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Mar. 8 - The Chinese government’s top diplomat State Councillor Wang Yi on Sunday said the electoral system in Hong Kong must be improved for long-term stability, saying reform would bring about a “brighter future” for the city.
China’s plan to dramatically reform Hong Kong’s electoral system, unveiled this week during the country’s annual parliamentary session, is expected to upend the territory’s governance and ensure Beijing loyalists are in charge.
Speaking at his annual news conference at the parliamentary session, Wang said there was no democracy in Hong Kong during colonial times, and that China has confidence electoral reforms will be beneficial.
“Hong Kong’s transition from chaos to governance is fully in the interests of all parties,” said Wang.
A year ago, China imposed a tough national security law on the former British colony, saying it was needed following months of sometimes violent anti-government protests.
Beijing has since said that it will directly vet electoral candidates for the city’s legislature and declared that only “patriots” should rule Hong Kong.
“Loving Hong Kong and patriotism are exactly the same,” said Wang on Sunday, adding that changes to the electoral system are constitutional and justified.
It comes a week after Hong Kong police detained 47 pro-democracy activists on charges of conspiracy to commit subversion, the largest such mass arrest to date under the new national security law.
China’s actions in Hong Kong have been condemned by the United States and its allies to the anger of the Chinese government, which has said Hong Kong issues are an internal matter with which foreigners have no right to interfere.
Supporters of the national security law - which punishes what it broadly defines as secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison - have said the legislation is necessary to restore stability in Hong Kong after months of pro-democracy protests in 2019. (Reuters)
March
Mar. 8 - An official from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy died in custody in Myanmar overnight after being detained in a crackdown on anti-junta protesters, associates said, and a party leader said he suspected the man was tortured.
An officer at the police station in the Pabedan district of Yangon, the area where Khin Maung Latt was arrested on Saturday, declined to comment. A spokesman for Myanmar’s army did not answer phone calls seeking comment.
More than 1,700 people have been detained in Myanmar since the Feb. 1 coup, including elected leader Suu Kyi and dozens of members of her NLD, an advocacy group says. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) also says more than 50 protesters have been killed by security forces.
Khin Maung Latt, 58, was a local NLD chairman in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city.
According to his deputy chairman, pictures from the military hospital where he died showed he had a wound on the back of the head and bruises on his back.
“The doctor said those were not the cause of death,” Khin San Myint told reporters. “They said it was due to heart condition,” she said.
A charity worker who had seen the body said there were bruises on the head and chest and stitches on the side of the head. He declined to be named.
Reuters was unable to reach the doctor or the hospital for comment.
Khin Maung Latt was arrested after 9 p.m. on Saturday night, one friend said.
Ba Myo Thein, an NLD member of the upper house of parliament, which was dissolved after the coup, said the reports of bruising to Khin Maung Latt’s head and body raised suspicions that he had been abused.
“It seems that he was arrested at night and tortured severely,” he told Reuters. “This is totally unacceptable.”
The army has rejected accusations of using excessive force against protesters. It says it took power after the electoral commission rejected its allegations of fraud in an election last November in which the NLD won a landslide.
The army’s promise of new elections is scorned by protesters, who say the NLD’s victory must be respected. (Reuters)
March
Mar. 8 - Indonesia ranks second in the fastest vaccination in ASEAN.
Quoting Reuters, Sunday (7/3/2021), a vaccination race is inevitable because vaccination is the key to breaking the chain of the pandemic, which in turn will again accelerate the pace of the economy of each country.
There are at least five vaccines that are popularly used: Pfizer (the United States / US), Sinovac (China), AstraZeneca (Europe), Sputnik (Russia), Novavax (US), and Johnson & Johnson (US).
Apart from that, there is the Covax vaccine developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to suppress the egocentrism effect of developed countries in fighting over vaccines. Most recently, Italy blocked the delivery of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine to Australia.
The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca requested permission to ship 250,000 doses of vaccines from its factory in Anagni, Italy. However, the Italian government refused the request.
In the midst of such competition, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is optimistic that vaccination in Indonesia can be completed in 1 year. He ordered Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin to speed up the vaccination process.
"I have also ordered the vaccination process for approximately 181.5 million Indonesians to be completed before the end of 2021," he said some time ago in an official statement uploaded on the Youtube channel of the Presidential Secretariat.
Currently, Indonesia has received a supply of 11.7 million additional vaccines for the second phase of vaccination. According to the Ministry of Health, the government this year targets to secure 340.5 million doses of vaccine from five brands, namely Sinovac (125.5 million), AstraZeneca (59 million), Covax (54 million), Novavax (52 million), and Pfizer (50 million). million).
By the first quarter of 2022, it is expected that there will be an additional 86.3 million doses of vaccine from the five producers. Thus, during that period, it is expected that 426.8 million doses of vaccine will be collected to be given to 260 million Indonesians.
It is known that the Covid-19 vaccination using the Sinovac vaccine from China is carried out through two stages of injection. Recipients of the second injection, number is equivalent to 0.4 percent of the total population in Indonesia. Still very small.
In comparison, Singapore has currently injected phase two vaccines into its 215,000 citizens, or the equivalent of 3.7 percent of its population. This places the City State at the top of the country with the fastest vaccination rates in the Region.
However, Indonesia's vaccination performance deserves thumbs up because so far it has only lost compared to Singapore.
In fact, Indonesia is the country with the most populous population in Southeast Asia. According to the records of Our World in Data, Indonesia is better positioned than the five ASEAN member countries in terms of the number of injections per 100 population. (RRI)
March
Mar. 8 - The Covid-19 tests carried out in Indonesia are far from the standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO).
WHO has set a standard of screening 1: 1,000 population per week. With data on Indonesia's population of 270.2 million people, naturally around 270 thousand people are examined per week, as reported by CNN Indonesia, Sunday (7/3/2021).
Starting from the first case of March 2, 2020 to March 1, 2021, the number of tests carried out by the Indonesian government was 7,213,192 people with a total of 10,834,875 specimens.
This means that only 2.67 out of 270.2 million Indonesians were examined.
The government continues to strive to reduce the spread of the Corona virus.
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) also extended the micro PPKM in a number of areas which will end soon on March 8, 2021.
PPKM Mikro which was implemented on February 9-21 is claimed to have produced positive statistics, namely the increase in positive cases of the Coronavirus tended to decrease in the seven provinces of Java-Bali.
Likewise with cases of death, also decreased in the seven provinces are DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, DI Yogyakarta, Banten, and Bali.
The government is also implementing a national vaccination program that started some time ago.
Jokowi targets that the Covid-19 vaccination can target 181 million people to create herd immunity or group immunity.
Previously reported, positive cases of Covid-19 increased by 5,826 people on Sunday (7/3/2021).
Thus, the total number of positive cases in Indonesia reached 1,379,662 people since the first case was announced on March 2, 2020.
As reported by CNN Indonesia, of this number, 1,194,656 people (an increase of 5,146 people) were declared cured, and 37,226 people (an increase of 112 people) died.
Meanwhile, there were 147,740 active cases, with an additional 568 compared to Saturday (6/3/2021).
Previously, positive cases of Covid-19 were exactly a pandemic year in Indonesia, reaching 1,347,026 on March 2, 2021. Of these, 1,160,863 were declared cured and 36,518 died. (RRI)