Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction xi

Brunei 1

Cambodia 12

East Timor 36

Indonesia 44

Lao PDR 72

Malaysia 88

Myanmar 116

Philippines 136

Singapore 158

Thailand 176

Vietnam 202

Further Reading 223

Maps 229

Index 240

About the Author

PETER CHURCH, OAM, is a lawyer, corporate adviser, and company director, who has spent more than 35 years living and working in South-East Asia and India. He advises a varied group of companies in relation to their activities in Asia and Australia and sits on a number of for-profit and not-for-profit boards. He is Chairman of AFG Venture Group, Special Counsel to the English law firm Stephenson Harwood, an Adjunct Professor at Curtin Business School in Perth, Western Australia, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai, India. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 1994 for his services to the promotion of business relations between Australia and the South-East Asian region.