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Lifebrandz – Corporate moves
September 1st, 2010 |
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Political instability in Thailand, PM cancels his trip
November 27th, 2009 |
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Bangkok: Thailand’s PM Abhisit Vejjajiva was set to travel to the northern city of Chiang Mai on Sunday. However on Thursday he announced that he had cancelled his visit owing to security reasons.
The cancellation highlights the political instability faced by Thailand, which has been wracked by rival street protests for months.
The northern city is strongly [...]
Locked up
August 11th, 2009 |
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Myanmar’s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is detained again
AFTER many delays, a court in Myanmar at last handed down its verdict on Tuesday August 11th, concluding the trial of the country’s main opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. The staunchest foe of the ruling junta has been consigned to another 18 months of house arrest, as punishment for a bizarre incident in May when an American eccentric swam to her lakeside villa, forcing her to break the terms of her previous house arrest. The verdict was expected: the government has, in effect, found an excuse to prolong her detention, which was about to expire, until after elections that are planned for some time next year. Her defence, that as a prisoner she was in no position to fend off uninvited visitors, was brushed aside by the court.
The sentence handed down on Tuesday was for three years’ hard labour, but in a piece of careful choreography the interior minister promptly stood up to announce that the junta leader, General Than Shwe, had commuted it. By giving the gentlest sentence that was realistically available he may hope to minimise the international outrage. The hapless John Yettaw, the 54-year-old Mormon who testified he was motivated to make his swim by a vision in a dream, was told to serve four years’ hard labour and three years in prison. Aung Naing Oo, a Burmese scholar at Chiang Mai university in Thailand, suggests that the regime will be keen to expel him much sooner than that. …
China and Taiwan presidents swap telegrams
July 27th, 2009 |
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Hu Jintao and Ma Ying-jeou talk of peace in a sign of improved relations that could lead to historic summit
First came direct flights, then freight links, and now a single telegram. The presidents of Taiwan and China exchanged direct messages today for the first time in 60 years, in the latest sign of their thawing relations.
Hu Jintao wrote to Taiwan’s Ma Ying-jeou to mark the latter’s election as chairman of the Nationalist party.
Bacuse of the enduring mutual sensitivities, the message was sent simply to Mr Ma, while Ma’s reply was addressed to Hu as general secretary of the Communist party.
Beijing still claims sovereignty over Taiwan, which has been self-ruled since Chiang Kai-shek fled there following his defeat in the civil war in 1949. China has warned it could use force if Taipei pursued formal independence.
“I hope our two parties can continue to promote peaceful cross-strait development, deepen mutual trust, bring good news to compatriots on both sides and create a revival of the great Chinese race,” said Hu in his telegram.
“We should continue efforts to consolidate peace in the Taiwan Strait and rebuild regional stability,” Ma replied, adding that they should “put aside disputes”.
Ma was elected president in spring last year on a platform of improving relations with China and because of widespread dissatisfaction with the ruling Democratic People’s party.
But while he has signed landmark trade deals, he has avoided political issues, due in large part to powerful anti-Beijing sentiment on the island.
Lin Chong-pin, a strategic studies professor at Tamkang University in Taipei, told Reuters that the telegram suggested the Chinese leader wants to meet Ma eventually. “It’s sort of expected … It is in Hu Jintao’s benefit or advantage to meet,” Lin said. “It would be a personal feat.”
But analysts believe both sides may take years to weigh up the risks before proceeding.
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Taiwan returns Chiang to memorial
July 20th, 2009 |
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Taiwan has restored the name of the island’s former ruler, Chiang Kai-shek, to a memorial hall, less than two years after it was removed.
Chiang’s legacy is a contentious issue on the island, which split from mainland China when his Nationalist side (KMT) lost the civil war in 1949.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)took his name off the memorial hall in 2007 when they were in power.
The hall was built as a tribute to Chiang after his death in 1975.
The DPP removed his name from several landmarks and changed the name of the hall to the National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall.
The DPP said Chiang was a dictator who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Taiwan.
But others remember him as laying the foundation for Taiwan’s current economic prosperity.
On Monday workers protected by hundreds of police changed the name back to Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.
The ministry of education, responsible for the monument, said the DPP had changed the name of the hall in 2007 without parliamentary approval.
The memorial has become one of Taipei’s best-known landmarks and a popular tourist attraction.</p
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