Describes the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the impact it has had on the region. Discusses how it helped bring peace and stability to the region and has successfully engaged the world's major powers, in East Asia and beyond.

This second edition of a reference book first published in 1987 provides 1135 profiles of prominent Australians of Asian origin. Arrangement is by general professional categories. Also includes a listing of useful organisations which deal with the Asian community and an index of names.

ASEAN has an abiding interest in peace and stability in this region and in freedom of navigation in and overflight above the South China Sea. Much of ASEANs commerce, including its members' traded food and energy resources, passes through or over the South China Sea. The stakes for ASEAN and its members in the South China Sea are very high.This book is the product of a conference on Entering Uncharted Waters? ASEAN and the South China Sea Dispute, initiated to remind all claimants to bring their claims as close as possible to the provisions of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. After all, ASEAN has sought to promote the rule of law in the region. The conference and this book were inspired by the following objectives: peace, stability, freedom of navigation and overflight, confidence building, cooperation, and the rule of law.