Climate of fear engulfs Vietnam’s mainstream media
Author: Dien Luong, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute A fear-cloaked dynamic has increasingly percolated Vietnam’s information environment, in both cyberspace and the…
A script change in Singapore’s successor story
Author: Michael Barr, Flinders University Singapore’s biggest news story of 2022 was that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong finally settled…
Moderate Islam faces an uncertain future in Indonesia
Author: Alexander R Arifianto, RSIS In 2022, two leading moderate Indonesian Islamic figures, Ahmad Syafii Ma’arif and Azyumardi Azra, passed…
The past year’s crisis will weigh on Sri Lanka for years to come
Author: Neil DeVotta, Wake Forest University Economically, 2022 will rank as Sri Lanka’s worst year ever. The immediate reason for…
The travails of the US economy roll on into 2023
Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer, PIIE In December 2021, most Americans were looking forward to a quiet and prosperous 2022. COVID-19…
Electoral gerrymandering in Kashmir another risk to stability
Author: Roshni Kapur, Singapore Changes to electoral rules in Jammu and Kashmir, including the potential addition of 2.5 million new…
Malaysia gets a second shot at democratisation under Anwar
Author: Liam Gammon, EABER A big question in the wake of Malaysia’s 2018 election was whether the country had embarked…
Kishida’s difficult year
Author: Aurelia George Mulgan, UNSW Canberra The past year has not been good for Japan, nor for Prime Minister Fumio…
No place for the angry young man in Nepal’s democracy
Author: Shrishti Rana, University of St Andrews Nepal heads toward an election on 20 November 2022. This will be the…
Tokayev bites the reform bullet
Author: Marian Seliga, J&T Bank In response to anti-government protests that broke out in Kazakhstan in January 2022, Kazakhstan President…