Tamsin Heath
Biography
Tamsin Heath is currently the Acting British Consul General to Hong Kong and Macao. She assumed the role in December 2020, following the retirement of Andrew Heyn. The new Consul General is expected to arrive in summer 2021.
She arrived in Hong Kong in August 2019 as Deputy Consul General. Tamsin joined the Diplomatic Service in 2005 as a diplomatic service economist working on economic issues, and as the economist in the Iraq Policy Unit from 2006 to 2007. Her first posting was as 2nd Secretary Economic and Trade Policy in Beijing, working on the UK/China Economic and Financial Dialogue, as well as intellectual property issues.
SUPPORTERS of Myanmar's military rallied in the nation's largest city as it moved to suspend all flights till April, raising fresh concerns about the army's crackdown a day after it seized power in a coup and detained senior government officials and activists. Read more at The Business Times.
Feb 3, 2021
Now that Myanmar’s generals have ousted Aung San Suu Kyi, they must figure out how to beat her in an election.
Coup leader Min Aung Hlaing said Monday he would revamp the election commission and hold a “free and fair” vote once the state of emergency expires in a year. He justified the military takeover by alleging widespread fraud in a November election in which Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won more than 80% of available seats.
The claims of a rigged election haven’t been backed up by any credible evidence. Myanmar’s election commission rejected allegations of fraud and international observers largely gave the vote a clean bill of health.
Myanmar Army Rallies Supporters, Bans Flights Through April Bloomberg 2/2/2021 Khine Lin Kyaw and Philip J. Heijmans
(Bloomberg) Supporters of Myanmar’s military rallied in the nation’s largest city as it moved to suspend all flights through April, raising fresh concerns about the army’s crackdown a day after it seized power in a coup and detained senior government officials and activists.
The rally in the commercial capital Yangon is the first since de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her colleagues were taken in early morning raids on Monday. “It is not a coup, but just an act of retaining the power to prevent others from misusing it,” a monk, Tipitaka Thitsar Pwintlin, told the pro-military crowd, urging them to thank the army for protecting the nation and its majority Buddhist religion.
Myanmar Army’s Next Problem: Defeating Suu Kyi in an Election Bloomberg 2/3/2021 Philip J. Heijmans
(Bloomberg) Now that Myanmar’s generals have ousted Aung San Suu Kyi, they must figure out how to beat her in an election.
Coup leader Min Aung Hlaing said Monday he would revamp the election commission and hold a “free and fair” vote once the state of emergency expires in a year. He justified the military takeover by alleging widespread fraud in a November election in which Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won more than 80% of available seats.
The claims of a rigged election haven’t been backed up by any credible evidence. Myanmar’s election commission rejected allegations of fraud and international observers largely gave the vote a clean bill of health.