Eight hospitals or health facilities in and around the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince were severely damaged by Tuesday’s earthquake, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday. cardy ugg boots
Two hospitals in neighboring Dominican Republic were also affected.
”This obviously hampers the ability for people to receive urgent, life-saving treatment,” WHO communications officer Paul Garwood said in Geneva.
WHO’s priorities are to rescue survivors, treat blunt trauma and prevent infection. Garwood also promoted breastfeeding, which he called “a critical way to save young people’s lives.”
Prior to the earthquake, Haiti’s health system was already dire, according to Garwood.
”In terms of healthcare, Haiti is ranked as one of the extreme, grave countries, not just with communicable diseases but also with HIV/AIDS,” Garwood said, adding, “I wonder about how those people are getting their antiretrovirals.”
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On Tuesday, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, causing widespread damage and loss of life.
A second aircraft of the Brazilian Air Force (FAB), carrying humanitarian aid, was en route to Port au Prince, capital of Haiti, after the devastating earthquake hit the Caribbean nation on Tuesday. timberland outlet
The plane, carrying 13 tons of supplies of water, food and medicine, also transfers civil defense professionals, doctors and sniffer dogs to Haiti to help rescue victims. In total, FAB may send eight planes to Haiti.
The Air Force said it was ready to build an “air bridge” between Brazil and Haiti to expedite the dispatch of aid.
The International Federation of Red Cross estimated that 3 million people had been affected by the earthquake.timberland boots on sale
The United States has been providing 14,450 tons of food aid to Haiti, as an emergent supply for 1.2 million people for two weeks, said U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). buy timberland
The food aid, which includes 7,000 tons of rice, 4,550 tons of corn soy blend and 3,000 tons of vegetable oil, will be distributed by the U.N. World Food Program and private voluntary organizations, said USAID.black ugg boots
The death toll from the three explosions in Iraq’s southern holy city of Najaf Thursday afternoon has risen to 25, with 72 others wounded, an Interior Ministry official said. timberland shoes
The serial explosions occurred around 5:30 p.m. in the old town of the Shiite holy city, some 180 km south of Iraqi capital Baghdad, the official told Xinhua. Some shops and buildings were also damaged.
One was a car bomb near a mosque. The other two were roadside bombs near a popular market, according to the source.
Najaf is home to the mausoleum of Imam Ali, the cousin of the Prophet Mohammed. It attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims every year.
Iraqi officials have warned that violence is expected to rise ahead of the country’s March 7 parliamentary election. On Tuesday, security forces arrested 25 terrorist suspects and more than 400 kg of explosives in a sweeping operation in Baghdad.ugg boots
Hong Kong’s exchange fund foreign assets recorded an increase of 54.5 billion HK dollars ( about 7.03 billion U.S. dollars) in December 2009, the Monetary Authority (HKMA) said Thursday. ugg boots classic
According to the agency, HK’s total foreign assets, representing the external assets of the exchange fund, reached 1.907 trillion HK dollars (about 246 billion U.S. dollars) by the end of December 2009.
The Monetary Base, comprising Certificates of Indebtedness, Government issued currency notes and coins in circulation, the Aggregate Balance and Exchange Fund Bills and Notes issued, amounted to 1.0107 trillion HK dollars (about 130.45 billion U.S. dollars).
Claims on the private sector in Hong Kong amounted to 80.7 billion HK dollars (about 10.42 U.S. dollars). timberland hiking boots
Foreign liabilities, representing mainly obligations under repurchase agreements, reached 400 million HK dollars (about 51.6 million U.S. dollars).
The Afghan police have captured a nine-member drug smuggling gang in the country’s western Herat province, a counter-narcotics officer said Wednesday.
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The raid was conducted in Gulran district Tuesday night, said Zinudin Sharifi, the officer, adding that during the operation, a quantity of narcotics were discovered and set on fire.
All those arrested are Afghan nationals and were attempting to transport the contraband out of the country, Sharifi said.
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The war-torn Afghanistan is supplying over 90 percent of the raw material used in manufacturing heroin to the world.
Philippine state prosecutors are presenting eight witnesses who will testify that members of the powerful Ampatuan clan are behind the Maguindanao massacre, according to local media on Wednesday.
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Jose Midas Marquez, spokesman for the Supreme Court, said in an interview with local TV station ABS CBN News Channel, that eight witnesses, including Ampatuan town vice mayor Datu Rasul Sangki, will offer testimonies against Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan, Jr.
Andal, Jr. is the main suspect behind the November 23 gruesome killing of 57 people, including journalists and members of the rival Mangudadatu clan. He’s been charged with multiple counts of murder.
Sangki was the first state wiriness to testify against Andal, Jr. During Wednesday’s hearing inside the makeshift courtroom at the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame, Sangki claimed that Andal Jr. and his father and namesake, Andal Sr., masterminded the massacre.
Sangki told the court that Andal Jr., and his private armies gunned down the 57 people, adding that Andal Sr. helped in planning the murder.
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The hearing started at 08:30 a.m. local time and lasted for about nine hours. The next hearing is set on Jan. 20.
Marquerz said that the state prosecutors will present next week the videographer who took a footage of the crime scene shortly after the massacre and before government troops arrived at the scene.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday rapped South Korea for scattering anti-DPRK leaflets, saying it pushed inter-Korean relations to the phase of confrontation, local media reported.
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A large number of leaflets attached to balloons had been launched recently in Kimhwa County, Jangphung County, the Mt. Kumgang tourist zone and other areas in the DPRK, said the head of the DPRK’s delegation to the north-south military working talks, in a notice to South Korean military authorities, the official KCNA news agency reported.
On Jan. 1 alone, hundreds of thousands leaflets insulting the DPRK leaders were scattered over areas of the north side by the People’s Alliance for Sending Leaflets to the North, according to the notice. The group is made up of several ultra-right conservative organizations in South Korea.
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The DPRK army would never tolerate such acts and South Korean authorities must take measures to disband the ultra-right conservative organizations which continued scattering anti-DPRK leaflets to the DPRK people, the KCNA news agency said.
Indonesia will increase capital expenditure of state-owned companies this year by 72 percent to 20.05 billion U.S. dollars, from that of in last year, as one of efforts to help stimulate economic growth, according to Jakarta globe Wednesday.
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State Enterprises Minister Mustafa Abubakar quoted by the Jakarta globe as saying that the spending would create a multiplier effect in the economy and would provide more jobs.
It aimed to boost gross domestic product to 5.5 percent this year from that of at last year forecast of 4.3 percent.
“We expect this year will be better than last year as the economy will be growing. Therefore, the state firms should keep investing to help the government stimulate the economy. The spending will help the government create a multiplier effect in the economy and will provide new jobs and opportunities for many Indonesians,” he said.
The government expected net profit from the firms to rise by 21percent to 90 trillion rupiah (some 9.83 billion U.S. dollars) this year, compared to that of at last year.
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Indonesia has 138 state-owned firms. The firms specializing in energy, telecommunications, transportation, mining and plantations will spend the largest amount on capital expenditure this year.
South Korea’s financial markets on Tuesday jittered as the Chinese central bank raised the deposit reserve requirement ratio by 0.5 percentage point, with the stock markets and foreign exchange rate plunging from the last close.
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The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) and the Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (KOSDAQ) jointly marked a plunge of 27.23 points and 3.65 points, respectively, from the last close.
The report from China also affected the foreign exchange market, with the local currency also sliding against the U.S. dollar by 1.9 won.
The move triggered foreign and institutional sell-offs as it came without any clear prior signs, local media said.
“Investors anticipated that China would tighten its monetary policy at some point, but it came faster than they had expected,” Hwang Keum-dan, an analyst at Samsung Securities, told South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.
“Its further impact on the Seoul bourse will depend on the pace and the extent of additional steps that China takes,” he added.
While local analysts mostly remain calm, saying stock prices are already reflecting the risk as the move was expected, they are still worried in that it may mark a starting point of a global monetary tightening policy, local Maeil Business Newspaper said.
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“Investors are most concerned that the move, together with a hike in raw material prices and the base effect, may lead into acceleration in inflation,” a local analyst told the media.
Earlier in the day, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, announced to raise the deposit reserve requirement ratio by 0.5 percentage points from Jan. 18 this year.
This is the first time that the PBOC adjusted the ratio of deposit that lenders are required to set aside since the end of 2008 and the first increase for the ratio since June of 2008.
The PBOC has cut the bank reserve requirement ratio for four times in the second half of 2008 to stimulate growth as the global financial crisis started to weigh on the economy.
