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27 July 2021 (pm) - 28 July 2021 (am)

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This alert service contains articles focusing on Southeast Asia and special topics in line with the research interests of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.

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This issue of Daily News Alert includes the following articles attributed to ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and its researchers. You can click on their names to go to these articles directly.

No. 3 : Dr Max Lane, Visiting Senior Fellow
No. 32: Dr Ha Hoang Hop, Visiting Senior Fellow
No. 46: Dr William Choong, Senior Fellow

Brunei Darussalam..

Cambodia ...............

Indonesia ................

Laos .........................

Malaysia ..................

Myanmar .................

Philippines ..............

Singapore ................

No. 1-7

No. 8-19

No. 20-24

No. 25

Thailand .................

Timor-Leste.............

Vietnam ..................

ASEAN/SEA ..........

Asia Pacific ............

South China Sea ....

Special Topics ........

No. 26-30

No. 31-34

No. 35

No. 36

No. 37-39

No. 40-47

Indonesia

1. Indonesia needs $4.7 trillion to achieve SDGs target: business council

Antara, 28 July 2021

2. Sharia growth better than national economic growth: Bank Indonesia

Antara, 28 July 2021

3. Commentary: Paying for vaccines in Indonesia stokes discontent given pandemic inequalities

[This commentary first appeared on the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute’s Fulcrum.]

Max Lane is Visiting Senior Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.

Channel News Asia, 28 July 2021

4. China’s Growing Ties With Indonesian Provinces

Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Diplomat, 28 July 2021

5. Adriana Elisabeth on the Conflict in West Papua

Sebastian Strangio

Diplomat, 27 July 2021

6. Netherlands Becomes Indonesia’s Third-Largest Investment Partner in Q2

HERU ANDRIYANTO

Jakarta Globe, 27 July 2021

7. People may change mind about death penalty, but government?

Parvais Jabbar is co-executive director of The Death Penalty Project. Carolyn Hoyle is professor of criminology at the University of Oxford, director of The Death Penalty Research Unit

Jakarta Post, 27 July 2021

Malaysia

8. Fiscal distress exacerbates Malaysia’s growing COVID-19 crisis

Shankaran Nambiar, Malaysian Institute of Economic Research

East Asia Forum, 28 July 2021

9. IMF downgrades Malaysia, fellow Asean-5 peers’ 2021 economic outlook, maintains 6pc global growth forecast

Malay Mail Online, 28 July 2021

10. Doctor's strike caused by political parasites

Andrew Sia

Malaysiakini, 28 July 2021

11. Human rights watchdog: PN govt used pandemic to suppress freedoms

Raveena Nagotra

Malaysiakini, 28 July 2021

12. Amanah, Umno in talks to wrest Kelantan from PAS in GE15

Salhan K. Ahmad

Malaysian Insight, 28 July 2021

13. Developing a Modern Tax Framework for Malaysia

Dr Veerinderjeet Singh

Center for Market Education, 27 July 2021

14. Dewan Rakyat Speaker denies rejecting bid by four Umno MPs to sit with independents

SYED JAYMAL ZAHIID

Malay Mail Online, 27 July 2021

15. Undi18’s 2022 delay: Judge questions why govt only now citing MCO, ‘practical difficulties’ when Constitution amended in 2019

IDA LIM

Malay Mail Online, 27 July 2021

16. Sarawak to wait for Agong's consent before proceeding with state polls

New Straits Times, 27 July 2021

17. Confusion in Malaysia as govt refuses to explain ending of Covid-19 emergency laws

Shannon Teoh

Straits Times, 27 July 2021

18. State assembly to dissolve on August 1, elections in 60 days, say 2 key GPS leaders

Desmond Davidson

Malaysian Insight, 26 July 2021

19. Pas hopeful Malay-based parties will stick together in GE15

Sharifah Mahsinah Abdullah

New Straits Times, 25 July 2021

Myanmar

20. Ensuring Rohingya Repatriation Is A ‘Call Of Duty’ For The USA

MD Mufassir Rashid

Eurasia Review, 28 July 2021

21. David and Goliath: Myanmar’s Armed Resistance at the Crossroads

Robert Bociaga

Diplomat, 27 July 2021

22. Commentary: For Myanmar’s Top Generals, Overturning Election Results Is a Rite of Passage

NAING KHIT

Irrawaddy, 27 July 2021

23. Myanmar Junta on Path of ‘Total Self-Destruction’ After Annulment of 2020 Election: Observers

Radio Free Asia, 27 July 2021

24. Myanmar: Rights expert calls for ‘COVID ceasefire’, urges UN action

UN News, 27 July 2021

Philippines

25. 菲或加强对美关系，但不等于反华 [The Philippines may be strengthening ties with the US, but that does not mean it is anti-China]

代帆是暨南大学国际关系学院副院长、菲律宾研究中心主任

Huanqiu 环球网, 28 July 2021

Thailand

26. A giving Monarch

Bangkok Post, 28 July 2021

27. New tactics to help migrant workers

Boonwara Sumano & N Aneksomboonphon

Bangkok Post, 28 July 2021

28. Research houses predict export growth

Somruedi Banchongduang

Bangkok Post, 28 July 2021

29. Sandbox gets dirty

Narumon Kasemsuk

Bangkok Post, 28 July 2021

30. Thailand's fintech comes of age

Piyachart Ratanaprasartporn

Bangkok Post, 28 July 2021

Vietnam

31. As Vietnam’s coronavirus surge continues, lockdowns take their toll on factory output, small businesses

Sen Nguyen

South China Morning Post, 28 July 2021

32. Vietnam grapples with public frustration over Covid-19 pandemic missteps and transparency

Tan Hui Yee

Straits Times, 28 July 2021

33. VN to have factory producing 100 million vaccine doses/year with US technology

VietNamNet, 28 July 2021

34. Vietnam expects to be a food innovation hub of Asia

Voice of Vietnam, 27 July 2021

ASEAN-China

35. Opinion: How China’s cooperation with Mekong countries can overcome a trust deficit

[This article was first published in ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute’s Perspectives 2021/89 issue on July 1, 2021.]

Richard Grünwald is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of International Rivers and Eco-Security, Yunnan University, China. His research interest is in Mekong hydropolitics and transboundary water governance in Southeast Asia.

South China Morning Post, 28 July 2021

Asia Pacific

36. The connectivity trade-off from social media misinformation

Andressa Oliveira

Interpreter, 27 July 2021

East/South China Sea

37. Opinion: Seeds of war in the South China Sea

MARK VALENCIA

Asia Times, 27 July 2021

38. The Legacy of the South China Sea Arbitral Tribunal Ruling, Five Years On

[A 30-minute interview]

Ankit Panda

Diplomat, 27 July 2021

39. 英“南海新政”欲重温殖民旧梦 [The UK's "New South China Sea Policy" is intended to rev\live its dreams of colonialism]

吴士存是中国南海研究院院长、中国-东南亚南海研究中心理事会主席

Huanqiu 环球网, 27 July 2021

Climate Change/Environment

40. Extreme weather renews focus on climate change as scientists update forecasts

Asahi Shimbun (AJW), 27 July 2021

41. Economic Logic Alone Will Not Curb ASEAN’s Carbon Emissions

James Guild

Diplomat, 27 July 2021

42. Indonesia optimistic of reaching net zero emissions by 2060 or earlier

Fransiska Nangoy

Reuters, 27 July 2021

43. Winds of Change: Vietnam’s Transition from Fossil Fuels to Renewables

James Borton

Geopolitical Monitor, 26 July 2021

Global Economy

44. World Economic Outlook Update, July 2021: Fault Lines Widen in the Global Recovery

KENNETH TEE

IMF, 27 July 2021

Superpower relations and the region

45. Britain ‘more helpful’ closer to home than in Asia, says US defence chief

Kathrin Hille, Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe and Demetri Sevastopulo

Financial Times, 28 July 2021

46. After Years of Chinese Influence, U.S. Tries to Renew Ties in Southeast Asia

Sui-Lee Wee

New York Times, 27 July 2021

47. US committed to constructive, stable ties with Beijing: US Defence Secretary

Lim Min Zhang

Straits Times, 27 July 2021

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