Boy Scouts and (Kingdaukme) were established in Myanmar in 1916. After its independence in 1948, the Union of Burma Girl Guides was set up in 1950 and was recognized by the World Association Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in 1952. On 1 August 1960, the organization of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides were merged and the Central Council of Myanmar Scouts was formed. On 1 March 1964, it was dissolved by the Revolutionary Council Government. The Girl Guides, however, was renewed on 20 September 2012. In July 2014, the Myanmar Girl Guides Association was recognized as an Associate Member of WAGGGS. This paper attempts to show the history and practices of Girl Guides in Myanmar as an example and model of good character for the youth and the young women of Myanmar.

The Tzu Chi or the Buddhist Compassionate Relief Association has been deeply entrenched in Taiwan for five decades. Led by Dharma Master Cheng Yen, a charismatic nun of Taiwan, the Tzu Chi has remarkably applied Mahayana Buddhism and Confucianism in its humanitarian missions, offering humanistic, educational, and relief assistance in a national and international scale. The Chiang Mai Tzu Chi School, the association’s first school outside Taiwan, was established in the northern Thai border to fulfill its educational mission. This article examines the Tzu Chi missions and its religious practices—a syncretization of philosophies and religions—and cultural values applied actively in the Chiang Mai Tzu Chi School. The discussion will also show how this melding has enabled the school to instill certain values in its students while at the same time avoiding the political tension at the Thai border.

This paper discusses the “new prison regime” in the Bilibid prison under the American colonial period and claims of Bilibid prison’s “humane management system” from the years 1915 to 1928, and aims to contributes to the body of literature on the history of prison management in the Philippines. It will be argued that while the Bilibid prison was considered one of the most progressive centers for rehabilitation rather than punishment or retribution under modern penology, the institution’s efforts only served the American colonial agenda. The paper suggests that the “new prison regime” prioritized the monetary value and marketability of the inmates under a capitalist framework. Thus, the venture was a “profitable altruism.” Colonial documents sourced from American annual government reports, official catalogues, local government reports, magazines, and non-colonial sources are used to support the arguments.

Maria Serena I. Diokno is Professor of History at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Professor Diokno is a co-founder of the SEASREP Foundation. Her interests span the colonial period of Southeast Asia, about which she has published. Among her publications are "Corruption and the Moral Imperative, through the Lens of Rizal" (2011), "Expeditions of Knowledge: Supporting Southeast Asian Studies in the Region" (2010), and "Southeast Asia: Imperial Possession and Dispossession in the Long Twentieth Century" (2006).

Ma. Mercedes G. Planta is Associate Professor of History at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Her research and publications are in the fields of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) and Science, Technology and Society (STS) studies in colonial Southeast Asia, particularly Spanish and American Philippines. Her current research examines the development of modern medicine in Dutch Indonesia, British Malaya, and American Philippines. She is the author of Traditional Medicine in the Colonial Philippines, 16th to the 19th Century (University of the Philippines Press 2017).

Maitrii Aung-Thwin is an area-studies specialist of Southeast Asia, with particular expertise in Myanmar history, politics, and society. His research engages conversations from the fields of postcolonial studies, socio-legal studies, intellectual history, public history, and transnational studies. His publications include: A History of Myanmar since Ancient Times: Traditions and Transformations (2013), The Return of the Galon King: History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma (2011), and A New History of Southeast Asia (2010). He is currently Associate Professor of Myanmar/Southeast Asian history and Convenor of the Comparative Asian Studies PhD Program at the National University of Singapore.

Joseph M. Fernando is Associate Professor of History at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He obtained his PhD in History from Royal Holloway College, University of London. His areas of specialization are Malaysian political and constitutional history, British imperialism in Southeast Asia, and modern history of Southeast Asia. Dr. Fernando was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University in 2004-2005. His publications include The Making of the Malayan Constitution (2002); The Alliance Road to Independence (2009); and "British and Commonwealth Legacies in the Framing of the Malayan Constitution, 1956-1957", Britain and the World, Vol. 8, No. 2, September 2015.

Rieyen D. Clemente is a graduate student of the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. He is a member of the Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society for Social Sciences and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

Patricia Anne Y. Asuncion is a BA Comparative Literature graduate from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She is currently pursuing her second degree (BA Linguistics) in the same university.

Jeanne Therese L. Maling is a graduate student at the University of the Philippines, Diliman (UPD).

Dr. Charnvit Kasetsiri, former Rector of Thammasat University, is secretary of the Foundation for the Promotion of Social Sciences and Humanities Textbooks Project in Thailand. He holds an MA in Diplomacy from Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, and a PhD in Southeast Asian History from Cornell University. He specializes in Thai history (Ayutthaya, Thai political history, and contemporary Thai politics) and history of Southeast Asia.

Dr. Taufik Abdullah is a retired Professor of History at the Gadjah Mada University. He was Chair of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). He also chaired the Indonesian Historical Society and was a Director of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. He received his Doctorandus from Gadjah Mada University, and MA and PhD degrees from Cornell University. Dr. Taufik has worked on the political history of Indonesia and Islam.

Dr. Ruth McVey, Emeritus Reader in Southeast Asian Politics at the University of London, received her PhD in Government at Cornell University in 1961 and subsequently held research and teaching positions at Yale University, the Center for International Studies at MIT, Cornell University, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her early work concentrated on the history of the Indonesian Communist movement and the general relationship between ideology and social change in Indonesia. Later, she studied social and ideological transformation in rural southern Thailand, and the rise of the Southeast Asian business-political elite.