Rabu, 24 Maret 2021
COVID-19: Limits at workplaces and large social gatherings further relaxed - CNA
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2021-03-24 14:36:50Z
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Singapore made advanced purchases for COVID-19 vaccines, including Sinovac - CNA
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- Singapore made advanced purchases for COVID-19 vaccines, including Sinovac CNA
- S'pore has received 200000 doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine; use subject to HSA approval The Straits Times
- China triples output of COVID-19 vaccines from early February - Xinhua TODAYonline
- Why did Singapore receive China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine before approvals given? CNA
- How fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates are adding fire to the pandemic The Indian Express
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2021-03-24 14:25:19Z
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Why did Singapore receive China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine before approvals given? - CNA
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2021-03-24 12:01:52Z
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Singapore expands COVID-19 vaccine rollout to younger residents, eases workplace rules | Full video - CNA
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2021-03-24 12:24:50Z
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Suez Canal blocked by massive cargo ship - CNA
DUBAI: Tugs worked Wednesday (Mar 24) to free a giant container ship stuck in the Suez Canal after it veered off course in a sandstorm, officials said, creating huge tailbacks on one of the world's busiest trade routes.
Egypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said it was doing all it could to refloat the Taiwan-run but Panama-flagged MV Ever Given, a 400m-long and 59m-wide vessel, which was lodged at an angle across the waterway.
Historic sections of the canal have been reopened in a bid to ease the bottleneck of backed up marine traffic.
"The container accidentally ran aground after a suspected gust of wind hit it," ship operator Evergreen Marine Corp told AFP.
The SCA said the ship was caught up in a sandstorm, a common occurrence in Egypt's Sinai desert at this time of year, blotting out light and limiting the captain's ability to see.
It was "mainly due to the lack of visibility due to the weather conditions when winds reached 40 knots, which affected the control" of the ship, the SCA said in a statement.
After being stranded for more than a day, the ship has been partially refloated and traffic is expected to resume soon, said port agent GAC, citing the SCA.
The Ever Given container ship was now alongside the canal bank, GAC said on its website.
According to satellite data from MarineTraffic.com earlier, the vessel's bow was touching the canal's eastern wall, while its stern looked lodged against its western wall.
READ: Egypt's Suez Canal - A history of the key route
The Ever Given is among the largest cargo ships in the world. It can carry about 20,000 containers at a time.
Taiwan's Evergreen Marine Corp, which is leasing the vessel under a time charter, said the shipowner informed it that the ship "was suspected of being hit by a sudden strong wind, causing the hull to deviate from waterway and accidentally hit the bottom and run aground".
"The company has urged the shipowner to report the cause of the incident and has been in discussions with relevant parties including the canal management authority to assist the ship as soon as possible."
All crew are safe and accounted for, said Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, which manages the MV Ever Given. "There have been no reports of injuries or pollution."
STUCK SIDEWAYS
MarineTraffic recorded that the vessel had been in the same position since at least Tuesday afternoon.
SCA chairman Admiral Osama Rabie said in a statement that "rescue and tug units are continuing their efforts" to free the Ever Given.
Bloomberg reported the incident had caused a build-up of more than 100 ships seeking to transit the canal.
Photographs released by the SCA showed excavators onshore digging soil from the canal's bank, with the earth-moving equipment dwarfed by the giant hull towering above.
Instagram user Julianne Cona posted a photo of the grounded ship from the Maersk Denver, now also stuck behind the Ever Given.
"Ship in front of us ran aground while going through the canal and is now stuck sideways," she wrote. "Looks like we might be here for a little bit."
More than 150 years old, the Suez Canal is one of the world's most important trade routes, providing passage for 10 per cent of all international maritime trade.
Nearly 19,000 ships passed through it last year with a total tonnage of 1.17 billion, according to the SCA.
KNOCK-ON EFFECT
The ship appeared to be stuck about 6km north of the southerly mouth of the canal near the city of Suez, an area of the canal that is a single lane.
That could have a major knock-on effect for global shipping moving between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, warned Salvatore R Mercogliano, a former merchant mariner and associate professor of history at North Carolina's Campbell University.
"Every day, 50 vessels on average go through that canal, so the closing of the canal means no vessels are transiting north and south," Mercogliano told the AP.
"Every day the canal is closed ... container ships and tankers are not delivering food, fuel and manufactured goods to Europe and goods are not being exported from Europe to the Far East."
Cargo ships and oil tankers appeared to be lining up at the southern end of the Suez Canal, waiting to be able to pass through the waterway to the Mediterranean Sea, according to MarineTraffic data.
The Ever Given had listed its destination as Rotterdam in the Netherlands prior to getting stuck in the canal.
Opened in 1869, the Suez Canal provides a crucial link for oil, natural gas and cargo being shipping from East to West. Around 10 per cent of the world's trade flows through the waterway and it remains one of Egypt's top foreign currency earners.
In 2015, the government of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi completed a major expansion of the canal, allowing it to accommodate the world’s largest vessels.
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2021-03-24 11:37:30Z
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Suez Canal blocked by massive cargo ship - CNA
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- Suez Canal blocked by massive cargo ship CNA
- Suez Canal, among the world's busiest maritime trade routes, blocked after giant ship stuck The Straits Times
- Giant ship accidentally blocks Suez Canal after being blown off course South China Morning Post
- Egypt's Suez Canal: A history of the key route CNA
- Ship blocks Suez Canal after 'gust of wind' knocks it off course Yahoo Singapore News
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2021-03-24 10:18:45Z
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Myanmar frees more than 600 detained, protesters plan silent strike - The Straits Times
YANGON (REUTERS, AFP) - Myanmar on Wednesday (March 24) freed more than 600 people detained in anti-junta protests, a senior prison official told AFP.
“We released 360 men and 268 women from Insein prison today,” a senior official from the jail told AFP, on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, Myanmar activists plan more anti-coup protests, including a silent strike with many businesses due to close and calls for people to stay home, a day after a seven-year-old girl was killed in her home when security forces opened fire during a crackdown in Mandalay.
Pro-democracy protesters also held more candle-lit vigils overnight including in a district of the commercial capital Yangon and in Thahton in Mon state.
The vigils came after staff at a funeral service in Mandalay told Reuters on Tuesday that a seven-year-old girl had died of bullet wounds in the city - the youngest victim so far in a bloody crackdown of opposition to the Feb 1 coup.
Soldiers shot at her father but hit the girl who was sitting on his lap inside their home, her sister told the Myanmar Now media outlet. Two men were also killed in the district, it said.
The military had no immediate comment on the incident.
In what has now often become a deadly game of cat and mouse with security forces during street protests, pro-democracy activists switched tactics and planned to hold a silent strike on Wednesday.
"No going out, no shops, no working. All shut down. Just for one day," illustrator and activist Nobel Aung told Reuters.
Social media posts and media indicated a range of businesses from ride-hailers to pharmacies planned to close.
The junta has faced international condemnation for staging the coup that halted Myanmar's slow transition to democracy and for its lethal suppression of the protests that followed.
It has tried to justify the takeover by saying that a Nov 8 election won by Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) was fraudulent - an accusation that the electoral commission has rejected.
Military leaders have promised a new election but have not set a date and have declared a state of emergency.
Junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said on Tuesday that 164 protesters had been killed and expressed sadness at the deaths, a day after the European Union and the United States imposed more sanctions on groups or individuals linked to the coup.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners activist group says at least 275 people have been killed in the security forces' crackdown.
Mr Zaw Min Tun blamed the bloodshed on the protesters and said nine members of the security forces had also been killed.
He said strikes as well as hospitals not fully operating had caused deaths, including from Covid-19, calling them "undutiful and unethical".
Opponents of military rule have regularly called for strikes and also a civil disobedience campaign, including among civil servants, that has paralysed parts of the economy.
The junta spokesman also accused the media of "fake news" and fanning unrest and said reporters could be prosecuted if they were in contact with the Committee Representing the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, as the remnants of Ms Suu Kyi's government is known.
The military has declared the group an illegal organisation and said membership is punishable by death.
He also gave details that he said showed how the NLD had created hundreds or even thousands of extra ballots by inventing voters, including in Ms Suu Kyi's own constituency.
The NLD has denied making any attempt to rig the election.
Also shown at the junta news conference was video testimony of former Yangon chief minister Phyo Min Thein saying he visited Ms Suu Kyi multiple times and gave her money "whenever needed".
Ms Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her campaign to bring democratic civilian rule to Myanmar, has been in detention since the coup and faces charges that her lawyer says have been cooked up to discredit her.
The ousted leader was due to appear for a court hearing via video conferencing on Wednesday after a previous hearing had to be adjourned due to Internet problems.
However Wednesday's hearing was postponed to April 1, an aide to her lawyer said, marking the second successive postponement in her case.
Ms Suu Kyi who was arrested the same day the military seized power in Myanmar on Feb 1, faces charges that include illegally importing six handheld radios and breaching coronavirus protocols. The military has also accused her of bribery in two recent televised news conferences.
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2021-03-24 08:05:28Z
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