This article was published by Lianhe Zaobao on 18 August 2018, and quoted Mr Khoo from ISEAS Perspective 2018/46 Mahathir Mohamad returns, but what of Mahathirism?
Mr Khoo Boo Teik is Professor at The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan; and is the author of Paradoxes of Mahathirism: An Intellectual Biography of Mahathir Mohamad, Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1995.
This article was published by The ASEAN Post on 21 August 2018.
Dr Leo Suryadinata is Visiting Senior Fellow with ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
This article on “The Islamic Factor in Indonesia’s Presidential Election” was published by Lianhe Zaobao on 22 August 2018.
Dr Leo Suryadinata is Visiting Senior Fellow with ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
This article was published by Asia Times on 23 August 2018.
Dr Malcolm Cook is Senior Fellow with ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
In June 2010, Vietnam’s National Assembly voted to reject a proposal to build a North-South high-speed rail line connecting Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City. This proposal, backed by Japanese companies, failed to win the legislature’s approval due to its high price tag of USD56 billion, which was about half of Vietnam’s GDP in 2010.
This article was published by Lianhe Zaobao on 20 August 2018.
Prof Zha Daojiong was Visiting Fellow with ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute from 17 July to 15 August 2018, during which he delivered a seminar titled “Connectivity between China and Southeast Asia: Mission Impossible?” on 3 August 2018.
The 43rd Singapore Lecture organised by ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, took place on 21 August 2018 at the Grand Hyatt, Singapore.
The lecture by H.E. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar is titled “Myanmar’s Democratic Transition: Challenges and Way Forward”, and was chaired and moderated by DPM and Coordinating Minister for National Security Mr Teo Chee Hean.
This article was published by OZY.com on 19 August 2018.
Dr Charlotte Setijadi is Associate Fellow with ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
“The Northeast Asian Exception” by Malcolm Cook
It has long been an article of conventional wisdom that the lack of strategic trust between China, Japan and South Korea undermines economic cooperation between the three Northeast Asian trading powers and undercuts their ability to set regional and global rules and standards.