Geo Politics

Malaysia – Umno President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has lodged another defamation suit, this time against former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, for saying that he requested the former Prime Minister’s aid in dropping his corruption charges. Zahid refuted Mahathir’s claim that he and two or three people went to his (Mahathir’s) house shortly after the 14th general election. On February …

ASEAN – President Rodrigo Duterte has declined an invitation to attend the United States-ASEAN summit in Washington DC to be held after the May 9 Philippine elections. During his Talk to the People aired on Wednesday morning, Duterte said it would not look good for him to attend the May 11 to 13 summit because by the time his successor …

Thailand – The urgent need to get the economy in the groove again is leaving the public authority no decision except for to pursue a full-scale resuming of the country in the midst of waiting apprehension about a post-Songkran celebration spike in Covid-19 cases, most authorities on the matter would agree. Previous head of the state Abhisit Vejjajiva said the …

Philippines – Just after bagging support for the controlling PDP-Laban party, official aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. presently can’t seem to procure his much-trusted support from the current President Rodrigo Duterte. In view of this, Last March 24, Palace representative Martin Andanar affirmed last week that Duterte met with Marcos, yet he said the active president just discussed his encounters …

Philippines – The Commission on Elections has designated Commissioner Aimee Ferolino to lead its enemy of vote purchasing team. Magistrate George Garcia on Wednesday said Comelec, sitting en banc, has picked Ferolino to lead its Task Force “Kontra Bigay.” Commissioner Ferolino will be the one to require the team’s gatherings, draft extra rules, and simultaneously, will lead the commission‘s command …

Thailand – Bangkok needs a general wellbeing framework that is not difficult to get to, an interconnected travel framework running on clean energy and a lot more residue contamination designated spots, as per no less than four Bangkok lead representative competitors. In view of this, Free up-and-comer, Chadchart Sittipunt, said inhabitants should have simple admittance to general medical services and …

Malaysia – If the anti-party hopping Bill is not presented and enacted during this Parliament session, Pakatan Harapan (PH) is prepared to go to the streets. Mohamad Sabu, a member of the Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) in Kota Raja, said his party’s members are prepared to take to the streets if they are ignored when they speak up in Parliament …

Malaysia – According to human rights organization Pusat Komas, which tracked 51 such events posted on online news media last year, Malaysia has experienced an increase in publicized incidences of racial discrimination. Pusat Komas, which has collected complaints of acts of racism for the previous seven years and released its “Malaysia Racial Discrimination Report 2021” on March 21, stated there …

Philippines – The presidential aspirant, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is courageous by remarks that the possibility of him winning the decisions is switching off unfamiliar financial backers, saying he would chip away at acquiring the trust of money managers seaward. The study leader, whose late tyrant father was expelled subsequent to plundering the nation’s money chests and sinking the economy …

Thailand – The public authority will meet to ponder ways of checking the spread of Covid-19 during the Songkran occasion period, which remembers a proposed boycott for water-sprinkling. In view of this, The boycott was among thoughts proposed by the Public Health Ministry on Thursday at a gathering led by the secretary-general of the National Security Council and head of …