Officials born in the 1960s make up the majority of China’s provincial and regional leaders after the latest appointments announced ahead of a key party meeting.
The deadly explosion that ripped through Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine in a busy tourist area on Monday constituted a rare attack of that scale. Elsewhere in Thailand, however, the violence has been more palpable, with a sequence of bombings attributed to various groups over the past four years and many of the attacks occurring in the country’s restive south.