Bloomberg The first court hearing of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi since the February 1 coup began earlier than scheduled and without her lawyer present, further signalling the military’s intention to end her political career. Speaking by phone on Wednesday, her lawyer Khin Maung Zaw said that Suu Kyi appeared in front of the court via video link ...

Bloomberg Taiwan’s attempts to purchase five million doses of BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine fell apart at the last minute, Taiwan’s health minister said on Wednesday, voicing concern that political pressure from Beijing may have scuppered the deal. Taiwan’s government was making final preparations to sign a deal with Germany-based BioNTech in January but then “things changed,” minister Chen Shih-chung said ...

Bloomberg Gunmen kidnapped students and staff from a school in Nigeria, the second attack of its kind in recent months, a presidential spokesman said. The criminals abducted a “yet to be ascertained” number of people from a boys’ school in Kagara in Nigeria’s central Niger state, President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, said in an emailed statement. Hundreds of students ...