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Key words : military declared
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Myanmar's military has declared a state of emergency, saying it will probe alleged election fraud.
Key words : myanmar state
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Reuters news agency is reporting that Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of the country's ruling party were detained in an early morning raid. The agency discussed the matter by telephone with the ruling party's spokesperson on Monday.
Myanmar's military claims there were irregularities in last November's general election. It says there were millions of duplicate names in the voter register.
The military is demanding that the government and the election commission investigate and take action.
The parliament was set to convene on Monday for the first time since the election. But the military issued a statement on Sunday night. It said that the country should not move forward to the next step with things as they are.
Key words : military declared reportedly
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Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of the ruling party were reportedly detained in a raid early on Monday morning. Myanmar's military has declared a state of emergency through the country's state-run television and says it has seized power. The military says it will investigate irregularities and fraud in the general election that was held in November last year.
It says Vice President Myint Swe, a former high-ranking military officer, will serve as acting president, and the army's commander-in-chief, Min Aung Hlaing, will govern the country.
Reuters news agency quotes a spokesperson for the governing National League for Democracy, or NLD, as saying that President Win Myint was also detained.
AFP news agency quotes the same spokesperson as saying that Aung San Suu Kyi was detained in the capital Naypyitaw, and he understood that the military took her away.
Internet connections are disrupted in the country's largest city, Yangon.
The NLD won more than 80 percent of the contested seats in November's general election. The opposition is close to the former military-led government.
The military claims there were irregularities in the election, saying there were millions of duplicate names in the voter register.
It had been demanding that the government and the election commission investigate and take action.
Myanmar's parliament was due to convene on Monday for the first time since the election. But the military issued a statement on Sunday night, saying that the country should not move on to the next step with the situation as it is.
Key words : government likely extend
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The Japanese government will likely extend its state of emergency declaration for COVID-19 in the Tokyo and Osaka areas beyond February 7. It will make a decision after hearing experts' views this week.
More than three weeks have passed since the state of emergency was declared for Tokyo and three of its neighboring prefectures. Osaka and six other prefectures have been under the declaration for more than two weeks. It is due to be lifted on February 7.
The number of new cases in the past week is smaller than the week before. But the ratio of elderly people among the newly infected people has risen. Elderly people have a greater risk of becoming seriously ill.
Government officials are preparing for a possible extension of the declaration in the Tokyo and Osaka areas partly because the medical systems there remain strained.
They may consider lifting the state of emergency for Tochigi Prefecture, where the situation has been improving.
Key words : maritime
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China's new law takes effect on Monday, authorizing its coast guard to forcibly remove foreign ships that illegally enter the country's waters, and to use weapons against them if they do not comply with certain orders.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson stressed that the law is designed to clarify the roles and powers of the coast guard and the country's maritime policy remains unchanged.
But concern is growing in Japan that China may take more aggressive actions around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Japan controls the islands. China and Taiwan claim them.
The Japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan's territory, in terms of history and international law. It says there is no issue of sovereignty to be resolved.
Chinese coast guard ships have been spotted near the islands almost daily. Some of them have intruded into Japanese territorial waters and chased Japanese fishing boats.
A security expert at the National Institute for Defense Studies warns that Japan should be on the alert.
Iida Masafumi says it remains to be seen whether China will be prone to resort to the use of arms because of the law. But he says there is the possibility that the Chinese coast guard will fully exercise its capabilities when tensions rise in the South and East China seas.
Key words : health officials cluster
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Health officials in Japan say they believe the first cluster of infections of a coronavirus variant which has been prevalent in Britain has hit near Tokyo.
The new strain is believed to be more contagious than the original.
The health ministry says four people in Saitama Prefecture, ranging from their 40s to the 60s, have been confirmed to be infected with the variant.
Three of them have connections with the workplace of a man living in Tokyo and other people who had been determined to be infected with the variant earlier.
The ministry believes a cluster of the variant has occurred at the workplace. Seven people there were found to have contracted the same strain.
Meanwhile, another case of the new strain has been confirmed in Tokyo involving a man in his 50s. He has not been to Britain but had close contact with a woman in her 50s who had earlier tested positive for the variant.
So far, 15 people who have no recent history of traveling to Britain and no known contact with people who traveled from the country have been infected with the variant.
Health ministry officials say they don't believe the variant has spread broadly in the country, but will still closely monitor the situation.
Key words : team world health foreign
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A team of experts from the World Health Organization staying in the Chinese city of Wuhan has visited the seafood market that was at the center of the world's first major outbreak of the coronavirus.
The team, consisting of international experts from Japan and elsewhere, visited the site on Sunday afternoon. The visit was part of an inspection that began on Friday with the aim of identifying the origins of the pandemic.
Chinese health officials had indicated the virus may have come from the market's wildlife section.
The market is surrounded by a 3-meter fence and was closed to foreign media after being shut down in January last year.
Earlier on Sunday, the WHO team visited another market that the government touts as an example of its successful initial efforts to fight the virus. It says the market started supplying food to residents in February last year, soon after the city's lockdown began.
The team on Saturday visited an exhibition showcasing what the government portrays as a successful containment effort.
The government appears to be trying to justify the actions it took, and to counter international criticism that its initial response to the coronavirus was slow.
Key words : south korea corona
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South Korea says it will introduce a special two-week period of extra precautions starting on Monday to prevent the spread of the coronavirus over the Lunar New Year holiday in mid-February.
The South Korean government held a news conference on Sunday to explain its plan. The four-day holiday starts on February 11.
During the period, train tickets will be sold only for window seats. Eating and drinking will be banned at rest areas along expressways.
The government also said it will maintain the current levels of anti-virus measures and continue to ban private gatherings of five or more people.
The government made the decision after discussing whether to ease restrictions. The number of daily new cases has dropped below 400 recently, compared to more than 1,000 in early January.
But it decided to keep the restriction levels in place as a series of cluster infections occurred in the past week.
The government asked for people's understanding and cooperation to prevent a possible rapid resurgence of the virus. It noted that occasions to move around or gather in groups tend to increase during the holiday.
Key words : taiwan first
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Taiwan has reported the first death from coronavirus infection in eight months as it battles a small outbreak of new cases.
Health Minister Chen Shih-chung told reporters on Saturday that one of four people who tested positive has died.
The victim was a woman in her 80s. The woman had been quarantined after a nurse who lived with her tested positive.
The elderly woman developed a fever on Thursday. She was confirmed infected with the virus on Friday and died later in the day.
Taiwan is said to have contained the virus relatively well as no cases had been confirmed there for eight months through late December.
Earlier this month, an infection cluster broke out at a hospital in a northern area involving doctors and nurses who had treated a coronavirus patient who returned from overseas.
Nineteen people, including family members of those healthcare professionals, have tested positive. The woman who died was among them.
Taiwan authorities are vigilant for a possible outbreak as an increasing number of people are returning to the island for next month's Lunar New Year holiday.
Key words : vietnam
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Vietnam's ruling Communist Party has elected Nguyen Phu Trong as its leader for another 5-year term.
Trong was elected at the party congress that is held every five years. It began on January 25 in the capital Hanoi and is to conclude on Monday.
The congress is Vietnam's highest decision making organ. Nearly 1,600 delegates from across the country have been discussing party and government policies, as well as members of the new leadership for the next five years.
State-run media have reported that 18 top officials were elected on Sunday, including Trong as general secretary at the party's helm.
Trong was born in 1944. After working as the editor-in-chief of the Communist Party newspaper, he became secretary of Hanoi's party committee and subsequently served as the National Assembly chairman.
He was elected general secretary in 2011.
Party rules limit the general secretary's tenure to two consecutive terms. But 76-year-old Trong apparently received an exception to the rule for his leadership in efforts to fight corruption and contain the coronavirus.
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