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- No. 23: Termsak Chalermpalanupap, Visiting Senior Fellow
- No. 26: Ha Hoang Hop, 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. Cambodia strengthens ties with Japan amid US–China tensions
Chhay Lim, Royal University of Phnom Penh
East Asia Forum, 24 January 2024
2. Democracy remains a waiting game under Cambodia’s Hun Manet
Katrin Travouillon, The Australian National University
East Asia Forum, 23 January 2024
3. Cambodia’s canal project would link its coast with the Mekong River
Radio Free Asia, 23 January 2024
Indonesia
4. Analysis: Govt sets ambitious EV target for 2024 as adoption below par
Tenggara Strategics
Jakarta Post, 24 January 2024
5. As Indonesia’s presidential election nears, debates won’t make or break Prabowo’s prospects
Asma Khalid
South China Morning Post, 23 January 2024
Indonesia
4. Analysis: Govt sets ambitious EV target for 2024 as adoption below par
Tenggara Strategics
Jakarta Post, 24 January 2024
5. As Indonesia’s presidential election nears, debates won’t make or break Prabowo’s prospects
Asma Khalid
South China Morning Post, 23 January 2024
Malaysia
6. Malaysia’s path from recovery to reform
Hidekatsu Asada, Saitama University
East Asia Forum, 24 January 2024
7. Malaysia seeks place in EV ecosystem with battery development
Amy Chew
Nikkei Asia, 24 January 2024
8. Be ready for early state polls, Bung Moktar reminds Sabah Barisan
Star, 24 January 2024
9. Analysis: Resurfaced Pandora and Panama papers cast doubt over Malaysia’s anti-graft probe into Daim and Mahathir’s families
Amir Yusof and Rashvinjeet S Bedi
Channel News Asia, 23 January 2024
10. RM4bil revenue boost expected with resumption of foreign worker recruitment, says MPOA
Free Malaysia Today, 23 January 2024
11. Madani economic policy proving fruitful, say economists
Lynelle Tham
Free Malaysia Today, 23 January 2024
12. Research offers 50 ways to address statelessness in peninsula
[Link to the 347-page PDF report, “Human Rights and Statelessness in Peninsular Malaysia”]
Ili Aqilah
Malaysiakini, 23 January 2024
13. Malaysia considers suing foreign banks over 1MDB scandal
Norman Goh
Nikkei Asia, 23 January 2024
14. Cabinet nod sought for federal ministers from Bornean states to sit on MA63 committee
Durie Rainer Fong
Star, 23 January 2024
Myanmar
15. Myanmar’s army is losing – and facing fire from a militant monk
Jonathan Head
BBC, 24 January 2024
16. Myanmar military losing grip near Chinese border
Financial Times, 24 January 2024
17. Myanmar Military Tribunal Sentences Brigadier Generals to Death for Kokang Surrender
Sebastian Strangio
Diplomat, 23 January 2024
18. Arakan Army fires rockets on junta naval base in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Radio Free Asia, 23 January 2024
Philippines
19. Marcos: Philippines ‘will not lift a finger’ to help ICC drug-war probe
Jason Gutierrez and Jeoffrey Maitem
Benar News, 23 January 2024
20. Philippines’ Marcos Says Open to Wider Constitution Changes
Ditas B Lopez and Cliff Harvey Venzon
Bloomberg, 23 January 2024
21. The Philippines Is Exercising Growing Agency on the Taiwan Issue
Joshua Bernard Espeña
Diplomat, 23 January 2024
Thailand
22. MFP backs Pheu Thai on 2 charter referendums
Aekarach Sattaburuth
Bangkok Post, 24 January 2024
23. After losing favour with China travellers, Thailand pulls out all the stops to woo them back
Goh Ruoxue
Business Times, 24 January 2024
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
24. State and territory diplomacy can enhance Australia-Southeast Asia cooperation
Hanh Nguyen
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 24 January 2024
25. Asean should back a new Myanmar
Laetitia van den Assum & Kobsak Chutikul
Bangkok Post, 24 January 2024
26. Chinese firms, anxious to avoid choppy geopolitical waters, chart a course for Vietnam
Frank Chen and He Huifeng
South China Morning Post, 24 January 2024
27. Inside Southeast Asia’s Casinoland: the ‘underground bank’ at the centre of transnational crime
Danielle Keeton-Olsen
South China Morning Post, 20 January 2024
Asia Pacific
28. The Strategic Case for Democracy Promotion in Asia: How the Spread of Liberal Values Gives America a Competitive Edge Over China
Michael Green and Daniel Twining
Foreign Affairs, 23 January 2024
29. China’s evolving approach to multipolar world order in 2024
Sophie Wushuang Yi
Interpreter, 23 January 2024
East/South China Sea
30. Most Japanese do not have ‘friendly feelings’ towards China amid Beijing’s aggression in South China Sea, Taiwan: poll
Julian Ryall
South China Morning Post, 24 January 2024
31. Second Thomas Shoal: A Legal Perspective
Pham Ngoc Minh Trang
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, 23 January 2024
32. PH, Vietnam to sign pact to face sea row better
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 23 January 2024
Climate Change/Environment
33. New carbon finance tools can accelerate Asia’s energy transition
Naveed Tariq
Nikkei Asia, 24 January 2024
34. Snowless winter in Himalayas – another sign of climate change
Subel Rai Bhandari and Tenzin Pema
Radio Free Asia, 23 January 2024
35. US and China climate envoys achieved much, yet retire with unfinished business
Lim Min Zhang
Straits Times, 23 January 2024
36. Future of Renewable Energy in the World: Massive Growth Expected
[Link to 143-page PDF report, “Renewables 2023: Analysis and forecasts to 2028”]
Viktor Tachev
Energy Tracker Asia, 22 January 2024
Media, Technology & Society
37. Made-in-Asia generative AI race heats up amid U.S. dominance
Yuji Nitta, Shunsuke Tabeta and Kotaro Hosokawa
Nikkei Asia, 24 January 2024
38. Audio deepfakes emerge as weapon of choice in election disinformation
Hannah Murphy
Financial Times, 23 January 2024
39. AI Development for the Global South
Hanif Abdul Halim
Stratsea, 23 January 2024
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