SouthEast Asia by Aaron Jobe

Vietnam Introduction (Aaron and Evan

ebeard20 — 2017-04-18 18:00:54 UTC

Political Status: Communist.
Economic Status: In reform, although it is possible that rural areas may fall into poverty.
Relationship with the U.S.: Friendly; 21.1% of exports go to the U.S.

Economic Status of Vietnam

ebeard20 — 2017-04-20 15:08:01 UTC

http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/vietnam/overview
http://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/factbox-2016-2020-socio-economic-development-plan-3375983.html
Vietnam has been on a trail of growth since 1990. Today, 99 percent of the population uses electricity as their main source of energy. About 20 years ago, about 85 percent of the population used electricity. Another example of great growth lies within the poverty of the citizens. Over half of the Vietnamese population was poor in 1993. Back then, most people only made $1.90 a day or less. The amount of people living in extreme poverty had gone down to about 13.5 percent in the year 2014. Vietnam has developed a 10 year strategy that focuses on promoting skills development, improving market institutions, and further infrastructure development. This is the 2011-2020 Socio-Economic Development Strategy or SEDS. Although this strategy is very good on paper, it has made slower progress than expected. This was recognized by SEDP, the Socio-Economic Development Plan, which works to emphasize areas in the SEDS that have been slow

Vietnam's Relationship with the U.S.

ebeard20 — 2017-04-20 15:11:30 UTC

http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Vietnam/sub5_9f/entry-3456.html
The relationship between the United States has been improving since the Cold War. A big sign of this was President Barack Obama visiting Vietnam on May 23-25, 2016. This type of behavior began in 1995, when the United States announced that they would normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam. The year before, the 30 year embargo that the US had against Vietnam had ended. Not only that, but an American consulate was built in Vietnam in the year 1999. This let an american ambassador (consul) live in Ho Chi Minh City to protect the citizens of the area and promote the interests of the government. Ironically, our first ambassador was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam war. This man was the navy pilot Pete Peterson. For 6 and a half years he spent his life as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. In the same way, a Vietnamese consulate was built in New York. In the year 2000, the United States gave Vietnam $3.5 billion dollars

Vietnam's Economics Today

ajobe20 — 2017-04-20 15:16:50 UTC

Type of Government: Communist State
Current GDP (2016 est.): $594.9 billion
GDP growth rate (2016 est.): 6.1%
Products of Industry: food processing, garments, shoes, machine-building; mining, coal, steel; cement, chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, mobile phones

Products of Agriculture: rice, coffee, rubber, tea, pepper, soybeans, cashews, sugar cane, peanuts, bananas; poultry; fish, seafood

Agriculture: 48%
Industry: 21%
Services: 31% (2012)
Unemployment Rate: 3.7% (2016 est.)
Exports: $169.2 billion (2016 est.)

Exported Goods: clothes, shoes, electronics, seafood, crude oil, rice, coffee, wooden products, machinery

Good introduction website for Thailand

cfedkow20 — 2017-04-20 15:16:52 UTC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-15581957
Capital of Thailand is Bangkok and has a population 69.9 million people living there as of now , its growth rates are high. The current currency for Thailand is called Baht.
Political Status: Constitutional Monarchy
Economic status: Thailand's growth has been phenomenal.
Thailand's population is 0.91% of the total world population
Thailand is ranked 20 in the world by population
Really haven"t experienced problems with economics.

CIA Vietnam

ajobe20 — 2017-04-20 15:18:26 UTC

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vm.html

Info for Thailand Intro

tmusser20 — 2017-04-20 16:04:24 UTC

http://bti2003.bertelsmann-transformation-index.de/126.0.html?&L=1
Political status- Constitutional monarchy. During 1990s Thailand was confirmed Democratic but fighting corruption is the most urgent problem of good governance. Currently has a battle between the groups that are called the Pheu Thai Party and the PAD Party.

Economic status- Growth rate has been increasing since 1990 dramatically.
U.S. Diplomatic Relations-

SouthEast Asia Map

ajobe20 — 2017-04-25 17:50:22 UTC

vietnam timeline

ajobe20 — 2017-04-26 15:14:13 UTC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-16568035

Thailand

cfedkow20 — 2017-04-26 15:14:48 UTC

Never colonized
No independence day
Was Founded in 1238

Vietnamese Independence

ajobe20 — 2017-04-26 15:15:41 UTC

Originally colonized by France, Vietnam wanted independence from France, but got into the war over communism and democracy when asking for help.
Independance day : September 2 (originally 1945)

Gdp for Thailand

cfedkow20 — 2017-04-26 15:16:11 UTC

http://www.gdpinflation.com/2013/07/inflation-rate-in-thailand-from1990-to.html

Good website for the Relationship with the U.S. and Thailand

cfedkow20 — 2017-04-26 15:21:07 UTC

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32593.pdf
Thailand and U.S. have a strong military ally and economics they work together also but political status is where it gets complicated. This is because of two military coups in Thailand in the past nine years. Now the relationship has been unstable. The relationship is holding together because of U.S. exports. These United Stated exports add up to 13.8 billion dollars in exports as of 2015.

Overview of Thailand to 2017

tmusser20 — 2017-04-26 15:24:28 UTC

http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/thailand/overview

Thailand Economic Freedom

tmusser20 — 2017-04-26 15:32:27 UTC

http://www.heritage.org/index/country/thailand

Thailand Population Growth Rate

tmusser20 — 2017-04-26 15:34:59 UTC

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/thailand-population/
Thailand's population is now currently of an estimate of 70,000,000. Their population has been growing by 2 million people each 2 years since 1990.

Map of Thailand

cfedkow20 — 2017-04-26 16:05:13 UTC

Trần Đại Quang - Current Leader of Vietnam

ebeard20 — 2017-04-26 16:06:59 UTC

Also known as one of the best leaders of Vietnam after only been in office for almost a year.

Thailand's 2017 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha

tmusser20 — 2017-04-26 16:10:26 UTC


In 2006 he attained the rank of major general. In 2010 he attained army chief. 2014 he attained prime minister. Prayuth promised the Thai people peace. Political forums were banned, and freedom of speech was abandoned. Martial law was imposed, and politicians, journalists, critics, and activists were detained. Radio, TV, and newspapers were shut down. Prayuth policy promises included upholding the monarchy, bringing an end to human trafficking and to the ongoing Muslim insurgency in the southern Muslim-majority provinces, and fighting corruption and unregulated surrogacy.

Map of Vietnam

ajobe20 — 2017-04-26 16:12:43 UTC

The People of Vietnam

ajobe20 — 2017-04-27 18:40:40 UTC

Official language is Vietnamese but English is favored as a second language to most people. Although Americans had killed many during the Vietnam war, the general population of Vietnam thinks highly of Americans.

SouthEast Asia Quiz

ebeard20 — 2017-04-28 17:09:40 UTC

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vx4YqMpwgzyAQAPQb2KUr9AHRIx6I3lKaf94EgzttUk/edit

Flag of Vietnam

ajobe20 — 2017-05-01 16:48:35 UTC

The Flag of Thailand

cfedkow20 — 2017-05-01 16:49:12 UTC

Credits

ajobe20 — 2017-05-02 15:07:08 UTC

Some posts are written in the name of someone else, but others did contribute to the same post, such as one large slide with a lot of small info on it.

Presidents of Vietnam (1992 - Present Day)

ajobe20 — 2017-05-02 15:16:35 UTC

1. Trần Đại Quang (2016 - current)
2. Truong Tan Sang (2011 - 2016
3. Nguyen Minh Triet (2006 - 2011)
4. Tran Duc Luong (1997 - 2006)
5. Le Duc Anh (1992 - 1997)
Found on http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/presidents-of-vietnam-through-history.html

Education in Thailand

tmusser20 — 2017-05-02 15:20:02 UTC

http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Thailand/sub5_8g/entry-3297.html

Tran Dai Quang

ajobe20 — 2017-05-02 15:26:31 UTC

Tran Dai Quang is the newly chosen Vietnamese leader who was formerly the Minister of Public Security. He is currently recognised as one of the country's top leaders, even though it has only been about one year since we was chosen.

Thailand Religion

tmusser20 — 2017-05-02 16:09:25 UTC

http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Thailand/sub5_8b/entry-3212.html