The Newsletter 88 Spring 2021

News from Southeast Asia

Su-Ann Oh

Regional editor Su-Ann Oh presents four articles from the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, which investigate the economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia.

Commodities, credit and luxury consumer goods. Insights into the structures that shape economic life in Southeast Asia
Su-Ann Oh
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COVID-19 and the lost immunity of the luxury goods industry
Pritish Bhattacharya 
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The gendered structure of moneylending in Vietnam
Nicolas Lainez
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A thorny dispute over land and profits. Durian plantations in Raub, Malaysia
Cassey Lee
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Milo Dinosaur. The life and times of a Southeast Asian national beverage
Geoffrey K. Pakiam
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