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- No. 5: Made Supriatma, Visiting Fellow
- No. 12: James Chai, Visiting Fellow
- No. 18: Moe Thuzar, Fellow
- No. 30: Le Hong Hiep, Senior Fellow
- No. 36: 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. More winners than losers from Indonesia’s US$206b budget
Business Times, 18 August 2022
2. A final call to tackle the Papua refugee crisis in new regions
Wida Ayu Puspitosari
Jakarta Post, 18 August 2022
3. Healthcare costs leave Indonesians out-of-pocket
Darmawan Prasetya and Eka Afrina, The Prakarsa Centre for Welfare Studies
East Asia Forum, 17 August 2022
4. ‘Too low’: Indonesia’s call for optimism doesn’t match 5.3pc growth target, analysts say
Resty Woro Yuniar
South China Morning Post, 17 August 2022
5. Sambo dan Risalah Geng Para Bintang [Sambo and the Minutes of the Gang of Stars]
Pinter Politik, 16 August 2022
Malaysia
6. Academic sees friendships in Umno being tested
Ainin Wan Salleh
Free Malaysia Today, 18 August 2022
7. Tired of lagging behind, Sabahans want dedicated leaders this GE15
Julia Chan
Malay Mail Online, 18 August 2022
8. GE15 will likely not usher in stability
Praba Ganesan
Malay Mail Online, 18 August 2022
9. Will more Malaysians fall into the household debt trap?
Amanda Yeo is Research Analyst at EMIR Research
Malay Mail Online, 18 August 2022
10. 3 Sarawak parties form new coalition ahead of next general election
Desmond Davidson
Malaysian Insight, 18 August 2022
11. 华裔选民基本盘已回流 马华可打破遇火箭全输宿命 [The fundamentals of Chinese voters have returned; MCA can lose fear of losing the Rockets]
邱玉珊
Malaysian Insight, 18 August 2022
12. PRU15: Tidak semua undi Undi 18 ada hak yang sama – Penganalisis [GE15: Not all Undi 18 votes have the same rights – Analyst]
[Link to “Malaysia’s GE15: Not All Youth Votes Are Equal” on Fulcrum]
Firdaus Azil
Astro Awani, 17 August 2022
13. More important things now than DPM
Tarrence Tan
Star, 17 August 2022
14. Pahang Angkatan Muda Harapan rejects overtures from PAS
Star, 17 August 2022
Myanmar
15. Myanmar’s Kangaroo Courts Hand Aung San Suu Kyi Another Six-Year Term While Sean Turnell Pleads Not Guilty
Adam Simpson
Australian Institute of International Affairs, 18 August 2022
16. Myanmar military drives itself into corner on violent crackdowns
Toru Takahashi
Nikkei Asia, 18 August 2022
17. People of Myanmar have right to democracy: UN special envoy
Tan Hui Yee
Straits Times, 18 August 2022
18. ‘Survival at any cost’: Myanmar generals move to cement power
Thompson Chau and Dominic Oo
Al Jazeera, 17 August 2022
19. Myanmar Junta Uses UN Envoy for What It Craves: Legitimacy
Irrawaddy, 17 August 2022
20. Myanmar Junta Generals and Cronies Dominate Committee Formed to Import Russian Fuel
Irrawaddy, 17 August 2022
Singapore
21. Singapore opens taps on renewable-energy imports with Laos deal
Mayuko Tani
Nikkei Asia, 18 August 2022
Thailand
22. PM ‘will not’ dissolve House
Bangkok Post, 18 August 2022
23. New pacts cement India-Thai relations
Poramet Tangsathaporn
Bangkok Post, 18 August 2022
24. Clean energy needs far clearer policy
Nichamon Thongphat and Jitlakha Sukruay
Bangkok Post, 17 August 2022
25. Thai Opposition Party Vows Better Living Standards As Polls Near
Patpicha Tanakasempipat
Bloomberg, 17 August 2022
26. Thailand’s Restive South Hit by Wave of Arson and Bombings
Sumeth Panpetch
Diplomat, 17 August 2022
27. Opposition accuses government of pushing politically motivated budget
Nation, 17 August 2022
28. Thai court dismisses Mekong River activists’ case against Xayaburi Dam in Laos
Radio Free Asia, 17 August 2022
Vietnam
29. Can China correct course on Covid, like Vietnam?
Shuli Ren
Bangkok Post, 18 August 2022
30. 学者：减少对中国依赖 苹果智能手表与笔电 探讨生产线转移至越南 [Scholars: To reduce dependency on China, Apple explores moving smartwatch and laptop production to Vietnam]
廖慧婷
Lianhe Zaobao 联合早报, 18 August 2022
31. Why are thousands of public employees taking private-sector jobs?
VietNamNet, 18 August 2022
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
32. China, Indonesia, and Malaysia: Waltzing Around Oil Rigs
Emirza Adi Syailendra
Diplomat, 18 August 2022
33. New international corridor boosts Asean-China trade
Manoj Mathew
Khmer Times, 18 August 2022
34. Myanmar junta hits back at ASEAN after being barred from meetings
Reuters, 18 August 2022
35. Planetary health: An alternative framework for disaster governance in ASEAN?
S. Nanthini, Lina Gong
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 17 August 2022
36. Pirate Attacks And Robberies Expected To Increase in Southeast Asia In 2022 – Report
[Link to ISEAS Perspective 2022/76 “Piracy and the Pandemic: Maritime Crime in Southeast Asia, 2020-22”]
Marine Insight, 16 August 2022
Asia Pacific
37. The China Trap: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Perilous Logic of Zero-Sum Competition
Jessica Chen Weiss
Foreign Affairs, 18 August 2022
38. How Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Has Set a New Status Quo for U.S-China Tensions
Paul Haenle, Nathaniel Sher
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 17 August 2022
39. Potential Logistical and Operational Costs of a China-Taiwan Conflict
Sara Hsu
Diplomat, 17 August 2022
East/South China Sea
40. Beijing’s Upper Hand in the South China Sea: Why Time Is Running Out to Secure U.S. Interests
Gregory Poling
Foreign Affairs, 18 August 2022
Climate Change/Environment
41. Climate change: Asian governments must push policies to stimulate green financing for clean energy, conference hears
Eric Ng and Mia Castagnone
South China Morning Post, 18 August 2022
42. How a circular economy will let the world fight climate change and ensure growth
Brian P. Klein
South China Morning Post, 18 August 2022
43. Inflation Reduction Act shows US means business in global clean energy race
Gernot Wagner
South China Morning Post, 18 August 2022
44. Singapore banks contend with climate change and funding coal use
David Fogarty
Straits Times, 18 August 2022
45. Voluntary carbon market principles: test lies in implementation, experts say
Liang Lei
Eco-Business, 17 August 2022
46. Sustaining Economic Growth in an Age of Deglobalization
The dawning age of deglobalization undoubtedly poses considerable challenges for developing and emerging economies, which largely have little hope of gaining enough of a foothold in high-end manufacturing sectors to move beyond middle-income levels. But Malaysia and Chile have shown that there is another way.
Keun Lee
Project Syndicate, 17 August 2022
47. Biden Just Signed the Inflation Reduction Act. Now the Hard Work on Climate Really Begins
Justin Worland
Time, 16 August 2022
Others
Global Economy
48. US interest rate hikes trample on developing countries
Nischal Dhungel
East Asia Forum, 17 August 2022
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