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- No. 6: Siwage Dharma Negara, Senior Fellow
- No. 7: Yanuar Nugroho, Visiting Senior Fellow
- No. 13: Ooi Kee Beng, Visiting Senior Fellow
- No. 23: Sharon Seah, Senior Fellow
- No. 39: Jayant Menon, Visiting Fellow
- No. 57: Jayant Menon, Visiting Fellow
Brunei | Cambodia | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Timor-Leste | Vietnam | ASEAN / Southeast Asia | Asia Pacific | East / South China Sea | Climate Change/Environment | Others
Indonesia
1. Indonesia invites Japan to invest in health, food sectors
Antara, 27 July 2022
2. Jokowi, Xi embrace push for greater synergy
A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil
Jakarta Post, 27 July 2022
3. Analysis: Government faces dilemma over raising subsidized fuel prices
Tenggara Strategics
Jakarta Post, 27 July 2022
4. Foreign Minister: Jokowi Fighting for Access to CPO Market in Beijing
Antara
Tempo, 27 July 2022
5. Explainer | China-Indonesia trade: how important is it, and what are the main exports?
Ji Siqi
South China Morning Post, 26 July 2022
6. Widodo’s ‘balancing act’ meeting Xi in Beijing ahead of G20
Jack Lau and Cyril Ip
South China Morning Post, 26 July 2022
7. Has Indonesia’s Jokowi chosen consolidating power over political experience in latest cabinet reshuffle?
Yanuar Nugroho
South China Morning Post, 26 July 2022
8. President Jokowi’s Economic Mission with East Asian Countries Summarized
Fajar Pebrianto
Tempo, 26 July 2022
9. Political Observer Assesses Survey Result on Jokowi’s Leadership
Antara
Tempo, 26 July 2022
10. Self-censorship concerns grow as Big Tech accedes to cyber policy
Nur Janti
Jakarta Post, 25 July 2022
Malaysia
11. UMNO’s grand plan for taking back Malaysia
Nile Bowie
Asia Times, 27 July 2022
12. Constitutional amendment : MPs who jump ship will lose seat – PM Ismail Sabri
Bernama, 27 July 2022
13. My Say: A national reset recipe: Federation building, global learning and social justice
Ooi Kee Beng
Edge Markets, 27 July 2022
14. Current subsidy mechanism unsustainable, warns Tengku Zafrul
Azam Aris
Free Malaysia Today, 27 July 2022
15. Bitter harvest: Malaysian palm oil farmers face labour crunch
Malay Mail Online, 27 July 2022
16. Give Klau Felda residents their money, rights back – PPIM
Gajendra Jeya Kumar
Malaysiakini, 27 July 2022
17. Students not impressed by Keluarga Malaysia cheap meals
Alfian Z.M. Tahir
Malaysian Insight, 27 July 2022
18. AHL is a clear message to future party hoppers, PM says
Arfa Yunus, Nuradzimmah Daim
New Straits Times, 27 July 2022
19. Finance Minister Zafrul Aziz to spearhead Umno’s charge to regain Selangor
Shannon Teoh, Malaysia Bureau Chief
Straits Times, 27 July 2022
20. Vegetable farmers, fishermen single out Perak and Penang govts as threats to food production
Malaysian Insight, 26 July 2022
21. Management of GLC-owned shopping malls to be reviewed – PM
Bernama, 25 July 2022
Myanmar
22. International court rejects Myanmar’s bid to halt genocide case
Juliette McIntyre and Adam Simpson
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 27 July 2022
23. 亚细安谴责缅军政府处决民运人士 打击推进五共识努力 [ASEAN condemns Myanmar’s military government’s execution of pro-democracy activists; blow to efforts to advance Five Point Consensus]
萧郡瑜
Lianhe Zaobao 联合早报, 27 July 2022
24. Myanmar says it has enough funds to avert Sri Lanka-like crisis
Khine Lin Kyaw
Bloomberg, 26 July 2022
25. Execution of 4 activists by junta puts peace in Myanmar further out of reach
Radio Free Asia, 26 July 2022
26. More violence in Myanmar feared as junta’s executions send ‘ruthless’ message to Asean
Maria Siow
South China Morning Post, 26 July 2022
27. Does ICJ Ruling Pave the Way for Rohingya Repatriation?
Dr. Arpita Hazarika
Geopolitical Monitor, 25 July 2022
Philippines
28. Moving the country forward
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 27 July 2022
29. Philippine Leader Vows Recovery but Quiet on Human Rights
Jim Gomez
Diplomat, 26 July 2022
Thailand
30. Somkid warns of economic storm
Bangkok Post, 27 July 2022
31. Chadchart vows to sweep away corruption in capital
Supoj Wancharoen
Bangkok Post, 27 July 2022
32. MP bill sent back to panel for vetting
Aekarach Sattaburuth
Bangkok Post, 27 July 2022
33. Cabinet okays B27.4bn subsidies to help poor
Phusadee Arunmas
Bangkok Post, 27 July 2022
34. No more money politics
Bangkok Post editorial column
Bangkok Post, 26 July 2022
35. Institute queries Thai silence on Myanmar hanging democracy activists
Nation, 26 July 2022
36. House panel shoots down air force’s Bt7.4bn request for F-35 jets
Nation, 26 July 2022
37. Where ‘little ghosts’ work almost unseen
Penchan Charoensuthipan and Wassayos Ngamkham
Bangkok Post, 24 July 2022
Vietnam
38. Tasks, solutions set to fulfill COP26 commitments
VietNamNet, 26 July 2022
39. 中国特稿：制造业快速崛起 越南成为下一个世界工厂？ [Special Feature on China: Rapid Rise of Manufacturing Industry: Vietnam Becomes the Next World Factory?]
沈泽玮
Lianhe Zaobao 联合早报, 24 July 2022
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
40. What Vietnam can learn from Thailand’s fight against illegal fishing
THƯ NGUYỄN HOÀNG ANH
Interpreter, 27 July 2022
41. ASEAN Chair urges parties to refrain from taking action
Khmer Times, 27 July 2022
42. In rare rebuke, ASEAN scorches Myanmar for ‘highly reprehensible’ executions
Muzliza Mustafa, Alvin Prasetyo, Subel Rai Bhandari, and Nontarat Phaicharoen
Radio Free Asia, 26 July 2022
Asia Pacific
43. The China Asians want
Simon Tay
Straits Times, 27 July 2022
44. Managing the discord: Biden-Xi dialogue
Sanjay Pulipaka and Cauvery Ganapathy
Asia Times, 26 July 2022
45. Tax revenues in Asia and the Pacific hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis
[Link to the report “Revenue Statistics in Asia and the Pacific 2022“]
Nation, 26 July 2022
46. Deglobalization’s China Wild Card
Stephen S. Roach, a faculty member at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia
Project Syndicate, 25 July 2022
East/South China Sea
47. US says Beijing’s South China Sea ‘provocations’ risk major incident
Channel News Asia, 27 July 2022
Climate Change/Environment
48. Climate disinformation leaves lasting mark in US as world heats
Channel News Asia, 27 July 2022
49. How to manage the world’s fertilisers to avoid a prolonged food crisis
Juergen Voegele
Edge Markets, 27 July 2022
50. Philippine president Marcos: ‘Renewable energy is top of climate agenda’
Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez
Eco-Business, 26 July 2022
51. Green taxonomy: G20’s beacon for transitioning to a green economy and beyond
Linda Rosalina and Wahyu Agung Perdana
Jakarta Post, 26 July 2022
Others
Media, Technology & Society
52. Cost of data breaches hits an all-time high
[Link to the report “Consumers Pay the Price as Data Breach Costs Reach All-Time High“]
Suchit Leesa-Nguansuk
Bangkok Post, 27 July 2022
53. Digital provisions play a key role in Asia Pacific agreements
Henry Gao, Singapore Management University
East Asia Forum, 26 July 2022
54. Techno-politics of data justice: perspectives from Indonesia and the Philippines
New Mandala, 26 July 2022
Global Economy
55. There is a global debt crisis coming – and it won’t stop at Sri Lanka
Jayati Ghosh
Guardian, 26 July 2022
56. Global Economic Growth Slows Amid Gloomy and More Uncertain Outlook
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
IMF Blog, 26 July 2022
57. China’s ‘worse-than-anticipated’ economic slowdown at core of IMF cut to 2022 global growth forecast
Ralph Jennings
South China Morning Post, 26 July 2022
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