Southeast Asia Snapshot #8
Thursday
3rd December
2020
A fortnightly snapshot of what’s making headlines in South East Asia. Malaysia to hold election post-pandemic Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin…
Cambodia
A look back at the Cambodia economy in 2020
Tuesday
16th February
2021
As 2020 drew to a close, Cambodia officially recorded zero deaths from the coronavirus pandemic. But while Cambodia has seemingly…
Autocrats are finding democratic facades hard to keep up
Thursday
7th May
2020
Covid19 is making dictatorship clearer as faking credible elections gets harder. Lee Morgenbesser from Griffith University shares his insights…
COVID-19 and South East Asia: the week that was
Monday
13th April
2020
COVID-19 is dominating news headlines and social media feeds globally. Each week the Griffith Asia Institute explores aspects of…
COVID-19 and South East Asia: the week that was
Monday
20th April
2020
UN criticises Cambodia's new state of emergency legislation | Indonesia sells bonds to finance virus relief measures | Laos reports…
The quality of authoritarian rule in South East Asia
Wednesday
6th May
2020
In his new book, 'The Rise of Sophisticated Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia", Dr Lee Morgenbesser shares his new theory and…
COVID-19 and South East Asia: the week that was
Monday
30th March
2020
Weekly snapshots from the region present an opportunity for Australia and Southeast Asian nations to keep watch of each other,…
COVID-19 and South East Asia: the week that was
Monday
6th April
2020
COVID-19 is dominating news headlines and social media feeds globally. Each week the Griffith Asia Institute explores aspects of South…
The rise of sophisticated authoritarianism in South East Asia
Monday
23rd September
2019
With a majority of countries in South East Asia currently under autocratic leadership and little history of liberal democracy in…
How to think of social media activism in Cambodia
Tuesday
18th February
2020
In Cambodia, Facebook is social media. When it swept across Cambodia by the late 2000s, few analysts anticipated the social…