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| Gu’s win inspires Chinese descents in US to break racial dichotomy |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 07:02 PM - Forum: Politics
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It's not just Chinese people who are immersed in the victory of Chinese skier Gu Ailing, who won the gold medal of the women's freeski big air final at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games on Tuesday. Her dazzling performance also traveled across the Pacific and inspired those with Chinese descent living in the US, to not be afraid of showing their cultural identity, and break the false dichotomy where one has to be "Chinese or American." One can be both and let the dual cultural background be a bonus, not a burden, they said.
As the US faces more and more prominent racial problems, outstanding athletes with a dual cultural background at the Beijing Winter Olympics will be an awakening for the country to reflect on its deep rooted racism against Asian people. Yet the effect will be limited, observers said. They are also certain that a more open and prosperous China will be able to draw more and more talents with Chinese descent to contribute to it.
After making worldwide headlines, Gu, who has lived and trained most of her life in the US, also became a hot topic on US social media.
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| Return Puteri Wangsa if you’re with us, PKR man tells Muda in open letter |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 06:56 PM - Forum: Politics
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JOHOR BARU – Relying on Johor Wanita PKR chief Napsiah Khamis Maharan’s extensive work in the Puteri Wangsa constituency, the party is demanding Muda to back off from running for the seat.
In an open letter issued by PKR deputy information chief Manivanan Gowin, he took the opportunity to explain that his party’s grassroots are not satisfied with Muda’s takeover of the constituency.
During initial discussions for seat distributions in Johor, he said PKR proposed Napsiah as a candidate for the constituency.
“However, on the principles of friendship, PKR gave the seat to Amanah. After which Amanah and DAP’s leadership gave the seat to Muda.”
Due to the extensive and aggressive work done by Napsiah over the past year, as well as the coordination of party machinery in the area, Manivanan proposed it would be best if Muda surrendered the constituency back to PKR.
“If Muda president Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman is in this fight honestly and sincerely, he should consider giving back the seat to Napsiah, who has done aggressive work in Puteri Wangsa over the past year.
“This seat is winnable for the opposition, and the candidate should be one that worked in the constituency.”
Don’t be ‘spoilt’, go beyond ‘safe’ seats: Johor PKR Youth deputy chief chides Muda
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| Simplify registration process for postal voters – Yeo Bee Yin |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 06:51 PM - Forum: Politics
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THERE are about 400,000 Malaysians, many of whom are Johoreans working in Singapore.
However, the Vaccinated Travel Lane limits the number of voters that can travel back to vote in the upcoming Johor election.
The Election Commission (EC) must show a strong commitment to encourage more Johor voters to participate in the voting process.
Therefore, my colleague Teo Nie Ching (Kulai MP) urged the EC to set up overseas polling stations in the Malaysia High Commission in Singapore on polling day, so that more Johoreans can cast their votes. However, it fell on deaf ears.
Alternatively, the registration process to become postal voters must be simplified.
As of now, a voter needs to first register an account at the EC website, which may take one to two days to approve before he/she can login and register as a postal voter.
In other words, the registration process as a postal voter will take at least two days to complete. It is absolutely absurd.
In this day and age, there is certainly an easier way for Malaysians to register as postal voters.
EC should at least simplify the steps by allowing registration to be done at the same time as registration of postal voters.
Covid-19 is already making it difficult for voters to cast their ballots. The EC should not make it even more difficult for the democratic process to take place. – The Vibes, February 10, 2022
Yeo Bee Yin is Johor’s Bakri MP
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| Industrial contamination disrupts flash chip output at 2 Japan plants |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 06:43 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment
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TOKYO – Operations at two Japanese factories producing flash memory chips have been disrupted by the contamination of industrial materials, chipmaker Kioxia said today.
It comes as the tech industry grapples with a global semiconductor shortage that has hampered the manufacturing of numerous products from cars to gaming consoles.
Kioxia said it suspects “contamination of materials used in the manufacturing processes” at its plants leading to operations being partially suspended, without giving further details.
The company, a spin-off of Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, said it was working to restore full output at the factories in central and northern Japan as soon as possible.
Kioxia’s United States-based partner Western Digital also confirmed the disruption and estimated it will cause “a reduction of flash availability of at least 6.5 exabytes” at the plants, which are run by the two companies as a joint venture.
A unit of digital data, there are one billion gigabytes in an exabyte.
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| Last responders: Mental health damage from Covid could last a generation |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 03:50 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic
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Last responders: Mental health damage from Covid could last a generation, professionals say - Many psychologists and psychiatrists have reported an influx in people seeking mental health support during the pandemic.
- Numerous studies have been carried out looking into the impact of Covid on mental health.
- One study, published in The Lancet medical journal in October, looked at the global prevalence of depression and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic.
Aside from the obvious physical impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, health professionals have told CNBC that many people are struggling with the immense emotional and societal changes it has brought and, what’s more, are finding it hard to adapt to a “new normal” now that lockdowns are starting to ease.
Many psychologists and psychiatrists have reported an influx in people seeking mental health support during the pandemic, with the unprecedented global health crisis causing an increase in anxiety and depression as well as exacerbating existing mental health conditions.
“I have never been as busy in my life and I’ve never seen my colleagues as busy,” Valentine Raiteri, a psychiatrist working in New York, told CNBC.
“I can’t refer people to other people because everybody is full. Nobody’s taking new patients ... So I’ve never been as busy in my life, during the pandemic, and ever in my career,” he said, adding that he’s also seen an influx of former patients returning to him for help.
Raiteri said that many of his patients are still working remotely and were isolated, with many feeling “disconnected and lost, and they just have this kind of malaise.”
“That is really hard for me to do anything about,” he said, noting: “I can’t make the pressures disappear. I can always treat the illness that it provokes.”
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| ‘You’re treated like a spy’: US accused of racial profiling over China Initiative |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 03:11 PM - Forum: Politics
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It was sometime before 7am on 21 May 2015 when Xiaoxing Xi, a physics professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, was woken by people pounding on his front door. Still not fully dressed, he opened the door to be confronted by about 12 armed FBI agents.
The agents burst into Xi’s house, running about, shouting “FBI, FBI”. They pointed their guns at his wife and two daughters and ordered them to walk out of their bedrooms with their hands raised. Xi was handcuffed and arrested in front of his family.
His alleged crime? Four counts of wire fraud for passing sensitive US technology to China, the country of his birth. “Overnight, I was painted as a Chinese spy all over the news and internet and faced the possibility of up to 80 years in prison and a $1m fine,” he wrote in a statement to the US House of Representatives last year.
Four months after his arrest, the case collapsed before reaching trial. Xi, who came to the US from China in 1989 at the age of 32, was told through his lawyer that the US justice department (DoJ) had dismissed the case after “new information came to the attention of the government”.
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| Afghanistan: Evidence mounts of Taliban reprisal arrests and killings |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 03:03 PM - Forum: Politics
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A number of women who participated in protests demanding women’s rights in Afghanistan are missing.
The Taliban deny they are holding them and also say they have granted a general amnesty to all those who worked with the previous regime.
But the UN has raised alarm about a pattern of reprisals against activists, journalists, former government officials and security forces.
The BBC has investigated multiple incidents that have taken place recently, some just in the past couple of weeks.
All identities have been hidden and voices changed to protect the people who spoke to us.
Yogita Limaye reports from Kabul.
Filmed and Edited by Sanjay Ganguly and Aakriti Thapar
Produced by Imogen Anderson
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| A giant donut-shaped machine just proved a near-limitless clean power source |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 02:45 PM - Forum: Environment Protection News
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A giant donut-shaped machine just proved a near-limitless clean power source is possible
(CNN)There's no silver bullet to the climate crisis, but nuclear fusion may be the closest thing to it. In the quest for a near-limitless, zero-carbon source of reliable power, scientists have generated fusion energy before, but they have struggled for decades to sustain it for very long.
On Wednesday, however, scientists working in the United Kingdom announced that they more than doubled the previous record for generating and sustaining nuclear fusion, which is the same process that allows the sun and stars to shine so brightly.
Nuclear fusion is, as its name suggests, the fusing of two or more atoms into one larger one, a process that unleashes a tremendous amount of energy as heat.
Nuclear power used today is created by a different process, called fission, which relies on splitting, rather than fusing, atoms. But that process creates waste that can remain radioactive for tens of thousands of years. It's also potentially hazardous in the event of an accident, such as Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami.
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| Why did Amanah give Puteri Wangsa to Muda: Johor Wanita PKR chief |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 02:18 PM - Forum: Politics
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JOHOR BARU – Amanah’s offer of the Puteri Wangsa seat to Muda does not sit well with Johor Wanita PKR chief Napsiah Khamis Maharan.
Speaking to The Vibes, she said the seat is one that Pakatan Harapan (PH) won in 2018 with a very comfortable majority with then Bersatu candidate Mazlan Bujang.
However, since he defected to Perikatan Nasional, she said PKR has done extensive work in the constituency to repair PH’s image among voters.
As party coordinator for the area, she was slated as PKR’s candidate for the state constituency.
“I took the responsibility to restore PH and PKR’s image in the constituency.
“We did so much work to build trust for PKR because the Puteri Wangsa seat was won with (Mazlan using) the party logo.”
During initial seat negotiations among PH component parties, Napsiah said Amanah requested to contest in the constituency.
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| Postpone Johor polls or allow campaigning and ceramahs, says PH |
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Posted by: superadmin - 02-10-2022, 02:13 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: The Pakatan Harapan (PH) presidential council has called on the government to postpone the upcoming Johor elections because of the rising number of Covid-19 cases.
“To ensure that this increase is not used as a political instrument by others, the government should consider postponing the Johor elections,” it said in a statement today.
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