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STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 14, 2020 • 2 min read

Editorial Waiting for Biden

By Andrew Haffner • Nov 14, 2020
While the US election result remains officially undeclared, the Democrats look to have won the race. Since 2016, the Trump administration's stance towards Southeast Asia has been erratic at best – what could the next four years look like under Biden?

STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 13, 2020 • 3 min read

Myanmar elections Suu Kyi’s party wins absolute majority in Myanmar polls

By Su Myat Mon and Richard Sargent/AFP • Nov 13, 2020
Official results on November 13 showed that Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party had secured an absolute majority in Myanmar's general election. But the country's former ruling military-aligned party has called the polls neither free no fair

STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 13, 2020 • 10 min read

US elections Watching and waiting: What’s to come under Biden for Southeast Asia?

By Andrew Haffner • Nov 13, 2020
While the US election result remains officially undeclared, the Democrats look to have won the race. Since 2016, the Trump administration's stance towards Southeast Asia has been erratic at best – what could the next four years look like under Biden?

Nov 12, 2020 • 4 min read
ASEAN

Huge China-backed trade pact to be signed at Southeast Asian summit

The world's largest trade pact is set to be signed today the 37th ASEAN summit in Hanoi. The Chinese-led pact, seen a major coup boosting Beijing's influence in the region, will loop in 10 Southeast Asian economies
By Alice Philipson and Martin Abbugao/AFP • Nov 12, 2020

Nov 12, 2020 • 3 min read
Podcast

The Anakut podcast: Beyond aid and the future of foreign money

A reliance on development assistance has been a feature of the post-war Cambodian economy. But as the Kingdom moves towards upper middle-income status, should foreign investment replace foreign aid? Author Dr Ear Sophal joins Andrew in the booth to discuss
By Andrew Haffner • Nov 12, 2020

Nov 11, 2020 • 5 min read
Covid-19

The fight against child malnutrition in rural Cambodia during Covid

Since the pandemic began, children in rural Cambodia have been hardest hit by the knock-on effects of the virus, with a worrying increase in malnutrition that is threatening to reverse the Kingdom's progress made in child health over the last decade
By Joe Patchett • Nov 11, 2020

Nov 10, 2020 • 4 min read
Myanmar elections

Myanmar Muslim MP-elect vows to be rights champion

After five years of no representation in parliament, Sithu Maung, Myanmar's first Muslim to win a seat in November 8 election has vowed to fight for the rights of the oppressed in a country with rampant discrimination
By Richard Sargent and Su Myat Mon/AFP • Nov 10, 2020

Nov 10, 2020 • 10 min read
City planning

As wetlands are filled, Phnom Penh ignores Bangkok’s flooding lessons

As Bangkok attempts, at high cost, to reverse much of the damage done to the flood-prone city by restoring a more porous landscape, next door in Phnom Penh, wetlands are filled and skyscrapers erected as the Cambodian capital runs the risk of being submerged
By Wanpen Pajai • Nov 10, 2020

Nov 09, 2020 • 2 min read
Myanmar election

Suu Kyi’s party says it won landslide victory in Myanmar polls

As official results trickled in following Myanmar's coronavirus-disrupted election, Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy party said it was confident of winning a landslide victory
By Agence France-Presse • Nov 09, 2020

Nov 09, 2020 • 4 min read
Myanmar elections

Suu Kyi forecast to triumph in virus-hit Myanmar election

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party are expected to retain power in Myanmar, as voting closed and counting continued late into the night in a general election mired in criticisms of racial apartheid and discrimination
By Richard Sargent/Su Myat Mon • Nov 09, 2020

Nov 09, 2020 • 8 min read
History

31 years since its fall, the Berlin Wall lives on in Jakarta

31 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, fragments of the Iron Curtain live on in a park in Jakarta. Despite more than three decades passing since they came crashing down, the artist behind the monument believes these concrete slabs still have much to teach us
By Alexi Demetriadi • Nov 09, 2020