Asian Currents - June 2012 (Issue #84)

The June 2012 issue of "Asian Currents" from the Asian Studies Association of Australia is now available from the ASAA web site at http://www.asaa.asn.au/publications/ac/2012/asian-currents-12-06.pdf

In this issue

• Easy pickings: the plight of asylum seekers in Indonesia (Antje Missbach)
• China’s new ‘enemies of state’ (Roderic Broadhurst and Brigitte Bouhours)
• Afghanistan’s education ‘miracle’ (Attaullah Wahidyar)
• What did Kim Jong-Il want? (Leonid Petrov)
• Pirates or hawks. Who hijacked the Chinese fishing boats  (Leonid Petrov)
• Language education in the Asian Century. Why language learning? (Yuko Kinoshita)
• New Australian mindset needed in dealing with Asia (Purnendra Jain)
• Myth or reality? Thailand’s threat to Cambodia (Kimly Nghoun)
• Malaysia’s next general election shaping up to be a battle of the coalitions(Greg Lopez)
• Through the eyes of children—Japan’s 3.11 disaster (Evon Fung)
• Books on Asia
• Registrations still open for ASAA conference

The index page listing all available issues is at http://www.asaa.asn.au/publications/asian_current_issues.html