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From 6 January 2022, people travelling from foreign countries to Macau must comply with the new epidemic prevention requirements
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From 12 am of 6 January 2022, the Macau Special Administrative Region Government's Coordination Center for Coordination of Novel Coronavirus Infections announced that in response to the covid outbreak, Macau's Ministry of Health will enact accordance with Article 10 of the Law No. 2/2004 "Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Act". Before boarding the first flight of a direct flight or connecting flight from a foreign country to Macau:
1) From very high-risk countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Turkey, the United States, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique or Malawi), must present a certificate of negative results of nucleic acid test for 3 consecutive samples of novel coronavirus pneumonia at least 24 hours apart each time within 5 days. After entering Macau, they must undergo a 28-day intensive quarantine medical observation;
2) For those departing from other foreign countries, the negative results of the new coronavirus pneumonia nucleic acid test must be sampled within 48 hours, and 21 days of concentrated quarantine medical observation after entering Macau;
3) Those who are 12 years old or above must show proof that they have completed the covi vaccine at least 14 days after the initial series of vaccination and the last dose is within 7 months; those who fail to show must show that they are not suitable or cannot be vaccinated Doctor’s certificate. The relevant certificate must be for international travel purposes.
Violators may not only bear corresponding criminal liabilities in accordance with the law, but also be subject to compulsory isolation measures.
Note: Under CCP's control, covid and COVID-19 are officially known as novel coronavirus pneumonia in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau while in democrat-controlled Taiwan, the infectious disease is known as Wuhan pneumonia and COVID-19. In Singapore, covid is the neutral synonym for COVID-19, novel coronavirus pneumonia and Wuhan pneumonia. Covi is synonym for novel coronavirus, coronavirus and SARS-CoV-2.
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Cambodia has 26 inbound Omicron variant cases
Macau has listed Cambodia as "very high-risk" for covid, based on the country logging 26 inbound Omicron variant (Covi29) cases by 2 January 2021. On 3 January 2021, Cambodia's Ministry of Health reported 12 covid patient recoveries but there is one covid fatality.
As of 3 January 2021. Cambodia has a cumulative number of 120,516 covid cases, 116,952 recoveries and 3,014 deaths from covid although many believe the numbers are under-reported.
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WHO representative to Cambodia and Cambodia's Ministry of Health urge the public to maintain caution even when cases are low
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According to The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia's Ministry of Health and the WHO representative to Cambodia have called the public to maintain caution and adhere to protective measures to avert a "disaster" in 2022.
Health Ministry spokeswoman Or Vandine reminds Cambodians not to be negligent. She said, "Our negligence can lead to a public health disaster, and what we went through last year and experienced was a lesson for all of us".
She added, "Please do not forget that Covid-19 has yet to go anywhere - it still lives with us. So, we have to take extra precautions in 2022 and, especially, I ask everyone to change their attitudes and habits along with their way of life because we have to adapt our lives to the 'new normal' in order to maintain good health."
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WHO representative: 2022 would change to a "new future"
WHO representative to Cambodia Li Ailan echoed the call, hoping that 2022 would change from the "new normal" to a "new future", and that she is looking forward to seeing Cambodia succeed in 2022.
She said nobody can predict what will happen in 2022 in advance "because there is a lot of uncertainty" although she notices in 2020 there were no covid deaths and in 2021 covi vaccines have saved the lives of many Cambodians and kept deaths to a minimum, pointing the way to a new future.
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A danger that everyone must live long-term with vaccinations, boosters, covid restriction measures
Li added that with the current pandemic, people should prepare for another scenario besides co-existing with covid. That is the danger that everyone must live long-term with vaccinations, booster shots and ongoing health protection measures in face of a "new global pandemic" while "the current pandemic continues" because covi continues to mutate and current vaccines and treatments no longer work against it or there is the possibility of the spread of some other entirely novel virus.
She said, "We have to continue the current personal protection measures. This is a new future that we have to learn to live with in order to make our lives free from regrets".
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Biden partners CCP in new Wuhan lab, EcoHealth hunt for "recombinant" rodent coronaviruses
Reporter : Natalie Winters, The National Pulse / https://thenationalpulse.com/2021/12/31/wuhan-and-ecohealth-find-recombinant-rodent-coronaviruses/
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Researchers from the covid-linked Wuhan Institute of Virology and disgraced researcher Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance have carried out new research on “recombinant” coronaviruses in rodents, a recently published paper reveals. The paper lists the Chinese regime as well as Joe Biden’s International Development department as funders and supporters of the dangerous work.
The October document – “A Novel Potentially Recombinant Rodent Coronavirus with a Polybasic Cleavage Site in the Spike Protein” – describes how researchers sampled rodents and shrews collected from the wild for coronavirus prevalence. In the years preceding COVID-19, the Wuhan Institute of Virology carried out similar expeditions to gather data on bats.
Using the samples collected, researchers from the Wuhan lab in collaboration with the American non-profit EcoHealth Alliance discovered “killer” viruses that they bragged were capable of “direct human infection.”
Image : Web Screenshot The new paper, which counts researchers from seven Chinese state-run scientific institutions including one person affiliated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, is authored by three EcoHealth Alliance Researchers including President Peter Daszak. The National Pulse has previously revealed Daszak’s extensive relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, prompting his removal from the Lancet’s COVID-19 commission due to conflicts of interest.
“In this study, we tested nearly 300 rodents collected from urban and rural sites in southern China,” the paper summarizes its methodology which yielded the following results:
"Here, we sampled 297 rodents and shrews, representing eight species, from three municipalities of southern China. We report coronavirus prevalences of 23.3% and 0.7% in Guangzhou and Guilin, respectively, with samples from urban areas having significantly higher coronavirus prevalences than those from rural areas. We obtained three coronavirus genome sequences from Rattus norvegicus, including a Betacoronavirus (rat coronavirus [RCoV] GCCDC3), an Alphacoronavirus (RCoV-GCCDC5), and a novel Betacoronavirus (RCoV-GCCDC4). Recombination analysis suggests that there was a potential recombination event involving RCoV-GCCDC4, murine hepatitis virus (MHV), and Longquan Rl rat coronavirus (LRLV)."
“Recombination analysis suggests that there was a potential recombination event involving RCoV-GCCDC4, murine hepatitis virus (MHV), and Longquan Rl rat coronavirus (LRLV). Furthermore, we uncovered a polybasic cleavage site, RARR, in the spike (S) protein of RCoV-GCCDC4, which is dominant in RCoV,” the paper adds.
Among the paper’s financial supporters are several Chinese Communist Party-run scientific bodies, including those with ties to the regime’s military. President Joe Biden’s U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) also funded the field animal sampling portion of the study.
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Myanmar Junta military torture prisoners inside Mandalay Palace
Myanmar Now has obtained a medical prescription that offers strong evidence of the torture of anti-coup protesters inside the Myanmar junta’s notorious Mandalay Palace interrogation centre.
In a statement released on 30 December 2021, the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU) said that it had evidence that three of its members had been tortured by having bamboo sticks thrust inside their rectums.
Myanmar Now asked to see this evidence and consulted with a medical expert to determine whether it does, in fact, offer proof of such abusive treatment, which can only be described as an extreme form of torture.
According to the ABFSU, the three prisoners in question are Myat Thu, 22, of the Yadanabon University Students’ Union, arrested on July 4 for leading anti-coup protests; Soe Thura Kyaw (aka Poet Thar Shar), 27, a member of the General Strike Committee of Basic Education Workers, detained since September 24; and Thurein Moe (aka Sai Ban Kha), 24, an executive member of Yadanabon University Students’ Union whose exact date of arrest was not available.
All three were said to have been subjected to the same form of torture and have also been denied treatment for their injuries, which have caused them immense suffering and could be life-threatening.
“During interrogation, they had bamboo sticks thrust up their rectums when they were being asked questions. Our students suffered more than a slap across the face. They were sexually assaulted,” said an ABFSU information officer who spoke to Myanmar Now on condition of anonymity.
The ABFSU said it learned of the abuse inflicted upon its members from people who were helping them with their injuries. It added that it disclosed information about the victims’ identities with the consent of their families, in the interests of ensuring that the International Committee of the Red Cross acts to protect them from further mistreatment.
Myanmar Now showed the prescription for one of the victims to a medical doctor to ask if the prescribed items were likely for the sort of injuries that sources close to the victims’ families had described. The prescription lists six items including Lorix Plus cream, Flumox, Septidine, Diltigesic, Daflon and milk of magnesia.
According to the doctor, the Lorix Plus cream is used for the prevention of scabies and other infections, Flumox is an antibiotic, and Septidine is an antiseptic. All three can be used to treat a number of conditions, while milk of magnesia is widely used to relieve constipation. However, Daflon and Diltigesic are both primarily used for the treatment of anal fissures and other injuries to the anus.
The doctor added that inserting a foreign object such as a piece of bamboo into a person’s rectum could indeed be life-threatening, depending on a number of factors.
“The severity of the injury depends on the location and depth of insertion. I don’t know the size of the bamboo stick, but at the very least, the victims would suffer from anal tears,” he observed.
“It can be fatal if the bowel is perforated. This torture is beyond the interrogation level, and totally unacceptable,” he added.
The ABFSU said that it was extremely concerned about the health of its three members and called on the authorities to provide them with immediate medical attention.
“They have been denied medical treatment and are still suffering from their injuries. I want them to get comprehensive medical care,” said the group’s information officer.
He added that the ABFSU is also worried about the safety of a number of other members who are still in the regime’s custody and whose current whereabouts are unknown.
Among those who have not been heard from since their arrest are student activists Aye Nandar Soe, Naung Htet Aung and Yan Soe Paing and lecturers Thet Su Hlaing and Naing Thiha Kyaw.
Myanmar’s military has arrested more than 10,000 people since it seized power in a coup 11 months ago, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), which also claims that hundreds have been tortured to death in regime custody.
The junta has accused the AAPP, an advocacy group based in exile, of exaggerating the numbers of those detained and killed by the regime, but has yet to provide its own figures.
The interrogation centre inside Mandalay Palace is regarded as one of the most notorious in the country. Countless regime opponents, including monks, have been subjected to cruel and degrading torture there.
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The new Czech government regains value diplomacy and may become the next Lithuania
The new centre-right government led by the new Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala took office in mid-December 2021. The cabinet members are regarded as the foreign minister of China hawks. Jan Lipavsky made no secret of his anti-communist tendencies as soon as he took office. Analysts believe that the new Czech government promotes "value diplomacy" and is likely to become the next Lithuania.
According to a report by the Voice of America, the Czech Republic will hold a general election for the House of Representatives in October. The "Together" coalition (SPOLU) formed by the People's Democratic Party (ODS), the Tradition, Responsibility and Prosperity Party (TOP 09) and the Christian Democrats (Christian Democrats), and The Pirate party (Pirate party) and the "Pirates/Mayors" coalition (Pirates/Mayors) formed by the Mayor and the Independent Party (STAN) won more than half of the 108 seats in the 200-seat parliament and won the new joint government Power.
The Czech Republic implements a responsible cabinet system. The president is the vacant head of state. The parliament is composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Among them, the House of Representatives is the core of political power. .
After the Czech Republic became an independent sovereign state in 1993, it established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level with China. In March 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the Czech Republic and became the first Chinese leader to visit since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The two heads of state mutually signed a joint statement of strategic partnership, ushering in the best moment in history for Czech-China relations.
However, in just a few years, with the official inauguration of the center-right government led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala, analysts expect that the relationship between the two sides may usher in an earth-shaking change.
Fiala has repeatedly criticized Czech President Milos Zeman for being too weak against China. He said that if the Czech Republic fails to uphold its "values," it will eventually lose its Western allies and it will also lose the respect of Beijing.
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Regain the human rights value of Havel
According to the joint governance agreement signed by the leaders of the five parties, the new Czech government will reverse the pro-China-Russian, anti-US, and anti-EU integration route of President Zeman and former Prime Minister Andrej Babis, and regain the previous President Václav Havel's foreign policy based on human rights values.
The agreement clearly stated that the Czech government will support civil society, promote human rights and democracy in its foreign policy, and promote the Czech version of the "Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act" (Magnitsky Act), which will allow the Czech Republic to target Sanctions are imposed on individuals and companies that violate human rights.
Among the cabinet members, Jan Lipavsky, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Pirate Party, threatened to promote "human rights diplomacy" at the first press conference after taking office, restore the reputation and status of the Czech Republic, and re-examine the Czech Republic and China and Russia. Power relationship.
Lipavsky is a well-known Chinese hawk in Czech politics. He has repeatedly criticized China when he was in the field, including accusing the Chinese Communist Party of having been responsible for the waistline, and shelling the Chinese Communist Party for its inhumane oppression and genocide of the Uyghur minority. Lipavsky said, "It is our duty to oppose this injustice!"
Jakub Janda, director of the European Value Security Policy Center in Prague, said in an interview with Voice of America that the new Czech government will not only re-examine relations with China, but its joint governance agreement also clearly indicates that Taiwan needs to strengthen relations. partner". Lipavsky said that Taiwan is an economic partner that is several times more important than China, because Taiwan has created 24,000 jobs in the Czech Republic, compared with 4,000 jobs in China.
Janda said that the economic and trade exchanges between the Czech Republic and China are extremely limited, and only about 1% of Czech products are exported to China. Therefore, apart from empty rhetoric threats, the CCP cannot take any substantive measures to retaliate against the Czech Republic for strengthening its relations with Taiwan.
Janda said, “In China’s eyes, the Czech Republic will be another Lithuania. I expect the Czech Republic will face the treatment Lithuania has suffered a while ago, such as economic coercion (from China) and frequent political harassment. However, We had already experienced it when the Czech Senate President Miloš Vystrčil visited Taiwan last year, and it’s not a big deal."
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Foreign media pay attention to Tsai Ing-wen and Xi Jinping's New Year's speeches, China faces economic and epidemic problems
The world is highly concerned about Taiwan’s security. President Tsai Ing-wen and Xi Jinping’s New Year speeches were highly discussed by foreign media, focusing on how Taiwan can resist the threat of the CCP, and also concerned that Xi Jinping is facing more difficult situations due to the epidemic. Economic challenges.
"Oneworld News Channel of India": "Just now, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen called out to the CCP in a New Year's talk. She said that military conflicts and military aggressiveism are definitely not options for resolving cross-strait differences."
In 2022, the President issued a New Year's speech. Foreign media including "Reuters" are all concerned about Tsai Ing-wen's warning to the CCP not to misjudge the situation and intimidate Taiwan's military. The day before, Chinese President Xi Jinping also mentioned cross-strait reunification in his New Year's speech. However, unlike previous years, Xi Jinping did not directly mention the word Taiwan, and avoided the issue of the United States and GDP.
The "Nikkei Shimbun" headlined Xi Jinping's claim that the Party Congress will be a major event in CCP politics in 2022. "Bloomberg" further analyzed, Xi Jinping vowed to deal with any risks that may disrupt the process, because he has entered a critical "political year" and faces more difficult economic challenges due to the epidemic.
"CNN" compiled five major challenges that the CCP will face in 2022, including the Beijing Winter Olympics that will be held in February but were boycotted due to human rights issues, the CCP’s economic problems affected by the epidemic’s supply chain disruption and the continued real estate crisis, and te CCP has eroded Hong Kong’s democracy and raised tensions in Taiwan, and is facing the dilemma of being derailed from the world.
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There was no democracy in Hong Kong during the British rule? Archival documents reveal the truth
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The CCP has been aggressively destroying Hong Kong’s democratic autonomy in recent years. However, CCP officials recently claimed that Hong Kong did not have democracy during the British rule. What the CCP is doing in Hong Kong now is to save Hong Kong. And democracy. However, documents published by the British National Archives confirm that the CCP is lying.
On 27 December 2021, the New Office of the Communist Party of China held a briefing on the white paper on Interpretation of the "Democratic Development of Hong Kong under "One Country, Two Systems"" in Beijing. Wang Zhenmin, the vice chairman of the Hong Kong and Macau Studies Association, claimed that the CCP has always trusted Hong Kong people like a "motherly mother", and everything it has done is to save Hong Kong and save democracy. It is not easy to be discredited for many years.
According to observations, reality is just the opposite.
Li Youtan, an adjunct professor at the National Development Research Institute of Taiwan National Chengchi University: "The people he calls the motherland cares for are people and subjects, not citizens, that is, you cannot have free will. Free and democratic are all given by our Central Committee. Finally, the central government will give you as much as you want. Hong Kong people, I think he can only vote for me in the end. So the logic behind this saying that the motherland loves you is that if you accept the rule of the Communist Party, the Communist Party will give you benefits. If you don’t accept the Communist Party’s rule, then you are nothing."
On 19 December 2021, Hong Kong held its first Legislative Council election after drastically revising its electoral mechanism. Almost all 90 seats were elected by pro-Communist establishment members. The voter turnout that day also hit a record low of 30.2%.
The Chinese Communist Party released this white paper the next day.
Han Dayuan, member of the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party of China, stated at a briefing on 27 December that China has put forward the new concept of "all-process people's democracy", which provides legal protection for the promotion of Hong Kong's democratic development.
Yan Jianfa, a professor at Taiwan's Jianxing University of Science and Technology, commented "This is a kind of similar sophistry. If it is really democratic, why are so many people fleeing overseas? These democratic activists are criticizing its system?"
Li Youtan, an adjunct professor at the National Development Research Institute of Taiwan National Chengchi University, said that the definition of contemporary democratic politics is competition, participation, and freedom. The CCP brazenly misunderstood the true meaning of democracy.
Li Youtan said, "The CCP's interpretation of patriotism and Hong Kong is to love the Communist Party. Therefore, the entire process of people's democracy as interpreted by the CCP has become the control of the entire process in Hong Kong, and the entire process is undemocratic."
Wang Zhenmin pointed out that Hong Kong did not have democracy during the British colonial period. Before the return of the British government, the rapid development of democracy was well known by Sima Zhao. He also emphasized that the CCP is the promoter of democracy in Hong Kong.
However, documents published by the National Archives in 2014 show that since the 1950s, the Governor of Hong Kong has repeatedly sought to promote universal suffrage, but was forced to abandon it under pressure from Beijing.
In spite of Beijing’s opposition, Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, drastically increased the number of directly elected seats in the Hong Kong Legislative Council. Lu Ping, a former senior CCP official, denounced Peng as an “eternal sinner”.
Li Youtan added, "The British rule of law safeguards the freedom and human rights of Hong Kong people. So the long-term Hong Kong people did not want to fight for democracy. But when Hong Kong was returning to China, Hong Kong people began to fight for democracy. The British Hong Kong government at that time, they I also hope to help Hong Kong achieve democracy, but the CCP opposed it at that time."
Li Youtan said that after the reunification in 1997, Hong Kong people wanted to fight for democracy to safeguard the right to freedom. As a result, not only was democracy not obtained, but freedom and human rights were also regressed.
Li Youtan said, "The Sino-British Joint Declaration signed by the Chinese Communist Party and the United Kingdom later promised that one country, two systems and dual universal suffrage will be realized slowly. And afterwards, we can see that the dual universal suffrage promised by the Chinese Communist Party will be realized by the democracy defined by the Chinese Communist Party. They criticized these people who do not support the CCP as anti-China and chaotic Hong Kong, including their resistance, in 2003 they opposed Article 23, the Umbrella Movement in 2014, and the anti-transmission regulations that began in 2019, when 2 million people stood up and fought for it. , The CCP suppressed it, and then became more and more severe. If it is suppressed by the National Security Law, anyone in Hong Kong may commit a crime at any time."
Yan Jianfa, a professor at Taiwan's Jianxing University of Science and Technology, said that the CCP has always been talking about democracy. At the end of the talk, the Chinese people don't even know what democracy is.
Yan Jianfa said, "On this basis, it said, "Look, the United States, these foreign forces force us to use its method. This kind of statement can easily arouse internal nationalism and attribute the responsibility to external oppression." ."
Yan Jianfa said that in a democratic society, even if there is no democratic form, the essence of democracy still exists. The problem with the CCP is that even if there is a so-called democratic form, there is no democratic connotation. Just like the CPPCC dealing with democracy issues, it is just a vase.
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Airline and express mail services to many countries suspended by Hongkong Post
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A few days ago, Hongkong Post announced that starting from 1 January 2022, due to the airline's significant reduction of flights to many overseas destinations, it will suspend all airmail and express mail services to Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United States until further notice.
In addition, in view of the fact that airmail services to Belize, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Norfolk Island need to transit through Australia and Mexico, the corresponding services will also be suspended.
Hongkong Post stated that it will continue to work closely with airmail carriers to restore the affected services as soon as possible.
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