BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): Time magazine has named prominent Thai human-rights lawyer Arnon Nampa among its influential “Time 100 Next” list of emerging leaders who are shaping the future.
Time magazine has named prominent Thai human-rights lawyer Arnon Nampa among its influential “Time 100 Next” list of emerging leaders who are shaping the future. Arnon is also one of the core leaders of the youth-led pro-democracy anti-government movement. Time’s Charlie Campbell wrote: “Arnon has energised young Thais with his demands to strip political power from the historically sacrosanct royal.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) has been featured in <i>Time</i> magazine’s second annual “TIME100 Next” list, which recognizes “emerging leaders who are shaping the future.”
In a profile of Chiang written for “TIME100 Next,” <i>Time</i> East Asia correspondent Charlie Campbell described Chiang as “the youngest-ever leader of Asia’s oldest political party.”
Chiang, who was elected chairman in March last year, “knew that reforming Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT) wouldn’t be easy,” Campbell wrote.
“But given that his party had just suffered two straight crushing election defeats, he knew they needed to move away from their aging base and attract a new generation
Finland keeps coronavirus restrictions in place
A three-level action plan is in place for possible further restrictions. Finland is currently at level one.
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Monday 25 January, 2020.
Image: Heikki Saukkomaa / Lehtikuva
Finland is not yet adjusting national coronavirus restrictions but is updating its testing and infection tracing strategy, members of Prime Minister
Sanna Marin (SDP) government announced on Monday.
At a joint press conference, Family Affairs and Social Services Minister
Krista Kiuru (SDP) said that recommendations regarding the use of face mask and distance working remain in place.
Prime Minister Marin said there is a risk the epidemic could accelerate in Finland at a rapid pace, noting that the new virus strains first seen in the UK and South Africa have spread at rates of 50 to 75 percent faster than the earlier form of the virus.
Finnish, Lithuanian Prime Ministers Discussed Relations With Russia - Helsinki Fri 08th January 2021 | 11:56 PM
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Friday discussed relations with Russia, as well as the situation in Belarus, in a phone conversation with her recently appointed Lithuanian counterpart, Ingrida Simonyte, the Finnish government said
HELSINKI (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 08th January, 2021) Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Friday discussed relations with Russia, as well as the situation in Belarus, in a phone conversation with her recently appointed Lithuanian counterpart, Ingrida Simonyte, the Finnish government said.
Marin congratulated Simonyte on her appointment and exchanged views on topics ranging from national implementation of the EU recovery measures, the transition to a green economy and the digital transformation.