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CCRS Distinguished Senior Advisor, Amb. Pou Sothirak and Joanne Lin is a Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute penned an OpEd on “The Elusive Code: Why ASEAN Needs a New Playbook for the South China Sea” published on 27 June 2025 on Fulcrum. Read full article …

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Our CCRS Distinguished Senior Advisor, Amb. Pou Sothirak and Chhuon Vanndasambath, Deputy Director penned an opinion piece on “Peace Over Provocation: A Call for Calm at the Cambodia-Thailand Frontier” published on Cambodianess, 10 June 2025. Read the full article via: https://cambodianess.com/article/peace-over-provocation-a-call-for-calm-at-the-cambodia-thailand-frontier

Our CCRS team, Him Raksmey, Executive Director and Chhuon Vanndasambath, Deputy Director wrote an op-ed “President Xi’s Visit: Effects on Cambodia and the Region by Him Raksmey and Chhuon Vanndasambath” published today on Khmer Times, 30 May 2025. Read full article via: https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501692088/president-xis-visit-effects-on-cambodia-and-the-region/

Mr. Him Raksmey, CCRS Executive Director wrote an oped on “Now Is The Time for Cambodia to Embrace UNCLOS Firmly” published today on Cambodianess, 29 May 2025. Read full article via: https://cambodianess.com/article/now-is-the-time-for-cambodia-to-embrace-unclos-firmly

Our CCRS Distinguished Senior Advisor, Amb. Pou Sothirak and Ms. Joanne Lin Senior Fellow and Co-coordinator of the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS –Yusof Ishak Institute penned an opinion piece on “The Elusive Code: Why ASEAN Needs a New Playbook for the South China Sea”, published on ISEAS Perspective on 28 May 2025. Read full …

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Ambassador Pou Sothirak, our Distinguished Senior Advisor and Visiting Senior Fellow, CCRS, Peyson Hunt wrote an Op-Ed on “Revamping ASEAN’s Strategy” in the Bangkok Post on May 24, 2025. Read full article: https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3033207/revamping-aseans-myanmar-strategy

Amb. Pou Sothirak, Distinguished Senior Advisor to CCRS and Mr. Peyson Hunt, Visiting Senior Fellow, CCRS penned an oped entitled “Trump world: the unravelling of American global leadership” published in the South China Morning Post, on 26 April 2025. Read the article via: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3307981/trump-world-unravelling-american-global-leadership

Amb. Pou Sothirak, Distinguished Senior Advisor to CCRS, published an article entitled “Key to open way to community with a shared future” to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, published today in China Daily. Read this oped in English: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202504/18/WS68019f4fa3104d9fd382021b.htmlRead this oped in Chinese: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/I7nHh_ZWdStlx5xOxSjRzA?fbclid=IwY2xjawJu8FBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHgPIyv86jiGfp_tg-W887KM20IZuLioBm0REzsIH8Ujrw-C3S8cd6dMBY-h8_aem_GcvdALmHj8faccdSTCvWPQ

Amb. Pou Sothirak, Distinguished Senior Advisor to CCRS, and Mr. Him Raksmey, Executive Director of CCRS, wrote an OpEd entitled “50 Years Post-Khmer Rouge: Time to Lead on Regional Atrocity Prevention” published today in Cambodianess. Read the full article via: https://cambodianess.com/article/50-years-post-khmer-rouge-time-to-lead-on-regional-atrocity-prevention