China making ‘enormous progress’ on vaccinating elderly: WHO

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GENEVA: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) immunisation director praised China on Friday (Jan 20) for making quick progress on vaccinating older people with COVID-19 shots and boosters since lifting anti-virus controls last month. China’s population of 1.4 billion has been largely shielded from the disease since it emerged in theContinue Reading

West dithers as Myanmar’s resistance pleads for help

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Three decades on from the nationwide uprising in Myanmar in 1988, the country has been shaken by another whirlwind of contention against military rule. Yet this time it has widened into a revolutionary uproar, which has not abated since the army seized control — again — in February 2021. Almost two years after General Min Aung […]Continue Reading

Vietnam’s ‘mini-China’ days may be numbered

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Performers dance with large national flags marking an anniversary of Vietnam's communist regime in Hanoi, February 3, 2017. Photo: AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam

With so many headwinds zooming Vietnam’s way, now seems an incredibly inopportune moment for Hanoi to carry out a major political shakeup. That’s precisely the dilemma global investors faced this week as pro-market President Nguyen Xuan Phuc suddenly resigned. Government officials claim that the unparalleled purge led by Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong was […]Continue Reading