Jumat, 15 September 2023

Blocked Thai PM challenger Pita resigns as party leader - CNA

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2023-09-15 06:08:04Z
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US believes China's defence chief is under investigation by Beijing: Report - CNA

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Kamis, 14 September 2023

Delivery man killed on his birthday in road accident near Woodleigh Mall - The Straits Times

SINGAPORE – A delivery man who was on his way home to celebrate his birthday died after his motorcycle collided with a car near Woodleigh Mall on Monday evening.

Mr Lee Boon Tiam, 46, was taken unconscious to Tan Tock Seng Hospital after the accident at the junction of Upper Aljunied Road and Bidadari Park Drive at 8.14pm, said the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force.

His eldest son, Mr Lee Yong Sen, 23, told Shin Min Daily News that his family had prepared a birthday feast for their father, a permanent resident who worked for a factory in Aljunied.

He said his father would usually finish work between 5pm and 6pm. When the elder Mr Lee did not return home at dinner time on Monday, the family thought he was likely working overtime.

“At about 8.30pm, I received a call from a woman informing me that he was involved in an accident and asked me to rush to the hospital immediately,” said Mr Lee, a car mechanic.

“It was only when my mother, my brother and I arrived at the hospital at 10pm that we realised how serious our father’s condition was. That was then when we also asked my younger sister to rush to the hospital.”

Mr Lee told Shin Min that his father suffered a brain haemorrhage and had to undergo surgery immediately.

But his father was pronounced brain dead at 2am on Tuesday, and died at 7pm from injuries to the head.

“This was too sudden and we could not accept it at all. My parents loved each other deeply and my father’s death hit my mother really hard,” said Mr Lee, adding that he did not expect the accident to happen as his father was an experienced and careful motorcyclist.

“The driver involved in the accident said he didn’t see my father on the road. He did not have a dashboard camera either. Hence, we hope that eyewitnesses will come forward to provide us with information that will help us find out what really happened.”

A 38-year-old male car driver is assisting with investigations, police said.

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2023-09-14 15:23:27Z
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Taiwan rejects China's integrated development plan as politicised cash grab - CNA

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2023-09-14 09:17:39Z
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Japan will continue seeking responsible actions from China, says new foreign minister - CNA

TOKYO: Japan's new foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, said at her inaugural press conference on Thursday (Sep 14) that Japan would continue seeking China to act responsibly, while maintaining dialogue to resolve common issues together.

Appointed on Wednesday as part of a cabinet reshuffle, Kamikawa is Japan's first female foreign minister in 20 years.

"We will continue to say what must be said and seek China to act responsibly, but will continue to hold dialogues on issues, and work together with them on common issues," she said, acknowledging there were many contentious matters that need to be resolved.

"I believe we must both put in the effort to build a constructive and stable relationship," she said, adding that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's stance toward China had not changed.

Most recently, relations between Japan and China cooled after Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean last month.

The move angered China, which in retaliation imposed a blanket ban on Japanese seafood and aquatic products.

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2023-09-14 05:51:43Z
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Foxconn founder Terry Gou picks Netflix hit show actress as presidential running mate - The Straits Times

TAIPEI - Mr Terry Gou, the founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, on Thursday said his running mate in Taiwan’s presidential election next year would be Ms Tammy Lai Pei-hsia, an actress who starred in a high-profile Netflix drama.

After months of speculation, the billionaire Gou announced his run as an independent candidate last month, though he has continued to run at the bottom of most opinion polls and well behind the favourite, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) William Lai, currently Taiwan’s vice-president.

At a news conference in Taipei, Mr Gou introduced the veteran actress, author and singer Ms Lai as his running mate.

She played a presidential candidate in the hit Taiwanese Netflix show “Wave Makers” earlier this year. At the end of the show, she wins the election.

That series, about the members of an election campaign team, including a supportive manager who convinces a young staffer who was groped that the issue is too important to be swept under the rug, kicked off a renewed #MeToo movement in Taiwan.

“I’m quite open-minded. I told myself that last year I would set no ceiling for myself, and I didn’t expect I’d actually be raised up this far,” Ms Lai told reporters.

“After meeting Chairman Gou two or three times, I was very sure he’s someone I could cooperate with. Because he’s fascinating,” she added. “I told him, ‘We’re going to have fun.’“

Mr Gou has been tying to unite the anti-DPP vote, but has so far not managed to reach agreement with either the main opposition party, the Kuomintang, nor the small Taiwan People’s Party on how that might work.

The other parties have yet to announce running mates for their presidential candidates.

Mr Gou must gather close to 300,000 voter signatures by Nov 2 to qualify as an independent candidate, according to election regulations, and needed to decide his running mate before he could collect signatures.

The Central Election Commission will review the signatures and announce the results by Nov 14.

Mr Gou stepped down as Foxconn chief in 2019 and this month resigned as a company board member. REUTERS

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Taiwan blasts Elon Musk over latest China comments - CNA

TAIPEI: Taiwan is "not for sale", the island's foreign minister said in a stern rebuke to Elon Musk who asserted that Taiwan was an integral part of China, as the billionaire again waded into the thorny issue of relations between Beijing and Taipei.

Musk, the owner of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as the Tesla electric car company and Starlink satellite network, made the comments to the All-In Summit in Los Angeles uploaded to YouTube this week.

"(Beijing's) policy has been to reunite Taiwan with China. From their standpoint, maybe it is analogous to Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China mostly because ... the US Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification effort by force," he said.

Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, in a post on X late on Wednesday, responded that he hoped Musk could ask China to "open X to its people". China blocks X, along with other major Western social media platforms like Facebook.

"Perhaps he thinks banning it is a good policy, like turning off Starlink to thwart Ukraine's counterstrike against Russia," Wu added, referring to Musk's refusing a Ukrainian request to activate his Starlink satellite network in Crimea's port city of Sevastopol last year to aid an attack on Russia's fleet there.

"Listen up, Taiwan is not part of the PRC & certainly not for sale!" Wu said, using the acronym for the People's Republic of China.

Taiwan's democratically elected government strongly rejects China's sovereignty claims, and says that only Taiwan's people can decide their future.

This is not the first time Musk, whose Tesla had a large factory in Shanghai, has riled Taiwan.

Last October, he suggested that tensions between China and Taiwan could be resolved by handing over some control of Taiwan to Beijing, drawing a similarly strong reprimand from Taiwan.

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2023-09-14 06:16:14Z
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