January, 2023

• 1 January

  Vietnam pulls off Asia’s fastest growth as economy powers on

  

    Bloomberg Vietnam’s economy grew at the fastest pace in Asia in 2022, signalling momentum just before risks from a global slowdown began to materialise. Gross domestic product rose 8.02% in the year to December, according to official data reported. That was faster than the government’s initial target of 6%-6.5% growth and was aided by a quicker-than-expected 5.92% expansion in ...

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• 1 January

  Kim vows nuclear buildup to take on US, South Korea

  

  Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pledged to increase his nuclear arsenal in the new year to stifle US and South Korean hostile acts, in a policy-setting address where he left almost no opening for a return to long-stalled disarmament talks. In a speech that came at the end of a nearly weeklong meeting of his ruling Workers Party, Kim ...

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• 1 January

  Kosovo PM calls for more Nato troops

  

    Bloomberg Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti is calling for a bolstered presence of Nato peacekeeping forces in his country. “A massive bolstering of Nato troops and military equipment in our country would improve security and peace in Kosovo and the entire West-Balkan region,” Kurti said in an interview with German newspaper WELT. Following recent tensions between Kosovo and neighboring ...

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• 1 January

  Macron: 2023 will be year of pension system reform

    Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to push ahead next year with an unpopular overhaul of the country’s pension system that will effectively force people to work longer. The new rules on retirement will apply from the end of the summer, he said during a New Year’s address to the nation in which he urged citizens to remain unified ...

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• 1 January

  Shielded by Russia and China, Myanmar junta turn more brutal

  

  Bloomberg When Myanmar carried out the death penalty for the first time in three decades by executing four activists in July, China and Russia stayed silent while the US and its allies condemned the junta. Now the regime is on the verge of doing it again. Seven university students were sentenced to death last month by a secretive military court ...

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• 1 January

  Venezuela oppn ends Guaido’s leadership in vote

  

    Bloomberg Venezuela’s opposition put an end to Juan Guaido’s interim government, voting against renewing his US-backed strategy that failed to oust President Nicolas Maduro over the course of almost four years. A proposal to eliminate the parallel government passed a second and final round of voting in the opposition-led National Assembly. Starting from January 5, the National Assembly is ...

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• 1 January

  China’s Communist Party names Yi to lead foreign policy

  

    Bloomberg China’s ruling Communist Party has named Wang Yi to direct the nation’s foreign policy after he was promoted to the 24-member Politburo following last year’s twice-a-decade party congress. The foreign ministry’s website posted a report by Wang as the director of the general office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission. His previous position as foreign minister was recently ...

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• 1 January

  UK’s problems won’t go away in ’23: Sunak

  

  Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told Britons that the problems bedeviling the country won’t disappear in 2023, a warning that prompted the Labour Party to accuse the government of wrecking the economy. In his first New Year’s address as prime minister, Sunak struck a sombre tone, acknowledging that it had been a difficult year for the country. “I am ...

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• 1 January

  Starbucks illegally fired union leader: US

  

  Bloomberg US labour board prosecutors have concluded that Starbucks Corp illegally forced out a New York barista who has been a key architect of the union campaign that swept through hundreds of its cafes this year. The union leader, Jaz Brisack, resigned her Starbucks position in September, alleging that the company had pushed her out by changing its scheduling policies ...

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• 1 January

  Twitter sued for failing to pay office space rent

  

    Bloomberg Twitter Inc was sued for failing to pay $136,250 in rent for its office space in San Francisco. The landlord, Columbia Reit – 650 California LLC, says it notified Twitter that it would be in default on its lease for the 30th floor of the Hartford Building in five days unless the rent was paid. The tenant failed ...

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