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When Asean just isn't Asean enough
News, Johanna Son, Published on 13/09/2018
» China's bullying may be the first of Asean's headaches to come to mind, but its weakest links are those that have been gnawing away at its insides -- and undermining its members' own "Asean-ness".
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Dangers of seeing haze as 'seasonal'
Oped, Johanna Son, Published on 14/10/2023
» At the start of 2023, mainland Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and Laos hunkered down under a persistent haze. Heading toward the yearend, it is the turn of the maritime Asean countries -- Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore -- to be on alert during haze season.
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What China dams mean for Mekong
Oped, Johanna Son, Published on 08/07/2023
» The worries and woes about the impacts of China's dams along the Mekong River have been simmering since their construction more than two decades ago.
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Exiles take the war in Myanmar abroad
News, Johanna Son, Published on 28/02/2022
» An ousted legislator from Myanmar, doing kitchen work in a restaurant in the United States, sends half of his salary to the forces battling the military that seized power in his country. From "home" in a Southeast Asian country, a Myanmar national says nightly prayers for his country at a makeshift altar.
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Decarbonisation, the SE Asian way
Oped, Johanna Son, Published on 29/09/2021
» Carbon neutrality is a shared planetary destination, but Southeast Asian countries are laying out their own road maps -- including what some may call detours of sorts -- to getting there in the next three to four decades.
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In Mekong region, drug trade thrives
Oped, Johanna Son, Published on 15/07/2021
» An example of a resilient business model in hard times? Indeed, except that this describes how the synthetic drug industry has been expanding in East and Southeast Asia, home to the Mekong region which is the manufacturing and trafficking hub that supplies illicit drugs that reach not just the wider Asia but the globe.
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UNHCR: No one ever chooses to become a refugee
Oped, Johanna Son, Published on 22/05/2021
» Refugees, people fleeing air strikes by the Myanmar military, and those who are at risk of political persecution, have been the focus of attention in the months since the Feb 1 coup.
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Vaccination in Southeast Asia: it's complicated
Oped, Johanna Son, Published on 24/04/2021
» 'So which wave of Covid-19 are you in?" is a question Southeast Asians ask of one another these days. A year after the lockdowns that their countries went into, many of them are, well, back in them again, even as vaccinations are underway in all countries in the region.
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Myanmar journalists wait and watch
News, Johanna Son, Published on 08/02/2021
» 'Some horrible things are likely to happen," one journalist said. Added another: "They can arrest [us] anytime." A reporter predicted: "There will be a darker period for us." "I feel lost," one journalist said with a sigh. "We are unsafe and insecure."
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The pressure cooker that is Thailand
Oped, Johanna Son, Published on 11/11/2020
» Thailand finds itself in a pressure cooker these days, dealing with pre-Covid-19 economic weaknesses, the lack of longer-term responses to the economic and social crises from the pandemic, and uncertainty about how much longer people can hold on before falling into poverty, losing jobs or closing small businesses.
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