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Daily News on the Southeast Asian Region

29 July 2021 (pm) - 30 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. 19 : Dr. Francis Hutchinson, Senior Fellow

Brunei Darussalam..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No. 1

No. 2-6

No. 7-32

No. 33-37

No. 38-44

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

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

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

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

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

South China Sea ....

Special Topics ........

No. 45-49

No. 50-52

No. 53-57

No. 58

No. 59-60

No. 61-66

Cambodia

1. Restrictive regulations weighing down Cambodia’s logistics sector, OECD reports

Sangeetha Amarthalingam

Phnom Penh Post, 29 July 2021

Indonesia

2. BI monetary policy in 2022 to focus on stability: official

Antara, 30 July 2021

3. Jokowi finds compromise on COVID-19 measures

Tenggara Strategics, 30 July 2021

4. PLN to focus on building renewable-energy power plants

Antara, 29 July 2021

5. Human rights concerns cast shadow on Papua's history, legal standing

Dian Septiari

Jakarta Post, 29 July 2021

6. WHO says 'policy coherence' key to tobacco control in Indonesia

Rifki Nurfajri

Jakarta Post, 29 July 2021

Malaysia

7. MTUC Borneo rep issue can become political, academics warn

Durie Rainer Fong

Free Malaysia Today, 30 July 2021

8. Wanted - a new PN prime minister candidate

Robin Augustin

Free Malaysia Today, 30 July 2021

9. Likely winners and losers in the constitutional crisis

Ainaa Aiman

Free Malaysia Today, 30 July 2021

10. Zahid’s orders clear, now up to Umno MPs, says Puad

Robin Augustin

Free Malaysia Today, 30 July 2021

11. Let Monday’s sitting test Muhyiddin’s majority support, says Kit Siang

Free Malaysia Today, 30 July 2021

12. Cabinet cannot treat King as ‘mere rubber stamp’, say senior lawyers

V Anbalagan

Free Malaysia Today, 30 July 2021

13. Tok Mat reminds Umno MPs loyalty to King, country and party comes first

Soo Wern Jun

Malay Mail Online, 30 July 2021

14. Fault lines in BN, Umno appear as conflicting statements issued following Istana’s rebuke of govt

Danial Dzulkifly

Malay Mail Online, 30 July 2021

15. Will Muhyiddin survive?

Wong Chin Huat

Malaysiakini, 30 July 2021

16. Interim government' talk takes root in Umno

Malaysiakini, 30 July 2021

17. Young artists lead digital media roasting of politicians

Hailey Chung Wee Kye & Syazwana Amir

Malaysian Insight, 30 July 2021

18. News analysis: Malaysia PM Muhyiddin's position appears increasingly shaky

Leslie Lopez

Straits Times, 30 July 2021

19. Emergency ends but crisis deepens in Malaysia

Asia Times, 29 July 2021

20. Actions to revoke COVID-19 emergency laws were in line with Malaysia’s laws and Constitution: PMO

Tho Xin Yi

Channel News Asia, 29 July 2021

21. Bar to add new legal questions on emergency proclamation case against govt

Free Malaysia Today, 29 July 2021

22. PAS backs PM Muhyiddin, calls unity, end to politicking in face of pandemic

Radzi Razak

Malay Mail Online, 29 July 2021

23. Proclamation of Emergency should be tabled, debated in Parliament, says Malaysian Bar

Malay Mail Online, 29 July 2021

24. Johor announces RM4.15m additional allocation to help those affected by Covid-19

Malay Mail Online, 29 July 2021

25. GPS upholds constitutional monarchy, says party sec-gen after King voices displeasure with Emergency revocation

Malay Mail Online, 29 July 2021

26. Ipsos survey: Covid-19 pandemic has magnified divisions between elites and regular people in Malaysia, globally

Thasha Jayamanogaran

Malay Mail Online, 29 July 2021

27. Bersih pushes for recall elections at state level

Alena Nadia

Malaysiakini, 29 July 2021

28. Don: Muhyiddin has breached his oath of office, committed 'derhaka'

Kow Gah Chie & Annabelle Lee

Malaysiakini, 29 July 2021

29. 85% of M'sians surveyed nationwide don't want Muhyiddin to remain as PM

[Link to report “85% Rakyat Menolak Untuk Yab Tan Sri Dato’ Hj Mahiaddin Md. Yasin (Tsmy) Perlu Kekal Sebagai Perdana Menteri”]

Faris Alfiq

Mothership, 29 July 2021

30. Krisis Melayu Malaysia (2) [Malaysia's crisis of the Malays (2)]

Azyumardi Azra

Republika, 29 July 2021

31. Govt hit by royal bombshell

Joceline Tan

Star, 29 July 2021

32. Time for parliamentary reform

Shad Saleem Faruqi

Star, 29 July 2021

Myanmar

33. Myanmar democracy movement moves out of jailed Aung San Suu Kyi's shadow

Channel News Asia, 30 July 2021

34. Isolated Myanmar calls for international help as COVID cases surge

Asahi Shimbun (AJW), 29 July 2021

35. Myanmar Junta Placing False Hopes in China’s Vaccine Diplomacy

Irrawaddy, 29 July 2021

36. Junta-Run Public Hospitals Rejecting Even Myanmar’s Sickest COVID-19 Patients

Radio Free Asia, 29 July 2021

37. Myanmar Six Months After The Coup: ’We Only Have Ourselves’

Ko Thet Paing & Johanna Son

Reporting ASEAN, 29 July 2021

Philippines

38. Why Rodrigo Duterte has already lost

Gideon Lasco

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 30 July 2021

39. Duterte overturns Duterte

Segundo Eclar Romero

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 30 July 2021

40. Lorenzana: ‘VFA in full force again’

Frances Mangosing

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 30 July 2021

41. Lacson becomes Reporma chair

Melvin Gascon

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 30 July 2021

42. China to donate more vaccines, envoy says

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 30 July 2021

43. U.S. aims to shore up Philippine ties as troop pact future lingers

Idrees Ali & Karen Lema

Reuters, 30 July 2021

44. Farmers, fisherfolk lament gov’t’s broken promises

Karl R. Ocampo

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 29 July 2021

Thailand

45. Recession fears mount as cases rise

Wichit Chantanusornsiri

Bangkok Post, 30 July 2021

46. Correcting the pandemic policy tack

Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Bangkok Post, 30 July 2021

47. Phuket governor orders entire island sealed off

Bangkok Post, 30 July 2021

48. PM Prayut downplays severity of Thailand's COVID-19 situation, claims other countries have it worse

Channel News Asia, 30 July 2021

49. Govt intensifies ‘fake news’ crackdown despite outcry from media, netizens

Nation, 30 July 2021

Vietnam

50. COVID-19 Turned Vietnam’s State-Run Union’s Greatest Weakness Into Its Biggest Strength

Joe Buckley

Diplomat, 29 July 2021

51. Pentagon chief in Vietnam to advance ties but rights concerns linger

Idrees Ali

Reuters, 29 July 2021

52. The 27-member Cabinet of Vietnam for the 2021-2026 term [infographic]

VietNamNet, 29 July 2021

ASEAN/Southeast Asia

53. Russia a good alternative for Asean

Ekaterina Koldunova is is Acting Director Asean Centre, MGIMO University

New Straits Times, 30 July 2021

54. Modern day slavery is alive and well in Southeast Asia

Matt Friedman

Southeast Asia Globe, 30 July 2021

55. Bad news for Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

Milton Osborne

Interpreter, 29 July 2021

56. Protests and Pandemics: Civil Society Mobilisation in Thailand and the Philippines

Ruji Auethavornpipat & Maria Tanyag

New Mandala, 29 July 2021

ASEAN-China

57. China-ASEAN trade skyrockets by 85 times in three decades

Nation, 30 July 2021

Asia Pacific

58. Issues & Insights Vol. 21, SR 2 - Advancing a Rules-based Maritime Order in the Indo-Pacific

[Link to 50-page PDF]

Pacific Forum, 30 July 2021

East/South China Sea

59. South China Sea arbitral award is not 'a piece of waste paper'

Robert Beckman is an emeritus professor and Tara Davenport is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore.

Straits Times, 30 July 2021

60. UK shouldn’t tempt own fate in South China Sea: Global Times editorial

Global Times, 29 July 2021

China-US relations

61. The Geopolitical Olympics: Could China Win Gold?

Graham T. Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.

National Interest, 29 July 2021

Superpower relations and the region

62. Joe Biden picks Jonathan Kaplan for Singapore ambassador post

South China Morning Post, 30 July 2021

63. Hierarchy, stability and Pax Americana

Khong Yuen Foong

Straits Times, 30 July 2021

64. US will be disappointed forcing SE Asian countries to get on its anti-China chariot

Mu Lu

Global Times, 29 July 2021

65. Chinese embassy blasts US defence chief for ‘attack and smear’ in Singapore lecture

Dewey Sim

South China Morning Post, 29 July 2021

66. Relations with Asean are China’s priority, says foreign minister as US also courts Southeast Asia

Kinling Lo

South China Morning Post, 29 July 2021

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