Daily News on Southeast Asia – 5 Jul 2022

Every weekday, ISEAS Library collates articles relevant to Southeast Asia and special topics in line with the research interests of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. To view articles behind paywalls, please visit the Library during its operating hours.

Today’s issue includes an article citing Ian Storey, Senior Fellow. You can click on the link to go to the article directly.


Brunei | Cambodia | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Timor-Leste | Vietnam | ASEAN / Southeast Asia | Asia PacificEast / South China Sea | Climate Change/Environment | Others


Cambodia

1. With Its New Investment Law, Cambodia Bets on Economic Diversification
François Camps
Cambodianess, 4 July 2022

Indonesia

2. Gerindra firms up on forming coalition with PKB
Dio Suhenda
Jakarta Post, 5 July 2022

3. Indonesia to ratify IUAE-CEPA soon: official
Huon Curtis and Blake Johnson
Antara, 4 July 2022

4. Govt mulling Russia’s offer to develop nuclear energy in Indonesia
Antara, 4 July 2022

5. Pancasila must be more than just ‘lip service’, Muslim thinkers say
Dio Suhenda
Jakarta Post, 3 July 2022

Malaysia

6. In Pasir Salak, Umno is ‘bigger’ than Tajuddin Rahman
Mohd Farhan Darwis
Malaysian Insight, 5 July 2022

7. Sabah STAR backs Umno’s call for new Malaysia Agreement
Star, 5 July 2022

8. Record FDI levels a key triumph for Malaysia PM: Umno official
Lok Jian Wen
Straits Times, 5 July 2022

9. Malaysia’s Political Clown Show – Politics sinks ever lower
Cyril Pereira
Asia Sentinel, 4 July 2022

10. Pembangunan Nusantara, amaran Malaysia perlu perkukuh wibawa [The development of Nusantara is a warning for Malaysia to strengthen its authority]
Datuk Dr Jayum Jawan
Berita Harian (Malaysia), 4 July 2022

11. Selangor, NS sign treaty to settle their common border
Free Malaysia Today, 4 July 2022

12. PM: Govt to conduct audit on cooking oil manufacturers, repackaging outlets to tackle oil subsidy abuse
Yiswaree Palansamy
Malay Mail Online, 4 July 2022

13. FDI inflows and long-term structural reforms
Chee Khoon Ng and Paolo Casadio are economists at Help University.
Malaysian Insight, 4 July 2022

14. Forensic audit affirms Rafizi is PKR no. 2
Raevathi Supramaniam
Malaysian Insight, 4 July 2022

15. Govt develops initiative to boost growth of nation’s digital economy
Malaysian Insight, 4 July 2022

16. BN sending signal to GRS that it could contest polls on its own’
Olivia Miwil
New Straits Times, 4 July 2022

17. 雪苏丹警告马来政党若分裂 各族将不挺马来政权 [Selangor Sultan warns that if Malay political parties split, all ethnic groups will not support Malay political power]
Sinchew 星洲网, 4 July 2022

Myanmar

18. ‘We are selling everything’: Resistance groups struggle to arm fighters
Frontier Myanmar, 4 July 2022

19. A Toothless International Response to a Merciless Myanmar Regime
Naing Khit
Irrawaddy, 4 July 2022

20. Myanmar marks the 60th anniversary of the bloody 7th July Students Uprising
Mizzima Editorial
Mizzima, 4 July 2022

Philippines

21. Marcos vows to boost Philippines’ grains output to avert food crisis
Reuters, 4 July 2022

22. A Counterrevolution in the Philippines: Marcos 2.0
Richard Javad Heydarian
Diplomat, 1 July 2022

Thailand

23. Party-list voting to face fresh scrutiny
Aekarach Sattaburuth & Mongkol Bangprapa
Bangkok Post, 5 July 2022

24. Supoj pick shows haste
Bangkok Post, 5 July 2022

25. Time to strategise Thai-Philippine ties
Kavi Chongkittavorn
Bangkok Post, 5 July 2022

26. Thailand expects free trade agreement with EFTA in 2 years
Nation, 4 July 2022

Vietnam

27. Businesses urged to adopt green production to avoid high taxes
VietNamNet, 4 July 2022

28. Steering committee established to boost economic recovery effort
VietNamNet, 4 July 2022

ASEAN/Southeast Asia

29. 推动中国东盟合作再结硕果 [Promoting fruitful China-ASEAN cooperation]
葛红亮是广西民族大学东盟学院副院长
Huanqiu 环球网, 5 July 2022

30. ‘Regional economic growth key for Southeast Asia development’
Khmer Times, 5 July 2022

31. Why Asean littoral states should worry about Cambodia’s Ream base
Blake Herzinger is a non-resident WSD-Handa fellow at Pacific Forum, a non-profit, foreign policy research institute based in Hawaii.
Straits Times, 5 July 2022

32. Chinese FM urges all political parties in Myanmar to make rational and pragmatic efforts, understand each other, consider reasonable demands of all parties to achieve peace
Eleven Myanmar, 4 July 2022

33. China proposes 6 programs with Lancang-Mekong countries despite ‘customary’ Western provocation of ties
Fan Anqi and Cui Fandi
Global Times, 4 July 2022

Asia Pacific

34. Is NATO setting a dangerous course foraying into Indo-Pacific? It depends`
Endy Bayuni
Jakarta Post, 5 July 2022

35. Asia-Pacific leaders at Nato summit a sign of strategic shift amid Russia, China threats: analysts
Maria Siow
South China Morning Post, 5 July 2022

36. Russia-Ukraine War: Implications for Asian Geoeconomics
Ali Ahmadi
Diplomat, 2 July 2022

East/South China Sea

37. More US gunboat diplomacy would just make things worse
Mark Valencia
Asia Times, 4 July 2022

38. Chinese vice-president urges better South China Sea approach with Philippines as Marcos takes the reins
Teddy Ng
South China Morning Post, 1 July 2022

Others

BRICS

39. Can BRICS become the anti-G7 that Russia and China want it to be?
David Uren
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 5 July 2022

40. The second-coming of the BRICS
Zongyuan Zoe Liu, CFR
East Asia Forum, 4 July 2022

Group of 20 (G-20)

41. Jokowi’s Russian mission is great, though it achieves little
Kornelius Purba
Jakarta Post, 4 July 2022

42. Jokowi’s peace mission a reminder that Russia, Ukraine must be continually urged to negotiate: Experts
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja
Straits Times, 4 July 2022


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