title: Iraq picks PM-designate after backroom talks

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A masked anti-government protester makes the victory gesture as he stands in front of flaming tires in Najaf, Iraq, on Saturday.Photo: AFP
Former Iraqi minister of communications Mohammed Allawi was named prime minister-designate by rival Iraqi factions on Saturday after weeks of political deadlock.

The choice came as the nation weathers troubled times, including ongoing anti-government protests and the constant threat of being ensnared by festering US-Iran tensions.

The selection of Allawi, 66, to replace outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi was the product of many backroom talks over months between rival parties.

In Tahrir Square, the epicenter of Iraq’s four-month anti-government protest movement, demonstrators rejected Allawi’s candidacy.

The demonstrators, who have long said they would not accept a candidate chosen by the establishment, erected portraits of Allawi crossed with an “X.”

Some chanted: “Allawi out,” but many feared they would clash with followers of influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who had reversed a decision to withdraw support from the protest movement.

Officials and analysts said that move was to gain leverage on the streets as the deadline to select a new prime minister drew near.

At least three activists said followers of al-Sadr had attacked demonstrators in Tahrir Square. Some protesters were fearful.

“The square doesn’t want him, but the problem is since Muqtada [al-Sadr] has sided with [the elites], the square cannot refuse him,” activist Kamal Jaban said. “Otherwise, there will be bloodshed.”

Al-Sadr’s followers returned to the square in their hundreds on Friday night, three witnesses said, bringing tents and supplies, and reoccupying a strategic building overlooking the square known as the “Turkish Restaurant,” as well as the Jumhuriya Bridge, which leads to the Green Zone.

Al-Sadr issued a statement saying that Allawi’s selection was “the wish of the people,” and asked protesters to carry on with the anti-government demonstrations.

If elected by parliament, Allawi would have to contend with navigating Iraq through regional confrontations between Iran and the US.

Tensions rocketed after a US drone strike near Baghdad’s airport killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and senior Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

That event brought Iraq close to the brink of war and officials scrambling to contain the fallout.

He would also have to grapple with an unprecedented popular uprising in Baghdad and Iraq’s south in which at least 500 people have been killed by the security forces.

In a speech on Saturday, Allawi addressed the nation and said he would hold responsible those guilty of using force against peaceful demonstrators, create an advisory team that included protesters and prepare for early elections.

In a prerecorded statement earlier, he called on the protesters to continue their uprising against corruption and said he would quit if parliament insists on imposing names of ministerial appointees.

“I have faith in you and ask you to continue with the protests,” he said.

On Wednesday last week, Iraqi President Barham Saleh gave parliament until Saturday to select a candidate for prime minister or said he would exercise his constitutional powers and choose one himself.

Allawi was born in Baghdad and served as Iraqi minister of communications in 2006, and then again between 2010 and 2012. He resigned from his post after a dispute with former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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E-mails show the fallout from Trump’s claims about hurricane in September

A flurry of newly released e-mails from scientists and top officials at the US government agency responsible for weather forecasting clearly illustrates the consternation and outright alarm caused by US President Donald Trump’s false claim that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama.

A top US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) official even called the president’s behavior “crazy.”

What the scientists and officials found even more troubling was a statement later issued by an unnamed agency spokesman that supported Trump’s claim and repudiated the agency’s own forecasters.

The e-mails, released late on Friday in response to Freedom of Information Act requests from The Associated Press (AP) and others, give an inside picture of the scramble to respond to the president and the turmoil it caused inside the agency.

“What’s next? Climate science is a hoax?” NOAA Acting Chief Scientist Craig McLean wrote in an e-mail sent to the agency’s top officials. “Flabbergasted to leave our forecasters hanging in the political wind.”

In a more formal letter, McLean wrote that what concerned him most was that the Trump administration “is eroding the public trust in NOAA for an apparent political recovery from an ill timed and imprecise comment from the President.”

As Dorian headed for the southeastern US in early September last year, Trump tweeted that Alabama was “most likely to be hit (much) harder than anticipated.”

The US National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama, corrected him, tweeting that “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian.”

However, Trump remained adamant and the NOAA came to his defense with the unsigned statement, which claimed some data provided to the president had indicated that Alabama could be hit by the hurricane and scolded the Birmingham office.

The statement was issued after the White House and US Department of Commerce intervened, the AP and others reported at the time.

It provoked angry e-mails from within the agency and from the public.

Gary Shigenaka, a NOAA scientist, wrote to the agency’s acting administrator, Neil Jacobs, asking him to “reassure those of us who serve the public ... that we are not mere pawns in an absurd game.”

In response, Jacobs defended the forecasters and said: “You have no idea how hard I’m fighting to keep politics out of science.”

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AUSTRALIA

Drunk driver kills four kids

A drunk driver slammed his pickup truck into a group of children in Sydney, killing two sisters, their brother and a cousin and seriously injuring three others, police said yesterday. The 29-year-old driver was charged with manslaughter and high-range drink-driving following the incident late on Saturday in the Oatlands suburb of western Sydney. The children were on a footpath when the four-wheel drive jumped the curb and rammed into them, police said. “Yesterday I lost three of my children. I had a cousin, Bridget, she lost her daughter as well,” Daniel Abdallah told reporters yesterday. “I’m numb, probably that’s how I feel at the moment,” he said.

RUSSIA

Police detain protesters

Police in Saint Petersburg on Saturday detained participants in a small protest against proposed changes to the country’s constitution. No official protest figures or information about possible charges was immediately available. The news site Fontanka.ru said 10 people were detained. President Vladimir Putin last month called for constitutional amendments that are widely seen as a strategy for him to remain in power once his term ends in 2024. The proposed changes would redistribute national executive powers, allowing lawmakers to name prime ministers and Cabinet members and giving a greater role to an obscure consultative body called the State Council.

BRAZIL

Suspected logger killed

A man has died during a raid against illegal loggers in the northern state of Roraima, the country’s environment agency Ibama said. Ibama and military police agents found illegal logging activities in a forest area close to the city of Rorainopolis, the agency said in a statement late on Saturday. Two men involved in the illegal logging hid in the woods and began to shoot at the policemen, it said. In the ensuing exchange of fire, one of the illegal loggers died, the agency said.

UNITED STATES

Two killed after funeral

Gunfire erupted after a funeral on Saturday in Florida, killing a teenager and a man, and leaving one other person wounded, police said. Riviera Beach police said in a statement that the shooting happened near the Victory City Church shortly after 2:30pm. They said a 15-year-old boy and 47-year-old Royce Freeman died at the scene. The teen’s name wasn’t immediately released. Pastor Tywuante Lupoe said in a video statement posted on Facebook that the church was “very aware” that violence was a possibility at the funeral because of a family dispute and that it had provided armed security. A Riviera Beach police officer was present, he said.

ISRAEL

Rocket fired from Gaza

Palestinian militants on Saturday fired a rocket from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the military said. There were no casualties in the attack and no Palestinian group claimed responsibility. The firing came after a tense day of cross-border rocket launches from the Hamas-controlled territory, and Israeli artillery and airstrikes. The Gaza Strip has been relatively calm as part of an informal truce between its Hamas administration and Israel, but tension has simmered this week after US President Donald Trump unveiled his plan to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinians promptly rejected the plan, which they saw as heavily favoring Israel and demonstrates the Trump administration’s reversal on the long-standing policy of creating a Palestinian state.

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Ireland flyhalf Jonathon Sexton, center, scores a try during their Six Nations Test against Scotland at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Saturday.Photo: AFP

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Andy Farrell praised the grit Ireland showed securing his first win as head coach in their 19-12 Six Nations clash with Scotland at Lansdowne Road on Saturday.

Ireland rode their luck against an incisive Scotland side who spurned several scoring opportunities, the most glaring when captain Stuart Hogg dropped the ball as he crossed the line with Ireland leading 16-9.

In the end, 19 points from captain Johnny Sexton — from a try, a conversion and four penalties — edged Ireland to the win in Farrell’s first Test since stepping up from assistant to Joe Schmidt following the Rugby World Cup last year.

“It was a decent start,” the 44-year-old Englishman said. “Our performance was summed up in the last five minutes; we asked the lads to stand for something this week and you could easily see the true Irish grit.”

“There were guys out there not used to playing for so long, but due to injuries were still tracking back in the final five minutes,” he said. “The pack was magnificent.”

Sexton praised the courage of the players declaring their performance in defense as “unbelievable.”

The 34-year-old Ireland great was satisfied with his performance. He had not played competitive rugby since early December because of a knee injury.

“I felt good but obviously rusty,” Sexton said. “It is tough when you are in a brace for three weeks and then getting fit for the next three weeks.”

Farrell acknowledged there were things to improve on next week leading up to Saturday’s home game against Grand Slam holders Wales.

“We got carried away at times,” he said. “Some of the decisionmaking was good, but some was wayward; we are a work in progress.”

Hogg criticized himself for “the schoolboy error” that saw him drop the ball as he went to touch it down for a try at a crucial moment.

However, the 27-year-old fullback and captain added that he would put the blunder behind him as his team prepare for England, who were to play France after press time last night.

“It was a schoolboy error,” Hogg said. “I cannot change what has happened. I have to now just get on with it. I have apologized to the boys.”

“I am bitterly disappointed to drop the ball over the line as the forwards had set me up brilliantly,” he said.

Scotland’s points came from the boot of flyhalf Adam Hastings, who kicked four out of five penalty attempts.

Additional reporting by staff writer

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title: Mammoth IPO proposed for India’s biggest insurer

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government surprised investors by saying that it would sell part of its stake in state-run behemoth Life Insurance Corp (LIC) of India to meet its record asset-sale target.

Investors likened the proposal to Saudi Aramco, which in December last year raised about US$25 billion in the world’s biggest-ever initial public offering (IPO), and overtook Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc as the most valuable listed company.

India aims to sell the stake in the year starting April 1, Indian Department of Investment and Public Asset Management Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey said in an interview.

The “LIC IPO is akin to the Saudi Aramco listing for our capital markets,” said Vijay Bhushan, president of the Association of National Exchanges Members of India. “It will be IPO of the decade.”

Now comes the hard part. LIC, whose total assets of 31 trillion rupees (US$433.57 billion) exceed that of all Indian mutual funds combined, was set up under a special act in 1956. The government would have to amend the law, a process that could delay the sale beyond March next year and keep it from meeting its record divestment target of 2.1 trillion rupees.

LIC’s sheer size also makes it hard for the government to sell a big chunk of its holding. Nervousness was palpable on Saturday as shares of private insurers — SBI Life Insurance, General Insurance Corp of India, HDFC Life Insurance Co and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co — slumped 6 to 14 percent in a special trading session after the proposal was announced.

“It will become India’s biggest company by market value the day of the listing, given it is the largest company by assets under management,” said Kajal Gandhi, an analyst at ICICI Securities Ltd in Mumbai. “Even a 10 percent dilution will be difficult for the market to absorb it in one go.”

The sale could fetch the government 850 billion rupees to 900 billion rupees if the IPO is done this year, Credit Suisse analysts led by Neelkanth Mishra wrote in a note.

Insurance stocks have been star performers in recent years. SBI Life was among four insurers whose IPOs raised more than US$1 billion in 2017, data compiled by Bloomberg showed.

LIC has in the past been used as an investor of last resort to support the markets by buying shares of state-run companies.

It owns double-digit stakes in several publicly traded firms, including Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd and Larsen & Toubro Ltd, that are collectively worth more than US$80 billion, data compiled by Bloomberg showed.

Last year, the insurer bailed out IDBI Bank by buying a 51 percent stake in it.

The proposal is already facing opposition from the insurer’s staff, the Press Trust of India reported, citing the spokesman of an employees’ union, who said that the sale is “against national interest.”

However, taking LIC public would help instill “discipline” and help unlock value, Indian Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman said in her budget speech, without providing details or a timeline for the sale.

“It is good for India and the market as well, because once this listing happens there will be greater transparency as far as LIC’s affairs are concerned,” said Joseph Thomas, head of research at Emkay Wealth Management. “Insurance and LIC have been synonymous in our common parlance.”

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title: At least 20 die in Tanzanian church service stampede

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At least 20 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede during a church service at a stadium in northern Tanzania, a government official said yesterday.

Hundreds of people packed a stadium on Saturday evening in Moshi near the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and crushed each other as they rushed to get anointed with “blessed oil.”

“Twenty people died and 16 others were injured in the incident,” Moshi District Commissioner Kippi Warioba said.

Five of those killed were children, he said.

“The stampede occurred when the worshipers were rushing to get anointed with blessed oil,” Warioba said.

Pastor Boniface Mwamposa has been drawing huge crowds by promising prosperity and cures for disease to worshipers who walk on what he describes as “blessed oil” during his services.

Authorities fear the death toll could rise due to the size of the crowd and dark conditions.

“The incident took place at night and there were many people, so there is a possibility that more casualties could emerge. We are still assessing the situation,” Warioba said.

Tanzania has seen a rise in the number of “prosperity gospel” pastors, who promise to lift people out of poverty and perform what they call “miracle” cures.

Thousands of people flock to Pentecostal churches, whose main source of income is “tithe,” the 10 percent of income that worshipers are asked to contribute.

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title: FEATURE: Hollywood ‘hashtag’ advocates demand diversity

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April Reign poses during a photo session in Hollywood, California, on Saturday.Photo: AFP
April Reign remembered precisely where she was in January 2015, when she launched the #OscarsSoWhite movement with a simple, offhand tweet.

“I’d love to have a sexy story that I was sitting in a board room ideating and strategizing,” she said in an interview. “But no — I was half-dressed in my family room, to be very frank.

“I picked up my phone and wrote: ‘#OscarsSoWhite they asked to touch my hair.’ That was it.”

Within hours, the tweet — sent from Washington as Reign followed the Oscar nominations announcement over breakfast and realized that all 20 actors were white — had gone viral worldwide.

Five years later, the phrase has become a universal clarion call for more diversity at the Oscars, in Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general.

However, the hashtag made an unwelcome return to Twitter this month as the Oscar shortlists were announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Cynthia Erivo was the only actress of color to earn a nomination, for anti-slavery biopic Harriet. All of the male acting nominees were white.

Industry Web site Deadline Hollywood called the announcement “basically #OscarsSoWhite Part 2.”

For Reign, a former Washington campaign finance lawyer who quit her job in the US capital and now works on inclusion and representation issues full-time, it was no great surprise.

“We are now in year six, and every single year #OscarsSoWhite is mentioned again,” she said. “I would love to see an end point, but the end comes when we no longer have to talk about issues of inclusion and representation.”

Underlying Reign’s viral message about the Oscars is a much more expansive campaign to force Hollywood to boost diversity, broaden its horizons and stop relying on old habits and closed-shop networks.

Reign said this is something studios have shown themselves incapable, or unwilling, to do.

“Outside activists or advocates are incredibly important — to say, you know, we’re out here, we want to be represented,” she said. “I think that there is something interesting about speaking truth to power from the outside.”

Reign said that campaigners, such as singer Harry Belafonte and actress Rita Moreno, have been banging the diversity drum in entertainment for decades.

However, the “significant and undeniable power of social media” — particularly its high levels of engagement — make the message harder to ignore these days.

Beside the sheer weight of numbers a viral campaign can attract, advocates believe they can succeed by exposing the dirty secrets of the industry and its gatekeepers.

For Reign, spreading awareness about the Oscar-voting Academy is key.

Membership is 84 percent white, 68 percent male and voters are not required to watch every nominated movie.

“Why do regular audience members — who are much more diverse — care what older white men think is the best movie of the year?” she said, noting the Oscars’ falling viewership.

Progress so far is slow, but evident. Since 2015, the Academy has made concerted efforts to broaden its membership.

The annual intake of new members reached 50 percent female for the first time last year, while non-white membership has doubled in five years.

However, less than one-third admitted were people of color.

“The curtain has been pulled back, right? And we see what the Wizard of Oz looks like,” Reign said.

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A: Eh? Your hair looks a different color. Did you have it dyed over the weekend?

B: Yep. I’ve got some premature graying, so I get it dyed black at regular intervals, otherwise it looks a bit of a mess.

A: How much does it cost?

B: Most hair salons charge a little over NT$2,000, but mine charges only NT$600.

A: 咦，你的頭髮顏色好像變了，週末去染頭髮了嗎？

B: 對啊，因為我有一點少年白，所以每隔一段時間都會把頭髮染黑，不然看起來有點雜亂。

A: 那這樣染頭髮要花多少錢？

B: 大部分的髮廊都會收超過兩千元，不過我這家只收六百元。

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title: EVERYDAY ENGLISH


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Worshipers wearing masks offer incense at Zhinan Temple in Taipei’s Muzha District yesterday.Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times
The government is to use terrestrial and cable television channels to broadcast important epidemic prevention information to counter the outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus, the National Communication Commission (NCC) said yesterday.

The measure was discussed at a meeting on Friday with officials from the Executive Yuan’s Department of Information Services, representatives from various broadcast media associations, and executives from terrestrial and cable news channels, the NCC said.

The media representatives responded positively to the request to broadcast information, it said.

Radio service providers said they could transmit messages in a faster manner and would not be limited by word counts.

The Communicable Disease Control Act (傳染病防治法), Radio and Television Act (廣播電視法) and Satellite Broadcasting Act (衛星廣播電視法) allow the government to reserve airtime to share important epidemic prevention information, the NCC said.

Article 52 of the Communicable Disease Control Act states that while “the Central Epidemic Command Center is in existence, government organizations at various levels, in accordance with instructions of the commanding officer, may have the priority to use communication media and facilities to report epidemic conditions and information relevant to the measures necessary for the emergency.”

The government would reserve airtime from now through Saturday next week, and important disease prevention messages would be shown on TV at least twice per day to keep the public informed, the NCC said.

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title: Virus Fears: TV broadcasts for key virus prevention information


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A divided Britain seeks a new identity

Much of the pro-Brexit vote was driven by he idea of sovereignty, of taking back control of the
nation’s affairs and borders, but now many question how long it will take for the leavers and the remainders to reconcile
At 10am inside Aux Merveilleux de Fred, a patisserie in the heart of London’s French quarter, the air was thick with the aroma of butter.

Aicha Boubakri, 30, was arranging neat rows of pastel-colored cream pastries in front of the bakery’s only customer.

“It’s a bit sad — the fact that the UK will no longer be in Europe,” she said. “It will be more difficult to come here.”

South Kensington is one of numerous European districts within the British capital. In these neighborhoods, migrants have clustered together with their fellow nationals, opening shops and restaurants, and raising and educating their children.

They have brought an unmistakably continental flavor to a restless city that has been shaped by waves of immigration for more than 2,000 years.

Now, London’s Europeans are facing a moment of seismic change. At 11pm on Friday, the UK legally withdrew from the EU, severing the 47-year relationship with its trading partners and redefining itself as a country standing alone in the world.

Initially, nothing practical will differ. EU rules are to apply until the end of the year, under transitional arrangements, but culturally, legally and, perhaps, emotionally, the UK will experience an earthquake, instantly becoming a different country, when the divorce is complete.

After EU membership ends, so too eventually will the free movement of European citizens into Britain, and with it the rights of British people to move to the 27 remaining countries in the bloc.

New UK visa rules will involve a points-based system designed to attract the world’s “best and brightest” and to keep out lower-skilled workers from Europe.

That policy is designed to appeal to working-class British people who backed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, first in the 2016 Brexit referendum and then at last month’s general election.

However, it seems likely that over time, Brexit will change forever the nature of the capital and perhaps the rest of the country too.

South Kensington, with its grand mansions and genteel, tree-lined streets, has been a welcoming place for French locals, who feel most Londoners never wanted Brexit.

Even so, Melinda Kourouma, store manager at a dry cleaner, is already thinking of returning to France earlier than planned.

“They are kind of saying if you don’t have specific skills, you might not be able to get those higher jobs, so then I think a lot of us won’t have much reason to stay,” she said. “We will see a lot of change.”

In Ealing, west London, eastern European immigrants have their own bakeries, doctors, and church.

“I don’t think I will stay,” said Adelina Moisa, who arrived from Romania three years ago and now earns a living as a care worker.

Asked if she likes Ealing, she winces: “Could be better.”

The higher wages in London were the main attraction, but Brexit has taken the shine off that.

“We came because we have to,” she said.

For many residents as well as businesses based in the capital, the 2016 Brexit vote was a tragedy. London itself voted overwhelmingly to remain inside the EU, but was outgunned by millions of euroskeptics living across the rest of the country.

For the past four years, in the dark wood paneled corridors of Westminster, pro-European politicians have banded together, often setting aside party loyalties, and tried to stop the damage of they fear Brexit will do to the economy.

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A decline in South Korean exports worsened last month, despite signs of green shoots in global trade as the Lunar New Year holiday reduced the number of working days at the end of the month.

Exports shrank 6.1 percent from a year earlier, following a 5.2 percent drop in December, the South Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s data showed on Saturday.

Economists had forecast an 8.6 percent decline.

Shipments of semiconductors, the country’s biggest export, contracted 3.4 percent, the smallest decrease since an 8.4 percent drop in December 2018.

Exports to China, South Korea’s biggest trade partner, declined 10.5 percent, while shipments to the US fell 7 percent and those to Japan were down 6.4 percent.

The trade report may appear to contradict signs of a manufacturing rebound, but the Lunar New Year is making the data look worse than they really are. The holiday was in late January this year after falling in February last year, cutting the business calendar by 2.5 days and skewing year-on-year comparisons.

The economy grew 2 percent last year, the slowest pace since the global financial crisis, but momentum improved in the fourth quarter.

The Bank of Korea forecast 2.3 percent growth for this year.

While the government plans to front-load its spending this year to speed up an economic recovery, China’s coronavirus outbreak has the potential to partly slow the momentum that the US-China trade deal offers for South Korea’s economic recovery, said economists, including Oh Jae-young at KB Securities Co.

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title: South Korea export slump worsens due to Lunar New Year


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Strike destroyed al-Qaeda base:Yemen sources

DRONE ATTACK:Donald Trump retweeted articles and tweets that seemed to offer confirmation that the strike had killed al-Qaeda’s local leader Qassem al-Rimi
Tribal leaders on Saturday said that a suspected US drone strike on Jan. 25 destroyed a building housing al-Qaeda militants in eastern Yemen, while US President Donald Trump retweeted several tweets and media reports that seemed to offer confirmation the strike killed top al-Qaeda leader Qassem al-Rimi.

The tribal leaders said that the drone strike took place in the Wadi Ubaidah area in the eastern province of Marib. The area is known as a stronghold for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Yemeni affiliate is known.

They said at least three explosions rocked the area and that the building was set ablaze.

It was not immediately clear how many militants were in the building at the time or their identities.

The tribal leaders said a handful of al-Qaeda militants arrived at the area directly after the strike and cordoned it off.

The tribal leaders spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals.

Trump on Saturday retweeted a handful of tweets and articles that seemed to offer confirmation that al-Rimi was killed in the strike.

The White House did not comment on whether Trump’s retweeting was confirmation of the death. The CIA declined to comment. The attack was first reported by the New York Times.

Al-Rimi succeeded Nasser al-Wahishi, who was killed in a US drone strike in 2015, as the top leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Among Trump’s retweets was a thread by Rita Katz, director of SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks messaging by militant groups.

Katz said the attack took place on Jan. 25 and she began tweeting about it on Monday last week.

“If true, and it seems to be, the death of al-Rimi would mark a major blow to #AlQaeda on the whole. Al-Rimi was a candidate for succeeding AQ leader Zawahiri,” Katz tweeted on Thursday last week, referring to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Katz said that of all living al-Qaeda leaders, al-Rimi “was the most compelling, known for his charisma & beloved across the AQ community.”

Yemen was plunged into civil war in 2014, and al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have exploited the chaos to expand their presence in the nation.

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A clerk at a convenience store in Pingtung yesterday works next to a sign that reads: “Masks sold out. Stop asking.”Photo: Chiu Chih-jou, Taipei Times
The Consumers’ Foundation yesterday called on the government to ensure that mask pricing is transparent and there are adequate supplies of alcohol and hand sanitizers.

A foundation volunteer who visited one store found that it had raised the price of one mask from NT$100 to NT$200, while alcohol and sanitizers have been difficult to find, foundation secretary-general Wu Jung-ta (吳榮達) said.

The Lunar New Year holiday might have affected supply, so the foundation would monitor the situation in the coming days to see if there is an improvement, he said.

Fifty-count boxes of masks typically sell for NT$200 to NT$300 per box, or an average of about NT$4 to NT$5 per mask, he said.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs set the price at NT$8 per mask, before cutting it to NT$6 on Saturday, which caused concern, he said.

The government should make the prices of masks — including logistical, labor and other costs — as well as manufacturers’ profit public to prevent prices from rising again, Wu said.

The South China Morning Post and other media outlets have reported long lines at convenience stores and pharmacies in Hong Kong for masks amid a shortage of supplies, with limits on the number of masks that an individual can purchase at one time.

In Macau, an individual can purchase up to 10 masks every 10 days by presenting their identification at a pharmacy, at a price of 8 Macau patacas (US$1), with no concerns about supply, Wu said.

Consumer Protection Committee official Wang Te-ming (王德明) said the committee has received several reports of “abnormal” prices nationwide through consumers, store visits by officials, media reports and other channels.

It has asked the Fair Trade Commission to investigate and asked e-commerce platforms to remove products with “abnormal” prices, he said.

While it has received reports that consumers have been unable to find rubbing alcohol and hand sanitizers to buy, it has not heard about any price increases for those items, he said.

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Virus Fears: Warnings raised over new virus transmission route

FECAL MATTER:Disinfect toilets before each use, flush with the lid down and don’t forget to wash hands thoroughly after going to the bathroom
Chinese researchers have found the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that is at the center of a growing epidemic in the feces and anus tissue samples of infected patients, which could suggest another way the virus is being transmitted.

A study by Wuhan University Renmin Hospital and the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that nucleic acid tests of those samples came back positive for 2019-nCoV, online news services run by the Chinese News Service reported yesterday.

The finding suggested the virus could possibly be spread through “feces-to-mouth” transmission, in addition to transmission through droplets or direct physical contact, the Chinese News Service report said, citing the study’s results presented at a news briefing in Shenzhen on Saturday.

Chang Ko (張科), head of the infection control division of Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital, yesterday said that the Chinese finding was not surprising, given that US researchers had already found 2019-nCoV residue in feces.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Friday said a stool sample taken from the first person confirmed in the US to have the coronavirus tested positive for the virus, Chang said.

Shih Shin-ru (施信如), head of the Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections at Chang Gung University, said that the new findings suggest preventing the spread of the virus will be more challenging, because there is another way it can be transmitted.

Local experts are advising the public to flush toilets with the lids down and to wash their hands thoroughly after going to the bathroom.

Hwang Kao-pin (黃高彬), director of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at China Medical University in Taichung, said it was not uncommon to find viruses in stool.

However, the fecal transmission path could pose a threat, because if 2019-nCoV-infected stool is splashed by water out of a toilet, the virus it carries could live for two to three hours in the air and up to five days on the surface of an object, Hwang said.

To reduce the risk of infection, toilets should be disinfected with alcohol before they are used and flushed with their lids down, in addition to washing hands with soap after going to the toilet, Hwang added.

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title: Virus Fears: Man charged over online allegations

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Passengers walk past an electronic billboard promoting awareness of the 2019 novel coronavirus at a Centers for Disease Control station at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Jan. 18.Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times
A Taoyuan man is facing defamation charges for allegedly circulating rumors online that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was profiting from the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said yesterday.

CIB officers on Saturday questioned Hsu Te-chung (徐德忠), 48, for allegedly using the account name Sung Chung-chi (宋中積) to post messages online that accused the DPP of hoarding surgical masks to sell at a monthly profit of NT$4.5 billion (US$148.76 million).

DPP officials filed a request for a police investigation after the claims were widely circulated on Facebook, the messaging app Line and other social media.

Prosecutors said that Hsu, who works in elevator repair and is a self-professed fan of Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), created Facebook pages featuring images of Han dressed in military attire and discussion with fellow supporters of the former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate about campaign activities.

When located at his home, Hsu reportedly told CIB officers: “Why is this so serious? I had only posted these messages to a few groups on Facebook.”

Meanwhile, prosecutors said they are investigating a man and a woman who allegedly provided officials with false information after returning to Taiwan on a Jan. 16 flight from Wuhan, China, which is at the center of the 2019-nCoV outbreak.

Authorities could not locate the man, surnamed Feng (馮), and the woman, surnamed Chen (陳), at the Taipei address they provided, prosecutors said.

Health officials have ordered all travelers returning from Wuhan and Hubei Province to remain in their residences for 14 days, which is the suspected incubation period for 2019-nCoV, prosecutors said.

However, Feng and Chen yesterday spoke separately to reporters, saying that they did not know each other and that they had followed the orders about home confinement.

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CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, 台灣中油) and Formosa Petrochemical Corp (台塑石化) yesterday said that they would lower gasoline and diesel prices this week by NT$0.9 per liter for gasoline and NT$1 per liter for diesel, after global crude oil prices fell last week amid concerns that a coronavirus outbreak that began in China would dent global growth and market demand.

Based on CPC’s weighted oil price formula — 70 percent Dubai crude and 30 percent Brent crude — its average crude oil costs fell to US$58.45 per barrel last week, from US$63.32 a week earlier.

After factoring in the depreciation of the New Taiwan dollar, which last week was down by NT$0.276 against the US dollar, gasoline prices should be reduced by 5.47 percent this week, CPC said.

From today, prices at CPC gas stations are to be NT$25.9, NT$27.4 and NT$29.4 per liter for 92, 95 and 98-octane unleaded gasoline respectively, while premium diesel is to cost NT$23.7 per liter, it said.

Formosa Petrochemical cut its 92, 95 and 98-octane unleaded gasoline to NT$25.9, NT$27.3 and NT$29.4 per liter respectively, with premium diesel dropping to NT$23.5 per liter.

Separately on Saturday, CPC said that it would leave domestic prices of liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum products unchanged this month from last month in accordance with the government’s efforts to stabilize consumer prices amid concern over the global spread of coronavirus.

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Apple takes smartphone sales crown

VIRUS CONCERNS:Apple is closing its 42 stores in mainland China until Sunday, although an analyst said the closures would have a ‘negligible’ effect on the firm
Apple Inc was the world’s top smartphone seller in the final quarter of last year, seizing the crown from Samsung Electronics Co, market trackers said.

Apple shipped an estimated 73.8 million iPhones during the fourth quarter, driven by the popularity of its newest models in the US and Europe and lower-priced handsets in other parts of the world, International Data Corp (IDC) reported on Thursday last week.

Apple, which has been below Samsung for some time, “is recovering, due to cheaper iPhone 11 pricing and healthier demand in Asia and North America,” said Neil Mawston, executive director of wireless device strategies at Strategy Analytics, whose separate survey also showed Apple on top in the past quarter.

South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung delivered about 69.4 million handsets as it slipped to the No. 2 position, IDC said.

Chinese smartphone powerhouse Huawei Technologies Co (華為) remained a strong player in its home market, but saw sales of premium models take a hit in Western Europe in the wake of US sanctions, IDC associate research director Melissa Chau sid.

“Things will continue to look challenging for Huawei given that the trade war is still not yet resolved, while new uncertainty raised around the Wuhan coronavirus could potentially have adverse effects on not just Huawei, but all players reliant on the China smartphone supply chain,” Chau said.

Huawei shipped 56.2 million smartphones during the quarter, a decline of about 7 percent from the same period a year earlier, IDC reported.

Huawei faces headwinds because of US sanctions that have prevented it from receiving key components and software, IHS Markit senior analyst Anna Ahrens said.

“In markets like Western Europe, the lack of Google services will make Huawei phones a hard sell for consumers, especially considering that the company’s Mate series is positioned squarely in the premium price segment,” Ahrens said.

Samsung remained the top smartphone seller overall last year, and the broader market is expected to receive a boost as 5G telecom networks are established and new smartphones synched to them are launched.

For the full year, overall smartphone sales were down about 1 percent despite an improving trend in the fourth quarter, IDC and Strategy Analytics surveys showed.

IDC reported shipments of 368 million handsets last year compared with 373 million a year earlier — a third consecutive yearly decline.

Separately, Apple is temporarily closing its 42 stores in mainland China, the company’s third-biggest market in terms of sales behind the US and Europe. China is also where most iPhones and other devices are made.

The iPhone maker said in a statement that it was closing stores, corporate offices and contact centers in China until Sunday “out of an abundance of caution and based on the latest advice from leading health experts.”

“Our thoughts are with the people most immediately affected by the coronavirus and with those working around the clock to study and contain it,” the statement said.

Apple’s online store is to remain open.

In a note on Saturday, Wedbush Securities Inc analyst Daniel Ives predicted the store closures would have a “negligible” effect on Apple, largely because consumers in mainland China would still be able to buy iPhones and other products through online channels.

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title: Wales’ Six Nations defense starts strong

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Wales’ Taulupe Faletau runs the ball during their Six Nations Test against Italy at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on Saturday.Photo: Reuters
The post-Warren Gatland era got into full swing for Wales with a 42-0 win over Italy that started their Six Nations title defense in impressive fashion and featured one shining example of the attacking play desired by new coach Wayne Pivac.

There was a look of contentment on Pivac’s face after one of the five tries scored by his team, in particular, when flyhalf Dan Biggar threw a flat pass between his legs — while looking the wrong way near Italy’s line — to send winger Josh Adams over in the left corner.

“Wayne’s World” — as some are labeling Pivac’s Wales tenure — certainly looked a fun place to be as his team powered into a 21-0 lead after 31 minutes against an opponent also under a new coach in South African Franco Smith.

Capping a dominant display was the sight of George North burrowing his way over the line with three minutes remaining for his 40th international try to clinch the attacking bonus point, which is commonplace against Italy these days.

Adams added the last try late in the game to clinch his hat-trick, while Nick Tompkins claimed the other after coming off the bench for his debut.

Pivac will also be delighted with keeping Italy scoreless, as Wales maintained the strong defense that served them so well under Gatland in his 12-year reign, which ended after the Rugby World Cup in Japan last year.

“It was a pretty good performance,” Pivac said. “We got the five [competition] points we were after, but it wasn’t easy, we had to work hard for it.”

“I’m very pleased to have held them scoreless. That doesn’t happen often at this level of the game.”

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The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Saturday said it is investigating allegations by the British Serious Fraud Office that Airbus SE paid a bribe of US$50 million to win plane orders from Asia’s largest budget airline, Malaysia-based AirAsia Group Bhd.

The office on Friday said that Airbus had failed to prevent individuals associated with it from bribing executives linked to AirAsia and its long-haul arm, AirAsia X Bhd.

AirAsia said it had never made any purchase decisions that were premised on an Airbus sponsorship, and that it would fully cooperate with the commission.

It had not been involved with the office’s investigation of Airbus or been given an opportunity to provide clarification, it said in a statement.

“AirAsia vigorously rejects and denies any and all allegations of wrongdoing,” it said.

“As AirAsia and its executives have no visibility on Airbus’ internal processes, we cannot comment on or be associated with any alleged failures or lapses on the part of Airbus to comply with its own policies or applicable legal requirements,” it added.

On Friday, Airbus agreed to a record US$4 billion settlement with France, England and the US after prosecutors said that it had bribed public officials and hidden the payments as part of a pattern of worldwide corruption.

The deal allowed Airbus to avoid criminal prosecution that could have led to it being barred from public contracts in the US and the EU.

The disclosures came after an investigation spanning sales to more than a dozen overseas markets.

“Under the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act we are empowered, and have jurisdiction, to investigate any act of corruption committed by any Malaysian citizen or permanent resident in any place outside Malaysia,” MACC Chief Commissioner Latheefa Koya said in a statement.

She said: “In the case of the Airbus-AirAsia disclosures, I confirm that the MACC is in touch with the UK authorities and is already investigating the matter.”

The investigation comes as the Malaysian government evaluates five strategic investment proposals, including one from AirAsia, to partner with Malaysia Airlines.

AirAsia runs an all-Airbus fleet of 274 planes.

The office’s allegations concern a 2012 sponsorship agreement between the now-defunct Caterham Formula 1 racing team, founded by AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes, and Airbus’s then-parent, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).

The office said that between October 2013 and January 2015, EADS paid US$50 million to sponsor Caterham, which was jointly owned by two people described as AirAsia executive one and executive two.

It said that Airbus employees offered an additional US$55 million, but no payment was made.

Fernandes bought Caterham together with his partner Kamarudin Meranun, AirAsia’s chairman, in 2011.

Fernandes and Kamarudin could not be reached for comment.

The office said that executives one and two were “key decisionmakers in AirAsia and AirAsia X, and were rewarded in respect of the order of 180 aircraft from Airbus.”

“The payments to the sports team were intended to secure or reward improper favor by them in respect of that business,” it said.

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Misinformation spreading faster than coronavirus

Even some news outlets are publishing articles about the illness that are hyperbolic, fear-mongering and at times blatantly misleading
It is no coincidence that Internet phenomena share a vocabulary with certain diseases. As fast as a viral pathogen can spread in a world connected by air travel, bad information can move even faster.

Very few people outside of China have been infected with the new coronavirus that was first detected late last year and was declared a global health emergency last week, but millions have already been exposed to false information about the virus.

And while we may not be able to measure the damage that misinformation poses to society in the same way that we can take a patient’s temperature, it is undeniable that the damage is real.

Recent outbreaks of measles in countries that had previously eradicated the disease, but then become centers of anti-vaxx conspiracy mongering, are one concrete example of how disinformation can lead to concrete harm.

Already, East Asians in Europe and the Americas are reporting incidents of racist hostility and exclusion. Such experiences will not be counted among the casualties of the disease, but will nevertheless leave a mark on their lives.

Disinformation experts and fact-checkers are working overtime to attempt to clean up the mess of honest misunderstandings, hoaxes and malicious lies that have spread across the Internet.

Naturally, attention has again turned to social media users and the social media companies whose platforms have played an important role in accelerating the frictionless spread of falsehood.

It is certainly fair to expect Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok, among others, to do everything they can to mitigate misinformation amid a global health emergency.

Facebook and YouTube were incredibly negligent even as they grew into dominant providers of news and information, only agreeing to take proactive steps to address conspiracy theories about breaking news and health disinformation after facing considerable pressure from the press and politicians.

However, it is also important for the professional news media to acknowledge — and work to correct — its own role in disseminating disinformation.

Half of the top 10 most shared English-language links about coronavirus on Facebook from last month were hyperbolic, fear-mongering and at times blatantly misleading articles from actual news outlets, according to a review of data from CrowdTangle.

Among the blatantly misleading is an article by the Daily Mail suggesting that the coronavirus outbreak was caused by Chinese people eating “bat soup” that was shared more than 96,000 times on Facebook.

The “bat soup” canard is a classic example of disinformation — and a potent one.

Like much of the most persuasive disinformation, the story involves elements of truth taken out of context and repackaged in a way that seems true because it affirms a particular worldview.

In this case, actual footage of a Chinese woman eating a bat in soup was ripped out of its actual context (a travel blogger’s video from a restaurant in Palau filmed in 2016) and spuriously linked to the fact that some coronaviruses originate from bats, in order to create a narrative that appealed to a Western audience’s racist fascination with Chinese appetites.

“Revolting footage shows Chinese woman eating a whole bat at a fancy restaurant as scientists link the deadly coronavirus to the flying mammals,” the Daily Mail’s headline read.

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US to use military bases to quarantine virus patients

CHINA ARRIVALS:The US health department asked for facilities to house at least 250 people in individual rooms through Feb. 29 in response to the outbreak
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Saturday approved a request from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the possible use of military facilities to accommodate 1,000 people who might have to be quarantined upon arrival from overseas due to a coronavirus outbreak.

A defense department statement said that HHS officials requested the use of several facilities capable of housing at least 250 people in individual rooms through Feb. 29.

The HHS would be responsible for all care, transportation and security of the evacuees, the statement said.

An order signed on Friday by US President Donald Trump temporarily bars entry to foreign nationals who have traveled to China within the past 14 days, with the exception of immediate family of US citizens and permanent residents.

Americans returning from China would be allowed into the country, but would face screening at select ports of entry and required to undertake 14 days of self-screening to ensure they do not pose a health risk.

Those returning from Hubei Province, the center of the outbreak, are to be subject to up to 14 days of mandatory quarantine.

The installations selected by the defense department are the 168th Regiment, Regional Training Institute, Fort Carson, Colorado; Travis US Air Force Base, California; Lackland US Air Force Base, Texas; and US Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California.

Nearly 200 Americans already are quarantined at a military base in Southern California after being evacuated from Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province.

None of the Americans being housed at the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside has shown signs of illness, but it can take up to two weeks for someone who is infected to get sick.

Beginning yesterday, the US was to begin funneling all flights to the US from China to seven major airports, where passengers can be screened for illness.

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Long lines to buy face masks, hospital visits down 10 percent

屏東藥妝店現排隊搶口罩人龍 醫院人潮少一成

People line up for face masks, the queue stretching from the counter to the store entrance, at a Pingtung City drugstore early Saturday morning.
屏東市區的藥妝店，週六一早就吸引民眾排隊買口罩，一路從櫃檯排到門口。Photo: Chiu Chih-jou, Liberty Times
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With concerns over the Wuhan novel coronavirus epidemic, lining up to purchase face masks has become something of a national pastime. On Saturday, from early in the morning, people were lining up at a drugstore in Pingtung City, stretching from the counter to the store entrance, although the situation is different from the phenomenon seen during the Lunar New Year break last year, when the number of people with minor symptoms going to hospital emergency clinics soared. According to the Pingtung Christian Hospital, the number of visits to the hospital for minor complaints this year has fallen by an average of 10 percent compared to last year.

One person lining up to buy face masks said that “it’s really difficult to get hold of them at the moment: I’ve been joining queues wherever they form.” Despite calls by the Ministry of Health and Welfare that these face masks are an important resource in the fight against the epidemic, and that people should only wear them when absolutely necessary, the escalating Wuhan novel coronavirus epidemic has got people in Taiwan working themselves up into a panic and lining up in convenience stores and drugstores.

The ministry says there is generally no need for healthy people to wear face masks all the time, and that it is better if they simply observe certain rules such as keeping an eye on their body temperature, washing their hands with soap and reducing the amount of times they go to enclosed, crowded spaces. They should only use face masks at such times as they need them, in order to prevent using this resource unnecessarily.

At the same time, worried about the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic, many people are trying to reduce the possibility of coming into contact with germs by keeping away from major hospitals when they develop minor flu-like symptoms.

According to Chen Chih-wen, head of the Pingtung Christian Hospital emergency room, in previous years the number of visits has increased during the holiday season, but this year the daily average of between 400 to 500 visits last year has fallen by around 10 percent.

Chen added that flu epidemics, above and beyond the current threat of the novel coronavirus in China, should not be taken lightly, and that there has been a definite increase recently in the number of people making hospital appointments because of flu-like respiratory tract symptoms. He reminds members of the public to wear face masks when going to public spaces, and to wash their hands to reduce the chances of getting a respiratory tract infection.

(Translated by Paul Cooper, Taipei Times)

受到武漢肺炎疫情影響，排隊買口罩幾乎變成全民運動，屏東市區的藥妝店，週六一早就吸引民眾排隊，一路從櫃檯排到門口。不過有別過去過年期間醫院急診室爆量情形，屏東基督教醫院急診室觀察，今年輕症病患就醫次數降低，平均就醫人數較往年少一成。

排隊買口罩的民眾表示「現在口罩很難買，有人排就跟著排！」儘管衛福部呼籲口罩屬於防疫物資，「非必要」時不需戴口罩，但武漢肺炎疫情來勢洶洶，民眾人人自危，超商、藥妝店仍出現排隊人龍。

根據衛福部建議，一般健康民眾無須隨時配戴口罩，平時養成量體溫、肥皂勤洗手、減少出入人潮眾多的密閉場所等好習慣即可，口罩等物資留到真正需要的時候使用，才不會造成物資浪費。

同樣受到武漢肺炎疫情影響，不少民眾為了減少和病毒接觸的機會，發生類流感輕微症狀多選擇避免前往大醫院就診。

屏東基督教醫院急診室主任陳志文指出，往年年假期間急診病患量倍增，屏基平均每日約四百人至五百人，今年就診人數則約減少一成。

陳志文也提醒，除了面對中國新型肺炎疫情威脅，流感疫情也不容輕忽，近日因類流感上呼吸道症狀而掛急診的患者明顯增加，提醒民眾出入公共場所戴口罩，並勤洗手擋掉呼吸道感染機會。

(自由時報)

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Climate breakdown ‘is increasing violence against women’

Attempts to tackle crisis fail because gender issues are not addressed, report finds
Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg last week leaves the stage during a session at the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.Photo: Reuters

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Climate breakdown and the global crisis of environmental degradation are increasing violence against women and girls, while gender-based exploitation is in turn hampering our ability to tackle the crises, a major report has concluded.

Attempts to repair environmental degradation and adapt to climate breakdown, particularly in poorer countries, are failing, and resources are being wasted because they do not take gender inequality and the effects on women and girls into account.

Campaigners called for governments and institutions to take note, saying that the impacts on women and girls must be at the heart of any viable strategies on the climate and ecology.

COMPREHENSIVE STUDY

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) carried out what is understood to be the biggest and most comprehensive study yet of the issue, taking two years and involving more than 1,000 sources of research.

“We found gender-based violence to be pervasive, and there is enough clear evidence to suggest that climate change is increasing gender-based violence,” said Cate Owren, a lead author of the report, published on Wednesday. “As environmental degradation and stress on ecosystems increases, that in turn creates scarcity and stress for people, and the evidence shows that, where environmental pressures increase, gender-based violence increases.”

Six in 10 respondents to a survey by IUCN, with more than 300 responses from organizations around the world, said they had observed gender-based violence among female environmental rights defenders, environmental migrants and refugees and in areas where environmental crimes and environmental degradation were taking place. More than 80 case studies clearly showing such links were uncovered as part of the research.

Gender-based violence includes domestic violence, sexual assault and rape, forced prostitution, forced marriage and child marriage, as well as other forms of the exploitation of women. The report found human trafficking rises in areas where the natural environment is under stress, and links between gender-based violence and environmental crimes such as wildlife poaching and illegal resource extraction.

“Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive but least talked-about barriers that face us in conservation and climate work,” said Owren. “We need to take the blinders off, and pay this concerted attention.”

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

Owren found abundant examples of the close links between gender-based violence and the exploitation of women and girls, and the competition for resources engendered by the impacts of global heating and our destruction of the natural environment. For instance, sexual abuse was found in the illegal fishing industry in south-east Asia, and in eastern and southern Africa fishermen reportedly refused to sell fish to women if they did not engage in sex. The illegal logging and charcoal trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo is linked to sexual exploitation, and in Colombia and Peru illegal mines are strongly associated with an increase in sex trafficking.

There have also been numerous examples of gender-based violence directed against environmental defenders and activists , who try to stop the destruction or degradation of their land, natural resources and communities. Sexual violence is used to suppress them, undermine their status within the community and discourage others from coming forward.


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An employee wearing a mask and protective gloves serves customers at a pharmacy in Beijing on Saturday.Photo: AFP
A claim by Chinese scientists that a liquid made with honeysuckle and flowering plants could help fight the 2019 novel coronavirus has sparked frenzied buying of the traditional Chinese medicine, but doubts quickly emerged.

As the death toll from the coronavirus sweeping the nation continues to rise, shoppers have swamped pharmacies in search of Shuanghuanglian (雙黃連).

The rush came after Xinhua news agency on Friday last week reported that the Chinese Academy of Sciences had found the concoction “can inhibit” the virus.

Videos shared online showed long lines of people in masks lining up at night outside drug stores, purportedly in the hope of snapping up the product, despite official advice that people avoid public gatherings to prevent infection.

It quickly sold out both online and at brick-and-mortar stores, but responses to the remedy’s supposed efficacy have ranged from enthusiasm to skepticism on the Sina Weibo social media platform.

State media on Saturday sounded a more cautionary note, with broadcaster China Central Television airing an interview with Zhang Boli (張伯禮), one of the researchers leading outbreak containment efforts, who warned of the potential side effects of the medicine.

The People’s Daily newspaper said that experts advised against taking traditional remedies without professional guidance, but the claim came as Beijing looks to incorporate traditional Chinese medicine into its nationwide fight against the coronavirus.

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers are also studying the potential use of a plant commonly known as Japanese knotweed to alleviate symptoms.

The Chinese National Health Commission on Tuesday last week said that traditional Chinese medicine practitioners were among nearly 6,000 reinforcement medical personnel being sent to Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak.

The strategy has reignited fierce and long-running debate about the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, which has a history going back 2,400 years and remains popular.

Chinese Medicine Academic Council of France member Marc Freard said that he believed traditional formulations could be used to treat people with symptoms ranging from fever to thick phlegm, but warned that many remedies on the market were of questionable quality and admitted that some medicine “lacks scientific standards of efficacy” because it relies on “individualized treatment.”

Traditional Chinese medicines were widely used in conjunction with Western methods during the 2002 and 2003 SARS epidemic, which killed 774 people worldwide.

However, a 2012 study in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews found that combining Chinese and Western medicines “made no difference” in battling the disease.

The Chinese government has increasingly promoted traditional Chinese medicine abroad, often with nationalistic undertones.

Beijing issued its first white paper on traditional Chinese medicine in 2016, laying out plans to build centers and to dispatch practitioners to developing nations in Africa and Southeast Asia.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) has called it a “treasure of Chinese civilization” and said at a meeting in October last year that it should be given as much weight as other treatments.

China is “working hard to spread the message internationally about its traditional culture,” and medicine is a part of this, Freard said.

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Year of the Rat brings warnings of diseases carried or spread by rodents

To mark the start of the Year of the Rat, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital doctors discussed diseases that could be directly or indirectly carried or spread by rodents.

Ministry of Health and Welfare statistics showed that rat-borne diseases that could cause up to 60 percent fatality rates if left untreated have not been seen in Taiwan since 1953, but last year there were still many cases of illnesses whose origins stemmed from viruses carried by rodents.

There were two cases each of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), 110 cases of leptospirosis, 29 cases of endemic typhus fever and 429 cases of scrub typhus.

Internal medicine department deputy director Huang Ching-tai (黃景泰) said that humans could catch the orthohantavirus, or hantavirus, through contact with rodent urine, saliva or feces.

Symptoms include acute renal failure or respiratory failure, and the virus could be fatal, he said.

Humans can be infected with leptospirosis if they ingest or come into contact with water or food grown in soil contaminated with rodent urine, Huang said.

Initial symptoms would be similar to a cold, while more severe symptoms could cause renal failure or bleeding, Huang said.

Timely treatment would cure the patient and there are rapid diagnostic solutions available that can help doctors make a diagnosis, he said.

Endemic typhus fever, which is caused by the Rickettsia bacteria, could cause headaches, fever and rashes in humans, Huang said, adding that most patients contracting endemic typhus fever recover without the need for medical assistance.

The pathogen for scrub typhus, Orientia tsutsugamushi, is carried by rodents and contact with a carrier could lead to tissue death, fever and lymphadenitis, Huang said.

Timely treatment with antibiotics lowers the fatality rate for scrub typhus to below 5 percent, he said.

“People should remove high grass or woodpiles from around their homes, as they could provide potential nest sites for rodents,” Taoyuan Department of Public Health official Yeh Chieh-ying (葉潔瑩).

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Masks, hand sterilizers or other disinfectant products cannot be used as claw machine prizes, the Taipei City Office of Commerce said yesterday.

Media outlets have reported that masks and disinfectants have been found in claw machines even as such items have become difficult to find in stores amid fears about the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

Masks and sterilizers are regulated by the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act (藥事法), which restricts the sale of masks to retailers with a pharmacy license.

The city government in April 2018 established a management process for regulating claw machines and similar vending facilities, requiring city departments to supervise them and use legal measures, such as fines, to ensure operators remove inappropriate items such as adult toys, cosmetics, food products, cigarettes, alcohol and live animals.

Claw machine operators who use masks as prizes could be fined between NT$30,000 and NT$2 million (US$992 and US$66,116).

There were 16,443 claw machines at 546 registered sites in the city as of Friday, the office said, adding it would ask the police and health departments to increase inspections of the machines this month.

The office also encouraged residents to report violations to the Taipei City hotline at 1999.

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title: Virus Fears: Masks, disinfectants not claw prizes


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▲新春開工該如何幫自己加持事業運？Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版主打新色「星願紅」，以象徵吉利的好兆頭助攻，輕鬆完成新年度的工作「星願」。（圖／記者湯興漢攝，下同）

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送走舊年度，展望新的一年，總是希望各方面都能比去年更加順利！隨著生活科技走向高端，手機功能也愈來愈強大，想在新春幫自己換新機、加持事業運，但看到高規手機的價格還是不免心一驚！Android機皇Galaxy Note系列聽到了眾民心聲，擁有旗艦級功能的Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版終於問世，搭配更好入手的價格，要完成熱愛工作同時也享受生活的小資族，在新年度擁有一支新手機的閃亮「星願」。去年與Note10擦身而過，現在再也沒有錯過的理由。

對時下小資族來說，舒適的生活往往取決於在工作上是否如魚得水、收穫滿滿，開工之際更需要一些小撇步，為新的一年加持、提升好運！沒時間跟著風水老師造金庫、求錢母也沒關係，現在只要換支新手機就行。不論星座、生肖，新春想開運準備「紅色」物件就沒錯，Galaxy Note10 Lite以「星願紅」做為新機主推色，大勢配色又不失甜美，加上好入手的甜價格，更讓想打造職場氣勢的小資女心動。新春之際帶 著「又紅又甜」的新機迎接開工，讓2020的事業想不長紅都難。

美翻天的新機讓親友同事好羨慕，不如再拿起手機秀幾招最新科技！小資族期待已久的Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版，S Pen是Note系列本身就有的，「筆」較厲害果然引來眾人驚呼。現在使用S Pen，滑順寫下中文、英文和數字，還能輕鬆切換顏色與文字粗細，即使是枯燥的待辦事項，都能更加豐富有趣。手機內建軟體如今也能快速聰明地辨識手寫字，一鍵就把手寫字轉成文字檔，輕鬆發送給工作來往的對象。從此，煩瑣信件、交辦事務回得又快又清楚，開工第一天就讓老闆留下超好印象，再難搞的合作夥伴或客戶，也能一一收服。新的一年想完成自己的績效目標，就靠「星願版」幫忙達成心願。

▲Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版擁有更好入手的價格，更保留Note系列的經典代表S Pen，讓觀望新機的人直呼揪感心。手機臨時有通知進來！停好車，不用打開筆電，取出S Pen就能快速又俐落地回覆訊息、信件。

▲以S Pen流暢寫出新春賀詞後，在下方功能列表選取「轉換為文字」， 就能一鍵將手寫字轉成文字檔，輕鬆send給老闆、同事或親友，在新的一年搶先延續好人緣。

不論是閒暇生活或工作場合，現代人一天24小時都和手機綁在一起，要是手機電量不足，就等於跟全世界斷了聯繫！尤其開工第一天閒閒沒事做可不行，需要「開工利器」陪自己忙起來，才能代表新的一年「有事可忙，有錢可賺」。如今市面上的旗艦機型，提供大電量已是基本配備，Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版價格親民，但電量表現卻不俗，不僅有4,500mAh大容量提供威猛續航力，若再搭配內建最佳化、中度省電、超省電的智慧省電模式，套用關閉動態桌布、限制CPU速度、減低螢幕亮度等設定，就能更加延長手機使用時間。

小資族早晚通勤又在辦公室使用一整天，下班後還是可以放心與朋友聚會、打卡拍美照，放心留下每個生活紀錄。平常趕出差的商務族群，或勤跑客戶的業務，奔忙的路上也能多工運用手機，回電、通信、回覆報告的同時，還能偷空玩場遊戲、聽個音樂平衡忙碌身心，一舉把效率衝到最高。

▲就算久坐辦公室，Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版的高續航力，讓小資族不用為了擔心掉電、時時保持充電狀態。

▲臨時出差、拜訪客戶，不用帶著厚重的行動電源，也能放心以Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版處理公事一整天。

忙了一整天總算要下班！Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版除了滿足小資族開工有神器加持的心願，更擁有專業級超廣角、廣角、遠距的三鏡頭，以及配備專業級雙像素和雙OIS光學防手震相機。即使走出公司已經是黃昏傍晚，拿出手機、使用3200萬畫素的前鏡頭自拍，在夜間模式、自拍美顏、瑕疵檢測等軟體助攻下，隨手一拍就是光線絕佳的好氣色、無NG美照。拍照的同時，6.7吋的旗艦級O極限全螢幕就是超清晰的「美顏自拍鏡」，拍攝前一秒都能精準掌握自己的姿勢表情，別忘了同步使用「景深即時預覽」調整景深並即時預覽效果，確保在繽紛背景前，還是能成為超靚眼嬌點！

▲熱衷在生活中創造小確幸的小資族，下班返家或放假休閒的路上，也要把握大拍美照、記錄生活的機會。

▲Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版不僅擁有旗艦效能，同時也是滿足愛自拍小資女的「美顏自拍機」。

除了紅得搶手的「星願紅」，Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版還有「星願銀」、「星願黑」共3款顏色選擇。與其求神拜佛祈禱新年順遂，不如就先用20k實際聘請這位「開工x美拍神器」，靠著難以忽視的工作表現和女神氣場，緊緊圈住主管老闆和社群好友的心。

▲Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版一共帶來3款顏色，分別是星願黑、星願紅和星願銀。

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title: 小資族看過來！春節開工神器Galaxy Note10 Lite星願版「親民甜價」加持事業運


title: 吳尊慶祝戀愛24周年！　罕見熱吻老婆放閃「改變我的一生」：有妳，我美滿

countries: 汶萊 澳洲

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記者李湘文／綜合報導

藝人吳尊16歲就跟現在的老婆相識，因為尊重對方不想曝光的心情，一路以來低調戀愛、結婚，直到2013年才首度公開承認已婚。但自從有了小孩以後，他對這段感情的態度也變得大方了一些，1日慶祝跟老婆相愛24年，還PO出一張接吻照，難得對網友放出閃光！

▲吳尊跟老婆低調交往、結婚。（圖／翻攝自微博／吳尊）

吳尊1日在微博PO文紀念：「24年的今天……改變了我的一生，豐富了我的一生……有妳，我美滿♥」他特別帶女兒在墨爾本選購禮物，送給老婆一束花和香水，瓶身上寫著「給我最棒的朋友、妻子＆超級媽咪，24周年快樂！」在深情告白的文字最後，還附註「from your true love（來自妳的真愛）」。

▲吳尊跟老婆慶祝交往24周年。（圖／翻攝自微博／吳尊）

此外，吳尊和老婆也特別準備蛋糕，選用2人在澳洲讀書時都很喜歡的馬蹄蛋糕，上頭還用巧克力寫著「TRUE LOVE SINCE 1996」，夫妻倆一起捧著蛋糕拍下接吻照片。雖然照片刻意調暗，好讓人看不出吳尊老婆的臉孔，但2人合照PO網已經算是相當難得，令粉絲激動大呼「我還是相信愛情的」、「真的太羨慕」。

▲吳尊親吻老婆放閃。（圖／翻攝自微博／吳尊）

吳尊和老婆在1996年相識，對方是初戀女友，一路陪伴他在澳洲求學、挺過摯愛的親人去世、打理汶萊生意，24年始終在身邊支持。他曾透露不公開戀情的原因，是因為自己漸漸有了名氣，但對方不希望引起注意、也不知道如何面對演藝圈生態，才選擇對外隱瞞，「我明白也尊重這個決定，因為有她百分百的支持，我才可以勇敢的面對我人生和演藝事業中所有難題的挑戰。」


references: 臉書 Facebook

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記者許皓婷／綜合報導

歌手余佩真結婚了！她2013年曾以《通靈少女》前傳《神算》拿下台北電影節最佳新演員，並為《通靈少女》獻唱主題曲《無題日常》，她2日在臉書分享自己和太太楊以瑄結婚的喜訊，讓粉絲又驚又喜。

▲余佩真宣布和太太楊以瑄結婚。（圖／翻攝自Facebook／余佩真）

余佩真2日在Facebook宣布結婚：「2019年9月26號，我與太太在雙方家長的同意之下、也取得了詩人鴻鴻和編劇簡莉穎的親筆簽名，拿著寫好的結婚證書到戶政事務所辦理登記，成為合法妻妻。」她更大讚太太楊以瑄是她見過少數無比善良真誠又充滿智慧的人類，「跟她相處的每一天我都好開心，2020年，沒有什麼比能自在跟大家分享我的開心更重要的事情了！」

▲余佩真宣布結婚。（圖／翻攝自Facebook／余佩真）

而余佩真現在正和太太楊以瑄在東京蜜月旅行，正逢武漢肺炎，她也不忘向粉絲報平安，「口罩和自製的尤加利精油酒精噴霧備妥妥隨身攜帶，很安全請大家放心。」更暖心提醒大家要小心照顧自己。

▲余佩真和太太正在日本度蜜月。（圖／翻攝自Facebook／余佩真）

【余佩真Facebook全文】

晚安，大家。

余佩真現在人在日本東京，進行人生第一次的蜜月旅行，

購入人生的第一枚結婚戒指。

2019年9月26號，我與太太在雙方家長的同意之下、

也取得了詩人鴻鴻和編劇簡莉穎的親筆簽名，

拿著寫好的結婚證書到戶政事務所辦理登記，成為合法妻妻。

我的太太，楊以瑄女士，

是我肉眼見過少數無比善良真誠又充滿智慧的人類。

跟她相處的每一天我都好開心，

2020年，沒有什麼比能自在跟大家分享我的開心更重要的事情了❤。

登入日本蜜月的第三天，

口罩和自製的尤加利精油酒精噴霧備妥妥隨身攜帶，

很安全請大家放心。

大家出門在外也要小心照顧自己喔！

title: 恭喜！歌手余佩真結婚了…宣布和太太「成為合法妻妻」


title: 雷／《想見你》曝完整時間軸　網猜雙兇手「柯佳嬿魔化」狂飆演技

references: PTT 網友

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記者李欣容／綜合報導

觀眾苦等《想見你》2週，開頭李子維（許光漢 飾）延續上集被謝芝齊（顏毓麟 飾）敲昏後就領便當，黃雨萱也逐漸發現一切關聯，當年殺害陳韻如的兇手，是從未來穿越到「謝宗儒」身體裡的弟弟謝芝齊，她到療養院找謝宗儒，想找出真相。

▲柯佳嬿飾演的黃雨萱到療養院找顏毓麟飾演的謝宗儒。（圖／翻攝自中視）

在黃雨萱穿越到陳韻如身體裡的那段時間，她經歷了被偷襲、偷拍，也曾和李子維、莫俊傑（施柏宇 飾）討論兇手，而這些對話其實都被從2019年穿越到哥哥身體裡的謝芝齊聽到，甚至他在1998年時，見到「小時候的自己」將貓殺害。

黃雨萱發現這一切的真相後，到安養院找謝宗儒，想從他口中問出1998年發生的事，他精神錯亂，不斷喊著「謝芝齊不要」，謝宗儒聽得到也感覺得到，「另外一個自己」在外面胡作非為，更表示都是「他和她」害的。

▲顏毓麟分飾兩角，穿越後和小時候的自己對話。（圖／翻攝自中視）

而謝芝齊最後被警察逮補，他在掙扎的過程中將隨身聽砸爛，黃雨萱激動逼問他問什麼這麼做，謝芝齊卻說，「你問錯問題了，你應該要問的是，你對陳韻如做了什麼吧。」

▲顏毓麟點出關鍵。（圖／翻攝自中視）

黃雨萱好不容易修好收音機，再次穿越回到1998年陳韻如的身體裡，剛失去李子維的她，一見到高中時期的李子維忍不住緊緊抱住他。只是隔天醒來，她對著鏡子微笑的模樣，卻令人毛骨悚然，網友一眼看破，此時的狀態是陳韻如在模仿黃雨萱，她知道李子維喜歡的是黃雨萱，不是她。

倒數3集，劇情像洋蔥般層層剝去，原本說不通的故事全都接上，PTT網友都在大讚，台劇已經很久沒有這樣的品質了，而柯佳嬿的演技更受到高度討論，不少人都認為她會再拿一座金鐘視后。

▲柯佳嬿黑化，演技讓網友喊讚。（圖／翻攝自中視）


title: 武漢肺炎》伊拉克：來自中國旅客禁止入境

countries: 伊拉克 中國 科威特 印尼 越南 美國 以色列 紐西蘭 俄羅斯 台灣 澳洲

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伊拉克內政部今（2）日宣布，禁止所有搭乘來自中國航班的外國旅客入境。圖為中國國家主席習近平（右）與伊拉克總理阿卜杜-邁赫迪（左）。（資料照，美聯社）

2020-02-02 23:41:21

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕中國武漢肺炎疫情爆發，確診病例數持續上升，各國紛紛撤僑、暫停通常或部分關閉邊境。伊拉克內政部今（2）日亦宣布，禁止所有搭乘來自中國航班的外國旅客入境。

中國武漢疫情爆發，全球確診病例迄今已突破1.4萬件，其中死亡逾300例，各國紛紛從武漢撤僑，暫停與中國通航或部分關閉邊境。

據《路透》報導，伊拉克內政部今（2）日亦宣布，禁止所有從中國啟航的外國旅客入境，以防疫情擴散。

報導指出，中國石油集團（CNPC）是伊拉克最大外國投資商之一，而中國海洋石油（CNOOC）也在伊拉克東南方營運米桑石油田（Maysan oilfield）。

據悉，除伊拉克外，包括台灣、以色列、蒙古、美國、俄羅斯、紐西蘭、越南、科威特、澳洲、印尼等國，皆採取了暫時禁止曾訪中國的外國旅客入境、取消免簽或關閉邊境等防疫措施。

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劉樂妍回台消息曝光後引發網友砲轟，她對此大罵「台灣已經不是我的家了」。（圖取自劉樂妍臉書、微博）

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕中國湖北省武漢市「2019新型冠狀病毒」（2019-nCoV）肺炎疫情爆發，舔共藝人劉樂妍自稱無懼疫情，卻提到口罩快要用罄，宣布近期即將返抵台灣，強調是「工作的關係」，曝光後受眾多網友抨擊，她痛批「台灣已經不是我的家了」。

劉樂妍近日在微博透露，自己持有的口罩剩下沒幾個，「我很緊張，就算過期了，我也重複使用」，「所以我才會很急著缺口罩」，還強調「我最近因為工作的關係要坐飛機，我要回台灣，我還要去廈門，沒口罩的人都坐不了飛機上不了高鐵，你說我怎麼去辦事呢？對吧？這樣你懂我意思了嗎？」

劉樂妍即將返台消息傳開後，不少網友砲轟她回台避難，劉聞悉後再度發文澄清，「誰要回台灣避難啊？！我的狗都已經不在台灣，狗都在大陸了，我回台灣幹嘛？我台灣什麼都沒有了，只剩下房子。我真的完全不需要回台灣了，我是要回台灣開庭！法院傳喚我。不然你以為我愛回去啊？！」

她再三重申：「我的狗在哪？我的家在哪？台灣已經不是我的家了，台灣只是我的房子！！我的故鄉，我的戶口在那裡。但是我家不在那，OK？！我的家就是有狗的地方，還有，在夢裡。我要避難也是回來抱著我的狗一起，絕對不可能一個人走。」

相關新聞請見︰武漢肺炎懶人包》傳染途徑、預防措施看這裡
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events: 武漢肺炎 2019新型冠狀病毒 2019-nCoV

countries: 台灣 中國

references: 臉書 網友

title: 武漢肺炎》台灣不是家！缺口罩的劉樂妍仍堅持要回來


title: 龍潭客庄金黃花海地毯報到！「戀戀魯冰花」活動15日登場

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〔記者李容萍／桃園報導〕龍潭是桃園市重要的茶鄉，也是全台客庄最早種植魯冰花的地區，又稱為魯冰花的故鄉。受到暖冬影響，龍潭區的魯冰花比原訂開花時間提早綻放，整片金黃色魯冰花花海已在農曆春節搶先迎客，成為早春賞花、拍照和打卡熱門景點，市府客家事務局今年接手舉辦第3屆「戀戀魯冰花」活動，系列活動從15日至3月8日登場，有客家音樂饗宴、農事體驗、DIY主題手作、寫生比賽、小農市集及茶席體驗等。

龍潭的魯冰花之所以聲名大噪，起因於國寶級客籍文學家鍾肇政撰寫最具客家在地代表的同名小說《魯冰花》，曾於1989年改編為同名電影及歌曲創作，上映後創下票房佳績，更獲得第26屆金馬獎、柏林影展及加拿大國際兒童影展等諸多國際影展肯定。

在地鍾姓茶農表示，魯冰花不畏寒冬中成長，入春開花後結果，孕育繁衍下一代，凋謝後奉獻大地成為茶樹最好的肥料，可幫助茶樹健康生長，且可讓茶葉豐收，曾遍布於龍潭的茶園中；客家人感受到魯冰花對大地的貢獻，如同客家母親一生對家庭無怨無悔的犧牲奉獻與傳承，創造更美好的環境給下一代，因而視魯冰花為「客家母親花」。

市府辦理「戀戀魯冰花」活動今年種植近15公頃的金黃魯冰花，分佈於龍潭區大北坑休閒農業區、三和展區（和窯文創園區），目前在大北坑三水茗園已經可以看到魯冰花搶先綻放的美麗身影，金黃花朵點綴在翠綠茶園間，在光線的照映下斑斕奪目，想要搶先欣賞魯冰花的民眾可以藉由園區內步行指標，結合魯冰花、茶園、老屋及古道，找茶尋花，來趟豐富的生態、文化、美食輕旅行。

countries: 海地 加拿大

taiwan-subdivisions: 龍潭 桃園


title: 前高美館長李俊賢逝世週年 藝術圈辦「物三88影音會」追念

taiwan-subdivisions: 高雄 高雄市

countries: 台灣 美國 日本

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藝術圈人稱「館長」、「爐主」的李俊賢，創作慣用高彩度、高對比的色彩，表現台灣各式各樣有文化、很在地的精神。（導演盧昱瑞提供）

2020-02-02 23:37:50

〔記者蘇福男／高雄報導〕高雄藝術圈人稱「館長」、「爐主」的李俊賢，去年3月病逝，享年62歲，未設置靈堂，也未舉辦告別式，家屬低調樹葬讓他反璞歸真，一群藝術界麻吉為了紀念他，決定3月7、8日在他曾經創作的空間橋仔頭糖廠物三倉庫，舉辦一場「物三88影音會」，邀請音樂人林強和視覺動畫團隊北澤鋼透過聲音、動畫，和俊賢來⼀場跨時空的對話。

李俊賢1986年辭去高中美術教職，赴美留學，1988年自美國紐約市立大學藝術研究所碩士畢業，1989年返回高雄，在高苑科技大學擔任教職，2004年至2008年期間，因擁有當代、現代藝術創作背景及教學經驗，被借調擔任高雄市立美術館館長。

高美館長任內，李俊賢除積極與國際藝術界接軌，同時推動南島當代藝術發展計畫，計畫成果迄今仍為高美館極具特色及代表性的重要藝術發展計畫，堪稱是高美館建立如今專業基礎最重要的推手。

李俊賢一生追求台灣精神，創作除使用高彩度、高對比的色彩，更加用hue的方式來畫圖，表現台灣各式各樣他覺得很有文化、很在地的精神，1991至2000年的「台灣計畫」系列，是他落實在地、認同台灣土地的行動藝術，企圖喚醒台灣人的覺知，建構台灣藝術主體性視覺省思。

他和藝術家李俊陽共同發起的「新台灣壁畫隊」，以現地創作方式，試圖呈現台灣原生的藝術能量，開創迄今已有150名藝術家參與，2012年至日本311東北災區展開「藝術陪伴」計劃，並邀集日本藝術家共同創作，為台日雙方重建課題與藝術陪伴建立「台灣見學平台」。

主辦單位表示，「物三88影音會」2天的活動，將安排林強的音樂搭配動畫團隊，再現李俊賢作品的速度感，高雄在地音樂人林生祥也將擔任特別來賓演唱南方，歡迎好友跟著喜愛四處旅行、觀察台灣地誌風情的李俊賢，一起乘坐他創造的雲霄飛車，好好地跟他說再見，活動相關訊息。


title: 武漢肺炎》心疼陳時中超累 財經女神痛罵：柯在糟蹋誰

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2020-02-02 23:59:19

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕台北市長柯文哲今（2）日爆料，滯留武漢的400多名台人若返抵國門，部分將被安置到陽明山台銀宿舍，柯經衛福部長陳時中指控違反「傳染病防治法」後仍無道歉，財經專家胡采蘋認為，陳已經累成這樣，柯「是在糟蹋誰」。

柯文哲被衛福部長陳時中指控違反「傳染病防治法」後，僅冷回「喔，那就不要講啊」對於是否為爆料道歉，柯僅強調，「我會檢討」，聽到陳時中說要開罰，柯竟還不以為意呵呵笑說「要被抓去關了是不是？」至於是否道歉，柯僅回說，「沒有，我也在檢討」。

胡采蘋在臉書表示，陳時中每天在中央疾控中心為疫情疲於奔命，遇到突發狀況、不分日夜加開記者會，根本就是沒日沒夜在工作，柯文哲是在開什麼玩笑，「以為找好一個有足夠房間數量的地點去交涉清空很容易嗎？還要設計好隔離結構，送水送吃配備補給人力物資，搭配警力戒備，找好醫護協助，這很容易嗎？」

胡采蘋痛罵柯文哲：「知不知道這種事情你打幾百個電話都不一定能搞得定一個地點，很好玩嗎？」不該說的話已經公開說出口，但卻沒有給陳時中一句誠懇的道歉，柯文哲「是在糟蹋誰？」多少人沒有睡覺過年沒有休假你是在糟蹋誰，沒有一句道歉還說「要把我抓去關嗎？」胡砲轟，「你是在耍流氓嗎，人格要多下流才說得出這種話，差勁」。

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people: 陳時中 柯文哲


title: 武漢肺炎》聽中國政府的 本田汽車武漢廠擬14日復工

countries: 中國 日本

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2020-02-02 23:56
 日本汽車大廠本田（Honda）與中國東風汽車合資的武漢廠計畫在本（2）月14日復工。圖為本田商標示意圖。（歐新社）

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕日本汽車大廠本田（Honda）今（2）日表示，根據中國政府指示，與中國東風汽車公司合資的武漢廠將在本（2）月14日復工。

據《路透》報導，日本汽車大廠本田（Honda）發言人今（2）日透露，根據中國政府指示，該公司與中國東風汽車合資成立的東風本田汽車公司武漢廠，預計在本（2）月14日復工。

報導指出，東風本田汽車公司總部設於中國湖北省武漢市，近期武漢肺炎疫情爆發，湖北省政府日前已下令，延長農曆春節假期至13日。

相關新聞請見︰武漢肺炎懶人包》傳染途徑、預防措施看這裡
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title: 點出「三不利」！邱毅：不後悔退出藍營不分區名單

people: 邱毅 吳敦義

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2020-02-02 23:49:58

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕立法院新會期昨（1）日開始，各新科立委前往報到，新黨不分區立委落選人邱毅對此坦言不後悔、不惋惜退出藍營不分區名單，也點出「三（項）不利」因素，強調「對名利富貴已無所求」。

邱毅今（2）日在微博指出，立法院新會期首日過後，包括前國民黨主席吳敦義在內的朋友，都語帶抱怨的指責邱毅當初不該急著退出國民黨不分區立委，否則現在就能重回立法院，扮演藍營中流砥柱的角色，但邱毅言明「我一點都不後悔，也不覺得有絲毫惋惜」。

邱毅表示，當時的退出埋下3項不利因素，包括「揭弊行動的效果大打折扣」、「選民分不清『邱毅是國民黨還是新黨』」、「學者名嘴肆無忌憚的攻擊我」，已經無法發揮影響力的最大成效，也使新黨營運在選後陷入困境，追求統一的信念更被扭曲成「偏激」。

邱毅自稱，「年過花甲後，我對名利富貴已無所求，也從不與人爭什麼，只為自我信念的追求盡最後努力。各位好朋友，從表面上看不到這些人私底下的惡劣行徑，但我卻早已在明槍暗箭中遍體鱗傷，只餘下最後的一點『初心元氣』而已！」


events: 武漢肺炎 發電

references: 網友 臉書

countries: 西班牙 中國 台灣 臺灣 蒙古國 義大利 越南

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自電盟理事長林元笠在臉書上詢問，「請問你對外國人介紹自己來自哪裡？」結果網友留言一面倒回答台灣。（記者蔡文居翻攝）

2020-02-02 23:43:57

〔記者蔡文居／台南報導〕台灣公民自主發電行動聯盟（簡稱自電盟）理事長林元笠今天在臉書上詢問，「請問你對外國人介紹自己來自哪裡會說1：Republic of China 2：TAIWAN」結果網友留言一面倒均回答「TAIWAN」，沒有人說「Republic of China」。

將近70則留言中，網友全都回答「台灣」。網友說，「從有出國紀錄開始，只說臺灣！倒是護照上的翻譯常被誤解...」、「報1老外完全聽不懂。」一名網友好奇說，「不知道王餅忠（王炳忠）說哪個 ？」。其中，一名外籍人士也留言說，「我是外國人，你們對我說我是Taiwan人的話，我覺得比較清楚」。

自電盟理事長林元笠說，他會提問這個問題，是因為最近中國武漢肺炎疫情延燒，義大利和越南，甚至今天蒙古國，因將台灣視為中國的一部分或搞不清台灣和中國的差別，而禁止航班或台灣人入境，「其中，蒙古最好笑，依照我們的憲法，蒙古還是我們的領土耶！」

他說，他去年11月到西班牙馬德里參加聯合國第25屆氣候會議 （COP25），一直到今年元月7日回台灣，在歐洲停留了45天，共走訪5個國家。在過程中，外國人詢問你來自哪個國家，他相信應該都會說是台灣，但也有很多外國人一開始，會問你是不是中國人？他都得特別說明自己是來台灣，是台灣人，不是中國人，台灣和中國是不一樣的。因此，才想說在網路上詢問一下大家遇到外國人詢問時，是怎麼回答的。

他說，從這次武漢肺炎所產生的問題及困擾，台灣要重視正名的問題了。

title: 他問出國如何介紹自己國家？ 網友答案一面倒


title: 中小學延後開學》小6生「神回覆」 媽媽差點噴飯

references: 爆廢公社 臉書社團 臉書

events: 放假 武漢肺炎

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教育部長2日宣布，高級中等以下學校108學年度第2學期，將延後於2月25日開學，新學期將於7月14日舉辦休業式。小學生示意圖與本文無關。（資料照）

2020-02-03 00:25:57

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕教育部2日宣布，高中以下學生寒假延長至2月25日開學，原定2月15日補課取消，暑假延後至7月15日放假；1名家長在臉書指出，家中小學6年級的孩子聽到這個消息所做出的反應，令媽媽「差點噴飯」。

教育部長潘文忠2日宣布，因應中國武漢肺炎疫情，高級中等以下學校108學年度第2學期，將延後於2月25日開學，教育部配合措施，新學期將於7月14日舉辦休業式，109學年度的暑假將於7月15日放假至8月29日；原訂2月15日配合1月23日小年夜的彈性放假補課日予以取消，教育部指出，「延長寒假、縮短暑假」按照「各級學校學生學年學期假期辦法」辦理。

有家長在臉書社團「爆廢公社二館」發文指出，家裡有1個小學6年級的孩子，是今年的應屆畢業生，在聽聞寒假延長、暑假縮短的消息後，孩子和媽媽說：「那我不就要延畢？成為史上政府認證，最慢畢業的畢業生？」童言童語令媽媽感到好笑，「聽到差點噴飯」。


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珍妮佛在未婚夫求婚後雙手掩面，看起來心情非常激動，並寫道：「我願意，一百萬次的願意」。（圖片擷取自＠jenniferkgates Instagram）

2020-02-02 23:59:44

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕微軟創辦人比爾·蓋茲（Bill Gates）與太太梅林達（Melinda Gates）婚後生下2女1子，其中23歲的大女兒珍妮佛（Jennifer Katherine Gates）在IG上宣布將與男友納耶爾（Nayel Nassar）訂婚。未婚夫納耶爾來自埃及，是一名優秀的馬術運動員，2人因興趣相投和珍妮佛在大學熟識，也將代表埃及參加2020的東京奧運會。

根據《每日郵報》報導，納耶爾比珍妮佛大5歲，都就讀於美國頂尖名校斯坦福大學，2人因對馬術有共同的愛好而相識。納耶爾曾在國際馬術總會上排名世界第41位，未來還將代表埃及參加2020年的奧運會比賽，替埃及贏得60年以來這項運動首次參加奧運會的資格。而珍妮佛從6歲開始接觸馬術，比爾蓋茲為支持女兒成為頂尖的馬術運動選手，花了3700萬美元（約11億新台幣）在佛州購買了一處豪華房產供珍妮佛訓練。經過多年的艱苦訓練，珍妮佛曾在美國馬術總會上排名第19位，成為一名出色的馬術場地障礙賽選手。

近日珍妮佛在IG上宣布訂婚的喜訊，貼出一張她戴著訂婚戒指坐在雪地裡與納耶爾擁抱的照片，並寫道：「納耶爾·納薩爾，你是獨一無二的！我迫不及待地想用我們的餘生來一起學習、成長、歡笑和相愛。我迫不及待地想要和你一起度過這段叫做生命的旅程，謝謝你讓我的每一天都像夢一樣！」，而納耶爾也甜蜜回覆：「現在我覺得自己是世界上最幸運和最幸福的人。珍，讓我們為這一幸福時刻而祝福！」。

隨後比爾蓋茲和太太梅琳達也表達了他們的祝福。梅琳達在她的Instagram上分享了這張甜蜜的求婚照片，感動留言：「真為你和納耶爾高興，祝福你們！」，而比爾蓋茲也補充道：「我太激動了！恭喜你們！」。

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countries: 埃及 美國

title: 比爾蓋茲女婿身分曝光！世界第一白富美宣布訂婚


title: 快檢查手機！數百萬WhatsApp用戶恐無法繼續用

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2020-02-03 00:11:41

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕通訊軟體WhatsApp自2月1日起停止支援iPhone的iOS 8與Android 2.3.7作業系統，以及比這兩者更舊的版本。WhatsApp表示此決定是為了保護使用者的安全。

據《英國廣播公司》報導，大多數的使用者只需將系統升級至要求的版本以上，即可繼續使用訊息服務。然而由於某些機型的限制，例如iPhone 4只能升級到iOS 7，就無法再使用該APP。

市場研究公司CCS Insight的分析師伍德（Ben Wood）表示，為了確保其服務的安全，WhatsApp顯然別無選擇，只能承受「與舊手機不再相容」的副作用。「這會影響到某些非主流的使用者，特別是在舊機型佔有率較高的新興市場，影響幅度將更大。」

這是自2016年以來，宣布取消支援不同裝置的系列決定中最新的一起；前一次則是去年12月31日起不再支援所有Windows手機。WhatsApp的發言人表示，「這是個艱難的決定，但卻是為了讓客戶都能有更優質的方式跟朋友、家人與愛人聯繫。」


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高雄榮總今晚宣布增設戶外臨時慢箋領藥處，明起原門診藥局慢箋發藥櫃臺轉至門診大樓右側步道。（圖高榮提供）

2020-02-02 23:46:23

〔記者方志賢／高雄報導〕中國武漢肺炎疫情持續發燒，繼高雄長庚與高醫後，高雄榮總今晚也宣布增設戶外臨時慢箋領藥處，從明天起原門診藥局慢箋發藥櫃台轉至門診大樓右側步道，慢箋病友使用網路預約第2及第3次領藥，不用進入醫院即可領藥。

高雄榮總表示，武漢肺炎疫情嚴峻，為了保障民眾健康，降低被傳染風險，門診慢性病連續處方箋領藥更改至戶外，明日起請病患全面使用網路預約第2、3次領藥，不受理現場編號與領藥。

高榮強調，原門診藥局慢箋發藥櫃台轉至門診大樓右側步道，「急診藥局」全責急診緊急醫療業務不再受理慢性處方箋領藥及預約領藥服務。請病患週1至週5早上8時30分至下午5時至醫院新設領藥地點領取慢箋藥品。

高雄長庚也表示，持有慢性處方簽領藥的民眾，即日起至2月29日，已預約慢性處方箋領藥的民眾，改至兒童大樓門口領藥，服務時間上午8時到下午5時。

高醫明天2月3日起也增設戶外慢箋預約領藥，週1至週5上午8時30分至下午5時（中午不休息），到醫院自由路啟川大樓門口處預約領藥。

title: 武漢肺炎》高雄榮總：增設戶外臨時慢箋領藥處


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網友使用空拍機時，不小心飛錯邊，直直地朝著自己和女友飛來，第一視角曝光後讓不少網友笑翻說「版主還活著嗎」。（圖擷自爆廢公社）

2020-02-03 00:00:35

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕不少人會透過空拍機來記錄美好的旅程，不過若操作不慎，導致遺失或是影響他人可就糗了，一名網友在臉書社團PO出影片，自稱使用空拍機時不小心飛錯邊，直直地朝著自己和女友飛來，第一視角曝光後讓不少網友笑翻問說「版主還活著嗎」。

一名網友在臉書社團「爆廢公社」PO出影片，可以看見原PO和女友站在廣闊的田野，正測試性地操作著空拍機，準備記錄下兩人的甜蜜旅程。沒想到說時遲那時快，原PO竟不小心「飛錯邊」，讓空拍機直直地朝著兩人飛來，撞上後直接掉落在草地上。事後原PO將空拍機拍下的第一視角上傳，笑說「差點謀殺我女友」。

許多網友看了都笑翻了，紛紛留言表示「這麼安全的東西都能讓你玩得這麼危險」、「其實是故意的，想換女友了吧」、「愛神穿心箭」、「你怎麼還沒被女朋友殺掉？」、「請原地分手」、「這一定計畫好的」、「你一定是故意找藉口分手」、「是不是保了高額的保險？」、「版主還活著嗎」。

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references: 爆廢公社 臉書社團 網友

title: 空拍機飛錯邊直衝女朋友！網看完笑瘋：版主還活著嗎


political-parties: 自民黨 勞工黨

countries: 日本 埃及 中國 澳洲 黎巴嫩

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2020-02-02 23:52:08

〔編譯茅毅／綜合報導〕隨著各國紛紛派專機飛往中國撤僑，也衍生出花費應由全民或搭機者買單的爭議，並進一步在各國內部引發政治效應。例如日本政府原先宣布，將循往例，即從武漢搭包機返日的僑民，每人須自付8萬日圓（約2‧2萬台幣）和稅金。但沒幾天，首相安倍晉三在執政的自民黨黨內和友黨紛紛表示反對後，即改口說，將朝向由國家負擔的方向檢討。

日本政府原先於1月28日晚間向記者表示，將請搭包機的僑民自負搭經濟艙單程的「8萬日圓+稅金」費用。惟隔天，自民黨大老二階就公開表態，質疑在突如其來的災難下，不是光叫民眾自己付錢。該黨黨內亦有幹部強調，僑民由於緊急事態而從被封城的城市返國，不該向他們索取機票錢。

1月30日，執政聯盟的友黨─公明黨黨魁山口那津男也主張，懷抱著不安及冒著風險、不得已無可奈何回國的僑民，還是該由政府妥為負擔包機與返國的費用。翌日，安倍就在眾議院預算委員會中改口說，將考慮由國家支付。

此外，自由黨的總理莫里森主政的澳洲政府，原本打算向搭包機撤離中國的僑民，每人收取一千澳幣（約2‧1萬台幣），表示撤僑也將適用「成本回收」（cost recovery）。澳洲政府還辯稱，過去在勞工黨執政時，例如2006年從黎巴嫩、2011年從埃及，也是向搭包機的僑民收費。

這番話隨即引發爭議，兩名勞工黨的前總理予以駁斥。「阿拉伯之春」及埃及暴動時，擔任澳洲外長的陸克文在網路上說，莫里森的說法是「公然說謊」。當時每名搭機者的費用均由澳洲政府支付，約3400澳幣。前總理吉拉德和她任內擔任外交貿易部部長的理查森（Dennis Richardson）均公開表示，包機免費搭乘。

對此，澳洲財長佛萊登柏格（Josh Frydenberg）2日才髮夾彎說情況已變，並歸咎外貿部提供錯誤的資訊給政府。

title: 武漢肺炎》包機撤僑錢誰出？ 日澳國內有爭議


countries: 中國 台灣

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台北市長柯文哲今受訪時脫口洩露預定收容武漢撤僑的安置地點，文化大學學生會今晚發表聲明表達強烈關切。圖為柯文哲今晚應邀東湖「2020樂活夜櫻祭」。（記者方賓照攝）

2020-02-02 23:48:08

〔記者吳柏軒／台北報導〕政府擬將滯留武漢的台灣人撤回，並集中安置，但台北市長柯文哲今向媒體說漏嘴，洩露將安置在陽明山的台銀宿舍，今晚文化大學學生會聲明表強烈關切，認為該地鄰近校區，且校內中生眾多，恐引發師生緊張情緒，呼籲審慎評估。

以下為文大學生會聲明稿：

【學生會聲明稿】有關台北市長柯文哲爆料滯武漢台人部分安置於台銀宿舍

1.針對台北市長柯文哲稍早所發表有關滯留武漢的部分國人將安置在陽明山台銀宿舍一事，中國文化大學學生會（以下簡稱本會）對此表達強烈的關切，由於台銀宿舍與本校過於鄰近，且本校陸生眾多，恐引發本校師生緊張的情緒，將不利防疫工作進行，對此本會強烈呼籲中央疫情指揮中心及臺北市政府應審慎評估安置地點一事，也呼籲台北市長柯文哲應與中央疫情指揮中心整合疫情防疫報告再行公告，不要因不當發言造成本校師生及國人同胞的恐慌。

2.另外有關本校是否延後開學一事，本會呼籲校方基於保障師生的健康權益，應當於陸生自主隔離期滿後再開學，確保全校師生的權益，也避免造成師生的恐慌。

3.同時本會也希望校方能盡快將防疫措施進行公告，包含是否於各樓館門口設置酒精消毒液、提供口罩給全校師生或是於校內進行消毒等措施，皆需盡快公告出來，讓全校師生能夠安心開學。橄欖綠

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title: 武漢肺炎》中媒稱中藥能治病 引中西醫論戰

taiwan-subdivisions: 中西 新社

countries: 中國 法國

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2020-02-02 23:55:27

〔編譯黃靖媗／綜合報導〕中國官媒《人民日報》日前指出，中科院上海藥物所和武漢病毒所聯合研究發現，中藥「雙黃連口服液」可以抑制2019新型冠狀病毒（2019-nCoV），目前正在進行臨床研究，引起中國民眾熱烈搶購。

《人民日報》隔日卻又緊急提醒民眾，「抑制」不等於「預防和治療」，上海藥物研究所強調，關於雙黃連口服液的研究，只是初步驗證。中藥專家也呼籲，民眾不應為了預防疾病而服用中藥，可能會受副作用影響。

中國派至湖北協助救治武漢肺炎疫情的醫學專家團中，包含了幾位中醫專家，截至1月29日，中國已有41位武漢肺炎患者服用中藥治療，中國政府更宣稱有兩名患者因中藥而痊癒。因而掀起了中藥是否有效的議論，微博網紅「小兒外科裴醫生」就指出，痊癒的病人應是靠自身的免疫能力康復，批評政府「用毫無科學根據的推斷去粉飾中藥的強大」。

《法新社》報導，法國中醫藥委員會的成員弗雷德（Marc Freard）雖然相信中醫可以治療發燒、積痰等症狀，但弗雷德也警告，市場上許多中藥方的品質都有問題，並且承認中藥因為強調個體化的治療，療效缺乏科學標準。

中國早在2003年SARS疫情時，就採取中、西醫合作的方式治療患者，但2012年1項研究表明，當初採取這種做法，其實沒有太大的意義。中國政府近幾年更大力在全球推廣中醫，世界衛生組織（WHO）2019年首度將中醫納入「國際疾病分類」（International Classification of Diseases）中，遭科學界批評，因為中醫缺乏循證實踐。反對學術詐欺的中國作家方舟子也認為，中國政府推廣中醫與科學無關，反而與民族主義比較有關。


title: 大選後僵持近4個月 科索沃將組聯合政府

countries: 科索沃 塞爾維亞 荷蘭 土耳其

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2020-02-02 23:51:32

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕東歐國家科索沃自去年10月國會改選，兩大黨分別取得30%選票後，僵持近4個月後，今（2）日傳出終於達成協議，將組成聯合政府，協議內容將在週一（3）表決後通過。

據《路透》報導，科索沃「自決黨」（Vetevendosje）、「科索沃民主聯盟」（Democratic League of Kosovo）2大黨，在去年10月國會提前改選中平分秋色，僵持近4個月後，今（2）日終於宣布達成協議，將在明（3）日表決通過後組成聯合政府，由自決黨44歲黨魁克堤（Albin Kurti）出任總理。

報導指出，科索沃新聯合政府同時也將含括6個該國少數族裔團體，如塞爾維亞裔、土耳其裔、波斯尼亞裔等。

據悉，科索沃於2008年獨立，前總理哈拉迪納伊（Ramush Haradinaj）因遭控「戰爭罪」，去年7月被傳喚至荷蘭海牙戰爭法庭受審而黯然下台。科索沃遂於10月舉行國會提前改選，兩大黨今日終於達成共識將組成聯合政府，將面臨與鄰國塞爾維亞談判的難關。


countries: 法國 日本

taiwan-subdivisions: 桃園 平鎮 中壢

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2020-02-03 00:08:20

〔記者李容萍／桃園報導〕2020桃園燈會以「光之桃花源」為主題，設計三大燈區，從1月31日在平鎮新勢公園、老街溪河岸公園及中壢光明公園展開，開幕以來，整個展區越晚越美麗、精彩活動不斷，加上週末假期氣候回溫更吸引爆場人潮，呈現車水馬龍、萬頭鑽動的盛況，市府觀光旅遊局依據展區面積和容留人數估算，桃園燈會開展3天吸引約30萬人次參觀，光是1、2日共湧入23萬人次。

今年桃園燈會有多項創新特色，首創燈會專屬樂團「曙光樂團」及專屬主題曲「曙光」；全台最大屏幕光雕秀，面積達五百平方公尺的屏幕，將演出桃園燈會專屬動畫，邀請來自法國的Planete Vapeur機械巨獸馬戲團演出融合科技與藝術的「光之巨龍秀」；打造燈飾迷宮「光之迷宮」；還有3D浮空投影秀，運用森林樹木及3D立體浮空技術，打造夜晚「光之森林」光雕美景。

其中，在老街溪河岸公園的「銀河曙光燈區」，設有「幸福銀河」燈組，是師從日本「平成天之川」，以「水漂光球．祈求幸福」為主題，於展出期間的晚上6至9點的每30分一場，民眾可至幸福光橋服務站登記領取幸福光球（每場次限量50人），再至中央橋參與祈福，讓承載願望的小光球順著老街溪漂流，透過「數大便是美」的視覺營造，形成一條「幸福銀河」，並搭配泡泡機在空中吹出七彩泡泡，營造幸福浪漫的氛圍！

title: 桃園燈會開幕3天攬客30萬人次 「幸福銀河」祈福人氣超旺


taiwan-subdivisions: 桃園 中壢 平鎮

title: 桃園燈會開幕3天攬客30萬人次 「幸福銀河」祈福人氣超旺


title: 龍潭客庄金黃花海地毯報到！「戀戀魯冰花」活動15日登場


title: 前高美館長李俊賢逝世週年 藝術圈辦「物三88影音會」追念

countries: 日本 美國 台灣

taiwan-subdivisions: 高雄市 高雄


title: 武漢肺炎》柯文哲爆料撤僑安置點 文大學生會強烈關切


title: 中小學延後開學》桃市教育局：5萬兒童口罩優先送幼兒園

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〔記者李容萍／桃園報導〕教育部突然宣佈因應疫情防疫而延後高中以下學校開學日至2月25日，桃園市多數私立幼兒園、非營利幼兒園明日（3日）照常開學，桃園市議員黃敬平2日晚間接獲許多家長憂心兒童口罩是否足夠、能不能在開學第一天全到位？針對即將開學的私立幼兒園和非營利附幼，他要求市府教育局應備妥兒童專用口罩，分批次發給全桃園市的私幼、非營利附幼及公幼幼兒，以因應防疫配套措施，照顧更需防疫的幼童。

對此，桃園市政府教育局表示，桃園市已到貨5萬多個兒童專用口罩，首批將發給全市已開學的私幼、非營利附幼幼兒，第二批再發給開學後的公幼幼兒。

教育局還說，雖然教育部發布高中以下學校延後開學政策，考量市轄公幼寒假課後留園兼具托育及照顧性質，倘經校（園）方評估停辦，應與家長妥善溝通，若家長反映仍有送托需求，仍請園方依原計畫開辦，開辦期間則依防疫管理措施落實師生健康管理。至於非營利附幼，可以家長自行決定是否送托，請假者可依相關退費規定辦理退費。


events: 發電 武漢肺炎

countries: 台灣 中國 西班牙 越南 義大利 蒙古國 臺灣

title: 他問出國如何介紹自己國家？ 網友答案一面倒


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title: 滯留武漢人員表格


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【記者李淨、許蒔／綜合報導】武漢肺炎疫情失控，中共不遺餘力地「輿論維穩」，體制內「專家」們也極力配合。中國科研機構近日公布聲稱「雙黃連口服液可抑制新型冠狀病毒」，經中共各大官媒報導後，與雙黃連相關的中成藥瞬間被搶購一空，連帶「雙黃（雙蛋黃）蓮蓉月餅」都賣光。

中共黨媒新華社官網1月31日報導稱，中國科學院上海藥物所和武漢病毒所聯合研究初步發現，中成藥雙黃連口服液可抑制新型冠狀病毒。據報導，雙黃連主要成分為金銀花、黃芩、連翹，輔料為蔗糖。

報導稱，2003年SARS期間，上海藥物所左建平團隊率先證實雙黃連口服液具有抗SARS冠狀病毒作用，十餘年來又陸續證實雙黃連口服液對流感病毒（H7N9、H1N1、H5N1）、嚴重急性呼吸綜合症冠狀病毒、中東呼吸綜合症冠狀病毒具有明顯的抗病毒效應。

官媒報導更稱，武漢病毒研究所在1月29日晚上至30日凌晨「開展了雙黃連口服液在細胞水平的抗病毒活性測驗」，結果表明「具有抗新型冠狀病毒的功能」。對此，有專業人士在網上痛批，半個晚上培養皿裡的細胞株都還沒有複製完一代，更不要說後續提取培養液去做PCR測試；半個晚上就能確定雙黃連的防疫功能？「這不是放衛星，是直接一步上了火星，飛了天狼星啊！」

這項未經任何臨床試驗的消息傳出後，迅速引發「雙黃連之亂」，中國民眾瘋狂搶購雙黃連口服液；買不到的人甚至轉而搶購完全不相干的「雙黃蓮蓉月餅」。

有中國網友見狀疾呼「清醒一點」，並強調「雙黃蓮蓉月餅裡沒有雙黃連，黃連素裡也沒有雙黃連，雙黃連目前未被證實對疫情有預防和治療的作用」。有醫生發文提醒民眾：所謂雙黃連口服液「可抑制病毒」的說法缺乏嚴謹的臨床研究數據，並且雙黃連過去有大量的不良反應證據，甚至會引起過敏性休克，切不可擅自服用。

有網友爆料，武漢病毒研究所所長王延軼和有上海藥物研究所背景的上海綠谷公司的董事長舒紅兵是夫妻關係，因此「雙黃連」能夠一夜之間成長為「抗擊武漢新型肺炎明星」。

社交媒體上，網友們也紛紛指責中共肆意欺騙民眾，和當年炒作板藍根沖劑預防SRAS如出一轍：「看上去雙黃連不僅能治冠狀病毒肺炎，很有可能還能治愛滋病。今年諾貝爾醫學獎應該是武漢P4研究所和上海藥物研究所分了。」

隨著網路質疑聲浪高漲，有陸媒向上海藥物所的有關人員提出「臨床試驗前期是否有相關試驗數據」「喝了雙黃連就對治病有效嗎」以及「可以抑制病毒的說法是準確的嗎？」等問題，上海藥物所的人員則是回答說：「我這邊沒有，我不知道，我現在沒辦法回答您這個問題。」「我們現在也不好說這個問題。」「科學的事情我們不想說得太過。」◇

events: 冠狀病毒 武漢肺炎

title: 雙黃連治肺炎？中共炒作被抓包


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人們關切武漢肺炎病毒將如何銷聲匿跡，科學家預測有3種可能情境。圖為武漢街頭有人倒斃。（Hector RETAMAL/AFP）
【記者吳英／綜合報導】去年12月底在武漢爆發新型冠狀病毒疫情，短短一個月的時間讓多個國家拉警報，世衛組織宣布其為國際公衛緊急事件。人們關切這個新病毒將如何銷聲匿跡，科學家預測有三種可能情境。

過去一個月，新型冠狀病毒2019-nCoV不僅肆虐中國大陸，甚至蔓延到全球20多個國家。繼世衛組織於1月30日將武漢肺炎疫情定為「國際關注的緊急公共衛生事件」，隔天，美國川普（特朗普）政府宣布「公共衛生緊急狀態」，並發布命令自2月2日下午5點起，拒絕過去兩週去過中國的外籍旅客入境美國。週六（2月1日），澳洲亦跟進宣布採取類似的入境禁令並且立即生效。此外，全球60多家航空公司暫停往來中國的航線。

在新型冠狀病毒爆發初期即採取此等限制旅行的大規模行動，美國衛生部門高級官員週五在白宮記者會上解釋，醫學界對這個新病毒所知不多，包括它的潛伏期、傳染力、傳播方式及速度、無症狀感染的程度、檢測的準確度，以及嚴重性等等。

在這種情況下，疾病控制與預防中心（CDC）主任羅伯特・雷德菲爾德（Robert Redfield）說，目前武漢肺炎疫情「對美國公眾造成的風險是低的」，所有的預防工作目標是「努力維持這個低風險」。

他強調，這些舉措是「漸進且適當的預防步驟」，符合公共衛生的五大基本工作：識別可能有症狀或可能患有該疾病的人、診斷、隔離、治療，以及追蹤病患接觸過的人。

那麼這個現階段仍有許多未知數的新病毒疫情，將如何銷聲匿跡？傳染病學專家模擬了三種可能情境。

1）通過全球公共衛生干預措施控制病毒的傳播

這是最理想的結果。

2002年末出現嚴重急性呼吸道綜合症（SARS，蕯斯或「非典」），它的起源也是一種冠狀病毒，部分科學家說目前的2019-nCoV是SARS近親，而且都是由動物「跳躍」到人體。

到了2004年，SARS基本上消失了。依WHO統計，2002年末和2003年末，SARS感染了8,096人（主要在中國），在17個國家中殺死了774人。

喬治亞州艾默里大學（Emory University）全球衛生醫學教授傑西卡・費爾利（Jessica Fairley）告訴Vox新聞：「SARS是各國政府採取公共衛生干預措施，有效阻止病毒蔓延的經典案例。」

在SARS爆發期間，多數國家及地區的衛生當局都致力於「儘快發現病例以及隔離感染者」，這樣可以爭取在病例本身免疫系統抵抗病毒前，不會將病毒傳播給任何人的黃金時間。

然而這個舉措需要相關部門的通力合作。費爾利舉例說：「醫生尋找病毒，衛生官員對每個病例進行深入調查，找出與其接觸的人，並在醫院採取嚴格的感染控制措施。」

「此外，其它部門要採取措施限制旅行，在機場篩查入境旅客，必要時立即隔離。」她說。

不幸的是，這個可能情境仍存在太多的不確定因素。

無症狀感染力不明

截至目前為止，醫學界對新型冠狀病毒所知有限，根據美國衛生高級官員的說法，2019-nCoV的最大挑戰之一是：無症狀感染。

國家過敏與傳染病研究所（the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at）所長安東尼・福西（Anthony Fauci）博士週五在白宮記者會上在說到新型冠狀病毒很難控制時舉例說，它不像伊波拉病毒（Ebola），後者的患者只有在出現症狀時才會將病毒傳播給他人，但新型冠狀病毒的無症狀感染力有多大，科學家仍然不清楚。

WHO在2006年回顧SARS爆發時說，如果SARS病例在發病前就具有傳染力，那麼要控制這種疾病就會變得「更加困難，甚至是不可能的」。

福西指出，由於新型冠狀病毒有可能具有無症狀感染特性，將使得篩查工作更為困難。雷德菲爾德週五表示，美國出現的前六名病例中，只有一位是在機場篩查出來的。

病例檢測結果不穩定

另一個挑戰是，病例的檢測報告結果不穩定，也增加了防疫工作的困難。雷德菲爾德表示，根據美國前六名病例的臨床診斷數據，有些人的檢測報告出現反反覆覆現象，一下子呈現陽性反應，一會兒又變成陰性反應，三天後又出現陽性反應。這樣的情況會使衛生官員無法確定要隔離多久的時間才能萬無一失。

中共是否故態復萌

此外，還有一個不確定因素，即中共官方是否故態復萌隱瞞疫情數據。知名醫學期刊《柳葉刀》（The Lancet）1月31日刊登香港大學模型分析武漢市的感染人數，得出截至1月25日，該市可能多達75,815人感染了新型冠狀病毒。25日當天，中共官方公布的新冠肺炎病例數僅略超過1千人，約為該預估數字的1.3%，也就是該預估數據約是中共官方數據72倍。

2）病毒在感染所有或大多數易感者後自行滅盡

哈佛大學公共衛生學院流行病學家邁克爾・米納（Michael Mina）指出，疾病爆發有點像是火災，病毒是熊熊火焰，易受感染者是燃料。後者用盡後，大火會自滅。當病毒找不到受體時，就會自我了結。

他說，2015年到2016年發生在波多黎各和南美洲的茲卡病毒（Zika，又譯寨卡）大流行的終結，就是屬於這一類的情況。

「成千上萬的人被迅速感染」，米納說，「最終容易被感染的人越來越少了。」

2016年，波多黎各被茲卡病毒感染的病例超過3.5萬，隨後逐漸減少了。現在，茲卡病毒雖然在巴西仍出現病例，但為數很少，在波多黎各也不再出現大流行。

新型冠狀病毒的結局是否會和茲卡病毒一樣，米納說很難論斷，因為「我們並不知道它的覆蓋面會有多大，有多少人容易被感染。」

新型冠狀病毒有可能在中國大陸「大量燃燒」，具有完善隔離監控系統的國家或許可以阻斷火苗。

費爾利說：「通常爆發時會出現一個高峰，然後下降。問題在於我們是否能夠完全控制它。」

不論如何，這並不是理想的情況，因為可能涉及成千上萬的人死亡。

3）新型冠狀病毒成為日常生活中的病毒

2009年，一種新的H1N1流感病毒株在全球大範圍流行。「但是，過一陣子，它成為我們每個流感季節中的一部分。」米納說。

約翰・霍普金斯大學健康安全中心資深學者阿梅什・阿達利亞（Amesh Adalja）說，目前有四種冠狀病毒株以普通感冒或肺炎的形式感染人類。新型冠狀病毒或許是成為季節性病毒。不過，他強調：「世事難料，這只是一種可能。」

這也不是個好結局，因為人類並不需要再多一種常見的病毒。

countries: 波多黎各 巴西 美國 香港 中國 喬治亞 澳洲

events: 武漢肺炎 冠狀病毒 2019-nCoV 火災

title: 武漢肺炎疫情難控 專家預測3種結局


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中國武漢肺炎疫情未見減緩，企業延後復工，對中國大陸的餐飲、旅遊、飯店等第三產業服務消費行業造成衝擊。圖為示意圖。（NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images）
【記者吳旻洲／台北報導】中國武漢肺炎疫情未見減緩，企業延後復工，對中國大陸的餐飲、旅遊、飯店等第三產業服務消費行業造成衝擊。旗下有400多家分店的西貝餐飲集團老闆賈國龍表示，疫情導致2萬多員工待業，貸款發工資也只能撐3個月。

有中國媒體報導，在全大陸60多個城市擁有400多家西貝麵村餐廳的西貝餐飲集團董事長賈國龍表示，當前西貝400家線下門店基本都已停業，只保留100多家外賣業務，預計過年前後1個月時間，將損失營收7至8億元（約新台幣30.1至34.4億元）。」

報導提到，賈國龍更憂心的是，目前有2萬多員工仍待業中，但按中共政策規定，工資要繼續發，1個月支出就在1.5億左右。倘若疫情在短時間內得不到有效控制，西貝帳上現金撐不過3個月。

他表示，「我們的現金流按照發工資的極限，現在貸款還不多，即使貸上款發工資，我覺得撐不過3個月。在這個行業裡我們日子還算不錯的，危機來了，突然發現現金流根本扛不住，1個月、2個月、3個月就耗沒了。」

餐飲龍頭難撐 一般餐廳情況更嚴峻

中國民眾楊小辛（化名）受訪時表示，不僅武漢肺炎，湖南省也發生家禽H5N1亞型高致病性禽流感疫情，目前中國大陸線上的生鮮購物平台，關於雞的食物都被搶購一空，他感嘆，「之前搶口罩，昨天搶雙黃蓮，明天估計又要搶雞蛋了。」

他表示，自己本身也有創業，最近認識的圈子裡有很多企業家都不斷在抱怨官方政策，政府要求人多的行業2月10日才能恢復上班，包括健身房、餐飲業、娛樂業、旅遊業、飯店業、進出口業等，目前幾乎都受到毀滅性打擊。

楊小辛表示，連餐飲行業龍頭企業西貝公司都快撐不下去了，更別說其他小規模的餐廳，原本過年前後是餐飲業的黃金周，如今各大餐飲業居然把儲備食材都拿出來在賤賣了，實在太慘了。◇

events: 武漢肺炎 禽流感

title: 武漢肺炎衝擊 陸服務消費業恐難撐3個月


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【記者魏文彬／綜合報導】東區第五、本季每場平均得分超過110分的印地安納溜馬，昨日在自家主場出現當機，四節比賽竟有兩節得分在15分以下，戰績後段班的紐約尼克逮到機會，在莫里斯（Marcus Morris Sr.）拿下全場最高28分帶領下，以92：85踢館成功，終結2連敗。

溜馬開賽出現得分荒，奧拉迪波（Victor Oladipo）、沃倫（T.J. Warren）、波格登（Malcolm Brogdon）等大將找不到準星，僅沙波尼斯（Domantas Sabonis）穩定輸出，尼克由藍道（Julius Randle）領軍多點開花，以24：11拿下首節。沙波尼斯第二節不斷油漆區取分，帶動溜馬攻勢回穩，但是尼克也穩定拿分，半場結束，50：39尼克保持領先。

第三節溜馬進入追分模式，上半場得分掛蛋的透納（Myles Turner）用三分外線吹起反攻號角，沃倫、沙波尼斯及巴圖姆（Jeremy Lamb）呼應，透納更是連兩記三分長射，逼近兩分差，先前與曼菲斯灰熊衝突被罰款3萬5千美元的莫里斯，這時將功折過用三分球不讓溜馬近逼，但最後2分鐘，奧拉迪波和哈勒戴（Aaron Holiday）接連砍進三分外線，波格登再突破挑籃，溜馬追到71：72一分落後。

透納決勝節開節不久，砍進三分外線，溜馬終於將落後超前，不過僅曇花一現，這時溜馬出現高達5分多鐘的得分乾旱期，一分未得，莫里斯把握機會，一舉拉開僵持的分數，溜馬最後無奈將勝利拱手讓出。

taiwan-subdivisions: 成功 東區

title: 溜馬主場找不到籃框 尼克莫里斯領軍止敗


events: 禽流感 2019新型冠狀病毒 武漢肺炎

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【記者文樸／綜合報導】正當武漢肺炎在全國各地爆發之際，湖南省邵陽市雙清區發生一起家禽H5N1亞型高致病性禽流感疫情，共撲殺了17,828隻家禽。

據中共農業農村部新聞辦公室2月1日發布，2月1日，農業農村部接到中國動物疫病預防控制中心報告，經國家禽流感參考實驗室確診，邵陽市雙清區某養殖戶飼養的肉雞發生H5N1亞型高致病性禽流感疫情。

該養殖戶存欄肉雞7,850隻，發病死亡4,500隻。爆發疫情後，當地撲殺家禽17,828隻。

目前，2019新型冠狀病毒疫情在中國持續延燒，其中湖北省十多個城市陸續封城，交通癱瘓。位於疫情中心的湖北省甚至傳出動物飼料短缺情形，多達3億隻雞在未來幾日內，恐面臨餓死的風險。

在武漢肺炎爆發後，嚴重打擊到大宗商品市場，由於大陸是全球最大生產國和消費國，市場擔心從原油到大豆等各種商品的需求會下降。◇

title: 湖南爆發H5N1禽流感疫情


title: 首批滯陸國人  可望近日返台

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【記者李怡欣／台北報導】因「中國大陸新型冠狀病毒肺炎」（2019-nCoV）疫情，武漢市1月23日封城，滯留大陸的四百多名國人返台心切，並有一名台商確診染病，在海陸兩會及台商協會人士奔走協調下，2月2日傳出國人返台有望！湖北省台辦稱，近兩日將協助安排；交通部2日證實，華航已待命，只要海陸兩會協調定案立即啓動。據了解，目前滯漢台人約476人，疑似病例3人、1人已確診，該名確診者為日前媒體報導發燒7天等不到檢疫報告的台商金先生，由於媒體曝光，隔天金姓台商已獲確診並安排入院。

受困台人視訊向外界求救：「想回家」

台北市議員王鴻薇2月1日邀台灣武漢市同鄉會舉行記者會，曝光受困武漢台人的心聲。多名陸配、學生與台商，無法回台照顧家庭、做生意、上學，甚至襁褓中嬰兒感冒，大人不敢帶到醫院「怕被感染（肺炎）」。台灣武漢市同鄉會理事長陳光陸表示，包含台商、陸配約三百多人，有人住親戚家、住飯店，不能回來「心理壓力很大」。

台商會長徐正文1日舉行記者會，公布台商組織統計滯湖北、武漢人數501人，其中433人（86%）因探親、旅遊、出差短期停留，另有36人（7%）是常駐台商以及32位不明原因受困台人。海基會27日去函要求包機回台未獲正面回應，對此，徐正文說，兩岸可仿效「春節包機」模式，不要用「撤僑包機」避開政治問題，讓人順利返台。

滯陸台人首批200人直航回台

武漢台商協會會長蕭永瑞2日證實，武漢市台辦披露，近日將協助安排首批二百多名台胞，由民航機從武漢直飛返台，目前台協正在統計返台人數與填寫登記表與承諾書。2日一名滯留人員提供「武漢台協」359人的訊息群組截圖，內容提到「近日組織留漢台胞集中從武漢天河機場乘包機返台」，訊息中還留下各區聯絡人電話，要大家準備打包，台協會派車集中接到機場，目前班機尚未確定。

對此，台灣交通部表示，華航正在待命，已備妥武漢或長沙班機，目前待陸委會、海基會與陸方協調定案，即可啓動。華航則表示，等兩會確定，時間、飛機運能、人力也會進行調配。

海陸兩會證實 台辦通知放人

陸委會表示，已注意到相關訊息，我方持續盡力溝通中，希望很快能有具體結果。企盼雙方能在確保我方滯留人員的健康權益，以及兼顧防疫需要共同合作，做好妥善安排，讓我方滯留人員盡速順利返回台灣。

海基會2日表示，武漢台商協會確實有接到台辦的通知，目前正在統計返台的人數。海基會正在密切關注相關訊息，持續溝通協調，希望讓國人平安返回台灣。

台商協會會長徐正文表示，確診感染武漢肺炎的金姓台商，已入住武漢協和醫院，將留在當地治療，他的家人多在當地，因此不在此波返台名單中；武漢台辦則轉述，金先生目前情況還好。返國隔離安置軍營、部會閒置空間

為防止疫情入侵台灣，武漢台人返台隔離措施受到關注。疫情指揮中心2日表示，返台者須接受特別指定場所隔離14天，由於返台人數可能達400人，不會在醫院集中隔離，政府會在北、中、南地區挑選3到4個據點，目前已選定2類場所，包含軍營和部會閒置的會議、住宿空間，以1人1間方式，由專人提供食宿、監測健康狀況，為避免附近居民恐慌或汙名化，暫不公布隔離地點。

疾管署副署長莊人祥指出，台人上機前先健康評估，如出現發燒、呼吸道症狀，將視個案狀況再做登機安排，一返抵國門，醫護現場待命，直接分送隔離場所。◇

events: 2019-nCoV 冠狀病毒 武漢肺炎

people: 王鴻薇 陳光