Taking a moment to try to absorb what’s happened in #Itaewon tonight where so many young people came for a Halloween night out and ended up tragically losing their lives - 120 so far but emergency vehicles still here. Most people here in their 20s, local, many foreign students For people who don’t know Seoul, Itaewon is always crowded with partygoers on a Sat night but tonight was especially busy because people were looking forward to celebrating Halloween for the first time since Covid. Many described frightening moments being swept up by the crowd

People are still being carried away on stretchers in Itaewon. Bystanders say there was a massive crowd and people got trapped. Truly horrific. This should have been a fun Saturday night out but it’s ended in tragedy From where I’m standing it looks like at least 20 bodies under a blue tarpaulin on Itaewon’s Main Street next to the Hamilton Hotel

Now that I’ve left #Ukraine 🇺🇦on assignment for @TelegraphWorld, a thread on a remarkable country of strong, resilient people. Wars are caused by the worst of humanity, but extreme circumstances can also bring out the best of humanity. It’s good to focus on the best 1/ First up, Andriy Sadovyy, the mayor of Lviv, who is speeding ahead with plans to create one of the largest rehab centres in the world for what he estimates could be up to 50,000 war amputees - a staggering number of people facing lifelong consequences from Russia’s invasion 2/

Below is the original press statement from Taiwan's ministry of defence. Only in Chinese for now, but says it "solemnly refutes" the internet reports that Taiwan shot down a PLAAF SU-35 and "strongly condemns" the dissemination of fake information 1/ 國防部空軍司令部新聞稿
時間:109年9月4日1730時

針對網路流傳「臺灣擊落一架中共SU-35飛機?」乙情，空軍司令部今(4)日鄭重駁斥，此為假訊息，子虛烏有，完全不是事實。

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One of the first foreign experts allowed into #Wuhan at the start of the #Covid19 pandemic told @TelegraphWorld @TelGlobalHealth Chinese officials suspected human-to-human transmission on Jan 13. Full transcript with #Taiwan's Chuang Yin-ching to follow 1/ telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/0… Chuang Yin-ching, a senior @Taiwan_CDC expert said local #Wuhan officials initially tried to deny human-to-human transmission of #Covid19 but were overruled by a Beijing health official who said "it cannot be excluded". Here's the interview transcript 2/ telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

The UN has demanded answers over the alleged police harassment, intimidation and the arrest of frontline medics during the #HongKong pro-democracy protests. Medical workers - the people we rely on to keep us alive in a crisis 1/
telegraph.co.uk/news/0/hong-ko… The UN probe was instigated by Dr Darren Mann, a #HongKong-based British war surgeon out of concern that the Hong Kong police were purposefully targeting and preventing medical workers from their humanitarian work at the height of the city's civil unrest 2/

Adding to a small flurry of stories this week about how #Taiwan is doing a stellar job on fighting the #coronavirus I interviewed Stanford’s Prof Jason Wang about his paper on what Taiwan is getting right @TelGlobalHealth @TelegraphWorld 1/ telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/0… The link to Prof Wang’s paper is below. He said that #Taiwan had been ready - after Sars in 2003 they had already been preparing for the next epidemic. “You want governments to do stuff before you know it’s happening” 2/ fsi.stanford.edu/news/how-taiwa…