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No. 14: Ooi Kee Beng, Visiting Senior Fellow
No. 24: Ooi Kee Beng, Visiting Senior Fellow

Brunei Darussalam..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No. 1-3

No. 4-12

No. 13-33

No. 34-37

No. 38-40

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

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

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

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

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

South China Sea ....

Special Topics ........

No. 41-46

No. 47-48

No. 49-53

No. 54-57

No. 58-59

No. 60-64

Cambodia

1. Could Evergrande’s Contagion Wreck Cambodia’s Property Sector?

David Hutt

Diplomat, 30 September 2021

2. US House of Representatives Passes Cambodia Sanctions Bill

Sebastian Strangio

Diplomat, 30 September 2021

3. A new tax regulation risks cutting the power on e-commerce activity

Sangeetha Amarthalingam

Phnom Penh Post, 30 September 2021

Indonesia

4. Security matters in new capital city plans

Antara, 1 October 2021

5. Indonesia cautiously easing into epidemic

Tenggara Strategics, 1 October 2021

6. Generasi muda tumpuan baru untuk urai benang kusut Peristiwa ‘65 [Young generation unravels tangled threads of '65 Affair]

[32-minute podcast in Bahasa Indonesia]

Conversation, 30 September 2021

7. Indonesia to formulate grand strategy for nickel industry

Divya Karyza

Jakarta Post, 30 September 2021

8. Alternative view: Four Indonesian films take another angle on 1965 communist panic

Reno Surya

Jakarta Post, 30 September 2021

9. Herd immunity/herding constituents: parpol and COVID-19 vaccines in Indonesia #2

[Link to Part 1]

Lila Sari

New Mandala, 30 September 2021

10. The United States and Indonesia: Re-converging Security Interests in the Indo-Pacific (Issues & Insights Vol. 21, CR2) [28-page PDF document]

Jeffrey Ordaniel, Robert P. Girrier & David Santoro

Pacific Forum, 30 September 2021

11. Sinyal Kuat Golkar dan PDIP akan Berkoalisi di Pilpres 2024 [Strong signals for a Golkar-PDIP coalition in the 2024 presidential elections]?

Republika, 30 September 2021

12. Bagaimana perempuan Muslim urban Indonesia memaknai hijab atas tubuh mereka [How young Muslim urban women interpret the hijabs they wear]

Yulianingsih Riswan

Conversation, 29 September 2021

Malaysia

13. Commentary: Is Langkawi travel bubble the start of Malaysia’s broader travel reopening?

Stewart Nixon

Channel News Asia, 1 October 2021

14. Nationhood is born of inclusiveness in politics and integrative dynamics in economics

Ooi Kee Beng

Edge Markets, 1 October 2021

15. The 12th Malaysia Plan and what people think of it

Imran Ariff

Free Malaysia Today, 1 October 2021

16. Ahmad Maslan’s compulsory voting idea gets thumbs down

Hakimie Amrie Hisamudin

Free Malaysia Today, 1 October 2021

17. Misuse of GLCs seen as factor in poor handling of pandemic

Free Malaysia Today, 1 October 2021

18. Experts: Raising minimum wage, median earning better targets for 12MP than RM10,000 average income by 2025

Keertan Ayamany

Malay Mail Online, 1 October 2021

19. Umno will defend all seats won in GE14 - Zahid

Malaysiakini, 1 October 2021

20. MPs, senators facing trial may be barred from Parliament, Senate, says Rais

Deborah Loh

Malaysian Insight, 1 October 2021

21. Meet the new party in town

Alfian Z.M. Tahir

Malaysian Insight, 1 October 2021

22. Pakatan will use logo in GE15, says youth chief

Raevathi Supramaniam

Malaysian Insight, 1 October 2021

23. Light at the End of the Covid Tunnel

Penang Monthly, 1 October 2021

24. Editorial: Having had So Much Time to Think Recently, We Should Now Be Able to Act Smarter

Ooi Kee Beng

Penang Monthly, 1 October 2021

25. Covid-19 Vaccines in Numbers

Yeong Pey Jung

Penang Monthly, 1 October 2021

26. Perikatan to resolve GE15 seats minus Umno

Ashley Tang

Star, 1 October 2021

27. ‘We’re still part of regional plans’

Star, 1 October 2021

28. Umno to hold 2021 AGM from Jan 13-15

Free Malaysia Today, 30 September 2021

29. Perikatan to start seat talks without Umno, says Muhyiddin

Elill Easwaran

Malaysian Insight, 30 September 2021

30. Zahid hints Muafakat Nasional is dead

Malaysian Insight, 30 September 2021

31. RMK12 pinggirkan reformasi institusi dan politik negara [12th MP sidelines institutional reform and national politics]

Fakhrurrazi Rashid, Koordinator Penyelidik REFSA

Malaysian Insight, 30 September 2021

32. 基于需求或身份？从土著股权看资源分配 [Based on needs or status? Resource allocation from the perspective of Bumi equity]

刘哲伟目前在国际伊斯兰大学政治学系任职助理教授

Malaysian Insight, 30 September 2021

33. Ongkili: More done to resolve MA63 issues of late than during PH tenure in govt

Muguntan Vanar

Star, 30 September 2021

Myanmar

34. Myanmar’s military junta has long-term power plans

Nyi Nyi Kyaw, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities

East Asia Forum, 30 September 2021

35. Security measures should not affect the freedom of the people who are not involved in terrorist activities: Chair of SAC

Eleven Myanmar, 30 September 2021

36. Interview: International Pressure Essential in War Against Junta: Myanmar's UN Ambassador

Irrawaddy, 30 September 2021

37. Myanmar military takes responsibility for economic crisis

Reuters, 30 September 2021

Philippines

38. VP Leni holds the balance

Segundo Eclar Romero

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 1 October 2021

39. Philippines kicks off election season under pandemic cloud

Karen Lema

Reuters, 1 October 2021

40. China tried to get Philippines to drop review of US defence pact, defence chief says

Raissa Robles

South China Morning Post, 30 September 2021

Thailand

41. Suchart to defect to Chatchai's party

Bangkok Post, 1 October 2021

42. TAT eyes 1m Phuket visitors in 6 months

Narumon Kasemsuk

Bangkok Post, 1 October 2021

43. B47bn on offer to save SME jobs

Bangkok Post, 1 October 2021

44. Transparency essential for reopening

Pavida Pananond & Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Bangkok Post, 1 October 2021

45. Private sector agreed on the country opening: FTI poll

Nation, 1 October 2021

46. Thailand’s Reopening Confusion: Another Reflection of Government Disunity

Tita Sanglee

Diplomat, 30 September 2021

Vietnam

47. The United States and Viet Nam: Charting the Next 25 Years in Bilateral Security Relations (Issues & Insights Vol. 21, CR10) [28-page PDF document]

Jeffrey Ordaniel, Robert P. Girrier & David Santoro

Pacific Forum, 30 September 2021

48. Production, trading and services in HCM City to reopen on Friday

VietNamNet, 30 September 2021

ASEAN/Southeast Asia

49. Is AUKUS a problem or blessing for ASEAN?

Rizal Sukma

Jakarta Post, 1 October 2021

50. AUKUS and Australia’s future nuclear submarine: Choices left for ASEAN

Arie Afriansyah and Curie Maharani

Jakarta Post, 1 October 2021

51. A wake-up call for Asean, EU to strengthen strategic ties

Dr Yeo Lay Hwee is the Director of The European Union Centre in Singapore.

Straits Times, 1 October 2021

52. The 1962 Johor-Singapore Water Agreement: Lessons Learned

Wahab Jumrah

Diplomat, 30 September 2021

53. Why we should oppose Aukus

Lim Teck Ghee

Malaysiakini, 30 September 2021

Asia Pacific

54. Asia-Pacific the world’s most rapidly ageing region: Are we ready?

Björn Andersson is UNFPA Asia-Pacific regional director.

Jakarta Post, 1 October 2021

55. Ganging up on China ‘is doomed to fail’, Beijing’s ambassador tells India

Laura Zhou

South China Morning Post, 1 October 2021

56. Parade of the 'minis' on Indo-Pacific's geostrategic fashion runways

Harish Menta

Business Times, 30 September 2021

57. Critical infrastructure legislation should also set the parameters of cognitive security

Pukhraj Singh

Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 1 October 2021

East/South China Sea

58. Who’s Taking Sides On China’s Maritime Claims?

Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, 30 September 2021

59. Philippines Files New Protests over Chinese Presence in South China Sea

Aie Balagtas See

BenarNews, 30 September 2021

Climate Change/Environment

60. Scraping oil palm moratorium raises doubt over Indonesia's green commitments: Environmentalists

Kiki Siregar

Channel News Asia, 1 October 2021

61. Climate transitional finance taxonomy: Lessons from GFMA

Dave Sivaprasad and Tushar Agarwal

Jakarta Post, 1 October 2021

62. Southeast Asia needs $2 trillion of investments to reduce emissions, new report finds

[Link to the report, "Southeast Asia's Green Economy: Opportunities on the Road to Net Zero"]

CNBC, 30 September 2021

63. The Net Zero Trap: Countries Need to Reduce Emissions Now, Not Just in the Distant Future

Kelly Sims Gallagher

Foreign Affairs, 30 September 2021

US Foreign Policy

64. Is Biden’s Foreign Policy Failing?

Stephen M. Walt

Foreign Policy, 30 September 2021

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