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British Cambridge study: masks and stockings are the best protection, and virus particles are reduced by seven times

Editor : Liu Zheqi / news.tvbs.com.tw/world/1710993 / Image credit : PLOS ONE

Many studies have pointed out that wearing a mask can effectively prevent the covi. However, when many people wear masks, they often find that they cannot fit their faces. According to an article published by a Cambridge scholar in an academic journal, as long as an extra layer of stockings is used, the mask can be more compliant and improve the protection.

According to an article published in the academic journal "PLOS ONE", the research team used masks with various materials in an attempt to increase the fit and protection. They used skin-coloured stockings, black stockings, tape and other readily available materials for their experiments. The subjects wear masks and materials, and simulate daily actions, such as speaking, nodding, breathing deeply, etc. The scholars will calculate the "closeness coefficient" of each combination.

According to foreign media reports, the results show that using stockings to cover the outer layer of the mask has the most protective effect, with a tightness coefficient as high as 27.7, which is enough to reduce the number of virus particles by seven times. Then there is the 14.7 that is attached to the edge of the mask with tape. Using gauze to cover the gap of the mask is only 2.7. As for surgical masks, straps are often attached, which can be tightened to enhance the tightness, but after experiments, it was found that the tightness coefficient of the straps was only 2.5.

The research team also asked subjects to rate how comfortable each combination was. The results showed that although the mask and stockings worked best, the discomfort was the highest. The addition of a layer of stockings made it difficult for the subjects to speak and sometimes blocked their vision. Other combinations also scored lower. The research team said that since this experiment uses materials that are easily available to the general public, they hope to provide a small step in strengthening protection for groups with a higher risk of infection such as medical staff. In addition, it is also hoped that the experimental results can provide reference for mask designers to develop products with higher protection.

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Somaliland cabinet ministers arrive in Taiwan to deepen ties

Reporter : Sophia Yang, Taiwan News / https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4436499

A Somaliland delegation of high-ranking officials arrived in Taiwan late on Tuesday (8 February 2022) and will meet President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) during their five-day visit.

 

The delegation was led by Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Essa Kayd Mohamoud at the invitation of the Taiwanese government. He was accompanied by Somaliland’s Minister of Finance Saad Ali Shire, Minister of Planning and National Development Omar Ali Abdilahi, and Minister of Livestock and Fisheries Saeed Sulub Mohamed.

"Taiwan is not only an ally to Somaliland, it has become part of our people and country," the African state's foreign minister tweeted upon arrival. "I am looking forward to strengthening our relationship and further developing our countries together."

Taiwan's foreign ministry unveiled the schedule of the team the day before its arrival, saying the group will meet with President Tsai, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu (吳釗燮), Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花), and Council of Agriculture Minister Chen Chi-chung (陳吉仲).

The team will also talk with heads of Taiwanese organizations dedicated to promoting trade and boosting socio-economic development in developing countries, as well as with representatives of a state-owned energy enterprise and a civil engineering consulting company.

Though not recognized as a country internationally, Somaliland fulfills the requirements for statehood under the Montevideo Convention. It has a permanent population, a defined territory, a functioning political system and government institutions, and the capacity to enter into relations with other countries.

"This historical visit marks an important milestone of this strong and cordial relationship between our two countries," said Foreign Minister Essa Kayd during a meeting with President Tsai the day after arriving. He added that the two sides share the values of a free market, respect of fundamental rights, open and transparent governance, as well as freedom of expression. "We are champions of democracy in Africa and Asia," he stated.

The delegation is seeking a deeper trade and investment ties, according to the foreign minister, who described Somaliland as an attractive destination for investors with ambitious financial and non-financial incentives.

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Chinese expert: Omicron is not "big flu", it is impossible for the pandemic to end in March

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"Objective Evaluation of Xi Jinping" Popular Experts: Anti-Xi Forces Blockbuster

Editor : Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/09/a103343654.html

Image : "Objective Evaluation of Xi Jinping" is popular on the Internet. According to expert analysis, this is the latest blockbuster thrown by the anti-Xi forces to prevent Xi Jinping from being re-elected at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)

As the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China approaches, more and more voices challenge Xi Jinping. Recently, a 40,000-word article titled "Objective Evaluation of Xi Jinping" criticized Xi Jinping in rare and severe terms. According to expert analysis, this is the latest blockbuster thrown by the anti-Xi forces to prevent Xi Jinping from being re-elected at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

"Objective Evaluation of Xi Jinping" was originally published on the overseas Chinese website "Lingering Garden". The full text is more than 40,000 words long. The article criticizes Xi Jinping's character, employment, and mistakes in many aspects such as internal affairs and diplomacy in a rare and severe tone. And it predicts that even if Xi Jinping is re-elected, he will face total collapse in 2027.

The article was quickly reprinted by other overseas Chinese websites and had a lot of repercussions in the public opinion circle.

Gao Wenqian, an expert on the history of the Communist Party of China and the author of Zhou Enlai in His Old Age, told VOA, “This is the latest major announcement from the anti-Xi forces in a series of offensive and defensive battles between the two sides since the Sixth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China last year exposed serious differences within the party. bomb."

Hu Ping, Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Beijing Spring magazine, made a judgment. This is an article written by people in China. Hu Ping told Radio Free Asia on the 6th that the article revealed a very important problem: in today's CCP system and within the party, there are many people who are dissatisfied with Xi Jinping.

The timing of the launch of "Objective Evaluation of Xi Jinping" has also aroused external associations. At the moment of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the authorities are trying to stir up a fanatical national sentiment and "give money" for the CCP authorities, especially since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will be held this fall, Xi Jinping can Whether he is re-elected as scheduled has become the focus of attention of all parties.

Gao Falin, an independent historian, analyzed in his comments to VOA that "Objective Evaluation of Xi Jinping" was launched at this time, "more like the forces within the CCP system are building consensus and resisting Xi Jinping's pace of re-election."

Gao Wenqian said, "Even if (Xi Jinping) is re-elected at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, it will be difficult and difficult to move forward. When the conflicts accumulated over the years will break out, all kinds of black swans and gray rhinos will follow. The flaws in the past made him go his own way, and finally he was angry and resigned five years later."

On the same day that Lingering Garden published "Evaluate Xi Jinping Objectively", the website also published another article "Evaluate Bo Xilai Objectively", which trumpeted Jiang Zemin and Bo Xilai. Author of "China".

In this regard, experts believe that the author cannot be a single person, but a team operating, and they are targeting Xi Jinping himself.

Gao Falin's analysis of VOA, "several people brewing and discussing, writing separately, and finally one person drafting." Gao Wenqian believes that the praise of Jiang Zemin and Bo Xilai shows that the author, as a party of the CCP system, "is not anti-Xi. Anti-Communist" background.

Cai Xia, a former professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, also mentioned this article in an opinion piece published in the Yibao on February 6. Cai Xia believes that the article "Ark and China" is obviously a strong "reverse habit" article.

According to experts' judgment, the author of this article is operating as a team and may be in China, which highlights the increasingly cruel high-level power struggle surrounding Xi Jinping before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Cai Xia judges that it is too early to say that Xi will definitely be re-elected. Before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, everything is possible, and there is only one basic measure, that is, internal fighting must be extremely bloody and cruel.

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Guangzhou issued new regulations after "cutting trees and losing office", with a maximum fine of 500,000 RMB for cutting down a tree

Reporter : Liu Minghuan / Editor: Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/09/a103343526.html

Image : Guangzhou recently issued new regulations to protect ancient trees. This is a diagram of a banyan tree. (Pixabay)

Guangzhou recently issued new regulations, which stipulate that those who cut down ancient and famous trees without authorization can be fined up to 500,000 RMB per tree. This is a new regulation promulgated locally after the incident of "cutting down trees and losing one's office".

Guangzhou officials first issued a draft for comments, expanding the scope of control and protection for ancient and valuable trees. Construction units should formulate avoidance and protection measures to control and protect ancient and valuable trees and trees that have been identified as follow-up resources of ancient trees. The protection range was widened from 3 m outside the canopy edge to 5 m.

The draft for comments stated that it is prohibited to bind objects that affect the normal growth of ancient and famous trees or trees that are determined to be the follow-up resources of ancient trees, and unauthorized felling will result in a fine of up to 500,000 RMB per tree.

It is worth noting that on 4 December 2021, "Sing Tao Daily" exclusively broke the news that the old banyan trees in Guangzhou were cut down in large numbers, and the secretary and mayor stepped down.

According to the report, the resignation of Guangzhou's secretary and mayor Qi is related to the fact that since the end of last year, the old banyan trees in Guangzhou have been cut down and relocated in large numbers, causing public dissatisfaction. Banyan tree is a native tree species in South China with good shading effect and is widely used in gardens and road greening.

On 3 December 2021, the Standing Committee of the 15th Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress accepted Wen Guohui's resignation as mayor and appointed Guo Yonghang as the deputy mayor and acting mayor of Guangzhou. On the same day, Zhang Shuofu was removed from the post of Secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and replaced by Lin Keqing.

The well-known self-media "Financial Cold Eyes" analyzed in the 685th issue that as a sub-provincial city, it is unusual for the top secretary and the second mayor to be replaced on the same day, "Unless something big happens, negligence or joint responsibility, it will not be replaced at the same time."

He believes that the statement that two deputy provincial officials were replaced due to the cutting of banyan trees is "unreliable."

In the program "Financial Cold Eyes", "officials at their level (Wen Guohui and Zhang Shuofu), ordinary corruption can't be moved unless there is a problem with the political side." Moreover, the two people are on the same day, which is not in line with the CCP's political system. rules, the only explanation is that there is another reason behind the replacement.

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The Winter Olympics are strictly controlled to the "two sessions", and petitioners lament the CCP's "luxury" spending on stability maintenance

Reporters : Chen Jie, Li Shanshan and Bo Ni / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/09/a103343633.html

Liaoning petitioner Jiang Jiawen was intercepted and returned while petitioning by the Beijing Ministry of Public Security. After returning to Dandong, he was quarantined in the name of "epidemic prevention", and was kept in a hotel after the Chinese New Year. Jiang Jiawen lamented the level of "luxury" maintenance of stability by the authorities, which made people feel sad and indignant.

On 9 February, Liaoning petitioner Jiang Jiawen told NTDTV that he was kept in a luxurious suite in a hotel by stability maintenance, and three people took turns to guard him 24 hours a day until the end of the two sessions of the CCP. He denounced the authorities for squandering the people's tax money without solving the problem for the people.

Jiang Jiawen, a petitioner from Liaoning, said, "I was transferred from the quarantine area to a hotel. Three people stayed with me. For 24 hours, we lived in a suite. I was inside and they were outside. It cost 1,000 yuan a day for food and lodging. It’s not enough, even if their wages are 1500 to 2000 RMB a day, it will take me more than two months, from 10 January until the end of the two sessions, how much do you say, just squander taxpayers like this  hard-earned money. Some of them are squandering money, and they don’t solve the problem for you, so everyone doesn’t understand, and the key lies in this.”

Ms. Wu, a petitioner from Hubei, said that the authorities were using petitioners to obtain financial and stability maintenance funds from the state.

Ms. Wu, a petitioner from Hubei, said, "It must be March, the Winter Olympics, and the Two Sessions. They maintain stability year after year, day after day. If they don't solve the problem, they just use interviews. They use the industrial chain of the people to steal the country’s finances and stability maintenance funds. They just need to pony up their own pockets. Can they solve it for you? It’s impossible. You can solve the problem, but it is difficult to solve the problem.”

Jiang Jiawen was injured by others in 2001, but the Dandong Public Procuratorate protected the suspects involved in the case. For this reason, he began to petition in 2005, and he was severely suppressed in the process. He was sent to labor camps 5 times, sentenced to 1 time, criminally detained 6 times, administratively detained more than 20 times, and detained in black jails nearly 20 times.

In January this year, the Ministry of Public Security suddenly informed him of the end of his petition for 16 years. On January 10, Jiang Jiawen went to the Ministry of Public Security to ask for written materials to be terminated, but was rejected, and was then forcibly intercepted by six stability maintenance personnel in Dandong.

Liaoning petitioner Jiang Jiawen said, "It is cruel to sue the police and get revenge. The police can send you to the labor camp without any evidence or violation of discipline and law. Now that the labor camp is gone, send it to the detention center. Ten days, send it to the detention center, it's not enough (conditions), so he is just wasting taxpayers' hard-earned money."

Jiang Jiawen said that there are at least millions of petitioners who are controlled like him in China, and he is saddened by the level of lavish stability maintenance by the authorities.

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Early version of SARS-CoV-2 discovered in Chinese lab, fueling fears that scientists were studying the virus prior to outbreak

Reporter : Victoria Allen, Daily Mail / https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10495613/Early-version-Covid-19-discovered-Chinese-lab.html

Scientists in Hungary found traces of a unique variant of coronavirus while examining DNA from soil from Antarctica that had been sent to the firm Sangon Biotech in Shanghai.

The researchers also found genetic material from Chinese hamsters and green monkeys, which may suggest the virus was being examined in a lab, using either the animals themselves or their cells.

Some of those who support the lab leak theory suggest Chinese scientists engineered the virus in a lab to make it more dangerous as part of an experiment, before the virus escaped.

Viscount Ridley, author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, suggested the latest evidence may support the lab leak theory due to the presence of 'three key [Covi] mutations' that are characteristic of the earliest sequences of the virus.

However, the findings must be interpreted with caution, as the soil DNA may have been contaminated with the virus by the first covid patients, who were reported by China in December 2019.

The soil samples were sent in the same month to Sangon Biotech but it is not clear when they were analysed.

The findings, from Eotvos Lorand University and the University of Veterinary Medicine, both in Budapest, have been published online but not yet formally reviewed by other scientists.

Professor Jesse Bloom, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle in the US, re-ran the data from Hungary to confirm that the Antarctic samples did contain the virus but he said the "ultimate implications remain unclear".

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Beijing Winter Olympics Gold Medal German female athlete: Comment on the CCP after leaving the country

Reporter : Liu Minghuan / Editor: Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/02/10/a103344450.html

Germany's Natalie Geisenberger, who won the Beijing Winter Olympics singles bobsleigh gold medal, criticized the state of the test event in China in 2021 but she said on 9 February that she would wait until she left the country to comment on the CCP.

Reuters reported that the 34-year-old Geisenberg had criticized the state of China's test competition in November 2021 and was hesitant to fly to Beijing to compete. She said on the 9th that while she was still in China, she would not comment on the CCP.

The report said that Geisenberg will leave in three days.

The Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off on February 4. So far, no one has mentioned the issue of human rights in China. When the reporter asked if he was surprised, Geisenberg replied that whether he will speak out on human rights is only a matter of time.

Geisenberg won the gold medal in the women's single sleigh on the 8th, completing the three consecutive Winter Olympics. She said at a press conference on the 9th: "You must be careful about the time and place of your speech."

Geisenberg stressed that she would not make any comments during her stay in China, saying, "I may have more to say after I return but I will not speak here."

According to Article 50 of the Olympic Charter, athletes may raise political or social issues at press conferences or at the Athlete's Village, as well as gesture at the competition venue, as long as they do not disturb the competitors or make people feel disrespectful but are not allowed to present themselves at the awards ceremony and not on stage.

Human rights organizations have been criticizing the International Olympic Committee for handing over the right to host the Winter Olympics to China (the CCP), on the grounds that they are dissatisfied with the CCP’s persecution of human rights against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. The United States has determined that the CCP’s persecution constitutes genocide.

Earlier, on 27 January, Human Rights Watch, a New York-based human rights group, issued a joint statement condemning the CCP’s persecution of human rights and calling for a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics.

Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said, "The host country is committing serious crimes against international law, and the Winter Olympics cannot be held as a 'force for good' as the IOC claims."

The statement said the CCP has been carrying out massive abuses against Uyghurs, Tibetans, ethnic minorities and religious followers of all independent faith groups. They have strangled independent "civil society" by persecuting human rights activists, feminists, lawyers, journalists and more.

The statement also accused Olympic global partner sponsors such as Airbnb, Alibaba, Allianz, Atos, Coca-Cola, Intel, Omega, Procter & Gamble, Samsung and others for failing to perform their human rights due diligence responsibilities.

The U.S. government announced a "diplomatic boycott" of the Beijing Winter Olympics in December to protest the CCP's persecution of human rights.

In addition, several governments including Australia, Canada, Japan, Lithuania and the United Kingdom have also announced diplomatic boycotts of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

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