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- No. 10: Julia Lau, Senior Fellow, Yanuar Nugroho, Visiting Senior Fellow, & Burhanuddin Muhtadi, Visiting Fellow
- No. 34: Regional Outlook Forum 2024
- No. 37: Vinod Thomas, Associate 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 | Media, Technology & Society | Others
Cambodia
1. Cambodian PM Hun Manet’s Rise to the Top of the CPP Leadership
Chhengpor Aun
Diplomat, 10 January 2024
Indonesia
2. Prabowo revives plan to build giant seawall across Java coastline
Aditya Hadi
Jakarta Post, 11 January 2024
3. Debt is not just a number
Jakarta Post, 11 January 2024
4. Megawati warns of ‘power hungry’ leaders
Yerica Lai
Jakarta Post, 11 January 2024
5. Indonesia’s polls: Presidential debates sign of ‘mature’ democracy – Bersih
Alyaa Alhadjri
Malaysiakini, 11 January 2024
6. Middle Eastern investors’ interest in Indonesia still high: minister
Antara, 10 January 2024
7. Presidential Candidates and Defence Policy: the Need for Threat Assessment and Consequence Analysis
M. Waffaa Kharisma, Researcher, Department of International Relations, CSIS Indonesia
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (Indonesia), 10 January 2024
8. KPU sticks with debate format despite Jokowi’s suggestion for changes
Dio Suhenda
Jakarta Post, 10 January 2024
9. Indonesia’s Presidential Debates: The Score Midway Through
Irman Gurmilang Lanti
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 10 January 2024
10. 印尼选举若两轮投票 普拉博沃胜算或有变 [Prabowo’s chances of winning may change, if there are two rounds of voting in the Indonesian election]
苏俊翔
联合早报, 10 January 2024
11. Berguru pemikiran ekonomi ke Cina: kesejahteraan bersama dan implikasinya bagi Indonesia [Learning economic thinking from China: shared prosperity and its implications for Indonesia]
Alexander Michael Tjahjadi
Advisory Lead and Sustainable Growth Lab, Think Policy
The Conversation, 9 January 2024
Laos
12. World Bank urges Laos to raise VAT tax and taxes on tobacco, alcohol
Radio Free Asia, 10 January 2024
Malaysia
13. ‘Limit their numbers’: Malaysia’s scammed, jobless migrant workers problem highlights its foreign labour dependence
Aqil Haziq Mahmud
Channel News Asia, 11 January 2024
14. Commentary: How a royal pardon for jailed former PM Najib could rock Malaysia politics
James Chin
Channel News Asia, 11 January 2024
15. MCA-DAP spat exposes the ‘Big Con’
S Thayaparan
Malaysiakini, 11 January 2024
16. Malaysia anti-graft agency questions ex-PM Ismail in $150 mln publicity spending probe
Reuters, 11 January 2024
17. How Should Malaysia’s Government Deal With the ‘Green Wave’?
Munira Mustaffa and Amrita Malhi
Diplomat, 10 January 2024
18. Politik Malaysia: Polisi atau personaliti? [Malaysian politics: policy or personality?]
Datuk Dr. Ahmad Faris Abdul Halim ialah penganalisis isu-isu semasa.
Utusan Malaysia, 10 January 2024
19. Politik Sabah: Hajiji menunggu hari [Sabah politics: Hajiji biding his time]
Mohd Azizi Jaeh
The Malaysian Insight, 7 January 2024
Myanmar
20. The Future Myanmar: Some Assembly Required
David I. Steinberg
Irrawaddy, 10 January 2024
Philippines
21. The ICC’s continuing jurisdiction over PH (2)
[Link to The ICC’s continuing jurisdiction over PH (1)]
Joel Ruiz Butuyan
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11 January 2024
22. In Christian-majority Philippines, religion not the only factor splitting views over Israel-Gaza war
Raissa Robles
South China Morning Post, 11 January 2024
23. Philippine economic recovery in a rebalancing world
Ronald U Mendoza, Ateneo de Manila University
East Asia Forum, 10 January 2024
Thailand
24. Assessing Thailand’s Maritime Governance Capacity: Priorities and Challenges
Tita Sanglee
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, 10 January 2024
25. Thailand’s Stimulus Program on Schedule for May Launch, PM Says
Sebastian Strangio
Diplomat, 10 January 2024
26. Thai PM pressures central bank to cut rates to boost economy
Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat
Nikkei Asia, 10 January 2024
27. How does Thai situation measure up against World Bank’s crisis criteria
The Nation, 10 January 2024
Vietnam
28. Assessing Vietnam’s Maritime Governance Capacity: Priorities and Challenges
Thu Nguyen Hoang Anh
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, 10 January 2024
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
29. Malaysia, Singapore Sign MOU on Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone
Bernama, 11 January 2024
30. PM Anwar, Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong witness historic RTS Link between Malaysia and the republic symbolically ‘connected
Bernama, 11 January 2024
31. Anifah calls on Asean to address human rights breaches, particularly in Gaza
New Straits Times, 10 January 2024
32. ASEAN Needs to Review and Renew Its Approaches to the Myanmar Crisis
Sarah Soh
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 10 January 2024
33. Mengapa militer lekat dengan citra represif? Menelisik sejarah militerisme Indonesia, Myanmar dan Thailand [Why is the military attached to a repressive image? Examining the history of militarism in Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand]
Aniello Iannone, Lecturer, Researcher, Indonesianists, Universitas Diponegoro
The Conversation, 8 January 2024
Asia Pacific
34. ‘Basically everything’ being considered a security issue now the main US-China dynamic: US academic
Fiona Tan
Mothership, 10 January 2024
35. US and Chinese military officials meet in Washington
Alex Willemyns
Radio Free Asia, 10 January 2024
Climate Change/Environment
36. Borderless Haze Threatens Southeast Asia
Helena Varkkey
Diplomat, 11 January 2024
37. Stronger winds may bring breezier days to Singapore, but also danger from falling trees
Chloe Choo & Fabian Koh
Channel News Asia, 10 January 2024
Media, Technology & Society
38. Indonesia needs a cyber ambassador, but that is not all
Gatra Priyandita and Muhammad Habib
Jakarta Post, 11 January 2024
39. Election disruption from AI poses the biggest global risk in 2024, Davos survey warns
[124-page PDF report ‘Global Risks Report 2024‘]
Karen Gilchrist
CNBC Asia, 10 January 2024
Others
Global Economy
40. Could de-dollarisation develop into an irreversible historical trend?
Zhang Yugui
ThinkChina, 10 January 2024
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