Content: • Introduction / Adisorn Semyam • Conditioned and disciplined by the state: The Nanyang Confucian Association of Singapore / Ying-kit Chan • Leadership roles of Muslim women: Comparative experience between the Philippines and Thailand / Suthirus Choochue • Great power rivalry and bipolarity in the South China Sea / Sithirus Choochue • Changing dynamics of immigrants workers in Thailand: Assessment and implications /Akadet Chaichanavichakit