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What is Censorship? - Free Talk Live 2014-09-12
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Chinese authorities have detained an 81-year-old journalist with a failing memory who recently criticized heavy censorship that he said is doing great damage to Chinas media.
Tie Liu, a writer and journalist who spent decades in work camps as a young man, had thought he was too old to draw the attention of authorities. He had for decades offered unvarnished opinions of the Chinese state, and recently directed withering criticism at Liu Yunshan, the elite politician and propaganda czar. In August, Mr. Tie released an online article accusing Mr. Liu of further sullying Chinas already obedient state press and making the media lose its credibility in China.
But at 1 a.m. on Sunday, his phone rang. Soon after, one of Beijings highest-ranking police officials was in his house, presenting him with a summons paper that accused him of causing a disturbance.
In the midst of a broad effort led by Chinese President Xi Jinping to stifle critical expression on the Internet, in churches and in the courts, even an octogenarian one who had recently agreed with his wife he would lay down the verbal hatchet at the end of this year is a target in China today.
Not long after police arrived, he was escorted from the house with a suit jacket over his pyjamas to protect against the cold in the deep of night, his wife, Ren Hengfang, said. Less than 24 hours later, after also arresting his domestic helper and publishing assistant, the police were back, with papers from cybersecurity police confirming he had been formally detained. He is being held at the Beijing municipal detention house.
The notice may have set a kind of grim record for China.
He might be the oldest suspect in China on charges of creating a disturbance, said Liu Xiaoyuan, a Chinese human-rights lawyer, on Twitter.
It also marks a return into state hands, a grimly familiar place for Mr. Tie, whose real name is Huang Zerong although he is best known by his pen name.
In the mid-1950s, in one of Mao Zedongs uglier social engineering efforts, Chinese people were encouraged to vent their problems with the Communist Party. The so-called Hundred Flowers Campaign brought fourth an outpouring of criticism. Mr. Tie contributed an article about civil servants. It was published in my newspaper and nobody thought much about it, he said in a 2010 interview with Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
Then, Mao changed course, labelled the critics rightists and oversaw a massive purge. All of a sudden, I was sent to a work camp for 23 years, Mr. Tie told RNW.
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Did you know that 35 to 40 percent of infections could have been prevented by simply observing hand hygiene? It was one of the take-away messages at a recent media conference held announcing the nationwide search for the Philippines first Hospital Best Practices in Infection Prevention and Control awards. Led by the Philippine Hospital Association (PHA), in collaboration with United Laboratories, Inc. (UNILAB) and the Philippine Hospital Infection Control Society (PHICS, Inc.), the search aims to highlight the level of excellence being practiced by public and private hospitals in the country.
Our objective is to elevate every hospitals awareness level on the importance of infection control and prevention of healthcare associated infections. To ensure that hospitals and other healthcare facilities are properly implementing infection prevention and control practices in their respective institutions. And, to encourage every hospital to maintain the highest standards in the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections, says PHA president Dr. Ruben Flores.
He adds, Many hospitals in the Philippines have set the bar of excellence in hospital care, particularly in the area of infection prevention and control, which, as any healthcare professional would know, are the two key elements to delivering the highest level of quality service and safety to patients.
10 OUT OF 100
Infections acquired in the healthcare setting are quite common, albeit alarming. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), of every 100 hospitalized patients at any given time, 10 in developing countries will acquire at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI).
PHICS founder Dr. Melencia Velmonte elaborates, When we say HAI, it is all encompassing. It does not single out hospitals but includes same-day surgical centers, ambulatory outpatient care in health care clinics, and long-term facilities. It includes the smallest unit where one delivers healthcare.
Among the common HAI has been identified as catheter-related urinary tract infection, surgical site infection, blood stream infection, and pneumonia.
That is why there are five crucial moments where hand hygiene should be properly observed. These are before patient contact, before aseptic task, after body fluid exposure risk, after patient contact, and after contact with patient surroundings, enumerates Dr. Velmonte.
She continues, The first two moments are to protect the patient against harmful germs carried by your hands, including the patients own germs entering his or her body. The succeeding moments are to protect yourself and the healthcare environment from harmful patient germs.
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China's crowded social media space
China's crowded social media space
China's crowded social media space
China's crowded social media space
China's crowded social media space
China's crowded social media space
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(CNN) -- Go to any provincial city in China -- small hayseed towns where the population barely nudges three million people -- and you'd be forgiven for thinking the national youth pastimes, after smoking, are online gaming and flirting.
"I like the personality tests and I like chatting with people, but I haven't been brave enough to meet anyone yet," says Nolan Lee from Guiyang in China's central Guizhou province.
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