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<p>Hi, I am KEKEREN, from Taipei, Taiwan. <br />Want to share my travel stories and international news digest with you . <br />Enjoy it! <br /> <br />你好, 我是科科人, 土生土長的臺灣台北人 <br />想與你分享每日英日雙聲道新聞/生活記錄/一人旅的故事：） <br /> <br />FB 粉專: <br />科科人斜槓人參每週豹（我4小海豹粉沒錯） <br />https://www.facebook.com/kerkerreninterpret <br /> <br />科科美食旅遊社團: <br />https://reurl.cc/Kj5q2y <br /> <br />Wordpress網誌: <br />EUREKA MOMENT <br />https://lucciolewill.wordpress.com/ <br /> <br />Email: <br />kerkerinterpret@gmail.com <br /> <br />IG: kerkerinterpret <br /> <br /> <br />科科PODCAST: <br />Spotify: https://reurl.cc/EzyWWR <br />iTunes: https://reurl.cc/e8gnnQ <br />Google: https://reurl.cc/v12ooy <br />Firstory: https://reurl.cc/14EMzm <br /> <br/>Powered by <a href="https://firstory.me">Firstory Hosting</a></p>
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June 3, 2021
20210603 EP8 UN食物價格指數上升 NASA探索金星新計畫 日本再投資8億美元支持COVAX
<p>贊助科科人一杯咖啡 https://pay.firstory.me/user/ckfzpluecnopd0800l0z70bv3 <br />經濟學人每日濃縮逐字稿： <br />https://www.economist.com/espresso <br /> <br />A United Nations index of global food prices rose for the 12th consecutive <br />month, its longest stretch in more than a decade. Since the pandemic began, a <br />drought in Brazil has hit coffee and maize production. Output of vegetable oil <br />in South-East Asia has also stagnated. Meanwhile, soaring meat consumption as <br />China’s economy rapidly recovers has increased its demand for grain imports. <br /> <br />NASA announced two new missions to study Venus, Earth’s closest planetary <br />neighbour. America’s space agency said it was awarding around $1bn to develop <br />the launches which would take place between 2028 and 2030. One will measure the <br />composition of the Venusian atmosphere. The other would map the planet’s surface <br />(which is hot enough to melt lead) to establish why it developed so differently <br />from Earth’s. <br /> <br />America responded to the imposition of digital-service taxes on its tech firms <br />by levying tariffs on Austria, Britain, India, Italy, Spain and Turkey. That may <br />have been more of a negotiating tactic than a genuine threat—Katherine Tai, <br />America’s trade representative, said the tariffs would be suspended for six <br />months to allow for multilateral discussions of tax arrangements. <br /> <br />日經亞洲每日疫情追蹤： <br />https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Coronavirus-Free-to-read/Coronavirus-latest-Indonesia-cancels-hajj-pilgrimage-again <br />Thursday, June 3 (Tokyo time) <br />6:00 p.m. Hong Kong's Department of Health has approved a government advisory <br />panel's suggestion to lower the minimum age for the BioNTech vaccine from 16 to <br />12, citing phase-three clinical data. As of Thursday, about 14% of Hong Kong's <br />population is fully vaccinated. <br />5:00 p.m. Indonesia has canceled the hajj pilgrimage for people in the world's <br />largest Muslim-majority nation for a second year in a row due to concerns over <br />the pandemic, the religious affairs minister says. For many Indonesians, the <br />religious pilgrimage is a once-in-a-lifetime event, with the average wait time <br />20 years due to a quota system. <br />"Due to the pandemic and for the safety of the pilgrims, the government has <br />decided that this year it won't allow Indonesian pilgrims to go again," the <br />minister said, adding Saudi Arabia had not opened access for the hajj. <br />4:00 p.m. Taiwan reports 583 domestic infections, including 219 cases added to <br />recent days' totals as it reflects delays in reporting positive tests. The <br />figure was an increase from 549 reported on Wednesday. <br />3:55 p.m. While Vietnamese Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long shocked the world <br />on Saturday by hinting that a newly discovered variant could have contributed to <br />outbreaks within the country, Kidong Park, the WHO representative in Vietnam, <br />told Nikkei Asia on Wednesday, "There is no new hybrid variant in Vietnam at <br />this moment based on WHO definition." <br />Long had said the government uncovered "a new COVID-19 variant" that combines <br />characteristics of two existing variants first found in India and the U.K. <br />1:50 p.m. India reports 134,154 cases in the last 24 hours, the seventh straight <br />day with fewer than 200,000 infections, pushing the country's total to 28.44 <br />million. Deaths rose by 2,887 to 337,989. Meanwhile, the health ministry says it <br />has finalized a deal with domestic vaccine maker Biological-E and ordered 300 <br />million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, which is currently in Phase 3 clinical <br />trials. "These vaccine doses will be manufactured and stockpiled by Biological-E <br />from August to December 2021," the ministry said in a statement, adding an <br />advance payment of 15 billion rupees ($205 million) will be made. <br />11:10 a.m. Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, <br />has insisted the games must go ahead as planned despite the COVID-19 pandemic. <br />"We cannot postpone again," she said in an interview with Japan's Nikkan Sports <br />newspaper. The Olympian-turned-politician also rejected the possibility of <br />canceling the games. <br />11:00 a.m. South Korea reports 681 cases, up from 677 a day earlier and bringing <br />the country totals to 142,157 cases, with 1,968 deaths. <br />7:54 a.m. Taiwan's baseball association tweets that it is withdrawing from the <br />final Olympic baseball qualifier in Mexico later this month -- an event the <br />island was due to host itself before tighter COVID-19 border rules prompted a <br />venue change. <br />5:01 a.m. A COVID-19 vaccine summit hosted by Japan and global vaccine alliance <br />Gavi secures nearly $2.4 billion, filling a shortfall for delivering 1.8 billion <br />vaccine doses to low-income countries. Japan said it will donate $800 million to <br />the COVAX facility, in addition to the $200 million the country has already <br />disbursed. <br /> <br/>Powered by <a href="https://firstory.me">Firstory Hosting</a></p>
June 2, 2021
20210602 EP7 國際疫苗及經濟狀況追蹤
<p>贊助科科人一杯咖啡 https://pay.firstory.me/user/ckfzpluecnopd0800l0z70bv3 <br /> <br />經濟學人每日濃縮逐字稿： <br />https://www.economist.com/espresso <br />The World Health Organisation approved Sinovac Biotech’s covid-19 vaccine for <br />emergency use. It recommends that CoronaVac, the Chinese-produced vaccine, be <br />given to people aged 18 and over, with a second dose two to four weeks later. <br />Over 430m doses of the vaccine have already been administered. WHO approval will <br />allow it to be included in COVAX, the global vaccine-sharing scheme. <br />Joe Biden visited Tulsa, Oklahoma, where hundreds of African-Americans were <br />massacred by a white mob in 1921. At least 35 blocks of black-owned <br />buildings—houses, businesses, a hospital and a school—were burned down. “For <br />much too long, the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked <br />in darkness,” said the president. “My fellow Americans, this was not a riot, <br />this was a massacre. <br />Pope Francis made the most extensive changes to the Roman Catholic Church’s <br />penal code in four decades. The sweeping reforms widened church law to <br />criminalise the grooming of minors and broadened the definition of sexual abuse <br />to include the exploitation of adults. Despite formally allowing women to <br />administer communion and serve at the altar earlier this year, the Pope affirmed <br />that they cannot be ordained. <br />Canada’s economy continued to recover from the pandemic, with its GDP growing by <br />5.6% at an annual rate in the quarter ending in March. That was slightly below <br />forecasts made by economists, but still healthy. The rise was buoyed by an <br />increase in housing spending. Economic activity may slow in this quarter because <br />of new lockdowns following a covid-19 wave. <br />House prices in Britain rose by 11% over the past year, the fastest increase <br />since 2014, according to Nationwide, a building society. Buyers seeking larger <br />properties and a temporary suspension of property-transaction taxes have fuelled <br />demand. Lower interest rates have also turbocharged the market, as in America, <br />where the Case-Shiller national house-price index is rising at an annual rate of <br />13%. <br />Katumba Wamala, Uganda’s former army chief and the current minister of <br />transport, survived an assasination attempt. Four attackers on motorcycles shot <br />at his car in Kampala, the capital. Mr Wamala was wounded in both shoulders; his <br />daughter and driver were killed. Such incidents have become common in recent <br />years in Uganda, where several prominent figures have been gunned down. <br /> <br />日經亞洲： <br />https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Coronavirus-Free-to-read/Coronavirus-latest-Lonza-to-make-Moderna-vaccine-ingredients <br />Wednesday, June 2 (Tokyo time) <br />3:34 p.m. Malaysia reports 7,703 new cases, bringing its total number of <br />infections to 587,165. Malaysia is experiencing a corona surge, though cases <br />have dipped since hitting a record on Saturday. <br />3:08 p.m. Taiwan reports 549 COVID-19 cases, including 177 added to the totals <br />for recent days as it continues to readjust its infection numbers following <br />delays in reporting positive tests. The total is up from 327 on Tuesday. <br />3:02 p.m. Swiss contract drug maker Lonza says that a new production line in the <br />Netherlands will produce ingredients for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, part of the <br />U.S. pharmaceutical's plan to significantly lift output. The line in Geleen will <br />have the annual capacity to make ingredients for up to 300 million doses at 50 <br />micrograms per dose, Lonza says. That is half the 100-microgram dose that <br />Moderna has been delivering to date. Moderna and scientists at the National <br />Institutes of Health have been trying to determine whether doses of the <br />company's COVID-19 vaccine can be halved to double the supply. <br />1:16 p.m. India reports a daily rise in new coronavirus infections of 132,788 <br />over the past 24 hours, while deaths rose by 3,207. The nation's tally of <br />infections now stands at 28.3 million, while the death toll has reached 335,102, <br />health ministry data showed. <br />12:24 p.m. Australia's Victoria state extends a snap COVID-19 lockdown for a <br />second week in Melbourne in a bid to contain an outbreak of the highly <br />contagious virus strain first detected in India, but it will ease some <br />restrictions in other regions. Australia's second-most-populous state was <br />plunged into lockdown last Thursday, initially until June 3, after the first <br />locally acquired cases in three months were detected, infections rose steadily <br />and those in close contact reached several thousand. "If we let this thing run <br />its course, it will explode," state acting Premier James Merlino told reporters <br />in Melbourne. "This variant of concern will become uncontrollable, and people <br />will die." <br />11:30 a.m. A shipment of coronavirus vaccines to North Korea via the global <br />COVAX sharing program that was expected for late May has been delayed again amid <br />protracted consultations, South Korea's Unification Ministry says. COVAX, which <br />secures vaccines for poor countries, has said it will provide nearly 2 million <br />doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to North Korea. <br />9:30 a.m. Vietnam is allowing international flights to arrive in Hanoi and Ho <br />Chi Minh City effective immediately, after a few days of suspension due to <br />COVID-19, its aviation authority said on Wednesday. The country had initially <br />banned incoming international flights to Hanoi's Noi Bai airport for a week <br />starting Monday and to Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat airport until June 14. <br />The aviation authority did not say why it is resuming flights earlier than <br />planned, but most of the COVID-19 cases in the current outbreak are locally <br />transmitted, not from international passengers. <br /> <br /> <br/>Powered by <a href="https://firstory.me">Firstory Hosting</a></p>
June 1, 2021
20210601 EP6 科科人回歸 經濟學人本日濃縮 日經亞洲 TSMC在日本半導體投資計劃
<p>贊助科科人一杯咖啡： https://pay.firstory.me/user/ckfzpluecnopd0800l0z70bv3 <br />經濟學人每日報 https://www.economist.com/espresso <br />逐字稿： <br /> <br />Chinese parents will soon be allowed to have a third child (see main stories). <br />The move was one of a range of measures introduced by the Communist Party’s <br />Politburo to manage the rapid ageing of China’s population. The party’s <br />leadership also agreed to raise the retirement age and to improve pensions and <br />health care for the elderly. <br />The World Health Organisation will use the Greek alphabet to refer to variants <br />of SARS-CoV-2. “Variants of concern” first detected in Britain (B.1.1.7), South <br />Africa (B.1.351), Brazil (P.1) and India (B.1.617.2) will be labelled Alpha, <br />Beta, Gamma and Delta following the order in which they were first reported. The <br />WHO hopes the system will lessen the stigma on countries detecting new strains. <br />Peru changed the way it calculates covid-19 deaths. In the process its official <br />mortality rate from the disease became the world’s highest, nearly tripling to <br />500 per 100,000 people. A lack of testing meant the disease had been <br />dramatically undercounted in the country. The new figures are in line with its <br />excess-death rate—an often more robust measurement which is rarely incorporated <br />into official covid statistics. <br />The OECD revised up its forecast for world economic growth this year from 4.2% <br />to 5.8%. Expansion of 4.4% next year will bring GDP in most places back to <br />pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022. The club of mostly rich countries <br />advised governments to switch their efforts from emergency-stimulus schemes <br />towards long-term investment programmes. <br />Annual inflation in Germany reached 2.4% in May. Up from 2.1% in April, the <br />figure was much higher than economists had forecast. The country’s central bank <br />predicts that inflation “could temporarily reach 4%” at the end of the year, the <br />highest level the country has seen since it adopted the euro in 2002. <br />The yuan fell against other currencies after China’s central bank forced banks <br />to hold a greater share of their foreign exchange in reserve. The increase, from <br />5% to 7%, in effect reduces the supply of dollars and other currencies in the <br />country. The move is intended to rein in the yuan’s surging value, caused by a <br />strong post-lockdown economic recovery. <br />At least 50 people were killed in two attacks in Ituri province in the east of <br />the Democratic Republic of Congo. Local officials blamed ADF, a Ugandan Islamist <br />group with ties to ISIS that has been terrorising the region. In a bid to <br />restore peace in early May President Felix Tshisekedi placed Ituri and the <br />neighbouring province of North Kivu under martial law. <br /> <br /> <br />日經亞洲：https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-s-Japan-project-attracts-over-20-participant-companies <br />TOKYO -- The Japanese government on Monday was set to finalize a plan in which <br />it has enlisted Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to develop cutting-edge <br />chipmaking technologies in Japan. <br />The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has been concerned about the <br />Japanese semiconductor industry's declining position in the global market, which <br />led it to seek TSMC's cooperation. <br />TSMC, the world's biggest contract chipmaker, intends to bear around half the <br />project's cost of about 37 billion yen ($337 million). Over 20 Japanese <br />companies -- including Ibiden, which is strong in chip packaging -- will <br />participate. <br />The Japanese government -- which intends to establish a joint public-private <br />sector concern to cooperate with TSMC -- expects the effort to pay off with <br />improved international competitiveness for Japanese industry. <br />Construction of a trial facility will begin this summer at the earliest at the <br />National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, in Tsukuba, <br />Ibaraki Prefecture. Full-blown research and development work will begin as early <br />as 2022. <br />The chip industry is nearing limits in some crucial areas, including in the <br />thinning of wires so semiconductors can have ever greater processing power. <br />Now the Taiwanese company, which has led the global industry in miniaturization, <br />is embarking on another strategy to make the more powerful and sophisticated <br />chips of tomorrow -- cooperate with Japanese companies and harness their <br />strengths in materials and manufacturing equipment. <br />Part of TSMC's plan is to come up with so-called 3D packaging technology -- <br />which vertically layers semiconductors -- and to do so in Japan. <br />Ibiden is a global leader in packaging technology. <br />Other companies participating in the project include Asahi Kasei, a materials <br />maker known for its ultrathin wiring; Shin-Etsu Chemical, which makes a new <br />heat-dissipating material; Nagase & Co., a molding materials specialist; and <br />Shibaura Mechatronics, a manufacturing equipment producer. <br />There is a significant advantage for Japan's atrophying semiconductor industry <br />to collaborate with TSMC, and the Japanese government intends to partially <br />finance the project by using a fund established to promote the development of <br />next-generation semiconductors. <br />It is likely that Japan is cooperating with TSMC on the condition that the <br />Taiwanese company set up a manufacturing operation in Japan. <br /> <br/>Powered by <a href="https://firstory.me">Firstory Hosting</a></p>
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