Author: Jafar Marzooq

For Chevron, the plan to withdraw from Myanmar took longer than TotalEnergies because of its decision to sell its stake instead of abandoning it. The American oil giant will sell its entire stake to a unit of Canada’s MTI Energy for an undisclosed amount of money American oil giant Chevron is planning to sell its stake in Myanmar’s Yadana offshore natural gas field, leaving its operations in the country to a Canadian company. The move marks a long-planned withdrawal after Chevron came under criticism of facilitating human rights abuses by Myanmar’s military regime. Ever since the military takeover in Myanmar…

Speech in Tokyo draws parallel with pre-second world war agreement, and claims credit for urging others to stand up to Beijing ‘bullying’ The former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has accused the west of “appeasing” Beijing and has claimed credit for rallying other countries to “call out the bullying of the Chinese ­government”. In a speech to be delivered at a conference in Tokyo on Friday, Morrison is also expected to urge the Albanese government to consider using Magnitsky-style targeted human rights sanctions laws to hold Chinese government officials accountable. But Morrison did not introduce sanctions against any Chinese officials before leading…

Jakarta: Some 19,125 people received their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the past 24 hours, taking the number of fully vaccinated people to 174,818,471, Indonesia’s covid-19 task force reported on Thursday. Furthermore, 56,303 people received their third dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the same period, bringing the number of people who have received the booster dose of COVID-19 vaccination to 68,672,995. To tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Indonesian government plans to vaccinate more than 200 million people. COVID-19 Update The Indonesian government today recorded 535 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the…

The 28-member cabinet, which included members of four coalitions and an independent MP, was sworn in on Saturday. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has taken on the role of finance minister more than two decades after last holding the post, he announced Friday, as he unveiled a diverse cabinet designed to stabilize his broad unity government. The 75-year-old leader previously held the post of finance minister from 1991 to 1998, before his falling out with then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad led to his jailing on spurious charges and his long banishment to the exile of opposition. As finance minister now…