• Korean doctors expected to end strike amid COVID cases surge

    Korean doctors expected to end strike amid COVID cases surge

    South Korea’s peak medical association on Friday (September 4) called for an end to a doctors strike which has complicated efforts to curb a new wave of coronavirus infections after the government backed down on plans to reform the sector. Trainee medics, however, rejected the deal and vowed to continue the walkout, which began on […]

    05-Sep-2020 Intellasia | StraitsTimes | 6:02 AM
  • China complicit in bypassing UN sanctions to launder N Korean money, report suggests

    China complicit in bypassing UN sanctions to launder N Korean money, report suggests

    A new investigation into companies trading in the Chinese city of Dandong, on the border with North Korea, has shed a spotlight on Pyongyang’s global money laundering networks and raised fresh questions about China’s complicity in bypassing United Nations sanctions against Kim Jong-un’s regime. “The Billion Dollar Border Town,” a report published on Friday by […]

    05-Sep-2020 Intellasia | The Telegraph | 6:02 AM

Society

WHO’s Tedros says ‘vaccine nationalism’ would prolong pandemic

WHO director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that “vaccine nationalism” would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively. Tedros said 78 high-income countries had now joined the “COVAX” global vaccine allocation plan, bringing the total to 170 countries, and the “number is growing”. […]

Widespread COVID vaccinations not expected until mid-2021, WHO says

A World Health Organization spokeswoman said on Friday it does not expect widespread vaccinations against COVID-19 until the middle of next year, stressing the importance of rigorous checks on their effectiveness and safety. “We are not expecting to see widespread vaccination until the middle of next year,” spokeswoman Margaret Harris told journalists at a briefing […]

US CDC tells states to prep for COVID-19 vaccine distribution as soon as late October

US CDC tells states to prep for COVID-19 vaccine distribution as soon as late October

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has asked state public health officials to prepare to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine to high-risk groups as soon as late October, documents published by the agency showed on Wednesday. The timing of a vaccine has taken on political importance as US President Donald Trump seeks […]

Health

WHO’s Tedros says ‘vaccine nationalism’ would prolong pandemic

WHO director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that “vaccine nationalism” would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively. Tedros said 78 high-income countries had now joined the “COVAX” global vaccine allocation plan, bringing the total to 170 countries, and the “number is growing”. […]

Widespread COVID vaccinations not expected until mid-2021, WHO says

A World Health Organization spokeswoman said on Friday it does not expect widespread vaccinations against COVID-19 until the middle of next year, stressing the importance of rigorous checks on their effectiveness and safety. “We are not expecting to see widespread vaccination until the middle of next year,” spokeswoman Margaret Harris told journalists at a briefing […]

US CDC tells states to prep for COVID-19 vaccine distribution as soon as late October

US CDC tells states to prep for COVID-19 vaccine distribution as soon as late October

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has asked state public health officials to prepare to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine to high-risk groups as soon as late October, documents published by the agency showed on Wednesday. The timing of a vaccine has taken on political importance as US President Donald Trump seeks […]

FinanceAsia

Announcing the First Ningxia Inbound Tour Competition

Announcing the First Ningxia Inbound Tour Competition

YINCHUAN, China, Sept. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In order to better expand Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region’s inbound tourism market, build Ningxia’s cultural tourism industry presence, and build Ningxia into an internation…

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Responses to Media on the U.S. Government’s Consideration to Add the Company to a Trade Blacklist

SHANGHAI, Sept. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Reuters reported Friday, September 4 (EST), citing a Defense Department official that the Trump administration is considering whether to add China’s top chipmaker SMIC to a trade…

The Winning Bid: UNISOC takes the tender for China Unicom’s Chips

The Winning Bid: UNISOC takes the tender for China Unicom’s Chips

SHANGHAI, Sep 5, 2020 – (ACN Newswire) – Results of the week’s much-anticipated China Unicom Cat.1 large-scale tender have been released, with UNISOC winning the bid. According to published information, the procurement of 5 million Cat.1 sets was one of the largest among carriers to date. China Unicom’s procurement will have a positive impact on the entire Internet of Things industry, and will promote rapid Cat.1 development. The successful bid for this project once again confirmed UNISOC’s leadership in the Cat.1 field.

With large-scale construction of 5G networks, decommissioning processes for 2G/3G networks, policy level migration to NB-IoT/4G (including Cat.1)/5G networks with cellular IoT services, Cat.1 is poised for large-scale growth as the main driver in medium-term scenarios. UNISOC saw the development trend of IoT at an early stage, leading the industry with Cat.1 investment and application, and launching Chunto 8910DM, the world’s first Cat.1bis chipset now widely used in the sharing economy, financial payment, public network intercom, energy, industrial control and other fields. Currently, there are dozens modules and other products equipped with Chunto 8910DM chipsets on the market, applied to wide-ranging fields and scenarios.

UNISOC and China Unicom will continue to cooperate on Cat.1 for the Internet of Things. By integrating their resources to advantage, the two will promote the large-scale application of Cat.1 across the industry as they build out industrial chip-network-platform solutions in future. Expect to see hardware (chips, modules, PCBA, etc.) equipped with UNISOC chips combined with Unicom’s 4G/5G cellular network capabilities, as well as platform capabilities such as a connectivity management platform (CMP) and device management platform (DMP), providing industry customers with one-stop IoT solutions that meet their needs and facilitate the rapid development of the IoT.

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UNISOC Technologies Co., Ltd
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Regional

Apec leaders’ summit to be virtual

The annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum will be held online on December 4 due to the coronavirus pandemic, an Asian diplomatic source said Friday. The summit was originally scheduled to be held on November 12 in Kuala Lumpur. But Malaysia, the current chair, decided to postpone it by about three weeks […]

Chinese firm to run Lao electric grid

Laos is set to cede majority control of its electric grid to a Chinese company, as it struggles to stave off a potential debt default, people with direct knowledge of the agreement said. The deal comes at a time when critics accuse Beijing of “debt trap diplomacy” to gain strategic advantage in countries struggling to […]

Asean expects commitment to regional stability in upcoming ministerial meetings: Retno

Asean expects members to commit to regional political and economic stability during a series of ministerial meetings next week, Foreign minister Retno LP Marsudi said on Friday. Retno said at least 19 virtual meetings, including the 53rd Asean Foreign ministers’ Meeting (AMM) and the Post ministerial Conferences (PMCs), would take place from September 9 to […]

China

US happy to help in China-India border dispute, Trump says

US happy to help in China-India border dispute, Trump says

The United States is ready to help resolve the dispute between India and China over the mountain border running through the western Himalayas, President Donald Trump said on Friday. Trump told reporters the situation was “very nasty,” adding that the two countries were “going at it much more strongly than a lot of people even […]

Trump security adviser says China has biggest election-interference programme

Trump security adviser says China has biggest election-interference programme

China has taken the most active role among countries seeking to interfere in the US election and has the biggest programme to influence domestic politics, US national security adviser Robert O’Brien said on Friday, without providing any details. “We know the Chinese have taken the most active role,” O’Brien told reporters at a briefing. He […]

Mainland China reports 10 new Covid-19 cases vs 25 a day earlier

Mainland China reported 10 new COVID-19 cases on September 4, down from 25 reported a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Saturday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that all the new cases were imported, marking the 20th consecutive day with no locally transmitted infections. The number of new asymptomatic […]

Malaysia

Minister: Malaysia won’t extradite Uighurs to China

Malaysia will not entertain requests to extradite ethnic Uighur refugees to China and will allow them safe passage to a third country should they feel their safety is at risk, a minister has said. South-east Asia has been a preferred transit point to Turkey for ethnic Uighurs Muslims, fleeing what refugees and activists have described […]

Sarawak to continue with S-MM2H despite federal govt’s suspension of programme, says minister

Sarawak will continue to offer the Sarawak-Malaysia My Second Home (S-MM2H) programme to foreigners although the federal government has decided to suspend the MM2H until this December 31. State Tourism, Arts and Culture minister, Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said foreigners could apply for the S-MM2H by abiding to the new enhanced regulations and requirements […]

Water disruption to last at least another four days, Air Selangor says

Water supply to around 1.2 million user will continue to be affected for another four days due to the contamination at the water treatment plants in Sungai Selangor Phases 1, 2, 3 and Rantau Panjang. According to Suhaimi Kamaralzaman, the chief executive of Air Selangor, the water treatment plants need to be at a contamination […]

Indonesia

Philippines, Indonesia central banks ink cooperation agreement

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has inked a memorandum of understanding (MOA) concerning consultation, cooperation and the exchange of information with its Indonesian counterpart. BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno and Financial Services Authority of Indonesia (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan) chair Wimboh Santoso signed the agreement last September 1. The partnership aims to provide a framework for […]

Contact tracers in Indonesia face threats, assaults in fight against COVID-19

The sun was already setting when Dr Yakub and his team of contact tracers were deployed to a densely populated neighbourhood in South Jakarta. An elderly man had just died at his home and there were signs that he had contracted COVID-19. The deceased had earlier tested positive in a rapid antibody test but he […]

Indonesia ships 100 tonnes of cabbage to Taiwan

Agriculture minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo oversaw on Thursday the export of 100 tonnes of cabbage from Malang, East Java, to Taiwan amid the ongoing decline in global trade. The export comprises four containers, each weighing 25 tonnes, of cabbage priced at Rp 40,000 (US$2.72) per kilogram. “This is what we call accelerating the agriculture [sector], […]

Singapore

Non-Singaporean arrivals from India accounted for 63pct of imported COVID-19 cases between Apr-Aug

Non-Singaporean travellers arriving from India make up the highest number of imported COVID-19 cases over a five-month period here, said Health minister Gan Kim Yong in a written parliamentary reply on Friday (4 September). Between 1 April and 31 August, 183 cases who arrived from India had tested positive for the virus here, comprising some […]

40 new COVID-19 cases and one dorm cluster; 250 visitors to SLR Revolution tested negative

The Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed 40 new COVID-19 cases as of Friday (4 September), bringing the country’s total to 56,948. The ministry also announced an additional cluster of 33 cases linked to Blue Stars Dormitory at 3 Kian Teck Lane. All but one of the 40 new cases are asymptomatic and were proactively detected, […]

Singapore detects new COVID-19 clusters at migrant worker dormitories

Singapore health authorities have detected new COVID-19 clusters at foreign worker dormitories previously found to be clear of the infection, highlighting the challenge in containing the spread of the highly infectious virus. The vast majority of Singapore’s nearly 57,000 cases are from cramped dormitories that house more than 300,000 mostly South Asian workers employed in […]

Thailand

Covid-19 measures reimposed

Phangnga has become Thailand’s first province to reimpose strict health measures following news of the first local Covid-19 transmission case in more than three months and the outbreak in neighbouring Myanmar. Among the measures is a required 14-day home quarantine for those arriving in, or returning to, the southern province from areas considered Covid-19 outbreak […]

Protesters target Sanam Luang occupation at rally

Parit “Penguin” Chivarak, a core member of the Free Youth group, on Friday vowed to lead protesters to forcibly occupy the adjacent Sanam Luang when they gather again for a major rally at Thammasat University’s Tha Phrachan campus on September 19. In a post on Facebook yesterday, the Thammasat student activist urged interested parties to […]

Navy targets Yuttapong, files over ‘defamation’

The navy on Friday lodged a complaint with police against Pheu Thai Party MP Yuttapong Charasathien for defamation over his claims that the submarine procurement scheme project was not a genuine government-to-government deal. Capt Annop Jaemsrisai, director of the Military Legislation Division at the Office of the Judge Advocate-General, was assigned by assistant navy chief […]

Philippines

Government talking with US, Russia vaccine makers

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. and a representative from the Office of the President were set to meet yesterday with two foreign manufacturers of COVID vaccines as part of efforts to secure vaccines for the country. This was confirmed yesterday by Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, who said the […]

Duterte OKs gradual resumption of tourism

President Duterte has allowed the gradual resumption of tourism activities in the country following the decision to place many key cities and provinces under modified general community quarantine from September 1 to 31. The move is in line with efforts to reboot the economy, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. said yesterday. According to Roque, the […]

Battle over Pemberton release rages

It’s a tug-of-war over the convicted killer of transgender Jennifer Laude, ordered released recently by an Olongapo City court. The camp of homicide convict US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton is pushing for the immediate processing of his release papers by the Bureau of Corrections. BuCor on Thursday said it was holding off processing […]

Japan

Japan lays out way back for residents with expired visas and re-entry permits

Immigration authorities have said they will allow foreign nationals whose re-entry permits and visas have expired while they were abroad to return to Japan. The Justice Ministry announced on its website earlier this week that non-Japanese residents who left Japan before the end of August but were unable to return before the period of validity […]

Second survivor from capsized cattle ship dies, Japan’s coast guard says

A crewman from a cattle ship that capsized enroute from New Zealand to China has died after being pulled unconscious from water by the Japanese coastguard on Friday, while it emerged the vessel had a history of mechanical issues. The unidentified man was only the second crewman to be found. The search is still on […]

Man found unresponsive after ship sank in typhoon off Japan

Japan’s coast guard said Friday they found a man floating face-down and unresponsive at sea as they searched for survivors from a ship that sank during a typhoon with 43 crew on board. One survivor has so far been rescued from the ship, and early Friday morning, a coast guard vessel “discovered a man face-down […]

Korea

Hospitals in scaled down mode as trainee doctors slow to return to work

South Korea’s major hospitals are maintaining scaled down operations, as trainee doctors have yet to return to work despite an agreement reached to end their weekslong strike, medical sources said Saturday. Large university hospitals have reduced treatments and surgeries and have restricted the number of patients they admit, as thousands of interns and resident doctors […]

New virus cases stay below 200 for 3rd day in South Korea

The number of additional new coronavirus cases in South Korea stayed below 200 for the third straight day on Saturday, but health authorities said it is still too early for the country to let down its guard. The country reported 168 new COVID-19 cases, including 158 local infections, raising the total caseload to 21,010, according […]

South Korea becomes overcast as Typhoon Haishen approaches

South Korea becomes overcast as Typhoon Haishen approaches

South Korea will gradually become overcast as Typhoon Haishen, the season’s 10th typhoon, approaches the country, with the southern coastal regions to get rain, the weather service said Saturday. The forecast by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said that while the central Seoul, Gyeonggi and Chungcheong regions will have clear skies, parts of South Gyeongsang […]

Hong Kong

No one knows what happened to the 12 Hongkong asylum seekers China detained-I’m afraid the same will happen to me

Within two months after the imposition of the sweeping national security law, the city of Hong Kong has undergone massive waves of changes. Of many other shifts to date, there has been textbook censorship in schools, history rewriting, targeting of non-Chinese nationals and protesters captured by the Chinese coast guard while attempting to flee in […]

HK’s Mandatory Provident Fund tracks stock market growth to post returns of 2.9 per cent in August

Hong Kong’s Mandatory Provident Fund, which covers almost 3 million people, reported a robust performance for the second month in a row in August on the back of healthy stock markets, but analysts warned that as the global economic outlook remains far from certain it could affect the fund’s performance for the rest of the […]

Indexes plunge in HK, China as Wall Street’s bloodbath spills over to Asian stock markets, weighing on technology firms

Stock indexes in Hong Kong and China plunged, as the overnight tumble among technology stocks on Wall Street spilled over to Asian trading, raising concern that the recent run-up in the global equity markets may have been overdone. Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng Index dropped 1.8 per cent to 24,551.18 at lunch break, on track […]

Taiwan

Czech Republic’s Taiwan visit hailed as model for European nations

The Czech Republic’s official visit to Taiwan will serve as “a lesson” for European countries on how to interact with China, according to an opinion piece in the Washington Post published Thursday (September 3). Dalibor Rohac, the author, originally from Slovakia and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, pointed out the delegation, led […]

China has no reason to be angry at US-Taiwan trade talks: Assistant Secretary of State

There is no reason for China to become angry over plans for trade talks between the United States and Taiwan, said the US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, David Stillwell, Wednesday (September 2). His comments followed the announcement that the No.3 at the Department of State, Undersecretary for Economic Growth, […]

Cruises around Taiwan to set sail October 22

Hong Kong-based Genting Cruise Lines announced on Thursday (September 3) that it will begin a cruise line around Taiwan that passes through four ports of call beginning October 22, with the new venture coming on the heels of Genting’s recent success with island-hopping cruises. Lion Travel Service Co. and Genting’s Dream Cruises at a joint […]

Vietnam

Hanoi tightens management over condotels, officetels, resort villas

The Hanoi People’s Committee recently issued a written request to tighten the management of the investment, construction and business of condotels, tourist villas and officetels. The committee assigned departments, branches and local authorities to strictly carry out the prime minister’s Directive No 5 dated March 1 last year on enhancing the reorganisation of construction and […]

Trading accounts of foreign investors highest in 8 months

The Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD) in August issued securities trading codes to 296 foreign investors, the highest recorded within eight months but down 8.6 per cent over the same period last year. Of the 296 trading codes, VSD granted codes to 16 institutional investors and 280 to individuals. VSD also approved to change information on […]

Vietnam Airlines to re-start six domestic routes

Vietnam Airlines has prepared a plan to resume domestic flights to safe destinations and meet demand, a representative of the national flag carrier said on September 3. The carrier will resume flights on six routes from September 9: Hanoi Chu Lai, Hanoi Tuy Hoa, Hai Phong Dien Bien, Vinh Buon Ma Thuot, Vinh Da Lat, […]

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