8:30- Registration (2nd Floor)
9:00-9:30am Opening Remarks (Room B210)
9:30-9:45am Break
9:45am-11:15am Sessions 1-2
Session 1 Gender Issues (Room B204)
¡Æ Ayami Noritake (Australian National Univ.): "Negotiating Urban Space and Gender: Female Street-Entrepreneurs' Place and Gender Relations in South Korea"
¡Æ Ma. Ledda Brina Docot (Univ. of Tokyo): "On Identity and Development: Filipino Women Entertainers in Transit"
Session 2 Cyberspace, Alternative Media and Human Rights (Room B205)
¡Æ Richard Humphries (Kansai Gaidai Univ.): "Saffron-robed Monks and Digital Flash Cards: The Development and Challenges of Burmese Exile Media"
¡Æ David Herold (HK Polytechnic Univ.): "Development of a Civic Society Online? - Internet Vigilantism and State Control in the Chinese Cyberspace"
11:15-11:30am Break
11:30am-1:00pm Keynote Presentation (Room B210)
¡Æ Jou-juo Chu (National Chung Cheng Univ.): "An Overview of Gender Occupational Segregation in Taiwan"
1:00-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:30 Sessions 3-5
Session 3 Education and Development (Room B204)
¡Æ He Gan (Jagiellonian Univ.): "Education in China from the Perspectives of Macro-Sociological Theory: Lighting the Path of Development"
¡Æ Rab Paterson (International Christian Univ.): "Educational in Japan: The School as a Business, Teachers and Students as Commodities"
Session 4 Economic Policy (Room B205)
¡Æ Muhammad Cholifihani (Nagoya Univ.): "A Co-integration Analysis of Public Debt Service and GDP in Indonesia"
¡Æ Candy Chiu (Kyoto Univ.): "3 R's of Used Car Recovery in Philippines' Approach"
¡Æ Aneek Chatterjee (Presidency College): "India's Liberal Economy and Issues of Development and Democracy"
Session 5 Human Health (Room B207)
¡Æ Calvin de los Reyes (Osaka Univ.): "Asia and the Maternal and Child Health Handbook Movement: Ensuring Healthier Mothers and Children across the Region"
¡Æ Sanzida Akhter (Univ. of Dhaka): "Millennium Development Goal on Maternal Health in Bangladesh: Progress and Prospects"
3:30-3:45pm Break
3:45-5:15pm Sessions 6-8
Session 6 Technology and Development (Room B204)
¡Æ Qammer Zaib (Hanyang Univ.): "Technology and Development in Asia"
¡Æ Himanshu Tandon (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Univ.): "B2C Offerings in India: A Critical Review"
Session 7 Capacity Building (Room B205)
¡Æ Agus Nugroho (Curtin Univ. of Technology): "Social Capital and Access of Rural Poor to Microfinance: Lesson from Javanese Villages"
¡Æ Cindy Lyn Wachowski (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Univ.): "Harnessing Community Capacity for Poverty Alleviation and Development"
Session 8 Islam in Asia (Room B207)
¡Æ Riaz Ahmed Shaikh (BIZTEK): "Indigenous Knowledge: The Madrasah System in Pakistan"
¡Æ A.S. Long (National Univ. of Malaysia): "Islamic Resurgence and the Impact on the Malaysian Muslim Middle Class and Development"
¡Æ Jaffary Awang (National Univ. of Malaysia): "Political Development and Malay Muslim Identity in Malaysia"
5:15-6pm Break
6pm- Reception
