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Don’t make life hard for NGOs who are feeding the poor, says Yeoh Posted by: superadmin - 06-12-2021, 10:53 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: The women, family and community development ministry must immediately issue clear directions for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to distribute aid for the needy, says former deputy minister Hannah Yeoh. The Segambut MP said this was because vulnerable groups depended a lot on NGOs to provide their basic daily needs during the lockdown. “NGOs shouldn’t be made to pay the price when they are already struggling on their own to sustain their operations during the pandemic,” she told FMT. “Don’t make it harder for them than it already is.” Last week, FMT reported that volunteer groups faced difficulties in carrying out their aid and care work due to inconsistent government procedures. Suriana Welfare Society chairman James Nayagam said the NGO was told to apply for a permit through the international trade and industry ministry (Miti). Their application was rejected because they were listed as a non-essential service. He said Suriana had also appealed to the Registrar of Societies, Social Welfare Department (JKM) and police, but they were referred back to Miti each time. - More -   Teen who filmed George Floyd's murder given journalism award Posted by: superadmin - 06-12-2021, 09:39 AM - Forum: Stop Racism and Religious Bigotry - No Replies A teenager who filmed the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer has been given a special journalism award by the Pulitzer Prize board. Darnella Frazier, now 18, was awarded the citation for her courage, the Pulitzer committee said. Her film spurred protests for racial justice around the world and was used as evidence in the trial that convicted police officer Derek Chauvin. The Pulitzers are the most prestigious journalism awards in the US. The committee said they honoured Ms Frazier for "courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality around the world, highlighting the crucial role of citizens in journalists' quest for truth and justice." Ms Frazier came across the arrest of Floyd while walking with her cousin in Minneapolis on 25 May last year. She told a court earlier this year that she started recording the incident on her phone because "I saw a man terrified, begging for his life". Ms Frazier described hearing Floyd "saying I can't breathe'. He was terrified, he was calling for his mom". - More -   An Flying Arrow | Best Drama | Chinese Movie 2021 Posted by: superadmin - 06-11-2021, 05:12 PM - Forum: Chinese/Cantonese Movies - No Replies   Indonesia's coronavirus spike has health experts worried the worst is yet to come Posted by: superadmin - 06-11-2021, 04:21 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies A jump in coronavirus cases on Indonesia's two most populous islands has health experts worried the worst could be yet to come, with few curbs on movement at a time when dangerous variants drive record fatalities elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Case numbers have risen sharply in Java and Sumatra three weeks after holidays that followed the Islamic fasting month, when millions ventured across the archipelago, ignoring a temporary travel ban. In Kudus, central Java, cases skyrocketed 7,594% since then, according to Wiku Adisasmito of Indonesia's Covid-19 taskforce. Health care reinforcements have been brought in, but hospital capacity had hit 90%, local media reported. Defriman Djafri, an epidemiologist from Andalas University in Padang, said fatalities in West Sumatra in May were the highest on record. In Riau on Sumatra, daily cases more than doubled from early April to over 800 by mid-May, while the positivity rate was at 35.8% last week, said Wildan Asfan Hasibuan, an epidemiologist and provincial task force adviser. - More -   Photos show Chinese rover on dusty, rocky Martian surface Posted by: superadmin - 06-11-2021, 03:54 PM - Forum: Astronomy - No Replies BEIJING (AP) — The dusty, rocky Martian surface and a Chinese rover and lander bearing small national flags were seen in photos released Friday that the rover took on the red planet. The four pictures released by the China National Space Administration also show the upper stage of the Zhurong rover and the view from the rover before it rolled off its platform. Zhurong placed a remote camera about 10 meters (33 feet) from the landing platform, then withdrew to take a group portrait, the CNSA said. China landed the Tianwen-1 spacecraft carrying the rover on Mars last month after it spent about three months orbiting the red planet. China is the second country to land and operate a spacecraft on Mars, after the United States. The orbiter and lander both display small Chinese flags and the lander has outlines of the mascots for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The six-wheeled rover is surveying an area known as Utopia Planitia, especially searching for signs of water or ice that could lend clues as to whether Mars ever sustained life. At 1.85 meters (6 feet) in height, Zhurong is significantly smaller than the U.S.’s Perseverance rover which is exploring the planet with a tiny helicopter. NASA expects its rover to collect its first sample in July for return to Earth as early as 2031. - More -   If you have long Covid, as I did, don’t give up hope. Recovery is possible Posted by: superadmin - 06-11-2021, 03:29 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies Covid-19 affects people in a range of different ways. For some its a mild illness; to others, it’s lethal. For me, it turned into a poorly understood condition that doctors call post-Covid syndrome but most people know as long Covid. I’m a professor of infectious diseases, and one of the first people in the country to have reported on long Covid. Now, an estimated one million people in the UK say they are experiencing symptoms from the wide range that make up this condition. In the same way that the virus itself causes illness of varying severity, everyone’s experience of long Covid will be different, and personal to them. I want to share my story of how I recovered. For those still battling with long Covid, I want them to hear that recovery is possible, and to have hope. - More -   Finland Might Have Solved Nuclear Power’s Biggest Problem Posted by: superadmin - 06-11-2021, 12:39 PM - Forum: Environment Protection News - No Replies   The chipmaking factory of the world is battling Covid and the climate crisis Posted by: superadmin - 06-11-2021, 11:04 AM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment - No Replies Taipei, Taiwan (CNN Business)Taiwanese officials are fretting about whether a severe outbreak of Covid-19 could jeopardize the island's critical role in the global semiconductor supply chain. But there's another threat to the industry that experts worry may have even more drastic consequences: the climate crisis. Taiwan — which accounts for more than half of the world's output of chips — has been grappling for months with its worst drought in more than 50 years, an event experts say could become more frequent due to the effects of climate change. "There is clearly pressure in the semiconductor industry," wrote Mark Williams, chief Asia economist at Capital Economics, on Thursday in a note that referenced the water shortages and coronavirus cases, along with rolling power outages. Manufacturers around the world have already had trouble securing supplies of semiconductors, delaying the production and delivery of goods. If Taiwan is hit hard, the situation could become much worse, given the island's importance in contributing to global chips supply. The environmental disaster has already been a challenge for the island's chipmakers, including industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM). TSMC has said it uses 156,000 tons of water per day to produce its chips, the equivalent of about 60 Olympic-size swimming pools. - More -   UN: Don’t forget to save species while fixing global warming Posted by: superadmin - 06-11-2021, 10:56 AM - Forum: Environment Protection News - No Replies To save the planet, the world needs to tackle the crises of climate change and species loss together, taking measures that fix both and not just one, United Nations scientists said. A joint report Thursday by separate U.N. scientific bodies that look at climate change and biodiversity loss found there are ways to simultaneously attack the two global problems, but some fixes to warming could accelerate extinctions of plants and animals. For example, measures such as expansion of bioenergy crops like corn, or efforts to pull carbon dioxide from the air and bury it, could use so much land — twice the size of India — that the impact would be “fairly catastrophic on biodiversity,” said co-author and biologist Almut Arneth at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. - More -   China forges ahead in vaccination drive with 809m shots given Posted by: superadmin - 06-11-2021, 10:50 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies BEIJING - When Mr Xie Xiaomin wanted to get vaccinated two weeks ago on May 29, he only had to trek 2km to the township hospital, where a vaccination centre had been specially set up for villages in the area. "It's not far, many of us walked there. The government made it convenient for us to get vaccinated, especially the older villagers," said Mr Xie, 54, who runs a bed-and-breakfast in Mayuan village near the city of Jinggangshan in Jiangxi province. Before this, those who wanted to get vaccinated would have to travel over 40km to city hospitals in Jinggangshan. The rural vaccination effort is one example of how China has been marshalling state and party resources to boost the country's vaccination rate - which has almost quadrupled since April. Beijing has set a target for 40 per cent of the population to be fully vaccinated by the end of June, and more than 80 per cent of people to be inoculated by the end of the year. Under a two-dose vaccination regimen, the 40 per cent target would require about 1.13 billion doses to be administered. - More - Pages (816): « Previous 1 … 652 653 654 655 656 … 816 Next » Jump to page: