Xi Jinping has told us over and over again that we must respect the “Chinese characteristics” of his socialism. Thus to fathom his ambitions, his policies and his politics, we need to understand better what he means by “Chinese characteristics.” The best guide to “Chinese characteristics” is Richard Solomon’s 1971 work Mao’s Revolution and the […]Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) expects passenger yields, a proxy for airfares, could decline in 2023 as rival airlines bring back planes idled during the pandemic and add capacity, a senior executive said on Monday (Nov 7). “We would not expect yields to stay at the same elevated levels we wereContinue Reading
NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A young man was killed when his motorcycle hit a temporary platform erected in the middle of a country road for a Loy Krathong concert, in Phimai district before dawn on Monday.Continue Reading
SHANGHAI: Apple supplier Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant on Monday (Nov 7) kicked off a fresh recruitment drive seeking workers, saying that it would offer staff who had left in recent weeks a one-off bonus of 500 yuan (US$69.28) should they return. New workers will be offered a salary of 30 yuanContinue Reading
Tech giant warns customers to expect longer wait times for its new iPhone line due China’s Covid lockdown.Continue Reading
Barely back home from his November 4 encounter with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz found himself on the premises of the former Berlin Kindl brewery on Saturday afternoon for a policy debate with 1,000 invited members of his Social Democratic Party (SPD). The most important […]Continue Reading
Sexual harassment, assault, and rape, are reportedly common in the camps and women and girls have nowhere to hide.
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TAIPEI: A British minister will visit Taiwan this week for trade talks and meet President Tsai Ing-wen, his office said on Monday (Nov 7), drawing an angry reaction from Beijing to the latest high-level engagement between a Western government and the island. China views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territoryContinue Reading
TAIPEI: A British minister will visit Taiwan this week for trade talks and meet President Tsai Ing-wen, his office said on Monday (Nov 7), the latest high-level engagement between a Western government and the island which China claims as its own territory. Britain’s Department for International Trade said Greg Hands,Continue Reading
SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol apologised on Monday (Nov 7) for the deadly Halloween crush in Seoul, pledging to hold to account any officials found to be responsible for sloppy responses and to reform police and safety management systems. The Oct 29 crush killed 156 people, mostly in theirContinue Reading