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High Penalties for Hunting and Illegal Wildlife Trade in China. China will impose high penalties for illegal hunting of wild animals and illegal trade of the animals.   This was announced during the annual National People's Congress. The rules were officially introduced in January after the coronavirus outbreak was linked to a market in Wuhan city selling wildlife such as bats and pangolins. In some cities, such as Wuhan and Shanghai, the rules are already strictly enforced, but often not in other parts of the country. In China, besides bats and pangolins, body parts of tigers are also traded. It is often sold as a miracle cure for diseases.

With the inauguration of President Tsai Ing-wen, the stalemate between Taiwan and Beijing has become clear again.   Taiwan does not want to reunite with China; according to Beijing, it is the only possible way forward. Due to the corona crisis and the struggles with the WHO, the rest of the world has also discovered Taiwan. It seemed a confident President Tsai who is starting her second term in office today. "Taiwan will never become part of China, under the" one country, two systems "Beijing offer," she said in her inauguration speech. "Both countries must find a way to coexist peacefully in the long term." But there lies the inextricable knot: according to China, Taiwan, with its 23 million inhabitants, is not a country but an unhinged island that will inevitably drift into the...

The head of a hospital in Wuhan, China, died on Monday of the new coronavirus. Liu Zhiming, director of the Wuchang Hospital, is the first hospital director to die in the fight against the coronavirus, Chinese media reported.   The news comes after a 59-year-old nurse died in the same hospital last Friday due to the virus. A hospital employee said that Liu had always been a healthy man and that he was surprised by the news of his death. Earlier this month, a Chinese doctor died who warned his colleagues at the end of last year of an outbreak of the new coronavirus. Li Wenliang also worked in the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan, where the virus emerged. He was not taken seriously by the Chinese authorities when he raised the alarm.

Hong Kong police are looking for two people who have withdrawn from the quarantine in which they were placed without permission. They had to stay inside the government to prevent further spread of the new coronavirus.   The Health Minister said Monday that a total of nine people from Hong Kong had left their designated quarantine area, two of which have not yet been located. "I remind these people that breaking the quarantine order is a criminal offence," the minister said. Those who do not follow the risk of the order a maximum fine of 25,000 Hong Kong dollars and six months in prison. In Hong Kong, 1193 people were separated from the outside world for fourteen days after they had been to mainland China. Most are in their own homes, 35 people stay in hotels and 20 others were se...

In the Taiwanese money Taipei, 170,000 to 200,000 folks participated in the Pride Parade on Saturday. Members waved rainbow flags to convey their assistance for that recently authorized LGBT relationship.   Taiwan was the very first Asian nation in May to allow relationship between two people of the identical sexual intercourse. For the time being, more than two thousand LGBT couples have previously wedded. Improved with this compute, a record volume of LGBT individuals and sympathisers take part in the Great pride Parade in Taipei five several weeks later. Ahead of the president's recognized house, A lot more than two hundred organisations are subscribing to the slogan "Homosexuals are excellent neighbours" within the colourful procession which prospects to the sq . in front of t...