A new ship is seen at a dock in Sansha of south China’s Hainan province, Jan. 30, 2017. The ship completed its maiden voyage on Monday from east China’s Shanghai to Sansha where it will serve. The 32-meter vessel weighs 498 tonnes. It has endurance of 45 days and is able to resist gales with speed of more than 60 kilometers per hour, according to its captain Yin Minzeng. It was designed to help extinguish fires on the sea, tow vessels that lose power and assist law-enforcement vessels. In addition, it will provide supplies for islands of Sansha. (Xinhua/Dai Chao)

A new ship completed its maiden voyage on Monday from Shanghai to China’s southernmost island city of Sansha where it will serve.

The 32-meter vessel weighs 498 tonnes. It has endurance of 45 days and is able to resist gales with speed of more than 60 kilometers per hour, according to its captain Yin Minzeng.

It was designed to help extinguish fires on the sea, tow vessels that lose power and assist law-enforcement vessels. In addition, it will provide supplies for islands of Sansha.

Sansha City was established in 2012 to administer islets and reefs in the Xisha, Zhongsha and Nansha islet groups as well as waters in this area.

In confirmation that the rise in western inflation is mainly to do with rising commodity prices, especially oil, German CPI inflation today hit 1.9% compared to the UK’s 1.6%. It confirms that inflation in the UK is not special to UK and  has not been  caused by sterling weakness and Brexit.

Jeremy
Corbyn MP, Leader of the Labour Party, calling on Theresa May to withdraw her
offer to Donald Trump of a State Visit, said:

“Let
no one be in doubt that I will oppose, and the Labour Party will oppose, all
those who fan the flames of fear at home and abroad.

“I
support the demand of millions of British people: Donald Trump should not be
welcomed on a state visit to this country while he continues to propagate his
anti-women, anti-Muslim and anti-Mexican policies.

“This
world defeated segregation, we defeated Apartheid and we will defeat this nasty
policy created to sow division and hatred.

“His
invite should be withdrawn until the executive orders are gone and every
element of them repealed.

“History
judges us by the actions we take in opposing oppression.

“I
am proud that during the 1980s and 1990s I stood with Labour party members,
trade unionists and faith leaders opposing the racist regime of South Africa.

“I
was there on the day Margret Thatcher opened her door to P.W. Botha while
Nelson Mandela languished in a prison cell.

“Margaret
Thatcher and the Conservative Party were on the wrong side of history then just
as Theresa May and her Conservative Party are on the wrong side of history
today.

“The
Labour party stands unequivocally with those demonstrating today and will do so
until we are victorious.

“I
have written to Theresa May to demand that she withdraws her offer to Donald
Trump of a State Visit.”

30 January 2017

Jonathan Bartley, co-leader of the Green Party, has responded to the news today that Donald Trump could pull the US out of the Paris Climate Change Agreement within a matter of days. [1]

Bartley said:

“The news that Donald Trump could pull the US out of the Paris Agreement is a shame on our own Government. The Prime Minister’s failure to prioritise climate change with the President is a complete dereliction of duty.

“But although a US withdrawal would be a bitter blow to the fight to save our planet, the momentum we have gathered is unstoppable, and the Paris Agreement will continue in strength with or without Donald Trump.”

Notes:

1. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-paris-climate-change-deal-myron-ebell-us-president-america-pull-out-agreement-a7553676.html

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Northeast China’s Liaoning Province on Monday reported two human H7N9 avian flu cases.

The two patients, from cities of Shenyang and Chaoyang, respectively, are being treated and in stable conditions, the provincial health authorities said in a statement.

In response to the disease, authorities in the two cities have taken disease control measures.

In addition to Liaoning, human infections have also been reported in the provinces of Guangdong, Guizhou, Hubei, Henan, Hunan, Jiangxi and Shandong, as well as in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macao.

The public are advised to avoid direct contact with poultry and see doctors timely when developing symptoms including headache, fever and coughing.

At least ten people have died from the virus since the start of the year, according to disease control centers in Henan, Guangdong and Hunan provinces.

H7N9 is a bird flu strain first reported to have infected humans in March 2013 in China. It is most likely to strike in winter and spring.