The programme (Insight) which was first aired by Channel NewsAsia on July 31, 2016, can be viewed here.
Dr Tang Siew Mun is Senior Fellow and Head of the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
This seminar discussed an inscription that recently surfaced in Paris, arguing that it is changing the history of the ancient Khmer Empire at its apogee in the 12th century. Numbered K. 1297, it shows that Angkor reached its ultimate sway as one of the world’s great empires under Buddhist kings. – Click on to learn more about the seminar.
The article was first published online by Asia & The Pacific Policy Society on August 05, 2016.
Dr Malcolm Cook is Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
The article which was first published online by The Wall Street Journal on August 04, 2016, can be viewed here.
Dr Michael Montesano is Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
The seminar attempted to demonstrate, through textual and discourse analysis, that Teo’s poems, although falling into oblivion during Malaya’ s era of decolonisation, constituted a significant part of the post-war Malayan poetry – Click on to learn more about the seminar.
On 1 August 2016, the National Security Council (NSC) Act came into effect after the bill was tabled and passed quickly in December 2015. The Act allows the NSC – chaired by a Malaysian Prime Minister (PM) – to take command of the country’s security forces and police locations designated as security areas. Individuals within these security areas can be searched or detained without warrant if necessary. This ‘security area’ status is valid for six months, but can be indefinitely renewed six months at a time by the sitting PM upon advice from the NSC.
The article which was first published online by BERITA Mediacorp on August 02, 2016, can be viewed here.
Dr Norshahril Saat is Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
The article which was first published online by The Wall Street Journal on August 02, 2016, can be viewed here.
Dr Norshahril Saat is Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
Three decisions announced this week by three major Japanese services firms in three different Southeast Asia markets signal a new wave of Japanese corporate investment in the region that is far from cresting:
“The Challenges Underlying Malaysia’s Proposed New Party”, a Commentary by Norshahril Saat
Reports are just in that a new opposition party will be formed, and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, former deputy Prime Minister, will be leading it. The proposed party, which has yet to be named, will require approval from the Registrar of Societies (ROS). Muhyiddin intends to submit an application to the body on the 5 August. He will act as the party’s president. Analysts are divided whether this new party will strengthen or weaken the opposition. Some argue that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed, who has said that he will be the first among equals of the new party, will foster opposition unity, which disintegrated after the jailing of Anwar Ibrahim in 2015. Yet, there are sceptics who contend that Mahathir’s history with UMNO in the past will complicate the new party’s standing in the opposition. Mahathir was after all, the UMNO President for 22 years. The ruling coalition BN (National Front) will only have to apply the same arguments that Mahathir levelled at his opponents in the past: that the opposition is ideologically fragmented; with PAS (Islamic Party of Malaysia) desiring an Islamic state, and DAP (Democratic Action Party) calling for a secular/multiracial state. How the new party positions itself between the forces calling for Malay dominance, Islamic state, and secular/multiracial state is crucial.