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Today’s issue includes the following commentaries and citations attributed to ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and its researchers. You can click on the links to go to the articles directly.
- No. 4: Siwage Dharma Negara, Senior Fellow
- No. 20: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
- No. 32: Mirza Sadaqat Huda, Lead Researcher
- No. 34: Joanne Lin, Lead Researcher
- No. 43: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Brunei | Cambodia | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Timor-Leste | Vietnam | ASEAN / Southeast Asia | Asia Pacific | East/South China Sea | Climate Change/Environment | Media, Technology & Society | Others
Cambodia
1. Cambodia’s exports to Thailand jump nearly 10% in first five months of 2023
Nation Thailand, 20 June 2023
2. Cambodian riel to expand across Laos, and Vietnam
Van Socheata, The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network
Nation Thailand, 19 June 2023
Indonesia
3. Indonesia’s Chinese investment-dominated nickel industry: Social and environmental safeguards needed
Muhammad Habib Abiyan Dzakwan [Link to original article on Fulcrum]
ThinkChina, 21 June 2023
4. Should Indonesia join BRICS?
Siwage Dharma Negara
ThinkChina, 21 June 2023
5. Indonesian critics ask: what use is Dutch recognition of 1945 independence without reparations?
Resty Woro Yuniar
South China Morning Post, 21 June 2023
6. Commentary: Race to succeed Jokowi will lie in who presidential candidates pick as number two
Samir Puri
Channel News Asia, 22 June 2023
7. PDI-P welcomes Yudhoyono’s ‘dream’ of reconciliation
Yerica Lai
Jakarta Post, 21 June 2023
8. 22 mln MSMEs enter e-commerce in March
Antara, 22 June 2023
9. Indonesia Trials First High-Speed Rail in Boost to Jokowi Legacy
Eko Listiyorini
Bloomberg, 22 June 2023
Malaysia
10. Second-line party leaders could make their comeback at Malaysia’s state polls
Shannon Teoh
Straits Times, 21 June 2023
11. Malaysia state elections: Four faces to watch on the comeback trail
Shannon Teoh
Straits Times, 21 June 2023
12. Low voter turnout expected
Martin Carvalho
Star, 22 June 2023
13. Krisis moral Umno dan natijahnya dalam PRN [Umno’s moral crisis and its result in the state elections]
Ruhan Shahrir
Malaysian Insight, 21 June 2023
14. Pengagihan kerusi uji keikhlasan pemimpin gabungan PH-BN [Seat allocation tests sincerity of leaders in PH-BN alliance]
Dr Mohammad Tawfik Yaakub
Berita Harian, 20 June 2023
15. 国盟的民政和国阵的马华 [PN’s Gerakan and BN’s MCA]
张庆禄
星洲网, 21 June 2023
16. 不容忽视的马来民怨 [Malay grievances that cannot be ignored]
朱运健
星洲网, 21 June 2023
17. Razarudin and Ayob Khan: Who are Malaysia’s new police chiefs?
Malay Mail Online, 22 June 2023
18. Survey: Malaysians less welcoming of refugees, see them as economic drain
Shathana Kasinathan
Malay Mail Online, 22 June 2023
19. Wisma Putra clarifies misperceptions regarding demarcation of Strait of Malacca and Sulawesi Sea
Malay Mail Online, 21 June 2023
20. Umno no longer ‘grand old party’, just ‘old’, says Hasni
Yee Xiang Yun
Star, 22 June 2023
Myanmar
21. Sanctions against MFTB and MICB could cause unnecessary delays in the process of multi-party democracy: SAC spokesperson
Eleven Myanmar, 21 June 2023
22. Myanmar’s Junta Is Losing the Civil War
Joshua Kurlantzick
World Politics Review, 21 June 2023
23. US places sanctions on Myanmar’s defence ministry, banks
Reuters
Channel News Asia, 21 June 2023
Philippines
24. The Philippines Is Leveraging Its Strategic Value to Become an Indo-Pacific Power
Gavril Torrijos
Diplomat, 21 June 2023
25. Maharlika, Kadiwa, Masagana
Joel Ruiz Butuyan
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 22 June 2023
26. The spoiled spoils system
Manuel L. Quezon III
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 21 June 2023
Singapore
27. Singapore poised to become offshore Islamic wealth hub in next five years: panel
Tan Ai Leng
Business Times, 22 June 2023
Thailand
28. Phuket switches focus to becoming international medical hub
Nation Thailand, 22 June 2023
29. Understanding ‘self-determination’
Kriangsak Kittichaisaree
Bangkok Post, 22 June 2023
30. Pink card graft appals
Editorial
Bangkok Post, 22 June 2023
Vietnam
31. Vietnam dropped from US currency monitoring list
VietNamNet, 22 June 2023
32. 学者：越南须升级电网加强太阳能风能发电 [Academics: Vietnam must upgrade its power grid to strengthen solar and wind power generation]
廖慧婷
联合早报, 21 June 2023
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
33. Indonesia moves ASEAN military drills to uncontested waters in South China Sea
Tria Dianti
Radio Free Asia, 21 June 2023
34. Will Cambodia’s concerns of ‘rocking China boat’ affect Asean unity over naval drills?
Maria Siow
South China Morning Post, 22 June 2023
35. Jakarta lacks Myanmar leverage: UN rapporteur
Yvette Tanamal
Jakarta Post, 21 June 2023
36. UN: Asean must hold Myanmar junta accountable
Reuters and Post Reporters
Bangkok Post, 21 June 2023
37. How to upgrade Asean’s infrastructure as more global businesses turn to the region
Colleen K. Howe
South China Morning Post, 22 June 2023
Asia Pacific
38. Blinken’s Beijing Visit: Private Conversations, Public Criticism
Benjamin Ho
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 21 June 2023
East/South China Sea
39. Indonesia Shifts ASEAN Military Drills Out of Disputed Waters
Sebastian Strangio
Diplomat, 22 June 2023
Climate Change/Environment
40. S’wak aims for ‘fully sustainable’ public transport by 2030
Malaysiakini, 22 June 2023
41. Paris Summit Aims to Shake Up the Financial System, Testing Leaders’ Resolve on Climate
Others, 21 June 2023
42. Indonesia’s decarbonisation agenda and Russian sanctions
M Habib Abiyan Dzakwan and Novia Xu
East Asia Forum, 21 June 2023
43. Low funding priority and awareness hindering methane abatement in Southeast Asia’s oil and gas sector
Liang Lei
Eco-Business, 22 June 2023
44. Vietnam proposes incentives for installation of roof-top power systems
Nation Thailand, 22 June 2023
45. How Climate Change Will Reshape Economic Statecraft
Agathe Demarais
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 20 June 2023
46. How alternative fuels can shape a net-zero future in Asia
Abhi Bhuchar and Eddison Lee
Business Times, 22 June 2023
Media, Technology & Society
47. Digital platform law spelled out
Komsan Tortermvasana and Suchit Leesa-nguansuk
Bangkok Post, 22 June 2023
Others
Global Affairs
48. Analysis: After a decade, Xi floats ‘G2’ world with U.S. again
Katsuji Nakazawa
Nikkei Asia, 22 June 2023
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