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- No. 8 : Max Lane, Visiting Senior Fellow
- No. 27 : Moe Thuzar, 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
Cambodia
1. Path to progress: Cambodia takes realistic approach to tackle Myanmar issue
Soth Koemsoeun
Khmer Times, 22 September 2022
2. Escape from forced labour
Star, 22 September 2022
3. Cambodia Khmer Rouge court upholds conviction against Khieu Samphan
Star, 22 September 2022
4. Cambodia not quite yet in a China debt trap
David Hutt
Asia Times, 21 September 2022
5. Justice at Last for Cambodia’s Killing Fields?
Alex Hinton
Diplomat, 21 September 2022
6. NEC unveils 2023 National Election calendar
Khmer Times, 21 September 2022
7. Why Hun Manet is the Prime Minister in waiting
Khmer Times, 19 September 2022
Indonesia
8. Commentary: Indonesia will struggle to stay the course on hiking fuel prices
Max Lane is Visiting Senior Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This commentary first appeared on the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute’s blog, Fulcrum as,” Fuel Price Rises in Indonesia: A Challenge to Stay the Course”.
Channel News Asia, 22 September 2022
9. Making sense of Indonesia’s fuel riots
Eduard Lazarus
Interpreter, 22 September 2022
10. RI warns of global food insecurity
Tama Salim
Jakarta Post, 22 September 2022
11. Sacking of party chief shows how much Indonesian clerics are revered
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja
Straits Times, 21 September 2022
12. Puan Maharani Said to Have Approved Colonels Council Formation
Ima Dini Shafira
Tempo, 21 September 2022
13. EINRIP Roads Postimprovement Monitoring and Evaluation: The 2018 Qualitative Social Research Report
Dyan Widyaningsih, Dinar Dwi Prasetyo, Rezanti Putri Pramana, Steve Christiantara
SMERU Research Institute, September 2022
Malaysia
14. Malaysia Readies for Polls in a Radical New Landscape
John Berthelsen
Asia Sentinel, 22 September 2022
15. Borneo: Change is not loose change the West can spare
Praba Ganesan
Malay Mail Online, 22 September 2022
16. The Economist edition with article on royals banned – industry sources
Alyaa Alhadjri
Malaysiakini, 22 September 2022
17. COMMENT | Honest assessment of corruption should be mandatory
Sultan Nazrin Shah
Malaysiakini, 22 September 2022
18. COMMENT | Malaysian banks need to dump coal for safer climate
Nabila Gunawan
Malaysiakini, 22 September 2022
19. New political parties cannot be ‘game changers’ on their own, observers say
Ravin Palanisamy
Malaysian Insight, 22 September 2022
20. Muda plans gathering to push for GE15 to be held next year
Free Malaysia Today, 21 September 2022
21. In Johor, Amanah’s Salahuddin Ayub named as new state Pakatan chief
Ben Tan
Malay Mail Online, 21 September 2022
22. Ringgit meltdown – preparing for the worst
Dr Rais Hussin is Emir Research CEO.
Malaysian Insight, 21 September 2022
23. What Early Elections in Malaysia Would Mean for the Prime Minister and Ruling Party
Stratfor Worldview, 21 September 2022
24. IDEAS welcomes the Prime Minister’s announcement on six key anti-corruption reform mechanisms but calls for incorporation of public funding in political financing bill
The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), 21 September 2022
Myanmar
25. Myanmar plans to build a small-scale nuclear power plant in next few years
Eleven Myanmar, 21 September 2022
26. Fighting between AA and military spreads southward in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Radio Free Asia, 21 September 2022
27. ‘Liking’ Opposition Content on Social Media Could Land You in Jail, Says Myanmar’s Junta
Vice, 21 September 2022
Philippines
28. The Philippines Under Duterte: A Term-End Performance Evaluation Based On International Governance Indicators
ADR Institute, 22 September 2022
29. Philippines’ Marcos mulls online gambling ban amid fears ‘Chinese gangsters’ have taken over
Raissa Robles
South China Morning Post, 22 September 2022
30. ‘We Haven’t Learned Our Lesson’: Victims Recall Martial Law in the Philippines
Jason Gutierrez
New York Times, 21 September 2022
Singapore
31. Why Chinese Singaporeans will be torn if war breaks out over the Taiwan Strait
Peter Ong
Thinkchina, 22 August 2022
Thailand
32. Pheu Thai eyes Chaikasem for PM
Aekarach Sattaburuth
Bangkok Post, 22 September 2022
33. Thailand’s caretaker PM displays renewed energy as he raises profile ahead of coming elections
Tan Tam Mei
Straits Times, 22 September 2022
34. Election Commission sets May 7 as date for next general election
Bangkok Post, 21 September 2022
Vietnam
35. Overseas work not a guarantee for career prosperity
VietNamNet, 22 September 2022
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
36. Survey: Growing religious observance reshaping consumer landscape in Malaysia, SE Asia
[Link to report “The New Muslim Consumer: How Rising Observance is Reshaping the Consumer Landscape in South-east Asia and Beyond”]
Malay Mail Online, 22 September 2022
37. Thailand and Vietnam emerge as ASEAN crypto trading hot spots
Dylan Loh
Nikkei Asia, 22 September 2022
38. Asean sets up panel to review thorny issues affecting trade deal with India
Nation, 21 September 2022
39. South-East Asian nations show red card to China through economic means
ANI
The Print, 21 September 2022
40. Pacific Century: From Shangri-La To The Great Game In Southeast Asia [ link to podcast]
Hoover Institute, 20 September 2022
Asia Pacific
41. Modi’s Summit Win
John McCarthy
Asia Link, 22 September 2022
42. India goes its own way on global geopolitics
Deepa M Ollapally
East Asia Forum, 22 September 2022
43. Analysis: Xi’s new diplomacy keeps Putin’s war at arm’s length
Katsuji Nakazawa
Nikkei Asia, 22 September 2022
44. Ukraine war, energy crisis and geopolitical tensions mean Asian businesses must prepare for the worst
Colleen K. Howe
South China Morning Post, 21 September 2022
Climate Change/Environment
45. Apac needs at least US$26t and a clearer framework to achieve net-zero: study
Yong Hui Ting
Business Times, 22 September 2022
46. Green Bonds: Sustainable Financing Tools or a Greenwashing Weapon?
Viktor Tachev
Energy Tracker, 22 September 2022
47. Technology List and Perspectives for Transition Finance in Asia
[A 132-page PDF] Han Phoumin
ERIA, 22 September 2022
48. PH energy transition: Where to?
Khevin Yu
Inquirer, 22 September 2022
49. Indonesia Offers Incentives, Cuts Red Tape for Green Investment
Jayanty Nada Shofa
Jakarta Globe, 21 September 2022
50. Emissions and deforestation set to spike under Indonesia’s biomass transition
Hans Nicholas Jong
Mongabay, 21 September 2022
51. Rich Countries Should Tax Fossil Fuel Companies To Pay For Climate Damages, Urges UN Secretary General
Dana Beltaji and Seth Borenstein
Time, 20 September 2022
Others
Global Powers
52. China Is Quietly Trying to Dethrone the Dollar
Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Foreign Policy, 21 September 2022
53. Who’s Winning the U.S.-China Trade War? No One
Michael Hirsh
Foreign Policy, 21 September 2022
Media, Technology & Society
54. Social media greenwashing by fossil fuel interests ‘rampant’
Issam Ahmed
Jakarta Post, 22 September 2022
55. Facebook Misinformation Is Bad Enough. The Metaverse Will Be Worse
Rand Waltzman
Rand, 22 September 2022
56. TikTok to ban politicians from raising funds, selling merchandise on its platform
Star, 22 September 2022
Extremism
57. Book Review: Rise of the Extreme Right: The New Global Extremism and the Threat to Democracy, by Lydia Khalil (Penguin, 2022).
Daniel Byman
Interpreter, 22 September 2022
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