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‘Inside the Actors Studio’ host James Lipton dies

RECLUSES:Despite hosting virtually every A-list actor over the past few decades, Lipton could not get Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson to appear on the show
James Lipton, an actor-turned-academic who became an unlikely celebrity and got hundreds of master actors and Hollywood luminaries to open up about their craft as the long-time host of Inside the Actors Studio, died on Monday at age 93.

Lipton died of bladder cancer at his New York home, his wife, Kedakai Lipton, told the New York Times and the Hollywood Reporter.

The Detroit-born Lipton began the show in 1994 that also served as a class for his students at the Actors Studio, where he was then dean.

He often said his only requirement for a guest was whether they had something to teach his students.

His first guest, Paul Newman, set a standard of stardom for those that would follow, including Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Glenn Close, Steven Spielberg and Barbra Streisand.

Lipton was known, and often parodied, for his highbrow and sometimes worshipful tone with his subjects, and for his intensive preparation, represented by a stack of blue note cards that held his meticulously researched questions.

When Will Ferrell played Lipton on Saturday Night Live the stack of cards was nearly 30cm thick.

Many otherwise media-shy actors were willing to appear on Inside the Actors Studio because Lipton focused on their art and not the usual celebrity chatter or project promotion.

“People do not come on to sell a movie and you never hear the words: ‘I’m opening in Vegas in two weeks,’” Lipton told The Associated Press (AP) in 1996, when the show was in its second season. “That’s what most talk shows depend upon, and that’s fine, but with us we’re getting together to dig as deep as we can.”

He was not afraid to get personal and often stunned those he interviewed with things he had learned about their childhood or private life.

“How did you know that?” was a frequent refrain from his guests.

Sally Field asked him: “Have you been reading my diary? Talking to my shrink?”

Julia Roberts asked if he had talked to her mother.

“Obviously we deal in lots of anecdotes, and even some gossip and secrets,” Lipton told the AP, “but they’re tied together by a concern for and devotion to craft.”

Despite a guest list of nearly every A-list actor of the past few decades, Lipton never got the guest he wanted most, Marlon Brando.

“He was reclusive in the last years of his life,” Lipton told Parade in 2013.

“He said: ‘I’m never going to do your show. The studio’s always taking credit for me. I was trained by Stella Adler.’ I said: ‘So was I. Come on. We’ll talk about Stella.’ I’ve had a pretty good roster of guests without Marlon,” Lipton said.

Lipton said his favorite guest on the show was Bradley Cooper, because he was a former student.

“The night that one of my students has achieved so much that he or she comes back and sits down in that chair would be the night that I have waited for since we started this thing,” Lipton told Larry King in 2016. “It turned out to be Bradley Cooper.”

Lipton and Cooper, who can be seen asking Sean Penn a question in a 1999 episode of the show, both teared up when he returned as a guest in 2011.

Other than Brando and Jack Nicholson, another favorite of his who he never had as a guest, Lipton spent little time trying to land big names, who often came to him, as appearing on the show became a sought-after sign of career achievement for actors.

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Virus Outbreak: Quarantine has top priority, MAC tells Taiwanese in China

Quarantined and disadvantaged people are the government’s priorities in evacuating people from China, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday, following reports that Taiwanese stranded in China’s Hubei Province plan to sue the government for “violating the Constitution.”

Hundreds of Taiwanese are stuck in Wuhan, the provincial capital, but evacuation efforts have stalled as Taiwanese and Chinese authorities disagree on the details of evacuation flights, while some of the stranded people have expressed the hope to return home as individual travelers.

A Taiwanese businessperson in Hubei told reporters that many of the Taiwanese are anxious to return to work in Taiwan.

They have waited for more than a month, they said, adding that there have been no messages from the government.

Therefore, they have asked a lawyer in Taiwan to help “sue [President] Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration for violating the Constitution, limiting personal freedoms and depriving us of our right to go home,” they said.

Everyone is disappointed, which is why they made this “heavy” decision to find a way to return home, they said.

The council said that in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the government on Jan. 30 established the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), which it said uses various measures based on the changing situation.

The CECC has said that Taiwan is ready to send a second charter flight and that it can bring back the stranded Taiwanese any time, the council said.

The government is coordinating and communicating with China about the list of people who would return to Taiwan first, as well as preventive measures, it said.

This is based on overall considerations for epidemic prevention, safeguarding the health of Taiwanese and guaranteeing the safe return of stranded Taiwanese, it added.

Other governments have similar considerations when evacuating their citizens from China, a government official said on condition of anonymity.

Preventing an epidemic and protecting people are the government’s top priorities, they said.

Compared with other countries, Taiwan’s first evacuation flight did not meet these needs, the source said.

Taiwan worked with Japanese authorities to evacuate its citizens from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which did not involve prioritizing vulnerable people, and the Hong Kong government is expected to evacuate Hong Kongers stranded in Wuhan using a similar method, an anonymous source familiar with foreign matters said.

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Taipei Zoo giant panda undergoes annual artificial insemination procedure

幫「圓仔」添弟妹！北市動物園親為「團團」、「圓圓」人工授精

A team of medical professionals from Taipei Zoo and National Taiwan University Hospital perform artificial insemination on female giant panda Yuan Yuan.
來自台北市立動物園與台大醫院的醫療專員為大貓熊「圓圓」進行人工授精。Photo courtesy of Taipei Zoo
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With the arrival of spring weather and flowers in full blossom, Taipei Zoo’s female giant panda, Yuan Yuan, is in estrus (on heat). Zoo keepers began to detect a series of signs starting from Feb. 9 when they noticed Yuan Yuan was rubbing her vulva, which they observed was swollen and secreting fluid. Zoo keepers also noticed other tell-tale signs, including pacing around her enclosure, running about and bathing in the water pools. As the indications became increasingly apparent, zoo keepers’ statistical modeling, using a range of indices including an analysis of hormone levels, determined that Yuan Yuan would be in “peak estrus” on Thursday last week. Zoo veterinarians carried out two rounds of artificial insemination last Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning to take advantage of the small window of opportunity in which pandas are able to conceive.

Breeding specialists from the Bifengxia Giant Panda Base research and breeding center in China’s Sichuan Province would usually visit the zoo every year during Yuan Yuan’s estrus period. However, due to the COVID-19 epidemic, no specialists from the center were able to travel to Taiwan this year. As a workaround, once Yuan Yuan was confirmed to be in estrus, veterinarians held a video conference to discuss her condition with the center’s Wang Chengdong.

According to the zoo, this year’s artificial insemination operation was carried out by a team of zoo veterinarians under the guidance of medical experts from the Wild Animal Healthcare and Treatment Group, including professor Liu Chen-hsuan, veterinarian Chang Chih-hua, doctors Sun Wei-zen and Wang Yi-chia from National Taiwan University’s Department of Anesthesiology and Wei Ling-ying from the hospital’s Department of Dentistry. In addition to carrying out artificial insemination, the team performed an annual health check up on Yuan Yuan and her mate, Tuan Tuan, which included carrying out ultrasound tests on their teeth and abdomens to gain a complete picture of the pandas’ overall health.

(Translated by Edward Jones, Taipei Times)

春暖花開的季節，台北市立動物園大貓熊「圓圓」發情期也開始。園方表示，從二月九日開始，保育員陸續觀察到「圓圓」出現外陰腫、蹭陰、過水、來回走動、奔跑、泡水等行為，進入發情期的跡象越來越明顯，從各項指標及荷爾蒙指數等專業數值研判，上週四達到發情高峰，園方分別在上週三下午、上週四上午為「圓圓」進行人工授精，把握住最佳繁殖時機。

以往每年大貓熊繁殖季節，中國大熊貓保護研究中心專家都會親赴北市動物園現場。園方表示，今年因為新型冠狀病毒疫情的關係，研究中心專家無法到現場來指導。但「圓圓」開始有發情行為，園方便與大熊貓研究中心專家王承東，使用視訊會議，共同討論大貓熊的繁殖大事。

園方表示，這次大貓熊繁殖工作，特別感謝「野生動物健康照護與醫療小組」劉振軒教授、張志華獸醫、台大醫院麻醉部孫維仁醫師、王憶嘉醫師、牙科部魏鈴穎醫師等專家到場指導，與動物園獸醫師共同完成任務。除了進行人工繁殖作業外，同時為「團團」和「圓圓」進行牙齒及腹部超音波等年度檢查，以了解並掌握動物整體的健康狀況。

(自由時報記者蔡亞樺)

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A helicopter takes off from the flight deck of theUSS Abraham Lincoln as the aircraft carrier transits the Strait of Hormuz on Nov. 19 last year.Photo: AP
The US Navy is overhauling its approach to education, because the US no longer has a massive economic and technological edge over potential adversaries, a strategy released on Monday showed.

The Education for Seapower Strategy 2020, provided to The Associated Press ahead of its release, is the first unified, comprehensive education strategy for the navy and US Marine Corps, said John Kroger, who is implementing the strategy as the navy’s first chief learning officer.

It is very much a response to the nation’s geopolitical position in the world today, versus the advantages it had at the end of the Cold War, Kroger said, noting China’s economic strength and investments in 5G networks, energy storage and other major technologies that matter for warfighting.

The navy wants to create a naval community college to provide associate’s degrees to tens of thousands of young sailors and marines, at no cost to them. It plans to unify the schools within the existing naval university system, similar to a state university system, and invest in them, as well as enact new policies to encourage and reward those who pursue professional military and civilian education.

“In a world where potential adversaries are peers economically and technologically, how do you win?” Kroger said in an interview. “We think we can outfight potential opponents, because we can outthink them. In order to do that, we must have, by far, the best military education program in the world.”

Kroger entered the navy from Harvard University, where he was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and leader in residence at the Kennedy School of Government. He was president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, from 2012 to 2018, and previously served as Oregon’s attorney general. Kroger served as a marine from 1983 to 1986.

Although the need to ensure an advantage in fighting wars is driving the reforms, the educational opportunities would change how and whom the navy recruits, Kroger said.

It is more challenging to recruit when there is relatively low unemployment, he said.

The strategy does not specifically say how much the navy is looking to spend on education or where the money would come from.

Kroger said that it would rely mostly on existing education funding that can be used in a more cost-effective way.

About US$109 million was transferred from other navy programs this fiscal year to pay for immediate education needs, including start-up costs for the community college.

The navy would ask the US Congress for more money for education beginning in fiscal year 2022, but the numbers are not finalized, Kroger said.

He estimated that it would cost US$40 million to US$50 million annually for the community college to educate about 40,000 people each year.

There would not be a physical campus. Some general education classes would be provided online, but sailors and marines would do the vast majority of their coursework online through civilian universities and community colleges that partner with the navy. The navy plans to seek approval from Congress this year and enroll the first students next year.

For existing naval schools, the navy wants to do budgeting for the system as a whole and Kroger would review their curriculum to avoid unnecessary duplication. The schools — the Naval War College in Rhode Island, the Marine Corps University in Virginia, the Naval Postgraduate School in California and the Naval Academy in Maryland — would be expected to align their plans with the strategy.

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TOKYO OLYMPICS

Qualifier in Taiwan delayed

Baseball’s final qualifying event for the Tokyo Olympic Games has been postponed from April to June because of concerns over the COVID-19 outbreak. The World Baseball Softball Conference on Monday announced that the qualification event scheduled for Taiwan’s Taichung and Douliou from April 1 to 5 has been postponed to June 17 to 21 because of “player, personnel and spectator health and safety measures against the spread of the coronavirus.” The Olympics are scheduled to open on July 24, with baseball competition set to be played in Fukushima and Yokohama from July 29 to Aug. 8. The second and third-place teams from the Americas qualifying tournament in Arizona from March 22 to 26 would advance to the final qualifying tournament in Taiwan, joining a field that is to include Taiwan, Australia, China and the Netherlands.

CRICKET

Injured Perry out of Cup

Defending champions Australia yesterday experienced a major blow ahead of the knockout stage of the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup when all-rounder Ellyse Perry was ruled out of the remainder of the tournament. The twice International Cricket Council women’s Cricketer of the Year hobbled off the field in tears after suffering a right-hamstring injury during Monday’s four-run victory over New Zealand that sealed a place in the semi-finals for the hosts. “We’re confident that we have enough depth in the squad to cover her batting and bowling, and know whoever gets an opportunity will make a strong contribution,” coach Matthew Mott said. The final takes place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

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No fan high-fives: league

Players should fist-bump with fans instead of high-fiving them and avoid taking items to autograph, the league told teams in a memo listing short-term recommendations to limit the spread of COVID-19. “The coronavirus remains a situation with the potential to change rapidly,” the league told its 30 teams in the memo. “The NBA and the Players Association will continue to work with leading experts and team physicians to provide up-to-date information and recommended practices that should be followed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.”

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Crash images destroyed

The Los Angeles County sheriff on Monday acknowledged that he ordered eight deputies to delete graphic photographs of the site of the helicopter crash that killed Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant and eight others. Sheriff Alex Villanueva told NBC News that he was concerned the photographs would get shared and gain public distribution. “We identified the deputies involved. They came to the station on their own and admitted they had taken them, and they deleted them... We’ve communicated in no uncertain terms that the behavior is inexcusable. I mean, people are grieving for the loss of their loved ones.” Among those who had the photographs was a trainee deputy, who was reportedly overheard at a bar discussing the pictures, which led to the sheriff department’s knowledge of their existence, Villanueva said.

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title: Solo’s airport shut as volcano erupts again in Indonesia

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Motorcycle riders drive along a road in Boyolali engulfed with ash following the eruption of Mount Merapi volcano in Indonesia’s Central Java Province yesterday.Photo: Reuters / Antara Foto / Aloysius Jarot Nugroho
Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano on Java erupted yesterday morning, sending a 6km column of ash into the air and triggering the closure of the airport in the nearby city of Solo, authorities said.

The volcano, located near Yogyakarta and Solo, is one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes and a series of eruptions in 2010 killed more than 350 people.

Indonesia’s Volcano Observatory Notice for Aviation issued a red alert and said the ash cloud was moving north.

Adisumarmo International Airport in Solo was temporarily shut at 9:25am, the Indonesian Directorate General of Civil Aviation said.

Four flights had been affected, it said.

Yogyakarta’s disaster mitigation agency warned people to keep out of a 3km exclusion zone around Merapi.

Yogyakarta is about 30km from the volcano.

The latest eruption sent up a column of ash that affected several neighboring areas, the Indonesian Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Centre said as it warned of a risk of further eruptions due to continuing movements of magma.

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Children lie on the beach of Boracay in the Philippines on April 8, 2018.Photo: Reuters
Scientists said that half of the world’s sandy beaches could disappear by the end of the century if climate change continues unchecked.

Researchers at the EU’s Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy, used satellite images to track the way beaches have changed over the past 30 years and simulated how global warming might affect them.

“What we find is that by the end of the century around half of the beaches in the world will experience erosion that is more than 100m,” Michalis Vousdoukas said. “It’s likely that they will be lost.”

The study, published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that the extent to which beaches are at risk depends on how much average global temperatures increase by the year 2100.

Greater temperature increases mean more sea level rise and more violent storms in some regions, causing more beaches to vanish beneath the waves.

“The projected shoreline changes will substantially impact the shape of the world’s coastline,” more than a third of which is sandy beach, the authors wrote.

Beaches are valuable for recreation, tourism and wildlife, while also providing a natural barrier that protects coastal communities from waves and storms.

Many coastal areas, including beaches, are heavily affected by human activity, such as seashore construction and inland dams, which reduce the amount of ocean silt, which is crucial for beach recovery.

Some countries will be more affected than others, the researchers said.

The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau in west Africa could lose more than 60 percent of their beaches, while predictions for Pakistan, the island of Jersey in the English Channel and the Comoros islands are similarly dire.

Australia would be hardest-hit in terms of total beach coastline lost, with more than 11,400km at risk. The US, Canada, Mexico, China, Russia, Argentina and Chile would also lose thousands of kilometers of beaches, the study showed.

Andres Payo, an expert on coastal hazards and resilience at the British Geological Survey, said that while the study’s methods were sound, its claims should be treated with caution.

“There are many assumptions and generalizations that could change the outcome of the analysis both qualitatively and quantitatively,” said Payo, who was not involved in the study.

However, Vousdoukas said the amount of beach loss estimated by his team was “a bit conservative” and could be higher.

The group considered two warming scenarios — one in which average global temperatures rise by 2.4°C by the end of the century and another that predicts an increase twice as high.

The Paris climate accord’s most ambitious target, of capping warming at 1.5°C, was not considered because scientists consider it unlikely to be achieved, Vousdoukas said.

The study’s authors calculated that up to 40 percent of shoreline retreat could be prevented by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change, but said that large and growing populations living along the coast would also need to be protected through other measures.

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Most doctorate holders satisfied with degree: poll

GENDER DIFFERENCES:More women with doctorates found their degrees beneficial than men, likely due to a focus on self-achievement and children’s education
National Applied Research Laboratories Science and Technology Policy Research and Information Center associate researcher Lo Ai-yen releases the results of a survey on the benefits of earning doctorates at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.Photo: CNA
More than three-quarters of respondents to a survey released yesterday by the National Applied Research Laboratories said that earning a doctorate is rewarding, but those with doctoral degrees in the natural and life sciences reported lower satisfaction.

At a news conference in Taipei, the Science and Technology Policy Research and Information Center unveiled the results of the poll, which surveyed Taiwanese who obtained doctorates between 2001 and 2017, as part of a long-term project to track talent.

The center in 2018 sent out 29,702 questionnaires and received 4,897 valid replies, center associate researcher Lo Ai-yen (羅愛雁) said.

The center did not reveal the results until yesterday because it needed time to analyze the results, Lo said, adding that it hoped to announce them at a time when more doctorate holders are starting to find jobs.

A total of 75.7 percent of respondents said that it was rewarding to earn a doctoral degree.

It also found that 85.7 percent of respondents aged 50 or older found having a doctorate rewarding, greater than the 76 percent of people aged 40 to 49 and the 66.2 percent of people younger than 40.

Holders of doctorates in education were the most satisfied at 84.9 percent, followed by those with advanced degrees in agriculture; mechanical engineering; medical fields; arts and humanities; and business management, the survey found.

By comparison, 62.8 percent of holders of a life sciences doctorate and 70.5 percent of those with a natural sciences doctorate considered their degrees beneficial, the lowest two among 12 disciplines, it found.

In terms of gender, 78.4 percent of female respondents said that their doctorates were beneficial, greater than the 74.6 percent of male respondents.

Respondents in education possibly reported greater satisfaction because academic degrees are pertinent to the promotion of teachers, while doctorates are not always required for people working in scientific fields in Taiwan, Lo said.

In addition to the requirements of their jobs, women are likely to consider more factors, such as self-achievement and education for children, while men might focus on work when evaluating the worth of diplomas, she said.

As for their motives for attaining doctorates, 78.5 percent referred to job requirements, 78.2 percent said that they hoped to become the top talent in their fields and 66.8 percent cited the expectations of parents, family members or others, the survey showed.

It also found that people who worked while studying for their doctorate and those who worked before enrolling in doctoral programs had greater satisfaction with their degrees than those without full-time work experience.

People who obtained doctorates from foreign universities also had greater satisfaction that those who received them from domestic institutions, it showed.

People who cannot decide whether to pursue a doctorate should first enter the workforce to clarify their needs, Lo said, adding that work experience could also foster industrial-academic exchanges.

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A second Aboriginal man has been released from immigration detention and another 23 cases are “under review” after the Australian High Court ruled that Aborigines are not aliens for the purpose of the constitution and cannot be deported.

“We are working through the cases that might fall within that remit,” Australian Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs Mike Pezzullo told the Australian Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on Monday.

“A number of persons have come forward and advised on potential claims” and the department is “working on it as quickly as possible,” he said.

There is a three-part definition of Aboriginality accepted by the high court in the Mabo cases: biological descent, self-identification and recognition of identity by a First Nations group.

The court said the tripartite test put indigenous Australians beyond the reach of the aliens power in the constitution.

The majority of the high court ruled that New Zealand-born Brendan Thoms was not an alien and that the commonwealth did not have power to deport him. He was released from detention early last month.

A further hearing is to decide if the second plaintiff, Daniel Love — who was born in Papua New Guinea — is a Gamilaraay man.

Both men were convicted of criminal offenses and served time in prison. When their sentences ended in 2018, they both had their visas revoked and were taken to immigration detention in Brisbane for deportation.

Department General Counsel Pip de Veau told the committee that another person in detention had met the test and was released last week, but “there is no one else in the visa stream close to establishing the credentials required.”

De Veau confirmed that there were 23 cases in which “negotiations are ongoing to establish evidence,” but they include “all possible indications of indigeneity, not those that ultimately might meet the threshold.”

“The bulk of those we already had information about prior to Love and Thoms, and a small number have self-identified since the decision,” she said.

Last month, Australian Attorney General Christian Porter said that the government was looking to legislate another way to deport the “not very large” group of Aboriginal noncitizens who had committed crimes.

“People who are born overseas, who aren’t Australian citizens, but may be able to show indigeneity and who are in Australia on a visa and commit an offense” would now “have to be treated differently from all other persons in the same circumstances,” because they could not be deported under existing law.

“And we’ll be looking into ways in which we might be able to effect that policy,” he said.

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Only true radicals ignore physics when gauging the carbon price

At the center of many policy challenges is a contest between “realists” and “radicals.” That is true of the ongoing Democratic primary race in the US, for example, and it has long defined the climate change debate. Will incremental policies such as a modest carbon price save us from disaster, or does climate change call for a more revolutionary approach?

Attempts to answer this question typically rely more on gut feelings and political instincts than on rigorous analysis. The debate also often features a generational divide between youthful idealists and seasoned moderates.

Just recently, US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin dismissed criticism from 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg by suggesting that she take a class in economics.

As the science of navigating tradeoffs, economics can indeed help a person make decisions under circumstances defined by binding constraints and pervasive uncertainty.

In theory, at least, economists have the tools to determine the costs and benefits of cutting carbon emissions. Yet getting that calculation right has haunted the profession for decades.

In 2018, William Nordhaus of Yale University was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering efforts to determine an optimal carbon price.

The logic of his approach, and of the standard carbon-pricing model generally, appears impeccable: quantify the anticipated damages from climate change and then compare those to the costs of cutting emissions today.

However, this is easier said than done.

The inertia of the climate system implies that most damages would accrue in the distant future — decades or even centuries hence — whereas the majority of emissions-reduction costs would be incurred today.

Moreover, there is an inherent asymmetry in how benefits and costs are tallied. With large uncertainties on both sides, the problem calls for heroic extrapolations and outright guesswork.

However, in calculating benefits only “known knowns” have traditionally made it into the headline figure, whereas the bias goes the other way in the case of costs: The rapid progress made in clean-energy technologies is largely ignored, despite its likely cost-abatement effects.

These biases have not stopped economists from offering confident benefit-cost analyses. Nordhaus has famously done so with a model requiring fewer than 20 main equations.

He says that each tonne of carbon dioxide emitted today should be priced at about US$36. By contrast, in a massive report published in 2006, Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics calculated that the price should be more than US$91 per tonne in today’s dollars.

The substantial gap between the two estimates reflects two different approaches to discounting: That is, how much society values, or ought to value, its future.

Nordhaus begins with an annual discount rate of about 4.25 percent, which he then reduces slightly over time, whereas the Stern review sets the discount rate at 1.4 percent, thereby placing a greater emphasis on future damages relative to today’s mitigation costs.

These analyses were massive undertakings, given the global scale, distant time horizon and level of uncertainty involved. Yet neither approach accounts for the possibility of irreversible planetary-scale tipping points, such as the permanent melting of Greenland’s ice sheet or the bleaching of coral reefs.

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A miniature test rocket takes off on Nov. 19 last year during a testing session by Indonesia’s National Institute of Aeronautics and Space in Lumajang, East Java.Photo: AFP
Workers snap the miniature rocket’s wings into place as Indonesia’s little-known space agency readies its latest launch on barren scrubland in East Java.

With a 3, 2, 1 blast-off, the 2m projectile belches a trail of fire and then soars a few hundred meters before crashing in a heap — earning a thumbs up from scientists who declared the test a success.

It is a very long way from a Mission Control in Houston, but the Southeast Asian archipelago’s answer to NASA has big hopes and is now planning to build its first spaceport on a tropical island off the coast of easternmost Papua.

“We’ve got a dream to put our own satellite-launching rocket 200 or 300 kilometers into space within five years,” said Lilis Mariani, head of the Rocket Technology Centre at the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN).

Some experts question how realistic that timeline is, and officials acknowledge much will depend on whether Jakarta stumps up the necessary funds.

There is resurgent international interest in space travel and colonization, with NASA planning to send two astronauts to the moon by 2024, about 55 years after their last mission there.

LAPAN is a relative minnow, dwarfed in Asia by counterparts in Japan, China and India. It has had some success with developing research satellite technology, but it wants to make its mark in space flight by sending a homegrown rocket into orbit.

At the launch site on East Java, LAPAN’s scientists were gauging the tiny test rocket’s speed, movement and other specifications.

“It was stable on takeoff and moved well,” rocket control program head Sri Kilawati said.

“The objective was to study rocket control. They travel at a very high rate of speed so you’ve got to observe their behavior,” she added.

Achieving a real life launch in five years requires a giant leap, said Lavi Zuhal, head of aerospace engineering at the Bandung Institute of Technology.

“LAPAN is still far behind in terms of launch technology, although it has been quite successful in developing satellites,” he said. “The engineers at LAPAN haven’t fully mastered rocket technology yet.”

Kilawati acknowledged that reaching Indonesia’s ambitions for a state-of-the-art launch center is not just about technological prowess.

“Funding comes from state coffers so it depends a lot on the government’s priorities,” she said.

Still, the East Java rocket test underlined Indonesia was pushing toward the orbital launch goal, even if a five-year timeline was ambitious, said Leena Pivovarova, an analyst at US-based Northern Sky Research.

“In the grand scheme of rocket development you can think of this as a step in the right direction,” she said. “This is toward a larger purpose of achieving orbital launch capability.”

Indonesia’s space aspirations began in the early 1960s with the creation of LAPAN and it was one of the first developing nations to have communications satellites launched into space by the US, where they were made.

It planned to send an astronaut into space with NASA, but the bid was shelved in the wake of the 1986 Challenger shuttle crash and no other chances have come to pass.

However, LAPAN is now talking to its Russia counterpart about sending one of its astronauts on a future mission — although there are few concrete details so far.

Indonesia has cooperated on technology with counterparts in the US, Germany, Japan and the Ukraine among others over the years. Two of its homegrown satellites — used in research to mitigate natural disasters — were launched into orbit by India in 2015.

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title: Indonesian space agency eyes celestial success


title: Heavyweight boxers anticipate a hot summer

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US boxer Deontay Wilder holds the legs of British boxer Tyson Fury after he was knocked down during their WBC Heavyweight Championship Title bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Feb. 22.Photo: AFP
Boxing’s heavyweight division is to heat up even more this summer, highlighted by a third fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder, and Anthony Joshua defending his belts against Kubrat Pulev.

Joshua and Pulev are to go first, meeting on June 20 in the first boxing bouts at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.

Joshua, who reclaimed his piece of the heavyweight title in December last year against Andy Ruiz Jr, would be fighting at home in England for the first time in two years.

The date for Fury and Wilder is more fluid, although promoter Bob Arum said that he is looking at July 18 at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas.

That is the venue where Fury last month stopped Wilder in the seventh round of their title rematch in a dominating performance that cemented his status on top of the heavyweight division.

“Nothing is set in stone, but that’s certainly the date we’re talking about,” Arum said on Monday. “We have to meet with the Wilder camp and everybody else and zero in on it, but right now that’s the date we’re looking at.”

On Monday, promoter Eddie Hearn announced the Joshua-Pulev fight, with Joshua meeting the once-beaten Bulgarian before what is expected to be 70,000 fans at the new stadium.

“A spectacular stadium has been built in north London and I’m honored to bring the boxing community from all over the world to witness us make history with the stadium’s first heavyweight world title fight,” Joshua said. “The belts go back up in the air and nothing will stop me from being victorious.”

Joshua would defend his piece of the heavyweight title against Pulev, whose only loss was to former champion Wladimir Klitschko nearly six years ago.

It would be a second try at a world title by Pulev, who has won eight straight since being stopped by Klitschko.

Arum — promoter for Pulev and Fury — said that the two fights could lead to a heavyweight unification fight by the end of the year.

“What we’re trying to do is, by the end of the year in some manner, shape or form, have a unified heavyweight champion — one champion for the entire division,” Arum said. “It would certainly help the image of boxing.”

Last month, Fury staked his claim to being the best heavyweight when he knocked down Wilder twice before stopping him in the seventh round in Las Vegas.

Wilder last week said he had no intention of delaying a third fight.

“I’m a warrior and I’m ready to go again, but we’re going to change a lot of things in camp,” Wilder said.

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title: Pineapple exports to Australia could begin in late May

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High-grade pineapples are pictured in Pingtung County on Feb. 27.Photo: Luo Hsin-chen, Taipei Times
Taiwan aims to begin exporting pineapples to Australia by May, the Council of Agriculture said yesterday, after it announced a day earlier that Australia was now allowing such imports.

Three pineapple farms in Pingtung County have registered to ship their fruit to Australia, the council said, adding that it has been in contact with Australian distributors.

The first shipment of fresh pineapples to Australia would likely be in late May, but the fruit must first be checked to make sure it meets the standards for pesticide residue limits, it said.

In a statement on Monday, the council said that Australia had the previous day officially given permission for the importation of fresh pineapples grown in Taiwan, with immediate effect.

Discussions between the two nations on the issue started in 2015, when Taiwan applied for permission to export the fruit to Australia, the council said.

Since then, Australian experts have visited Taiwan to observe the commercial production and pest management of pineapples, and Taiwan has submitted relevant documents to Australian authorities, it said.

Taiwan is now the sixth nation allowed to export pineapples to Australia, following Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and the Solomon Islands, the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment said.

However, the department said that pineapple imports from Taiwan must be grown and packaged at registered facilities and must be traceable through all stages of the supply chain.

The fruit should not be shipped with the crown, stem or leaves and must be fumigated with methyl bromide for two hours to eliminate pests, it said.

Taiwan produces 430,000 tonnes of pineapples each year and it last year exported 50,000 tonnes worth about US$60 million.

Taiwan exports pineapples to Canada, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Macau, Brunei, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Indonesia, Palau, Guam, the Marshall Islands, the Netherlands and Russia.

This year, about 4,954 tonnes of the fruit have been exported, with 4,693 tonnes shipped to China, 105 tonnes to Japan and 95 tonnes to Singapore, the council said.

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title: Study points to new menopause, baldness remedies

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Academia Sinica Biodiversity Research Center deputy director Chiang Yin-ru, third left, and his team are pictured at a news conference in Taipei yesterday, in which they presented their findings on an anaerobic bacterial strain that can retroconvert estrogens into androgens.Photo: Chien Hui-ju, Taipei Times
The identification of a bacterium related to the retroconversion of sex steroids might lead to treatments for hormonal problems such as baldness and menopause, a team of researchers said yesterday.

Steroids turn androgens into sex hormones such as estrogens, a process that was once thought to be irreversible, but apparently can be turned back by specific anaerobes, Academia Sinica Biodiversity Research Center deputy director Chiang Yin-ru (江殷儒) told a news conference in Taipei.

The team has found an anaerobic bacterial strain — Denitratisoma sp. strain DHT3 — that can reverse the process, turning estrogen back into androgen via a process mediated by vitamin B12, or cobalamin, he said, adding that the strain was found in silt at a sewage treatment plant in Taipei.

Through genome sequencing and protein experiments, the team found that the retroconversion of estrogen into androgen is related to bacteria containing a specific enzyme (methyltransferase) with a gene named emtA, whose operation and expression involve vitamin B12 and estrogen, he said.

As emtA also exists in the anaerobic environment of the human gut, the retroconversion of estrogen might also happen in humans, he added.

Studies have suggested — without knowing the bacterial players or mechanism involved — that gut microbiota could affect a host’s sex steroid profile, he said, adding that the team’s study sheds new light on the subject.

Specific hormones regulate the development and maintenance of male and female characteristics, and the team’s research signals potential new treatments for menopause, baldness and prostate cancers through probiotics, Chiang said.

The team is attempting to isolate and characterize the hormone-

transforming anaerobes to develop such probiotics, Chiang said, adding that he is collaborating with Chang Gung Memorial Hospital on experiments.

The team’s study, “Retroconversion of estrogens into androgens by bacteria via a cobalamin-mediated methylation,” was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Jan. 21.

The lead author, Wang Po-hsiang (王柏翔), worked with Chiang at the research center and is now working at Japan’s Tokyo Institute of Technology.

National Taiwan University fisheries science professor Lee Tzong-huei (李宗徽) also contributed to the study.

The journal published a commentary on the team’s article, titled “Anaerobic bacteria need their vitamin B12 to digest estrogen,” a week later.

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title: Crowder sparks Miami as Giannis, Bucks downed

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Miami Heat forward Jae Crowder, right, shoots over Milwaukee Bucks forward Ersan Ilyasova in their NBA game at the American Airlines Arena in Miami on Monday.Photo: AP
Jae Crowder on Monday scored 18 points off the bench as the Miami Heat locked down Giannis Antetokounmpo to hand the Milwaukee Bucks a 105-89 defeat.

Crowder led the scoring for the Heat as NBA Most Valuable Player Antetokounmpo was held to a season-low of 13 points at Miami’s American Airlines Arena.

The defeat was only Milwaukee’s ninth loss of the season and helped Miami improve to 39-22 in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

The Bucks remain firmly in control of the conference standings, leading with a 52-9 record ahead of second-place Toronto, who are 42-18.

However, the previously all-conquering Bucks were given plenty of food for thought ahead of next month’s playoffs after a superb Miami display.

Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said his team finally produced the defensive display that he had believed them capable of.

“We’ve had moments like this in us and that’s what we’ve been trying to work on,” Spoelstra said. “I’m not saying we can hold great offensive teams like this under 90 points regularly. That’s not realistic, but we’ve got this version of us in us. Tonight there was a lot more focus, commitment and urgency, because of the respect level for who we were playing. It was one of our better performances this season.”

Crowder and Jimmy Butler led the Miami scoring, with the two putting up 18 points apiece.

No fewer than six Miami players cracked double digits, including center Bam Adebayo, who had a huge night defensively as well.

The 22-year-old Adebayo finished with 14 points, pulled down 12 rebounds, forced five turnovers and made four blocks.

Brook Lopez led the Milwaukee scoring with 21 points, but it was a night to forget for Antetokounmpo, who made only six-of-18 shooting attempts.

Antetokounmpo said the Bucks were outplayed and outfought.

“They’re a team that play hard and that’s what they did tonight,” Antetokounmpo told reporters. “It wasn’t just tough for me, it was tough for everybody.”

Elsewhere on Monday, the Houston Rockets suffered a shock reverse to the New York Knicks, losing 125-123 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

James Harden led the scoring with 35 points — including 16 free throws — while Russell Westbrook added 24.

However, the Rockets were always chasing the game after falling behind in the first quarter, as the Knicks pulled away to lead by 21 points at one stage.

R.J. Barrett was the top scorer for the Knicks, who had seven players make double figures.

Barrett sealed the win with a driving layup with 7.6 seconds remaining to mark the era of new team president Leon Rose — who officially joined the Knicks earlier on Monday — with a victory.

Power forward Julius Randle had 16 points — and 16 rebounds — while Bobby Portis and Wayne Ellington delivered 15 points apiece from the bench.

Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni said that his team were not mentally prepared for the game following Sunday’s overtime win over Boston.

“We won a big game against Boston, and came here and we weren’t ready to play for the first 20 minutes. They did well, played a good game, but our first three quarters were lackadaisical,” D’Antoni said. “When you don’t have the appropriate fear or force, stuff happens, and they started hitting shots. Give them credit, they played well.”

The victory lifted the Knicks into 13th place in the Eastern Conference standings with 19 wins and 42 defeats.

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CHINA

Virus funds earmarked

Governments of every level had allocated 108.75 billion yuan (US$15.58 billion) in special funds by Monday to prevent the spread of COVID-19, a Ministry of Finance official said yesterday. Social Insurance Division head Fu Jinling (傅金玲) said that Beijing had provided enterprises with 1 trillion yuan in social insurance payment relief this year to support the resumption of production. The nation is aiming to cut the total tax burden on enterprises by 510 billion yuan this year and is also allowing firms in virus-stricken Hubei Province to waive insurance payments for five months, he said.

UNITED STATES

Manufacturing index rises

Factory output last month expanded, despite disruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. However, the winning streak might prove short-lived. The Institute for Supply Management, an association of purchasing managers, on Monday said that its manufacturing index registered 50.1 last month. That is down from 50.9 in January, but anything above 50 signals growth. Fourteen of 18 manufacturing industries expanded last month, led by wood products and furniture manufacturers, data showed.

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

Thermo Fisher agrees deal

US laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc has agreed to buy Qiagen NV, a Dutch maker of tests for diseases including cancer and coronavirus, for about 9 billion euros (US$10 billion) after reviving discussions that broke off late last year. Investors are to receive 39 euros in cash for every Qiagen share, Thermo Fisher said yesterday. That is 23 percent higher than Monday’s closing price. Qiagen also sells products for food and forensic testing.

STEELMAKERS

Hitachi Metals mulling sale

Hitachi Metals Ltd, the specialty steel producer mostly owned by Japanese conglomerate Hitachi Ltd, is exploring a sale of its US-based unit Waupaca Foundry Inc, people familiar with the matter said. Hitachi Metals is talking to advisers about a potential divestment of the Wisconsin-based foundry unit, which could fetch about US$1 billion, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. The Japanese steelmaker bought Waupaca in 2014 for about US$1.3 billion.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Overseas spending dives

Visa Inc on Monday said that cardholders’ spending overseas has slowed sharply, especially for travel-related purchases, and that this quarter’s revenue growth would be about 2.5 to 3.5 percentage points lower than the outlook it gave on Jan. 30. “Cross-border growth rates have deteriorated week by week since the coronavirus outbreak in China, and trends through Feb. 28, 2020, do not yet fully reflect the impact of the coronavirus spreading outside of Asia,” Visa said in a filing. “As such, we anticipate that this deteriorating trend has not bottomed out yet.”

CONGLOMERATES

Jack Welch dies aged 84

Jack Welch, the US businessman who built General Electric Co into one of the world’s industrial flagships, died on Monday at the age of 84, the company said. Dubbed the “manager of the century” by Fortune magazine in 1999, Welch transformed General Electric into a sprawling conglomerate during his two decades as chief executive officer and was considered one of the most influential men in the global business community.

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title: World Business Quick Take


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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, talks with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, not pictured, during the Easter service in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on April 28 last year.Photo: AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday submitted a slew of new proposed amendments to the nation’s constitution that include a mention of God and describe marriage as a heterosexual union.

Putin first proposed amending the constitution in January’s state-of-the-nation speech, saying it is necessary to broaden the powers of parliament and bolster democracy.

Kremlin foes have described the proposed changes as part of Putin’s efforts to remain in charge after his six-year term ends in 2024.

PARLIAMENT

The Kremlin-controlled parliament quickly endorsed Putin’s draft in the first of three required readings last month, and is set to give it the final approval next week, setting the stage for a nationwide vote on April 22.

Following up on proposals from a Kremlin working group that worked in parallel with lawmakers, Putin on Monday presented 24 pages of additional amendments for the second reading scheduled for Tuesday next week.

Lawmakers said they include an article that points to a millennium-long Russian history and pledges homage to “ancestors who bequeathed to us their ideals and a belief in God.”

The amendment follows a proposal by the Russian Orthodox Church to add a reference to God to the Constitution.

Another amendment describes marriage as a “union of a man and a woman,” a wording in sync with Putin’s long-stated opposition to same-sex marriages.

The president also responded to a working group member’s suggestion to add wording that would prevent any future Russian ruler from giving away Ukraine’s Crimea — annexed from Ukraine in 2014 — or any other territory.

He added an amendment that prohibits surrendering any part of Russian territory and outlaws making calls for that.

Another proposal underlines a special status of Russians as a “state-forming” ethnic group while pledging to protect the nation’s other ethnic groups.

WORLD WAR II VICTORY

And in sync with proposals to outlaw disparaging the Soviet role in the World War II victory, Putin added an article pledging to protect “historic truth” and forbid “belittling the people’s heroic protection of the Motherland.”

The amendment comes as Russia prepares to celebrate the 75th anniversary of victory in World War II — the nation’s most important holiday.

However, the new set of amendments does not offer any clue what position Putin might take to continue calling the shots after his term ends.

The 67-year-old Russian leader has been in power for more than 20 years, making him the nation’s longest-serving leader since Joseph Stalin.

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title: Putin’s proposals revere God, ban gay marriages


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People line up to vote in Leonora, Guyana, on Monday.Photo: AFP
Guyana on Monday voted for a new government in a bruising fight for control of the tiny South American country, whose oil revenues in the next decade could make it one of the wealthiest in the Western Hemisphere.

A consortium comprised of Exxon Mobil and partners — Hess Oil of the US and China National Offshore Oil Corp — in late December last year began to pump oil from offshore deposits that contain an estimated 8 billion barrels.

Guyana late last month sent its own first shipment of 1 million barrels to markets in Asia and the US as part of a production-sharing agreement.

Officials have said that Guyana would earn US$300 million as its share this year, but the figure is to jump to US$5 billion by 2025, when crude from a third oil field begins to flow.

Foreign direct investment from oil-related activities is nearing US$1 billion.

Under terms of the deal with Exxon, the nation of fewer than 1 million people gets a 2 percent royalty and 50 percent of sales after the consortium recovers its investment from every shipment.

The commercial finds have already brought all of the world’s majors, including Tullow of the UK, Repsol of Spain and Total of France, to the continent’s only English-speaking nation, as well as support companies such as Haliburton of the US. All plan to drill wells this year.

Members of the governing Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change (ANPU-AFC) led by 74-year-old Guyanese President David Granger and supported mainly by descendants of Africans taken to Guyana as slaves have said that they would be better stewards of the country’s newfound wealth.

Governing coalition leader Aubrey Norton told reporters that the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), supported mostly by Guyanese of East Indian descent taken to Guyana as indentured servants, had an established record of corruption.

The PPP was in power for 23 years, until 2015.

“When they were in power and we had little or nothing, they stole terribly. What will prevent them now from stealing again? Oil around the world has been associated with corruption. They simply can’t be trusted with our oil wealth,” Norton said.

PPP presidential candidate Irfaan Ali, a 40-year-old former housing minister, has faced questions about potentially fraudulent academic qualifications, but said that he is also confident of victory.

Former two-term Guyanese president Bharrat Jagdeo of the PPP said that his party would negotiate far better contracts with incoming oil companies.

“They signed a contract that was so lopsided that the foreigners and those people will benefit from almost everything. We the people will get very little. The oil belongs to the people of Guyana, all 800,000 of us, and it must benefit our people,” Jagdeo told a rally.

More than 2,500 polling stations opened at 6am on Monday, with observer groups from the commonwealth of former British territories, the Caribbean trading bloc and the Organization of American States (OAS).

In December, a ruling party lawmaker sided with the PPP in a no-confidence motion, erasing the government’s one-seat majority in the 65-member Guyanese National Assembly and forcing it into caretaker status.

Parliament has not met for most of the past year and is suspended because of elections.

The lawmaker said that he was dissatisfied with the government’s performance and denied allegations that he was bribed to side with the PPP. He fled to Canada hours after the vote.

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title: Guyana heads to polls as vast oil boom approaches


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Indonesia plans to build a hospital to treat COVID-19 patients at Galang, an island in Riau Province close to Singapore, a senior minister said.

The facility would be constructed with the help of the army and run by the Ministry of health, Indonesian Minister of Public Works and Housing Basuki Hadimuljono told reporters in Jakarta yesterday.

The hospital, about an hour away from Hang Nadim International Airport in Batam, would be more easily accessible than Sebaru Island near Jakarta, where about 250 evacuees from two cruise ships are quarantined, he said.

Indonesia reported its first two cases of COVID-19 infections on Monday, as the deadly epidemic continued to spread outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak.

The two patients, being treated in a hospital in Jakarta, are stable, government spokesman Achmad Yurianto said.

While two other family members of the infected Indonesians tested negative for the virus, authorities are still tracking about 50 members of a dance community that was frequented by one of the patients, Yurianto said.

About 180 crew members of the World Dream cruise ship who were evacuated by authorities tested negative for the virus, while 60 of the 69 crew members of the Diamond Princess cruise ship were also free from infection, he said.

Indonesia had quarantined 243 people on the island of Natuna after they were evacuated from the city of Wuhan and other parts of China.

The move was protested by the locals, prompting authorities to say it would scout for an uninhabited island in the archipelago to quarantine and treat infectious disease patients.

Galang was once used as a refugee camp by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to accommodate more than 170,000 people who fled conflict in Southeast Asia, according to the UN agency. The camp was closed in 1996.

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title: Indonesia picks island near Singapore to treat patients


title: Netanyahu wins, despite corruption charges

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, address supporters as confetti falls upon them at the Likud party campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv yesterday.Photo: AFP
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday emerged victorious after the nation’s third election in a year, despite a looming corruption trial, dismaying the Palestinians who were angered by his hardline campaign pledges.

Monday’s election left the veteran right-winger in prime position to form a government and end a year of political deadlock, after similar votes in April and September last year proved inconclusive.

The central election committee said it had counted 90 percent of the vote, with breakdowns of the result in the media showing Netanyahu’s Likud party with 36 seats in the 120-member parliament.

That would mark the party’s best-ever result under Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and its first to be indicted in office.

Netanyahu’s bloc, which includes Orthodox Jewish parties, is likely still one or two votes short of a majority, but his party spokesman said it was confident of luring defectors.

Likud’s main challenger, the centrist Blue and White party, was projected to win 32 seats.

Counting its center-left allies, as well as the mainly Arab Joint List alliance, the anti-Netanyahu camp was expected to control 54 to 55 seats.

While there remains no guarantee that Netanyahu can form a coalition, he hailed Monday’s election as a “giant” success.

“This is the most important victory of my life,” he told supporters in Tel Aviv, where people danced, sang and shouted “Bibi, king of Israel,” using the prime minister’s nickname.

Netanyahu campaigned on his tough position toward the Palestinians and on expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

He also pledged to annex the Jordan Valley, a key part of the West Bank that Palestinian see as crucial for their future state, if he won.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the exit polls showed that “settlement, annexation and apartheid had won.”

Blue and White’s leader, former military chief Benny Gantz, admitted “disappointment” with the result.

However, he stressed that regardless of the final tally Netanyahu is still due to go on trial on March 17 after being charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

“In two weeks, he will be in court,” Gantz said.

While Netanyahu will likely be tapped by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to form a government, he has no immediate path to a 61-seat majority.

The projections indicate that the secular, nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party won six or seven seats and might again be able to play kingmaker, the same position it was in following the April and September votes.

Party leader Avigdor Lieberman served as defense minister in a previous Netanyahu government and his support would easily put Likud over the crucial 61-seat line.

However, after the September vote, Lieberman said he would only join a government of national unity — ruling out cooperation with the Orthodox parties allied to Netanyahu and the Arab camp that backed Gantz.

“There is no choice but to wait for the final results and only then conduct a situation assessment,” Lieberman said after the exit polls were released.

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title: 性侵假釋犯搶檳榔攤 士檢聲押

taiwan-subdivisions: 高雄 燕巢 岡山 大同區 士林 花蓮

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〔中央社〕花蓮性侵假釋男子歐力源昨晚破壞電子腳鐐，駕車至台北行搶檳榔攤，隨即南下逃逸至高雄遭逮，經警詢後移送士檢複訊，士檢深夜認定他加重強盜罪嫌重大、有逃亡之虞，將他聲押。

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警方晚間近9時將歐力源帶回北市偵辦，台北市警察局大同分局表示，歐力源於今天凌晨2時52分駕車至轄內環河北路一處檳榔攤恐嚇取財，得手贓款新台幣5000餘元，他犯案後立即駕車南下逃逸，直到下午3時40分許於高雄國道燕巢交流道一帶遭查緝到案。

警方晚間詢問後，將歐力源移送士林地檢署複訊；士檢檢察官訊問完畢，認定他所涉大同區搶案，觸犯加重強盜罪嫌重大，涉犯重罪且有逃亡之虞，向法院聲請羈押。

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countries: 中國 香港 台灣

references: 臉書 網友

events: 公投 反送中

title: 張珮歆談中國統戰手法 黃士修飆髒話：調查局不清查她嗎？

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「以核養綠」公投領銜人黃士修（左）稱張珮歆「到處上媒體作秀」，更質疑調查局怎麼沒先清查她這些「明確違反國安法和兩岸條例的犯罪行為」。（資料照）

2020-03-03 23:58:48

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕台灣世衛外交協會理事張珮歆分享自身經歷中國統戰手法。對此，「以核養綠」公投領銜人黃士修稱張珮歆「到處上媒體作秀」，更質疑調查局怎麼沒先清查她這些「明確違反國安法和兩岸條例的犯罪行為」。

去年香港反送中時期，張珮歆也曾隻身前往香港，無懼催淚彈的威脅，用IG記錄抗爭現場，吸引超過40萬人關注，當時許多香港網友封她為「來自台灣的IG女孩」。

近來張珮歆現身分享經驗，詳述中共統戰手法，更驚爆自己大一時因參加一場名為「圓夢園地」提案比賽，當時她並不知道這是統戰團，並在無意間成為統戰團幹部，更親身體驗到中國式洗腦教育。而後她更提及，中國更提議以百萬年薪（人民幣）利誘，聘僱她一起完成「祖國統一大業」之夢。

對此，黃士修在臉書發文，飆罵「幹，都當到中共對台的統戰團幹部了，這是明確違反國安法和兩岸條例的犯罪行為。法務部調查局不先辦這位張珮歆，清查她交付多少名冊和資料，還讓她到處上媒體作秀嗎？你TMD到底是誰在抗中保台護主權啊！」


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2020-03-04 00:23:07

〔記者陳文嬋／高雄報導〕世界級越冬型蝴蝶谷之一的高雄茂林「紫蝶幽谷」，每年吸引超過百萬隻紫斑蝶棲息過冬，在全球暖化效應下，今年罕見7處「紫蝶幽谷」僅1處有紫斑蝶現蹤，大多零星分布於20公里外暫棲型蝴蝶谷；紫斑蝶生態保育協會理事廖金山表示，氣候變遷造成物種行為改變，專家詹家龍憂心一旦全球暖化情形嚴重，造成紫斑蝶習性改變，越冬現象可能消失。

茂林區有7個「紫蝶幽谷」，每年吸引超過百萬隻紫斑蝶過冬，與太平洋彼端墨西哥「帝王斑蝶谷」，並列世界級兩大越冬型蝴蝶谷，米其林綠色旅遊指南評選為最高級必遊景點。

紫斑蝶生態保育協會理事廖金山今年觀察到茂林7處常駐型「紫蝶幽谷」罕見僅1處有紫斑蝶現蹤，大多零星分布於「紫蝶幽谷」20公里外的暫棲型蝴蝶谷，如六龜彩蝶谷、甲仙白雲仙谷等。

廖金山指出，過去紫斑蝶主要棲息在「紫蝶幽谷」，春天北返會於暫棲型蝴蝶谷休息，今年一改過去常態，僅進入1處「紫蝶幽谷」，其餘在暫棲型蝴蝶谷，這是很奇怪的現象，應是氣候不冷，紫斑蝶到處棲息。

廖金山說，今年紫斑蝶到茂林過冬數量不變，但因氣候變遷，造成紫斑蝶物種行為改變中，過去紫斑蝶都是秋分才到來，如今提早立秋就來，過去春分才會北返，今年過完農曆年吹南風，提早於立春就離開。

蝴蝶專家詹家龍說，紫斑蝶越冬棲息在北迴歸線以南，隨著全球暖化效應下，造成紫斑蝶越冬習性改變，族群變得不穩定，逐漸往北移動，一旦全球暖化情況嚴重，群聚數量愈來愈少，越冬現象可能消失。

taiwan-subdivisions: 茂林 六龜 太平 茂林區 甲仙 高雄 金山

title: 獨家》世界級茂林「紫蝶幽谷」 7處僅1處有紫斑蝶現蹤


title: 高雄又傳救護車被撞 2人受傷送醫

taiwan-subdivisions: 高雄 大寮 八德 鳥松 大寮區 林園 鳳林 高雄市

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2020-03-04 00:29:15

〔記者洪臣宏／高雄報導〕高雄市消防局又傳救護車被撞！大寮消防分隊昨天晚間7時值勤途中，停在鳳林路口準備左轉內厝路，20歲林姓機車女騎士搭載友人行經該處，不知何故先追撞禮讓救護車的胡姓男騎士，又撞上待轉救護車，林女及友人受傷送醫。

林園分局初步調查，事發當時林姓女騎士搭載女性友人，沿鳳林路從北往南行駛，同向的37歲胡姓男騎士則在2女前方，行經內厝路口時，大寮消防分隊謝姓救護員駕駛的救護車停在對向路口待轉，胡男看到救護車放慢速度禮讓。

林女疑未注意前方路況，先撞上同向的胡男機車，又往前滑行撞到救護車，林女與友人人車倒地，經送醫並無大礙。3方酒測值均為0，警方正釐清肇責。

高市消防局鳥松分隊前天執勤時，也在大寮區鳳屏路、八德路口和機車騎士擦撞，騎士人車倒地滑行，波及路旁行人及機車，釀成2傷，連續2天都發生救護車車禍，相當少見。


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2020-03-03 23:46:41

〔記者王榮祥／高雄報導〕高雄市長韓國瑜今晚透過直播闡述防疫會議重點，被韓粉誇讚講得很清楚，他開心之餘也自我解嘲，強調「禿頭的好處就是記憶力強」。

韓國瑜今晚透過直播闡述高市府近期防疫工作，指出高雄是全台灣第一個一級開設的城市，從大年初一某舞廳發現有感染情況後（確診台商去過），就全面消毒。

韓國瑜說，從大年初一一級開設之後，高雄市防疫工作截至目前還算是相當穩定，但他不敢講話、講太滿，因為講太滿，以後萬一發生什麼事情會被質疑市長講話怎麼這樣，所以他只是說謹慎戒懼，小心應付。

韓國瑜表示，現在流行一句話叫超前部署，白話就是提早動手，包括新冠肺炎（武漢肺炎）、登革熱，高雄市都是超前部署，其中登革熱是以三民區做示範。

他也提及近期防疫會議重點，包括35萬學生上課可能須採用遠距教學、8千位沒有平板的學生如何上課、農漁產品外銷與產業紓困、勞工無薪假、宗教活動規範、小黃計程車等。

韓粉稱讚韓國瑜講得很清楚，韓國瑜笑說:「禿頭的好處就是記憶力強」。

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things: 防疫 登革熱

taiwan-subdivisions: 三民區 高雄市 高雄

title: 闡述防疫重點被韓粉誇 韓國瑜：禿頭好處就是記憶力強


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謝金河表示，南韓的疫情爆發、日本東京奧運還是未知數、義大利疫情蔓延歐洲各國；而台灣行政單位卻在這波防疫中表現的可圈可點，民眾難得一致認同，是20年來少有的現象。（資料照）

2020-03-03 23:59:00

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕武漢肺炎疫情衝擊全球，亞洲南韓、日本災情慘重。對此，財訊傳媒董事長謝金河表示，南韓的疫情爆發、日本東京奧運還是未知數、義大利疫情蔓延歐洲各國；而台灣行政單位卻在這波防疫中表現的可圈可點，民眾難得一致認同，是20年來少有的現象。「這次看著全世界不斷跳動的數字，台灣人的內心是十分感恩的！」

謝金河3日晚間在臉書指出，一個大災難降臨，也考驗國家的主政者治理能力，疫情乍然而至，處置得宜，可以團結人心，讓人民放心，國家更強化凝聚力；反之，有可能動搖國本，政權可能不保。謝表示，南韓目前有百萬民眾要求罷免總統文在寅；相對南韓，台灣民意基金會調查，民眾給予總統蔡英文及內閣團隊、尤其衛福部長陳時中很高的評價，這是20年來少有的現象。

謝金河說，台灣過去有很長一段時間，民眾及媒體都猛烈抨擊行政官員，幾乎到「官不僚生」的地步，大多數部會首長支持度都只有個位數字，這次疫情，行政團隊抗疫表現可圈可點，台灣人也頓時感受到一股前所未有的幸福感，自認是台灣人的比率竟然高達83%，這是難得一見的主體意識高度認同，也代表這次疫情把台灣人民的心連結在一起，這是台灣空前難得的際遇。

謝金河表示，相對南韓有百萬民眾要求罷免文在寅，台灣正好形成強烈對比，這次口罩配送政策，及料敵從嚴，台灣都優於南韓，甚至，台灣在防疫的行動力，機動性，都優於日本。「沒有比較，我們不知道自己有多好？這次看著全世界不斷跳動的數字，台灣人的內心是十分感恩的！」

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countries: 日本 台灣 義大利

people: 陳時中 蔡英文

title: 武漢肺炎》行政團隊獲高度認同 謝金河：20年來少有現象


title: 涉貪火速被調職 北市監理所長移送北檢複訊

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2020-03-04 00:16:38

〔記者陳慰慈／台北報導〕台北市區監理所所長袁國治涉嫌收受王姓停車場租賃業者約9萬元賄賂，另與黃、李姓業者共同投資體檢診所，作為監理所委託代辦駕駛人的體檢診所，一年分紅130萬元，台北地檢署昨指揮廉政署依涉犯貪污治罪條例圖利罪、職務上行為收受賄賂等罪，約談袁、王、黃、李等7名被告及6名證人共13人到案，昨晚11時許至近12時，袁男等人陸續移送北檢複訊。

其中黃男抵達北檢時，用外套蓋住頭全身包緊緊，就連量體溫時也是只露出額頭，走進法警室時，頭還猛力撞到攝影機跟法警室的牆壁，叩的一聲，連外人看到都覺得頭痛。

檢廉調查，袁男負責管理停車場設置及變更業務，2018年至2019年間，王姓租賃業者打算在雙北等地承租土地經營停車場，為求審核過關，希望袁男能協助其設置停車場，涉嫌行賄袁男9萬元。

此外，台北市區監理所轄下士林監理站，原有一公立醫院駐點，代辦駕駛人體檢業務，據了解，袁男不但軟性勸說醫院不要再派員駐點，還檢舉監理站涉嫌圖利，將醫院駐點趕走後，隨即投資20萬元，與黃姓、李姓業者在士林監理站旁合資開設士林承德診所，袁男再以監理所長職務，委託該診所代辦駕駛人體檢業務，依投資比例分紅，獲利130萬元。

交通部公路總局昨火速批准，將袁男調離主管職務，後續配合司法偵查機關偵辦，並靜待司法調查結果，若查證屬實，就會依規定嚴懲不貸。


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賈吉。（資料照，美聯社）

〔體育中心／綜合報導〕根據大聯盟官網報導，洋基總管凱許曼（Brian Cashman）今在受訪時表示，隊上兩名強打「法官」賈吉（Aaron Judge）與「怪力男」史坦頓（Giancarlo Stanton ）可能都無法趕上開幕戰。

史坦頓日前被診斷出小腿一級拉傷，先前就傳出可能趕不上開幕戰，而賈吉今年春訓期間因揮棒會不舒服，MRI結果雖都呈陰性，但賈吉還是持續感到不適，到現在還沒辦法上到球場進行練打。

凱許曼今在坦帕的春訓基地受訪時表示，兩人目前有很大的機會不會出現在開幕戰的打線中，但他有信心史坦頓能在四月歸隊。

史坦頓。（資料照，今日美國）

title: MLB》洋基噩耗！「法官」、「怪力男」恐皆趕不上開幕戰


title: 武漢肺炎》1顆石頭1400！日本爆「花崗岩抗疫」謠言引搶購

references: Twitter 網友

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有人發現，日本網購平台上出現大量標榜能對抗武漢肺炎的高價花崗岩。（圖擷自neuro_gucci＠Twitter）

2020-03-03 23:45:04

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕武漢肺炎疫情持續擴大，日本此前爆發口罩原料謠言，各地出現搶購衛生紙風潮，如今又出現「花崗岩能抗疫」一說，陸續有人在網購平台刊登高價花崗岩販售，引起日本網友熱烈討論。

綜合日媒報導，近期日本網路上出現新謠言，指出花崗岩釋出的放射線經變調後，可成為具有強力殺菌效果、對抗武漢肺炎病毒的紫外線，內容洋洋灑灑，不禁讓一名日本網友在推特表示：「雖然完全不知道在說什麼，不過現在河邊的石頭能在Mercari（日本最大二手購物平台）大賣哦！」

消息流傳後，網購平台陸續出現大量高價花崗岩，價格區間約在1200日元至5000日元不等（約新台幣330元至1400元），均標榜能對抗武漢肺炎，疑似已有多個完售，更有聲稱「比花崗岩還有效」的玄武岩商品。對此，專家鄭重強調：「完全沒有科學根據，這是謠言。」

對此，許多日本網友表示「已經什麼都有可能了，這買的人也有問題吧」、「竟然有人相信嗎，怎麼可能」、「比起病毒人類還比較可怕」、「我等等去一趟河川好了」。

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武漢肺炎疫情蔓延全球，北韓雖然尚未官方宣布出現確診，但南韓情報機構指出，目前北韓有7000人以上被隔離觀察。（法新社）

2020-03-03 23:42:19

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕武漢肺炎疫情蔓延全球，北韓雖然尚未官方宣布出現確診，但南韓情報機構指出，目前北韓有7000人以上被隔離觀察。

根據《韓聯社》報導，南韓國會情報委員會委員、未來統合黨議員李恩宰電話受訪時指出，雖然北韓尚未官方宣布確診病例，但在江原道、平安南北道等地已經對部分人士展開隔離、觀察，而國家情報院正密切關注動向。

南韓國家情報院表示，雖然北韓1月29日就「鎖國」，但由於北韓和中國交流相當活躍，可能導致赴中人士中有人染疫；而各國駐平壤外交官2日就已經解除隔離，北韓至俄羅斯遠東城市符拉迪沃斯托克（海參崴）的航班也將在6日開始運行。

國情院對於部分傳聞表示「無法證實」，包括上月北韓保衛部以洩漏疫情拘留1名女子、北韓新義州市出現不明原因高燒致死病例等。至於北韓2日發射火箭砲，國情院則分析是為了隱瞞冬季訓練規模大幅縮小。

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title: 武漢肺炎》北韓0確診？南韓國情院：逾7000人被隔離

taiwan-subdivisions: 安南 新社

countries: 北韓 韓國 中國 俄羅斯


title: 武漢肺炎》憾！確診患者在家身亡 南韓增至32死

events: 武漢肺炎 死亡

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2020-03-03 23:58:53

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕南韓境內武漢肺炎疫情加重，尤其是大邱更陸續爆出死亡病例。日前有消息指出，大邱的病床數已明顯不足，不少民眾只能居家隔離，無法入院接受治療。今稍早再傳出憾事，1名居家隔離的患者死亡。目前南韓境內累積32例死亡。

根據《韓聯社》報導指出，韓國衛生官員透露，大邱壽城區稍早又有1名78歲確診的患者送醫不治，讓南韓境內累積死亡病例來到32例，詳情仍有待說明。

南韓大邱病床短缺的狀況維持已久，日前就有確診病患因為等不到病房，被迫自主居家隔離，最後呼吸困難身亡。

面對病床短缺的狀況，韓國中央災難安全對策本部負責人透露，大邱市中央教育培訓中心所改造的「大邱1號治療中心」，從2日下午開設後至3日上午8時為止，已讓138名武漢肺炎輕症病患入住，政府也將持續開設其他集中隔離所，預計到下週總共可安置2000人。

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title: KOBE罹難》8員警洩漏事故照片 警長：無違規但已要求刪除

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美國籃壇巨星布萊恩（Kobe Bryant）1月底與女兒吉安娜（Gianna Bryant）雙雙殞命，警方遭控洩漏直升機事故現場照片。對此，洛杉磯郡警長維拉紐瓦（Alex Villanueva）今（3）日指出，這「沒有違反任何規定」，但已查出拍照的8名員警，並要求刪除相關照片。（美聯社）

2020-03-03 23:40:51

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕美國籃壇巨星布萊恩（Kobe Bryant）1月底與女兒吉安娜（Gianna Bryant）不幸殞命，遺孀凡妮莎（Vanessa Bryant）日前痛批警方洩漏直升機事故現場照片、要求嚴辦。對此，洛杉磯郡警長維拉紐瓦（Alex Villanueva）今（3）日指出，已查出拍照的8名員警，但他稱這並沒有違反「任何規定」，但基於對家屬的情理，已要求刪除相關照片。

綜合外媒報導，美國籃壇巨星布萊恩今年1月底與女兒吉安娜不幸發生直升機意外雙雙身亡，遺孀凡妮莎日前痛批員警私下洩漏事故現場照片，要求警方嚴辦。

對此，洛杉磯郡警長維拉紐瓦（Alex Villanueva）今（3）日受訪時指出，已查出8名在KOBE直升機事故現場拍照的員警身分，並基於對家屬的情理要求他們刪除，但他強調「這（拍照）並沒有違反任何規定」。

報導指出，警方守則並沒有限制員警使用個人手機拍照存檔，目前這8名員警正常值勤中，然而警方內務部門仍在調查相關違規行為，8人最終可能還是得面臨懲處。

據悉，事故發生時KOBE遺孀凡妮莎曾親赴警局，要求警方將事故現場列為「禁飛區」，防止遭到外界攝影。凡妮莎的律師羅布（Gary Robb）表示：「這對她而言很重要，她想保護所有受害者及家人的尊嚴。而當時警長也答應會極力保護受害者的隱私，我相信他會履行承諾。」


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〔記者邱奕欽／台北報導〕新型冠狀病毒（武漢肺炎）疫情延燒，YouTuber阿圓從韓國返台未自主管理14日，閉關3天就參加YouTuber大型典禮「走鐘獎」，但行為「走鐘」的不只有她，百萬訂閱的網路節目《木曜4超玩》班底，20日才在日本直播，一行人出席頒獎典禮也都沒戴口罩，被網友群起幹譙。《木曜4超玩》今（3）日發聲明道歉。

《木曜4超玩》一行人出席走鐘獎，未戴口罩被網友罵爆。（翻攝自IG）

《木曜4超玩》臉書聲明寫道，團隊2月20日赴日本茨城縣拍攝，23日午後返台，「團隊不管幕前幕後在日常生活中皆有落實防疫，我們也跟大家一樣，希望擁有健康，保護他人也保護自己。」只是考量到表演的情緒傳遞，拍攝作品時會暫時摘下口罩，為的是讓看到作品的觀眾還是能被娛樂，但他們事後自省：「或許，有其它更好的方法，可以讓兩者兼顧。」

團隊針對班底未戴口罩參加「走鐘獎」坦承疏忽，「走鐘獎是新媒體全體創作者夢寐以求的一個突破，兩難權衡之下，木曜團隊做了不周全的決定，深感抱歉。」因此，團隊即日起至14日會嚴格進行自主健康管理，減少外出，必須外出時全程配戴口罩、勤洗手、消毒，「本週五週年特別企劃將取消，頻道也將停止更新至同時刻。」

countries: 韓國 日本

references: 網友 臉書

events: 武漢肺炎 冠狀病毒

title: 集體沒戴口罩被幹翻 《木曜4》道歉宣告停止更新


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〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕伊朗的武漢肺炎（COVID-19）疫情嚴峻，確診人數已超過2300人，但仍有2名穆斯林男子不顧防疫警告，對聖陵又舔又吻，伊朗國會議員表示，這種人最重恐面臨2年半徒刑或鞭刑74下。

《BBC》報導，一段觀看次數超過100萬次的網路影片顯示，疫情嚴重的伊朗庫姆省，有一名男子在法蒂瑪聖陵（Masumeh shrine）表示，「我不害怕冠狀病毒」，接著對大門又舔又吻。另一段影片中，一名男子在馬什哈德（Mashhad）舔吻聖陵，他說，「這樣疾病就可以進入我的體內，其他人就可以毫無憂慮地來這裡」。伊朗國會議員諾羅齊（Hasan Nowrozi）說，「那些做出非常規行為的人，正在發布虛假和迷信的新聞，以對抗我國的官員」，「這種人將面臨2年或2年半的監禁，和最重鞭刑74下」。

伊朗記者和政治活動家阿琳娜嘉德（Masih Alinejad）在推特上分享這些影片後，2名男子已被逮捕。但她說這還不夠，因為庫姆等疫情嚴重的城市，宗教場所仍然開放。

伊朗是中國以外，死亡病例最多的國家，儘管已採取一些保護旅客的措施，例如為聖殿消毒，但並未完全關閉這些場所。一些宗教人士認為，這些聖陵，包括庫姆省的法蒂瑪聖陵，具有可治癒疾病的神聖力量。每年都有數百萬人參觀聖陵，在附近禱告、親吻或撫摸聖陵。

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title: 武漢肺炎》伊朗男不甩警告舔吻聖陵 恐入獄或鞭刑

events: 武漢肺炎 死亡 冠狀病毒 COVID-19

countries: 伊朗 中國


title: 武漢肺炎》客運載客減3成 公會提案爭取大幅減班

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2020-03-03 23:36:42

〔記者鄭瑋奇／台北報導〕受到武漢肺炎疫情影響，客運業將再提減班，朝既有路線減班30%、新闢路線（例：台北－花蓮）減50%，並由中華民國公共汽車客運商業同業公會全國聯合會向交通部提出。公路總局表示，已收到申請，目前仍請公會補充相關運量數據，後續待資料完備後，就會確定能兼顧民眾基本需求的方案，預計最快本週就能核定。

武漢疫情爆發後，許多民眾減少搭乘大眾運輸，國道客運載客率都大幅下滑，雖然多家國道客運業者2月份已申請減班，不過減班幅度僅20%不符預計，且多只能減到3月15日；而台北－花蓮路線因屬新闢路線，原則上6個月內無法縮減班次。中華民國公共汽車客運商業同業公會全國聯合會秘書長謝界田表示，公會統計1月20日至2月20日客運載客情況，各路線載客率較往年同期降幅在27%至32%，因此，公會已幫所有客運業者一併提通案性減班計畫。

依據現行公路客運路線增、減班次及停駛處理原則規定，要看近6個月的載客情況，降幅達特定比例才能減班；且同一路線同1年內除有特殊原因經報准外，不得調降2次。謝界田表示，現在武漢肺炎疫情是一次性大幅下滑，跟平常運量逐漸下滑趨勢狀況不同，若看6個月的載客狀況，降幅就會被稀釋。因此，公會於2月17日已向公總提出申請，希望能一次核准較長時間的減班措施，但客運業會承諾，後續若政府宣布疫情結束，班次馬上就會恢復，所以政府不用擔心一次核准較長時間，到時候疫情結束後業者仍持續減班。

謝界田表示，公總要求的補充資料，公會已於今日下班前送交，既有路線減班30%、新闢路線50%是一個大方向，但各路線細節還是要詳加規劃。因為公路客運許多路線都肩負偏鄉運輸責任，首班車跟末班車是一定不能減，若1天只有6班車以下，還是會希望業者能維持住，超過6班的路線減班就希望民眾可以多體諒。

公路總局表示，待公會補充資料後，本週就會開會討論，要找到兼顧民眾行的需求，及搭車人次降幅與可減班次的比例，若大家都有共識，就會盡快核定實施，最遲應不會拖過這個月。另外，針對像是台北－花蓮這類新闢路線，原規定通車6個月內不能減班，這次討論也會一併納入。


title: 疫情趨緩但心生病了 中國心理醫生接棒上陣

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中國大陸新冠肺炎新增病例數下滑，民眾也逐漸走出疫情恐慌。但如今北京當局須面對的是在一連串強硬抗疫措施下，上億群眾累積的龐大心理和精神壓力。目前政府和民間正出動心理諮商團隊，幫人們掃去心理陰影。

為了控制疫情蔓延，中國政府祭出旅遊限制、強制長期自我隔離，以及大規模封城等強硬舉措。對於上百萬名仍受到隔離，抑或是已熬過隔離期的人而言，長達數周遭受限於狹小空間、鮮少接觸人、遠離至愛至親、獨自承受疫情恐懼、吃不好睡不好、更遑論出門賺錢等種種因素，已經讓心靈與情緒超出負荷。新冠肺炎目前在中國累積確診人數逾8萬，死亡病例至少2,900例。

華爾街日報報導，在疫情重災區湖北有親屬的民眾，心理普遍承受著罪惡感和無力感；至於仍在武漢的民眾和醫護人員，則因為長時間對抗不確定性而心力交瘁。

一名在武漢醫院照顧患者的54歲護士表示，她每日被病患及家屬的來電轟炸，需靠安眠藥入睡。檢測心理狀態的線上測試顯示，她處於高度焦慮且有憂鬱症的傾向，「每日目睹死亡病例，我很害怕，也很怕感染家人。」因此她盡可能一回到家就把自己關在房間，以避免和家人接觸，但心理壓力卻更大。當局已派遣精神科醫師進行面對面諮商。

政府已經派遣心理醫生前往武漢的醫院，幫助前線睡眠不足的醫護人員，其他機構也透過WeChat提供線上諮商。數百位心理學家和精神科醫生已透過非營利機構和大學，自願向前線工作人員提供諮商服務。北京師範大學心理學部表示，在提供諮商後的前三周收到近3,800份需求。

大部分是一般民眾基於恐慌、感染疑慮或財務壓力來電，不少電話則是對疫情吹哨者李文亮病逝抒發怒氣。

自SARS在2003年爆發後，中國大陸對心理諮商的接受度大幅增加，特別是年輕一代；與近20年前相比，民眾更容易透過社區中心或非營利機構取得這類服務。在武漢武昌區為先社會工作服務中心，由56位心理醫生組織的團隊正提供免費語音諮商；中心代表夏瑞（音譯）表示，大部分的來電者沒有病症，而是基於害怕和恐慌。


title: 繼取消南巡之旅 通靈少女拍攝地濟德宮北巡之旅也不辦

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因應新冠肺炎疫情持續延燒，電視劇通靈少女拍攝地汐止濟德宮日前宣布取消南巡之旅，經請示媽祖後，原訂照常舉辦的北巡之旅決定取消。

濟德宮管委會表示，站在信仰的立場，一直在信仰與科學間徘徊思索，何謂慈悲守護的價值？考量到疫情日益嚴重，不得不再考量社會期待與宗教信仰之間的平衡。

先前取消南巡之旅，但仍維持北巡之旅的行程，但再次擲筊請示媽祖後，決定配合政府防疫政策，原訂國曆3月6日的北巡之旅也取消。

濟德宮表示，儘管南、北巡之旅皆取消，但關渡媽祖、玉女娘娘、周滄爺仍會駐殿３日，也歡迎信眾前往參拜，但提醒民眾進出廟宇時，須配戴口罩且體溫達38度者要自主隔離。

因應新冠肺炎疫情持續延燒，汐止濟德宮除了南巡之旅外，今也取消北巡之旅。記者胡瑞玲／攝影因應新冠肺炎疫情持續延燒，汐止濟德宮除了南巡之旅外，今也取消北巡之旅。記者胡瑞玲／攝影


title: 名模富永愛、Coco Rocha撞包DELVAUX  春夏手拿包好看

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比利時皮件品牌DELVAUX在2020春夏系列向街頭文化靠攏，以刺繡、塗鴉藝術、都會感、線條作為四大設計元素，青檸綠、珊瑚紅、迷霧粉紫和光亮白，是當季重點色彩，在皮革部分則是以Joy Lether的光澤感，作為嶄新的塗層設計，Tempête鍊帶肩背手拿包，則是雅致時髦的新款。

Cool Box推出了So Cool包袋，是相對輕薄俐落的托特包，Cool Box系列的出發點以休閒旅遊為設計，因此容量大、輪廓簡約、皮質相對柔軟輕盈為一大特色，So Cool在背帶上保留Cool Box的標誌性D形金屬釦設計，雙邊側袋設計相當實用，帥氣中性的包身也是DELVAUX少見的取向。Cool Box的螢光黃、黑色印花刺繡款式，則是將街頭文化融入品牌的優雅之中。

1967年問世的Tempête系列，是DELVAUX工坊的經典款之一，結合帆船運動的吊索作為細節，是匠心獨具的設計，獨特的金屬釦則提高辨識度，演出日劇「Grand Maison東京」的名模富永愛（Ai Tominaga），在巴黎時裝周期間詮釋了象牙白中型包款，與超模Coco Rocha撞包也搭出不同風格。在2020春夏，DELVAUX將1967年的原始包款重新演繹，推出兩款新造型與尺寸，分別是Tempête PM經典型以及Tempête Pochette鍊帶手拿包，其中的手拿包款可透過鍊帶的調節，變換長、短背帶以及斜垮背帶等多種造型，卸下鍊帶後則是優雅的手拿包，袋身輕盈，袋內設計置物隔層，隔層的前側還有鏡子袋以及卡匣插袋，做工精緻且典雅，極富質感、兼具實用性，是2020春夏亮眼的新品。

Tempête小型鍊帶牛皮肩背手拿包，售價79,900元。圖／DELVAUX提供Brillant曼菲斯條紋牛皮小型肩背手提包，售價19萬7,600元。圖／DELVAUX提供2020春夏新款以塗鴉、都會、線條、刺繡等四個元素為主，圖為Brillant系列City Chic包款。圖／DELVAUX提供Pin編織條紋滾邊迷你水桶包，售價63,100元。圖／DELVAUX提供超模Coco Rocha著用Tempête象牙白中型包款。圖／DELVAUX提供Brillant珊瑚紅、夕陽紅、朱紅三色漸層牛皮小型肩背手提包，售價16萬3,900元。圖／DELVAUX提供Tempête迷霧粉紫牛皮經典型肩背手提包，售價15萬5,600元。圖／DELVAUX提供Cool Box光亮白印花刺繡牛皮小型肩背手提包，售價10萬9,300元。圖／DELVAUX提供Tempête光亮白滾邊牛皮經典型肩揹手提包，售價15萬5,600元。圖／DELVAUX提供


title: 每日星座運勢／射手事情把握得恰好  讓人有安全感

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2020-03-4

牡羊座

情緒比較低落，今天宜運動。

整體運：★★☆☆☆

今天較感性，總是會緬懷過去，念及舊日戀人會覺得感傷。投資上的眼光不錯，發現新的切入點，不過還是要先做系統分析。工作上容易出現溝通方面的誤會，跟客戶談話最好能解釋清楚一點，不然可能會讓對方誤解。

愛情運：★★★☆☆

單身者會注意身邊的每一個人，但行動力稍嫌不足，有喜歡的人應採取主動才好。

事業運：★★☆☆☆

金錢觀比較淡薄，容易受到同事的慫恿花費錢財在請客上。

財運：★★★☆☆

需要主動爭取型的財路。

貴人星座：水瓶座

幸運數字：5

吉時吉色：22:00-24:00湖水綠

開運方位：正東方向

金牛座

工作時思想應集中，受干擾會讓失誤不斷。

整體運：★★★☆☆

今天情感上比較主動，一些甜蜜的事情讓你有點樂不思蜀。不過在工作中回想卻造成做事效率低，進度可能無法按預期時間完成，千萬不要因私忘公哦。投資者手上的金融類投資可繼續持有。

愛情運：★★★★☆

戀愛中的人關係發展平順；單身者在家人的有心撮合下，有機會與不錯的異性結識！

事業運：★★☆☆☆

面對客戶或參加面試時會出現考驗專業能力的情形，會面前要事先準備預想對方可能問到的專業問題並想好解答方法。

財運：★★★☆☆

今天你金錢的流失，大多是受最親密的伴侶或家人所牽連的。

貴人星座：天秤座

幸運數字：9

吉時吉色：09:00-10:00乳酪白

開運方位：西北方向

雙子座

能用輕鬆愉悅的心態看待事物，一切都顯得十分美好。

整體運：★★★★☆

與心儀的對象相處，展現你的樂觀天性與熱情活力，很快就能征服對方的心。工作上會有新的任務讓你去完成，你對此很感興趣，滿心歡喜地迎接挑戰。偏財運不錯，玩玩樂透會讓你獲得不少進帳。

愛情運：★★★☆☆

活耀的一天，穿得美美帥帥的再出門，因為今天的你特別容易引人注目。

事業運：★★★★☆

會有優異的工作表現，那種對事業的認真追求讓你在不知不覺中充滿人格魅力。

財運：★★★★☆

有合作機會，易名利雙收。

貴人星座：金牛座

幸運數字：2

吉時吉色：10:00-12:00冷泉藍

開運方位：正北方向

巨蟹座

計劃趕不上變化。

整體運：★★★☆☆

從事行政工作的人會碰到大堆文件急需處理的情況，有些措手不及。原有的計劃發生改變的機率高，特別是跟戀人的約定，會因不得已而被擱置。不過財運不錯，可參與朋友的投資計劃，有機會得到分紅。

愛情運：★★★☆☆

無暇談情說愛，已婚者有忽略另一半的傾向；單身者戀愛機會不多。

事業運：★★☆☆☆

事業運略差，腦筋有些不靈光，反應會遲鈍點，把腦袋瓜放空一點，不要鑽牛角尖。

財運：★★★★☆

財運不錯，適合回收借出的金錢。

貴人星座：射手座

幸運數字：8

吉時吉色：17:00-19:00薔薇粉

開運方位：東北方向

獅子座

喜歡誇誇其談，欠缺行動力的一天。

整體運：★★★☆☆

做起事來有點拖泥帶水，想得到他人的認可還應加強行動力。將家中破棄不需要的東西清理一下，打掃床底，是提升運勢的小秘訣。晚上約朋友小坐片刻，談談近期的生活狀況，會很開心。

愛情運：★★★☆☆

會遇到一些自己不喜歡的異性，對方的糾纏讓你困擾，應懂得拒絕。

事業運：★★☆☆☆

情緒顯得有些消沉，面對困難和挑戰容易氣餒。

財運：★★★☆☆

適合動腦想想如何可以賺到錢，但僅止於規劃階段，不適宜有太大的動作！

貴人星座：摩羯座

幸運數字：2

吉時吉色：08:00-10:00蘋果綠

開運方位：西南方向

處女座

過分表現自我，易被打壓。

整體運：★★☆☆☆

今天上司或是同事對你的工作很挑剔，甚至有些雞蛋裡挑骨頭的意味。這多是因為你鋒芒太露所引起，收斂一些，別過度表現才好。有伴侶的人別對另一半說謊，很容易被對方識破喔！

愛情運：★★★☆☆

愛情運較平順，單身者有機會與心儀的對象約會，在穿著打扮上講究一些可提升戀愛運。

事業運：★★☆☆☆

工作中容易分心，小錯誤不斷，容易給人懶散的錯覺，對你很不利唷！

財運：★★☆☆☆

對於金錢的敏銳度較弱，在購物時不宜過份相信店員的花言巧語，小心上當。

貴人星座：射手座

幸運數字：3

吉時吉色：22:00-24:00象牙白

開運方位：西北方向

天秤座

靜觀其變也是一種良好的處事之道。

整體運：★☆☆☆☆

投資會小有風險，不如先停一停腳步，讓自己再掌握多一些的行情。工作不太順心，要求過高讓自己背負過重的壓力，將高標準寄託於幻想會讓工作走得更加艱難，適當放鬆一下，機會可以再尋找。

愛情運：★☆☆☆☆

火藥味重了點，別疑神疑鬼的了！額外要注意雙方金錢觀念的差異所引發的紛爭。

事業運：★☆☆☆☆

事業運不佳，心理有點委屈，覺得被同事或長官壓搾。負面情緒太多時會讓你的工作績效大大打折扣喔！

財運：★★☆☆☆

理財態度消極，賺錢不夠努力！

貴人星座：牡羊座

幸運數字：8

吉時吉色：17:00-19:00珍珠白

開運方位：東北方向

天蠍座

愛情需藉助開運物開運哦！

整體運：★★☆☆☆

愛情顯得低迷，單身女性佩戴銀製耳環會有很好的助運功效；今天不宜出入彩券行或股票市場，難有收穫；工作家庭兩頭忙，顯得很疲勞，幸而家人很懂得體恤你的辛苦，使你感覺很溫暖

愛情運：★★☆☆☆

戀愛中的人不適合談婚論嫁，多培養兩人的感情，進一步瞭解再做打算！

事業運：★★★☆☆

心情起伏較大，小心意氣用事，不宜做決策、改變，進行例行性質的公事就好。

財運：★☆☆☆☆

財氣呈現混亂跡象，雖然很想留住錢，但金錢問題多多，寧可把錢拿去繳帳單也不要白白浪費喔！

貴人星座：雙子座

幸運數字：8

吉時吉色：07:00-09:00和闐玉白

開運方位：正北方向

射手座

事情的輕重緩急把握恰到好處。

整體運：★★★★★

繁忙的工作並未讓你感到無所適從，哪些事情應該先做哪些事情應該後做，你都有分寸，自然能夠輕鬆處理。你透出一股成熟的魅力，讓人覺得有安全感，若能加入一些幽默的元素，許多不錯的異性會被你深深吸引。

愛情運：★★★★☆

單身貴族們，今日是與異性朋友接觸的好機會，主動的參加團體活動就能幫自己多創造一份機緣喔！

事業運：★★★★★

事業運還不錯，但是比較適合動態型、競爭型的工作，表現比較突出。內勤工作者不容易感受到好運。

財運：★★★★☆

財運不錯，適合暗中處理財務，例如：藏藏私房錢；也有機會得到意外的禮物喔！

貴人星座：牡羊座

幸運數字：0

吉時吉色：14:00-16:00和闐玉白

開運方位：正東方向

摩羯座

工作上易突顯才能，快樂的日子。

整體運：★★★★☆

事業運不錯，別人辦不好的工作在你的手中卻能做得有聲有色，讓你很有成就感。投資運平穩，關注市場變動，想要涉足保險、股票等項目，需與有經驗的人士多商討，做好分析才能有勝算。

愛情運：★★★☆☆

戀愛平平日，宜個自為政，埋首在個人的工作上會好點。

事業運：★★★★☆

事業運不錯，適合朝多元化運作，可以同時進行不同性質的事務，特別有利於交涉方面的事務。

財運：★★★☆☆

正財運，想要得財就要積極去運作。

貴人星座：雙魚座

幸運數字：4

吉時吉色：19:00-21:00瑪瑙黑

開運方位：正東方向

水瓶座

有不少好的機遇會出現。

整體運：★★★★☆

投資方面會出現柳暗花明的新景象，眼明手快的作風能讓你抓住好財運。愛情的滋潤使沉默寡言者開朗了許多，甜蜜又幸福的笑容常掛臉上，令旁人看了羨慕不已。工作上雖然有時限壓力，但多能全身而退。

愛情運：★★★★☆

歡喜冤家日，鬥嘴鬥智也是一種生活情趣唷！

事業運：★★★☆☆

今日事業平平，好壞參半，就看個人如何操作囉！需要注意的是，凡事不要躁進，並且多注意與同事間的溝通問題。

財運：★★★★☆

財運順暢，賺錢不太費力，股票族可憑著直覺與分析而小有收穫；商務談判者有機會接到訂單；對於一般上班者的力量不大。

貴人星座：天秤座

幸運數字：7

吉時吉色：12:00-13:00芒果黃

開運方位：東北方向

雙魚座

切忌將工作與生活畫等號。

整體運：★★★☆☆

桃花皆成過往，卻仍受困於過去的人和事，徒增傷悲而一無所獲。學生族對新鮮事物持有極強的佔有慾，這樣的心態對財運極為不利。直覺靈敏，從事創作工作的人在這方面尤為突顯，靈感不斷。

愛情運：★★☆☆☆

戀愛運略差，男女間恐有意見不合或是對立的情形，感性點，少說點道理就沒事囉！

事業運：★★★★☆

運勢明朗，以往的付出會得到回報，記得與共同努力過的人一同分享喔！

財運：★★☆☆☆

財氣不穩定，外力干擾多，不利於投資買賣。有金錢耗損的跡象，趁今日去吃吃喝喝，把錢花在享受上吧！

貴人星座：雙子座

幸運數字：8

吉時吉色：06:00-07:00大理石灰

開運方位：正北方向

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title: 流感宣告脫離流行期！莊人祥：新冠肺炎疫情改變民眾行為

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▲疾管署副署長莊人祥。（圖／記者黃國霖攝）

記者洪巧藍／台北報導

國內流感疫情持續下降，疾病管制署今（3）日宣布流感脫離流行期，這是否和民眾防範新冠肺炎加強落實衛生習慣有關？疾管署副署長莊人祥分析，疫情讓民眾的行為改變，除了勤洗手、戴口罩，國人也不太去人潮擁擠公共場所，此外學校延後開學、流感疫苗接種踴躍且疫苗與流行病毒株吻合等，都是讓流感疫情提早脫離流行的因素。

疾管署監測資料顯示，上週(2月23日至2月29日)急診就診人次達12,059，雖逢連續假日，仍較前一週下降4.4%；另門急診類流感就診達46,433人次，亦較前一週下降11.6%。疾管署疫情中心主任劉定萍說明，前述二項指標都已連續2週低於過去4個流感季脫離流行期當週就診人次，重症病例也明顯下降，研判脫離流感流行期。

▲疾管署疫情中心主任劉定萍。（圖／記者趙于婷攝）

在國內積極防治新冠肺炎的同時，流感疫情趨勢默默下降、脫離流行，疾管署副署長莊人祥表示，目前國內新冠肺炎疫情還沒有到處都是社區感染，但是民眾的行為已經產生改變，百貨公司等公共場所人潮已經不如以往多，而學校方面延後開學，使學生互動變少，都有關連性。

此外，本季流感疫苗雖然延遲開打，但民眾接種踴躍，截至3月2日止，全國公費流感疫苗接種數達600萬劑，僅剩約4萬劑，且本流感季從開始到現在都是流行A型H1N1，疫苗株與病毒株吻合度高、具有保護力，都是讓這個流感季疫情比較低、比較早脫離流行的原因。

疾管署今日也宣布，公費流感抗病毒藥劑(下稱公費藥劑)擴大使用條件「類流感病人，臨床評估符合流感診斷者(不論國籍)」，適用期間由今(2020)年2月29日延長至3月31日止。

疾管署統計，本季(2019年10月起迄2020年3月2日)流感併發重症病例累計965例，年齡層以65歲以上為主(43%)，其次為50至64歲(32%)；98% 病例未接種本季流感疫苗且近8成具有慢性病史；流感重症死亡病例累計112例，98%病例未接種本季流感疫苗；社區流行病毒以A型H1N1為主，最近一週佔76.5%。

疾管署再次提醒，民眾勿輕忽流感嚴重性，應落實正確勤洗手及注意咳嗽禮節等個人衛生防護措施，有呼吸道症狀時應配戴口罩；打噴嚏時應用面紙或手帕遮住口鼻，或用衣袖代替；與他人交談時，儘可能保持1公尺以上。


countries: 越南 日本 美國

title: 越南防疫歌曲YT觀看數破百萬　網呼：跪求各種語言版本

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▲新冠肺炎疫情截至3月3日為止，全球累計超過9萬確診，3000多人死亡。（圖／路透）

記者楊庭蒝／綜合報導

推廣抗疫的手法層出不窮，越南當地一首歌曲最近在Youtube上迅速竄紅，以流行音樂的曲，填上防範新冠肺炎的詞，讓防疫工作不再艱澀難懂，影片在2月23日上傳後，至今已突破百萬觀看，引起當地一陣熱議，更成為短影音App抖音（TikTok）上爭相模仿的對象。

影片中提及，疫情由武漢市開始爆發，多個國家都已出現相關病例，並宣導戴口罩和勤洗手是最佳的抗疫手段，保持良好的運動習慣和維持居家衛生也有一定程度的幫助，雖然至今已經有多起死亡病例出現，但只要大家攜手努力，就可以撐過這次的難關。

美國知名脫口秀上周今夜秀 (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)曾在節目上刊登有關新冠肺炎疫情的報導，其中觀看這則影片被列為環節之一，主持人John Oliver也藉此來調侃了美國的現況。

有不少網友在影片下方留言，是看了上周今夜秀後慕名而來，認為這首歌曲對於防疫工作有很大的幫助，誓言要盡力推廣給身邊的親友。也有網友表示，希望能將歌曲做成各種不同語言的版本。

說到創意發想，怎麼能忘記日本。來自日本東北的偶像女團「 いぎなり東北産」（MADE IN TOHOKU）2月底舉辦一場粉絲見面會，但受到疫情影響，團員們不僅都戴上口罩，手上還一人拿了一把長長的「機械手」與粉絲間接握手，照片曝光後被網友瘋傳，直呼真的是「把創意用在錯的地方」、「握手是在握心酸的」。

▼握手會的進行方式笑翻不少網友。（圖／翻攝推特／houroukamome121）


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編輯／Duke

Supreme 2020春夏系列自2／20開季，歷經兩個禮拜的發售後，被戲稱「史上最偷懶聯名」的Supreme X Nike Air Force 1終於要來了。這雙採用Air Force 1為藍本，僅在側面印上「Supreme」Box Logo標誌的鞋款，將在3／5正式於Supreme美國與歐洲門店發售，同時官方還表示該鞋款會定期補貨，因此各位不用再搶翻天啦！

▲將會定期補貨，以改善市場供不應求的狀況。（圖／翻攝自Supreme官網）

儘管正式曝光後遭到許多抨擊，但後續透過NBA球星實著以及官方公開圖輯，發現鞋帶、鞋墊有著不同的設計，所以這雙外表簡約的鞋款，仍然有許粉絲想要收藏，其中根據不同地區定價也會有所不同，美國是最便宜的，僅需美金96元（約台幣2,880元）就能購得，英國與歐洲則為英鎊95元（約台幣3,800元）以及歐元110元（約台幣3,850元）。

▲Supreme x Nike Air Force 1共推出黑、白兩色。（圖／翻攝自Supreme官網）

▲隨鞋附贈滿版Supreme字樣的鞋帶。（圖／翻攝自Supreme官網）

由於整個季度都會定期補貨，因此該鞋款的入手難易度，相對其他Nike聯名鞋款來說容易許多，並且貨量充足，因此在市場中的轉售價，預計不會過於誇張，所以大家不用急著入手喔！

此外，為了迎接即將到來的春夏兩季，Supreme也特地攜手英國帽款品牌Kangol，並運用品牌經典的鐘形帽，其設計不但注入Supreme字樣，還搭配毛巾布材質製成，絕對是春夏必備的單品之一。

▲Supreme聯手Kangol推出鐘形帽。（圖／翻攝自Supreme官網）

►新款Supreme只加了一個設計 網友戲稱：「史上最偷懶聯名」

►別嚇昏！Supreme向已故饒舌歌手致敬 本尊現身30秒宣傳春夏系列

countries: 英國 美國

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title: 鄭爽悄悄捐250萬給「第2重災區黃岡」　陸防疫指揮部道謝：是第1個捐款的演員

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記者劉宛欣／綜合報導

新冠肺炎肆虐全球，尤其以大陸疫情尤為嚴重，也因此有不少藝人都紛紛站出來捐款、捐物資、為病患以及處在第一線的醫療人員應援打氣等。而疫情嚴重程度僅次於武漢的黃岡市，日前則公開向女星鄭爽發表了感謝信，感謝她在疫情爆發的第一時間，就捐出了60萬人民幣（約260萬台幣），也是第一個捐出善款的藝人。

▲鄭爽默默捐出60萬人民幣。（圖／翻攝鄭爽微博）

黃岡市新冠肺炎疫情防控工作指揮部在2日，向鄭爽一家發出感謝信，內容提到「你們心系黃岡，雪中送炭，750萬黃岡人民表示衷心感謝並致以崇高敬意！」，據悉，早在1月29日，黃岡市紅十字會就收到了鄭爽的60萬元捐款，這筆款項也是黃岡在抗疫情過程中，收到的第一筆演員善款。

▲黃岡市新冠肺炎疫情防控工作指揮部發出的感謝信。（圖／翻攝微博）

消息傳出後，不少網友紛紛感謝鄭爽的善行，回應「人美心善，正能量的小爽」、「要不是有粉絲在官網發現，還不知道鄭爽默默捐了60萬」、「鄭爽一直默默做公益，私下做功課知道當時黃岡市是第二重災區」、「官方不發這個都沒人知道，捐了60萬不聲不響的」。


title: 歐洲最後1位養蜂女爆紅！《大地蜜語》歷時3年「拍出世界被遺忘角落」

taiwan-subdivisions: 成功 獅子

countries: 土耳其 馬其頓

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記者羅凌筠／綜合報導

北馬其頓導演瑪拉科泰夫斯卡（Tamara Kotevska）、路博米史戴凡諾夫（Ljubomir Stefanov）共同執導的紀錄片《大地蜜語》，講述歐洲最後一位女性養蜂人哈緹潔的生活故事，她堅持以徒手採蜜的方式維持生態平衡與自然共存。某日，遊牧家族移居至隔壁，他們帶來大量牲口打亂了寧靜生活，甚至瓜分了她的蜂蜜市場，嚴重影響了她的生計並帶來危機。

▲《大地蜜語》劇照 。（圖／車庫提供）

在二次大戰後，原來的南斯拉夫和土耳其簽訂了協議，讓土耳其人在此居住，雖然他們只花了1年的時間就遷移完成，但是從來沒有真正的成功，因為這裡非常乾燥、缺水也沒有農業基礎，導演路博米史戴凡諾夫說到：「最後大家都搬走了，基本上，這是一個被遺忘的角落。」

也因為成為了荒廢的村莊，竟成為最適合養蜂之地，哈緹潔就在這裡成為最後一個女性野生蜂蜜養蜂人，同時照顧她半盲的母親，兩人相依為命。導演原本只是為了拍攝短片而發現哈緹潔，進而對她的生活故事產生興趣，沒想到，這一拍就拍了3年，最後作品甚至躍上大螢幕。

▲《大地蜜語》劇照 。（圖／車庫提供）

因《大地蜜語》獲得奧斯卡提名，哈緹潔就此被大眾注目，而2位導演為此表示，不希望大眾看待哈緹潔如同「在籠子裡的獅子」，但她已經成為人們的明星，兩人只能盡力幫助哈緹潔。而電影中哈緹潔常常說的「你一半，我一半」是古老傳統流傳下來的自然法則，也成為哈緹潔的人生理念，為《大地蜜語》中導演兩人認為最有力的話語。

導演路博米史戴凡諾夫說到：「哈緹潔和她的母親兩人的故事非常美麗，就如同神話般，但隨著蜂蜜利益地出現，開始有了消費主義和資本主義的衝突、爭吵，也證明了這兩件事是如何大大地影響了世界。」

電影在日舞影展成為最大贏家，也是影史上首部同時入圍奧斯卡最佳國際電影及最佳紀錄片的片子，兩位導演日前參加第70屆柏林影展，分別說了未來的計畫，兩人即將各自執導不同主題的紀錄片，即使拆夥分飛，卻令大眾期待不已。《大地蜜語》3月6日上映。


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記者阮巧雯／綜合報導

26歲英國男星哈利（Harry Styles）是夯團一世代（One Direction）成員，原先在隊中就擁有高人氣的他，單飛後歌唱事業愈登巔峰。他近期在情人節當天遭歹徒持刀搶劫，所幸安全逃脫，近日現身首談案發過程。

▲哈利首談情人節遇搶案。（圖／達志影像／美聯社）

哈利說道：「我離開朋友家在返家途中，看見一群人穿著帽T，他們都把衣服帽子戴上，臉也都遮起來。」當下他默默把耳機聲量調小後，聽到那群人開始加快腳步趕上來。

他見狀不對，立刻快步走到對街，沒想到那群人也跟著走過街。哈利驚恐表示：「我當時心想『他X的！我要被搶了』。」

接著那群人來到哈利面前說：「我們可以跟你講幾句話嗎？」哈利對此表示：「當時四下無人，我的心臟要跳出來！」搶匪突然問道：「你呼麻嗎？要不要抽點草？」

▲搶匪問哈利「要不要抽大麻」，但他婉拒了。（圖／翻攝自IG／harrystyles）

哈利婉拒對方好意後，搶匪直接切入正題問道「你身上有什麼」，哈利馬上乖乖交出現金，但一行人發現哈利戴著有線耳機，接著問：「這耳機插在哪？」

哈利淡定拿出手機，心想「大不了換支新手機」，沒想到對方接著持刀威脅「解開手機」。但他手機裡都是名人好友的資料和連絡方式，絕不能輕易外洩，只好鼓起勇氣拒絕：「抱歉我做不到。」

▲哈利為保護名人好友們隱私，拒絕解鎖手機。（圖／翻攝自IG／harrystyles）

歹徒嗆聲：「我給你10秒鐘！」哈利為保護好友們隱私，情急之下立刻衝入車陣中，試著攔車求救。但沒有任何一名駕駛願意讓他上車，哈利只好接著狂奔回家，搶匪也拿著現金離開。

不少女粉絲看了都心疼不已，但也開玩笑說：「我只要人不要錢」、「怎麼有司機忍心拒絕他」、「司機眼瞎了吧」、「手機有新歌外流就慘了」。

title: 1世代哈利首談遇搶案！　歹徒問「抽大麻嗎」他急衝車陣求救慘遭拒


taiwan-subdivisions: 新社 白沙

countries: 俄羅斯 巴西 美國 阿根廷 中國 澳洲 印度 歐盟 墨西哥

title: 氣候變遷加劇 研究：2100年全球5成沙灘恐消失

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研究人員今天警告，到了西元2100年，由於受到氣候變遷及海平面上升衝擊，全球5成沙灘恐將消失。

研究人員在「自然氣候變遷」（Nature ClimateChange）期刊撰文指出，即便人類大幅減少使用加劇全球暖化的化石燃料，屆時全球可能仍有超過1/3的沙質海岸線會消失，將不利於大國及小國的沿海觀光產業。

報告主筆、歐盟執委會聯合研究中心（EuropeanCommission Joint Research Centre）研究員伏斯杜卡斯（Michalis Vousdoukas）告訴法新社：「除了觀光業（受波及）之外，沙灘通常是抵禦沿岸風暴和洪災的首道防線。」

「少了它們，極端氣候帶來的影響恐將劇增。我們必須有所準備。」

美國等部分國家早已計劃打造大規模的防護系統，但對大多數國家來說，無法完成或負擔不起偌大的工程計畫。

調查結果顯示，澳洲料將遭受最嚴重衝擊，在接下來的80年將有接近長達1萬5000公里的白沙灘海岸線被沖走。

沙灘占全球海岸線超過1/3，且通常位在人口稠密的地區。流失最多沙灘的10個國家包含墨西哥、中國、俄羅斯、阿根廷、印度及巴西。


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title: 遭疫情拖累！三星旗艦新機 Galaxy S20 系列南韓首賣下滑 5 成

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三星（Samsung）2020 上半年的旗艦新機 Galaxy S20 系列，預計在本月於全球市場開賣，這也是三星第一個全面支援 5G 網路的旗艦系列。不過由於武漢肺炎疫情持續升溫，Galaxy S20 系列在上週 27 日於南韓首賣表現平淡，銷量相較前一代手機下滑 50％。

Galaxy S20 系列日前於美國舊金山發表，分別有基本版 S20、升級版 S20+、以及頂級版 S20 Ultra 三種機型；而且三星這次的旗艦新機全面支援 5G，每種機型都有 5G、4G LTE 兩個版本。南韓當地的建議售價分別為 S20 124.8 萬韓圜（約台幣 34,107 元）、S20+ 135 萬韓圜（約台幣 36,895 元）、S20 Ultra 159 萬韓圜（約台幣 43,454 元）。

韓聯社報導引述知情人士的消息指出，三星 Galaxy S20 系列上週四於南韓開賣，估計售出約 70,800 台新機，這個數字遠低於去年 3 月推出 Galaxy S10 系列的首日銷售數據。因為 Galaxy S10 系列首日於南韓就售出約 14 萬台，而去年 8 月所推出的 Galaxy Note 10 系列首日更有 22 萬台的水準。

一家南韓當地電信公司的員工表示，新機折扣大幅縮水，加上受到武漢肺炎疫情蔓延的影響，實體門市的來客數量下降，大大影響了新機銷售狀況。此外，低於預期的電信補貼措施也是銷售低迷的原因之一。

至於台灣三星電子將在 4 日下午公布 Galaxy S20 系列在台上市資訊，透過官方 Facebook 專頁、YouTube 頻道等線上直播記者會內容。

Initial sales of Galaxy S20 series downbeat amid virus fears

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title: 美股跌幅擴大，道指現跌超100點。


title: 5招可應對疫情  外界矚目美國央行行動

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2020-03-03 22:44
 美國總統川普公開施壓央行聯準會（Fed）應大幅降息，促使Fed本月17至18日政策例會的可能行動，備受外界矚目。（路透）

〔編譯楊芙宜／台北報導〕武漢肺炎疫情導致全球經濟面臨衰退的威脅，美國總統川普週二再次推文施壓美國央行聯準會（Fed）應大幅降息，法新社分析Fed可能採取4類行動，以應對疫情及安撫市場，包括發布聲明、在定期例會宣布降息、採取緊急降息行動、增加市場流動性、全球同步因應。

報導指出，美股上週跌幅高達12%，成為2008年全球金融海嘯以來表現最糟一週，美國股市市值蒸發3兆5000億美元。這促使Fed主席鮑爾2月28日就發布聲明，坦認疫情「對經濟活動構成持續發展的風險」，Fed「正密切關注情勢發展」、「我們會運用手中工具、採取適當行動來支持經濟」。

投資人把鮑爾聲明詮釋為承諾調降基準利率，促使美股週一止跌回升，道瓊指數更彈漲逾5%，單日就收復1293.96點。

Fed本月將在17-18日舉行定期政策例會，市場和經濟學家雖多半預期Fed官員可能支持降息，不過，Fed基準的聯邦資金利率目標區間已來到相當低水準、介於1.5%至1.75%之間；許多經濟學家警告，Fed再度降息不會有效果，因為疫情衝擊的是供應面、而非需求面，若現在就降息，恐妨礙其未來對於消費緊縮導致經濟下滑的應變能力。

報導分析，Fed還可如2008年全球金融海嘯高峰期般，決策官員召開電話會議採取緊急行動；這種措施或可顯現Fed正在因應事態，卻也可能火上加油、加劇恐慌。

前Fed研究部門主管、現為智庫彼特森國際經濟研究所研究員魏考克斯（David Wilcox）警告，Fed降息效果可能有限，「Fed可用的工具，極不適合用來因應這項問題的短期層面。不管降息多少（現在也沒多少空間可降息），都無法說服各地官員不要關閉學校…或讓業者重開工廠」。

報導指出，如果出現類似於2008年全球危機的極端情況，Fed可能會增加金融市場流動性，以確保市場繼續運作；但相關作法不太可能運用於現況。

另外，各國央行行長與財長也可能透過七大工業國集團（G7）和20國集團（G20），協調合作一起因應措施，讓應變行動更有效。


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2020-03-03 22:49
 （美聯社）

〔財經頻道／綜合報導〕美股週一報復性反彈，創下史上最高漲點，但由於G7臨時會議未能提出具體抗議對策，令投資人失望，美股週二早盤下跌逾百點。

道瓊工業指數報26561.75點，下跌141.57點或0.53%；標普500指數報3072.92點，下跌17.31點或0.56%；那斯達克指數8904.98點，下跌47.19點或0.53%。

美股在經歷自金融海嘯以來最慘一週後，週一暴漲1293點，漲幅高達5%，是自2009年3月以來新高，漲點更是創下歷史新高。

由美國財長努勤發起召開G7臨時會議，共同商討對抗武漢肺炎疫情對策，然後G7會後共同聲明僅強調將會使用政策工具來對抗經濟放緩，但並沒有提出具體行動，令投資人感到失望。目前武漢肺炎疫情在全球已經導致超過3000人死亡，確診人數也已經突破9萬人。

澳洲央行及馬來西亞央行在週二相繼宣布降息，也吹響了全球央行寬鬆政策的號角。目前投資人也在期待美國聯準會是否會在本月宣布降息，來因應持續惡化的疫情。

countries: 美國 馬來西亞 澳洲

events: 死亡 武漢肺炎

title: 美股反彈僅一日行情 道瓊早盤跌逾百點


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富邦悍將今天在斗六球場官辦熱身賽遭遇樂天桃猿，結果洪總對決老東家，靠著王正棠9局下敲出追平全壘打，終場兩隊以5:5握手言和。

這場比賽富邦推出洋投伍鐸先發，他主投4局失1分，飆出4次三振，黃子鵬轉先發4局失3分，被打4支安打，也無關勝敗。

富邦2局下由戴培峰高飛犧牲打，加上石翔宇適時安打先拿2分，3局下再利用失誤拉開比數，不過樂天在4局由郭嚴文轟出陽春彈追分。

7局上樂天火力全開，滿壘狀況下廖健富清壘二壘安打，加上朱育賢二壘安打，一口氣反超。

沒想到富邦8局下由蔣智賢開轟，9局下王正棠再度砲轟陳禹勳，兩隊最終5:5和局作收。

title: 中職／蔣智賢、王正棠接連開砲　富邦逼和樂天


title: 中職官辦熱身賽　洪一中率悍將首碰老東家

content_text: 中華職棒富邦悍將隊總教練洪一中3日首度在官辦熱身 賽，率隊迎戰老東家樂天桃猿隊，雙方終場5比5握手言 和。 （富邦悍將提供） 中央社記者謝靜雯傳真　109年3月3日...


title: 中職／9局下驚險守成　統一終止熱身賽3連敗

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統一獅今天在台南棒球場迎戰味全龍，在一度取得5分領先的情況下，主場軍卻在8、9兩局遭遇對手的猛烈反攻，最終才驚險的以6:5守下勝利，終止近期的3連敗。

統一在官辦熱身賽前三戰通通吞敗，總教練林岳平表示將會在休兵日做出調整，今天面對實力稍遜一籌的味全，開路先鋒由陳傑憲擔綱，而老將陳鏞基也回到了中心打線。

而改變似乎的確有收到成效，此役2局上，統一年輕「二刀流」好手林安可先敲出二壘安打，之後又靠著江亮緯的安打回來得分，兩出局後郭峻偉建功、敲出帶有打點的安打，球隊率先取得2:0領先。

味全3局下靠著曾陶鎔的陽春砲追回1分，不過統一在第5局趁著對方中繼投手羅嘉仁不穩之際、再度發起攻勢，吳桀睿在二三壘有人時敲出2分打點安打，之後林安可敲出三壘安打，將前者送回，統一在打回3分，以5:1拉開分差。

6局上，郭峻偉敲出安打，陳傑憲則是利用對方的失誤上壘，林靖凱左外野方向的一壘安打為球隊再添1分；而沉寂許久的味全打線，也終於在7局下做出反擊，靠著對手失誤和安打、攻佔一三壘，隨後高淮安擊出高飛犧牲打，讓球隊追到2:6 。

8局下，統一換上邱浩鈞準備收尾，不料他先被黃柏豪敲出右外野方向一壘安打，之後又被吳睿勝轟出2分砲，雙方只剩下2分的差距。

9局下統一再度換投為黃竣彥，但他也檔不住今天最火燙的曾陶鎔，之後代打的林孝程也擊出滾地球造成失誤上壘，接下來味全兩棒都擊成滾地球出局，但有打回1分，雙方只剩下1分的差距。不過接著劉基鴻擊出一壘方向平飛球被接殺，比賽就這樣突然的畫上了句點。

統一洋投費爾本今天先發主投3局，只因為全壘打而丟掉1分，他退場後由潘威倫接手，後者投3局只被敲1支安打，沒有丟分，兩人的好投為球隊打下勝利基礎。而在打擊方面，全隊敲出14支安打，不過串聯不佳、只拿到6分，以江亮緯的3安「猛打賞」表現最為精彩。


title: 洪一中官辦熱身賽首碰老東家  悍將桃猿握手言和

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（中央社記者謝靜雯台北3日電）富邦悍將隊總教練洪 一中，首度在官辦熱身賽率隊迎戰老東家樂天桃猿隊， 悍將隊9局靠著王正棠代打陽春砲追平比數，兩隊5比5 握手言和；統一獅隊則以6比5擊敗味全龍、勝場開張。

洪一中今年球季改掌富邦悍將隊兵符，今天在中職 官辦熱身賽中首度碰上老東家樂天桃猿隊，悍將隊2局 靠著高飛犧牲打、石翔宇安打，單局攻下2分，3局再靠 著胡金龍二壘打、失誤，拿下第3分。

桃猿隊4局靠著郭嚴文陽春砲追回1分，7局再起攻 勢，林智平安打、接連保送、廖健富二壘打，一棒送回 3分、超前比數，朱育賢補上安打添分，桃猿取得5比3 領先。

悍將8局靠著蔣智賢陽春砲追分，9局最後反攻機會 ，王正棠代打敲出陽春砲，幫助球隊扳平比數，兩隊終 場握手言和。

統一獅隊官辦熱身賽今天在台南棒球場與味全龍隊 交手，獅隊2局有攻勢，林安可敲出二壘打，江亮緯、 郭峻偉接連安打，單局攻下2分，味全3局下半曾陶鎔敲 出陽春砲。

獅隊5局再起攻勢，邱智呈、陳傑憲接連安打，靠 著犧牲短打推進，吳桀睿適時安打，一棒送回2分，林 安可敲出三壘打，送回球隊第5分，獅隊6局靠著單局2 安、1次守備失誤，再添1分保險分。

味全龍隊今天攻勢集中在後半段，7到9局、局局得 分，吳睿勝8局敲出2分砲，但攻勢沒有延續，味全目前 官辦熱身賽勝場還沒開張。（編輯：謝雅竹）1090303


title: 農民囤積肥料 農糧署：肥料庫存量足供貨穩定

countries: 加拿大 台灣 中國 印尼

taiwan-subdivisions: 嘉義 南區 嘉義縣 朴子

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謠傳因武漢肺炎影響，中國原物料無法運來台，肥料將短缺，嘉義地區出現稻農搶購囤積肥料情形。農糧署澄清無此事，肥料原料並非來自中國，目前庫存量、產量都夠，農民不需搶購。

嘉義縣朴子市數個鄉鎮，這週出現農民搶購肥料的情形，原因是有人謠傳製造肥料的原物料來自中國，而目前一期稻作需要施肥，所以就有農民到農會、肥料店搶購囤積肥料。

農委會農糧署南區分署長姚志旺表示，確實有接獲類似訊息，不過台灣製造肥料原料來源，來自印尼、中東、加拿大，並不會因武漢肺炎而斷貨，請農民放心。

姚志旺表示，農糧署已請台肥公司加速出貨，目前肥料庫存量足，不會有缺貨問題，請農友不需搶購囤貨。

朴子市農會總幹事田志強說，農民應該是擔心要施肥時買不到肥料，先買來放，農會已要求台肥加緊出貨，今天大批肥料已運送到倉庫，農民看到肥料很多，就不再搶購了。


countries: 北韓 韓國 中國

taiwan-subdivisions: 和平 安南

title: 防武漢肺炎 韓國國情院：北韓超過7千人遭隔離

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韓國國家情報院今天對國會議員表示，北韓目前有 7 千至 8 千人被列為 2019 年冠狀病毒疾病（COVID- 19 ，武漢肺炎）隔離觀察對象。

韓國聯合新聞通訊社報導，主要在野黨未來統合黨國會議員李恩宰引述國情院的說法透露，北韓尚未宣布確診病例，不過北韓在江原道和平安南北道對部分人員隔離觀察，國情院正在密切關注情勢。

李恩宰另指出：「在中國關閉邊界前，曾去過中國的北韓人，有可能已感染此一病毒。」

平壤自 1 月 29 日封鎖國境並禁止汽車、飛機通行，但北韓與中國交流活躍，之前赴中人員可能有人被感染。

對於北韓保衛部 2 月 8 日以對外洩露疫情資訊嫌疑拘留一名女子、新義州出現原因不明的高燒致死病例等傳聞，國情院表示無法證實。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）


countries: 中國 印度

events: 冠狀病毒 武漢肺炎

title: 疫情致中國原料中斷 印度限26種API及配方出口

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中國因武漢肺炎疫情導致活性藥物成分（API）輸出中斷後，印度政府今天宣布，即日起限制 26 種 API 及配方等製藥原料出口，優先供應國內需求，直到新的命令公布為止。

印度商工部對外貿易總署（Director General of Foreign Trade）今天發出通知說，政府修改出口政策，限制特定的 API 及配方等製藥原料出口，即日起生效，直到進一步的命令公布為止。

這份通知並列出被限制出口的 API 及配方等製藥原料包括抗頭痛的普拿疼（Paracetamol，又稱撲熱息痛）及梯尼達諾（Tinidazole）等抗生素，還有維他命 B 1 、B 6 和 B 12 等清單。

原料藥主要分為兩種，其中一種就是活性藥物成分 API，而中國是 API 製造大國，印度 70 % 的 API 都從中國進口。

不過，在中國爆發 2019 年冠狀病毒疾病（COVID- 19 ，武漢肺炎）後，因為多地封城控制疫情及工廠延後開工，導致中國製造API在內的各項產品延後出貨。

印度是全球學名藥的主要供應國，而印度政府所公布管制出口的 26 種 API 及配方等製藥原料清單，占印度全部藥品出口的 10 %。

外界認為，印度管制 26 種 API 及配方等製藥原料出口，可能是擔心在中國 API 出口中斷之下，防止印度製造的 API 及配方等製藥原料過度出口而損害印度國內的藥品製造及用藥需求。

印度學名藥製造大廠賽普拉（Cipla）先前已經警告，除非中國恢復原料生產，否則大多數製藥廠的原料庫存，將在 2 月底耗盡。為延緩製藥業的 API 等原料吃緊，印度政府因而有上述限制 API 及配方等製藥原料出口的政策。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）


title: 故宮國寶彰化遊  黃玉髓三連章及玉鳳柄洗壓軸

taiwan-subdivisions: 彰化 彰化縣

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故宮國寶遊彰化展覽的壓軸國寶-黃玉髓三連章及玉鳳柄洗，今天起在彰化縣立美術館展出到 4 月 5 日，彰化縣長王惠美參加開幕式致詞時說，希望大家把握機會，一睹故宮文物的風采。

「故宮國寶遊彰化-故宮文物及新媒體藝術展」的壓軸國寶黃玉髓三連章、玉鳳柄洗今天起在彰化縣立美術館展出，彰化縣文化局今天舉辦開幕式，參加的貴賓有王惠美、國立故宮博物院器物處策展人蔡慶良等人。

王惠美致詞時說，這次展出的 2 件國寶黃玉髓三連章以及玉鳳柄洗，三連章從瑪瑙中雕刻出來，需要深厚的工藝技巧；至於玉鳳柄洗上的鳳凰雕刻也和廟宇建築的鳳凰相輝映，而為了讓鄉親更加了解展覽內容，縣府也準備學習單，鄉親填完之後可以參加摸彩。

彰化縣文化局指出，黃玉髓三連章是由質地堅硬的黃玉髓所製成的三方章，而玉髓質地比玉料更為堅硬，切割和鑽孔都很困難。

至於另件文物玉鳳柄洗將象徵祥瑞的鳳凰設計在玉洗中，鳳凰翅膀環抱著玉洗，一側以一隻口啣器壁、爪攀器緣、雙翅開展環抱器身的鳳鳥為把，鳳鳥鉤喙弧度流暢、細長鳳眼有神、羽毛的表現方式豐富，玉洗的鳳鳥卻是張翅環抱器身，生動細緻，也被文化部指定為重要古物。

文化局表示，除了文物之外，在美術館的 3 樓及 5 樓展出故宮新媒體藝術展，以古人日常生活為主軸，呈現古代與現代之生活美學連結，邀請大家一起感受科技帶來的奇幻美學之旅。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）


title: 洪一中官辦熱身賽首碰老東家  悍將桃猿握手言和

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富邦悍將隊總教練洪一中，首度在官辦熱身賽率隊迎戰老東家樂天桃猿隊，悍將隊 9 局靠著王正棠代打陽春砲追平比數，兩隊 5 比 5 握手言和；統一獅隊則以 6 比 5 擊敗味全龍、勝場開張。

洪一中今年球季改掌富邦悍將隊兵符，今天在台職官辦熱身賽中首度碰上老東家樂天桃猿隊，悍將隊 2 局靠著高飛犧牲打、石翔宇安打，單局攻下 2 分， 3 局再靠著胡金龍二壘打、失誤，拿下第 3 分。

桃猿隊 4 局靠著郭嚴文陽春砲追回 1 分， 7 局再起攻勢，林智平安打、接連保送、廖健富二壘打，一棒送回 3 分、超前比數，朱育賢補上安打添分，桃猿取得 5 比 3 領先。

悍將 8 局靠著蔣智賢陽春砲追分， 9 局最後反攻機會，王正棠代打敲出陽春砲，幫助球隊扳平比數，兩隊終場握手言和。

統一獅隊官辦熱身賽今天在台南棒球場與味全龍隊交手，獅隊 2 局有攻勢，林安可敲出二壘打，江亮緯、郭峻偉接連安打，單局攻下 2 分，味全 3 局下半曾陶鎔敲出陽春砲。

獅隊 5 局再起攻勢，邱智呈、陳傑憲接連安打，靠著犧牲短打推進，吳桀睿適時安打，一棒送回 2 分，林安可敲出三壘打，送回球隊第 5 分，獅隊 6 局靠著單局 2 安、 1 次守備失誤，再添 1 分保險分。

味全龍隊今天攻勢集中在後半段， 7 到 9 局、局局得分，吳睿勝 8 局敲出 2 分砲，但攻勢沒有延續，味全目前官辦熱身賽勝場還沒開張。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）


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印度衛生與福利部今晚又公布在拉吉斯坦省齋浦爾確診的印度第 12 起感染武漢肺炎病例，這名病例是上午 6 名確診病例其中 1 人的妻子。

印度衛生與福利部晚間發表聲明說，一名在拉吉斯坦省（Rajasthan）齋浦爾（Jaipur）的病患，確診感染 2019 年冠狀病毒疾病（COVID- 19 ，俗稱武漢肺炎）。

聲明指出，這名確診病患已被隔離且病情穩定。

從印度 1 月 30 日確診首個武漢肺炎病例迄今，累計已有 12 起確診病例，包括最早確診且已經康復的克勒拉省（Kerala） 3 個病例，及 2 日確診的 2 個病例，還有今天上午確診的 6 個病例及今晚確診的 1 個病例。

拉吉斯坦省衛生廳長夏瑪（Raghu Sharma）接受當地電視台訪問時說，一團從義大利到印度旅遊的旅行團一共 20 人抵達新德里後，前往拉吉斯坦省烏代坡（Udaipur），其中一名男子先確診感染武漢肺炎，他的妻子今晚也確診感染。

印亞新聞社（IANS）引述烏代坡旅行業者說，上述來自義大利的旅行團 2 月 28 日入住烏代坡拉瑪達飯店（Hotel Ramada Inn），其中一名 69 歲義大利男性團員當晚出現發燒、呼吸困難等症狀，被送往一間私人醫院治療，其他人隔天繼續阿格拉（Agra）的旅遊行程，但男子與他的妻子一起被送往齋浦爾的薩瓦曼辛赫（Sawai Man Singh）醫院隔離，而男子之後確診感染武漢肺炎。

由於這名男子的妻子也出現疑似症狀，當局 2 月 29 日對妻子採集檢體，但送檢後呈現陰性；當局 3 月 2 日再度採集這名妻子的檢體進行第二次檢驗，結果呈現陽性，成為印度第 12 個確診病例。

夏瑪表示，確診的義大利女性檢體，正送往位於普恩（Pune）的國家病毒研究所（NIV）進行第二次檢驗。

為防止更多境外病例入境印度，印度政府先前宣布中國公民所持印度簽證失效後，今天又宣布新的入境措施，義大利、伊朗、韓國和日本等 4 國公民所持有各種入境簽證也立即失效，且禁止從陸、海、空入境印度。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

countries: 印度 中國 義大利 伊朗 韓國 日本

title: 武漢肺炎疫情  印度再添一起確診累計12例


countries: 泰國 義大利 香港 新加坡 日本 台灣 伊朗 韓國 中國 德國 澳門 法國

title: 泰國擬列11個武漢肺炎高風險區 將有防疫新措施

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武漢肺炎延燒，泰國政府準備將包括台灣在內的 11 個區域列為高風險區，並宣布控制疫情的新措施。儘管泰國官員今天一度在臉書表示這 11 個區域來的旅客要自我隔離 14 天，但隨後刪除文章。

泰國副總理兼衛生部長阿努廷（Anutin Charnvirakul）今天下午在臉書po文指出，來自 11 個高風險地區的旅客進入泰國後，必須自我隔離 14 天，他並在貼文附上政府公告。

公告指出，泰國政府把日本、德國、韓國、中國、香港、澳門、台灣、法國、新加坡、義大利和伊朗等 11 個地區列為高風險地區。公告中並未提到這些地區的旅客要自我隔離。

但阿努廷隨後立刻刪掉貼文，而泰國政府也未正式公告，泰國衛生部的官員表示，內容目前仍在修改，修改完後就會公告。

曼谷郵報（Bangkok Post）報導，泰國副總理普拉威（Prawit Wongsuwon）表示，沒有法源可以強制人入境泰國後自我隔離 14 天。

不過報導指出，這代表泰國政府將會宣布進一步的措施來控制疫情，特別是針對在韓國非法打工而現在想要返國的 5000 名泰國人。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）


countries: 德國 法國 加拿大 義大利 美國 英國 日本

title: 抗武漢肺炎風險 G7財長：動用一切適當政策工具

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繼上週全球股市大跌後，七大工業國集團（G 7 ）財政首長今天表示，他們準備動用「一切適當政策工具」，防止新型冠狀病毒疾病（武漢肺炎）疫情傷害經濟成長。

法新社報導，G 7 財政部長與中央銀行總裁舉行電話會議後發表聲明指出：「G 7 財政首長準備採取行動，包括推出適當財政措施，協助因應新型冠狀病毒疫情並支撐經濟。」

「G 7 各國央行將持續履行法定職責，支撐物價穩定和經濟成長，同時維持金融體系的韌性。」

但來自英國、加拿大、法國、德國、義大利、日本和美國等世界最先進經濟體的官員，並未宣布任何具體救濟措施。

聲明提到：「G 7 財政部長和央行總裁，準備進一步合作，及時推出各種有效措施。」

投資人擔憂疫情危機加劇，導致上週股市重挫，隨著各界預期各國官員將會採取行動，像是調降利率或提供緊急融資等，股市本週已反彈回升。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）


title: 武漢肺炎疫情擴大 德萊比錫書展宣布停辦

countries: 義大利 台灣 伊朗 韓國 中國 德國

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2019 年冠狀病毒疾病（COVID- 19 ）疫情擴大，即將在下週揭幕的萊比錫書展今天宣布停辦，總計全球到目前為止已有 439 個商展被迫延期或取消。

每年 3 月舉行的萊比錫書展（Leipziger Buchmesse）是德語國家出版界的年度盛事，特色是近 4000 場的作者和讀者面對面交流活動、動漫及中東歐出版品，參觀人數近 30 萬人，規模僅次於 10 月的全球版權交易平台法蘭克福書展。

今年的書展原本預定在 3 月 12 日至 15 日舉行，農委會林務局原本也打算以台灣蕨類為主題參展。

不過，德國新型冠狀病毒的確診案例過去幾天突然暴增到近 200 例，全國各地都有人感染，為防止疫情進一步擴大，主辦單位萊比錫展覽公司只好宣布停辦。

萊比錫展覽公司坦承，根據聯邦健康部的建議，參加大型活動的人必須書面證明非來自高風險地區、或與當地人接觸過，鑑於書展這麼龐大的參觀人數不可能辦到。

根據德國國家疾病防治單位羅伯特．科赫研究所（Robert Koch Institute）的定義， 2019 年冠狀病毒疾病高風險地區指的是中國的湖北省、伊朗的庫姆省和德黑蘭、義大利北部及韓國的慶尚北道。

受疫情影響，原本打算在 4 日揭幕的全球旅遊業年度盛會柏林國際旅展（ITB）也宣布停辦。據法蘭克福商展專業媒體 m+a 出版社的統計，全球到目前為止共有 439 個商展被迫延期或取消，其中 257 個在亞洲， 131 個在歐洲。

萊比錫書展是德國僅次於法蘭克福書展的第二大書展，每年 3 月都會在萊比錫貿易博覽會舉行為期 4 天的展覽。因為舉辦時間比較靠前，部分新出版的書籍都是首次公開，因此書展在業內很有影響力。

萊比錫書展在 1632 年成為德國當時最大的書展，其中在法蘭克福展出的圖書數量中排名第一。直到 1945 年法蘭克福才超過它，恢復了第一的寶座。在東德時期，展會仍然是來自東德和西德的書籍愛好者和賣家的重要聚會地點。

萊比錫書展設立多個獎項，包括萊比錫圖書獎（ 2002 年- 2004 年稱為德國書獎）和萊比錫歐洲理解圖書獎，以及提名德國兒童文學獎候選人。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）


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花蓮性侵假釋男子歐力源昨晚破壞電子腳鐐，駕車至台北行搶檳榔攤，隨即南下逃逸至高雄遭逮，經警詢後移送士檢複訊，士檢深夜認定他加重強盜罪嫌重大、有逃亡之虞，將他聲押。

花蓮地檢署受保護管束人 53 歲歐力源涉嫌於 1997 年劫財劫色多名女子，被依懲治盜匪條例等罪，經法院判處無期徒刑確定，於 2017 年 8 月 15 日假釋出監並付保護管束，但他昨晚破壞電子腳鐐後逃離住處，並於今天凌晨 2 時許逃至北市大同區行搶檳榔攤，隨即南下逃逸，並於今天下午近 4 時於岡山、燕巢交界處落網。

警方晚間近 9 時將歐力源帶回北市偵辦，台北市警察局大同分局表示，歐力源於今天凌晨 2 時 52 分駕車至轄內環河北路一處檳榔攤恐嚇取財，得手贓款新台幣 5000 餘元，他犯案後立即駕車南下逃逸，直到下午 3 時 40 分許於高雄國道燕巢交流道一帶遭查緝到案。

警方晚間詢問後，將歐力源移送士林地檢署複訊；士檢檢察官訊問完畢，認定他所涉大同區搶案，觸犯加重強盜罪嫌重大，涉犯重罪且有逃亡之虞，向法院聲請羈押。

法務部保護司副司長林嚞慧指出，歐男脫逃後，花蓮地檢署專責的觀護人已通報，由矯正機關啟動撤銷假釋並報請檢察官核發殘刑指揮書，歐男歸案將面臨殘刑 25 年刑期，且服刑期間不能再假釋。以他已 53 歲，服刑期滿出獄已年近 8 旬。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

taiwan-subdivisions: 花蓮 士林 岡山 大同區 高雄 燕巢

title: 性侵假釋犯搶檳榔攤 士檢聲押