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(Bloomberg) – China has replaced veteran reformer Lou Jiwei with a new finance minister who’ll be tasked with juggling fiscal stimulus and efforts to rein in excess leverage in the world’s second-largest economy. Xiao Jie, previously a senior aide to Premier Li Keqiang, will replace 65-year-old Lou, who has...
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According to Chinese news portal Apple Daily, an additional ten Hong Kong lawmakers could be potentially subject to investigation for subversive activities against the Chinese government. After a top law-making body in Beijing issued a rare interpretation of Basic Law, the foundation of Hong Kong’s legal system, on Monday...
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FAM: It is understood that the Hong Kong Free Press report below regarding a ruling from the Chinese central government is in response to several democratically elected Hong Kong lawmakers’ defiant attitudes towards China. (Hong Kong Free Press) – The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC)...
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FAM: Continuing coverage from Aljazeera on #Oathgate protests: (Aljazeera) – Street battles erupted as thousands in Hong Kong protested China’s intervention in a dispute over whether two recently elected pro-independence lawmakers should be barred from taking office. Peaceful protest march devolves into #hongkong police using pepper spray. Umbrella Protests...
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(Catholic World News) – Police in Jakarta used tear gas to break up a boisterous rally of over 100,000 Muslims protesting against the governor of the Indonesian capital. Thousands of Indonesians protest against Jakarta's ethnic Chinese and Christian governor for insulting Quran verse pic.twitter.com/f24G9djfCG — 真回安然 ☪ (@ismaelan) November...
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(Helen Ang) – So, we are going Chinese. I think you all have read about it. (FAM: See our post on Malaysia & China’s recent defense deal) The news and commentaries about the whole thing are all over the place. No need for me to put the links here. Well,...
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Below is an excerpt from the blog of Zaid Ibrahim, former Law Minister in the Federal Government of Malaysia: (The Zaidgeist) – When I was involved in setting up an organisation for the defence of civil liberties (the organisation was never registered by the Registrar of Societies), I was...
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(Reuters) China on Tuesday rejected a plan by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to back out of a global climate change pact, saying a wise political leader should make policy in line with global trends, a rare comment on a foreign election. The world is moving towards balancing environmental...
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(Ask a Korean) President Park Geun-hye is deep trouble. Park’s confidant Choi Soon-sil has been running a massive slush fund, as she extorted more than $70 million from Korea’s largest corporations. Soon-sil was receiving confidential policy briefings and draft presidential speeches and rigged the college admission process so that her...
(Bloomberg) – China has replaced veteran reformer Lou Jiwei with a new finance minister who’ll be tasked with juggling fiscal stimulus and efforts to rein in excess leverage in the world’s second-largest economy. Xiao Jie, previously a senior aide to Premier Li Keqiang, will replace 65-year-old Lou, who has...
According to Chinese news portal Apple Daily, an additional ten Hong Kong lawmakers could be potentially subject to investigation for subversive activities against the Chinese government. After a top law-making body in Beijing issued a rare interpretation of Basic Law, the foundation of Hong Kong’s legal system, on Monday...
FAM: It is understood that the Hong Kong Free Press report below regarding a ruling from the Chinese central government is in response to several democratically elected Hong Kong lawmakers’ defiant attitudes towards China. (Hong Kong Free Press) – The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC)...
FAM: Continuing coverage from Aljazeera on #Oathgate protests: (Aljazeera) – Street battles erupted as thousands in Hong Kong protested China’s intervention in a dispute over whether two recently elected pro-independence lawmakers should be barred from taking office. Peaceful protest march devolves into #hongkong police using pepper spray. Umbrella Protests...
(Catholic World News) – Police in Jakarta used tear gas to break up a boisterous rally of over 100,000 Muslims protesting against the governor of the Indonesian capital. Thousands of Indonesians protest against Jakarta's ethnic Chinese and Christian governor for insulting Quran verse pic.twitter.com/f24G9djfCG — 真回安然 ☪ (@ismaelan) November...
(Helen Ang) – So, we are going Chinese. I think you all have read about it. (FAM: See our post on Malaysia & China’s recent defense deal) The news and commentaries about the whole thing are all over the place. No need for me to put the links here. Well,...
Below is an excerpt from the blog of Zaid Ibrahim, former Law Minister in the Federal Government of Malaysia: (The Zaidgeist) – When I was involved in setting up an organisation for the defence of civil liberties (the organisation was never registered by the Registrar of Societies), I was...
(Reuters) China on Tuesday rejected a plan by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to back out of a global climate change pact, saying a wise political leader should make policy in line with global trends, a rare comment on a foreign election. The world is moving towards balancing environmental...
(Ask a Korean) President Park Geun-hye is deep trouble. Park’s confidant Choi Soon-sil has been running a massive slush fund, as she extorted more than $70 million from Korea’s largest corporations. Soon-sil was receiving confidential policy briefings and draft presidential speeches and rigged the college admission process so that her...