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The International Olympic Committee has accepted China’s offer to supply coronavirus vaccines for participants in the next Summer and Winter Games, in an apparent win for Beijing as it battles boycott calls.In the IOC annual session on Thursday, president Thomas Bach said the Chinese Olympic Committee pledged doses for unvaccinated participants for both the Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympics and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.“We are grateful for this offer which is in the true Olympic spirit of…

African swine fever remains a “major risk factor” for China’s pig production after the government this week was forced to step up its efforts to control a resurgence of the disease at home and in neighbouring countries.With concerns the African swine fever re-emergence may threaten efforts to rebuild its national pig herd, raising questions about food security and consumer inflation outlook, China has issued a new import ban and also cracked down harder on fake vaccines for the deadly disease…

Indonesia’s new sovereign wealth fund is exploring investing in several infrastructure projects including 24 toll road concessions worth $2.6 billion, according to Reuters.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published changes to its rules clarifying how consumer credit lenders and debt collection firms are to comply with the government’s ‘breathing space’ regulations in the context of their obligations under the FCA’s rules .

An influential Australian senator has hit back at Beijing for accusing Canberra of meddling in Hong Kong’s affairs by allowing fugitive ex-lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung to enter the country.James Paterson, who chairs the powerful parliamentary security and intelligence committee, on Thursday said immigration policy was a solely a domestic matter for Australia after China blasted Canberra’s decision to accept Hui, a Hongkonger who fled to Europe in December while facing a raft of charges related to…

Myanmar’s military might be “hated” but it needs to be part of the solution to the country’s post-coup crisis, or the nation could become another Libya or Iraq.That is the view of Singapore’s former foreign minister George Yeo, who warned on Wednesday that dissolving the Tatmadaw, as Myanmar’s military is known, would destabilise the Southeast Asian country in the long term.He pointed to how the dissolution of military forces in Iraq and Libya after Western powers invaded in 2003 and 2011…

500 small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore will be given help to digitise their businesses.

The Sunday slayings of nine activists by Philippine security forces show that in his last full year in office, President Rodrigo Duterte is not letting up on the killing spree he started five years ago.In what is now being called “Bloody Sunday”, police and soldiers raided the offices and homes of community organisers in provinces near Manila. They shot dead nine of them – including a married couple – and arrested six.The authorities said caches of weapons and grenades were found, and that the…

Christians in Muslim-majority Malaysia can use the word “Allah” in publications, a court ruled on Wednesday, overturning a decades-old ban after a lengthy legal battle that fuelled religious tensions.The Arabic word for God has long been divisive in Malaysia, with Christians complaining attempts to stop them using it highlight creeping Islamisation. But some Muslims accuse Christians of overstepping boundaries.Wednesday’s case began 13 years ago when officials seized religious materials in the…

The New South Wales state of Australia is investing A$750 million over the next 10 years in emission reduction measures, according to the NSW energy minister Matt Kean.