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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 | Media, Technology & Society | Others
Cambodia
1. IMF sees Cambodia as ASEAN’s fastest growing economy in 2023 and 2024
[Link to the World Economic Outlook]
Khmer Times, 11 October 2023
2. Cambodia’s Candlelight Party forms alliance with 3 smaller parties
Radio Free Asia, 10 October 2023
Indonesia
3. Labor unions push for 15 percent minimum wage raise ahead of election
Ruth Dea Juwita
Jakarta Post, 11 October 2023
4. Indonesia says it ‘never’ sold arms to Myanmar’s junta. But was there a go-between?
Resty Woro Yuniar
South China Morning Post, 11 October 2023
5. Not a short-lived nuisance: Some clarity about the haze
Simon Tay, Khor Yu-Leng & Aaron Choo
Straits Times, 11 October 2023
6. SOEs Ministry facilitates MSMEs to expand market reach
Antara, 10 October 2023
7. In Rempang, Indonesia, Government Mismanagement Upsets Investment Plans
Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Yeta Purnama
Australian Institute of International Affairs, 10 October 2023
8. Three Takeaways from Indonesia’s 2024 Budget
James Guild
Diplomat, 10 October 2023
Malaysia
9. Malaysia’s Anwar set to follow fiscal tightening in new budget
Business Times, 11 October 2023
10. Budget 2024: Don’t tax the poor … or the rich
Geoffrey Williams
Free Malaysia Today, 11 October 2023
11. More Indian parties? What for?
K. Parkaran
Free Malaysia Today, 11 October 2023
12. Use hydroelectricity to attract foreign investment, not sell it to Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia, state DAP chairman tells Sarawak
Sulok Tawie
Malay Mail Online, 11 October 2023
13. Malaysia lets restaurants buy imported rice at wholesale prices
Norman Goh
Nikkei Asia, 11 October 2023
14. Umno still has work cut out to win over Malay voters, say analysts
Mohd Farhaan Shah
Star, 11 October 2023
15. Felda no longer BN’s fixed deposit
Zakiah Koya & Fatimah Zainal
Star, 11 October 2023
16. Isu bahasa pengantar sekolah vernakular diputuskan 23 November ini [Issue of medium of instruction in vernacular school to be decided on November 23]
Norlizah Abas
Utusan Malaysia, 11 October 2023
17. 柏朗埃补选后的政治看点 [Political perspectives after the Pelangai by-election]
郑名烈
星洲网, 11 October 2023
18. Malaysia’s poultry industry anticipates reduced production amid government intervention
Tan Ai Leng
Business Times, 10 October 2023
19. Malaysia passes 60% of RM220bil investment target for 2023
Free Malaysia Today, 10 October 2023
20. World Bank tells Malaysia to widen revenue base to reduce poverty, inequality
[Link to the 108-page pdf report “Raising the Tide, Lifting All Boats“]
The Malaysian Insight, 10 October 2023
Myanmar
21. China’s Belt and Road Initiative is Fueling Atrocities in Myanmar: Report
[Link to the report “Bloodstained Gateways: escalating SAC abuses in northern Burma pave the way for BRI expansion”]
Irrawaddy, 10 October 2023
Philippines
22. Pushing jeepney modernization
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11 October 2023
23. China already threatening to use force in latest move in WPS — expert
John Eric Mendoza
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 10 October 2023
Thailand
24. Santa Srettha faces test
Bangkok Post, 11 October 2023
25. Traders spurn Thailand’s 560 billion baht handout in test for Srettha
Business Times, 11 October 2023
26. Thailand PM Srettha shows signs of leaning toward China for growth
Kosuke Inoue
Nikkei Asia, 11 October 2023
27. What Thailand’s new coalition government means for the cannabis market
Nyshka Chandran
CNBC, 10 October 2023
28. ‘Our time will come’: Thai leader prevented from becoming PM hails dawn of a new era
Rebecca Ratcliffe
Guardian, 10 October 2023
29. Time for Thailand’s new government to match rhetoric with reform
Burin Adulwattana
Nikkei Asia, 10 October 2023
30. The Brothel King’s Last Crusade
Charlie Campbell
Time, 10 October 2023
31. Election Maneuvering Puts Thailand at Risk of Decay and Stagnation
Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Global Asia, September 2023
32. When Foe Becomes Friend: What Lies Behind the New Government in Thailand
Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Global Asia, September 2023
Timor-Leste
33. China declined to build security outpost in East Timor out of respect for Australian ‘sensitivities’: Ramos-Horta
South China Morning Post, 10 October 2023
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
34. Effect of Macroprudential Policies on Sovereign Bond Markets: Evidence from the ASEAN-4 Countries
Asian Development Bank, 11 October 2023
35. Asymmetric Spillovers in ASEAN Bond Markets
Asian Development Bank, 11 October 2023
36. 亚细安会分裂吗？[Will ASEAN break up?]
吴俊刚
联合早报, 11 October 2023
37. Indonesian president: Immediately resolve Palestine-Israel conflict according to UN-agreed parameters
Nazarudin Latif
Benar News, 10 October 2023
38. ASEAN: Overcoming the Continental-Maritime Divide
Kwa Chong Guan, Associate Fellow, ISEAS
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 10 October 2023
39. Geoeconomic Crossroads: The Strait of Malacca’s Impact on Regional Trade
Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit
The National Bureau of Asian Research, 5 October 2023
40. Southeast Asia Confronts the Ethical Remaking of Global Supply Chains
Helen E.S. Nesadurai
Global Asia, September 2023
41. Countering Great-Power Trade Disruption
Shiro Armstrong
Global Asia, September 2023
42. Indonesia, ASEAN and Obstacles to Becoming a Major Power
Shafiah F. Muhibat
Global Asia, September 2023
43. Western De-linking from China Poses Risks for Southeast Asia
Jeffrey Reeves
Global Asia, September 2023
Asia Pacific
44. BRI turns vision into action: white paper
[Link to The Belt and Road Initiative: A Key Pillar of the Global Community of Shared Future]
Li Xuanmin & Qi Xijia
Global Times, 10 October 2023
45. New Mindsets Needed for an Era of Uncertainty
Evelyn Goh
Global Asia, September 2023
46. Asia-Pacific vs. Indo-Pacific: Paradigm Shift or False Choice?
Chung-in Moon
Global Asia, September 2023
47. Middle-Power Agency in an Indo-Pacific Era
Paul Evans & Cheng-Chwee Kuik
Global Asia, September 2023
East/South China Sea
48. 在我黄岩岛挑事？菲律宾悠着点 [Stirring up trouble on our Scarborough Shoal? The Philippines should be careful]
丁铎是中国南海研究院海洋法律与政策研究所副所长
环球网, 11 October 2023
Climate Change/Environment
49. Global rice price shock and food security in ASEAN
Andi Irawan
Jakarta Post, 11 October 2023
50. Is Rice Production Becoming a Wicked Problem?
[12-page PDF document] Paul Teng, Jose Ma. Luis P. Montesclaros
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 11 October 2023
51. How politics thwarts climate change action
Vikram Khanna
Straits Times, 11 October 2023
52. European Union palming off deforestation regulation to smallholders in Indonesia
Made Anthony Iswara, Dimitri Swasthika Nurshadrina and Asep Suryahadi, SMERU Research Institute
East Asia Forum, 10 October 2023
53. ‘Hard to breathe’: Myanmar communities forced to live among world’s trash
Frontier Myanmar, 10 October 2023
54. Indonesian urban poor suffer the most in extreme weather caused by climate change
Muhammad Rifqi Damm, PhD Student, University of Gothenburg; Cindy Rianti Priadi, Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering, Universitas Indonesia; Inaya Rakhmani, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indo
The Conversation, 10 October 2023
55. Global warming: Why focusing on 1.5C is flawed
Henry Throp & Laurie Laybourn
Chatham House, 29 September 2023
Media, Technology & Society
56. South-east Asian eyes hands-off AI rules, defying EU ambitions
Business Times, 11 October 2023
57. After TikTok Shop; Tanah Abang Traders Urge Govt to Restrict Shopee, Lazada
Raden Putri & Riani Sanusi Putri
Tempo, 11 October 2023
58. How Gen Z navigates social media platforms and why it matters
[contains 33-minute podcast]
Samantha Lai
The Brookings Institution, 9 October 2023
59. From risk to revolution: How AI can revive democracy
Alex Krasodomski
Chatham House, 29 September 2023
60. How AI could sway voters in 2024’s big elections
Helen Fitzwilliam
Chatham House, 29 September 2023
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