News Brief

A New Mindset for Corporate Sustainability

Marshalling Asia to Act

SIIA at Bali Climate Change Conference

Thinks Tanks Call For "Stir Fry" Of Options, As Asia Not Yet Ready For Binding Targets

SIIA Chairman Appointed Independent Expert for APEC

APEC and Climate Change: Conversation and not Negotiation

Lee Hsien Yang, SIIA’s Advisor, is named Chairman and Non-Executive Director of F&N

ASEAN Civil Society Conference – October 26-28, 2007

Shell-SIIA Expert Roundtable on Environmental Challenges in Southeast Asia – October 11, 2007

Environment, Energy and Nuclear Safety Workshop, Jakarta – September 25, 2007 (Read the Chairman's Statement)

Dinner Dialogue with Philip Yeo, Chairman of Spring Singapore – September 20, 2007

SIIA Former Council Secretary, Dr Eric Teo, passed away on 22 August 2007

News Brief: ASEAN must integrate and should unite

Upcoming Events: ASEAN Think Tank Forum, 6 - 7 August 2007

SIIA's Senior Research Fellow receives Nakasone Yasuhiro Award in Tokyo

ASEAN Leaders Should Focus on Climate Change and Environment

SIIA Joins Experts At Asia Pacific Roundtable

Japan Can Lead Asia on Energy, Environment and Economy

Perc's corruption survey corresponds with SIIA's National Integrity Systems study

Singapore Must Consolidate FTAs

News Brief - ASEAN Regional Forum Experts and Eminent Persons Meet

ASEAN Community by 2020 - What kind of Charter?

News Brief - Towards a People-Centred ASEAN

Straits Times Review of SIIA Book 'Elections in Asia: Making Democracy Work?'

News Brief - SIIA Launches Study on Singapore's National Integrity System

News Brief - Different Forums for East Asian Regionalism with ASEAN as the Hub

News Brief - SIIA Hosts Briefing on Singapore's Efforts in Transboundary Haze Prevention in Southeast Asia

News Brief - SIIA Forum on Key Environmental Challenges in Southeast Asia

News Brief - Regional Civic Institutions Discuss Effective Cooperation to Deal with Transboundary Haze Pollution (Read the Chairman's statement)

Recent Events

31 Mar 2008 - Members Tete-a-tete with Dr Arthur Ding on Taiwan Elections: New President, New Business Arena

14 Mar 2008 - Members Tete-a-tete with Prof Shamsul A.B on "The Malaysian Election 2008: From oppositionism to the opposition: a new dawn in Malaysia?"

10 Mar 2008 - "Rising Asia" - The Next 10 Years

21 Feb 2008 - Members Tete-a-tete with Dan Steinbock on "The US Presidential Elections and Geostrategic Implications in Asia"

25 Jan 2008 - Campus on 938LIVE at NIE "What Does ASEAN Mean to You?"

17 Jan 2008 - Members Tete-a-Tete with Ethan Kapstein, Professor, INSEAD

10 Jan 208 - Networking Evening with SIIA

9 Jan 2008 - Dinner Dialogue with Minister of State, Trade and Industry, S Iswaran on "Building a Vibrant City"

7 Dec 2007 - Corporate Briefing with Manu Bhaskaran, Partner, Centennial Group

30 Nov 2007 - ASEAN and Asia Forum 07

27 Nov 2007 - Talk with Lord Nigel Lawson on The Economics and Politics of Climate Change

26 Nov 2007 - Talk by Frank Macdonald on "The Road Between the Gold and the Green, How is Ireland Coping with its Wealth and its Environment"

20 Nov 2007 - Talk by Les Buckley on "Beer Wars"

26 - 28 Oct 2007 - ASEAN Civil Society Conference 2007

11 Oct 2007 - Shell-SIIA Expert Roundtable on Environmental Challenges in the Region

25 Sep 2007 - Regional Workshop on Environment, Energy and Nuclear Safety

20 Sep 2007 - Informal Cocktail Session with Philip Yeo, Chairman, Spring Singapore

31 August 2007 - Dinner Dialogue with Mike Rowse, Director-General of Investment Promotion, Invest Hong Kong, Hong KongSpecial Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government

6 - 7 August 2007 - ASEAN Think Tank Forum

7 August 2007 - An Insider's Perspective on Vietnam's Economic Prospects, Dinner Dialogue with Dr Dinh Van An, President of CIEM

31 July 2007 - Vietnam: The Next ASEAN Tiger? A Corporate Workshop with Manu Bhaskaran

26 May - 14 July 2007 - Reel Revolution: Reflections on the ASEAN Community, A Video Essay Competition for Youth, co-organised with the Substation Moving Images

9 July 2007 - Members' Networking Night with Frederick Chavalit Tsao, Chairman of IMC Pan Asia Alliance on "Asia's New Rick and Their Impact on The Region"

7 July 2007 - Dialogue with Canadian Professor, Irwin Cotler on 'Terrorism and Human Rights: the Dilemma of Democracies'

29 June 2007-"One ASEAN: What Threatens ASEAN Solidarity?” - A Student Dialogue on Campus 938LIVE as part of the SIIA ASEAN Focus Series and in celebration of ASEAN’s 40th Anniversary

26 June 2007 - Public Lecture on "Is The US A Special Providence to the World?" by Walter Russell Mead at Civil Service College

11 May 2007 - Workshop on ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution – Indonesia Has Neighbours Support to Tackle Haze Problem

17 April 2007 - Shell-SIIA Forum on CSR and the Environment 2007

30 March 2007 - Straits Time Regional Forum on "What's next for Thailand?" with Nirmal Ghosh, ST Thailand Correspondent, Leslie Lopez, ST Southeast Asia Correspondent and Simon Tay, Chairman of SIIA

5-6 March 2007 - The Asia-Pacific Forum on Environment and Development (APFED) Policy Dialogue on "CSR for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific"

12 February 2007 - Tete-a-tete with Professor Daniel Esty on “From Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value and Build Competitive Advantage”

07 February 2007 - 'Looking Back and Forward: Political and Economic Transitions in Indonesia', Dinner Dialogue with Co-founder and vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta, Jusuf Wanandi

27 January 2007 - "Promoting Peace: The Role of Inter-Faith and  Intra-Faith Dialogue" - A Public Dialogue cum Book Launch

To know more about our events

Haze Watch

News Brief - Transboundary Haze Efforts Halted, 14 March 2008

2nd Regional Dialogue on Transboundary Haze, 20 August 2007 - Chairman's Statement

Back to The Burning Issue by Simon SC Tay, TODAY, 17 May 2007

Workshop on ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution – Indonesia Has Neighbours Support to Tackle Haze Problem

SEAPSNet News - Mitigation of global warming and Southeast Asia's transboundary haze: the issue of accountability

Indonesia Organises High-Level International Conference on Haze

News Brief - SIIA Hosts Briefing on Singapore's Efforts in Transboundary Haze Prevention in Southeast Asia

Stopping the Haze: Indonesian and ASEAN  Credibility By Assoc. Prof. Simon SC Tay, The Straits Times, 14 October 2006

Find out more about our Haze Programme

Articles/ Commentaries

A World Without Authority

By Simon SC Tay, TODAY, 26 Jan 2008

Asean: Promises, controversies and benefits

By Simon SC Tay, TODAY, 16 Nov 2007

Real Steps, Not Rhetoric
By Simon SC Tay, TODAY, 6 Aug 2007

Back To The Burning Issue
By Simon SC Tay, TODAY, 17 May 2007

Indonesia's sand ban logic: in the name of resource conservation?
By Gavin Chua Hearn Yuit and Martha Maulidia, TODAY, 01 Feb 2007

Nuclear options seductive, but dangerous
By Simon SC Tay and Gavin Chua Hearn Yuit, TODAY, 10 Jan 2007

Weather Challeng
By Simon SC Tay, TODAY, 12 Dec 2006

ASEAN must face an inconvenient truth
By Gavin Chua Hearn Yuit and Noraidah Omar, The Straits Times, 16 Nov 2006

At APEC, Money talks
By Simon SC Tay and Hank Lim, TODAY, 15 Nov 2006

Stopping the Haze: Indonesian and ASEAN Credibility
By Prof. Simon SC Tay, Chairman of SIIA

First Asean, then the world
By Tan Su Yin, Intern of SIIA

Losing sight of Indonesia's progress in the smoke and haze
By Prof. Simon SC Tay, Chairman of SIIA

Alternative energy: beware hidden costs
By Gavin Chua Hearn Yuit and Jardine Wall, Researchers of SIIA

Aim for lasting ties, Japan
By Prof. Simon SC Tay, Chairman of SIIA

Asian Nations Reap The Sweet Fruits of Political Expediency
By Dr Eric Teo, Council Member of SIIA

Asean should not run before it can walk
By Prof. Simon SC Tay, Chairman of SIIA

Thirst for Oil shakes up Global Alliances
By Gavin Chua Hearn Yuit, Researcher of SIIA

SEAPSNet News