WPS 119 Public Opinion in Vietnam about Adolescent Sexuality, Sex Education and Abortion

Worldwide, abortion is one of the most controversial issues in modern society. Since the early 1960s, abortion in Southern Viet Nam has been legal and available on request, reflecting the Government’s commitment to providing reproductive choice for women. Services have been made widely available and accessible to women. Both contraception and abortion services are widely …

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Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict

Christianity is one of the most rapidly growing religions in Asia. Despite the challenges of political marginalisation, church organisations throughout much of Asia are engaged in activities – such as charity, education and commentary on public morality – that may either converge or conflict with the state’s interests. Considering Christianity’s growing prominence, and the various …

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WPS 118 An Ethnographic Survey of Language Use, Attitudes and Beliefs of Singaporean Daoist Youths

This paper focuses on the active Daoist youths (ages 15 to 30) of Singapore as youths are the parents, decision-makers, business people and leaders of tomorrow. Their behavior, attitudes and beliefs affect the political, economic and social future of a nation. During this phase, religion or more generally, religiosity has begun to play a large part upon …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 5 No. 2)

Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research, and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population studies …

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies-Special Issue: The Origins of the Southeast Asian Cold War (Vol. 40 No. 3)

These contributions challenge existing interpretations of the origins of the southeast Asian Cold War. They employ new evidence gleaned from party archives and memories, and from soviet, British, Australian, Dutch, Indonesian and Vietnamese state archives. they use this evidence to suggest that Southeast Asian communist parties, far from being totally autonomous on the one hand, …

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Creative Economies, Creative Cities: Asian-European Perspectives

The cultural and creative industries have become increasingly prominent on many policy agendas in recent years. Governments have identified the growing consumer potential for cultural/creative industry products in the home market, as well as for the growth of exports. The emphasis now lies on creativity, innovation, small business growth, and access to global markets–all in …

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In Quest of the Golden Deer: Bangladeshi Transient Migrant Overseas

Over the last few decades, research on labour migration has experienced excessive domination by economic explanation. Econometric analysis has been such a dominant factor in the studies of international labour migration that the very language of analysis tends to marginalize social and cultural factors. Focusing on Bangladeshi labour migration to Singapore, this book, therefore, addresses …

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Japanese Workplaces in Transition: Employee Perceptions

Exploring the changes in Japanese workplaces such as restructuring, incentive principles and the increasing use of contingent workers from the perspective of employees, this title provides new insights into the mindsets of the workers by contrasting survey and theoretical sources with excerpts from blogs published by Japanese people.