Daily News on Southeast Asia – 15 Sep 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.


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


Brunei

1. Brunei opens Asean’s longest bridge to foreign vehicles but limits weight
Philip Kiew
Borneo Post, 14 September 2022

Indonesia

2. CNA Explains: Key career highlights of outgoing Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan and what’s next for him
Kiki Siregar
Channel News Asia, 15 September 2022
 
3. Twenty years after Bali
Sidney Jones
Interpreter, 14 September 2022
 
4. Jokowi can run as VP in 2024 only if nominated: PDI-P
Jakarta Post, 14 September 2022
 
5. The literacy myth
Zulfa Sakhiyya
Jakarta Post, 14 September 2022
 
6. Indonesia is looking for more than security support from the U.S.
Derek Grossman
Nikkei Asia, 14 September 2022
 
7. President Jokowi Orders State Officials to Use Electric Vehicles
Fajar Pebianto
Tempo, 14 September 2022

Malaysia

8. No Cabinet decision on dissolving Parliament yet, says Takiyuddin
Dineskumar Ragu
Free Malaysia Today, 15 September 2022
 
9. Freedom House: Pro-China news creep to continue in Malaysia if Umno remains in power
[Link to 82-page Beijing Global Media Influence Report 2022]
Keertan Ayamany
Malay Mail Online, 15 September 2022
 
10. Muda forgoes idealism, opts for uncertain partnership with coalition in decay
Praba Ganesan
Malay Mail Online, 15 September 2022
 
11. Hadi: Many Harapan leaders are non-believers, immoral
Malaysiakini, 15 September 2022
 
12. Najib’s absence will affect Umno in GE15, say analysts

Raevathi Supramaniam
Malaysian Insight, 15 September 2022
 
13. Daripada hegemoni BN kepada merakyatkan Parlimen [From BN hegemony to popularizing Parliament]
Fakhrurrazi Rashid
Malaysian Insight, 15 September 2022
 
14. End of the road for Muafakat?
Ragananthini Vethasalam
Star, 15 September 2022
 
15. Refugees in Malaysia anxious over KL’s plan to shut UN office
Ram Anand
Straits Times, 15 September 2022
 
16. Amid reports of political meddling, PM says government doesn’t interfere with local media
Radzi Razak
Malay Mail Online, 14 September 2022
 
17. PAS and the identity politics of race and religion
Dr Rais Hussin is president and CEO of Emir Research.
Malaysian Insight, 14 September 2022
 
18. Amendment to strip veto powers off BN parties unlikely to take place before GE15
Veena Babulal
New Straits Times, 14 September 2022
 
19. PAS to contest eight to 15 seats in Selangor
Wani Muthiah
Star, 14 September 2022

Philippines

20. Marcos defends martial law, admits abuses ‘like in any war’
Jerome Aning
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 15 September 2022
 
21. Ill-advised?
Melissa Loja And Romel Bagares Are Independent Filipino Scholars Of International Law.
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 14 September 2022
 
22. Pernicious anti-politics
Anthony Lawrence Borja
New Mandala, 13 September 2022

Thailand

23. Thai Constitutional Court to Rule on PM’s Tenure on Sept. 30
Sebastian Strangio
Diplomat, 15 September 2022

Timor-Leste

24. China in the South Pacific: A View from Timor Leste
Loro Horta
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 14 September 2022

Vietnam

25. Vietnam data storage law rankles Big Tech and CPTPP trade bloc
Lien Hoang
Nikkei Asia, 15 September 2022

ASEAN/Southeast Asia

26. RI confirms Myanmar’s absence from upcoming New York meeting
Yvette Tanamal
Jakarta Post, 15 September 2022
 
27. ASEAN Investment Report 2022
ASEAN Secretariat News, 14 September 2022
 
28. Asean region critical to tackling food security, but countries must deal with multiple risks
Uma Devi
Business Times, 14 September 2022
 
29. Southeast Asia watches London’s tilt to Washington
John Harley Breen, Jürgen Haacke
East Asia Forum, 14 September 2022
 
30. Has Southeast Asia warmed to AUKUS one year on?
Melissa Conley Tyler
Interpreter, 14 September 2022
 
31. A report card on Asean affairs
Khmer Times, 14 September 2022
 
32. Interview: Greater ASEAN-China economic cooperation further promotes peace, stability in region: ADB-Cambodia director
Xinhua, 14 September 2022

Asia Pacific

33. The Wrong Way to View the Xi-Putin Meeting
Evan A. Feigenbaum
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 13 September 2022
 
34. How Preferential Are RCEP Tariffs?
Kazunobu Hayakawa
ERIA, September 2022
 
35. Opportunities and Challenges for ASEAN and East Asia from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership on E-Commerce
Jane Kelsey
ERIA, September 2022
 
36. Trade Facilitation in RCEP Countries
Wenxiao Wang
ERIA, September 2022
 
37. Traditional Services Trade in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Zhang Yan
ERIA, September 2022
 
38. The Investment Chapter in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership:
Enhanced Rules without Enforcement Mechanism
Henry Gao
ERIA, September 2022

East/South China Sea

39. Survival, success and the sea: The importance of Unclos to Singapore
[this Article Is Part Of The Unclos 40th Anniversary Series – Why Unclos Matters, Conceptualised By The Blue Security Programme And Published On Fulcrum, The Commentary And Analysis Website Of The Iseas-yusof Ishak Institute.]
Straits Times, 15 September 2022
 
40. Philippine senator calls for a ‘claimants only’ Code of Conduct on South China Sea
Radio Free Asia, 14 September 2022

Climate Change/Environment

41. Greening Pains: Can Petronas Make the Leap to Renewables?
Gulzhan Musaeva
Diplomat, 15 September 2022
 
42. KINIGUIDE | What is a climate emergency and why does it matter?
Aidila Razak
Malaysiakini, 15 September 2022
 
43. Ulu Muda’s forest ‘reserved’ for logging?
Jason Loh and Nik Nurdiana Zulkifli are part of the research team of Emir Research
Malaysian Insight, 14 September 2022
 
44. Industrial mining’s tropical deforestation footprint spills beyond concessions
[Link To The Paper Published In Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Science]
Malavika Vyawahare
Mongabay, 14 September 2022

Others


G20
45. G20 labor ministers formulate five key documents
Antara, 15 September 2022

Media, Technology & Society
 46. Computational diplomacy – the science of an art?
Roland Bouffanais, Sun Sun Lim
Interpreter, 15 September 2022


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