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BANGKOK (Reuters) -- Paetongtarn Shinawatra was endorsed as prime minister by Thailand's king on Sunday, two days after parliament elected her, paving the way for her to form a cabinet in the coming weeks.
Chris Patten, the current chancellor of Oxford University, announced in February that he would be stepping down.
BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of China and Vietnam pledged to further their economic ties and gave a nod to their shared communist ideology during the first visit by Vietnam’s new president to Beijing on Monday.
Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has applied to become the next chancellor of Britain’s prestigious University of Oxford, his party said.
Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa told reporters Monday she’s making preparations to run in the race, the first to publicly declare their intentions. It remains to be seen if she can garner enough support from members to meet the threshold to qualify. More candidates are likely to make their intentions known in coming days.
During an inauguration ceremony on Monday morning, the incumbent swore in his close aide and former investment minister Bahlil Lahadalia as the new energy and mineral resources minister and Rosan Roeslani, who headed Prabowo’s presidential campaign, replaced Bahlil as the country’s new investment minister.
Sudeshna Basu always considered Kolkata, the vibrant state capital of West Bengal, a safe haven for women like herself. But on a recent evening, the 52-year-old Sanskrit lecturer found her sense of security shattered when an autorickshaw driver brazenly catcalled her on her way home from work.
Other aspirants include incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe, contesting as an independent candidate instead of representing the United National Party (UNP) he has been associated with for close to five decades.