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Virus Outbreak: US, China clash over Taiwan at WHO

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


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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Newsflash

A spoof of the poster for the movie Back To The Future features President Ma Ying-jeou and Vice President Vincent Siew as the two main characters. The poster was made by an Internet user to ridicule Ma after it was found that he had pre-recorded his online videos scheduled for the next two Saturdays.
PHOTO OF INTERNET PICTURE TAKEN BY LIU JUNG

Internet users made fun of President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday after discovering “futuristic” online videos prerecorded by the Presidential Office.

An Internet user named Xdite wrote on the popular Web forum PTT that if users substituted the Web Site address of Ma’s weekly video for the dates July 25 and Aug. 1, viewers could watch in advance Ma’s online videos scheduled for the next two Saturdays.

The two videos were circulated among pan-green Plurkers before being removed yesterday.