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- No. 39: Ian Storey, Senior Fellow
- No. 43: Ian Storey, Senior 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. Golkar-led coalition ready to run in 2024 with door open for political outsiders
Yerica Lai
Jakarta Post, 11 August 2022
2. Pengangguran Usia Muda [Youth unemployment]
TASMILAH, Statistisi Pada BPS Kota Malang
Republika, 11 August 2022
3. Indonesia’s macro economy still good: Kadin
Antara, 10 August 2022
4. Bagaimana kontestasi politik membentuk kebijakan seragam dan aturan pemakaian jilbab di sekolah Indonesia [How political contestation shapes uniform policies and rules for wearing the hijab in Indonesian schools]
Sari Oktafiana
Conversation, 10 August 2022
5. Kosmetik halal makin populer: bagaimana cara deteksi unsur haram dan seberapa besar pasarnya? [Halal cosmetics are getting more and more popular: how to detect haram elements and how big is the market?]
Putriana Rachmawati
Conversation, 10 August 2022
6. Indonesian Defense Minister Readies for Third Presidential Run
Sebastian Strangio
Diplomat, 10 August 2022
7. Indonesia won’t go with the flow on data
Xirui Li, NTU
East Asia Forum, 10 August 2022
8. Older People and COVID-19 in Indonesia (2022 Edition) [117-page PDF document]
ERIA, 9 August 2022
Malaysia
9. Everyday Matters: Funding the productive economy
Zakie Shariff
Edge Markets, 11 August 2022
10. PBM will weaken BN’s position, say analysts
Reshna Reem Ganesan
Free Malaysia Today, 11 August 2022
11. Touting multiracial politics isn’t enough for Warisan, says analyst
Nora Mahpar
Free Malaysia Today, 11 August 2022
12. Recall elections seen as best way to plug loopholes in anti-hopping law
Free Malaysia Today, 11 August 2022
13. Anti-party hopping law will boost voter confidence, say analysts
Chan Kok Leong
Malaysian Insight, 11 August 2022
14. Isu LCS tidak akan jadi ‘peluru’ tumbangkan BN pada PRU-15 [LCS issue will not be ‘bullet’ to topple BN in GE-15]
Suzalina Halid
Berita Harian (Malaysia), 10 August 2022
15. Bajet 2023 perlu lima langkah penyesuaian dasar ekonomi drastik [2023 budget needs five drastic basic economic adjustment steps]
Mohd Jamizal Zainol
Berita Harian (Malaysia), 10 August 2022
16. IDEAS: Implement PAC Recommendations and enact the Government Procurement Act now
Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), 10 August 2022
17. N. Sembilan state assembly passes motion related to cost of living
Malay Mail Online, 10 August 2022
18. Sarawak party rejects premier’s ‘non-Muslims need to be given protection’ view
Malaysian Insight, 10 August 2022
19. Merawat sindrom ‘tubuh jawatankuasa khas’ dalam kerajaan [Treating the ‘set up special committee’ syndrome in government]
Fakhrurrazi Rashid
Malaysian Insight, 10 August 2022
20. Election date keeps changing, but don’t expect it to drag into next year…
Kuik Cheng Kang
Sinchew 星洲网, 10 August 2022
21. 土团党的末路：剃人头者，人亦剃其头 [End of the road for Bersatu: do unto others]
张庆禄
Sinchew 星洲网, 10 August 2022
22. Sangkar’s appointment unlikely to change Pakatan’s influence in Sabah, says analyst
Durie Rainer Fong
Star, 10 August 2022
23. Nur Jazlan: Umno needs to win over young voters
Mohd Farhaan Shah
Star, 10 August 2022
24. Scandal in Malaysia’s biggest defence deal bogs down Umno ahead of polls
Shannon Teoh
Straits Times, 10 August 2022
Myanmar
25. The Myanmar Military’s Roadmap to Survival
Amara Thiha
Diplomat, 10 August 2022
26. What’s Behind the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor ‘Plus’ Initiative?
Syah Vaghji
Diplomat, 10 August 2022
27. Myanmar’s youth sacrificing life and limb
Frontier Myanmar, 10 August 2022
28. Min Aung Hlaing Is Destroying the Myanmar Military
Miemie Winn Byrd
Irrawaddy, 10 August 2022
29. Myanmar’s National Unity Government seeks to arm its fighters
Sai Wansai
Mizzima, 10 August 2022
30. ASEAN aid promised in May has yet to reach Myanmar’s refugees
Radio Free Asia, 10 August 2022
31. The Impact of Drug and Illicit Economy in Myanmar: Views from the Youth [7-page PDF document]
Kyaw Lynn
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (Indonesia), 9 August 2022
Philippines
32. Will Philippines’ Marcos Jnr revive talks on China oil deal to solve looming energy crisis?
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III
South China Morning Post, 11 August 2022
33. Philippines: Decision to not rejoin the ICC statute will not prevent investigation
Amnesty International, 10 August 2022
34. Philippines cancels Russia helicopter deal over US sanctions
AFP Manila, Philippines
Jakarta Post, 10 August 2022
35. What Martial Law? Marcoses Get Star Treatment in New Film.
Camille Elemia
New York Times, 10 August 2022
Thailand
36. Panel backs revised 2023 budget
Aekarach Sattaburuth
Bangkok Post, 11 August 2022
37. House meeting on organic bill collapses
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Mongkol Bangprapa & Wassana Nanuam
Bangkok Post, 11 August 2022
38. Prayut: Let court rule on tenure dispute
Bangkok Post, 11 August 2022
39. Thailand’s Awkward Pursuit of American F-35As
[Link to “Will America Greenlight the Sale of F-35s to Thailand?” on Fulcrum]
Tita Sanglee
Diplomat, 11 August 2022
Vietnam
40. Global inflation threatens Vietnamese exports
VietNamNet, 10 August 2022
41. Vietnam needs skilled workforce to become upper-middle-income economy by 2035: WB
[Link to the report, “Taking Stock, August 2022: Educate to Grow”]
VietNamNet, 10 August 2022
42. Largest Vietnamese private enterprises become key driver to national economy
Voice of Vietnam, 10 August 2022
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
43. More pirate attacks expected in Singapore Strait this year amid Ukraine war, report says
[Link to ISEAS Perspective 2022/76 “Piracy and the Pandemic: Maritime Crime in Southeast Asia, 2020-22”]
Amy Chew
South China Morning Post, 11 August 2022
44. ‘ASEAN way’ guides bloc past rocky roads
Ry Sochan
Khmer Times, 10 August 2022
45. Building on the ASEAN Community
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son
VietNamNet, 10 August 2022
Asia Pacific
46. G20 response to the development of crypto-assets activities
R. Hutama Wardhana
Jakarta Post, 11 August 2022
East/South China Sea
47. Malaysia’s View and Response to Grey Zone Conflict in the South China Sea
Tharishini Krishnan
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 10 August 2022
Climate Change/Environment
48. With solar and wind energy potential, Indonesia can meet its new capital’s clean energy target
Walter Timo de Vries, Professor of Land Management, Technical University of Munich
Conversation, 10 August 2022
49. ‘Miserliness’ at work: Asia’s Least Developed Countries say climate finance still not forthcoming from rich countries
Ng Wai Mun
Eco-Business, 10 August 2022
50. Borderless haze threatens Southeast Asia
Helena Varkkey
Jakarta Post, 10 August 2022
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