Positioning Myanmar as an attractive new investment destination in Southeast Asia

Myanmar or Burma has had its first fully contested general election in 2016, leading the formation of a democratically elected government which has taken steps to reform the governance of the country. The reform of the investment policy received a much-needed boost when the United States of America agreed to uplift economic sanctions imposed on Myanmar. However, the enactment of a new Myanmar Investment Law is only one piece of the larger puzzle of how to make Myanmar a new attractive investment destination in the ASEAN region.

Controlling the Narrative: The Law, Human Rights and 1MDB in Malaysia

Malaysia usually features at the periphery of international news, recent events have thrust the Southeast Asian nation into the limelight. In 2015, after recovering from the two airline tragedies of the previous year, Malaysia found itself again in the headlines of the international press. Since then, allegations of mismanagement of funds in the state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhard (1MDB) have dominated the news. 1MDB was set up in 2009 when Prime Minister Najib Razak came into office, and was supposed to oversee Kuala Lumpur’s transformation into a thriving commercial hub.

Yuhan Hu

I am a DPhil candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford. My research interests include contentious politics under authoritarian contexts and computational social science. Using cutting-edge computational methods, statistical analysis, and fieldwork, my DPhil thesis examines authoritarian regimes’ responses to collective action. In 2024, I was selected by the department as one of two doctoral researchers to spend a year as an exchange scholar at Yale University.

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