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GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUEISSUE 252252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 20182018 NEWSLETTER Shipping Companies and Ships Linked to Us We are working with 21 shipping companies, and have 750 men and 173 women on ships, a total of 923 crew and staff under management. We welcome: Nepalese Crew: Sangita Ghalan Sapna Gurung Kumar Gurung We publish this month a photograph of the AIDAvita of AIDA cruises. Uttam Lamsal If you have pictures or postcards of your ship, please send them in to us for future Newsletters. Myanmar Crew: Za Hre Lian Khant Hein Aung Salai Samuel The month has been a routine one, with no big news to report, but with a number of new crew reaching ship. !1 GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUE 252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 2018 CONTENTS 01 The Last Month in Brief, Shipping Companies 03 World Security 08 Nepal News 14 Hong Kong News 18 Conclusion GI (HK) BUSINESS We are providing security services for 27 Hong Kong Clients and have 97 security staff employed. GURKHA INTERNATIONAL Website: gurkha.com.hk Editor of Newsletter: Kiki Li !2 GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUE 252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 2018 WORLD S&CURITY ••••• •••••••• WORLD SECURITY !3 GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUE 252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 2018 &CONOMICS The summer period has continued to be a quiet one economically, though the reduction in credit worldwide has begun to affect weak economies, such as Turkey, where the currency has fallen in value. The reduction in Venezuelan oil production due to the collapse in their economy, and the recent re-imposition of sanctions on Iran by the US, threaten to cause an increase in the price of petroleum products, which will hurt countries damaged by the current trade wars and reduction in credit as both the US and EU central banks stop flooding the market with money. NUCL&AR There have been no developments, either in the North Korean or Iranian nuclear issues. &UROP& The European Union announced that Greece had emerged from its financial “rescue” programme, which has left the country more devastated than any developed economy in peace time. Greece remains bankrupt and will never, if it remains inside the Euro, repay its debts. Italy has commenced disputes with the European Union over its plans to spend cash to reboot its economy (which has not grown since it joined the Euro in the 1990s) and over the influx of immigrants from Africa. Tension between Russia and NATO countries, and between Russia and the Ukraine, remains high. US President Donald Trump has attacked European nations for not doing enough in their own defence and for relying on the US while buying, and so becoming dependent upon, Russian gas. An Islamic fundamentalist attacked police officers in a police station in Barcelona, and was killed. In Russia, in a knife attack against a police station, at least seven police officers were injured and two terrorists shot dead. Another terrorist was detained when his explosive charge was partially detonated. A Syrian and an Iraqi stabbed and killed a man and injured two in a public festival in Chemnitz, Germany. ••••• •••••••• WORLD SECURITY !4 GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUE 252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 2018 TH& MIDDL& &AST & TH& ARAB WORLD Conflict continues in Syria, Libya and Yemen. Iraq continues to suffer a large number of terrorist attacks. Saudia Arabia and its allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council have continued the blockade of Qatar. Terrorists raided a bank in Kesserine, Tunisia. A suicide bomber attacked a church in Shubra El Kheima in Egypt, killing only himself and injuring two others. At least four terrorists were killed during an attack against a police station next to Al-Arish, in the Sinai peninsula, Egypt. The attackers also detonated several bombs, killing four police officers and injuring 10. An al-Qaeda bomb killed a child and wounded six others in Algeria. PAL&STIN& The US cut its aid budget for Palestinian refugees. AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN Violence remains endemic in Afghanistan, with the Taleban conducting many terrorist attacks against government and civilian targets throughout the month. There is no major news from Pakistan this month; the country is seeing campaigning for a presidential election. Schools were attacked and set on fire by Islamic militants in the Diamer district of the administrative of Gilgit-Baltistan. ASIA Tension continues in both the South China Sea around the Spratly and Paracel Islands and in the Sea of Japan around islands held by Japan but claimed by China and South Korea. ••••• •••••••• WORLD SECURITY !5 GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUE 252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 2018 THAILAND The Muslim insurgency in southern Thailand, near the Malaysian border, continues. INDIA Kashmir remains disturbed and terrorist attacks continue in many rural areas of India. TH& MALACCA STRAITS There is no news this month of piracy in the area. SOMALIA There are no more reports this month of Somali piracy. Fighting continues in the country between the government and its foreign allies and Islamic militant al- Shabaab fighters. Al-Shabaab terrrorists killed soldiers and civilians in Kenya. AFRICA Nigerian and forces in the neighbouring states of Niger and Chad continue to battle Boko Haram Sunni Muslim terrorists. Seven people were beheaded in a raid by on a village near Maiduguri in north Nigeria and about 17 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in the country's northeast. Ten people were killed in twin suicide bombings which wounded another 20 in Madagali, Nigeria. Civil conflict continues in South Sudan and the Central African Republic. Fourteen people were kidnapped and killed by the Allied Democratic Forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Six people were killed by a landmine in Burkina Faso. ••••• •••••••• WORLD SECURITY !6 GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUE 252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 2018 MYANMAR There is no new security news this month. TH& AM&RICAS A drone carrying explosives exploded near Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at a military parade. Seven National Guard soldiers were injured in the incident. Terrorist activities have recommenced in Colombia. ••••• •••••••• WORLD SECURITY !7 GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUE 252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 2018 N&PAL N&WS ••••• •• • • NEPAL NEWS !8 GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUE 252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 2018 India gifts 20 ambulances, four buses to Nepal on Independence Day India on Thursday gifted 20 ambulances and four buses to various hospitals, charitable organisations and educational institutions in Nepal on the occasion of the India's Independence Day. India on Thursday gifted 20 ambulances and four buses to various hospitals, charitable organisations and educational institutions in Nepal on the occasion of the India's Independence Day. Ambassador of India to Nepal Jayant Prasad handed over the keys of the vehicles to the recipient organisations from 16 districts at a special ceremony held at the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu. The remaining six ambulances and one bus were gifted by the Consulate General of India, Birgunj, according to the Embassy. Also, Ambassador Prasad presented books to 50 educational and training institutions located in different regions of the country. The Indian envoy unfurled the national flag and read out a message of President Pranab Mukherjee in the Embassy premises to mark the 67th Independence Day. - 15 August 2018 - - NEWS18 - ••••• •• • • NEPAL NEWS !9 GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUE 252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 2018 Nepal urged to repeal new law over press freedom concerns New criminal code makes sharing confidential information an offence that deserves prison sentence. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Nepal's government to repeal or amend a new criminal code adopted last week in order to remove provisions that threaten press freedom. The law introduced on August 17 makes sharing confidential information an offence resulting in a prison sentence, sparking concerns among journalists that the laws could be used to muzzle the press. The code criminalises recording and listening to conversations between two or more people without the consent of the persons involved, as well as disclosing private information without permission, including private information on public figures. It also prohibits photographing a person outside of a public space without their consent. New regulations also ban satire that disrespects an individual. ••••• •• • • NEPAL NEWS !10 GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUE 252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 2018 Depending on the infraction, journalists could face fines of up to 30,000 rupees ($270) and imprisonment of up to three years, according to the CPJ quoting the new code. "Nepal's new criminal code marks a giant step backward for press freedom," said Steven Butler, CPJ's Asia programme coordinator, said in a statement by the New York-based group released on Monday. "Legislators need to go back and scrub the law of these overly broad provisions that effectively criminalise the normal newsgathering activities of journalists.” Booming industry Nepal's media has grown dramatically since the monarchy was overthrown a decade ago following a brutal civil war, spawning dozens of newspapers and news channels. A new constitution passed in 2015 enshrines the right to press freedom and bans censorship of news, which was common under the monarchy. However, the Himalayan nation is ranked just 106 out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index. Journalists face intimidation and arrest, particularly if reporting on issues deemed by authorities to affect national unity. - 22 August 2018 - - Al Jazeera - ••••• •• • • NEPAL NEWS !11 GURKHA INTERNATIONAL GROUP ISSUE 252 Website: gurkha.com.hk AUG 2018 1 Dead as Nepal Protests Against Teen's Rape, Arrest of 'Scapegoat' Anger boiled over after police arrested a man who reportedly has severe learning difficulties and whom protesters say is a scapegoat allowing officers to shield the real culprit.