By Emanuele Giordana
The result announced by Thai Constitutional Court on August 24 was by no means a foregone one: 5 votes to 4 decided that Premier Prayut was temporarily suspended. Everyone was surprised: the premier general perhaps first: 'The...
By Jan Servaes* - published first on Othernews
On August 3rd residents of the Myanmar capital Naypyitaw were suddenly awakened by the sound of military helicopters in the air. The helicopters hovered over the city all day. The way to...
Relations between the People's Republic of China and the United States today represent the most important node on a global level. It is a relationship that has always been fluctuating, alternating between periods of effective and fruitful cooperation and...
By Maurizio Sacchi
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has spent a feww days in Malaysia as the second stop on her Asia tour, is scheduled to arrive at Songshan airport in Taiwan at 10.20pm tonight (ECT). Pelosi's Asian tour...
by Emanuele Giordana
Ranil Wikremesinghe has been elected as the new President of Sri Lanka on Wednesday July 20th. Of the 225 voting MPs, gave 134 supported him against only 82 for his biggest rival, Dullas Alahapperuma. The reasons for...
By Maurizio Sacchi
The official act came in the evening of July 13: the outgoing President has appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as Interim President to exercise the powers, duties and functions of the Office of the President with effect...
In 1948, Ceylon - as Sri Lanka was then called - gained full independence from Britain. The Empire left bequeathed large tea and coffee plantations where, as was its custom, it had imported Tamil labour from India to support...
By Maurizio Sacchi
Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday marked the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China with a speech that emphasised Beijing's control over the former British colony as part of its vision of 'one country, two...
The Philippine website Rappler is still public and running despite threats from the Manila judiciary. Perhaps it is no coincidence that the imminent news of its closure came on the eve of the changing of the guard at the...
By Emanuele Giordana
Myanmar's coup junta has confirmed that it has transferred the democratic leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from the unknown location in Yangon where she was imprisoned after the February 2021 coup to another unknown site in...
