Reports by SANDHYA MENON, MOHD FARHAAN SHAH, IVAN LOH and IMRAN HILMYIPOH: The vaccination rate among youngsters aged five to 11 stands at just 35%, so parents need to be more open-minded about vaccinating their children as the country moves into the endemic phase, says the Education Minister. Datuk Dr Radzi Jidin said all students would be allowed to go to school – regardless of the vaccination rate later on.“ Parents need to consider the current situation.“ We cannot wait for all to be vaccina

Mamoru Tsuchiya is worried about the future of Japanese whisky.... The dollar value of exports to America grew by nearly 50 percent in 2019 over the previous year, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. But unlike most whiskey-producing countries, Japan has few rules about what constitutes whiskey, let alone what makes it Japanese.... Companies can buy spirits in bulk from abroad, bottle and label it “ Japanese whisky, ” and ship it back out....

thing is, normal people aren't obsessed with Trump like you guys are," Haley said of the media

They don’t necessarily see much of a link to the president.... 6 impeachment moved quickly, so we didn’t get polling specifically on the initial inquiry.... And even 28 percent of Republicans supported an inquiry of Trump, compared to 11 percent of Democrats who support one of Biden now. Clearly, the consensus just isn’t there for a Biden impeachment inquiry in the way it was for Trump....

“ In the face of economic difficulties, ” he said, “ confidence is more precious than gold.” The Chinese economy then was teetering.... Some entrepreneurs rushed to praise the guidelines in official media.... But in private, others I interviewed dismissed the party’s pep talk in words that can be best translated as, “ Save it for the suckers.” By now it’s obvious that the country’s economic problems are rooted in politics....

A version of this story appeared in CNN's What Matters newsletter.... In her remarks Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris put the January 6 insurrection alongside Pearl Harbor and 9/ 11 as a wake-up call for Americans.... But there is a very real question about who exactly is waking up....

that for all his passion, millions of Americans aren't convinced.... A recent CNN poll, for instance

That appears to reflect in part the federal government’s sluggish reaction to the coronavirus, with President Trump and others initially playing down the threat.... Trump urged governors to find ways to procure new ventilators.... “ Try getting it yourselves, ” he said. That will be hard and in some cases impossible.“ The reality is there is absolutely not enough, ” said Andreas Wieland, the chief executive of Hamilton Medical in Switzerland, one of the world’s largest makers of ventilators...

Perhaps this might be a symptom of our increasing and unusually bipartisan focus on combating China, I thought.... It was supported by 28 percent in 2015, before Donald Trump supposedly made noninterventionism a GOP value, too.... But today it’s at 52 percent — nearly double. Story continues below advertisement Defending South Korea from an invasion by North Korea?...

Listen 11 min Share Comment on this story Comment President Biden, like many politicians, likes to tell stories — stories that attempt to connect his life story with his audiences and make up an essential part of his persona. Speaking to survivors of the devastating Maui fire on Aug.... ArrowRight But throughout his career — most famously in his first presidential campaign, in the 1988 election cycle — Biden’s propensity to exaggerate or embellish tales about his life led to doubts about his tr