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Transboundary Haze Pollution in Island Southeast Asia: A Crisis of

WEBWorks Cited. Agarwal, S., Foo Sing, T., & Yang, Y. (2020). The impact of transboundary haze pollution on household utilities consumption. Energy Economics, 85, 104591.

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URL: https://seasia.yale.edu/transboundary-haze-pollution-island-southeast-asia-crisis-collective-action

Mental Health Issues in Malaysia Modern Southeast Asia

WEBThis is because what I find most concerning is that in Malaysia, “younger children (5-9) years showed a higher prevalence of mental health problems (13.1%), compared with older children of between 10 and 15 (11.4 percent) while poor mental health was reported to be highest among those between 16 and 29.”. The NST article didn’t …

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Hidden Agencies: Vietnamese Responses to American and Chinese

WEBWhen Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Vietnam was delayed for three hours on August 25th, 2021, China threw together an ambush: a gift of two million COVID vaccine doses for their neighbors, just before the US planned on donating one million of their own.

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Coup, COVID take toll on young people’s mental health in Myanmar

WEBCoup, COVID take toll on young people’s mental health in Myanmar. Across Myanmar feelings of anxiety, grief, and helplessness have spread following the February 1 st military coup and its brutal suppression of anti-coup protests. The Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military, has turned to violence and repression to maintain power.

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Malaysia’s Forest City and the Damage Done

WEBMalaysia’s Forest City and the Damage Done. While China has been reclaiming (wow euphemisms by the way) islands in the South China Sea to use as military bases, a 100 billion USD project called Forest City has been underway since 2014 in Johor, the southernmost state of Malaysia. It is not the only such project taking place in the …

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“Lain-lain” Malaysians Combined with Non-Citizens in Report on …

WEBOn October 7th, the Malaysian Health Ministry released demographic data for COVID deaths over the past year in response to a question from Dr. Ong Kian Ming, member of the Democratic Action Party.

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Thailand to Use Intradermal

WEBV. accine. Just yesterday, Reuters published a short article as a follow-up to a piece from last month in which it was revealed that Thailand was considering using intradermal injections to administer the COVID vaccine to its population. The head of Thailand’s medical science department, Supakit Sirilak, indicated that based on previous

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Assignments Modern Southeast Asia

WEBIn week four, students will demonstrate in a short quiz that they know “almost everything there is to know” about Southeast Asian geography.

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Erik Harms joins the course Modern Southeast Asia

WEBSarah Werner, an exchange student from Freiburg, Germany, born in Munich, the town where the Oktoberfest was invented and is – funnily enough - celebrated in late September, moved to Singapore a few weeks ago. Besides engaging more with her major Life Scienes, she would like to focus on public and global health and the complex …

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Health of West Papuan Activist Deteriorates while in Indonesian

WEBThis May, the West Papuan activist Victor Yeimo was detained by the Indonesian government in Jayapura on charges of treason and inciting violence and social unrest in connection to several protests in 2019.

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Digital Vietnam Presenters and Videos Clips Modern Southeast Asia

WEBCô Na is an univited guest, whose major contribution has been to interrupt the status quo, undermine social interaction, and expose how utterly unprepared governments around the world really are in the face of public health emergencies.Cô Na has, however, inspired a great deal of digital creativity.

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Faith Livestreamed: Catholicism during COVID-19

WEBIn one of the most Catholic countries in the world, with eight-six percent of the population identifying as Catholic, the pandemic has posed a unique challenge to the practice of the religion.

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One River, Two Different Tales Modern Southeast Asia

WEBOne River, T wo Different T ales. Even as Asian nations have felt, to varying degrees, the effects of the current global health crisis, the mainland Southeast Asian nations face another looming issue: the damming of the Mekong River. To give a sense of how important the river is, the river supports countless farming and fishing communities

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Sarah joins the course!!! Modern Southeast Asia

WEBSarah Werner, an exchange student from Freiburg, Germany, born in Munich, the town where the Oktoberfest was invented and is – funnily enough - celebrated in late September, moved to Singapore a few weeks ago. Besides engaging more with her major Life Scienes, she would like to focus on public and global health and the complex …

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Singapore as a “Covid resilient nation” despite current spikes in …

WEBWith a vaccination rate of around 82%, Singapore has surpassed the initial threshold for “herd immunity”, and yet, the COVID cases have spiked in the nation to record high levels. Many believe that herd immunity is an impossibility, even with high vaccination rates, in Singapore and around the world. The beginning of October has brought an

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Rising Chinese Investment Could Overshadow Laos’s Successful

WEBEven though there are fears that Laos could enter a second wave of COVID infections, the Prime Minister’s Office has proposed a “fast-track” immigration policy for some privileged Chinese and Vietnamese.

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Full Essays Modern Southeast Asia

WEBAbstract. In December of 2017, Thailand broke ground on the construction of their first high-speed rail (HSR) line from Bangkok to Nong Khai. The first phase of the project from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima is expected to be completed six years late in 2027 at a cost of US$8.5 billion after dozens of slowdowns and negotiations. This paper

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Duterte’s Budget Modern Southeast Asia

WEBPerhaps looking at budget is a good way to get a sense of the Duterte administration’s priorities. The Philippines Star reported back in August that Duterte’s P31 billion (which I calculated is about 25%) from the Department of Health’s budget, while the police, military, and presidential office received increases – this last an increase of 10x the previous …

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Got (Breast) Milk

WEBThe first HMB was established in Vienna in 1909, as an alternative to much more unreliable wet nurses [3]. Since then, HMBs have flourished across the world [4]. The Philippines has the highest number of human milk banks in Southeast Asia. Initially, the Philippine HMBs were only operated by government hospitals: the first bank was established

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