Analysts: Vietnam Expanding Fishing Militia In South China Sea
12 May 2021, 19:35 GMT+10 TAIPEI - Vietnam s maritime militia in the South China Sea shows signs of growing over the past decade, say scholars and a research institution in China where the government disputes parts of the waterway with Hanoi.
According to the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, a research organization based in the Chinese province of Hainan, the 12-year-old militia numbers between 46,000 to 70,000 personnel. It says 13 platoons with a combined 3,000 people operate near the sea s contested Paracel Islands and another 10,000 people operate armed fishing boats off southern Vietnam.
Ten years ago the militia was just starting up , said Yun Sun, East Asia Program senior associate at the Stimson Center in Washington.
May 12, 2021 LESS than 5,000 new coronavirus infections were reported for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, as testing output also remained low.
In its case bulletin, the Department of Health (DOH) confirmed 4,842 new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), bringing the cumulative case count to 1,118,359.
The daily positivity rate remained below 13 percent. Of the 33,529 samples tested on May 10, 12.5 percent were found positive for Sars-CoV-2.
The DOH also reported 94 additional mortalities, raising the death toll to 18,714. The case fatality rate remained at 1.67 percent.
There were 8,312 additional recoveries, pushing the total to 1,046,431, or 93.6 percent of the total cases.
With recoveries exceeding new infections, the number of active cases further declined to 53,214, or 4.8 percent of the cumulative case count.
Miriam College (Photo from MC’s website)
In an online forum facilitated by the NTF-ELCAC, a group photo of MC’s high school students was included in one of the agency’s presentations during the “Para sa Youth PH: The Relaunching” forum on January 29.
The video was uploaded on NTF-ELCAC’s official Facebook page with the caption: “Makakasama natin ang mga student leaders mula sa iba’t ibang unibersidad upang talakayin ang isyu sa Redtagging, DND-PUP Agreement, at Anti-Terror Act of 2020 (We will be joined by student leaders from different universities to discuss the issue on red-tagging, Department of National Defense-Polytechnic University of the Philippines Agreement, and Anti-Terror Act of 2020).”
Vietnam’s maritime militia in the South China Sea shows signs of growing over the past decade, say scholars and a research institution in China where the government disputes parts of the waterway with Hanoi. According to the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, a research organization based in the Chinese province of Hainan, the…
How Asian countries experiment with potential COVID-19 treatments
May 12, 2021 4:44 PM PHT
The Philippine government joins the rest of the world’s authorities in exploring experimental treatments for COVID-19.
The prolonged pandemic situation has Filipinos turning to potential alternative treatments as vaccines remain scarce, on top of the dilemma of vaccine hesitancy.
How have countries in Asia dealt with experimental drugs and treatments for COVID-19?
Philippines: Numerous options, alleged red tape in regulation
In the Philippines, groups within the medical community and government scientists are studying the potential of convalescent plasma, virgin coconut oil (VCO), colchicine, and ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment.