Event Highlights

Webinar on “Southeast Asia, the United States and China: Stumbling into the New World Order”

 

In this webinar, Dr Shaun Narine examines the impact of political, social and economic instability in the US on Washington’s ability to manage and fulfill its various security obligations in the Asia Pacific region.

 

 

Webinar on “A Near-Term Economic Outlook for Post-Coup Myanmar”

 

In this webinar, Ms Vicky Bowman and Ms Pwint Htun discussed the near-term prospects for the economy and people’s lives in Myanmar.

 

 

Webinar on “Revisiting the Belt and Road Initiative: Progress, Challenges and Prospects”

 

In this webinar, Dr Yu Hong sheds light on the issues and problems associated with BRI implementation, and its prospects going forward.

 

 

Webinar on “Filling the voids left by the Formal Sector: Informal Borrowings by Poor Households in Northern Mountainous Vietnam”

 

In the thirteenth webinar of the webinar series on Financial Transformation, Dr Pham Bao Duong shared his study of 400 poor households in Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam, in order to examine the current accessibility, loan purposes, the different types of and effects of informal credits on poor households.

 

 

Webinar on “Ongoing Challenges of COVID-19 for ASEAN: Quantitative Analyses and Policy Responses”

 

In this webinar, Dr Kensuke Tanaka presented key findings of the 2021 edition of the OECD Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India and discuss the importance of reallocating resources to digitalisation in response to the Covid-19 pandemic

 

 

Webinar on “SDGs and Business Contribution in Southeast Asia”

 

In this ISEAS-RIETI joint webinar, the speakers looked into the progress achieved in meeting some of the key elements of SDGs in Southeast Asia and reflected on the importance of aligning post-pandemic economic and social recovery with the SDGs.

 

 

Webinar on “Myanmar After the Coup: Insights from Inside”

 

In this webinar, Mr Nyantha Maw Lin and Mr Maw Htun Aung shared their views from inside Myanmar on the situation at ground level, in both urban and ethnic areas, and offer insight into people’s prevailing sentiments and reactions to the current crisis.

 

 

Webinar on “Lessons from Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Singapore and Taiwan”

 

In this webinar, Dr Benjamin Ong and Dr Deborah Elms shared about the respective experience in managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore and Taiwan.

 

 

Webinar on “Assessing Broad Structural Shifts in Malaysia’s Political Landscape”

 

In this webinar, YB Chang Lih Kang discussed structural shifts in Malaysia’s political landscape in recent years.

 

 

Webinar on “COVID-19 and MCO in Malaysia: Grassroots Perspectives”

 

In this webinar, YB Jannie Lasimbang and Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj draws on their community activism and political advocacy experiences to explain the ground-level realities during the MCO and critically assess the country’s policy responses of the past year.