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Today’s issue includes the following commentaries and citations attributed to ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and its researchers. You can click on the links to go to the articles directly.
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. Cambodian Court Sentences Opposition Leader to Life Imprisonment
Sebastian Strangio
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 20 October 2022
Indonesia
2. Legal compliance is basis for foreign researchers’ permit: BRIN
Martha HS & Nabil Ihsan
Antara, 20 October 2022
3. How Anies and Prabowo could divide their voters
Adi Abidin & Rif’at Abdillah
Jakarta Post, 20 October 2022
4. House, politicians tighten grip on financial sector in new omnibus bill
Vincent Fabian Thomas
Jakarta Post, 20 October 2022
5. The potential VP candidates: Who are they?
Yerica Lai
Jakarta Post, 20 October 2022
6. Bad Luck or Bad Form? Indonesia’s G20 Presidency on Trade
Professor Simon J. Evenett
Australian Institute of International Affairs, 19 October 2022
Laos
7. Surging inflation and stagnant wages are squeezing Lao households
Radio Free Asia, 19 October 2022
Malaysia
8. GE15: Polling on Nov 19, nomination on Nov 5
Bernama, 20 October 2022
9. Malaysia election: What we know about the political parties’ strategies so far
Rhea Yasmine Bte Alis Haizan & Najmi Syahiran Mamat
Channel News Asia, 20 October 2022
10. Key issues as Malaysia prepares to vote
Free Malaysia Today, 20 October 2022
11. 陆兆福：来届大选是马国政治分水岭 华人若不投票政局会更偏向单一族群 [Anthony Loke: The next general election is a political watershed in Malaysia. If the Chinese do not vote, the political situation will be more inclined to a single ethnic group]
萧郡瑜
Lianhe Zaobao 联合早报, 20 October 2022
12. Will DAP work with Umno post-GE15?
P Gunasegaram
Malaysiakini, 20 October 2022
13. Sarawak to spend RM65 billion to set up 4 gas hubs
Desmond Davidson
Malaysian Insight, 20 October 2022
14. No guarantee new voters will show up at the polls, say observers
Alfian Z.M. Tahir
Malaysian Insight, 20 October 2022
15. GE15: Ewon Benedick set to battle Warisan deputy president for Penampang hot seat
Durie Rainer Fong
Star, 20 October 2022
16. GE15: Sabah CM Hajiji in a dilemma over seats as clock winds down to polls
Durie Rainer Fong
Star, 20 October 2022
17. Global Bersih petitions EC to set sufficient campaign period to avoid repeat of overseas postal voting problems in GE14
Global Bersih
Edge Markets, 19 October 2022
18. DAP to drop Charles Santiago?
Elill Easwaran
Free Malaysia Today, 19 October 2022
19. PAS president kicks off #TolakDAP campaign
Ashley Yeong
Malay Mail Online, 19 October 2022
20. The devil’s in the detail, analysts tell PKR ahead of GE15
Teoh Yee Shen
Malaysia Now, 19 October 2022
Myanmar
21. Malaysia urged to cease deportation of Myanmar asylum seekers
Radio Free Asia, 19 October 2022
22. Rebel group claims responsibility for blasts at Myanmar’s Insein Prison
Radio Free Asia, 19 October 2022
Philippines
23. Fixing the ‘worst’ pension system
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 20 October 2022
Thailand
24. Arkhom expects selective stimulus
Wichit Chantanusornsiri
Bangkok Post, 20 October 2022
Vietnam
25. Vietnam’s anti-graft campaign casts shadow over economy
Tomoya Onishi
Nikkei Asia, 20 October 2022
26. How Vietnam can win even more from China decoupling
Guanie Lim and Chengwei Xu
Asia Times, 19 October 2022
27. RCEP among most-promising trade agreements for Vietnam
VietNamNet, 19 October 2022
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
28. Ukraine may sign TAC during ASEAN Summit next month
Khmer Times, 20 October 2022
29. Why America needs an Ezra Vogel for South-east Asia
Professor Chan Heng Chee is Ambassador-at-Large and chairman of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. Her lecture was delivered on Oct 14 at Harvard’s East Asia Centre. The event was organised to celebrate the late Professor Vogel’s role as the inaugural dir
Straits Times, 20 October 2022
30. Fight for truth: battling false and misleading information in Southeast Asia and beyond
Stew Post
Southeast Asia Globe, 18 October 2022
Asia Pacific
31. Xi’s COVID stance gives Asia little to look forward to in 2023
William Pesek
Nikkei Asia, 20 October 2022
32. ‘Friendshoring’ ensures the US is not alone in moving key supply chains away from China
Akhil Ramesh
South China Morning Post, 20 October 2022
33. Policy, Guns and Money: Inside the CCP’s 20th national congress
[14-minute Podcast]
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 19 October 2022
34. The Biden Administration’s National Security Strategy and Asia
Ankit Panda & Catherine Putz
Diplomat, 19 October 2022
35. Xi Jinping is preparing the Communist Party to face new realities
Yu Jie
Nikkei Asia, 19 October 2022
36. Why China Aims Too High: The Return of Beijing’s Dubious Economic Growth Targets
Jeremy Wallace
Foreign Affairs, 18 October 2022
East/South China Sea
37. ASEAN, Beijing working on second draft of South China Sea Code of Conduct
Amita Legaspi
GMA News, 19 October 2022
Others
Media, Technology & Society
39. China is using ethnic-minority influencers to spread its Xinjiang narrative on social media
[Link to ASPI report “Frontier influencers: the new face of China’s propaganda” ]
Fergus Ryan, Daria Impiombato & Hsi-Ting Pai
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 20 October 2022
40. With GE15 and monsoon set to collide, #UndiBanjir juggles voters’ travel aid and flood relief efforts
Shahrin Aizat Noorshahrizam
Malay Mail Online, 20 October 2022
41. Meta’s political ad verification, ad library, are efforts to uphold GE15 integrity
Geraldine Tong
Malaysiakini, 20 October 2022
42. Report Details Declining Internet Freedoms in Southeast Asia
Link to report “Freedom on the Net 2022 Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet“
Sebastian Strangio
Diplomat, 19 October 2022
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