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This website puts boisterous children and noisy neighbours on the map
25 Feb, 2021 10:30 PM
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Children play in a park in Tokyo. Among the 6,000 complaints on the DQN Today website are entries that single out areas frequented by unsupervised children. Photo / Noriko Hayashi, The New York Times
Children play in a park in Tokyo. Among the 6,000 complaints on the DQN Today website are entries that single out areas frequented by unsupervised children. Photo / Noriko Hayashi, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Tiffany May and Hisako Ueno
The crowdsourced guide collects anonymous gripes and pins every grievance on an interactive map, creating a record of the irritating sounds and sights of Japan.
BEIJING â Chinaâs Communist Party already wields outsized influence over Hong Kongâs political landscape. Its allies have long controlled a committee that handpicks the territoryâs leader. Its loyalists dominate the Hong Kong legislature. It ousted four of the cityâs elected opposition lawmakers last year.
Now, China plans to impose restrictions on Hong Kongâs electoral system to root out candidates the Communist Party deems disloyal, a move that could block democracy advocates in the city from running for any elected office.
The planned overhaul reinforces the Communist Partyâs resolve to quash the few remaining vestiges of political dissent after the antigovernment protests that roiled the territory in 2019. It also builds on a national security law for the city that Beijing enacted last summer, giving the authorities sweeping powers to target dissent.
Not Yet Desperate, Japan and South Korea Plod Toward Vaccinations
The slower pace gives the East Asian countries a chance to learn from mistakes elsewhere but also poses risks as more contagious and perhaps deadlier variants of the virus emerge.
A coronavirus vaccination drill in Kawasaki, Japan, on Wednesday. The country will begin vaccinating medical workers at the end of February.Credit.Philip Fong/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Jan. 31, 2021
And yet none of these places have begun to carry out the only solution with any hope of putting the pandemic behind them: vaccinations.
While the United States and most nations in Europe as well as the Asian behemoths China and India have begun inoculating their populations, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong have stood out by proceeding much more slowly.
China wanted to show off its vaccines
Sun Online Desk
26th January, 2021 08:34:16
China’s coronavirus vaccines were supposed to deliver a geopolitical win that showcased the country’s scientific prowess and generosity. Instead, in some places, they have set off a backlash.
Officials in Brazil and Turkey have complained that Chinese companies have been slow to ship the doses and ingredients. Disclosures about the Chinese vaccines have been slow and spotty. The few announcements that have trickled out suggest that China’s vaccines, while considered effective, cannot stop the virus as well as those developed by Pfizer and Moderna, the American drugmakers.