Aung San Suu Kyi and Asia

political leaders: But before the lunar year past fully recedes into memory, we take a look back at the people and events that made headlines across Asia, for good and for bad, according to The Japan Times. Our choice last time around for worst year in Asia went to Myanmar Muslim Rohingya minority — persecuted at home and increasingly ignored by business and political leaders hungry to engage with the new Myanmar. Japan already bid farewell to the year of the sheep as 2016 began. Time will tell whether their plight will be any better under a parliament now led by the party of one-time democracy activist and icon Aung San Suu Kyi. A deadly earthquake in Nepal and landmark elections — in Singapore and most recently in Taiwan — as well as South China Sea territorial disputes and trade deals captured regional news headlines providing fertile ground for our choices. As 2015 wrapped up, we took to CNN to share an initial take on the best and worst of the year behind us. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.