The announcement yesterday evening after initial reports of a reduction in her sentence, comes immediately after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Yangon. There is no indication of her whereabouts. Her lawyers – who have been unable to meet her for years – have asked to speak to her directly. Her son Kim Aris said: “The image released dates back to 2022; until we can communicate with her, I won’t believe a word of it.”
Between 2021 and 2025, 37,740 Indian workers died abroad, over 86% of them in Gulf countries, and reports of abuse and exploitation are also on the rise. However, migration flows remain central to the Indian economy, due to remittances. The crisis in the Middle East is putting pressure on an already fragile system, including from an energy perspective, and in the long term risks causing a domestic economic shock.
A trade union is threatening an 18-day production stoppage if its demand for bonuses proportional to the group’s record revenues is not met. The production halt would create a shortfall of nearly 0 million. President Lee calls on workers and trade unions to act “responsibly” against excessive demands and urges greater “solidarity”.
In a region where over 100 million people will be living by 2025, the traditional model of trade in raw materials and finished goods is being superseded, with an increasing focus on the coordinated creation of added value. Berlin is able to offer cutting-edge solutions for the green transition and make a vital contribution to the development of human capital.
Today’s headlines: the family of Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi: “She has lost 20 kilos in prison and her life is at risk”; Eswatini excluded from China’s zero-tariff policy in Africa due to its relations with Taiwan; A new gambling zone has been established in Russia on the border with China.
Kuwait-born US journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was arrested and had his passport revoked for publishing the video of a US fighter jet crashing. A similar measure was taken against 21 other people, including two sisters. Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of 69 people accused of sympathies with Iran. Activists see the conflict as giving the authorities an “opportunity to crack down even harder”.
