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Millions Facing Winter Power Shortages In China As Coal Supply...

2021-06-01T02:12:39Z

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2021-05-31T19:57:34Z

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BEIJING, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Many LGBT people in China are being forced to undergo "conversion therapy", often done by unscrupulous, unlicensed providers in a sector that operates with little oversight by the authorities, rights groups said. Though widely discredited by doctors, conversion therapy is an attempt to change a person's sexual orientation through various means such as hypnosis, drugs, acupuncture and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] even electric shock therapy. In China, the therapy is often offered by centres not licensed to practise medicine, as well as by public hospitals, in the absence of an outright ban. "It's not just a commercial scam, but an action that violates people's rights," said Wang Zhenyu, head of the Public Interest Law Center on Equal Rights for LGBTI, one of the groups that compiled the report. The National Health Commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Chinese authorities removed homosexuality from its list of diseases in the Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders, a [http://search.about.com/?q=national%20clinical national clinical] guide, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] in 2001. But many gay people still face pressure from their families to undergo the treatment. In 2016, a man surnamed Wang, sued a hospital where he had been locked up for 19 days while receiving therapy in the city of Zhumadian, the groups said in their report, released late on Wednesday. The man said his family had forced him to get the therapy In another case in July, a young transgender woman's family committed her to a hospital against her will in the southern city of Jingdezhen, the groups said. A programme manager at the other group involved in writing the report, Beijing Gender, said some centres illegally used electric shock therapy in their therapy. An activist named Peng Yanzi went undercover in a conversion therapy centre in 2014 and was forced to undergo electrotherapy. He then brought the case to court and won. There are at least 96 centres and hospitals across China that offer the therapy, the groups said in their report. They questioned health departments in 25 cities with such centres to see if any had taken action against them and found no evidence of any in 17 of them. Four cities had punished medical institutions between 2017 and 2018 for practising psychiatry without proper credentials, among them the capital, Beijing and the southern city of Changsha in Hunan, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] the groups said. (Reporting by Huizhong Wu Editing by Robert Birsel)

Residents Fret As China apos;s Virus Exclusion Zone Widens

2021-05-31T18:38:30Z

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By David Stanway and Martin Pollard CHANGSHA, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] China, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Walking through the drizzle outside the railway station in the city of Changsha on Chinese New Year, local residents said it was only a matter of time before they became part of a lockdown aimed at containing China's most lethal new contagious disease since 2003. Changsha, home to 7 million people, remains on the outside of an ever-widening exclusion zone in central China as local governments try to stop the spread of a flu-like contagious disease that originated in the city of Wuhan about 355 km (220 miles) away and has already killed 42 people. More than 10 cities in Hubei province have already been shut down, and local residents in neighbouring Hunan - the home province of Mao Zedong - said they were resigned to the possibility that they would also be sealed off in the next few days. "My first concern is for myself. I'm worried that the virus may infect me. I'm also worried about people in Hubei," said Wang Junnan, a 23-year-old aviation safety officer from the city of Zhuzhou, about an hour from Changsha. Nearly all cities in Hubei to the north cut transport links over the past two days after the provincial capital Wuhan, a city of 11 million where the outbreak started, imposed a lock-down. "There isn't much I can do. All I can do is have the mask on whenever I can," Wang said. "You can hardly find masks to buy at this moment." One pharmacy nearby had almost sold out, with the shop assistant saying they only had one "cheaper, less effective" mask left. More than 1,300 people have been confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus, traced to a Wuhan seafood market illegally selling wildlife. The vast majority of cases have been in Hubei province. Reuters journalists were briefly stuck in the city of Xianning, which neighbours Wuhan, when the city closed transport links on Friday night, the eve of the Lunar New Year. The departures board at the city's railway station was blank, the ticket kiosk staffed by two women who said they could not sell tickets. But local authorities in Hubei and neighbouring Hunan do not yet appear to have developed a properly coordinated [http://www.broowaha.com/search/response response] to the crisis, with most [http://www.fool.com/search/solr.aspx?q=cities%20choosing cities choosing] to try to seal their borders at all costs. Xianning police urged Reuters journalists to head south to the city of Yueyang, which lies across the provincial border in Hunan, but Yueyang was sealed off by another police roadblock and dozens of cars trying to leave Hubei province were also forced to turn back. However, in the early hours of Saturday morning, the route into Changsha, another 200 kilometres (125 miles) south, remained unblocked. Residents said they expected tougher measures soon, as cities, transportation operators and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] businesses across China extended closures aimed at curbing the spread of the virus. "I saw in the newspaper that someone was caught earlier today trying to leave Hubei and get to Hunan using the Didi application and they should be arrested," said Wang. "These measures are difficult, but they are necessary," said Wang. Hotel staff in Changsha also told Reuters they had received instructions not to allow anyone from Hubei province to book rooms. Peng Aihua, a 71-year old Buddhist nun walking outside Changsha train station, remained phlegmatic, even though the disease has spread panic through the country. "Why would death scare me?" she said. "I haven't reached my time to die yet." (Reporting by David Stanway and Martin Pollard in Changsha; Writing by Tony Munroe; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Beijing apos;s Australian Coal Blockade Plunges Dozen Cities Into Darkness

2021-05-31T10:41:52Z

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Beijing's blockade of Australian coal is backfiring, with a dozen cities forcing residents and office buildings to ration their electricity use. The politically-inflicted situation is so bad street lights have been turned off in the city of Yiwu in 's eastern Zheijiang province as factories are down to part-time hours. In the coastal city of Wenzhou, local Chinese Communist Party authorities have demanded businesses refrain from heating their office unless temperatures are close to freezing. Southern China's Hunan Province is awash with reports on social media platform Weibo of workers in Changsha having to climb dozens of flights of stairs after elevators were shut down. Scroll down for video Beijing's blockade of Australian coal is backfiring with a dozen cities forcing residents and office buildings to ration their electricity use. Southern China's Hunan Province is awash with reports on social media platform Weibo of workers in Changsha (pictured) climbing dozens of flights of stairs after lifts were shut down 'I've never had so much trouble going to the office,' a Changsha-based office worker, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] who didn't wish to be named told the London-based . He was trapped in an elevator for 40 minutes last week because of a power shortage. Despite the widespread media reports, Zhao Chenxin, the secretary general of China's National Development and Reform Commission, denied household electricity consumption had been affected in the adjoining Hunan, Zheigiang or Jiangxi provinces. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share 3.6k shares 'In general, please believe that our ability to ensure stable energy supply is not a problem,' he told a media conference covered by Chinese state-run new wire service Xinhua on Monday. Former resources minister Matt Canavan weighed in, arguing Australia was better off trying to find other export markets instead of trying to repair relations with China's Communist Party regime. 'There are a lot of people out there who need to be fed, a lot of people who want to switch lights on,' he told Sky News on Tuesday. As of November, 66 vessels carrying Australian thermal coal have been prevented from unloading the cargo, data from finance news wire Bloomberg and commodity analytics group Kpler showed. Last month, Beijing blocked Australian coal imports, which has resulted in 80 ships carrying more than $1.1billion in blacklisted cargo being stranded off the Chinese coast. In one example, Gaurav Singh, a 29-year-old Indian navigation officer, left Hay Point in north Queensland on July 20 and arrived in northern China's Jintang Port on August 3. Cities in the Hunan, Jianggix and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] Zhejiang provinces have been plunged into darkness as a result of the Chinese Communist Party's blockage of Australian coal But when the MV Anastasia prepared to unload the cargo, Chinese officials told the crewmen they were not allowed to dock - or leave Mr Singh told Daily Mail Australia that after five long months caught in the middle of China's escalating trade assault - the crew of 18 were getting desperate. 'Mentally we are really struggling... one of our crew tried to commit suicide on board the ship. Everyone is growing very frustrated and angry.' 'We are getting punished for a crime that we have not committed. We are seeking every possible way out, but we are helpless.' Last year, before the global Covid pandemic, China bought $7billion worth of Australian thermal coal exports. Australia supplied China with 57 per cent of its thermal coal needs, with the Communist power being Australia's biggest trading partner and export market. As of November, 66 vessels carrying Australian thermal coal have been prevented from unloading the cargo, data from finance news wire Bloomberg and commodity [http://www.reddit.com/r/howto/search?q=analytics analytics] group Kpler showed. Pictured is the MV Anastasia banned from docking at [http://ccmixter.org/api/query?datasource=uploads&search_type=all&sort=rank&search=China%27s%20Jintang&lic=by,sa,s,splus,pd,zero China's Jintang] Port since August Last month, Beijing blocked Australian coal imports, which has resulted in 80 ships carrying more than $1.1billion in blacklisted cargo being stranded off the Chinese coast. 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Man On Motorbike Crashes Lies In Road And Plays With Phone

2021-05-31T06:23:50Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. How the Chinese People's Daily presented his predicament. Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET There are moments when I think I've seen it all. That's when I slap my face with a wet tea towel, knowing that something I haven't seen is about to enter my firmament. So it is that I have received wind of a man riding his motorbike last Tuesday in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, China. he and his bike were in an accident with a car at an intersection. What's not clear is what caused the accident. Might the man have been riding his bike while playing with his phone? I ask this apparently absurd question only because photographs first published on Weibo show the man lying in the street, clutching his phone and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] seemingly playing a video game. The Chinese People's Daily reports that he had injuries. It's unclear how serious these might have been, given that he was conscious enough to play on his phone. More Technically Incorrect that police declared he had subsequently been discharged from hospital. Perhaps he'd even had the chance to charge his phone there. The Mail also said that skeptics on [http://www.fool.com/search/solr.aspx?q=social%20media social media] suggested that the man stayed prostrate so that he could extract compensation from the driver. However, if that was the case, surely he might have acted a touch more, well, hurt, than the playing on his phone indicated. Still, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] for me this is a first, and one I will remember at least all weekend. Until, that is, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] the next person-clutching-phone-does-something-very-very-silly comes along.

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2021-05-31T06:23:41Z

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