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Archive for March, 2009

Faculty student wins public speaking competition

Faculty of Asian Studies student Ayleen O’Hanlon has won second place in the third annual Deputy Prime Minister’s Cup International Malay Public Speaking Competition 2009.There were a total of 42 participants; she was one of two from Australia.The competition was divided into two categories: the Malay Archipelago (for countries with Bahasa Melayu (Malaysian) as their [...]

Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World

Review of Jan van der Putten and Mary Kilcline Cody (eds.), Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World. National University of Singapore Press, 2008. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Xxiii + 396pp. Available from Asia Bookroom (www.asiabookroom.com) for AU$48
An invitation went out to write something scholarly and quirky in honour of Ian Proudfoot’s contributions to [...]

Our biggest Asian trading partner? It is not China …

Professor Anthony Milner, Basham Professor of History, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories in the Faculty of Asian Studies, writes (in the Age 5 March 2009):
“TRADE Minister Simon Crean is right to herald the Australia-New Zealand free trade agreement that has finally been signed with ASEAN — but such a breakthrough is a matter of [...]