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Anand Mathai

Anand Mathai

Hong Kong
@Anand_Mathai
Senior Production Editor, Asia
Anand reported on Southeast Asia for over a decade and previously worked for Coconuts Media and the Jakarta Globe.

The congratulatory messages came as Prabowo’s two rivals said they would issue constitutional challenges over the result, citing allegations of irregularities and fraud.

Several analysts say Prabowo is unlikely to do anything to upend the economic cooperation that outgoing president Joko Widodo has established with China over the years.

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Polls show Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto in the lead but his two rivals have a realistic chance of keeping him below 50 per cent for a run-off election.

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China is expected to keep tensions simmering within the ‘grey zone’ to stake its claims to the disputed waterway, but analysts say this entails the risk of miscalculations.

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Many Vietnamese think Henry Kissinger ‘crippled the country’, while in Singapore he is respected as a pivotal anti-Communist ally who was a confidante of Lee Kuan Yew.

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