Rabu, 30 Juni 2021

Malaysia's King wants Parliament to sit before state of emergency expires on Aug 1 - The Straits Times

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s King wants Parliament to reconvene before the state of emergency expires on Aug 1, despite the government committing to a sitting by October.

In a joint statement on Wednesday (June 30), the chairs of both Houses in the federal legislature said Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah had “decreed his view” during an audience on Tuesday, which was also attended by their deputies. 

“(We) stated our commitment and the full readiness of Parliament to meet as decreed by His Majesty,” said Lower House Speaker Azhar Harun and Senate president Rais Yatim. 

They added that they had made this known to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and suggested to him that “a special sitting be held before Aug 1”.

It is unlikely that Tan Sri Muhyiddin will respond quickly to the latest and most direct missive from the palace, as he was hospitalised on Wednesday after suffering from diarrhoea overnight.

The issue of exactly when Parliament should meet for the first time since December has been the subject of heated debate in the fortnight since the King and eight other state rulers said that the legislature should assemble as soon as possible.

Sultan Abdullah and the other rulers had convened a special meeting on June 16. Prior to that, the King had spent a week in a series of audiences with leaders of major political parties, heads of institutions and experts on the pandemic following the deadliest weeks of Malaysia’s ongoing Covid-19 outbreak.

The royal statements came just a day after Mr Muhyiddin unveiled a National Recovery Plan, which outlined a September or October target for a parliamentary session to be held when Malaysia’s worst Covid-19 wave eases and lockdown restrictions are loosened.

Although the law states that it is up to the embattled Premier to decide when to bring the House into session, the royal opinions are weighing on Mr Muhyiddin, whose grip on a parliamentary majority has been in doubt since a spate of defections in January.

It was immediately after two Umno lawmakers withdrew support for his Perikatan Nasional government that the state of emergency was imposed on Jan 11. It suspends the need for Parliament to sit within six months of its last meeting in December.

Cabinet ministers have insisted that the government’s timeline meets the royal criteria of “as soon as possible”, while critics and the opposition disagree. 

Heaping pressure on Mr Muhyiddin, main opposition pact Pakatan Harapan has begun the process of convening the assemblies of the three states it governs - Selangor, Penang and Negeri Sembilan. Pahang, ruled by the King himself, will resume in August.

Pahang’s state government is led by Umno, Mr Muhyiddin’s partner in the federal administration, which has been pushing for fresh polls to be held as soon as the pandemic is under control.

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Selasa, 29 Juni 2021

Chinese Communist Party honours ‘ordinary heroes’ with centenary medal - South China Morning Post

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2021-06-29 04:01:58Z
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Taiwan to get vaccine boost with more Moderna shots on their way - CNA

TAIPEI: Taiwan will discuss easing the import and export of COVID-19 vaccines with the United States when it holds trade talks with Washington this week, which will help in bringing the pandemic under control, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday (Jun 29).

The two sides are due to resume long-stalled trade discussions on Wednesday as Washington seeks to deepen its support for the Chinese-claimed island, and at a time when Taiwan is dealing with a cluster of domestic COVID-19 cases.

In an address from her office, Tsai said the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement talks, or TIFA, would include what she referred to as an "important" topic.

"That is to simplify the import and export process of vaccines and other medical supplies. This substantive cooperation will bring important help to our current epidemic situation. I have asked our negotiating team to go all out," Tsai said.

"If Taiwan's epidemic is brought under control and economic fluctuations are reduced, it will be a further contribution to the peace and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific region."

Taiwan is a major producer of semiconductors, a global shortage of which has reverberated around the world, though the island's domestic COVID-19 outbreak has not had a substantial impact on supplies.

READ: Taiwan to extend COVID-19 curbs into July

A further 410,000 doses of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Taiwan on Wednesday, Deputy Minister of the Interior Chen Tsung-yen said earlier on Tuesday, part of its direct order for 5.05 million doses from the company.

Only about 8 per cent of Taiwan's 23.5 million people have received at least one of the two shot regimen against COVID-19, and the government has been under pressure to speed up deliveries of the millions of doses it has on order.

When asked if a government-run research centre is in talks with Moderna to make COVID-19 vaccines, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said the government "will not give up any opportunity" and is currently reviewing its vaccine manufacturing capacity for international companies.

"We are reviewing related capacity, willingness and division of labour domestically. That will smooth things out in a negotiation," Chen told a daily news briefing, without giving details.

Taiwan has received a total of 4.85 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to date, including 1.24 million donated by Japan and 2.5 million donated by the United States. Japan has pledged another 1 million, while Lithuania is giving Taiwan 20,000.

READ: Taiwan's COVID-19 cases fall to month-and-a-half low

Taiwan's own domestic outbreak of the virus is being brought under control, but it remains wary about a handful of cases of the highly contagious Delta variant in southern Taiwan.

The island reported 54 new domestic infections on Tuesday, down from 60 a day earlier, marking the smallest daily rise since May 15, when the government raised the alert level for Taipei and its neighbouring city in the wake of a sudden spike of domestic cases. 

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41 suspects arrested or investigated in Hong Kong, Singapore for involvement in transnational job scam syndicate - CNA

SINGAPORE: Forty-one suspects were arrested or investigated in Hong Kong and Singapore for their involvement in transnational job scams, said the Singapore Police Force (SPF) on Tuesday (Jun 29).

Fourteen alleged "core members" of the scam syndicate, which operated from Hong Kong, were arrested by Hong Kong Police between Jun 16 and Jun 18 over 134 cases of jobs scams in Hong Kong that involved HKD 9 million (S$1.56 million).

Another 27 people were arrested by the Singapore police for their suspected involvement in job scams. 

"Preliminary investigations indicated that they had allegedly facilitated in bank transfers, funds withdrawals, or had relinquished their bank accounts to the scam syndicate," said SPF.

READ: 'People are gullible to believe whatever’s told to them' - Inside the mind of an ex-scammer

In a news release, SPF said it has seen a rise in the number of job scam cases in recent months.

"In these scams perpetuated by the Hong Kong syndicate, the syndicate would post advertisements for jobs promising quick cash on different social media platforms," said SPF.

The job would require the victims - job seekers - to assist in "improving the sales of online platforms", which included Taobao, HKTV Mall, and "some malicious mobile apps", added SPF.

The victims would then be told to make payments by transferring funds to different bank accounts. In return, they were promised reimbursements of the full sum, with 5 per cent to 12 per cent commissions.

In the initial stages, the scammers would purportedly reimburse the victims and pay them commissions to convince them that it was a legitimate job. This was also done to "induce them" to deposit increasingly larger sums of money to earn more commission, said Singapore police.

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Cash seized from operations in Singapore. (Photo: SPF)

"At this point, the scammers would promise commissions only after a certain number of tasks had been completed and would delay payments," said SPF.

"The victims would only realise they had fallen prey to a scam when they did not receive the subsequent reimbursements and commissions."

READ: Singapore and Malaysia police bust transnational Internet love scam syndicate in joint investigation

INVESTIGATIONS AND ARRESTS

The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD), Police Intelligence Department and seven land divisions of the SPF, together with the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force, had "jointly crippled" the transnational job scam syndicate, said SPF.

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Mobile phones and cards seized from operations in Singapore. (Photo: SPF)

SPF managed to detect potential victims who could have received unsolicited texts, WhatsApp and Telegram messages from the alleged scammers.

Since May 20, the CAD's Anti Scam Centre has contacted more than 660 potential victims to advise them of these job scams, said SPF.

The centre has also terminated more than 270 phone numbers and frozen more than 80 bank accounts suspected to be linked to these scams.

"IF IT IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS"

CAD's director David Chew said the transnational crime syndicate targeted unsuspecting victims in "many jurisdictions", including Singapore.

"In this instance, they had enticed potential job seekers with promises of highly paid jobs that allowed them to work-from-home," said Mr Chew.

SPF will continue collaborating "closely" with its counterparts to detect and deter such syndicates, which "exploit the anonymity of the Internet", he added.

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Members of the public are advised that e-commerce platforms will never ask anyone to transfer money on the promise of a refund with a commission.

"If it is too good to be true, it probably is. Do not accept dubious job offers that offer lucrative returns for minimal effort," said SPF.

People who are randomly invited into a messaging application group chat, which they suspect is promoting a scam, should report the group chat using the in-app function.

"If possible, always verify the authenticity of the job with the official websites or sources; and do not click on suspicious URLs or download applications from unknown sources," SPF added.

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China's ruling party censors its past as centenary nears - CNA

SHANGHAI: At the house where Mao Zedong and 12 others met 100 years ago to found the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping recently led his politburo in reciting an oath to uphold principles and "sacrifice everything" for the party and the people.

The obscure Shanghai courtyard of 1921 is now a lavish memorial hall, a focal point as China celebrates the centenary on Thursday (Jul 1) of the party that controls the world's most populous nation and second-biggest economy.

The site of that first party congress now chronicles China's "humiliation" at the hands of warlords and imperialists, its "awakening" in the early 20th century and its revival after the party's 1949 victory in a civil war that sent Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists into exile in Taiwan.

The commemorations in what has become an upscale neighbourhood of boutiques and restaurants reflect something broader: A myth-making project to amplify China's message at home and abroad, aligning with Xi's call this month to tell more positive stories about China.

But even as China celebrates, it erases.

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A boy dressed in a replica uniform of Red Army poses with a Chinese flag outside the Memorial of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, ahead of the 100th founding anniversary of the party, in Shanghai, China June 22, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song

A stirring video montage highlights China's proudest achievements, including its first atomic bomb, the construction of prestige infrastructure and the recent unmanned mission to Mars.

Ignored are the major tumults of the 20th century that historians reckon killed millions: The "Great Leap Forward" famine of 1958 to 1960, the decade of chaos in the "Cultural Revolution" from 1966 and the crackdown that killed hundreds or even thousands of people in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

"There's a lot of its history (the party) needs to forget," said Robert Bickers, a historian of the party at Britain's University of Bristol. "It has devoted a great deal of effort throughout the course of its 100 years ensuring that there is an agreed text of a history that needs to be celebrated."

READ: Police checks and patriotic flowers: Beijing leaves nothing to chance ahead of Party centenary

Neither the State Council Information Office nor the CCP's Party History and Literature Research Office responded to faxed requests for comment.

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Tourists ride on a bus marking the 100th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China, in Shanghai, China June 13, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song

"HISTORICAL NIHILISM"

The party has long sought to control history. That effort has intensified under Xi, who has spearheaded a campaign against "historical nihilism", defined as any attempt to use the past to question the party's leading role or the "inevitability" of Chinese socialism.

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has established a specialist history unit to propagate the official version of the past. This year Beijing set up a hotline for citizens to report historical nihilism to authorities.

Glenn Tiffert, a historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said this campaign reflects the party's insecurity and is rooted in Xi's fears that it could collapse like its Soviet counterpart, ousted in 1991.

"It seems to be a particular preoccupation of his from the very beginning," he said. "It is part of a more systematic, integrated approach to re-establishing the authority of the party and ensuring it does not go the way of the Soviet Communist Party."

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Workers build an installation ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, in Shanghai, China June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song

Despite Xi's efforts to emphasise the continuity of the party's century-long efforts to rejuvenate China, the new memorial hall shows that the party has moved far from its roots.

While it describes its first decades as a triumph of Marxist ideas, there is no mention of the theoretical contortions that allowed the party to jettison the collectivism of the Maoist era and launch market reforms that transformed its economy into the world's second-largest and also one of its most unequal.

A list of party "facts and figures" published by the official Shanghai Daily this month barely mentions ideology, saying the party's mission is "to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation".

"It's not about the belief in communism anymore, it's about delivering the goods," said Tiffert. "And in order to sustain that, they want to cover up all of the missteps."

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Yang Xuzhen, an 89-year-old visiting the memorial hall in a wheelchair, was happy to remember the party's achievements, saying the organisation she joined seven decades ago had rescued her from hard labour and servitude.

The Communist Party "has helped change so much in this country, especially for people in the countryside, the poor people and all of the minorities," she said.

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Taiwan to get vaccine boost with more Moderna shots on their way - CNA

TAIPEI: Taiwan will discuss easing the import and export of COVID-19 vaccines with the United States when it holds trade talks with Washington this week, which will help in bringing the pandemic under control, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday (Jun 29).

The two sides are due to resume long-stalled trade discussions on Wednesday as Washington seeks to deepen its support for the Chinese-claimed island, and at a time when Taiwan is dealing with a cluster of domestic COVID-19 cases.

In an address from her office, Tsai said the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement talks, or TIFA, would include what she referred to as an "important" topic.

"That is to simplify the import and export process of vaccines and other medical supplies. This substantive cooperation will bring important help to our current epidemic situation. I have asked our negotiating team to go all out," Tsai said.

"If Taiwan's epidemic is brought under control and economic fluctuations are reduced, it will be a further contribution to the peace and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific region."

Taiwan is a major producer of semiconductors, a global shortage of which has reverberated around the world, though the island's domestic COVID-19 outbreak has not had a substantial impact on supplies.

READ: Taiwan to extend COVID-19 curbs into July

A further 410,000 doses of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Taiwan on Wednesday, Deputy Minister of the Interior Chen Tsung-yen said earlier on Tuesday, part of its direct order for 5.05 million doses from the company.

Only about 8 per cent of Taiwan's 23.5 million people have received at least one of the two shot regimen against COVID-19, and the government has been under pressure to speed up deliveries of the millions of doses it has on order.

When asked if a government-run research centre is in talks with Moderna to make COVID-19 vaccines, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said the government "will not give up any opportunity" and is currently reviewing its vaccine manufacturing capacity for international companies.

"We are reviewing related capacity, willingness and division of labour domestically. That will smooth things out in a negotiation," Chen told a daily news briefing, without giving details.

Taiwan has received a total of 4.85 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to date, including 1.24 million donated by Japan and 2.5 million donated by the United States. Japan has pledged another 1 million, while Lithuania is giving Taiwan 20,000.

READ: Taiwan's COVID-19 cases fall to month-and-a-half low

Taiwan's own domestic outbreak of the virus is being brought under control, but it remains wary about a handful of cases of the highly contagious Delta variant in southern Taiwan.

The island reported 54 new domestic infections on Tuesday, down from 60 a day earlier, marking the smallest daily rise since May 15, when the government raised the alert level for Taipei and its neighbouring city in the wake of a sudden spike of domestic cases. 

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Half of Australia's population in lockdown as Covid-19 Delta variant spreads - The Straits Times

SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG, REUTERS) - More than 12 million Australians - close to half of the population - are now in lockdown as the nation struggles to contain a spread of the Delta coronavirus variant.

On Tuesday (June 29), Brisbane became Australia's fourth regional capital city to restrict movement outside of homes except for essential reasons such as shopping and exercise for at least three days, less than 24 hours after a similar move in Perth.

They followed Sydney and Darwin, which over the weekend announced longer lockdowns of up to two weeks. An outbreak in New South Wales (NSW) capital Sydney linked to the variant has grown to nearly 150 cases.

Worries the strain could spark major outbreaks have forced lockdowns in the major cities and some form of curbs in several others - affecting more than 20 million Australians, or about 80 per cent of the population.

The Queensland capital city of Brisbane, along with other areas of South-east Queensland state, including the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast and the more remote regions of Townsville city, Palm Island and Magnetic Island, will enter a three-day lockdown from 6pm on  Tuesday.

"We need to go hard and we need to go fast," Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told reporters in Brisbane on Tuesday after two new local cases were recorded from the previous day.

"There will be a lockdown for three days and I don't want it to be 30 days." In a late night press conference in Perth on Monday, Western Australia state Premier Mark McGowan announced a snap four-day lockdown for that city - the nation's unofficial resources capital - after a woman returned to the city from Sydney while infectious.

Sydney, home to one-fifth of Australia's 25 million population, is under a two-week lockdown until July 9 while the lockdown in the northern city of Darwin was extended for another 72 hours until Friday.

Tough restrictions, including mandatory masks and fewer gatherings, are in place elsewhere. NSW reported 19 new locally acquired infections, detected from a record 67,000 tests, versus 18 cases a day ago.

The outbreaks are ramping up pressure on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to increase the pace of a tardy vaccine roll-out. The Delta variant is leaking out of the nation's hotels being used for quarantine, with the current outbreaks also linked to mining workers and airline crew who have travelled around the nation.

The clusters show the limits of Australia's so-called "Covid-zero" strategy, which has relied on closed international borders and rigorous testing to eliminate community transmission of the virus.

While nations such as Britain and the US are preparing to open up their economies after widespread vaccinations, a slow roll-out in Australia means the economy, particularly domestic tourism, remains vulnerable.

While international borders are closed to most, Queensland and Victoria state leaders have asked PM Morrison's government to reduce the number of arrivals into the nation until dedicated quarantine facilities are built or a large proportion of the population are vaccinated.

The nation's current system has proven unable to contain the Delta variant, Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles told reporters in Brisbane on Tuesday.

"Right around the country right now there is a lot going on with this pandemic," Mr Miles said.

The outbreaks could all "be traced back to international arrivals. In fact, every day we have new cases in hotel quarantine from people who have travelled from overseas. Our international borders are supposed to be closed."

Contact tracers around the nation are battling to keep up with a growing list of exposure sites, including some domestic Virgin Australia flights after a cabin crew member tested positive.

Meanwhile, an outbreak at a mining site in a remote region of the Outback in central Australia has raised fears that the nation's indigenous population is at the greatest risk since the pandemic began.

In response to the clusters emerging around Australia, states and territories are reimposing domestic border restrictions, while a quarantine-free travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand has been suspended.

To head off infections, Australia late on Monday announced steps to increase Covid-19 vaccinations such as mandatory shots for high-risk aged-care workers and employees in quarantine hotels as well as making the AstraZeneca vaccine available to people under the age of 60.

Officials had earlier limited the use of the AstraZeneca shot to only people above 60 due to blood clot worries, while recommending Pfizer shots to everyone under 60 in a major change that slowed Australia's immunisation drive.

The authorities have now said people under 60 could request the AstraZeneca vaccine if approved by their doctors, who will be covered by a no-fault indemnity scheme matching a wider practice seen overseas.

Health officials say the AstraZeneca vaccine offers a high level of protection against Covid-19 and its benefits far outweigh any risks.

Lockdowns, swift contact tracing and strict social distancing rules have helped Australia keep its Covid-19 numbers relatively low, with just over 30,500 cases and 910 deaths, even as its vaccine roll-out has hit several roadblocks.

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