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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.
- No. 2: Norshahril Saat, Senior Fellow
- No. 13: James Chai, Visiting Fellow
- No. 37: Jayant Menon, Senior 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. Ruling CPP upbeat after opposition defections
Ben Sokhean
Khmer Times, 20 December 2022
Indonesia
2. Commentary: Criminalising sin? Indonesian society not as conservative as elites imagine
[This commentary first appeared on the Institute’s blog, Fulcrum.]
Norshahril Saat
Channel News Asia, 20 December 2022
3. To unchain Indonesia’s commodity reliance
Suryaputra Wijaksana
Interpreter, 20 December 2022
4. Fishermen hope development of Indonesia’s future capital Nusantara won’t affect livelihoods
Saifulbahri Ismail & Calvin Yang
Channel News Asia, 19 December 2022
5. Indonesia president supports plan to scale back troops in restive Papua
Reuters, 19 December 2022
6. Invisible no more: Widodo’s Indonesia is returning to the world stage
Richard Heydarian
South China Morning Post, 19 December 2022
7. Identity Politics and Pilpres 2024: Learning from Aksi 212
Dr. Vidhyandika Djati Perkasa
Stratsea, 19 December 2022
8. NGOs Alleged Fraudulent Practice in Political Party Selection
Maria Fatima Bona
Jakarta Globe, 18 December 2022
9. New finance law extends BI’s role, but poses risk to fiscal discipline
Vincent Fabian Thomas
Jakarta Post, 16 December 2022
10. RI’s restrictive trade hurts manufacturing: World Bank
Fadhil Haidar Sulaeman
Jakarta Post, 16 December 2022
Laos
11. Nearly 1,700 human-trafficking victims rescued from Lao SEZ since 2007
Radio Free Asia, 19 December 2022
Malaysia
12. One Month In, Malaysia Off to a Shaky Start
John Berthelsen
Asia Sentinel, 20 December 2022
13. Confidence vote cements Anwar’s leadership, opposition unlikely to strike for now: Analysts
Darrelle Ng
Channel News Asia, 20 December 2022
14. Malaysia gets a second shot at democratisation under Anwar
Liam Gammon, EABER
East Asia Forum, 20 December 2022
15. 安华将延续马国“对冲”外交 [Anwar to continue Malaysia’s “hedging” diplomacy]
刘惟诚是马国时事评论员, 拉曼大学国际研究中心学者
联合早报, 20 December 2022
16. Johari appointed as Speaker
Star, 20 December 2022
17. Anwar faces stiff test over GLC appointments
K. Parkaran
Free Malaysia Today, 19 December 2022
18. Four realms in the new Malaysian political landscape
Murray Hunter
Free Malaysia Today, 19 December 2022
19. Anwar must not waste Malaysia’s chance for democratic reforms
Brian R. Braun
Nikkei Asia, 19 December 2022
20. Malaysia’s PM Anwar Ibrahim set to plan reformist agenda after winning confidence vote
Hadi Azmi & Joseph Sipalan
South China Morning Post, 19 December 2022
21. Opposition did not vote in motion of confidence for PM
Tarrence Tan & Ragananthini Vethasalam
Star, 19 December 2022
22. Does Anwar’s MOA delegitimise his confidence vote?
Wong Chin Huat
Malaysiakini, 18 December 2022
23. Sabah MPs put anti-hopping law on the spot
Francis Paul Siah
Malaysiakini, 17 December 2022
Myanmar
24. Myanmar and two new game-changers
Kavi Chongkittavorn
Bangkok Post, 20 December 2022
25. US’s Burma Act is an ‘Ultimatum’ to Myanmar Regime
Irrawaddy, 20 December 2022
26. Myanmar resistance gets millions of donor dollars, even as junta chokes off humanitarian aid
Maria Siow
South China Morning Post, 20 December 2022
27. Stronger international involvement necessary to end Myanmar violence: Yomiuri Shimbun
Editorial
Eleven Myanmar, 19 December 2022
Philippines
28. Vetting Cabinet appointees
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 20 December 2022
Thailand
29. Prawit ‘sole PM choice’ for PPRP
Wassana Nanuam & Aekarach Sattaburuth
Bangkok Post, 20 December 2022
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
30. My Say: The need for closer Asean-EU cooperation
Liew Chin Tong
Edge Markets, 19 December 2022
31. Tourism recovery rate at 26.3% in Cambodia
Prakash Jha
Khmer Times, 19 December 2022
Asia Pacific
32. The continuing search for balance in Australia’s Indo-Pacific policy
John McCarthy
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 20 December 2022
Climate Change/Environment
33. AIIB criticized for backing gas as transition fuel
Ronnel W. Domingo
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 20 December 2022
34. Indonesia’s new climate plan: Slow progress but change imminent
Caroline Bulolo
China Dialogue, 19 December 2022
35. In Vietnam, a forest grown from the ashes of war falls to a resort project
Le Quynh
Mongabay, 19 December 2022
36. From climate justice to climate liability
Nick Butler
Eco-Business, 16 December 2022
Others
37. China’s Middle Eastern business will increase yuan-for-oil-deals, but dollar expected to stay dominant in world trade
Ralph Jennings
South China Morning Post, 18 December 2022
Image credit: “View of tuk-tuks in Bangkok’s Chinatown“, by Florian Wehde on Unsplash.
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