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Virus Outbreak: US, China clash over Taiwan at WHO

Friday, 07 February 2020 06:20 Taipei Times
US Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Andrew Bremberg, center, speaks at a news conference at the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
Photo: EPA-EFE

The US yesterday urged the WHO to “engage directly with Taiwan public health authorities” in the fight against the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

Last Updated ( Sunday, 09 February 2020 06:20 ) Read more...
  		 

Chinese banned from entering Taiwan

Thursday, 06 February 2020 06:15 Taipei Times

Seated from left, Centers for Disease Control Director-General Chou Jih-haw, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung, Minister of the Interior Hsu Kuo-yung and Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chen Ming-tong report on the 2019 novel coronavirus situation at the Central Epidemic Command Center in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times

From today, all Chinese nationals are banned from entering Taiwan, while people who have traveled to China, Hong Kong or Macau in the previous 14 days are to be put under mandatory home quarantine for 14 days after returning to Taiwan, the Central Epidemic Command Center announced yesterday.

Last Updated ( Sunday, 09 February 2020 06:21 ) Read more...
 
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The burning image of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese monk who self-immolated at a busy Saigon road intersection on June 11, 1963. Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Roman Catholic government.

DHARAMSHALA, February 17: In a powerful message of solidarity, Vietnam’s Supreme Buddhist Patriarch, currently held under house arrest, expressed his support for the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people’s struggle for freedom.

The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, in a letter dated February 11 called the ongoing human rights violation in Tibet and the recent wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, a “challenge to all humanity”.