Tag: Asia Pacific
Burma: where is Aung San Suu Kyi in her long legal battle?
Twenty-six years in prison, and soon up to seventy-five more years for Aung San Suu Kyi? Early next week, a court controlled by the military regime will deliver its verdict…
Covid-19: countries impose measures on travelers coming from China
It’s a potentially game-changing factor, as the world finally seemed to have put the binding protocols for travelers behind it. After having led an extremely strict “zero Covid” policy for…
Covid-19 in China: the authorities give up publishing the daily figures
China announced this Sunday, December 25 that it would no longer publish its controversial statistics on the Covid, much criticized recently because of their total discrepancy with the current epidemic…
How to explain the renewed tensions between China and Taiwan?
It’s one of China’s biggest daily forays to date. Beijing has deployed 71 combat aircraft during military maneuvers around Taiwan, the Taipei Defense Ministry said on Monday (December 26th). These…
Covid-19 in China: Xi Jinping wants to “build a rampart” and “protect” lives
This is the first public comment from the strong man of Beijing since the unexpected abandonment of most health measures, a sign that the time is serious. Chinese President Xi…
“The Three-Body Problem” on Netflix: SF, Beijing’s latest soft power tool
It’s one of the most anticipated series of 2023. And not just because it’s produced by the co-creators of the hit saga Game Of ThronesDavid Benioff and Dan Weiss, whose…
two Russian oligarchs die mysteriously, a first in the country
In India, two Russian tycoons died mysteriously. Millionaire Pavel Antov, a critic of the war in Ukraine, defenestrated from his hotel on December 24. Two days earlier, his colleague Vladimir…
Covid-19: after the end of the quarantine on arrival, China wants to start traveling again
It is a paradoxical situation: China is beginning to open up to the world after three years of isolation due to Covid-19. Yet across the country, hospitals and crematoriums are…
presidential pardon granted to former leader Lee Myung-bak
There are no longer any former South Korean presidents sentenced to prison. After Park Geun-hye’s pardon in 2021, it is the turn of the former head of state, Lee Myung-bak,…
China stops publishing daily Covid-19 outbreak figures
Overwhelmed by an unprecedented Covid wave, the Chinese health authorities announce the end of the publication of their daily assessment of the epidemic. These official statistics have been controversial since…