
CPG Online Magazine 02/2019
Announcements
Upcoming National Holidays
08 April 2019: Chakri Day
13 – 15 April 2019: Songkran Thai New Year
Articles & Interviews
CPG Director joins EU lunch discussion on geopolitics & geoeconomics
On Monday, September 28, CPG Director Henning Glaser had the pleasure of joining a small lunch discussion hosted by H.E. Luisa Ragher, Ambassador of the European Union to Thailand, on the occasion of a visit to Bangkok by Dominic Porter, Deputy Managing Director for...
Courtesy Call by Pakistan’s New Defence Attaché
CPG Director Henning Glaser welcomed Colonel Jawad Afzal Chaudhary, the new Defence Attaché of the Embassy of Pakistan in Bangkok, to the CPG offices for a courtesy call on September 29. The meeting provided an opportunity to get to know each other following Colonel...
CPG Director Henning Glaser at the 6th CDIR East Asia Conference in Beijing
CPG Director Henning Glaser participated in the 6th Conference of German-Speaking Lawyers in East Asia, held from 17–20 September 2026 at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing. It was the sixth edition of the conference organized within...
CPG Director Henning Glaser meets German Ambassador-Designate Michael Reiffenstuel
Earlier today, CPG Director Henning Glaser met with German Ambassador-Designate H.E. Michael Reiffenstuel at the German Embassy in Bangkok. The meeting offered a very good opportunity to get to know each other personally and to engage in a substantive exchange on...
CPG participates in inaugural EABC Sustainable Business Working Group meeting
CPG was very pleased to be represented by its Program Manager, Lucas Meier, at today’s inaugural meeting of the newly established Sustainable Business Working Group of the EABC -The European Chamber of Commerce Thailand (EABC), with which CPG cooperates under an...
Closed-Door Philippine–Thai Roundtable on the South China Sea
CPG had the pleasure this morning of hosting a closed-door roundtable at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, on “The South China Sea at a Crossroads: Philippine and Thai Perspectives on International Law, Regional Security and Strategic Competition.” The...
CPG contributes keynote speech to DEG’s Strategic Climate Action Event
CPG was delighted to contribute a keynote speech to the “Strategic Climate Action Event – Building Resilience Across Sectors,” held in Bangkok on 14–15 September and organized by DEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of KfW Group, one of the world’s leading transformation...
CPG contributes to ASEAN–UK Roundtable on Middle Class and Social Policy
CPG, represented by Program Manager Lucas Meier, contributed to the Southeast Asia Social Policy Network’s first ASEAN–UK Roundtable on the Middle Class and Social Policy. The discussion brought together participants from Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom and...
CPG Director Henning Glaser in Beijing: APEC, Compliance and ESG Standard-Setting
On 7–8 September, CPG Director Henning Glaser contributed to the APEC Seminar “The Role of International Standards for Compliance Management Systems in Promoting the Sustainable Development of MSMEs” in Beijing. Organized by the China National Institute of...
Advancing cross-regional cooperation on open justice
CPG and the International Open Justice Network (RIJA) are moving their cooperation on open justice and judicial reform into a more concrete phase, linking comparative exchange between Latin America and the Caribbean and the Asia-Pacific with country-specific reform...
Scholarship Opportunities
The DAAD Development-Related Postgraduate Courses offers foreign graduates from development and newly industrialized countries from all disciplines and with at least two years’ professional experience the chance to take a postgraduate or Master’s degree at a state or state-recognized German university, and in exceptional cases to take a doctoral degree, and to obtain a university qualification (Master’s/PhD) in Germany. For further details go to https://www.daad.or.th/en/scholarship-database/. Deadline depends on the chosen study programme.
An overview of all DAAD scholarships with relevance for researchers and students from Thailand can be found here: https://www.daad.or.th/en/find-funding/
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation Scholarship is aimed at supporting students from Africa, Asia, Latin America or Eastern Europe that intend to study in Germany in any subject area. The students must demonstrate excellent school or academic merit and must be committed to the values of social democracy. More information can be found at https://www.fes.de/studienfoerderung/other-languages/. Deadline depends on the type of application.
The Singapore Management University offers Overseas Postgraduate Scholarships which provide financial support to recipients to pursue an overseas research programme. The scholarship includes academic guidance and mentorship. For more details go to https://www.smu.edu.sg/moe-start/overseas-pg-scholarship. Deadlines vary.
The World Academy of Sciences offers various fellowships and grants to PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers from developing countries. For more information visit https://twas.org/opportunities Deadlines vary.
The “ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship Program” supports incoming fellowships for postdoctoral researchers at the ETH Zurich. The program is intended to foster high-potential, young researchers who have already demonstrated excellence in terms of internationally competitive achievements in the early stages of their professional careers. Applications have to be made jointly by the candidate and their host who must be an ETH Zurich Professor and who will act as a mentor of the fellow. For more information visit https://www.ethz.ch/en/research/research-promotion/eth-internal-programmes/eth-fellowships.html Deadline is on 1 March 2019/1 September 2019.
Rotary Peace Fellowship allows up to 100 individuals from around the world to receive fully funded academic fellowships to pursue a Professional Development Certificate Program or Master’s Degree Program related to peace and conflict resolution and prevention at one of the participating peace centers around the world (USA, Japan, UK, Australia, Sweden, and Thailand). For more information: https://my.rotary.org/en/peace-fellowship-application. Deadline is on 31 May 2019.
The Kennisontwikkelings programma Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (OKP NFP) provides fellowships for highly motivated professionals who are interested at participating in a Dutch University. The professionals must be in a position to introduce the newly acquired skills and knowledge into their employing organisation. The applicants must find a suitable university and submit your application via the Dutch institution offering the course. For more information: https://www.nuffic.nl/en/files/documents Deadline is on 13 May 2019.
The ASEAN Master Scholarship is aimed at supporting students from ASEAN countries (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) who intend to study at the University of Nottingham. You will be eligible to apply if you are classed as an overseas student for fee purposes and hold an offer to start a full-time master’s degree programme (excluding MRes) at Nottingham in September 2019 in any subject area. More information can be found at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studywithus. Deadline is on 17 May 2019.
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CPG Events January-February 2019
CPG Special Lecture “Can one be a conservative constitutional autocrat? The curious case of Xi Jinping”
CPG Roundtable on Higher Education Reform “Promoting Academic Research: The Example to the Max Planck Society”
Higher education reform in Asia: Challenges and Potentials in Comparative Perspectives
The use of the death penalty, empirical research and policy advocacy: lessons in Asia
Video
Interview with Angkhana Neelaphaijit, Commissioner of The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (Thai original / English)
