vientiane, cette analyse tente dans un premier temps de comprendre la fabrique de l’illicite dans cette région en mettant l’accent sur les acteurs qui l’ont fait vivre et évoluer. L’auteur se concentre dans une seconde partie sur les enjeux qui se cachent derrière la question des flux illicites transfrontaliers, notamment la survie et le redéploiement de l’État postcommuniste à l’heure de la globalisation néolibérale. Puis les défis sociaux et environnementaux à relever seront examinés.

L’auteur :
Danielle Tan est doctorante en science politique au Céri/Sciences Po. Sa thèse porte sur l’analyse des réseaux chinois dans le Nord Laos et les recompositions sociales et territoriales que ces nouvelles mobilités génèrent. Cette recherche s’intègre dans le cadre du programme Transiter « Dynamiques transnationales et recompositions territoriales, approche comparative Amérique centrale et Asie du Sud-Est » financé par l’ANR.

IRASEC / Observatoire :
L’Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine (IRASEC, USR 3142 – UMIFRE 22 CNRS MAEE) s’intéresse depuis 2001 aux évolutions politiques, sociales et environnementales en cours dans les onze pays de la région. Basé à Bangkok, l’Institut fait appel à des chercheurs de tous horizons disciplinaires et académiques qu’il associe au gré des problématiques. Il privilégie autant que possible les démarches transversales.
L’observatoire des trafics est en charge depuis septembre 2008 de l’analyse des mouvements illicites transfrontaliers en Asie du Sud-est continentale. Il soutient des programmes de recherche afin de proposer une meilleure connaissance des mécanismes des trafics illicites et des systèmes de lutte antitrafic à différentes échelles dans la région. L’observatoire est accueilli au sein de l’IRASEC et est financé par le ministère français des affaires étrangères et européennes (DGM/ECODEV/MGD) dans le cadre du projet « Lutte contre la contrefaçon dangereuse pour la santé et la sécurité dans la sous-région du Mékong ».

Contacts :
Benoît de Tréglodé, directeur de l’Irasec
Anne-Lise Sauterey, coordinatrice de l’Observatoire
IRASEC – Observatoire -  29, Sathorn Tai Road , Bangkok 10120, Thailande - Tel : (66) 026 27 21 87
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www.mekongantitrafic.com

Google says it will look into complaint from Cambodia that border map with Thailand is wrong [AFP via The Baltimore Sun]

Sopheng Cheang Associated Press Writer, February 10, 2010.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Google Inc. said Wednesday it would look into a complaint from Cambodia that an online map showing the country's border with Thailand was wrong, though it stopped short of saying it would change the document.

The Internet giant was responding to a request last week from Cambodia to replace a Google Earth map that the government said was "devoid of truth and reality, and professionally irresponsible, if not pretentious."
Cambodian-Thai relations have been strained by competing claims to the border area near an 11th-century mountaintop temple called Preah Vihear. The world court awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962, but sovereignty over the surrounding land has never been clearly resolved.
Several gun battles in the area since 2008 have killed at least seven Thai and Cambodian soldiers, and both sides have refused to back away from their positions, each saying it has the rightful claim to the land.
Cambodia complained in its letter to Google that the map features a border that would put half the temple in Thailand.
Google, in a letter sent to the government and provided to reporters Wednesday, said it was "carefully reviewing" Phnom Penh's objection but also suggested that it contact Tele Atlas, a mapping company it says provided the border data to the company.
"We understand that the governments of both Thailand and Cambodia are pursuing bilateral negotiations to clarify the existing borders between the two countries and we would be happy to review any authoritative border data which the government of Cambodia can provide," said the letter, dated Feb. 9 and signed by Ross LaJeunesse, Google's head of public policy and government affairs for Asia Pacific.
A spokeswoman for Tele Atlas could not immediately be reached for comment.
The border issue has been used by politicians to stir up nationalist sentiment in both Thailand and Cambodia for decades.
Thai nationalists consider the 1962 ruling on the temple an injustice. Last year, Thai-Cambodian relations soured when Bangkok first backed, then opposed Cambodia's bid to have the temple declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. Some Thais believe the designation undermines their claims to a small area of surrounding land, despite denials by the U.N. cultural agency.
Tensions were stoked again over the weekend when Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen visited the area. On Tuesday, he vowed to bring the entire border dispute to the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
Cambodia wants Google to replace its current map with one the government says was accepted in 1908 by Thailand.
Associated Press writer Michael Casey in Bangkok contributed to this report. [link]

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- Cambodia rebukes Google over disputed Thai border map - AFP via Channel NewsAsia | 6 feb.2010.
- Google to review Cambodian map over Preah Vihear Temple - Xinhua | 10 feb.2010.

Cambodia reports clash with Thai troops on border [The Jakarta Post]

Sopheng Cheang ,  Associated Press ,  Phnom Penh   |  Sun, 01/24/2010

Cambodian troops clashed Sunday with Thai soldiers near a temple that lies along a disputed part of their border and has been the scene of several deadly skirmishes in recent years, Cambodian military officials said.
Lt. Gen. Chea Tara, deputy armed forces commander and field commander for the area, said Cambodia suffered no casualties in the fighting in northern Cambodia, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) east of Preah Vihear temple. He said the fighting began when Thai troops intruded into Cambodian territory.
Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Chhum Socheach said there were two firefights lasting about five minutes each. He could not say if Thai forces suffered any casualties.
Thai military authorities could not immediately be reached for confirmation of the fighting in an area.
The Cambodian officers said the area was calm after the fighting, but that both countries were on alert.
The area has been a flashpoint since 2008, when Thai nationalists protested Cambodian efforts to have the 11th century Preah Vihear temple named a U.N. World Heritage site. They claimed the move could invalidate Thai claims to small parcels of nearby jungle area.
In 1962, the World Court awarded the temple and the land it is on to Cambodia, but sovereignty over adjacent areas has never been clearly resolved.
The issue is closely linked to Thailand's domestic politics because the 2008 protests about the temple were led by the People's Alliance for Democracy, a group which was seeking to unseat the Thai government then in power because of its links to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thaksin was ousted by a 2006 military coup after being accused of corruption and disrespecting constitutional monarch King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
The alliance raised the issue to stir up nationalist sentiment and attract support.
The furor caused both Thailand and Cambodia to reinforce their military positions in the area, and tensions have broken out into fighting on several occasions, leading to several deaths.
Relations between the two countries plunged further in November last year, when Cambodia named Thaksin an adviser on economic affairs. The appointment, and subsequent visits by Thaksin, set off a diplomatic row in which the two countries recalled their ambassadors. A Thai court in 2008 sentenced Thaksin in absentia to two years in prison on a corruption charge.
Cambodia has refused to extradite Thaksin. 

Lieutenant General Chea Tara, deputy armed forces commander and field commander for the area, said Cambodia suffered no casualties in the fighting on Sunday, about 12 miles (20 kilometres) east of Preah Vihear temple. -- PHOTO: REUTERS [Article: Cambodia, Thai troops clash - AP/ via Straits Times]

Pour plus d'informations, voir, entre autres, les articles suivants :

- Cambodia, Thai troops clash [AP/via Straits Time] 

PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIA'S military says its troops have clashed briefly with Thai soldiers along a disputed border area. (...);

- Khmer and Thai troops clash at border near temple [By Deutsche Presse Agentur / via The Nation]

Phnom Penh - Cambodian and Thai soldiers exchanged fire early Sunday 20 kilometres from a disputed ancient temple site on Cambodia's northern border, a Defence Ministry spokesman said. (...) ;

- Thai Army Rangers clash with Cambodian troops near Preah Vihear temple [MCOT News]

SI SA KET, Jan 24 (TNA) -- Thai Army Rangers clashed early Sunday with a unit of Cambodian soldiers near the disputed 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple, a senior Thai army officer said. No casualties were reported. (...) .

International Call for Papers : Center of SEA Studies (USA)

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle (USA), invites academics, advanced graduate students, and independent scholars to submit paper proposals for the conference-workshop. 

"BEYOND BORDERS: ALTERNATIVE VOICES AND HISTORIES OF THE VIETNAMESE

DIASPORA" 

to be held on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington from Thursday, March 4th, to Sunday, March 7th, 2010.

- Organizers and co-coordinators:

Christoph Giebel and Judith Henchy (Univ. of Washington - Seattle)

- Co-coordinators and "keynote speakers in dialog":

Mariam B. Lam (Univ. of California - Riverside) and Jack Yeager (Louisiana State University). These two scholars of the Vietnamese diaspora will help frame the conference-workshop with distinct Francophone and American perspectives.

GENERAL CONCEPT: This March 2010 conference-workshop on the Vietnamese diaspora is the third in a three-part series, constituting a multi-year research initiative in Viet Nam Studies, "Alternative Voices and Histories in Viet Nam: Colonial Modernities and Post-colonial Narratives." The initiative's aims are:
* to bring together scholars from around the world who focus on new interpretations of Vietnamese history and historiography;

* to provide a forum for recent, disparate work on new sources and under-researched topics to critically engage with one another;
* and to make the results available to the wider academic community.
Our first and second conference-workshops, "Beyond Teleologies: alternative voices and histories in colonial Viet Nam" and "Beyond Dichotomies: alternative voices and histories in post-colonial Viet Nam" were held in Seattle in March 2007 and May 2008.

The trilogy of conference-workshops is based on the understanding that modern Vietnamese historiography has been unduly dominated by several particular and at times overlapping discourses reflective of the prevalent ideological presumptions of the 20th century, such as those that:
* privilege the perspectives, interests, and actions of a central state or states;
* impose nationalist and traditionalist notions on Vietnamese history and culture;
* subsume Vietnamese revolutionary visions and movements solely under communist teleologies;
* and enforce Cold War rhetorical postures by excluding, externalizing and de-legitimizing those that do not fit simplistic binaries.
By contrast, the workshops will highlight academic work that complicates, challenges and counters these paradigms, thereby enriching and expanding our understanding of the variety of modern Vietnamese historical actors, factors, and epistemologies, and suggesting the contours of alternative models.

CALL FOR PAPERS: For this workshop on the Vietnamese diaspora, "Beyond Borders," we are seeking papers that focus on the disparate margins of Vietnamese identities. Papers should explore the particular and multiple histories of Vietnamese overseas sojourn, migration and exile in early modern, colonial, war time, post-1975, and socialist contexts. At the same time, contributors can help articulate the initiative's interest in marginal voices in Vietnamese historiography with the disciplinary concerns of ethnic and global cultural studies. Papers might illuminate, among many other possible themes:
* colonial politics of exile and punishment throughout the global French empire;
* inter-colonial and transnational connections in exile, for example, by Vietnamese soldiers, workers, students, political activists, prisoners, travelers, or those subjected to colonial display;
* literary representations of diaspora, from colonialism and the anomie of "foreigners at home" to the contemporary Vietnamese imaginary of exile and return;
* diasporic community formations, acculturations, as well as ethnic enclave politics and economics;
* politically diverse exile groups during the war years and their relations with post-war refugee communities;
* comparative diasporic work, or multi-sited anthropological research on, for example, overseas Vietnamese student and migrant/contract labor populations, adoptees, or transnational out-marriages;
* exposure/isolation of particular demographics: e.g., Israeli-Vietnamese, Versailles-New Orleans, or non-identifying diasporic communities from Viet Nam;
* overseas Vietnamese linkages to Viet Nam, remittances, anti-communist rhetoric, generational concerns, and educational differences.
In general, the organizers welcome papers on the Vietnamese diaspora, broadly defined in time and space, that engage a wide range of sources and literatures, in particular new and under-researched ones.

Please submit, preferably electronically, BY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009 to the organizers of the conference series:

Christoph Giebel, Assoc. Prof. of History and International Studies, giebel@u.washington.edu and Judith Henchy, Head, Southeast Asia Section, University of Washington Libraries, and Lecturer in International Studies, judithh@u.washington.edu

c/o Center for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Washington, box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195-3650, USA

http://jsis.washington.edu/seac/

EUROSEAS conference 2010

The next Euroseas conference will be held in Gothenburg at School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg (Sweden), 26-28 August, 2010.
Contact: euroseas@globalstudies.gu.se 

The European Association for South-East Asian Studies (EUROSEAS).

EUROSEAS sets itself the task of enhancing the position of Southeast Asian Studies in Europe. The Association stimulates collaboration between the various national institutions concerned with Southeast Asian Studies in order to encourage more interdisciplinary and international research. EUROSEAS will also encourage inter-regional research within Southeast Asia itself.
EUROSEAS will provide scholars from within Southeast Asia and from other areas outside Europe with greater access to European research facilities.

Panels and Call for Papers

Viet Nam - Internet : Biên giới lãnh thỗ

VN – Internet : Le comité des frontières nationales du Ministère des affaires étrangères a mis en place sur Internet le site http://biengioilanhtho.gov.vn. C’est un canal d’informations officielles du Vietnam sur les points de vue et la politique du Parti et du gouvernement ainsi que les informations et les documents nécessaires sur les activités sur les frontières.
(Tuoi Tre, 04/12/09-p.2)

Thứ Năm, 03/12/2009, 21:07 (GMT+7)

Khai trương Trang thông tin điện tử về biên giới lãnh thổ

Ngày 3-12, Phó Thủ tướng, Bộ trưởng Ngoại giao Phạm Gia Khiêm đã khai trương Trang thông tin điện tử của Bộ Ngoại giao về biên giới lãnh thổ (biên giới đất liền và biên giới biển) tại địa chỉ:  www.biengioilanhtho.gov.vn.

Đây là kênh thông tin chính thức của Việt Nam cung cấp hệ thống quan điểm, đường lối, chính sách, tư liệu lịch sử, thông tin cơ bản về biên giới lãnh thổ, về điều kiện tự nhiên và môi trường biển Đông…, được thiết kế theo 10 chuyên mục chính.

Với trang thông tin điện tử này, mỗi người dân hay nhà nghiên cứu có thể dễ dàng tìm kiếm những thông tin phong phú về hiện trạng biên giới, những văn kiện pháp lý của Việt Nam về biên giới lãnh thổ cùng những bài phân tích sâu của các chuyên gia về những vấn đề cụ thể của biên giới lãnh thổ Việt Nam.

Mục đích xây dựng trang thông tin này, theo Người Phát ngôn Bộ Ngoại giao, là nhằm nâng cao nhận thức của người dân về biên giới lãnh thổ đồng thời là công cụ phản bác những thông tin, lập luận sai trái về vấn đề biên giới lãnh thổ của Việt Nam.

Hiện Việt Nam đã có những trang tin chuyên biệt như về cải cách hành chính  tại địa chỉ www.thutuchanhchinh.vn, xúc tiến đầu tư tại địa chỉ www.fia.mpi.gov.vn...

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