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Làm ra 1 tỉ liều vắc xin đã khó tin, cho nên nói chích nửa tỉ người ở khắp nước Tàu thì càng thấy nghi ngờ. Trừ phi chích ngừa qua mạng thì may ra.Quote:
China has administered more than a billion doses of coronavirus vaccines, the country’s health authority said on Sunday. This figure accounts for more than a third of the shots given across the world.
Chích cho vơi đi những ngục hình...
Philippines president Duterte: ‘You choose, Covid vaccine or I will have you jailed’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ave-you-jailed
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President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Philippines battles one of Asia’s worst outbreaks, with a cumulative total of more than 1.3 million cases and 23,000 deaths.
“You choose, vaccine or I will have you jailed,” Duterte said in a televised address on Monday following reports of low turnouts at several vaccination sites in the capital Manila.
Bệnh dịch là bác thằng bần
Ở nhà trốn chích cho chân vào cùm.
No news is bad news.Quote:
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Hongkongers queue for hours to buy final Apple Daily edition
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...tion-newspaper
An Apple a day keeps the censor away.Quote:
Across Hong Kong on Thursday morning the queues stretched for hundreds of metres, wrapping around corner after corner. Starting before dawn, crowds in the city of 7.5 million people lined up for hours to buy the final print edition of the Apple Daily newspaper, forced to close by authoritieswhich had accused it of national security offences.
Normally selling 80,000 copies a day, they printed a million. It was in such hot demand that by mid morning Hongkongers were crowdsourcing an online spreadsheet of convenience stores that still had copies for sale.
After police raided the newsroom last week and the security secretary froze the paper’s assets and accounts, Apple Daily’s parent company, Next Digital Media, had no choice. Unable to pay staff or operating costs, it announced the website, app and social media accounts would shut down on midnight Wednesday and the final newspaper would hit the stands on Thursday.
Inside the newsroom, staff took group photos, while some wept as they put together the last edition, watched by reporters from rival outlets who were there to cover a significant moment for their industry.
Journalists took copies of the last paper down to the gate, one climbing the fence to hold them aloft and hand them out to the gathered supporters. Police later arrived to disperse the crowds, warning they could breach pandemic-related bans on gathering, broadcaster RTHK reported.
Như Táo đem tin ngày buồn…
‘The pressure is unbearable’: final days of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ure-unbearable
Không có gì quý hơn báo chí tự do.Quote:
Supporters gathered outside the building. The office in Tseung Kwan O is outside the city and not somewhere people would go unless they lived or worked there, says Kwan, still surprised and touched that people turned up.
A Yuen Long restaurant owner, 25 miles away, insisted on delivering food to the team. People hung messages of thanks on the fence, shouted and shone their torchlights through the rain.
“Some of my colleagues were looking out the window and he or she said: don’t look down or you’ll cry,” says Kwan.
“I was like, what the ***** we’re reporters – I must look! So I did look, and I did cry.”
Staff lined the windows and balconies, shining their lights. A small group walked down to the crowds, one man climbing the fence to hand out copies of their final edition, hot off the press. The staff saw out the rest of the night together inside the newsroom, as 1m papers hit the streets.
Hongkongers queued up from midnight to buy them all.
Vĩ nhân:
Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution
https://www.theguardian.com/science/...hink-evolution
Râu xồm hàm bén mày dàiQuote:
The skull, which is 23cm long and more than 15cm wide, is substantially larger than a modern human’s and has ample room, at 1,420ml, for a modern human brain. Beneath the thick brow ridge, the face has large square eye sockets, but is delicate despite its size. “This guy had a huge head,” said Stringer.
The researchers believe the skull belonged to a male, about 50 years old, who would have been an impressive physical specimen. His wide, bulbous nose allowed him to breathe huge volumes of air, indicating a high-energy lifestyle, while sheer size would have helped him withstand the brutally cold winters in the region. “Homo longi is heavily built, very robust,” said Prof Xijun Ni, a paleoanthropologist at Hebei. “It is hard to estimate the height, but the massive head should match a height higher than the average of modern humans.”
Vai năm tấc rộng lưng mười thước cao
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Đất bùn dậy sóng. Trên núi mà cũng có sóng thần (mountain tsunami).
Vũ vô kiềm toả năng lưu khách
Địa bất ba đào dị nịch nhân.
Father reunites with son 24 years after his abduction in China
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Sợ tàu như sợ cọp
Taiwan to open representative office in China sceptic Lithuania
TAIPEI, July 20 (Reuters) - Taiwan announced on Tuesday that it will open a de facto embassy in the Baltic country of Lithuania, which risks further straining ties with Beijing by deepening diplomatic engagement with an island that China considers its own territory.
Lithuania said earlier this year it plans to open its own representative office in Taiwan, a decision that angered Beijing. The country announced last month it would also donate 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan. (read more)
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told reporters in Taipei the new mission in Vilnius would be called the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania, though he did not say when it would open.
"Taiwan and Lithuania are both at the strategic forefront of defending democratic institutions," Wu said.
"I believe that through the close connection of shared values, the two countries' peoples can work together to play a positive role in the international community and contribute to world peace, stability and prosperity."
The United States welcomed the move, with its de facto embassy in Taiwan saying: "All countries should be free to pursue closer ties and greater cooperation with Taiwan, a leading democracy, a major economy, and a force for good in the world".
Only 15 countries have formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, but many others have de facto embassies which are often termed trade offices, as is the case for the European Union, of which Lithuania is a member state.
China has ramped up pressure on countries not to engage with Taiwan.
In February, the South American country of Guyana revoked a deal for Taiwan to open a representative office there only a day after Taipei had announced it. Taiwan blamed Chinese "bullying" for the decision.
Lithuania has been sceptical of other aspects of Beijing's policies, and appeared to signal its concerns by only sending its transport minister, rather than a government leader, to a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and central and eastern European countries in February.
Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore
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Nghe nói dân Đài loan qua Việt nam lấy vợ, vậy Tàu cộng cứ khuyến khích dân Tàu lấy người Đài loan, rồi dần dần cả nước thành sui gia.
Bất chiến tự nhiên thành... hôn.
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Hèn gì, Việt Nam sếp sòng châu Á và sắp bá chủ thế giới rồi. Mưu đồ thôn tính cả thế giới theo trình tự thời gian:
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Đến lượt Trung Quốc bị lụt....
China: Deadly flooding in Henan — in pictures Massive flooding has devastated the central Chinese province of Henan, affecting hundreds of thousands of people.
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Thừa cơ nước lụt thả câu?
Foreign journalists harassed in China over floods coverage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...loods-coverage
Hạch báo cho người xem lụt.Quote:
Reporters from the Los Angeles Times and German outlet Deutsche Welle were confronted by an angry crowd in Zhengzhou on Saturday, who filmed and questioned them, and accused them of “rumour mongering” and slandering China. Other journalists have also been targeted, with a specific focus on the BBC.
The journalists Alice Su and Mathias Boelinger, were on the ground in Zhengzhou, covering the aftermath of last week’s deadly floods, after almost a year’s worth of rain dropped around Zhengzhou in three days, overwhelming streets and subway tunnels. The rains then moved north, further devastating major cities and rural areas.
Stephen McDonell, another BBC correspondent in China, said on Twitter there was a “clearly orchestrated campaign of harassment”, with a focus on the BBC, which included threats of violence and family-targeted abuse sent to the private phones of to those working in the foreign media.
“You have to ask why organs of the Communist party are doing this given that the reporting I’ve seen would appear to engender sympathy for the people of Henan,” he said.
In the past 18 months at least 16 US journalists have been expelled, and at least four journalists – including the BBC’s John Sudworth and two Australian journalists – were forced to flee. Two others – Australian TV anchor Cheng Lei and Chinese Bloomberg journalist Haze Fan – were arrested and detained on undefined national security accusations.
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Đơn giản là vì sợ lòi ra nhiều cái yếu kém, thiếu thốn, xấu xí khác nữa ...etc.
Nhất nhật tại Tàu, thiên thu tại ngục:
Chinese billionaire pig farmer jailed for ‘provoking trouble’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...voking-trouble
Được ăn được nói được trói đem đi.Quote:
Sun Dawu, a Chinese billionaire pig farmer and agricultural mogul, has been sentenced after weeks of hearings in secret to 18 years in prison and fined 3.11m yuan (£345,000) for a catalogue of crimes including “provoking trouble”, in a case observers believe was politically motivated.
The court in Gaobeidian, near Beijing, said Sun was guilty of crimes including “gathering a crowd to attack state organs”, “obstructing government administration” and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, a catch-all term often used against human rights figures and dissidents.
Sun, an outspoken supporter and friend of Chinese political dissidents, was arrested on 11 November alongside more than 20 others including his wife, two sons and daughters-in-law.
Sun, who turned 67 this month according to his lawyers, is a former pig farmer who founded the Dawu Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Group. The billion-dollar business has about 9,000 employees and a purpose-built company town that Sun reportedly ran to reflect his vision of an equitable rural society, with residents given free or discounted access to healthcare, schooling and entertainment amenities.
Sun admitted to making mistakes, including posting messages online and unspecified mistakes over the “land issue”.
In September, Ren Zhiqiang, a former real estate mogul who criticised Xi’s handling of the pandemic in an online essay, was jailed for 18 years on corruption charges.
Tháng tám có chiếu vua ra
Cấm đồn tin dữ người ta hãi hùng.
Thailand bans sharing of news that ‘causes public fear’ amid pandemic criticism
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...emic-criticism
Tin tức đâu phải lương thực.Quote:
The Thai government has outlawed sharing news that “causes public fear”, even if such reports are true, as officials face mounting criticism over their handling of the pandemic.
The latest restrictions forbid people from distributing “information causing public fear”, or from sharing “distorted information causing misunderstanding which affects national stability”.
The measures have been widely condemned by media groups and rights experts as attempts to shut down negative news reports and silence debate.
Sunai Phasuk, senior researcher on Thailand in Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, described it as a “serious blow” to press freedom in the country.
Sunai said he feared the measures would be used against online reporters and critics who use social media to share political news and commentaries that do not flatter the government.
The government has faced particular criticism over its delayed vaccination campaign: roughly 5% of the population is fully vaccinated. Online, images have circulated of people dying on the street, fueling public anger towards the government.
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Ai cũng có nhiều vợ như vua thì truyền nhiễm nhanh là phải đạo rồi. :)
Thailand reports record 20,920 coronavirus cases in a day
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BANGKOK - Thailand reported on Thursday a record 20,920 coronavirus cases, bringing total cases in the Southeast Asian nation to 693,305 since the pandemic began last year.
It also reported 160 additional fatalities, bringing total deaths to 5,663, the health ministry's website showed.
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Bến đỗ tạm dung.
US announces temporary 'safe haven' for Hong Kong residents
US President Joe Biden said the "significant erosion" of rights and "politically motivated arrests" were behind the move. Hong Kong residents in the US can now extend their stay.
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President Biden said the move was in response to Beijing's 'assault on Hong Kong's autonomy'
President Joe Biden on Thursday offered Hong Kong residents living in the United States an 18-month extension to their visas to provide them with "a safe haven" from Beijing's crackdown in the territory.
In a statement, the White House said the "politically motivated arrests" of politicians, activists and journalistsshowed a "significant erosion" of rights and freedoms.
Last week, Tong Ying-kit, 24, became the first person to be convicted in Hong Kong under a controversial national security law. He was sentenced to nine years in prison.
What did Biden say?
Under the new measure, most of the Hong Kongers living in the US will be able to apply for visa extensions that will also give them the right to work.
Biden cited Beijing's crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2019 and erosion of rights in Hong Kong as a reason for the measure.
"Over the last year, the PRC [People's Republic of China] has continued its assault on Hong Kong's autonomy, undermining its remaining democratic processes and institutions, imposing limits on academic freedom, and cracking down on freedom of the press," the White House statement read.
"Offering safe haven for Hong Kong residents who have been deprived of their guaranteed freedoms in Hong Kong furthers United States interests in the region."
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki added: "This action demonstrates President Biden's strong support for people in Hong Kong in the face of ongoing repression by the People's Republic of China, and makes clear we will not stand idly by as the PRC breaks its promises to Hong Kong and to the international community,"
Psaki said the US would continue to "support of people in Hong Kong" in the future.
What is the situation in Hong Kong?
US relations with China worsened after a trade war that intensified under former President Donald Trump.
Hong Kong saw mass pro-democracy protests in 2019 against a new law that would have allowed for extraditions to mainland China.
Protests were quelled by Hong Kong police leading to the arrest of hundreds of activists and journalists in the aftermath. Over 10,000 people in total have been arrested due to anti-government protests, according to the White House.
In June 2020, Hong Kong's government passed a controversial national security law that has allowed for the arrest of over 100 opposition politicians and activists.
The closure of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper and a reshuffle to the Hong Kong Legislative Council have also heightened tensions.
As a result of the measures in Hong Kong, the US government issued more sanctions on Chinese officials in the former British colony. China reacted with sanctions of its own on US officials, including former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
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Sài-Gòn 2 - "Light version"?
Taliban overrun city of Kunduz — as it happened
The Taliban have overrun the northern provincial capital of Kunduz as their offensive continues. It is a major blow for Afghan forces and it is not the only city where fierce fighting is taking place.
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The Taliban have entered the city of Kunduz and have engaged in fierce fighting
- The Taliban have taken key government sites in Kunduz
- The city was a former base of operations for the German Bundeswehr
- The Taliban have seized two other provincial capitals: Sar-e-Pul and Taleqan
- Fighting is continuing in Lashkar Gah, Herat and Kandahar
These live updates are now closed. For more on the Taliban offensive, click here.
Taliban warn the US against intervening
The Taliban's political spokesperson Mohammad Naim told Al-Jazeera TV on Sunday that the radical Islamist group had no ceasefire agreement with the Afghan government and warned the US against further intervention.
He also blamed the government for the fighting, calling them the aggressors and claimed the Taliban's attacks were a response.
Separately, Al-Jazeera quoted another Taliban spokesman as saying that the militants wanted peace.
"We have the capabilities to take over cities but we were waiting for them and our policy is for peace and reconciliation but of course when they [government] launched an offensive against us, they started the bombing campaign against us, we reacted and took two provincial centres," said Suhail Shaheen.
Can the Taliban take control of the whole of Afghanistan?
Adam Weinstein, research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told DW that he does not think it is inevitable that the Taliban take over the whole country, but the Afghan government will have to change its strategy.
Weinstein was not sure that the Biden administration would be willing to accept the risk associated with continued support for the Afghan government which may mean the end of US airstrikes against the Taliban.
He also believes that the peace talks are no longer viable, but that better resistance from the Afghan army and pressure from other regional actors could force the Taliban to the negotiation table.
Kunduz plays a key role for the Taliban
Journalist Charlie Faulkner talked with DW from Kabul about the importance of Kunduz to the Taliban, the site where they relaunched their insurgency in 2010 and also where they were defeated in 2003.
Faulkner explained that it was also a symbol of revenge for the militant group as this is where hundreds of Taliban fighters were loaded into trucks in which they ended up suffocating to death.
She also highlighted the difference of opinion between urban and rural Afghans, saying that while those in the cities were largely against the Taliban, those in the villages just want peace, with some even supporting the Taliban.
Taliban claims control of Takhar province
Spokesperson for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, published a statement on Twitter claiming that the whole of the Takhar province was under the control of the Islamist group.
The province capital Taleqan fell to the militants earlier in the day.
Germany's Bundestag foreign affairs chair warns of Afghanistan 'disaster'
German lawmaker Norbert Röttgen, who chairs the Bundestag's foreign affairs committee, warned that the recent pullout of US troops from the country risks creating a "disaster" in Afghanistan.
"US President Joe Biden still has a chance to prevent the first major foreign policy disaster that has arisen from his wrong decision to order the rapid withdrawal of American troops without consulting his allies," Röttgen told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily.
The 56-year-old said there was no longer any prospect of a political solution with the Taliban making territorial gains.
"So if the Europeans have any remaining military capabilities, including the Germans, that would be needed now, then we should make them available," he said.
Top German politicians repeatedly warned that withdrawing too quickly from Afghanistan could create a security vacuum.
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned in November that a premature exit could also hamper peace talks between the government and the Taliban, a hard-line Islamist group.
'Security situation deteriorating,' says German Foreign Office
The German Foreign Office sees an increasing deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan.
A ministry spokesman told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur news agency on Sunday that the situation was developing rapidly. "In view of the current developments, an update of the asylum situation report is currently being prepared," he said, referring to the Office's report which cites a greater threat to certain groups amid the advance of the Taliban, but no general threat to returnees.
In July, the Afghan government called on European states to suspend deportations to the country for three months due to the unstable security situation.
At the time, Finland announced a temporary suspension, while Germany said it had no plans to stop deporting rejected asylum seekers.
Since 2016, Germany has carried out 35 deportation flights to Afghanistan.
Germany resumed deportation flights to Afghanistan earlier this year after they were put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Where else have the Taliban launched offensives?
Taliban forces are fighting in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.
Airstrikes damaged a health clinic and a high school in the city, a provincial council member said on Sunday.
A Defense Ministry statement confirmed that airstrikes were carried out in parts of the city. It said forces targeted Taliban positions, killing 54 fighters and wounding 23 others. It made no mention of a clinic or school being bombed.
Majid Akhund, deputy chairman of the Helmand provincial council, said airstrikes hit a health clinic and a school in the city's 7th police district late Saturday. He added the area is under Taliban control so any casualties could have been caused by the Taliban there.
Pro-Taliban sources said the Taliban have taken complete control of the city of Taleqan in northeastern Takhar Province that borders Tajikistan.
Fighting was also reported on the outskirts of Herat, in the west, and Kandahar in the south.
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In early July, Afghan militia were patrolling against the Taliban in northern Takhar province
How has the international community responded?
Carl Bildt, co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations accused the Biden administration of pulling out of Afghanistan prematurely.
Bildt, who is a former Swedish prime minister, said "the United States is running away."
"Saigon 1975 all over again," he tweeted, referring to Washington’s withdrawal from Vietnam.
Ambassador Ghulam M. Isaczai, Afghanistan's permanent representative to the United Nations, said the ongoing violence was "too painful to watch."
The senior diplomat tweeted a graphic video that he said showed a dead child who had been killed by Islamist militants.
"Afghan children are bearing the brunt of this violence unleashed by [the] Taliban on Afghanistan. The world cannot sit on the sideline for another tragedy to unfold," he wrote on Twitter.
DW has not been able to independently verify the video's content.
The Taliban's sweeping offensive
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Taliban overrun Kunduz
The fundamentalist Taliban group overran the northern city of Kunduz on Sunday.
The Taliban's advance on the provincial capital comes after two others fell to the insurgents in the past two days.
The insurgents have taken control of all key government facilities in the city, except for a military base and the airport, where high-ranking local officials have reportedly pulled back to.
The airport lies around 8 kilometers (5 miles) south of Kunduz city center.
The Taliban overran the city amid "fierce street-to-street fighting," Amruddin Wali, a member of the Kunduz provincial council, told AFP.
The Taliban claimed in a Twitter post that it had seized a large number of armored vehicles, weapons and military equipment.
The Ministry of Defense said government forces were fighting to retake these key sites.
"The commando forces have launched a clearing operation. Some areas, including the national radio and TV buildings, have been cleared of the terrorist Taliban," it said in a statement.
Fighting was continuing at the city's airport and other parts of the city, provincial council member Ghulam Rabani Rabani said.
Health officials in Kunduz said that 14 bodies, including those of women and children, and more than 30 injured people, had been taken to hospital.
Kunduz has been a perennial target for the Taliban, who briefly overran the city in 2015 and again in 2016 but never managed to hold it for long.
It is a strategic crossroads with good access to much of northern Afghanistan as well as the capital, Kabul, about 335 kilometers (200 miles) away.
It is one of the country's larger cities with a population of more than 340,000. Kabul has a population of over 4 million.
The German Bundeswehr's Kunduz connection
The German military was stationed in Kunduz province from 2003 to 2013, following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
More Germans were killed in clashes in Kunduz and the neighboring province of Baghlan than anywhere else.
The German military in Kunduz attracted international attention in 2009, when Georg Klein, who was then a colonel, ordered a NATO air attack that killed more than 100 people.
Last year, before the Bundeswehr withdrew from Afghanistan, around 100 German soldiers were stationed in the region in Camp Pamir.
Heavy fighting in Sar-e-Pul
Meanwhile, fighting between the Taliban overran the provincial capital of the northern Sar-e-Pul province.
"The Taliban have surrounded an army battalion on the outskirts of the city. All other parts of the city are under Taliban control," Mohammad Hussein Mujahidzada, a member of the Sar-e-Pul provincial council, told news agency AFP.
Taliban seize Sheberghan
The fundamentalist Taliban group seized the northern city of Sheberghan on Saturday.
Sheberghan is the capital of Jowzjan Province and is home to Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum.
Dostum, who is allied with the United States, said he is calling for reinforcements from the Afghan government.
Kabul-based journalist Franz Marty told DW it is likely that Dostum's forces will wage a "counteroperation" in the coming days.
Taliban fighters helped free prisoners from the city's jail, according to videos on social media.
The deputy governor of Jowzjan, Qader Malia, told the AFP news agency the city had "unfortunately fallen."
Taliban making rapid territorial gains
The Taliban are ramping up their offensive as the US and NATO allies pull out troops from the country.
Anti-Taliban protesters in recent weeks have shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is the greatest) to show their support for Afghan security forces in the heavy fighting against the group.
The Taliban captured the provincial capital of Zaranj in southwestern Nimroz province on Friday.
Journalist Ali Latifi, who is also based in Kabul, told DW the Taliban may be trying to "confuse" Afghan government forces, as the two provincial capitals are located in completely different areas of the country.
"The Taliban are trying to stretch the security forces out as thin and as wide as they possibly can," Latifi said. At the same time, he said it begs the question whether the Taliban can keep up fighting on multiple fronts as well.
Could the fighting spread to Kabul?
In regards to the fighting possibly spreading to the country's capital, Kabul, Latifi said the "fortress city" is more secure than other parts of the country.
"Kabul is where they will put all of their focus and their attention," Latifi said, referring to the Afghan government.
"If they do manage to lose Kabul, then that's obviously the ultimate blow to them. They will do everything they can to hold on to the national capital," he added.
A bomb killed an Afghan Air Force pilot in Kabul on Saturday, with the Taliban claiming responsibility for the attack.
Kamran Bokhari, the director of analytical development at the Washington D.C.-based Newlines Institute think tank, told DW the war in Afghanistan is "far from over" and asserted the Taliban are by and large "a rural and suburban force."
"They have not yet managed to demonstrate the capability to mount successful assaults against well-defended cities and provincial capitals," Bokhari said of the group.
Complete US pullout expected later this month
US President Joe Biden announced in April he would withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11. The pullout is now expected to be fully complete by August 31, according to recent statements from the commander-in-chief.
Critics of the withdrawal have warned the Taliban could possibly take over the entire country and roll back advancements in women's rights.
The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 in pursuit of al-Qaida, the jihadist group behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Taliban was ousted from power during the invasion, with the US working with NATO allies to train Afghan security forces.
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Taliban "giải phóng" Kabul :z51:. Sắp tới thời khắc của tổng thống "Dương văn Ashraf Ghani" ?
Taliban militants start entering Kabul - live updates
The Afghan capital is the last major city to be held by government forces, after all other key cities fell to the Taliban offensive. The militant group said they have no plans to take Kabul by force.
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The Taliban has made gains across the country in recent days.
- Britain vows to evacuate nationals, former staff
- Taliban says it will not take Kabul by force
- US starts evacuation of its embassy
Britain vows to evacuate nationals, staff
Britain's government said on Sunday that it was working on evacuating its citizens and former UK staff from Afghanistan.
"Home Office (interior ministry) officials are right now working to protect British nationals and help former UK staff and other eligible people travel to the UK," it wrote on Twitter.
The UK government has come under criticism from some British newspapers for not doing enough to help Afghans who worked with its military over the past two decades.
Taliban starts entering Kabul
The Taliban, an Islamist militant group that has seized large parts of Afghanistan, started entering the outskirts of Kabul on Sunday, local officials said.
Gunfire and sirens were heard sporadically across Kabul.
The Afghan capital is the last major city held by government forces after insurgents made several advances elsewhere this month amid the withdrawal of allied troops.
Taliban wants to avoid forceful takeover
The Taliban later pledged not to take the capital "by force."
"No one's life, property and dignity will be harmed and the lives of the citizens of Kabul will not be at risk," the militant group said in a statement.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen later told the Al-Jazeera English channel that they are "awaiting a peaceful transfer of Kabul city'' after they entered the capital's outskirts.
Shaheen declined to offer specifics on any possible negotiations between his forces and the government.
Matin Bek, the chief of staff to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, wrote on social media: "Don't panic! Kabul is safe!"
The Taliban started an offensive nearly two weeks ago, capturing a number of key towns, cities and border posts.
US starts Kabul evacuation
Sunday's move on Kabul comes as international forces start to evacuate their diplomats amid the worsening security situation.
US intelligence officials said earlier this week that they believed it might take as long as three months for the Taliban to seize the Afghan capital.
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The key strategic locations inside the Afghan capital
Peace talks have been taking place in Doha, Qatar, since last September between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
But the negotiations, which are being mediated by the international community, have failed to bear fruit.
Ghani wants stability
In a televised speech on Saturday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani vowed that he would not give up the "achievements" of the past 20 years.
He warned that the country is in "serious danger" of facing "instability."
Ghani, an academic economist who spent most of his career in the United States, became president in 2014, winning a second term five years later.
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Taliban càn quét, phụ nữ Afghanistan lo sợ quay về ‘những ngày đen tối’
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Zarmina Kakar, một nhà hoạt động vì quyền của phụ nữ, khóc trong một cuộc phỏng vấn với hãng tin AP ở Kabul, Afghanistan, ngày 13 tháng 8, 2021.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Trời mới chập tối và Zahra, mẹ cô và ba chị em gái đang trên đường đi ăn tối tại nhà của một người chị em khác thì họ thấy mọi người bỏ chạy và nghe thấy tiếng súng trên đường phố.
“Taliban ở đây rồi!” mọi người thét lên.
Chỉ trong vài phút, mọi thứ thay đổi đối với cư dân 26 tuổi này ở Herat, thành phố lớn thứ ba của Afghanistan.
Zahra lớn lên ở một nước Afghanistan hầu như sạch bóng Taliban, nơi phụ nữ dám mơ có được nghề nghiệp và các em gái được học hành. Trong năm năm qua, cô làm việc với các tổ chức phi lợi nhuận địa phương để nâng cao nhận thức cho phụ nữ và vận động cho bình đẳng giới tính.
Những ước mơ và hoài bão của cô sụp đổ vào tối ngày thứ Năm khi Taliban tràn vào thành phố, cắm những lá cờ trắng của họ với tuyên ngôn tín ngưỡng Hồi giáo ở quảng trường trung tâm khi mọi người vội vàng lên xe máy và xe hơi phóng về nhà.
Giống như hầu hết những cư dân khác, Zahra, cha mẹ và năm anh chị em của cô giờ rút vào trong nhà, quá sợ không dám ra ngoài và lo lắng về tương lai. Hãng tin AP quyết định không nêu tên đầy đủ của cô để tránh biến cô thành mục tiêu tấn công.
“Tôi bị sốc nặng,” Zahra, cô gái trẻ với gương mặt bầu bĩnh và giọng nhỏ nhẹ, nói. “Làm sao tôi, một người phụ nữ đã rất nỗ lực và cố gắng học hành và thành đạt, giờ lại phải trốn chui trốn nhủi ở nhà?”
Giữa cuộc tiến công chớp nhoáng trong những ngày qua, Taliban hiện kiểm soát hơn hai phần ba đất nước, chỉ hai tuần trước khi Mỹ theo lịch trình sẽ rút đi những binh sĩ cuối cùng của mình. Và họ đang dần tiến sát thủ đô Kabul.
Cơ quan tị nạn của Liên Hợp Quốc cho biết gần 250.000 người Afghanistan đã rời bỏ nhà cửa của họ kể từ cuối tháng 5 vì lo sợ Taliban sẽ áp đặt lại cách hiểu nghiêm ngặt và tàn nhẫn của họ về Hồi giáo, xóa sạch các quyền của phụ nữ. 80% những người tản cư là phụ nữ và trẻ em.
Tổ chức có chủ trương Hồi giáo bảo thủ này đã cai trị Afghanistan trong năm năm cho đến khi bị lật đổ trong cuộc xâm lược do Mỹ dẫn đầu vào năm 2001. Trong khoảng thời gian đó, họ ngăn cấm trẻ em gái học hành và phụ nữ đi làm, và thậm chí không cho họ đi ra khỏi nhà mà không có người thân là nam giới đi cùng. Taliban cũng thực hiện các vụ hành quyết công khai, chặt tay những kẻ trộm và ném đá những phụ nữ bị buộc tội ngoại tình.
Chưa có báo cáo được xác nhận nào về các biện pháp cực đoan như vậy tại các khu vực mà các chiến binh Taliban chiếm giữ gần đây. Nhưng tin nói họ đã chiếm cứ một số ngôi nhà và phóng hỏa ít nhất một trường học.
Tại một công viên ở thủ đô Kabul, từ tuần trước đã được biến thành nơi trú ẩn cho những người tản cư, các gia đình nói với AP hôm thứ Sáu rằng các em gái đi về nhà trên một chiếc xe lam ở tỉnh Takhar miền bắc đã bị chặn đường và bị đánh đòn vì đi “dép hở hang.”
Một giáo viên ở tỉnh này cho biết không ai được phép đi chợ nếu không có người nam đi cùng. Khoảng 3.000 gia đình chủ yếu đến từ các tỉnh miền bắc gần đây bị Taliban chiếm hiện đang sống trong lều bên trong công viên, một số trên vỉa hè.
Zahra đã thôi đến văn phòng khoảng một tháng trước khi các chiến binh áp sát Herat, và cô làm việc từ xa tại nhà. Nhưng ngày thứ Năm, các chiến binh Taliban phá vỡ tuyến phòng thủ của thành phố và kể từ đó cô không làm việc được nữa.
Mắt cô rưng rưng khi nghĩ đến khả năng cô sẽ không thể quay lại làm việc được nữa; rằng em gái 12 tuổi của cô sẽ không thể tiếp tục đến trường (“Con bé thích đi học,” cô nói); rằng anh trai của cô sẽ không thể chơi bóng đá; hoặc cô sẽ không thể tự do chơi đàn guitar. Cây đàn treo trên tường phía sau cô khi cô nói chuyện.
Cô liệt kê một số thành tựu mà phụ nữ đã đạt được trong 20 năm qua kể từ khi Taliban bị lật đổ — những tiến bộ tường bước nhưng có ý nghĩa trong một xã hội vẫn hết sức bảo thủ do nam giới thống trị: Trẻ em gái giờ được đi học, và phụ nữ tham gia trong Quốc hội, chính phủ và doanh nghiệp.
Marianne O'Grady, phó giám đốc quốc gia của tổ chức CARE International tại Kabul, cho biết những bước tiến của phụ nữ trong hai thập niên qua là rất to lớn, đặc biệt là ở các khu vực thành thị. Bà nói bà không hình dung được là mọi thứ sẽ quay trở lại như cũ, ngay cả sau khi Taliban tiếp quản.
“Không thể để cho hàng triệu người thất học được,” bà nói. Nếu phụ nữ “lùi lại sau những bức tường và không thể ra ngoài nhiều, thì ít nhất bây giờ họ có thể giáo dục những người họ hàng và hàng xóm và con cái của họ theo những cách mà 25 năm trước không có.”
Dẫu vậy, cảm giác sợ hãi dường như bao trùm khắp nơi, đặc biệt là ở phụ nữ, khi lực lượng Taliban chiếm thêm lãnh thổ mỗi ngày.
“Tôi cảm thấy chúng tôi giống như con chim làm tổ để sống và dành toàn bộ thời gian để xây tổ, nhưng rồi bất ngờ và bất lực nhìn người khác phá hủy nó,” Zarmina Kakar, 26 tuổi, một nhà hoạt động vì quyền phụ nữ ở Kabul, nói.
Kakar được một tuổi khi Taliban tiến vào Kabul lần đầu tiên vào năm 1996, và cô nhớ lúc mà mẹ cô dẫn cô đi mua kem, khi mà Taliban còn cai trị. Mẹ cô đã bị một chiến binh Taliban đánh đòn vì để lộ khuôn mặt trong vài phút.
“Ngày giờ này một lần nữa, tôi cảm thấy nếu Taliban lên nắm quyền, chúng tôi sẽ quay trở lại những ngày đen tối đó,” cô nói.
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Taliban tấn công còn nhanh hơn Covid's Delta Variant.
TT Ashraft Ghani bỏ chạy. Taliban tiến vào Kabul. :(
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Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul
By AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ, TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL25 minutes ago
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday, joining his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.
The Taliban, which for hours had been in the outskirts of Kabul, announced soon after they would move further into a city gripped by panic throughout the day as helicopters raced overhead to evacuate personnel from the U.S. Embassy. Smoke rose near the compound as staff destroyed important documents. Several other Western missions also prepared to pull their people out.
Civilians fearing that the Taliban could reimpose the kind of brutal rule that all but eliminated women’s rights rushed to leave the country as well, lining up at cash machines to withdraw their life savings. The desperately poor — who had left homes in the countryside for the hoped-for safety in the capital — remained in their thousands in parks and open spaces throughout the city.
President Ashraf Ghani flew out of the country, two officials told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief journalists. Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the Afghan National Reconciliation Council, later confirmed in an online video that Ghani had left.
“The former president of Afghanistan left Afghanistan, leaving the country in this difficult situation,” Abdullah said. “God should hold him accountable.”
In a stunning rout, the Taliban seized nearly all of Afghanistan in just over a week, despite the billions of dollars spent by the U.S. and NATO over nearly two decades to build up Afghan security forces. Just days earlier, an American military assessment estimated it would be a month before the capital would come under insurgent pressure.
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Sáng ra tin tức tình trạng A-Phú-Hãn đầy khắp
các mặt báo.
Cảnh tượng di tản căng thẳng không khác gì
Sài-Gòn 1975. Trực thăng, đầm già, máy bay
quân cụ ... Tổng thống đầu hàng.
Liệu Mỹ và NATO có học được gì từ bài học sa
lầy thứ 2 này sau 46 năm hay không?
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Hy vọng có thể tránh được những cảnh đẫm máu, không như khi ISIS chiếm Mosul của Iraq. Giữa Taliban và ISIS, thì ISIS tệ hơn Taliban nhiều. Taliban ít nhất là một phong trào quốc gia và không có tham vọng tấn công bất kỳ ai khác bên ngoài đất nước của họ và người Shia đã từng sống dưới quyền cai trị của họ. Nhớ qua báo chí năm 2014, khi Mosul sụp đổ, các thánh đường, đền đài và nhiều di sản thế giới được UNESCO công nhận bị phá hủy bởi những kẻ cuồng tín ISIS ghê tởm này. Lần cuối khi Taliban cai trị Afghanistan, Taliban đã không tiến hành cuộc diệt chủng đối với người Shiite. Tuy nhiên Taliban đó là của trước đây, giờ có thể tệ hơn... :z51:
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Taliban không có tham vọng chống đối nước ngoài nhưng họ ủng hộ các tổ chức khủng bố, ví dụ như tổ chức Al-kaida. Cũng vì lẽ đó mà Mỹ nhảy vào A-Phú-Hãn và kéo theo đồng minh. Rốt cuộc bắt được thủ lãnh Al-kaida ở ... Pakistan.
Hiện tại không biết người Taliban muốn gì. Nhưng ngày xưa 15 cuộc tàn sát đẫm máu mà Liên Hiệp Quốc cáo buộc do Taliban gây ra là tàn sát dân của mình. Một kiểu như "Khờ Me đỏ".
Nghe bên thể thao nói, phái đoàn lực sĩ tàn tật của A-Phú-Hãn chuẩn bị đi Thế Vận Hội Paralympics đã hủy bỏ. Đó là bước đầu trở lại giai đoạn trước năm 2000 ở A-Phú-Hãn: thời đại không TV, không nhạc nhiết cải lương, đàn ông không cạo râu, đàn bà trùm kín người, phụ nữ không được đi học. Nếu mọi sự chỉ dừng lại trong nước A-Phú-Hãn, thì cũng không có liên can gì tới hòa bình thế giới.
Lương y như kỵ mã:
Vaccines on horseback
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ges-from-covid
Nước thanh bình ba trăm năm cũQuote:
To reach Nakida village in the highlands of Fiji, Dr Losalini Tabakei and her colleagues hiked for hours, up and down mountains, through forests, down muddy slopes, across rivers and along treacherous ridges with steep slopes of bamboo forest on either side.
Their supplies – clothing, medical equipment and, crucially, the Covid-19 vaccines they were bringing to administer to the remote community of just 60 people – were sent separately on horseback; the vaccines in refrigerated boxes, the rest in bags wrapped in plastic. The horses took the longer but flatter route to the town along the river.
The country is grappling with a devastating Delta outbreak that has seen more than 500 people die and 47,000 cases – more than 5% of the country’s population of about 900,000 people. The Pacific nation has the dubious honour of having the highest per-capita rate of infection at times over the past month.
Vắc xin trao bác sĩ từ đây
Xứ người cách chục đường mây
Cứu dân là trọng niềm tây sá nào
(Chích phụ ngâm)
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Sao bằng "bộ đội ủn xế độp".
OK. Câu này đem vô phòng đối thơ Đặc Trưng thì sẽ "bị rớt từ vòng gởi xe".
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Vậy sửa lại thành: Lôi thôi giống bộ đội.
Bộ đội đem đối lại kỵ mã là siêu hay và chuẩn vị. Ngó mấy ảnh cũng lôi thôi thiệt.
Một điều mà bài báo này hoàn toàn không đề cập tới rằng thuốc này chỉ hữu hiệu
khi bệnh phát 5 ngày đầu (theo tờ Đặc san bác sĩ ở Đức). Những ai phát hiện trễ
mình bị covid-19 thì sau 5 ngày thuốc này không còn công hiệu chận vi trùng covid-19
nữa. Và chỉ công hiệu với những người mắc dịch nhẹ đến trung bình nặng. Ai bị nặng
rồi là chỉ còn nước húp cháo rùa.
Chích ngừa một mũi thuốc mắc nhứt hiện tại chỉ có 35 USD. Uống hết một lần trị
thuốc này cái hãng Merck kia thu vô túi 700 USD. Và nếu thuốc này được mua vô
điều trị. Nhà nước sẽ bắt đầu cân nhắc vụ .... miễn phí!
Các nước châu Á đổ xô mua thuốc viên chống COVID của Merck
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Thuốc viên chống virus, molnupiravir, đang thử nghiệm của Merck chữa COVID.
Chính phủ Thái Lan đang thương lượng với công ty Merck & Co để mua 200.000 liệu trình thuốc viên chống virus đang thử nghiệm của Merck chữa COVID. Như vậy Thái Lan trở thành quốc gia châu Á mới nhất đổ xô mua thuốc này sau khi bị tuột hậu sau các nước phương Tây về vaccine.
Ông Somsak Akksilp, Tổng giám đốc Tổng cục Dịch vụ Thuốc men, cho hay Thái Lan đang thương lượng một hợp đồng mua thuốc chống virus vừa kể tên là molnupiravir.
Hàn Quốc, Đài Loan và Malaysia cũng cho hay đang thảo luận để mua thuốc trong khi Philippines, nơi đang diễn ra cuộc thử nghiệm thuốc này, nói họ hy vọng cuộc nghiên cứu ngay trong nước sẽ giúp họ tiếp cận dễ dàng hơn với loại thuốc vừa kể.
Các nước này đều từ chối tiết lộ chi tiết về các cuộc thương thuyết.
Diễn tiến này xảy ra sau khi dữ liệu từ cuộc thử nghiệm lâm sàng lâm thời công bố ngày 1/10 cho thấy thuốc có thể giảm khoảng 50% rủi ro nhập viện hay tử vong đối với bệnh nhân có nguy cơ cao bệnh COVID-19 nặng.
Thuốc viên molnupiravir, được bào chế để cài sai lầm vào mã gen của virus, sẽ là thuốc uống đầu tiên chống COVID-19.
Các nước châu Á muốn sớm có được nguồn cung về loại thuốc này sau khi bị thiếu hụt về vaccine, nhưng chưa thấy chính phủ Việt Nam lên tiếng.
“Chúng tôi hiện đang làm việc trên thỏa thuận mua bán với Merck hy vọng sẽ hoàn tất trong tuần này…Chúng tôi đã đặt trước 200.000 liệu trình,” ông Somsak nói. Ông cho biết sớm nhất là tháng 12 này sẽ có thuốc dù còn tuỳ thuộc vào sự chấp thuận của Cơ quan Quản trị Thực phẩm và Dược phẩm Mỹ và cơ quan thẩm quyền dược phẩm Thái Lan đối với loại thuốc này.
Số ca nhiễm COVID hàng ngày tại Thái Lan xuống dưới 10.000 hôm 4/10, lần đầu tiên kể từ giữa tháng 7. Cho tới nay, nước này đã tiêm 55,5 triệu liều vaccine COVID và tiêm chủng hoàn toàn cho 31% dân số.
Merck hy vọng sản xuất 10 triệu liệu trình molnupiravir trước cuối năm nay. Công ty đã có hợp đồng với chính phủ Mỹ cung cấp 1,7 triệu liệu trình với giá 700 đô la một liệu trình.
Công ty nói sẽ giảm giá dựa trên tiêu chuẩn thu nhập của mỗi nước.
Một phát ngôn viên của Ủy ban châu Âu cho hay Brussels có thể tổ chức đấu thầu chung mua thuốc cho EU, tương tự như chiến lược mua vaccine COVID.
Một phát ngôn viên Bộ Y tế Đức cho biết chính phủ đang theo dõi việc phát triển các liệu pháp mới, nhưng từ chối bình luận về việc liệu Đức có định đặt mua thuốc của Merck hay không.
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Xuyên tâm liên thì hữu hiệu trước khi dính covid 5 ngày.
Cãi nhau vì món ăn: miếng ăn là miếng tồi tàn.
Japan’s curry inflames tensions with Korea
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ean-neighbours
Ði tới Shimane mình muốn cho lớn chuyện thì đớp cơm cà ri. (Chiếc thuyền nản)Quote:
A seafood curry sold in Japan includes mounds of rice shaped to resemble the Takeshima islands, which Koreans refer to as Dokdo.
The rocky islets, which lie roughly equidistant between the two countries in the Japan Sea – or the East Sea according to Koreans – are administered by South Korea, but Japan insists they are an integral part of its territory.
The dish at the centre of the controversy is served at a restaurant in Shimane, the Japanese prefecture closest to the disputed territory. The dish features a Japanese flag planted in one of the mounds of rice surrounded by a “sea” of curry sauce.
Việt nam bán chè xôi nước rồi cắm thêm cờ tam tài xong đặt tên là chè Hoàng sa, chè Trường sa cũng được.
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Chinese military condemns US and Canada over warships in Taiwan Strait
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-taiwan-strait
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China sent around 150 aircraft into the zone over a four-day period beginning on 1 October in a further heightening of tension between Beijing and Taipei that has sparked concern internationally.
The US military said the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Dewey sailed through the narrow waterway that separates Taiwan from its neighbour China along with the Canadian frigate HMCS Winnipeg on Thursday and Friday.
US Navy ships have been transiting the strait roughly monthly, to the anger of Beijing, which has accused Washington of stoking regional tensions. US allies occasionally also send ships through the strait, including Britain last month.
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Bù lại thì Tàu cộng có gởi tàu chiến ra canh chừng Hoàng sa Trường sa dùm Việt cộng rồi đó. Việt nam làm chủ, Trung cộng quản lý.
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Smuggling Australian rock lobsters into China a national security threat
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...oms-chief-says
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Lobsters are one of a number of products from Australia that China has restricted imports of as relations between the countries plunged.But they remain a prized and much sought-after delicacy in mainland China.
Imports of Australian rock lobsters to Hong Kong – which maintains no restrictions on the crustaceans – have since sky-rocketed, with suspicions that the vast majority end up on mainland tables.
In June, Bloomberg reported that Hong Kong has become the world’s largest importer of Australian lobsters, with monthly trade growing more than 2,000% from October to April.
Last week, Hong Kong and mainland authorities seized 5,300 kilograms of smuggled Australian lobsters, worth around US$540,000, and arrested 13 people.
Lobsters are just one of a cornucopia of in-demand goods that gangs smuggle into China.
Recent speedboat smuggling busts have netted everything from luxury watches, handbags and shoes to endangered animal parts, cosmetics, wines, whiskey and cigars.
Chữ Tôm kia lớn bằng ba chữ Tàu.
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Tokyo một phen hoảng loạn.
Man stabbed, 16 others hurt as attacker starts fire on Tokyo train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfX2AzpH3NM
A man dressed in Batman’s Joker costume was arrested for attempted murder after a knife and fire attack on a Keio Line train in Tokyo on Sunday night left 17 people injured, one seriously, authorities said, as revelers were heading to the city center for Halloween.
Police arrested the 24-year-old man, who identified himself as Kyota Hattori, at the scene. A male passenger in his 70s was in critical condition after being stabbed in the chest as the train was moving around 8 p.m.
Hattori was quoted by investigators as saying he “wanted to kill people and be given the death penalty,” and hoped to do so if he killed two or more people. He also told them he had scattered lighter fluid.
According to the police, Hattori referenced an incident in August on an Odakyu Electric Railway commuter train in Tokyo in which a man stabbed and slashed 10 passengers amid heightened security for the Tokyo Olympics.
The other victims in Sunday’s incident ranged in age from their teens to their 60s. In addition to the seriously injured man, 16 people sustained minor injuries including smoke inhalation.
The incident, which caused panic among passengers who scrambled to escape through train windows, took place on a 10-car train bound for Shinjuku, a busy station in central Tokyo, from Hachioji in the west of the capital.
Investigative sources and eyewitnesses said the suspect was brandishing what looked like a kitchen knife and holding a plastic bottle in his other hand as he walked through the train.
After riding the train in the eighth car from the front and stabbing the man in his 70s, Hattori moved to the sixth car where he scattered the fluid and burnt a seat. The train then filled with smoke.
A male passenger, who was about a meter away from Hattori, said the knife looked like it was stained with fake blood. “I thought it was a Halloween prank,” he said.
The limited express train made an emergency stop at Kokuryo Station in Chofu, western Tokyo, and the fire was put out about 30 minutes later after more than 40 firefighting vehicles were mobilized.
“I heard a loud bang and saw flames and smoke in the back. Everyone was panicking,” a male passenger said.
Photos and videos of the incident, which took place on the day of Japan’s general election, were posted on social media by eyewitnesses. People were seen climbing out of train windows onto the platform after the doors failed to immediately open when the train stopped. Screaming could be heard and someone saying, “Run away.”
In a video posted to social media, the assailant was seen dressed in clothes that resemble those of the Joker, the villain from the Batman franchise. After the train had stopped, he was seen sitting alone on a train seat, calmly smoking a cigarette. Another video showed the same man surrounded by police.
The man reportedly did not resist being taken into custody.
One of the passengers, who said, “I saw a woman crying and shivering. I thought I was going to die,” was reminded of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in 1995 that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000.
A number of attacks on trains and station premises in the Tokyo area have occurred recently.
On Oct. 15, two men were stabbed by a man at JR Ueno Station, and two people were injured in a Tokyo subway station in late August after a man sprayed sulfuric acid in the face of another man.
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