Bloomberg Thailand’s new army chief said there was “zero chance” for a military coup now and urged all parties to avoid creating conditions that would lead to violence amid growing anti-government protests. “We should make the possibility for such action to go below zero. All parties must help,” Narongpan Jittkaewtae, who took over as the army chief last week, said ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo called on three other Indo-Pacific democracies to band together against coercion from China, in a bid to keep pressure on Beijing amid the coronavirus crisis rocking Washington. The so-called Quad — also including Australia, India and Japan — began its second ministerial-level meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday, in an event expected to help ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam defended disciplining teachers for promoting anti-China views, after the Asian financial center for the first time revoked an educator’s registration over the content of their lessons. Lam told reporters she was obliged to protect students from being drawn into the political disputes that have fuelled a historic wave of unrest in the former British ...