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Asian Insider: Vietnam flexes ‘bamboo diplomacy’ in China | Church conversions trend in Australia
Dear ST reader, We hope you’ve been keeping well. Asia’s leaders remained in the limelight this past week, with Thailand appointing its youngest prime minister in the form of 37-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra while elder statesmen from Vietnam, Malaysia …