EDMUND T. GOMEZ University of Malaya, Malaya HUONG N. HIGGINS Worcester Polytechnic Institute, UK FRANCIS C. KIM City University of New York, USA CHEN-EN KO National Taiwan University, Taiwan STEPHEN G. LYNN City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong YUEN-TEEN MAK National University of Singapore, Singapore DEUNDEN NIKOMBORIRAK Thailand Development Research Institute, Thailand ASHEQ R. RAHMAN Nanyang Technological University, Singapore VANESSA SCOTT Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong ETTY R. WULANDARI Nanyang Technological University, Singapore YIN-HUA YEH Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan WEI-GUO ZHANG China Securites Regulatory Commission, China