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...Nevertheless, ports around the globe are under U.S. pressure to tighten lax export controls that allow North Korea to source much of the high-tech machinery and parts it needs to build conventional arms?as well as weapons of mass destruction. Following revelations this year that some Japanese-based companies had exported items to the North that could have been used to build atom bombs, Japan has attempted to curtail some of its trade with the regime. On May 8, for example, Tokyo police raided a trading company called Meishin, which is run by members of Japan's North Korean...
...presence of terror cells in Cambodia and Thailand confirms what many in the intelligence community have long suspected: that JI and al-Qaeda have fanned out from their traditional bases, taking root in countries with lax border controls and little enthusiasm for antiterror campaigns. Terrorists "are like water flowing down a mountain, always taking the path of least resistance," says Zachary Abuza, a Southeast Asia terrorism expert. A regional intelligence official told TIME the existence of cells in Cambodia and Thailand demonstrates that the war on terror is far from won. "After the crackdowns in Malaysia and Singapore, they...
Hornstine sought to explain her actions in a column printed alongside the correction in yesterday’s Courier-Post. She wrote that she was not aware of the paper’s “strict citation scrutiny” and thought sourcing rules for journalism were more lax “because there was no place for footnotes or endnotes...
...even with mainland China?s somewhat lax regulations for drug approval, it will likely be a year or more before the peptide fusion inhibitor could be used for patients. And that assumes the coronavirus won?t evade the treatment through mutation. Dr. Edison Liu, executive director of Singapore?s Genome Institute, which recently published a study comparing the coronavirus genome in several different regions, says, ?If the receptor interaction is changed so that the virus uses a different receptor or has a different region to which it binds, it?ll evade the peptide...
...government policy. Authorities have been slow to put in place a national action plan to combat the virus, forcing local governments and individual hospitals to improvise. Taiwan at first also refused to impose health screening at immigration checkpoints as other places have done, and its quarantine measures were more lax than those seen in affected zones such as Singapore, which has successfully contained the disease...