Even the words "Recover the World" and the image of Trump are against Hong Kong National Security Law

 Report by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

Image : The Shau Kei Wan restaurant "Da Dong Jia", which refused to accept popular testers, was reported yesterday to display slogans that violated the National Security Law. After the police came to the door, they asked to remove the poster with the words "Recover the World, Revolution of the Times" and the image of Trump. (Photo by Zhong Linzhi)

According to Ming Pao on 2 September 2020, a restaurant in Shau Kei Wan posted a notice in the store saying that it would not serve people who have accepted the "Universal Community Testing Program" (hereinafter referred to as mass testing). The incident caused controversy. The Equal Opportunities Commission issued a statement stating that the shop suspected Hongkongers who participated in the test to be vulnerable to infection and determined that they had an intelligence of less than 65 and would not entertain them. This may violate the Disability Discrimination Ordinance. In addition, the police received a report that the shop displayed slogans that violated the "Hong Kong National Security Act". Police officers arrived at the scene yesterday and asked the shop staff to remove the poster showing the words "Recover the World, Revolution of the Times" , US Secretary of State Pompeo and US President Trump.

The Shau Kei Wan restaurant "Tadon Home" recently posted a notice in the store, stating that people are "easy to be infected when domestic medical staff are unprofessional and superficially tested," and suspected that those who have undergone national testing have "intelligence less than 65." The customers did not know how to distinguish the high-quality food in the store, so the waiters refused to provide service.

The EOC issued a statement the night before, stating that the restaurant blatantly posted a notice, seemingly unreasonable to believe that Hongkongers participating in the mass testing have disabilities, that is, vulnerable to infection and mentally under 65 or above, and refusing to provide services to these citizens is a blatant advocacy. Discriminatory behavior is also likely to violate the Disability Discrimination Ordinance. The EOC strongly condemns this.

The warning indicators are not criminal and miscellaneous

In addition, the police stated that they received a report from the public that the slogan displayed by the restaurant was suspected of violating the "Hong Kong National Security Law". After the Chai Wan sub-district staff arrived at the scene and learned about it, no slogan suspected of violating the Hong Kong National Security Law was found. The incident was not involved. Criminal elements are treated as "miscellaneous".

The person in charge of the restaurant, Mr. Ou, recalled that at about 1 pm on 1 September, eight uniformed police officers went to the restaurant, saying that they had received an alarm. Four of them went inside and asked, "What are you going to do?" and accused the cashier. Inside, a poster with US President Trump and the words "Recover the World, Revolution of the Times" was involved in violation of the Hong Kong National Security Law and ordered the restaurant to remove it.

Owner: Hong Kong can’t accommodate even a poster

Mr. Au said that the restaurant was "obedient" and immediately removed the poster, but he called the poster "funny" and "Mr. Trump" was his idol. He sighed that "Hong Kong family can hold even a poster." When it comes, I won’t be able to post a ghost.”

The district also revealed that since the restaurant posted a poster labelled as a "yellow shop", it has successively received many nuisance calls, "It's a swear word." After yesterday's incident, it is even more worried that those who disagree will take further action. He also expressed his helplessness towards the current situation in Hong Kong and did not rule out immigration.

After seeing the poster, some diners said, "There is no problem," but said that they were not surprised by such enforcement actions of Hong Kong police.

Source : Ming Pao

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Wang Yi's "wolf war diplomacy" is a complete failure in Europe

Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor : Deming / Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television

Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/09/02/a102931710.html 

Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

Germany is the terminal of Wang Yi's trip to Europe. On 1 September 2020, hundreds of demonstrators protested against Wang Yi's visit at the gate of the German Foreign Ministry.

Nathan Law, former chairman of the Hong Kong All-for-Being Founding Party, and Margarete Bause, a member of the German Green Party, participated in a protest rally in front of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs building.

German Green Party MP Bowser delivered a speech at the protest. She publicly shouted to the foreign ministers of China and Germany: "Human rights cannot be negotiated."

Bowser pointed out that Wang Yi's visit to five European countries was aimed at "stopping losses." The CCP's long-term human rights persecution has recently intensified, causing its international image to plummet. Wang Yi was ordered to come to Europe to smear the CCP in order to restore the CCP's reputation. However, Wang Yi did not review it, and instead responded arrogantly with threats and attacks. Wang Yi's words and deeds are offensive.

Bowser stated that he would stand firmly on the side of the Czech government and say "no" to the CCP's trampling of freedom and human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with German Foreign Minister Maas on September 1. Wang Yi threatened to retaliate against the Czech Speaker’s visit to Taiwan at the press conference. Maas responded that he had spoken to the Czech Foreign Minister by phone to express Germany's support for the Czech Republic and warned Wang Yi face to face that "threat is not suitable for this place."

Wang Yi, who is visiting Europe, publicly threatened to make the Czech Senate president "pay a heavy price" for visiting Taiwan, which aroused dissatisfaction among European countries. On 1 September, after meeting with German Foreign Minister Maas, Wang Yi once again threatened to retaliate against the Czech Republic at a press conference. Mass responded to Wang Yi face-to-face, saying that he had spoken with the Czech Foreign Minister on the phone to express Germany's support for the Czech Republic.

Maas said that as Europeans, we will work closely together. We respect international partners, but we also hope that international partners will respect us. As the foreign minister of the European Union's rotating presidency, he warned Wang Yi that "threat is not suitable here."

At the same time, Maas also pointed out the CCP's violation of human rights in Hong Kong. He stated that Germany hopes that Hong Kong's "One Country, Two Systems" can be fully implemented and that the reelection of the Legislative Council will resume as soon as possible. He also called on the CCP to revoke the "Hong Kong version of the National Security Law."

Wang Yi threatened the Czech Republic during his visit to Europe, which was strongly condemned by European officials. The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag of the German Parliament, Norbert Röttgen, criticized that the fact that the Chinese Foreign Minister personally “terrorized another EU member state and parliament” during his visit to Germany was “not only diplomatic but also democratic blasphemy".

Rotgen said that EU member states recognize the "one-China policy," but it is still possible to visit Taiwan. "Taiwan is not a blank space on the global map."

Miriam Lexmann, a member of the European Parliament of Slovakia, said that whether to develop relations with Taiwan is the sovereignty of each country and does not require the consent of the CCP, pointing out that the CCP's threat is unacceptable.

The European Commission's foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano said he did not like to see diplomatic statements threatening the Czech Republic.

Czech Senate President Vitči retaliated strongly against Wang Yi's threat. He said that the Czech Republic's visit to Taiwan does not violate the one-China principle. Taiwan is a democratic country and there are shared values ​​between Taiwan and Czech Republic. The Czech Republic "will not obey other non-democratic countries."

Novotny, the mayor of Prague’s Řeporyje district, issued an open letter, calling Wang Yi an "unreasonable and reckless clown" and asking Wang Yi to apologize, "I will give you twenty-four hours to write the letter of apology and put it on the desk of the Czech Foreign Minister !" Otherwise, "I will make you pay a very painful price."

Wang Yi's visit to the five European countries was called a "fire-fighting trip", but he was met with cold reception and protests along the way. Foreign media believe that Wang Yi's "wolf war diplomacy" is a complete failure.

USA deeply caught in the "data crisis" of covid for three reasons

Reporter : Wen Lele / Publisher : China Science News

Ref : http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2020/9/444950.shtm

Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

Image : In April, at a medical center in New York City, USA, medical staff checked the data on the computer before treating patients with covid. Image credit: Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images

For the past 7 months, the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website almost every day, providing real-time information about the local epidemic and statistics on the covid epidemic in each region of the country. In contrast, the United States provided few details on how the disease spread.

According to "Nature" reports, experts believe that political interference, concerns about privacy, and years of neglect of public health monitoring systems are the reasons for the lack of data on the covid epidemic in the United States.

Some people speculate that due to political considerations, the data describing the epidemic has been scrutinized by the US government. The researchers said that the survey published in the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) magazine Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report has been comprehensive, but it is often released after a long time.

 In July, the U.S. government announced that data on covid infections and hospitalizations will be transferred from the CDC and processed by a new system launched by the Department of Health and Human Services. The person in charge of the system reports directly to the President. So far, the data of the new system has been lagging by one week, and only the number of cases and hospital capacity information are released, not including details such as gatherings and places where the patients were infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association, said this change has made data collection more chaotic. Some hospital administrators do not know which agencies to report to. What makes him even more frustrated is that the $10 million spent on the new system could have been better used to improve the public health data management of the CDC and its cooperating health departments across the United States.

Experts say that this neglect of public health data has become more serious during the  pandemic. There are no uniform regulations on the information that hospitals and testing laboratories must report to the health department.

Ranu Dhillon, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School, said that neither the local health department nor the CDC asked him to report where patients may have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2.

Public health expert Amy Lockwood said that many departments hope to obtain such data, but it is difficult to obtain it from the hospital or laboratory that provides the test.

She said that some test providers do not collect occupational and other information because they worry that asking such questions will make people afraid to take the test. At the same time, some hospitals will record this information, but will not pass it to the analysis laboratory where the sample is tested. Therefore, when the laboratory shares a case with the health department, the relevant report will lack these details.

HK Leisure and Cultural Services Department forced part-time employees to volunteer for mass testing

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

Image : The Leisure and Cultural Services Department urges part-time employees to undergo universal testing for the novel coronavirus. The right picture shows the letter from the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, and the left picture shows the testing center at the No. 1 Boundary Street Stadium. (Photographed by Li Shaochang/Provided by Liu Jiahao)

According to Ming Pao's report on 2 September 2020, Hong Kong's Leisure and Cultural Services Department sent an email on 1 September 2020 to part-time contract instructors, team leaders and camp instructors, saying that they "have the opportunity to contact the public at work." , "to call on part-time employees to participate in the testing plan". Veteran basketball coach Liu Jiahao said that there is no time limit for the reopening of the venue. A negative test does not mean that there will be no infection in the future. He questioned the Hong Kong government as "seemingly a stubborn figure" and described the plan as "forced and voluntary." They will go to private institutions for testing. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department replied to inquiries that whether part-time employees have participated in the universal community testing program is not a factor for consideration in the future employment of part-time employees.

Lau Jiahao told this newspaper that he received an email from the Leisure and Cultural Services Department today, calling on part-time employees to undergo a national test, and he must reply on or before September 14 whether he will participate. He said that at present 70% of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department's gymnasium is used as a testing center. The department will reopen the gymnasium and other venues indefinitely. The coaches are just "waiting (reopening)." He believes that the negative test does not mean that there will be no infection afterwards. In addition, medical care is concerned about the infection control problem in the field. For example, the sampling staff does not change the protective clothing every time the sample is taken, and has reservations about the national testing plan.

Lau Jiahao pointed out that even if the venue is to be reopened in the future or to other places to teach classes, if the Leisure and Cultural Services Department requires a negative certificate, he will choose a private organization for testing. He is also one of the preparatory committee members of the Hong Kong Sports Coaches Union, saying that the union has received inquiries through Facebook. Some coaches are worried about whether they will not be able to teach classes without testing. The union will check with the LCSD later.

The Leisure and Cultural Services Department replied to this newspaper’s enquiry that because the department’s part-time contract instructors and staff have the opportunity to contact the public while working, the LCSD recently sent a letter to call on part-time staff to participate in the universal community testing program and to learn about their participation in the form of reply slips. According to the department, the participation of part-time employees in the plan and the submission of return slips are all voluntary, and the information collected is only for statistical purposes; whether part-time employees participate in the plan or submitting the return slip is not a consideration for future employment. It will continue to propose appointments to part-time employees in accordance with the existing established procedures.

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Biden is involved in riots? Department of Homeland Security: Investigating the source of funds for "BLM"

Reporter : Li Zhaoxi / Editor : Dongye / Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television

Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/09/01/a102931300.html  / Direct translation

Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chad Wolf spoke to Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday evening said that in the U.S. cities controlled by the Democratic Party, "Black Lives Matter" and Antifa  violent riots are rampant, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the source of funds behind it.

Wolfe started by pointing out that Biden, the 77-year-old Democratic presidential candidate, is a "paranoid," because Biden said on Monday that there will be more violence if Trump is re-elected.

Wolfe said, "I know that the Department of Justice has accused Portland of approximately 74, 75 individuals with different federal crimes. We will continue to observe the progress of these investigations." The Department of Justice is also investigating the leaders of these organizations. About 175 people were arrested in Kenosha, and nearly 100 of them were from outside the state. They circulate across the country, and someone pays for them.

"We saw them in Washington, D.C., Sacramento, and other places. They are organized," Wolfe said, using similar strategies in Portland and other cities across the country. . Therefore, "we know this is organized, and I know that the Ministry of Justice has also discovered this."

Tony Evers, the Democratic Governor of Wisconsin, also pointed out the existence of "out-of-state instigators" in his letter to President Trump. Evers said in the letter that now is not the time for division, nor the time for elected officials to ignore armed militants and out-of-state instigators who want to cause pain for us.

Biden tried to blame Trump for the riots, and his "rescue team" assisted the arrested in the riots and directly contributed to the riots.

According to Reuters, about 13 paid employees in the Biden campaign donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF). The fund “opposes the practice of cash bail and people paying to avoid pre-trial imprisonment,” but the organization used donations to rescue violent criminals from prisons in Minneapolis.

According to FOX 9, after Floyd's death in police enforcement, MFF earned approximately $35 million in revenue. Some of the money came from members of the Biden campaign team. Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, tweeted in June to encourage people to join the fund to help bail demonstrators in Minnesota.

Most of the money donated to MFF was used to help the rioters get out of prison, and they went back to the street to riot again without worrying about the consequences. The operation of the MFF has attracted people’s attention. Jeff Clayton, executive director of the American Bail Coalition, said, “This must be carefully reviewed.”

As repatriation flights continue, India reports nearly 2 million new covid cases in August

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

Air India Express has been operating repatriation flights to Singapore and the Middle East from India and domestic flights have resumed. Although HEMA filters are the features of the passenger aircraft in India, these do not stop India from reporting nearly 2 million new confirmed covid cases in August 2020, according to Indian official statistics. 

India has become the country with the largest number of new covid cases in a single month in the world. When the epidemic is not under control, the Indian central government insists on relaxing restrictions to speed up the spread of the epidemic. In addition, the former President of India Mukesh suffered from covid and died.

The Times of India quoted official data on 1 August and pointed out that the number of infections in India has continued to rise rapidly. India added 1,987,705 cases in August, a 50% increase from July.

India is currently growing at a rate of more than 70,000 new cases per day. As of 11 am on 1 August, the cumulative number of cases of covid in India has reached 3.694,878, of which 78,8781 are still receiving treatment and 65,469 have died because of covid.

Apart from China, the United States, the world's most severely affected country, saw 1.94,462 new cases and 1,500,0002,149 new cases in July and August respectively. India's new cases in August surpassed the United States, becoming the country with the most new cases in a single month in the world .

The epidemic situation remains grim. For economic considerations, the Indian government announced the fourth phase of unblocking measures in the evening of 29 August. Subway services in various cities will be re-opened to the public from 7 September, and sports stadiums, political gatherings, cinemas and cultural theatres with less than 100 people will be opened from 21 September but participants must wear masks and maintain social distancing.

The fourth phase of unblocking measures also requires schools at all levels to be closed until 30 September but provinces, cities, and centrally-administered regions still allow up to 50% of faculty and non-teaching personnel to go to schools for online or telephone consultation and related work. Students in grade 12 can voluntarily go to schools outside the severely restricted area to receive teacher guidance, but they must have written consent from their parents or guardians.

Due to the larger scope of this wave of unblocking, experts worry that the speed of deterioration of the epidemic in India will be even faster.

Expert: China's SARS-CoV-2 vaccine may only have 40% efficacy

Reporter : Tang Di  /  Editor: Yun Tao / Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television

Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/09/01/a102931329.html

Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan. KUCINTA SETIA

Image : Schematic diagram of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. (Image by PixxlTeufel from Pixabay)

A number of SARS-CoV-2 (covi, in short, novel coronavirus) vaccines developed by the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Russia and other countries have recently announced that they have entered the third phase of human clinical trials. Some experts pointed out that the vaccines developed by Russia and the CCP are all based on the common cold virus adenovirus type 5 (Ad5), and there are key flaws that may significantly reduce the actual effect of the vaccine. However, the CCP's Phase III trial of this defective vaccine has not yet been completed, and its research and development company has recently begun negotiations with many countries to try to promote the use of the vaccine in other countries in advance. Experts say this will bring serious public health risks.

According to a report published by "Reuters" a few days ago, the covi vaccine Ad5-nCoV, jointly developed by CanSino Biologics and the Chinese military, has been approved by the Chinese military for military use, but this vaccine is actually is an improved product of the common cold virus type 5 adenovirus (Ad5). Another vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Institute, a Russian state-run research institution, is also composed of Ad5 and Ad26 adenoviruses. Both of the first two vaccines launched by China and Russia have key flaws.

The report pointed out that the way a vaccine developed based on Ad5 adenovirus works in the human body is to use a harmless virus as a "vector" to deliver genes from the target virus (CCV) to human cells, thereby initiating an immune response against the actual virus. . However, because Ad5 adenovirus is a common cold virus, many people may have already produced Ad5 antibodies. Therefore, when using vaccines developed based on Ad5 adenovirus, Ad5 antibodies already in the body may cause the immune system to attack the vector. Instead of reacting to covi itself, the effectiveness of these vaccines is greatly reduced.

The report quoted Johns Hopkins University vaccine researcher Dick Durbin as saying, "The reason Ad5 worries me is that many people are immune. I'm not sure what their strategy is... Maybe it will not have 70% efficacy, it may only have 40% efficacy, which is better than nothing until a new vaccine appears."

Zhou Xing, a researcher at McMaster University in Canada, pointed out that the high-dose Ad5 vector in the CanSino vaccine may cause fever in humans and exacerbate people's doubts about the safety of the vaccine.

Recently, many countries around the world have seen an increase in the rebound of the covid epidemic. Just last Sunday, a Shanghai medical expert disclosed to mainland Chinese media that their latest study found that covi does have an antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) phenomenon, and the proportion is not low, which means that the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is immune. The reaction may cause covid pneumonia to worsen. But less than a day after the report was published, it was forced to retract it.

The Ad5-nCoV vaccine, developed under the leadership of the Chinese military and Chinese pharmaceutical company CanSino, has just entered Phase III clinical trials less than half a month ago. Its safety and effectiveness are still questioned by international virology experts, but in order to seize the international market, CanSino has already begun negotiations with several countries to seek urgent approval from the governments of these countries to use the Ad5-nCoV vaccine developed by the company.

In addition, just about two weeks ago, Russia also approved the use of a vaccine developed by the country’s research institutions that has not undergone the third phase of testing.

This practice of the Russian government, and the aforementioned practice of China CanSino, are both considered to be cheating in the international vaccine research and development competition. International medical experts worry that once a vaccine similar to cheating is widely used internationally, it is likely to aggravate the disease, even worse than not being vaccinated.

The Voice of America reported that this move by CanSino has once again heated up the global covid vaccine development competition. Some public health experts pointed out that vaccinating people with the experimental vaccine developed by CanSino before the completion of large-scale clinical trials may bring serious public health risks.

According to the report, given that vaccines must be used in a large number of healthy people who are not infected with the virus, as an international practice, before the completion of large-scale trials, almost no vaccine has been approved for widespread use in the public.

The report quoted Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University, as saying that CanSino’s actions “broke all global conventions around science and ethics and are a huge gamble”.

In addition, according to a report by the Chinese mainland media CBN, CanSino Bio made an announcement on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 18 August, announcing that the company had received "a recombinant human replication-deficient adenovirus as a vector on 11 August. The “Novel Coronavirus Vaccine” is a notice of invention patent granted, which was jointly applied by the Chinese Military Academy of Military Sciences and the company.

The announcement also acknowledged that the Phase III clinical trial of the recombinant novel coronavirus vaccine (Ad5-nCoV) that the company participated in the research and development at that time had not yet entered the group.

The announcement stated that “the safety and effectiveness of the recombinant novel coronavirus vaccine Ad5-nCoV must be confirmed by clinical studies, and the company cannot guarantee that it will eventually successfully develop or commercialize Ad5-nCoV.”