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- No. 3: Made Supriatma, Visiting Fellow
- No. 4: Made Supriatma, Visiting Fellow
- No. 8: Made Supriatma, Visiting Fellow
- No. 13: Made Supriatma, Visiting Fellow
- No. 21: Syaza Shukri, Visiting Fellow
- No. 49: Lye Liang Fook, Senior Fellow
- No. 59: 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 | Media, Technology & Society | Others
Cambodia
1. Newly appointed adviser to Hun Sen was convicted in 2008 acid attack
Radio Free Asia, 28 February 2024
2. Cambodia’s Perpetual Beijing Trap And Manet’s Tricky Pipe Dream – Analysis
Collins Chong Yew Keat
Eurasia Review, 27 February 2024
Indonesia
3. Prabowo awarded four-star general rank by Jokowi, who fends off talk of a political transaction
Denny Armandhanu and Rhea Yasmine Alis Haizan
Channel News Asia, 29 February 2024
4. Prabowo made honorary four-star general
Yerica Lai
Jakarta Post, 29 February 2024
5. How to steer Indonesia’s rise toward its golden age
Satu Kahkonen and Wempi Saputra
Jakarta Post, 29 February 2024
6. Vote tabulation begins amid ethics probe, complaints
Yvette Tanamal
Jakarta Post, 29 February 2024
7. Indonesia looks to Singapore’s ‘Swiftonomics’ success to boost tourism, but can it sustain creative industry?
Johannes Nugroho
South China Morning Post, 29 February 2024
8. Peneliti dan pegiat HAM pertanyakan kenaikan pangkat istimewa Prabowo Subianto – ‘Ini tidak pantas’ [Researchers and human rights activists question Prabowo Subianto’s special promotion – ‘This is inappropriate’]
BBC Indonesia, 28 February 2024
9. Prosecutors: Indonesian ex-agriculture minister forced staff to steal ministry’s funds for him
Arie Firdaus and Tria Dianti
Benar News, 28 February 2024
10. How Will Prabowo Lead Indonesia?
Salil Tripathi
Foreign Policy, 28 February 2024
11. An Indonesian Deradicalisation Program that Works
Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict, 28 February 2024
12. Sprawling queues for subsidized rice highlight plight of Indonesia’s poor
Dewi Kurniawati and Heru Asprihanto
Jakarta Post, 28 February 2024
13. Anomali Kekalahan Ganjar di Kandang Banteng saat PDIP Menjuarai Pileg 2024 [Anomaly of Ganjar’s defeat in Kandang Banteng when PDIP won the 2024 legislative election]
Leoni Susanto
Katadata, 28 February 2024
14. Indikator: Kepuasan publik terhadap Jokowi masih tinggi [Indicator: Public satisfaction with Jokowi is still high]
Banjar Chaeruddin
Sinar Harapan, 28 February 2024
15. Indonesia’s military honour for Prabowo ‘vulgar’, disrespects human rights victims: critics
Resty Woro Yuniar
South China Morning Post, 28 February 2024
Laos
16. China poised to become top trading partner of Laos in 2024
Radio Free Asia, 28 February 2024
Malaysia
17. Stateless persons can be answer to M’sia’s declining birthrate – experts
Nina Muslim
Bernama, 29 February 2024
18. BN unlikely to regain PM post at GE16, say analysts
Ainin Wan Salleh
Free Malaysia Today, 29 February 2024
19. Selangor Sultan rebukes PAS president Hadi over ‘cynical, misleading’ remarks on country’s shariah law
Justin Ong
Malay Mail Online, 29 February 2024
20. Muhyiddin’s acquittal overturned
Star, 29 February 2024
21. Parliament reopens with the King’s speech [11-min podcast]
BFM, 28 February 2024
22. Bersih meets Anwar, secures ‘agreement in principle’ for some reforms
Malaysiakini, 28 February 2024
23. Malaysian lawmakers, social media users slam opposition party’s walkout as PM Anwar Ibrahim thanks king
Hadi Azmi
South China Morning Post, 28 February 2024
24. No room for non-performers
Nelson Benjamin
Star, 28 February 2024
Bumiputera Economic Congress 2024
25. Anwar’s Bumi economic congress must focus on real issues
Rosli Khan
Free Malaysia Today, 29 February 2024
26. Govt launches new bumiputera policy painted as beneficial to all
Malaysiakini, 29 February 2024
27. COMMENT | Bumiputera congress should focus on the poor
Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj
Malaysiakini, 29 February 2024
28. COMMENT | Is Madani’s Bumi Economic Congress same old stuff?
Lim Teck Ghee
Malaysiakini, 29 February 2024
29. Sasaran 30 peratus DEB perlu diteruskan – Ahmad Zahid [The 30 percent NEP target must be continued – Ahmad Zahid]
Utusan Malaysia, 29 February 2024
30. Zaid: No ‘cakes’ for underclass in ‘upper class’ bumi economic congress
Malaysiakini, 28 February 2024
Myanmar
31. Vaccine vacuum afflicts children in Myanmar’s conflict zones
Ant Pweh Aung
Frontier Myanmar, 28 February 2024
32. Aid received by Myanmar in 2023 insufficient according to analysis
Mizzima, 28 February 2024
Philippines
33. In the Philippines, online supporters of President Marcos Jnr and Rodrigo Duterte turn on each other
Alan Robles
South China Morning Post, 29 February 2024
34. The Philippines’ President Wants to Amend the Constitution Next Year: What to Know
Chad De Guzman
Time, 28 February 2024
Thailand
35. Thailand faces five main challenges in managing its greying population
The Nation, 29 February 2024
36. Future of Shoppertainment in 2024
[Link to the report, “Shoppertainment 2024: The Future of Consumer & Commerce”]
The Nation, 29 February 2024
37. Sutin denies rumours about maritime talks
Wassana Nanuam
Bangkok Post, 28 February 2024
38. Activists fear that Pheu Thai-led govt will concede to Cambodia’s claims in Gulf
The Nation, 28 February 2024
Vietnam
39. Vietnam seeks tech transfer from Chinese energy giant
Lien Hoang
Nikkei Asia, 29 February 2024
40. Vietnam’s Mekong Delta ‘rice bowl’ cracks in monster February heatwave
South China Morning Post, 29 February 2024
41. Vietnam invests $3.7+ billion in Laos, Cambodia’s Development Triangle
The Nation, 28 February 2024
42. US considers upgrading Vietnam’s economy status
VietNamNet, 28 February 2024
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
43. Southeast Asia’s preferred military exercise partner
Rahman Yaacob
Interpreter, 29 February 2024
44. What to watch at the ASEAN-Australia summit
Susannah Patton
Interpreter, 29 February 2024
45. Taiwan’s crucial role in Southeast Asia’s semiconductor rush
Karl Lee Chee Leong and Nur Shahadah Jamil
ThinkChina, 28 February 2024
Asia Pacific
46. China’s State Secrets Law to cover high tech
Jeff Pao
Asia Times, 29 February 2024
47. Decoding payments in Asia Pacific for 2024
The Nation, 29 February 2024
48. China’s Strategic Thinking toward the US Role in the Indo-Pacific, 2017-2020
Yun Sun
Asan Institute For Policy Studies, 28 February 2024
49. Messi saga shows lucrative Chinese football market comes with political risks: Analysts
Michelle Ng
Straits Times, 28 February 2024
50. Competing Great Power Coalitions
Asan Institute For Policy Studies, 27 February 2024
East/South China Sea
51. Marcos finds China actions in West Philippine Sea getting worrisome
Julie M. Aurelio
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 29 February 2024
52. Wherever They May Roam: China’s Militia In 2023
AMTI, 28 February 2024
53. Australia, Philippines Sign Maritime Accord as China Rises
Ben Westcott and Andreo Calonzo
Bloomberg, 28 February 2024
54. GT investigates: The Philippines uses fishermen’s livelihoods as a cover in an attempt to control Huangyan Dao
Hu Yuwei
Global Times, 28 February 2024
55. China expresses concern over PH activities in West Philippine Sea
Charie Abarca
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 28 February 2024
56. Malaysia keeps eye on ‘status quo’, Beijing trade ties with quiet approach in South China Sea
Maria Siow
South China Morning Post, 28 February 2024
Climate Change/Environment
57. How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine impacts global food security
Afeeya Akhand
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 29 February 2024
58. 42 dams built in 2015–2023 for food security: govt
Antara, 28 February 2024
59. The Asean Power Grid: how the LTMS power project can inform the BIMP project’s development
[Originally published here on Fulcrum]
Mirza Sadaqat Huda
Eco-Business, 28 February 2024
60. Gas should not be eligible for transition finance
Christina Ng
Eco-Business, 28 February 2024
61. A New Subnational Alliance for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation [27-page PDF]
International Development Research Centre, 28 February 2024
62. Crafting climate governance policy at sub-national scales in Indonesia [23-page PDF report]
International Development Research Centre, 28 February 2024
63. Think Climate Indonesia – Kota Kita Foundation Final Report [87-page PDF report]
International Development Research Centre, 28 February 2024
64. Indigenous minorities criminalized in Cambodia’s flagship carbon offset
[Link to the report, “Carbon Offsetting’s Casualties”]
Charles Kern
Radio Free Asia, 28 February 2024
65. S’pore keen to work with regional partners to capture, store carbon emissions: SM Teo
Cheryl Tan
Straits Times, 28 February 2024
66. Indonesia to Experience a Green Jobs Boom, But Policy Changes Integral [7-page PDF document]
Viktor Tachev
Energy Tracker Asia, 20 February 2024
Media, Technology & Society
67. Eyeing China, Biden limits personal data transfers to U.S. rivals
Rintaro Tobita
Nikkei Asia, 28 February 2024
Others
Global Economy
68. Essential Geopolitics: The Outlook for the Global Economy in 2024 [14-minute podcast]
Rane Worldview, 28 February 2024
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