Daily News on the Southeast Asian Region

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4 January (pm) - 5 January 2022 (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.

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

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No. 20-22

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

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Climate/Environment

No. 23-26

No. 27-30

No. 31-35

No. 36-43

No. 44-46

No. 47-48

Cambodia

1. Cambodia’s Hun Sen Moves Ahead on Shoring Up Son’s Leadership Prospects

Luke Hunt

Diplomat, 4 January 2022

Indonesia

2. Indonesian economy enters 2022 with more resilience

Winarno Zain is an economist.

Jakarta Post, 5 January 2022

3. Ekonomi Politik 2022 [Political economy 2022]

Didin S Damanhuri, Guru Besar Ekonomi Politik Departemen Ilmu Ekonomi FEM IPB

Republika, 5 January 2022

4. Multi-stakeholder cooperative model suitable for start-ups: Minister

Antara, 4 January 2022

5. Data 2015-2021: pengangkatan duta besar di Indonesia belum setara gender [2015-2021 data: ambassador appointments in Indonesia yet to reach gender equivalence]

Wendy Andhika Prajuli, Lecturer in International Relations, Binus University

Conversation, 4 January 2022

6. Govt, Jakarta join hands to save capital from sinking

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano

Jakarta Post, 4 January 2022

7. Indonesia secures more coal supplies ahead of export ban review

Fransiska Nangoy and Bernadette Christina

Reuters, 4 January 2022

8. Indonesia’s Heavy-Handed Approach in West Papua Is Backfiring

Nithin Coca

World Politics Review, 4 January 2022

Malaysia

9. Sarawak’s mixed-race children struggle over ‘native’ identity

Wong Pek Mei

Free Malaysia Today, 5 January 2022

10. PAS expected to continue ruling Kelantan after GE15

N Faizal Ghazali

Malaysiakini, 5 January 2022

11. GE15 – will it be sooner or later?

Mazwin Nik Anis, Martin Carvalho, Rahimy Rahim And Joseph Kaos Jr

Star, 5 January 2022

12. Promoting M’sian Palm Oil To The World

Star, 5 January 2022

13. Melaka to get Rm1 bln investment for nation's first electric car assembly plant

Bernama, 4 January 2022

14. Sabah Gas Masterplan to drive state’s natural gas investment

Bernama, 4 January 2022

15. Socio-Economic Research Centre: A better year in 2022 for Malaysian economy

Soo Wern Jun

Malay Mail Online, 4 January 2022

16. Socio-Economic Research Centre: Indicators show Malaysia’s economy bottomed out though uneven across sectors

Soo Wern Jun

Malay Mail Online, 4 January 2022

17. Undi18: Youth Vote Only Part of Story

Meredith L. Weiss

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 4 January 2022

18. 凯里的政治勇气 [Khairy's political courage]

郑钦亮

Sinchew 星洲网, 4 January 2022

Myanmar

19. Thousands of Rohingya shops demolished in Bangladesh, leaving refugees desperate

Guardian, 5 January 2022

Philippines

20. Philippines' Duterte says he will never apologise for drug war deaths

Channel News Asia, 5 January 2022

21. Grossly bungled case

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 4 January 2022

22. Marcos 2.0: The Counterrevolution

Richard Heydarian

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 4 January 2022

Thailand

23. BoT minutes: Omicron outbreak key risk to economic recovery

Bangkok Post, 5 January 2022

24. Covid strikes military spending

Wassana Nanuam

Bangkok Post, 5 January 2022

25. Govt backs bill to police NGO income

Mongkol Bangprapa

Bangkok Post, 5 January 2022

26. Thaksin denies role in booting Pallop from Pheu Thai

Bangkok Post, 4 January 2022

Vietnam

27. Furthering competitiveness through infrastructure

VietNamNet, 5 January 2022

28. Govt proposes cutting VAT from 10% to 8%

VietNamNet, 4 January 2022

29. Vietnam still No.2 coffee exporter

Voice of Vietnam, 4 January 2022

30. Inflation rate in 2022 forecast to stand at 2% to 3%

Voice of Vietnam, 4 January 2022

ASEAN/Southeast Asia

31. Sri Lanka And Bangladesh As Gateway Between ASEAN And SAARC

Pathik Hasan

Eurasia Review, 5 January 2022

32. Cambodia is ASEAN’s saviour, not spoiler

Seun Sam

Khmer Times, 5 January 2022

33. Key objectives of Asean Chair 2022 released

Sar Socheath

Khmer Times, 5 January 2022

34. 东南亚有所“盼”的2022年 [Southeast Asia's "hopes" in 2022]

葛红亮是广西民族大学东盟学院副院长

Lianhe Zaobao 联合早报, 5 January 2022

35. PM, Indonesia’s Jokowi weigh Myanmar action

Phnom Penh Post, 5 January 2022

Asia Pacific

36. Covid may change aviation industry forever

Kamolwat Praprutitum

Bangkok Post, 5 January 2022

37. Time to turn ASEAN’s Indo-Pacific initiative into security dialogue

Endy Bayuni

Jakarta Post, 5 January 2022

38. China: The Civil-Military Challenge: (Updated and Expanded) Volume One of a Graphic Net Assessment

[190-page PDF document]

Anthony H. Cordesman

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (United States), 4 January 2022

39. RCEP and AUKUS contradictions

Daryl Guppy

China Global Television Network, 4 January 2022

40. World’s largest trade deal is in force, but there’s still ‘work to be done,’ says Singapore minister

CNBC, 4 January 2022

41. How AFSPA Undermines India’s ‘Act East’ Policy

Stanzin Lhaskyabs

Diplomat, 4 January 2022

42. Despite US-India 2+2 dialogue, the relationship won’t go too deep

Long Xingchun

Global Times, 4 January 2022

43. The Security Consequences of America's China Focus

Minxin Pei

Project Syndicate, 3 January 2022

East/South China Sea

44. US and China are flirting with disaster as the chance of South China Sea conflict rises

Mark J. Valencia

South China Morning Post, 5 January 2022

45. Australian scholar says fear of South China Sea conflict is exaggerated

Radio Free Asia, 4 January 2022

46. Pop culture and strategic messaging: How Netflix got caught in the South China Sea dispute

Pratnashree Basu

Observer Research Foundation, 3 January 2022

Climate Change/Environment

47. Use of EVs in commercial setting vital

Yuthana Praiwan

Bangkok Post, 4 January 2022

48. Electric vehicles: The carmakers wary of going 'all in' on battery power

Peter Campbell and Joe Miller

Straits Times, 4 January 2022

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