The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau.... His English was passable — he had served as a military attaché at the Chinese Embassy in Britain many years before.He was by then a senior executive at Anbang, an insurance conglomerate that had risen very fast and then diversified.... Executive may be too strong a word....

Mao Ayuth, one of the few Cambodian filmmakers to survive the Khmer Rouge era, during which most

“ chairman of everything ” after he put himself in charge of economic, propaganda and other major functions

In 1949, Mao led his country to defeat the Republic of China government, which then fled the

Affandi Raja Mohamed Noor as its new chairman. The statutory body, which manages the pension fund for

) chairman, Datuk Seri Hasan Arifin, as its chairman effective Oct 1, 2021, succeeding Datuk Seri Mahdzir

Each coupon is good for two tons of subsidized coal, enough for each household to last through the winter and early spring. The coupons are coming after a shortage of the fuel drove up prices and led to widespread power curbs last month.... Still, meteorologists in the country have warned a weak-to-moderate La Nina pattern is forecast in the coming months, with frigid weather and continuous droughts likely hitting some regions. China’s benchmark thermal coal futures on the Zhengzhou Commodity E

Mohd Irwan Mohd Mubarak as the new chairman of Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia Bhd( Bank Rakyat

Xi’s writings and his discussions with party officials, and interviews with people involved in policy making, show. For most of the 40 years after Deng Xiaoping first unleashed economic reforms in China, Communist Party leaders gave market forces wider room to flourish.... That opening helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and created trillions of dollars in wealth, but also led to rampant corruption and eroded the ideological basis for continued Communist rule.In Mr.... Xi

its interim chairman, effective June 2.In a statement, the telco said the appointment follows the