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News (1)
Bassaka Air grounded flight operations and went defunct, contributing to layoffs at Nagaworld
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On 31 December 2021, The Phnom Penh Post reported the unauthorized demonstrations of Nagaworld Casino staff in Phnom Penh against unpaid wages. In fact, the Nagaworld crisis started because of the flight suspensions of Bassaka Air, which saw it went defunct during the covid pandemic.
Nagaworld had a stake in the defunct low-cost airline Bassaka Air. Operational since 1 May 2015, the airline operated charter flights to Macau, mainland China and regular flights to Siem Reap and Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) before the covid epidemic broke out in Cambodia.
Bassaka Air has not updated its operation status on its web-site and Facebook. Its routes to Changsha, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Xi'an Xianyang and Macau are no longer operated as the CCP and Macau authorities prohibited Chinese travellers from leaving China and Macau for non-essential travel.
The covid waves in Malaysia have also forced Bassaka Air to withdraw from the regional travel market.
Nagaworld Casino heavily replies on leisure tourists and gamblers from abroad. Ceasation of flights due to covid have grounded Bassaka Air aircraft at the airport of Phnom Penh when the epidemic went full-blown in Cambodia since 2020.
The situation worsened in 2021 when the Bassaka Air management could not pay costs of fuel, leased aircraft and slots at the airports. As a result, the casino management that rely on gamblers and Bassaka Air as their sources of income, till now, are not able to foot staff wages. The staff not only cover those of the casino but also of the defunct airline.
Pictures of Bassaka Air (1 May 2015-2021)
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News (2) to (6) / Sources of Extracts : https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/exclusive-dr-li-meng-yan-reveals?r=yn4d4
News (2)
Lassa fever outbreak in the UK, Yan called for "investigation" into the source of the disease
According to the UK media UPI, British health authorities said they have diagnosed
two cases of a viral hemorrhagic fever in Britain, and possibly a third --
marking the first time the illness has been seen in the country in over a
decade.
Officials said the cases of Lassa fever
involve members of the same family and are linked to recent travel to western
Africa, where the illness is endemic. Two of the cases are conclusive and the
third has not been confirmed yet.
Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic
illness and infection usually occurs through food or household items
contaminated with urine or feces from rats who are carrying the virus.
Symptoms of Lassa fever include fever and
fatigue -- and in more severe cases, bleeding in the mouth, trouble breathing
and low blood pressure. Most people who contract Lassa fever do not develop any
symptoms and it's fatal in only about 1% of cases. The new cases are the first
in Britain since 2009.
Dr. Yan Limeng added that there were three cases of Lassa fever in the UK on 11 February 2022 and one of the patients have passed away from the disease. She said that Lassa fever has never occurred in the UK since 2010 until the outbreak occurred in the UK and the Lassa virus is actually the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s bioweapon.
Yan called for independent "investigation" into the source of Lassa virus since people cannot simply wait for the World Health Organization (WHO), that sides with the CCP, to initiate investigation into the source of the virus. She believes that the CCP is developing Lassa virus as another bioweapon against humanity and she has evidence that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the CCP has been pursuing biowarfare actively by researching on infectious viruses in the past 20 years.
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On her Twitter page (above), Yan highlighted examples of PLA scientists and experts going to Sierra Leone and Liberia in west Africa to study Lassa virus, rats, Ebola virus in the efforts to "eradicate" hemorrhagic fever.
News (3)
Yan Limeng: Lassa virus is CCP’s new
bioweapon
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JD Rucker said the problem with the UPI report
is that the disease may not be standard Lassa fever but possibly something new
that was created through gain-of-function research. Dr. Yan Limeng, during a Rumble interview with JD Rucker, has not
confirmed this but based on her sources and evidence, Lassa fever is one of the
bioweapons they prepared to launch attacks during or after the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Yan noted that CCP military scientists worked with Liberia to
study Ebola in 2014. They also sent six groups of scientists to Sierra Leone to
study Lassa viruses, most recently in 2020. The west Africa studies by the CCP
can help people understand their military-civil fusion and bioweapon program.
If Yan Limeng is correct, and all of her predictions have been
proven accurate so far, this could mark the beginning of very troubling times
in the world.
News (4)
As the covid epidemic fades, the CCP
plans to spread a new bioweapon
Covid, while dangerous to the
elderly with the earlier variants, seems to be rapidly fading. Governments
around the world are lifting restrictions although some countries such as
Canada, France, Australia and the United States continue to head in the other
direction. It seems like the covid pandemic fading period is the perfect time for the CCP, with the Olympics in
Beijing, to spread a new bioweapon.
News (5)
Yan Limeng: Hemorrhagic fever caused by more than one hemorrhagic fever virus, the Xi'an hemorrhagic fever outbreak is a military drill
According to Dr. Yan, the December hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Xi'an may be caused by more than one hemorrhagic fever virus such as Lassa virus, which is a bioweapon developed by the CCP as a military drill. She argues that patients of the Xi'an hemorrhagic fever have different symptoms and different viruses such as hantavirus, Lassa virus, etc. As such they were evacuated to local military hospitals for treatment and nobody is able to perform swabs in non-military hospitals. She said that the hemorrhagic fever in Xi'an may actually be Lassa fever but she needs confirmation on the viral genome.
News (6)
Yan Limeng: CCP is procuring daratumumab
from Johnson & Johnson for Lassa fever
According to Dr. Yan, there is already a cure and the CCP is in
the process of procuring as much of it as possible. It is a Johnson &
Johnson drug called Darzalex (daratumumab). According to Cancer.org, the drug
is currently used to treat multiple myeloma but Dr. Yan said the CCP
discovered it is effective against their new bioweapon as well.
News (7) to (10) / Source : The JD Rucker Show
News (7)
Yan Limeng: CCP is developing its own antidote for hemorrhagic fever and Lassa fever
Yan also states that apart from the procurement of daratumumab, it is developing its own rival treatment for hemorrhagic fever and Lassa fever so that when the fever outbreaks occurred inside and outside China, the CCP can benefit from selling the antidote for the infectious fevers.
News (8)
CCP goes ambitious in world domination
The CCP has their sights set on world domination. Unleashing a dangerous disease and cornering the market on the cure may be their fast path to achieving their goals.
Dr. Yan argues that covid is only the beginning of CCP's unrestricted biowarfare project through the development of infectious diseases. She adds that by developing bioweapons, dictator Xi Jinping "wants to take over all the world" and rivals the U.S. because of differences in social values.
She said that human rights and freedom under the U.S. Constitution is not allowed in China and so to dominate the world, CCP uses covid, other bioweapons and misinformation to create chaos, break down the medical system and social order of the U.S. and puts CCP China as the central focus of the world in developing China's biotechnology industry, thus supporting the Communist economy and enhancing CCP's biowarfare programme.
News (9)
Yan Limeng: Protect non-CCP economies and technology from the CCP
Yan told JD Rucker that by developing CCP's biowarfare programme and controlling WHO and Fauci, CCP feels this is an opportunity to use more bioweapons to take over Taiwan, other places and eventually the U.S. by 2035 to replace their civilizations. They feel covid make them feel they can accelerate their biowarfare programme. She warns countries not to let the CCP gain opportunities to control their economies and technology to the advantage of the CCP.
News (10)
Yan Limeng: CCP announces its experts found 1,700 new viruses, it is important to protect generations from the CCP
In addition, Yan discloses that in 2019, 2000 viruses are found by scientists and the CCP government announced that their experts have found additional 1,700 viruses from animals all over China or the world in their database to build up its biowarfare programme. Basically, they "double the number of viruses" from the world and nobody knows half of these viruses. These are the materials that are used to enhance CCP's biowarfare programme, build up its biotechnology industry and support its economy.
In short, Yan Limeng urges the communities to "keep fighting" to protect generations from "anti-humanity" CCP.
Video
Yan Limeng: CCP plans to spread hemorrhagic fever bioweapon via Olympics
Source : The JD Rucker Show
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Video
Special Prosecutor John Durham dropped another bombshell. Hillary Clinton's campaign paid to spy on Trump after he took office in order to frame ties with Russia. The crime is punishable by death.
News (11)
Vietnam fully resumes international flights on 15 February 2022
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Vietnam News Agency reported that Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Transport Le Anh Tuan Gang instructed the Vietnam Aviation Administration (Hang Khong Guoc Gia Viet Nam) to discuss with the aviation authorities of various countries on the full resumption of international flights (except for markets that have resumed flights in January).
The frequency of these flights will be gradually increased based on the principles of safe adaptation, flexibility and effective control of the epidemic, and favorable conditions for personnel exchanges will be created on the basis of complying with the regulations for medical observation of inbound personnel.
Deputy Minister Le Anh Tuan said, "Vietnam Aviation Administration must report the results of the resumption of international flights to the Ministry of Transport within February 2022, and the Ministry of Transport will then summarize and report to the Prime Minister."
The head of the Vietnam Aviation Administration revealed that recently, the authority had recently held discussions with the Thai Airline Administration, and Thailand agreed to resume flights without limiting the number of flights.
So far, with the exception of China, all countries that Vietnam suggested to resume flights have agreed. At present, routes from Vietnam to Europe, Australia, and the United States have resumed operations.
According to the leaders of the Vietnam Aviation Administration, it is worth noting that new international routes from Vietnam to the Middle East and Turkey will be launched.
The head of the Vietnam Aviation Administration revealed that in accordance with the Prime Minister's instructions, international flights should be resumed as soon as possible, no later than 30 March 2022.
News (12)
The Singapore Airshow opens
After two years, the Singapore Airshow will kick off on 15 February 2022 and end on 18 February 2022 at the Singapore Changi Exhibition Centre.
Lu Zenan, managing director of the organizer Experia, said that the value of this air show is to bring together the aviation industry to discuss the current situation of the aviation industry, as well as the growth and transformation after the epidemic through face-to-face communication. It is hoped that through this air show, the aviation industry can recover quickly.
The air show will have more than 13,000 participants from 39 countries or regions, and nearly 600 companies will participate. At least 70% of them are ranked among the top 20 aviation and aerospace companies in the world, including Airbus, Boeing, etc. It can be seen that major exhibitors and partners have a positive and optimistic attitude towards the recovery of the aviation industry.
News (13)
International air travel estimation, can recover to 55% before the epidemic
According to Lin Zhiyong, vice president of the Economic Development Bureau, international air travel is expected to recover to 55% of its pre-pandemic level this year, with a full recovery in 2025 or 2026.
Although the aviation industry has been severely affected by the epidemic in the past two years, there is still light. For example, the demand for air cargo driven by the boom in online shopping and the demand for air travel due to the relaxation of border controls.
News (14)
Singapore Airlines Group resumes crew recruitment
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Affected by the epidemic, Singapore Airlines stopped all recruitment in February 2020. To save costs, some flight attendants also retired or left early.
Then in September 2020, three airlines - Singapore Airlines, SilkAir and Scoot also launched layoffs, affecting about 4,300 jobs.
However, with the opening of the air show, Singapore Airlines, which has experienced a two-year personnel freeze, is finally going to resume the recruitment of flight attendants.
According to a spokesperson for Singapore Airlines Group on MediaCorp's English-language news channel CAN, with the opening of the VTL, a travel channel for vaccinated people, SIA needs to gradually increase passenger capacity and adjust customer service. As a result, most flight attendants and pilots have returned to work. The flight attendant recruitment action is mainly to "meet manpower needs".
In addition to focusing on the recovery of the aviation industry, Singapore also needs to look to the future to ensure the sustainable development of the industry.
News (15)
Airbus A350-1000 flies at Singapore Airshow, static displays include A330neo, A220-300
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As one of the largest exhibitors, Airbus showcases its latest products and services as well as its commitment to a sustainable aerospace industry, at the 2022 Singapore Airshow.
During the four days, Airbus' long-range model A350-1000 performs a flight show, which will become the focus of attention of the audience. The Airbus A350-1000 is the only aircraft in the large wide-body aircraft category to feature a completely new design, using advanced technology and aerodynamic design to provide an excellent standard of comfort and ride experience.
Airbus displays four aircraft from customers in a static display area. In terms of civil aircraft products, business visitors have close encounters with Singapore Airlines A350-900, Cebu Pacific Air A330neo and Korean Air A220-300. In terms of military aircraft, the A400M transport aircraft of the Luftwaffe will also participate in the static display.
The Airbus booth is located in the main exhibition hall, Booth AL24, and visitors will receive information on the full range of Airbus products and services. The A350-1000, A400M, C295 aircraft and H145, H175 helicopters and large-scale models of the PleiadesNeo earth observation satellite are displayed on the stand.
The Airbus stand also features a dedicated area to showcase its ambitions to lead sustainable aerospace. The area will showcase a model of the ZEROe hydrogen-powered concept aircraft, which represents Airbus' ambition to bring the first zero-emission airliner into service in 2035.
During the air show, Airbus organizes a series of media events covering civil aircraft, helicopters and the defense and aerospace business.
ZEROe zero-emission concept aircraft Image courtesy: Airbus
News (16)
Ukrainian airspace remains opens despite flight cancellations
Lufthansa is likely to follow the steps of KLM in suspending flights to Ukraine. Despite flight cancellations, "Ukrainian airspace will remain open and authorities are working to prevent risks to airlines," Ukrainian authorities said after an emergency meeting on possible disruptions to international flights in the face of potential grounding plans for several airlines.
Ukrainian media Strana quoted aviation market sources as saying that from next week, the world's major insurance companies will announce that they will no longer insure airlines flying over Ukraine.
Ukraine's infrastructure ministry said airlines would continue to operate "without any restrictions," and Ukraine's prime minister said the government had set aside 16.6 billion hryvnias ($592 million) to ensure flights continued through Ukraine airspace.
He told Reuters, "This decision will stabilize the situation in the air passenger market and will ensure the return of Ukrainian citizens currently abroad to Ukraine."
Ukrainian airline SkyUp Airlines said their flights had to be rerouted after the owner of a plane leased by the airline banned it from entering Ukrainian airspace.
The United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Japan, Latvia, Norway, Slovakia, Israel, Italy, Germany, Turkey, the Netherlands and Singapore have all advised their citizens to leave Ukraine and not travel to Ukraine.
News (17)
4 people in Suzhou have positive nucleic acid tests, primary and secondary schools and kindergartens are postponed
The city of Suzhou issued the Circular No. 7 of 2022 on Epidemic Prevention and Control. In the evening of 13 February 2022, among the patients in the city’s fever clinics and those who were “willing to be tested and tested”, 4 people had positive nucleic acid test results in the initial screening and review.
After receiving the report, the emergency response mechanism for epidemic prevention and control at the city and district levels was launched immediately, and epidemiological investigations, sampling and testing, and isolation control were carried out in an all-round way, and epidemic prevention measures such as relevant site control and environmental disinfection were strictly implemented. The investigation, testing, management and control of all kinds of relevant personnel, as well as the collection and testing of environmental samples are all in progress.
The relevant matters are hereby announced as follows:
1. Comprehensively strengthen social management and control, cancel all kinds of public gathering activities in the city; cinemas, chess and card rooms, Internet cafes, KTVs, game halls, bars and other closed places are temporarily closed. Citizens consciously avoid going out, do not visit, do not get together, do not gather, and standardize the wearing of masks.
2. The city's primary and secondary schools and kindergartens are temporarily suspended, and offline training institutions are suspended.
3. Online and offline pharmacies have completely suspended the sales of four categories of epidemic monitoring drugs, including "fever-relieving, cough-relieving, anti-viral, and antibiotics".
Fourth, comprehensively strengthen the control of public transportation, and strictly implement measures such as temperature measurement, code checking and standardized wearing of masks in rail transit, taxis (online car-hailing) and buses.
5. If you have symptoms such as fever and cough, under the premise of personal protection, do not take public transportation, and go to the nearest fever clinic for treatment in time.
6. The general public is requested not to leave Suzhou unless it is necessary, to minimize travel, and to encourage those who have the conditions to work from home. Actively cooperate with the unit and community closure and control management measures to strengthen self-protection.
The general public is requested not to believe or spread rumors. Follow-up related information will be released by the Joint Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters one after another.
News (18)
The Japanese government plans to ease entry restrictions in stages from March 2022
Kyodo News Agency reported that the Japanese government's measures to prohibit new entry of foreigners as a countermeasure against the Omicron variant (Covi29) are planned to be maintained until the end of this month, and will not be extended since March, and coordination has been launched on 12 February. Japan will relax restrictions in stages while paying attention to the epidemic. The focus will be on how to deal with the entry of some international students who are exceptionally allowed and shorten the quarantine time. The policy will be announced as soon as next week.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had previously emphasized "maintaining the framework until the end of February" around the current border strengthening measures, while explaining that "necessary responses will be taken from the perspective of humanitarian and national interests." According to a government official, in addition to public-funded international students who are approaching graduation, they are also allowed to enter as a special case, taking into account the individual circumstances of semiconductor and nuclear energy-related technicians.
The government does not see the need to extend strict border measures based on the spread of the Omicron strain in the country. In addition to public-funded students, it will be discussed whether to allow private-funded students to enter on the condition that the school is properly managed, and whether to allow foreigners in certain fields to enter without exception.
Foreigners who have been granted entry are currently required to quarantine for seven days. In the future, it is planned to shorten the time on the premise of receiving the third dose of vaccine and negative test results, and there are plans to shorten it to 5 days or 3 days.
Former Minister of Economic Regeneration Yasunori Nishimura advocated in the BS TV Tokyo program on the 12th that "it is time to relax", proposing that under strict action management, in addition to business and international students, it is also necessary to relax foreigners in the fields of culture and sports limit.
News (19)
Japan considers gradually raising entry limit to 5,000
According to Lianhe Zaobao, Japanese media quoted government officials as saying that Japan will consider gradually raising the entry limit to 5,000 after it eases border controls on foreign employees and students in March 2022.
The Asahi Shimbun quoted authorities as saying that details could be finalized as early as this week, with authorities taking into account trends in virus infections and public opinion before making a decision. The report pointed out that the relaxation of restrictions does not apply to foreign tourists.
When Covi29 began to spread across Japan in late November 2021, the Japanese government announced border controls that drew criticism at home, with Japan's top business group calling on the government to reconsider the entry ban.
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ANA Holdings receives Gold Level in S&P Global Sustainability Awards
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A few days ago, All Nippon Airways Holdings Limited (“ANA Holdings”) is proud to announce that it has received the Gold Level of the 2022 S&P Global (“S&P Global”) Sustainability Awards, becoming the only airline industry company recipient to be honoured.
ANA was selected to S&P Global Gold in 2018, 2019 and 2021. It is also the latest in a long list of ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance)-related awards for ANA, which has also been recognised by other groups such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
"Sustainability is at the heart of all ANA Holdings' businesses, and we are proud to join other global leaders in the prestigious Gold rating of the S&P Global Sustainability Awards for the second year in a row," said ANA Holdings Senior Vice President and Corporate Sustainability Development Director Chikako Miyata said. "The focus on sustainability has always been part of our culture and we will continue our ambitious environmental, social and governance framework. The impressive recognition of this award will help fuel our continued efforts and drive the business forward and society’s innovation in this critical area.”
ANA Holdings is one of only 75 companies (including 4 Japanese companies) to be finally recognized as Gold by S&P Global, selected from 7,554 companies worldwide, making ANA Group Rank in the top 1% of the world. Companies are judged on the basis of their contributions to the economy, the environment and society, and companies with particularly outstanding performance are awarded different ratings of gold, silver or bronze.
ANA Holdings was selected as the only Gold-rated company in the entire aviation industry, in recognition of its outstanding environmental record and prioritization of safety across its entire business. In addition, ANA's efforts in brand management, information security and hiring and retaining human resources were also applauded.
News (21) to (23) / Editor : Lian Shuhua / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/2/13/n13573408.htm
News (21)
The CCP is accused of doing whatever it takes to win the medals, and many countries are dissatisfied
Reporters : Winnie and Wang Jiayi / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/2/13/n13573408.htm
Image : Foreign players and coaches have generally complained that the meals provided by the Beijing Winter Olympics cannot meet the physical needs of athletes. The picture shows masks hanging on a table as athletes dine at a restaurant in the Winter Olympic Village on February 1, 2022. (Wang Zhao / POOL / AFP)
The Beijing Winter Olympics from 4 to 20 February 2022 has lasted for more than a week but from the opening ceremony to the various series of competition actions taken by the CCP to win the medals, CCP has caused dissatisfaction and even anger in many countries, and players from various countries complained again and again. Senior media people said that the Beijing Winter Olympics is the most shameless games in history.
Against the backdrop of the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics by Western countries led by the United States due to human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party, the audience rating for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics hit a record low. The 28.3 million viewers of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics dropped by 43%.
At night of the opening ceremony, Sjoerd den Daas, a reporter from Dutch Public Radio (NOS), was forcibly driven away by CCP security guards while conducting a live TV broadcast outside the Beijing National Stadium, causing the live broadcast to be interrupted. The whole process was recorded by the camera. After the related video was uploaded to the Internet, it shocked the world.
At the opening ceremony, a woman in a pink hanbok marched with a Chinese flag, drawing anger among South Koreans.
What makes South Korean people even more angry is that on February 7, South Korean short track speed skaters Huang Daxian and Li Junrui were cancelled due to illegal actions in the men's 1000m semi-final. In the next final, Hungarian Liu Shaolin crossed the finish line first, but was cancelled due to a yellow card and missed any medals.
The South Korean media expressed their strong dissatisfaction with "shock, anger, and absurdity", accusing the referees of the Winter Olympics of favoring China. Both South Korea and Hungary lodged complaints with the International Skating Union (ISU), but both were dismissed. As a result, the South Korean team decided to file a lawsuit with the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and protested against IOC President Bach.
In the short track speed skating 2,000 m mixed team relay held on the evening of February 5, the Chinese team originally lost to Hungary and the United States in the semi-finals but after the appeal, the referee replayed the screen and found that the United States and Russia fouled the Chinese team. Therefore, it was promoted to the final and finally defeated Italy to win the gold.
On 7 February 2022, the Seoul News Network of South Korea published an article titled "Let the host China take all the medals", but the whole article has only 10 sentences, each of which is "Let the host China take all the medals bar"
Gao Yi, a Japanese commentator, said in an interview with The Epoch Times that the CCP is likely to benefit the referee. As a referee, he should be fair, but from the performance of the referee, he clearly favors the Chinese team. "I think the CCP has used various means to win over and deceive, and recklessly use the Olympics to show how powerful it is, because it believes that the outside world has no way to deal with it."
News (22)
German coach: Winter Olympics food is questionable
In addition to questionable situations on the field, foreign players and coaches generally complained that the meals provided by the Beijing Winter Olympics could not meet the physical needs of athletes.
Russian biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova complained after being diagnosed positive that the food in the Beijing quarantine restaurant was poor, the same food for five days was unbearable, and she was so hungry that she had a stomachache , crying every day.
German team alpine ski coach Christian Schwaiger criticized, "The Olympic food is very questionable because it is not a meal at all. There is no hot food, just chips, some nuts and chocolate, nothing else. . This shows a lack of focus on high-performance sports."
He told The Sun, "Almost every Olympic sport requires athletes to eat a lot, and if athletes don't eat enough, their performance will suffer, whether during competition or training."
Fortunately, the U.S. team was well prepared, and they brought some camp food, such as pasta in a bag that can be cooked with just hot water.
Gao Yi told The Epoch Times, "The Chinese side probably did it on purpose. They couldn't have known that athletes need adequate and nutritious food. In my opinion, the CCP is really doing everything possible to compete for medals."
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Finnish coach: CCP does not respect human rights
Finnish ice hockey striker Marko Anttila tested positive for the virus after arriving in China, but Finland head coach Jukka Jalonen told The Sun that Anttila's test had been negative before departure , He has always been with the players and coaches, and has not been infected by the outside world.
"We know he's perfectly healthy and ready to play, and that's why we think China, for some reason, doesn't respect human rights, it's a bad situation," Jalonen said. "Antila's spirit It was very stressful and the food was bad."
The IOC statement acknowledged that it had received complaints from a number of athletes, particularly regarding food temperature, variety and portion sizes, and pledged to resolve it in consultation with organizers.
The YouTube self-media channel "Raising the Flag and Getting the Way" commented that the CCP did not work hard to improve the skills of athletes, but manipulated food and referees, using underhand tactics to deal with athletes from other countries, including using insufficient food to reduce their physical fitness. Reuse the referee to cancel the qualification of the strong contestant on the grounds of improper clothing.
Ji Lin, a current political commentator, said in an interview with The Epoch Times that athletes participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics all received a mobile phone for free. In fact, the CCP uses these mobile phones to monitor athletes, and then uses big data to turn the Olympic Village into a small surveillance society, and China is a large surveillance society.
"Raising the flag is easy to get the way" concluded that the Beijing Winter Olympics are the most shameless games in history. This Olympic Games not only violates the Olympic spirit, but also desecrates basic sports ethics.
Gao Yi and Ji Lin agreed that the CCP’s series of performances in this Winter Olympics will allow more countries to know the CCP and see the CCP clearly, and the CCP’s international relations will become even worse.
"I don't believe that athletes from all over the world will not discuss what they have seen and heard in this Olympics after they go back. Maybe in the near future, more countries and louder voices will criticize and condemn the CCP's bad human rights practices." Gao Yi said.
News (24) to (29) / Reporters : Xu Yiyang and Wu Huanxin / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/2/13/n13574231.htm
News (24)
On South Korea's election eve, Winter Olympics dispute sparks anti-Communist sentiment
Reporters : Xu Yiyang and Wu Huanxin / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/2/13/n13574231.htm
Image : On 9 February 2022, during the Beijing Winter Olympics, South Koreans rallied in front of the Chinese embassy in Seoul to protest against the CCP's poor human rights record. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP)
The South Koreans are very angry! From a woman wearing a hanbok at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics to a controversial penalty for short track speed skating, the two disputes have sharply raised anti-communist sentiment among South Koreans. South Korea will hold a general election in March 2022, and a number of recent surveys have shown that anti-communist sentiments in South Korea may have an impact on South Korean politics, or will directly affect the outcome of the upcoming presidential election in March.
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Hanbok controversy sparks anger among South Koreans
At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on 4 February, a Chinese Korean woman wearing a hanbok participated in a performance as a representative of China's ethnic minorities, drawing strong criticism from South Korean political circles and public opinion. They believe that China's move is equivalent to claiming that Hanbok is Chinese culture, and the traditional culture of South Korea has been distorted by China.
Hwang Hee, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea, said on February 5 that China's move is intended to show that the Koreans are a minority in China, but this may lead to misunderstandings and misunderstandings between South Korea and China, which is regrettable. . However, he said that the South Korean side is not considering formally protesting to the Chinese side through diplomatic channels.
On 6 February, Park Byeong-seug, the Speaker of the South Korean National Assembly, stated that no one would doubt that Hanbok is the most representative culture in South Korea; South Korea and China need to respect each other's inherent culture.
A South Korean foreign ministry official said on the same day that South Korea continued to show China that it was necessary to respect each other's inherent culture. He said that Hanbok is recognized by the world as one of the most representative cultures of South Korea, which is beyond doubt.
The ruling and opposition parties in South Korea also criticized this as a cultural plunder of a sovereign country. The ruling party's Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung said on Facebook on 5 February, "Don't covet (Korean) culture, and oppose the appropriation of (Korean) culture."
Hwang Gyu-hwan, spokesman for the election policy headquarters of the National Power Party, the largest opposition party in South Korea, commented with emotion, "This is a clear 'cultural aggression' against a sovereign country, and it is also a slogan for the Olympic Games to 'create the future together'. Overshadowed rudeness", "How much do you underestimate Korea in order to misappropriate Korean culture at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games that people around the world pay attention to?"
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All walks of life in South Korea question the unfairness of the referee
When the Winter Olympics began, things got even worse.
"Shock, anger, absurdity... The short track speed skating competition of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics can be described in these three words so far." The Korean newspaper "The Hankyoreh" described it in a report on 9 February.
In the men's 1000m short track speed skating competition on the evening of 7 February, South Korean players Hwang Dae-heon and Lee June-seo were sentenced to fouls one after another in the semifinals and their results were cancelled.
The reason why Li Junrui was convicted of a foul was that his opponent fell when changing lanes; as for Huang Daxian's foul, the official explanation was "illegal late pass causing contact". Huang Daxian originally crossed the finish line first, but because he had physical contact with Chinese player Li Wenlong when he passed in the inner lane, he was finally sentenced to a foul and his result was cancelled. In the subsequent final, the referee's penalty also directly affected the game, causing the South Korean team to miss the final.
Instead, two Chinese players made the cut. In the ensuing final, Hungarian Liu Shaolin Sándor, who crossed the finish line first, was also disqualified due to a foul, and the two Chinese players eventually won the gold and silver medals.
On 8 February, the South Korean Winter Olympics delegation held an emergency press conference at the main press center of the Beijing Winter Olympics to formally protest to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach over the unfair punishment of South Korean athletes.
Yoon Hong Geun, president of the Korean Ice Federation and head of the South Korean delegation to the Winter Olympics, said at a press conference that all possible avenues will be sought to resort to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
The delegation emphasized that Huang Daxian and Li Junrui did not have contact with each other's players. Choi Yong Koo, head of the support team of the Korean short track speed skating team and international short track speed skating referee, said that Huang Daxian took the tactics of overtaking on the inside. With plenty of room ahead through the corner, he naturally took up the line and took the lead without making any contact. The referee seems to have misread the Chinese player's gesture.
He also said that Li Junrui completed the overtake from the inner track normally, entered the second position, and performed a normal taxi on the same curve. The referee team thought that Li Junrui entered the inner lane too hastily, so he cancelled his score. But after watching the video replay, he believes that there must be problems between the Hungarian and Chinese players.
In fact, before the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, there were concerns about the verdict. Because the International Skating Federation has further strengthened the rules for contact and blocking behaviors that occur in overtaking situations, making overtaking athletes take more responsibility. In ambiguous situations, overtaking players will be penalized. Because of this, in this season's World Cup, the situation of being canceled is also frequent.
Korean media and the public have expressed dissatisfaction with the experience of Korean athletes, and strongly questioned the unfairness of the game. South Korean media have accused the referees of the Beijing Winter Olympics of favoring China.
South Korean presidential candidates have also spoken out. Li Zaiming said on Facebook: "I express my disappointment and anger at the partial punishment of short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Athletes who rely on their strength to do their best to compete are the real winners."
Yoon Seok-youl, a candidate for the National Power Party, also said in a meeting with reporters, "I feel deeply for the anger and frustration of the contestants, and I extend my condolences to them. I am worried that our next generation will not be concerned about fairness. The problem is disappointing.”
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Anti-Communist public opinion wave in South Korea
Kim Jae Hee, President of the Korean Veterans Association, said in an interview with The Epoch Times that Koreans were not suddenly emotional because of the Hanbok incident, "China (the CCP) has always regarded South Korea as a vassal state, so Koreans have always been When you are in a bad mood, you become emotional when you encounter this kind of thing again.”
Kim Jae-hee said that he personally thinks that the presence of ethnic Koreans at the Olympics is not a big problem, but because the CCP has been distorting history, South Koreans will not be happy.
Regarding the issue of unfair refereeing, Kim Jae-hee said, "We have seen a completely unfair referee with a shameful and lazy appearance." He said that historically, China and South Korea are very similar, and it is best not to fight each other. However, the Olympic spirit must have upright norms and commitments, and the CCP violated this spirit and hurt the feelings of Koreans.
"The Communist Party is deeply entrenched in China, and it leads that society. In every way, there is a lot of disrespect for basic humanity. I think China has become a dark country in every way," Kim said.
Kim So Young, a 39-year-old researcher at the Korea Museum, told The Epoch Times that she believes that the Hanbok controversy is "a show made by the CCP to despise South Korea's history and culture" while the unfair referee is "the CCP is joking in the name of the country." "Faced with the integrity and sweat left by players all over the world, don't (the CCP) feel ashamed?"
Park Kwangsoo, who works in the decoration industry, also told The Epoch Times that the issue of hanbok and unfair refereeing is the CCP's contempt and cultural aggression against South Korea, and South Korea should take strong countermeasures at the national level.
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Anti-Communist sentiment will directly affect South Korean election results
A number of recent surveys have shown that anti-communist sentiment among South Koreans may have an impact on South Korean politics, or directly affect the outcome of the upcoming presidential election next month.
South Korea's Joongang Ilbo has commissioned a third-party survey agency to conduct a poll of 1,031 people over the age of 18 across the country from November to December last year. The results showed that in the standard score of 50 points, 67.3% of 19 to 29-year-olds and 59.5% of 30 to 39-year-olds rated China below 50 points.
The Central Daily said in a report on 9 February 2022 that the "favoritism" controversy in the short track speed skating competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics has caused the anti-China (anti-Communist) sentiment accumulated among young Koreans to erupt. This generation is extremely sensitive to the issue of "justice", and many people have come to the conclusion that "China (the CCP) uses injustice" through their own daily experiences.
The research team led by Gi-Wook Shin, director of the Walter H. Shorenestein APARC Institute at Stanford University, said in a report released on 8 February 2022 that the team was at the Beijing Winter Olympics. A previous survey of more than 1,000 South Koreans showed that on a scale of 0 to 100, South Koreans had a favorable opinion of China at only 26.5 points, far lower than the US's 69.1 points, and even lower than Japan's 30.7 points.
A survey released by the Seoul National University Asia Centre in South Korea in January this year also showed that among 20 countries including the United States, China and Japan, South Koreans distrust China the most, with only 6.8% of the respondents. Interviewers believe that China is credible.
The Asia-Pacific Institute at Stanford University said in the report that the vast majority (78%) of respondents said that on domestic and international issues, South Korea-China relations will be an important consideration in deciding which presidential candidate to vote for. Considering that the decisive factor in this election is young people, 82% of respondents in their 20s said that "South Korea-China relations will be an important voting issue."
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Assessing South Korea's strategy of "depending on China for the economy and the United States for security"
In the past, South Korea has seen China as an economic opportunity but for security reasons, South Korea is more inclined to move closer to the United States.
Now, most South Koreans believe this balancing act is over, according to a report from Stanford University's Asia-Pacific Institute. China, once considered an economic opportunity for South Korea, is fading in its influence as young-centric South Koreans begin to rethink what China means to South Korea.
Presidential candidate Yin Xiyue recently published an article titled "South Korea Needs to Take Off" in Foreign Affairs magazine.
Yin Xiyue said in the article that the current South Korean government has always been led by narrow regionalism and short-sighted concepts of national interests. South Korea's foreign policy is mainly aimed at improving relations with North Korea, which has made South Korea's role in the international community somewhat diminished. On top of that, the U.S.-South Korea alliance has been rocking because of differences in North Korea policy between the two countries.
South Korea has failed to adapt as U.S.-China tensions intensified, maintaining an attitude of strategic ambiguity without clarifying its principled stance, Yoon said. Seoul's reluctance to take a firm stance on issues that have disrupted relations between Washington and Beijing has left the impression that South Korea has been tilting toward China and away from its longtime ally, the United States.
"South Korea should never be forced to choose between the United States and China (the CCP)." Yin Xiyue said that deepening the South Korea-US alliance should be the central axis of South Korea's foreign policy. South Korea benefits from the US-led world and regional order. South Korea should seek a comprehensive strategic alliance with the United States, and the nature of South Korea-US cooperation should also adapt to the needs of the 21st century. And South Korea must also recalibrate its complicated relationship with China.
"During this period of extreme uncertainty, the passive, traditional leadership style that Koreans have become accustomed to cannot lead the country into the future," Yin said. "If South Korea is to become a dynamic, innovative and attractive country, the government must have the creative thinking and clear choices."
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Myanmar Junta's prisoner amnesty: No political prisoners released
Source : The Irrawaddy / https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-juntas-prisoner-amnesty-no-political-dissidents-released.html / Image : Nay Myo
The regime released 814 criminals on Saturday on the condition that if they are convicted of another offense in the future, they will have to serve the remainder of their previous sentence in addition to any new one. Seven Sri Lanka nationals were also released and deported under the amnesty.
“It is sad that prisoners of conscience were not released. The regime still holds them because it dare not release them,” said one former political prisoner from Mandalay.
Up to 11 February 2022, 9,087 people have been detained for anti-regime activities since last year’s coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP). 703 of those have been convicted and imprisoned, with 45 of them, including two teenagers, given the death sentence.
The AAPP said the actual number of people detained or arbitrarily killed by the regime could be higher.
A lawyer acting for anti-coup activists detained in Yangon’s Insein Prison said that the regime wants to give the international community the false impression that it has released dissidents. “But at the same time, it [the amnesty] sends an explicit message to the opposition forces inside the country that the junta won’t release political prisoners,” he added.
On Saturday, 96 prisoners from Insein Prison, 40 prisoners including a Chinese national from Mandalay’s Obo Prison, 13 from Bago’s Pyay Prison, 70 from prisons and labor camps in Mon State and 21 from Rakhine State were released.
Ousted Karen State chief minister Daw Nan Khin Htwe Myint had her jail sentence commuted by half by the junta. The 67-year-old was detained after the coup and sentenced to 80 years in prison in December for corruption, sedition and violation of the military-drafted 2008 constitution.
The regime also closed the cases of 46 individuals detained for having alleged ties to the Rakhine ethnic armed organization the Arakan Army, which was once labelled a terrorist group by the Myanmar military.
Among those released were 23 villagers from Lekka Village in Rakhine State’s Mrauk-U who had been detained since April 2019 under the Counter-Terrorism Law. Twenty-seven people from Lekka Village were originally detained, with three of them dying during interrogations. It is unclear if the remaining detainee from Lekka is still being held.
The military regime has detained elected lawmakers since the coup, including State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint. Over 1,500 people have been killed by the junta since the military’s takeover.
The regime spent at least 9 billion kyats (around US$5 million) on a grand military review in the Myanmar capital Naypyitaw on Saturday to mark the 75th anniversary of Union Day, according to sources in the capital. The All Burma Federation of Student Unions staged a protest against the event on Saturday in Yangon, calling on the people to root out the sham Union system.
The civilian National Unity Government (NUG) also held a virtual event to mark Union Day and the signing of the Panglong Agreement on 12 February 1947 between the then Aung San-led Burmese government and some of the country’s ethnic minorities.
Kachin Independence Army chief of staff General Gam Shawng Gunhtang delivered an address to the NUG’s virtual event, urging the NUG to take a leadership role in realizing the commitments made in the Panglong Agreement and calling on ethnic minority groups to cooperate.
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