ASEAN Today

31/05/2021

The recent violence between Israel and Palestine creates a challenge for Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei’s covert relationships with Tel Aviv.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/05/israeli-palestine-violence-impacts-southeast-asian-muslim-nations-ties-with-israel/

30/05/2021

The Myanmar military’s arrest of US citizen and journalist Danny Fenster is the latest step in the junta’s attempt to extinguish independent media. The detention of foreign citizens and all journalists will only increase support for the resistance against the military.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/05/arrest-of-us-journalist-in-myanmar-is-latest-in-juntas-war-on-media/

29/05/2021

The region’s poor and working classes are bearing the brunt of economic fallout from the latest wave of . Long-term social protection schemes could help reduce impacts moving forward.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/05/latest-virus-surge-compounds-southeast-asias-economic-uncertainty/

28/05/2021

surge in Thai prisons is a warning to other countries in Asia: The emergence of thousands of cases in Thailand’s jails underscores the threat posed by overcrowded prisons across Asia.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/05/covid-19-surge-in-thai-prisons-is-a-warning-to-other-countries-in-asia/

26/05/2021

Worker deaths show toxic chemical use continues on Lao banana farms: Two workers on a Chinese-owned banana farm in Laos have reportedly died from toxic chemical exposure as the government struggles to enforce environmental regulations.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/05/worker-deaths-show-toxic-chemical-use-continues-on-lao-banana-farms/

25/05/2021

A report by the International Crisis Group says that Myanmar’s military is developing a local intranet system to limit access to the internet. However, it is unlikely to succeed as it lacks technological sophistication and growing international and domestic resistance.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/05/the-myanmar-militarys-planned-intranet-is-likely-to-fail/

24/05/2021

Indonesia’s move to proffer up a small island to Space X as a would-be site for a spaceport is facing major objections from voices at home and abroad, as critics say it falls into a pattern of economic extraction and exploitation and the West Papua region.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/05/indonesia-offers-spacex-small-papuan-island-despite-risks/

22/05/2021

On 2021, experts are calling on leaders in the region to protect nature amid continued deforestation and habitat degradation.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/05/southeast-asia-in-the-spotlight-ahead-of-international-talks-on-biodiversity/

20/05/2021

Myanmar’s military regime has suspended thousands of academics for refusing to come to work. With the military likely to continue its clampdown on the education sector, hopes remain that Myanmar’s academics will not give in to the junta’s demands.

Myanmar’s military regime has suspended thousands of academics for refusing to come to work. With the military likely to continue its clampdown on the education sector, hopes remain that Myanmar’s academics will not give in to the junta’s demands.

19/05/2021

News of a US$18 billion merger between Indonesia’s largest tech startups—Gojek and Tokopedia—shows Southeast Asia’s tech industry is continuing on its path to make a global impact and transform the regional economy.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/05/southeast-asias-tech-industry-asserts-global-standing-with-gojek-tokopedia-merger/

18/05/2021

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter, Sara Duterte, continue to insist that she will not run in next year’s presidential election. However campaigns in support of her potential candidacy are growing and the president may have already chosen his daughter as his favorite candidate for the top post.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/05/sara-duterte-poised-for-philippine-presidential-run-despite-strategic-denials/

15/05/2021

The impacts of climate change in Southeast Asia are pushing people to change their livelihoods. Reports of farmers in the Delta converting their land from rice to shrimp production show the complexity of these economic shifts.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/05/from-rice-to-shrimp-climate-impacts-drive-major-change-in-southeast-asias-local-economies/