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- No. 13: Made Supriatma, Visiting Fellow
- No. 29: Su Mon Thazin Aung, Associate Fellow
- No. 48: Chanrith Ngin, Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellow
- No. 52: Mirza Sadaqat Huda, Lead Researcher
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
Cambodia
1. ‘People here mostly don’t like the Chinese’: Hong Konger in Cambodia
Cheryl Tung
Radio Free Asia, 23 August 2022
Indonesia
2. Optimistic Indonesia will become global Muslim fashion hub: minister
Antara, 24 August 2022
3. Puan commences campaign to build political capital
Fikri Harish
Jakarta Post, 24 August 2022
4. Unraveling the untamed tangle of fuel issues
Irnanda Laksanawan
Jakarta Post, 24 August 2022
5. Editorial: A bad time for a good idea
Editorial board
Jakarta Post, 24 August 2022
6. Modern retail industry relies on mini-marts for recovery
Jakarta Post, 24 August 2022
7. Golkar-PSI Jauhi Politik Identitas [Golkar-PSI Stay Away from Identity Politics]
Republika, 24 August 2022
8. Muslim scholars urge Indonesia to look the other way as Singapore, Vietnam ease anti-gay laws
Resty Woro Yuniar
South China Morning Post, 24 August 2022
9. What’s in Indonesia’s Proposed 2023 Budget?
James Guild
Diplomat, 23 August 2022
10. President Hints at Imminent Ban on Raw Bauxite, Tins Exports
Jayanty Nada Shofa
Jakarta Globe, 23 August 2022
11. BI hikes rate for first time since 2018, warns inflation could exceed 5%
Fadhil Haidar Sulaeman
Jakarta Post, 23 August 2022
12. A new capital city for who? Central-local tensions in Indonesia
Wasisto Raharjo Jati
New Mandala, 23 August 2022
13. Indonesia’s Papua sits on the edge of unrest
[Link to the report, ““Don’t Abandon Us”: Preventing Mass Atrocities in Papua, Indonesia”]
Johannes Nugroho
Southeast Asia Globe, 23 August 2022
14. Membedah Arah dan Strategi Kebijakan Ekonomi Indonesia [Dissecting the Direction and Strategy of Indonesia’s Economic Policy]
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (Indonesia), 22 August 2022
Malaysia
15. With Najib in jail, what next for Umno?
Nur Hasliza Mohd Salleh & Teoh Yee Shen
Malaysia Now, 24 August 2022
16. Poor turnout at ‘urgent meeting’ of Umno chiefs, Najib’s imprisonment to ease pressure on Ismail?
Malaysia Now, 24 August 2022
17. Institutional racism and adaptive M’sian psyche
Chandran Nair
Malaysiakini, 24 August 2022
18. Political factors will determine when GE is held, experts say
Raevathi Supramaniam
Malaysian Insight, 24 August 2022
19. PM to face Umno leaders’ push for early polls, say analysts
Alfian Z.M. Tahir
Malaysian Insight, 24 August 2022
20. Dilema antara UMNO, BERSATU tentukan nasib PAS pada PRU-15 [The dilemma between UMNO and Bersatu will decide the fate of PAS in GE-15]
Dr Nur Ayuni Mohd Isa
Berita Harian (Malaysia), 23 August 2022
21. Umno may pick ‘caretaker’ to manage Pekan constituency till GE15 following Najib’s incarceration
T.N. Alagesh
New Straits Times, 23 August 2022
1MDB/SRC International case
22. Life in prison for Najib: What it means and can he seek release? Lawyers explain
Ida Lim
Malay Mail Online, 24 August 2022
23. Bersih launches online petition asking Agong to deny Najib royal pardon
Zarrah Morden
Malay Mail Online, 24 August 2022
24. Fight against corruption doesn’t end with Najib, says Muhyiddin
Malaysiakini, 24 August 2022
25. Impact of Najib’s conviction yet to be determined
Raevathi Supramaniam, Diyana Ibrahim
Malaysian Insight, 24 August 2022
26. Najib in jail: One rival down for Malaysia’s PM Ismail, but election’s not in the bag yet
Shannon Teoh
Straits Times, 24 August 2022
27. ‘His political career is gone,’ says analyst as Najib Razak begins jail sentence for 1MDB-linked conviction
Channel News Asia, 23 August 2022
28. Najib Razak’s SRC International trial: A timeline [infographic]
Free Malaysia Today, 23 August 2022
Myanmar
29. What do the official Chinese media’s mixed messages on the Myanmar coup mean?
[Originally published as ISEAS Perspective 2022/74 “What do the Official Chinese Media’s Mixed Messages on the Myanmar Coup Mean?”]
Su Mon Thazin Aung and Nan Lwin
ThinkChina, 24 August 2022
30. As Myanmar Coup Intensifies Regional Human Trafficking, How Will China Respond?
Debby S. W. Chan
Diplomat, 23 August 2022
31. Cash cow: The get-rich-quick scheme luring Myanmar’s citizens in droves
Frontier Myanmar, 23 August 2022
32. ‘Abandoned to their fate’: five years of agony for the 700,000 Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh
Kaamil Ahmed
Guardian, 23 August 2022
33. It’s Time to Help Myanmar’s Resistance Prevail
Scot Marciel
Irrawaddy, 23 August 2022
34. UN faces heat over envoy’s trip to Myanmar
Radio Free Asia, 23 August 2022
Philippines
35. Philippines—a geostrategic battleground?
Roland G. Simbulan
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 24 August 2022
Thailand
36. Prayut survives budget test in parliament
Bangkok Post, 24 August 2022
37. Parsing the minimum wage hike debate
Janine Phakdeetham
Bangkok Post, 24 August 2022
38. Thai court suspends PM Prayut from official duty pending term limit review
Channel News Asia, 24 August 2022
39. Thai Constitutional Court Set to Rule on PM’s Term Limit
Sebastian Strangio
Diplomat, 23 August 2022
40. Cabinet approves reshuffle of senior Interior Ministry officials
Nation, 23 August 2022
Vietnam
41. To Guarantee Its Survival, Vietnam Needs to Look West
Khang Vu
Diplomat, 24 August 2022
42. Vietnam among destinations with fastest tourism growth in the world
VietNamNet, 23 August 2022
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
43. Thai pandemic centre gets nod
Bangkok Post, 24 August 2022
44. Integration, interoperability and inclusion in East Asia
Kati Suominen
East Asia Forum, 24 August 2022
45. EU, ASEAN to hold summit in December to develop supply chain
Yasuo Takeuchi
Nikkei Asia, 24 August 2022
46. Despite huge gas potential, OCA negotiation makes little progress
Khmer Times, 23 August 2022
47. China’s ASEAN Silk Road gets slippery as other powers move in
Lien Hoang
Nikkei Asia, 23 August 2022
48. G7’s global infrastructure and investment drive: Not so attractive for Southeast Asia
[Originally published as “The G7’s Global Infrastructure and Investment Drive: Not So Attractive For Southeast Asia” on Fulcrum]
Chanrith Ngin
ThinkChina, 23 August 2022
49. Southeast Asia’s Growing Interest in Non-dollar Financial Channels—and the Renminbi’s Potential Role
Robert Greene
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 22 August 2022
Asia Pacific
50. How a ‘G3’ mechanism could reset US-China-EU relations and tackle global challenges
Wang Huiyao
South China Morning Post, 23 August 2022
East/South China Sea
51. South China Sea: stakes are too high for China to use Wolf Warrior diplomacy in Southeast Asia
Chee Yik-wai
South China Morning Post, 24 August 2022
Climate Change/Environment
52. The implications of EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism for Southeast Asia
[Originally published as “The Implications of EU’s CBAM for Southeast Asia” on Fulcrum]
Mirza Sadaqat Huda
Eco-Business, 23 August 2022
53. Google injects $1.4m to fund Mandai Nature’s conservation projects to tackle climate change
Shabana Begum
Straits Times, 23 August 2022
54. Vietnam’s National Climate Change Strategy to 2050 and the Plan for Meeting Its COP26 Commitments
Viktor Tachev
Energy Tracker Asia, 22 August 2022
55. Moving the capital won’t prevent Jakarta from sinking say experts
Nina A. Loasana
Jakarta Post, 21 August 2022
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