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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. Hun Sen’s French legal foray backfires
Sam Rainsy
Asia Times, 17 October 2022
Indonesia
2. From Jakarta’s streets: People talk Anies Baswedan’s legacy, 2024 bid
Tunggul Wirajuda
Jakarta Post, 18 October 2022
3. Heru’s return marks start of lengthy Jakarta transition
Fikri Harish
Jakarta Post, 18 October 2022
Malaysia
4. Borneo states will be the biggest losers of GE15
Joe Samad
Free Malaysia Today, 18 October 2022
5. IDEAS updates its Pantau Kuasa website that tracks political appointments in Federal Statutory Bodies to reflect Ismail Sabri’s government, urges caution on post GE-15 appointments
Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, 18 October 2022
6. STAR says ready to face off against Barisan, PBRS if Sabah seat negotiations fail
Julia Chan
Malay Mail Online, 18 October 2022
7. Traitor’, ‘backdoor govt’ labels losing firepower ahead of polls
Nur Hasliza Mohd Salleh
Malaysia Now, 18 October 2022
8. Sabah gives RM100,000 special annual grant to state govt retirees
Malaysiakini, 18 October 2022
9. Azalina’s selective info on Pulau Batu Puteh
[Link to article “Batu Puteh: between a rock and a hard place“]
P Ramasamy
Malaysiakini, 18 October 2022
10. Umno divisional meetings discuss candidates, working with PAS
Mohd Farhan Darwis & Diyana Ibrahim
Malaysian Insight, 18 October 2022
11. ‘Perikatan may work with Pejuang’
Terrence Tan
Star, 18 October 2022
12. Global outreach begins to get votes in
Star, 18 October 2022
13. Malaysia’s budget 2023 will be retabled before year-end, says caretaker PM Ismail Sabri
Channel News Asia, 17 October 2022
14. PBRS aspires to replace PBS, STAR in Sabah interior, says analyst
Tracy Bul
Free Malaysia Today, 17 October 2022
15. Will Malaysia’s Young Voters Use Their Power?
Clara Ferreira Marques
Washington Post, 17 October 2022
Myanmar
16. Myanmar Regime Has No Legitimacy to Hold Election: DPNS Leader
Irrawaddy, 17 October 2022
17. Anti-Myanmar Regime Alliance Reaches Out to China
Irrawaddy, 17 October 2022
Philippines
18. The Duterte Years Were Especially Deadly for Philippine Lawyers
Sebastian Strangio
Diplomat, 17 October 2022
19. The First 100 Days of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte
Mong Palatino
Diplomat, 17 October 2022
20. Victory and Defeat: The Philippines and the South China Sea
Charmaine Misalucha-Willoughby
Stratsea, 17 October 2022
Thailand
21. Thailand is using royal defamation laws to silence its people, but it won’t succeed
Sulakshana Lamubol
Southeast Asia Globe, 17 October 2022
22. Thailand’s military-backed regime braces for another legal time bomb
Toru Takahashi
Nikkei Asia, 16 October 2022
Vietnam
23. Vietnam’s UN Abstention Casts Doubt on its Commitment to Principle
Huynh Tam Sang
Diplomat, 18 October 2022
24. Can Vietnam Weather the Coming Era of Great Power Competition?
John Nielsen
Diplomat, 18 October 2022
25. Vietnam’s Tale of Two Anthems
Asia Sentinel, 17 October 2022
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
26. Internal divisions spell the end of ASEAN as we know it
Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 18 October 2022
27. Myanmar crisis will vex Asean meet
Bangkok Post, 17 October 2022
28. ASEAN, EU sign world’s first bloc-to-bloc air transport agreement
Mark Lempp
Jakarta Post, 17 October 2022
29. Will the ‘ASEAN Way’ last forever?
Chun Sovannarith
Phnom Penh Post, 17 October 2022
Asia Pacific
30. Beyond US-China relations: Towards an inclusive and pluralistic Indo-Pacific order
Tsutomu Kikuchi
Asialink, 18 October 2022
31. Xi’s Work Report to the 20th Party Congress: 5 Takeaways
Shannon Tiezzi
Diplomat, 18 October 2022
32. Asia Sails Into Headwinds From Rate Hikes, War, And China Slowdown
Krishna Srinivasan & Shanaka Jayanath Peiris
Eurasia Review, 18 October 2022
33. How China would like to reshape international economic institutions
Victor Shih
Atlantic Council, 17 October 2022
34. What Asia Gets From Biden’s New National Security Strategy
C. Raja Mohan
Foreign Policy, 17 October 2022
35. Can China build a “community” for shared oceans?
Cherry Hitkari
Interpreter, 17 October 2022
East/South China Sea
36. Filipino fishermen eke out living in China’s shadow at disputed Scarborough Shoal
Camille Elemia
Radio Free Asia, 17 October 2022
Climate Change/Environment
37. Cambodia gets $171M in climate finance from MDBs
[Link to the 96-page PDF report “2021 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance“]
Adur Pradeep
Khmer Times, 18 October 2022
38. China Won’t Stop Using Fossil Fuels Until Clean Sources Can Provide Enough Energy Security
Time, 17 October 2022
39. Decarbonization: The new frontier for investment and innovation
McKinsey & Co., 14 October 2022
40. Charting a path for Vietnam to achieve its net-zero goals
Vishal Agarwal, Jonathan Deffarges, Bruce Delteil, Matthieu Francois & Kunal Tara
McKinsey & Co., 14 October 2022
Others
Media, Technology & Society
41. China’s surveillance ecosystem and the global spread of its tools
Bulelani Jili
Atlantic Council, 17 October 2022
42. The Political Reality inside Metaverse Cities
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (United States), 17 October 2022
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