During the early to middle stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, national-level responses to control the spread of the virus became a means to compare nations and regions from a geopolitical perspective, particularly between the West and Asia. The results were the further recognition of fundamental di...

Post-pandemic Asean: Geopolitics beyond Western supremacy

The environmental impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have quite literally been seen from space: Satellites observing earth from Nasa, the US Geological Survey and the European Space Agency, have captured data showing that at various points during the pandemic, deforestation rates slowed, snow becam...

Post-Pandemic Asean: Managing a retreat from nature after the pandemic

The pandemic has led to two very different stories about the food industry. On the one hand, we saw stories of distressed farmers dumping excess produce they could not sell, with some Malaysian farmers having to waste 70% of their fruit and vegetables, or slaughtering livestock they could no long...

Post-pandemic Asean: Rebuilding Asean’s collapsed food system

As was perhaps inevitable, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is facing the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, with cases rapidly rising over the past few weeks — Malaysia, for example, is seeing its highest-ever infection numbers. However, as most countries in Asean have now r...

Post-pandemic Asean: Reframing development priorities in Asean

In January 2022, AirAsia CEO Tan Sri Tony Fernandes announced his intention for AirAsia to become Asia’s largest food delivery and ride-hailing company. The move was justified based on the demand for super-app services that have skyrocketed due to the pandemic and social distancing. The rise of m...

Post-pandemic Asean: Revoking the free ride of the gig economy

Grab recently went public in the US as part of the largest SPAC, or Special Purpose Acquisition Company, deal in history. Beyond the fanfare of having a Southeast Asian company represented on the global stage like this, it is worth remembering that Grab is powered by 700,000 drivers across the re...

Post-pandemic Asean: Valuing work that is essential

A recent commentary in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) uses the pandemic to make a case for abandoning government intervention in the free market, supposedly because “government policy fails much more frequently” than free enterprise to solve problems effectively. The authors state that the pandemi...

Post-pandemic Asean: Time to abandon the free hand of the market

The pandemic has been the most significant disruption to global capitalism since the Great Depression in the late 1920s and early 1930s — the world’s gross domestic product contracted by 3.5% in 2020. This even dwarfed the 2% global GDP decline recorded during the global financial crisis in 2007/...

Post-pandemic Asean: Reimagining Asean’s growth

After the 2008 financial crisis, world capitals (particularly in the West) adopted a decade-long austerity approach; G20 nations gingerly agreed to a stimulus equivalent to 2% of global GDP. Now, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has estimated that countries have cut taxes or increased spendi...

Post-Pandemic Asean: Rethinking fiscal and monetary policy for public good

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Jho Low still has a Cyprus passport – report

Taiwan rushes to prevent China from cutting off Internet, phones

European stocks slip as tech, bank drag; investors assess U.S. debt ceiling deal

India files graft case against BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce

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