CSEAS News Archive

• In Memoriam - Roxanna Maude Brown
  Brief obituary for esteemed UCLA alumna
• Blind Eye in Burma
  Multinational corporations that partner with the Burmese military and military-led government share the responsibility for human rights abuses, argue two representatives of EarthRights International at UCLA.
• Peace Movements
  Company Ea Sola uses dance to share experiences of the Vietnam War with younger generations.
• Culture Night Depicts Vietnam War
  The three-hour-long event depicting a family torn apart by political ideology in the midst of the Vietnamese war was meant to stir up conversation.
• Teo Earns 3 Golds for Singapore at Asian Games
  Swimming for her native Singapore, the senior breaststroke swimmer set the Singapore national 100-meter record and qualified for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She also helped her team win the 4x100m medley relay.
• Her Time to Shine
  Hoping to make third Olympic appearance, Bruin Nicolette Teo prepares for Southeast Asian Games.
• Overrated Rebels
  Eva Goldschmidt of the U of Heidelberg reviews UCLA Associate Professor George Edson Dutton's recent book on "The Tay Son Uprising: Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam." The review was written for the H-War military history network.
• Myanmar, the Latest Petro Bully
  Sky-high oil prices allow the junta, and other bad actors, to thrive and buy political protection, writes Michael L. Ross in The Los Angeles Times. (Photo courtesy of Thompson/Essential Science Information)
• Muslim Feminist Seeks to Educate Journalists
  Zainah Anwar, executive director of Malaysian-based Sisters in Islam, pushes a message of diversity and progressivism within the framework of Islam.
• The Origin of Language Families
  U of Texas-Arlington linguist Jerold A. Edmondson, whose doctorate is from UCLA, explains what the field of linguistic history might stand to gain from advances in population genetics and archaeology.

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