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Year of Turbulence
Asia focus, Published on 27/12/2021
» Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to curb the spread, stalled recoveries. After nearly two years of strict border controls, many countries started to loosen up and live with Covid. But the rise of the Omicron variant now threatens to scuttle those tentative reopening plans and usher in a third year of economic anxiety.
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Protesters rally outside 'coup-making' military unit
Gary Boyle, Published on 30/11/2020
» Protesters rallied outside a key military barracks on Sunday, the latest in a series of anti-government demonstrations.
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A paragon of virtues
News, Postbag, Published on 31/12/2017
» As Pliny the Younger noted, "Example [is] the surest method of instruction."
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From exile to acceptance
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 10/07/2015
» 'Every journey starts with one step. So today is one step for a long journey," said Burmese activist Aung Myo Min in the documentary film This Kind Of Love. During the scene, he was standing inside a Bangkok BTS Skytrain. He was on his journey home to Myanmar after 24 years of exile.
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Who were the men in black?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 19/09/2012
» Mysterious "men in black" linked to general Seh Daeng & his red-shirt security guards who carried out rocket-launched grenade attacks.
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