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China Aluminium Output Hits Daily Record In September

2021-01-03T19:16:01Z

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By Emily Chow and Tom Daly SHANGHAI, Oct 19 (Reuters) - China's aluminium production rose in September from a year earlier as prices recovered and new smelters came on line, official data showed on Monday, with daily output reaching a record high. The world's top producer of the metal churned out 3.16 million tonnes of primary aluminium in September, the National Bureau of Statistics said, up 7.9% from a year earlier. That equates to daily output of 105,333 tonnes, a record for daily production. Last month's output was down slightly from the record 3.171 million tonnes produced in August, which has one more day than September. Aluminium prices have seen a steady recovery from four-year lows hit in March, when the [http://www.lifebeyondtourism.org/?header_search=coronavirus%20outbreak coronavirus outbreak] [http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=ravaged ravaged] demand, incentivising smelters to produce as much metal as possible. Shanghai aluminium prices fell 1.3% in September but hit their highest in 2-1/2 years on Monday. In the first nine months of 2020, aluminium production totalled 27.45 million tonnes, the bureau said, up 2.8% from a year earlier and on course to set a full-year record after a rare fall in 2019. Research house Antaike estimates 375,000 tonnes of new annual capacity came on stream last month and a further 160,000 tonnes of capacity restarted. Among the smelters to launch new projects were China Hongqiao Group and Yunnan Aluminium, both in Wenshan in Southwest China's Yunnan province, said CRU analyst Wan Ling. "(September production rose) due to the ramp up of new capacities in Yunnan and Sichuan," said Wan. Wan also pegged China's aluminium output for the last quarter of the year at 9.404 million tonnes, a 7.1% gain from the corresponding period last year and up 1.5% from the previous quarter, due to the new capacities and restarts. China's production of 10 nonferrous metals - including copper, aluminium, lead, zinc and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html kynghidongduong.vn] nickel, rose to 5.32 million tonnes in September from the previous month. It was also up about 7% from September 2019, and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour shangrila] set a monthly record high. January-September output for this group - which also includes tin, antimony, mercury, magnesium and titanium - was up 3.5% year-on-year at 45.18 million tonnes. ($1 = 6.6985 Chinese yuan) (Reporting by Emily Chow and Tom Daly; Editing by William Mallard, Himani Sarkar and Ana Nicolaci da Costa)

Authorities From A South-western Chinese County Have Recorded A New Case Of Bubonic Plague Over The Weekend As Officials Have Activated An Emergency Response To Prevent The Disease From Spreading

2021-01-03T11:29:58Z

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Authorities from a south-western Chinese county have recorded a new case of bubonic plague over the weekend as officials have activated an emergency response to prevent the disease from spreading. A three-year-old boy from a remote village in Menghai country of Yunnan province was confirmed to have infected with the bubonic plague on Sunday, according to state media. It comes as [/news/china/index.html China]'s Inner Mongolia region, near the Chinese border with Mongolia, has reported two deaths caused by the plague in August, prompting the authorities to impose partial lockdowns and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour shangrila] quarantine residents. Authorities from a south-western Chinese county have recorded a new case of bubonic plague over the weekend as officials have activated an emergency response for the disease. The file photo shows workers disinfecting a railway station in Kunming, Yunnan on February 4 A three-year-old boy from a remote village in Menghai country of Yunnan province was confirmed to have infected with the bubonic plague on Sunday, according to state media RELATED ARTICLES [# Previous] [# 1] [# Next] [/news/article-8779825/Beijing-asks-frozen-food-importers-shun-countries-severe-coronavirus.html Beijing orders Chinese importers to avoid frozen food from...] [/news/article-8780767/Rare-albino-camel-captured-camera-nature-reserve-China.html Rare albino camel is captured on camera at a nature reserve...] [/news/article-8780195/Wuhan-pet-owners-groomed-dogs-celebrate-life-coronavirus.html Wuhan pet owners show off their well-groomed dogs in...] [/news/article-8773061/Coronavirus-Chinese-boy-12-tests-positive-COVID-19-two-weeks-recovering.html Chinese boy, 12, tests positive for coronavirus AGAIN two...] Share this article Share 6k shares China is also facing the threat of the disease spreading from its neighbouring country Mongolia, which have declared at least 17 out of all 21 provinces in the country are at risk of bubonic plague. Bubonic plague, known as the 'Black Death' in the Middle Ages, is one of the most devastating diseases in history, having killed around 100million people in the 14th century. The [http://www.glamour.de/content/search/?SearchText=Menghai%20authorities Menghai authorities] launched a level-four emergency resp[ The statement said that the patient had mild symptoms and was in stable condition after treatment. The officials did not specify how the child had been infected but said that a rat plague had occurred in the county on September 21 after three rats were found dead for unknown reasons The officials did not specify how the child had been infected but said that a rat plague had occurred in the county on September 21 after three rats were found dead for unknown reasons in a village. The boy was diagnosed during a county-wide screening for the disease following the rat plague, said the notice. He was confirmed to have been infected with the bubonic plague yesterday, according to][ ] citing the Yunnan health authorities. National and provincial officials had arrived in Menghai as part of the government's emergency response for the plague while teams of medical workers made inspections, imposed quarantines and screened suspected patients with fevers. The news comes after China has reported two deaths caused by the plague since January. On August 6, the Baotou city health commission confirmed a resident died of a different form of the disease four days earlier. The city of Baotou, in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said the victim had contracted the enteric plague. China is also facing the threat of the disease spreading from its neighbouring country Mongolia, which have declared at least 17 out of all 21 provinces in the country are at risk of bubonic plague. The picture shows a health worker conducting anti-plague disinfection in Kosh-Agach district, a municipality in Russia bordering Mongolia A second victim died from multiple organ failure in a case of the bubonic plague, the Bayan Nur health commission of Inner Mongolia said on the following day. The bubonic plague, one of the four forms of the disease, is one of the most devastating diseases in history. The enteric plague, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html kynghidongduong.vn] also known as the pharyngeal plague, attacks a person's digestive system and can arise as a result of exposure to infectious aerosols or [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour Lệ Giang giá rẻ] by ingestion of infected meat. The other forms of the disease are the pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection, and the septicemic plague, which affects a person's blood systems. 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Coronavirus Memes Help An Isolated World Cope With existential Dread

2021-01-02T22:00:57Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Meme accounts across Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit have responded to the COVID-19 outbreak with a powerful defense: humor. Angela Lang/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the [ WHO website]. For the past several weeks, as the world has grappled with the impacts of the [ coronavirus pandemic], 26-year-old Deellan Khanaka has fought feelings of despair. "It kind of feels like the world is ending," says Khanaka, an events coordinator in Berkele[/coronavirus/ coronavirus][/coronavirus/ coronavirus]. Amid great uncertainty, humor can be a reprieve. George Resch/Tank Sinatra To [/health/relaxing-activities-to-help-you-cope-with-coronavirus-stress/ take her mind off things], Khanaka has made a habit of checking in on friends and family via FaceTime, taking better control of her sleep and going on walks to avoid being cooped up for too long. She's also largely been using humor -- via [/news/from-distracted-boyfriend-to-grumpy-cat-here-are-the-top-15-memes-of-the-decade/ memes] in particular -- to help alleviate stress. "It's the only thing that really makes light of the existential dread that is the heavy cloud over our heads," Khanaka says. "It's nice to know you're not alone in your experiences, even though you're physically and socially isolated." As COVID-19 spreads to more cities and claims more lives, meme accounts across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit have cranked out more content seeking light and humor amid the darkness and uncertainty. Memes poking fun at everything from hoarding toilet paper to going stir crazy while in quarantine have dominated social media feeds. When a TV reporter was approached by bison at Yellowstone National Park, his amusing reaction became an instant [/news/reporter-fleeing-yellowstone-bison-is-the-social-distancing-meme-we-all-need/ meme about social distancing]. People have even made [ coronavirus and quarantine-themed playlists on Spotify] to stave off boredom and provide a comedic take on song titles like "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and "Take My Breath Away." Spinning humor out of tragedy is by no means a new phenomenon. The Civil War era in the US was largely considered "[ the age of practical joking]." [ Gallows humor] helped soldiers cope with tragedy during [ World War I] and [ World War II]. Letters, posters and songs at the time poked fun at the enemy and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour Lệ Giang] the soldiers' own predicament. [ Kilroy Was Here], a graffiti doodle that Americans began drawing across a variety of obscure places during WW II, is said to be the world's first viral meme. 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Still, those memes largely provided an outlet for some people to diffuse feelings of doom and uncertainty. Memes can also help people struggling with [ ]. "Using humor is just how people cope in grim circumstances, and it's a very healthy response," says psychologist April Foreman, an executive board member of the American Association of Suicidology. "Human beings are wired to cope, and we're wired to be funny -- even darkly humorous." Now playing: Watch this: Coronavirus lockdown: Why social distancing saves lives 5:41 Global reach What makes the current situation unique, Foreman notes, is its global impact. Billions of people around the world are in the same predicament -- many are staying home, living in fear of the virus' rapid spread -- and are connected digitally through smartphones, computers and social media. People use these outlets to stay in touch and to relate to one another through humor. "Human beings are wired to cope, and we're wired to be funny -- even darkly humorous." April Foreman Unlike other tragedies such as terrorist attacks or natural disasters, COVID-19 is a slow-developing crisis where the guidance is to stay home and do nothing, notes psychologist Bart Andrews. As a result, there's a "sense of helplessness in inaction," he says, since this isn't a scenario where people can help by getting together for volunteer drives or by pulling people out of buildings. They can't even release anxiety by going to the gym or to church. Instead, they turn to memes. "Using humor as a coping strategy and connecting with other people who have that same approach has been greatly normalized through the digitization of our culture," Andrews says. "Now, people who use humor as a coping strategy have instantaneous access to millions of other people, and we find our niches and networks." People online have found ways to make light of even dire circumstances like quarantine. [ @Michael1979/Twitter] George Resch, director of influencer marketing at BrandFire and meme maker behind the Instagram account Tank Sinatra, says humor is always his first instinct when a difficult situation arises. He's posted content ranging from [ mocking people who refuse to follow social distancing rules] to the [ struggles of looking OK during virtual meetings]. He's also poked fun at the idea that someday, we'll tell our grandkids that amid this pandemic, [ all we did was share memes]. While the overall response to Resch's content has been positive, he acknowledges that a couple of doctors and nurses have reached out to him saying they'd appreciate it if he didn't make light of such a serious situation. "My response to them was, 'I fully understand that this is serious and I appreciate you guys being out there helping people. However, humor is how I've always dealt with things and I can't stop now,'" Resch said. "Not just for me, but for people out there who are freaked out, sometimes a little laugh is the only bit of sanity you have in your entire day." Amanda Jacobsmeyer, a 26-year-old publicist in Harlem, New York, says that for a generation that grew up on Tumblr, humor is a way of coping with just about anything. "It's a little bit of a reprieve from having to feel constantly scared or anxious or worried about other people," Jacobsmeyer says. "It doesn't remove those feelings. It just distracts me from them for a minute, which is nice." The threat of misinformation In our search for positivity and more information, there's a risk of spreading misinformation via infographics, tweets and memes, whether intentionally or not. Take, for example, what happened earlier this month, when a couple of Twitter users seemingly found some good news about the positive impact of millions of people staying home because of the virus. Swans and dolphins had apparently returned to canals in Venice that had been deserted by humans, and elephants in a village in Yunnan, China, got drunk off of corn wine until they fell asleep in a tea garden. These reports went viral and were shared on Instagram and TikTok, offering a bit of optimism -- until news came out that [ they weren't true]. Sometimes a little laugh is the only bit of sanity you have in your entire day. George Resch "The phenomenon highlights how quickly eye-popping, too-good-to-be-true rumors can spread in times of crisis," reporter Natasha Daly writes in a National Geographic piece about the fake news. "People are compelled to share posts that make them emotional. When we're feeling stressed, joyous animal footage can be an irresistible salve." Memes can be an escape from -- or a way to poke fun at -- the influx of bad news. George Resch/Tank Sinatra Generational differences can also play a role in spreading misinformation. Younger people who are better versed in meme culture might be more skeptical and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html kynghidongduong.vn] careful when they come across information that seems outlandish or that contains tongue-in-cheek humor. It might be harder for older audiences to understand satire in a meme. There are, for instance, several memes pointing to unsanitary conditions and experiences, joking that anyone who's survived those situations will also survive coronavirus. That is, of course, not true, though Khanaka admits this kind of content can contribute to a false sense of security for some people. Foreman advises people to be thoughtful about not only what content they consume, but who they follow on social media and what information they pass on. She urges people to check the accuracy of content before reposting. "If there's one thing we've learned from [ ] and other things in the world, we know that people can intentionally use memes, humor and social media as very effective attitude influencers and behavioral propaganda," Foreman says. "Nobody is immune to it." Distracted Boyfriend gets the quarantine treatment. Bay Area Meme Council/Instagram There's also a danger in taking humor too far. Social media influencer Ava Louise caused a stir when she [ shared a video of herself licking a toilet seat] as part of something she dubbed the "coronavirus challenge." The video caused an uproar on Twitter as people slammed her for undermining the severity of the disease. Basketball player [ Rudy Gobert] also faced backlash after he jokingly touched several reporters' microphones and audio recorders during a press conference, before [ testing positive for COVID-19]. Foreman says digital communities are generally good at regulating people who have gone too far by giving them feedback, banning them or removing harmful content. Jokes that incorporate mindfulness or that poke fun at the odd characteristics of the situation are more effective at improving people's moods than something that causes harm, she says. For people like Khanaka, humor has been a much-needed relief in a time of heightened fear and anxiety. "Without humor, the alternative is to just wallow in sadness and isolation, which is not healthy," Khanaka says. "It's a way of coping and connecting."

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2021-01-02T22:00:47Z

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COLUMN-It apos;s Time To Rethink Tin The Forgotten Critical Mineral:...

2021-01-02T03:41:35Z

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By Andy Home LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - There's a tingle of excitement in the tin market. It helps that the metal has weathered COVID-19 relatively well. At a current $18,300 per tonne, the London Metal Exchange (LME) price is up 6.5% on the start of 2020 and nudging against September's one-year high of $18,510. It also helps that sentiment among the small number of analysts who cover the tin market is turning bullish based on anticipated supply deficits over the coming years. However, underpinning the rosy market outlook is also a more fundamental reappraisal of tin's role in what's dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution - the coming whirlwind of machine-to-machine communication, the internet of things and artificial intelligence. Tin is classified as a critical mineral in the United States, but not in the European Union. The potentially more significant question though, is what China thinks about the metal. If the world's largest producer decides to start stockpiling tin, it'll be a wake-up call for everyone else. GLUE FOR THE INTERNET Tin doesn't grab many headlines. The common association is with the humble tin can - the clue's in the name - a sector that has been in long-term decline as steel-makers use ever thinner coatings and the packaging sector shifts towards alternative materials such as aluminium. It's not the sort of story to catch the [http://search.usa.gov/search?affiliate=usagov&query=attention attention] of fund managers. Heavy-weight investors are also put off by the small size of the market - annual global production is just 360,000 tonnes - and the even smaller size of the LME market. The lack of institutional interest is why relatively few analysts even bother with the tin market. Thirteen contributed a tin forecast for Reuters year-start metal analysts poll, compared with 28 for copper. However, tin usage has, over several decades, quietly evolved away from long-life food to nano-soldering in electronics. Soldering accounted for 48% of global usage in 2018, while tinplate packaging was just 13%, according to the International Tin Association (ITA). Tellingly, demand for tinplate fell 2% that year, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour Lệ Giang] while soldering usage increased by the same amount. This linkage to the electronics sector has been a boon for tin this year. Semiconductor sales, a broad proxy for the electronic goods sector, have been resilient, up 4.9% in July relative to 2019, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. Lockdown, perhaps unsurprisingly, has boosted demand for electronic gadgets. But soldering will also drive increased tin demand as the world tools up for the Industrial Revolution Version 4. Tin is literally the glue that binds together the machines needed to interface with the virtual and robotic worlds. When Rio Tinto commissioned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study which metals would gain most from "new technology", the answer was tin. MIT saw the "can metal" benefitting from all four megatrends of electric vehicles, renewable energy, advanced robotics and advanced computation and IT. CRITICAL METAL? Tin's usage across such a wide modern manufacturing spectrum is what put it on the U.S. list of critical minerals. The reason it's not on the European list - a rare divergence - is probably because the European Union has a significant domestic producer in the form of Belgium's Metallo, now part of Germany's Aurubis. The last U.S. tin mine, by contrast, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour shangrila] closed in 1993 and the last smelter even earlier in 1989. Home-grown supply is limited to around 11,000 tonnes of recycled metal, with refined tin imports running at around 35,000 tonnes in the last two years, according to the United States Geological Survey. Is it on China's list of strategic reserves? The country is expected to include a stockpiling programme for strategic commodities in its next five-year plan beginning 2021. State stockpile managers have already been active in the cobalt market. There is much speculation they are one of the reasons China's copper imports are running red-hot this year. Given both China's existing manufacturing base and its drive to dominate next-generation technology, tin is a likely contender for strategic metal status. Macquarie Bank analysts "find enough reason to adjust our supply-demand balance to account for some stocking this year and next". They postulate 5,000 tonnes of Chinese purchases, split across this year and next. ("Commodities Compendium", Sept. 21, 2020). Forecast 2020 and 2021 supply deficits are deepened to 4,400 tonnes and 2,900 tonnes respectively. Indeed, Macquarie is forecasting consecutive years of supply deficit through 2025. Analysts at Roskill are only slightly less bullish, with forecast shortages through 2023. FRAGILE SUPPLY China has been the world's largest producer and consumer of tin for some years. If lack of domestic resource is a key determinant of a metal's criticality, the country doesn't appear to have a problem. But China has grown heavily reliant on imports of [https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/raw%20material raw material] from the tin mines in the Wa area of Myanmar. Imports peaked at over 470,000 tonnes bulk weight in 2016 but have been trending ever lower since amid speculation that easily accessible reserves are being exhausted. This year has brought another sharp decline, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html kynghidongduong.vn] due first to COVID-19 restrictions at the China-Myanmar border and more recently, the ITA says, to severe flooding at some of the mines. Smelters such as Yunnan Tin have taken maintenance downtime to compensate for the shortfall of raw material. That in turn has caused the world's largest producer to turn net importer of refined tin so far this year. Smelter margins remain squeezed by a lack of raw material, acting as a restraint on tin production, said state research house Antaike. The coronavirus has exposed China's dependency on its neighbour for tin concentrates. Macquarie notes that "some concerns have emerged around future supply from Myanmar, with market participants telling us that Chinese buyer inquiries are now reaching Africa and the new Alphamin mine in (the Democratic Republic of Congo)". China's internal supply dynamics seem to be struggling to keep up with current demand, let alone finding sufficient mine resource to meet future soldering demand. The country's state planners have much to mull over in deciding whether to designate tin a strategic metal. The very fact the old can metal is even on their discussion list suggests the tin market may be due a broader strategic rethink. (Editing by Jan Harvey)