My latest: #China's #economy unlikely to recover anytime soon because President Xi Jinping's inner circle is mostly filled with apparatchiks rather than technocrats with know-how to revive sagging growth: China expert Willy Lam

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via @NikkeiAsiaasia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks… 1. The appointment of Xi Jinping's new top advisers in Oct marked a departure from previous administration filled with educated technocrats well-versed in international finance and how foreign companies operate.

Today is 22nd anniversary of the fall of late President #Suharto amid mass student protests, rioting on 21 May 1998. I was then Reuters Jakarta correspondent, running from rubber bullets, tear gas almost every day. I witnessed incredible courage from people of #Indonesia. Thread 1. These are the lessons I learnt from #Indonesia
- Freedom is not free. You have to fight and sacrifice for it
- The fall of #Suharto was just the beginning of a long, back-breaking struggle to forge democracy, re-build or build democratic institutions for the future

#COVID19MALAYSIA: Read & learn from #Italy's tragedy: "Don’t do what we did
Many of us were too selfish to follow suggestions to change our behavior. Now we’re in lockdown and people are needlessly dying." Thread
bostonglobe.com/2020/03/13/opi… via @BostonGlobe #COVID19MALAYSIA: Lessons from #Italy
"Until last week, the #Italian public health care system had the capacity to care for everyone. But in a matter of days, the system was being felled by a virus that I, and many other Italians, had failed to take seriously."

BREAKING - Blast in #Indonesian city of #Medan at the canteen of police HQ by a suspected suicide bomber. No details yet. Information is tentative at this point cnn.id/447853 UPDATE Suicide bombing at police HQ at #Indonesian Medan city kills perpetrator, injures 4 cops. Sources tell me he was wearing an Ojek Online jacket, entered front entrance, reached Ops section, detonated. Pictures of bomber's body too gory to share. cnnindonesia.com/nasional/20191…