Other news of the day: in India the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is being studied, a very serious problem in the country; in Thailand they declare an offensive against drugs; life expectancy has also fallen in Singapore; reconfirmed the human rights rapporteur in Afghanistan; the last speaker of the Aleut language died in Russia.
HONG KONG
Five adolescents, members of a self-proclaimed independence group, were sentenced to three years in prison. It is the first time that the national security law – imposed by Beijing in 2020 – has been used against minors. The court ruled that the defendants are guilty of fomenting unrest through social media.
INDIA
India is one of the countries most affected by what in medical jargon is called “antimicrobial resistance“, which means that the bacteria responsible for infections are resistant to antibiotics. An estimated 60,000 newborns die each year from this reason. At Katshurba Hospital, Maharashtra, doctors discovered that some drugs have less than 15% of effectiveness against the most common bacteria.
THAILAND
Thai Prime Minister Payuth Chan-Ocha ordered a offensive against the spread of drugs in the country after a former police officer attacked a daycare center and killed 36 people. The former police officer had been suspended from duty for drug possession, although medical tests did not reveal the presence of drugs at the time of the attack.
SINGAPORE
Life expectancy fell for the first time in the city-state due to deaths from covid-19, despite the fact that Singapore was one of the countries least affected by the pandemic. Between January 2020 and June 2022, there were 2,490 deaths, of which 60% were directly caused by the coronavirus. In 40% of the cases, the people had previous pathologies.
AFGHANISTAN
United Nations extended the mandate for another 12 months of the special rapporteur for human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett. However, China, Venezuela and Pakistan voted against the resolution (29 votes in favour, 15 abstentions). In recent days, the UN mission in Afghanistan has sent teams to Panjshir to investigate the alleged torture and killing of civilians by the Taliban.
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Aramco said that will keep your supply constant of crude oil to seven Asian countries despite the production cuts decided in recent days by OPEC + and shipments will be made in November, before the winter peak. Furthermore, despite rising energy costs across the board, Riyadh has also kept its crude prices unchanged for Asian countries.
RUSSIA
The last Russian speaker of the Aleutian language, the language of the Eskimos who also live in Alaska, Gennadiy Yakovlev, 86, died in Kamchatka, according to the chairperson of the Aleutina district Duma, Galina Koroleva. He spoke in the dialect variant of the islands and lived in the village of Nikolskoe on the island of Bering, belonging to the Komandorskye archipelago.
ARMENIA – AZERBAIJAN
After participating in the extended meeting of European countries in Prague, Armenian Prime Minister Pašinyan reiterated that Armenia “is ready to unblock all communication channels in the region”, as soon as Azerbaijan responds to Yerevan’s request for the recognition of territorial integrity, which it has not received so far.
