ECONOMIC AND ADMINISTRATION:- To rule over millions of people, the French needed local help. In Vietnam they could count on experienced administrators to collect taxes and to maintain law and order. In Laos and Cambodia, a career civil service was undeveloped but taxes were collected with the help of local elites. In economic terms, Cochin China was […]
Read More »FRENCH EXPLOITATION OF INDO CHINA:- France was one of the greatest powers in the world. Along with its European rivals, it acquired a huge empire that comprised territories from the Africa to Asia. In the region of Southeast Asia, France became a major player in its politics during the 19th century. In competition with Great Britain, it exerted a lot of […]
Read More »INTRODUCTION:- Vietnam is the odd man out amongst the states of mainland South-East Asia, unlike its neighbours to the war, Vietnam followed the China’s cultural influence. Vietnam was also remarkable in being the only country in South-East Asia (apart from the Philippines) to have acquired a sizeable Christian community amounts her population. Conquest, rebellion and […]
Read More »Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a sub region of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and Bay of Bengal, to the east […]
Read More »Geography of Timor-Leste East Timor is located in the eastern part of Timor, an island in the Indonesian archipelago that lies between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. East Timor includes the enclave of Oecussi, which is located within West Timor (Indonesia). After Indonesia, East Timor’s closest neighbor is Australia, 400 mi to […]
Read More »Geography of Myanmar Myanmar is the north western-most country of mainland Southeast Asia, bordering China, India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos. It lies along the Indian and Eurasian Plates, to the southeast of the Himalayas. To its west is the Bay of Bengal and to its south is the Andaman Sea. It is strategically located near […]
Read More »Geography of Laos Laos is an independent republic, and a landlocked nation in Southeast Asia, northeast of Thailand, west of Vietnam. It covers 236,800 square kilometers in the center of the Southeast Asian peninsula and it is surrounded by Burma, Cambodia, and the People’s Republic of China, Thailand, and Vietnam. About seventy percent of its […]
Read More »Geography of Malaysia Malaysia, a federation of thirteen states in South-East Asia on the Malay Peninsula, consists of two geographical regions divided by the South China Sea, the Peninsular Malaysia or West Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo or East Malaysia. Malaysia is situated in South-eastern Asia with Thailand and one-third of the island of Borneo bordering […]
Read More »Singapore Geography The country of Singapore consists of one main island (small and extensively urbanized) as well as over 60 small islands (islets). The middle of the main island contains a number of rounded hills; west and southwest the land is a series of low ridges, while east and southeast, the land is generally flat. […]
Read More »Geography of Philippines Philippines is an island nation located in Southeast Asia between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam. According to the geography of Philippines, the country is made up of 7,107 islands, with a total area of 300,000 sq km. The country’s land area occupies 298,170 sq km while […]
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