Damaged Kathu-Patong road reopens to pedestrians
2022-10-23
PHUKET: The flood-ravaged road from Kathu to Patong reopened for pedestrians on Sunday, but all vehicles are barred pending repair work.Continue Reading
Number of COVID-19 cases in current wave has peaked and is starting to come down: Ong Ye Kung
2022-10-23
About 20 per cent of cases daily are reinfections, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung.Continue Reading
This Chinese con man met with President Trump
2022-10-23
This article was first published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. It is the second of two parts. Read part 1. In July 2018, President Donald Trump met at his New Jersey golf club with a Chinese businessman who should never have gotten anywhere near the most powerful man in the world. Tao Liu […]Continue Reading
China’s next premier Li Qiang: Xi Jinping loyalist who oversaw Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown
2022-10-23
BEIJING: Li Qiang, who oversaw Shanghai’s grinding two-month COVID-19 lockdown this year as party boss of China’s commercial hub, is on track to become China’s next premier after President Xi Jinping unveiled a new governing body packed with loyalists. Li, a close ally of the newly re-appointed Chinese leader, was elevatedContinue Reading
Xi Jinping’s party is just getting started
2022-10-23
China did not want another Mao, but the party did little to stop the rise of a more powerful leader.Continue Reading
China congress: Xi cements power by packing top team with loyalists
2022-10-23
The Chinese leader moves into a historic third term in power in a break from decades-long tradition.Continue Reading
From Xi’s historic third term to leadership reshuffle: Key highlights from China’s Communist Party congress
2022-10-23
The Chinese Community Party also endorsed Xi Jinping’s “core position” on the Central Committee and enshrined its opposition to Taiwan’s independence in the constitution.Continue Reading
Politburo Standing Committee: Who are the men that rule China now?
2022-10-23
The Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party makes up the country’s power centre.Continue Reading
Who’s on the Chinese Communist Party’s new Politburo Standing Committee?
2022-10-23
This “showcases to everyone that loyalty rather than popularity is the key for your promotion”, tweeted Yang Zhang, an assistant professor at American University in Washington. “The disaster of Shanghai Lockdown did not stop Li’s elevation precisely because he followed Xi’s order despite all criticism.” Li is viewed as oneContinue Reading
Kishida flip-flops on banning the Moonies
2022-10-23
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida performed an impressive flip-flop last Tuesday, stating that he might be able to dissolve a religious corporation after all. The previous day he had insisted that his government lacked a basis for initiating procedures to do that. The religious corporation in question was the Japanese chapter of the Family Federation […]Continue Reading