CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Thursday, May 6, 2021 | 11 WORLD Attacks on Asians drive Amazon hatecrime surge in NY back in
By MINLU ZHANG in New York something, so we just wanted to pass the firing [email protected] her quickly,” the 31yearold victim, who was identified only as Theresa, Hate crimes in New York City told ABCTV. “When I passed her, line on tax have jumped this year, propelled by suddenly I felt my head get hit by a dramatic increase in incidents something.” By JULIAN SHEA in London against Asian Americans and scores Theresa was rushed to a hospi [email protected] of crimes against Jews, according to tal, where she needed stitches for a the New York Police Department. gash to her forehead and another The tax arrangements of The NYPD released numbers on cut on her head, according to ABC. online retail giant Amazon have Monday showing that 180 hate The other woman, 29, didn’t come in for fresh criticism as, just crimes had occurred for the year to appear to suffer any injuries, days after announcing record Sunday, a surge of 73 percent from according to authorities. profits following a year in which the 104 reported for the same peri “My mom actually told me people bought more online od in 2020, The Wall Street Journal ‘Please be careful, there’s a lot of because of the pandemic, it was reported. Asian crime happening in Ameri announced the company, whose Asians were targeted in 80 hate ca’,” Theresa said. The recent grad headquarters for much of Europe crimes, the highest number of such uate of Manhattan’s Fashion is in Luxembourg, did not have to incidents. There were 16 hate crimes Institute of Technology said she pay any corporation tax there. against Asian Americans during the plans to go back to Taiwan now. If Filipino health workers and people with comorbidities wait to get COVID19 vaccines at a sports center Sales in Europe last year same period last year, the NYPD’s the right job comes along, she said, in the Makati city of Metro Manila on Tuesday. ELOISA LOPEZ / REUTERS brought in a record 44 billion Hate Crime Task Force said. she will move back to New York euros ($52 billion), but official The number of hate crimes tar when it is safer. accounts show the Luxembourg geting Jewish people was the sec operation, which employs ondhighest behind that for anti ‘Despicable’ act almost 6,000 staff, made a loss of Asian incidents, with 54 reported New York Governor Andrew more than 1 billion euros, so it in 2021, by Sunday, down from 58 Cuomo said in a statement on Biden ramps up vaccine paid no tax. such crimes in 2020. Tuesday: “I am disgusted by this On the contrary, it has tax During the four months, 78 arrests violent attack in Midtown Manhat credits worth 56 million euros were made, up 160 percent from the tan, the latest seemingly senseless stored up that can be called 30 made in the same period last year, and despicable hate crime against upon for any future profits, according to the newspaper. Asian Americans in this state. target amid hesitation which British Labour Party Police have said that the true “We will do everything in our member of Parliament Marga number of hate crimes in the city is power to protect those who are vul ret Hodge said showed a contin probably higher because many nerable to these attacks and to hold uation of the company’s such crimes go unreported. cowardly perpetrators accounta US among many Chinese help arrives in Laos “relentless campaign of appall The latest incident to reach the ble to the full extent of the law.” nations boosting ing tax avoidance continues”. Hate Crime Task Force is a woman Hundreds of New Yorkers gath A team of Chinese medical experts, “Amazon’s revenues have who on Sunday night demanded ered on Sunday for a rally in the jab plans to combat along with medical materials, arrived soared under the pandemic while that two Asian women remove predominantly Asian district of COVID19 outbreak in the Lao capital Vientiane on Tuesday our high streets struggle, yet it their face masks before attacking Flushing, in the borough of Queens, to assist Laos in fighting COVID19. continues to shift its profits to tax one of them with a hammer. denouncing the wave of hate Lao Deputy Prime Minister Kikeo havens like Luxembourg to avoid Police said that they are search crimes against Asian Americans. By AI HEPING and Khaykhamphithoune and Chinese paying its fair share of tax,” she ing for the woman, who carried “If you hate, get the hell out of BELINDA ROBINSON in New York Ambassador to Laos Jiang Zaidong told The Guardian newspaper. out the attack near Times Square. here because you don’t deserve to received the medical team sent by the “These big digital companies all “She was talking to herself. I live in New York City,” Mayor Bill US President Joe Biden on Tuesday Chinese government at Vientiane’s rely on our public services, our thought maybe she was drunk or de Blasio said at the rally. announced a new goal to have 70 per Wattay International Airport. Chinese medical experts arrive infrastructure, and our educated cent of US adults vaccinated with at The medical team includes experts in Vientiane, Laos, on Tuesday. and healthy workforce. But unlike least one COVID19 shot by the July 4 in infection prevention and control, ZHANG JIANHUA / XINHUA smaller businesses and hard holiday, and to do so the administra intensive care, epidemics, and labora working taxpayers, the tech giants tion will shift some vaccine doses to tory testing, along with medical sup believes that Laos will win the fight fail to pay fairly into the common those areas with greater demand. plies, including COVID19 testing kits, against the epidemic quickly. pot for the common good.” Biden’s target came as the pace for protective clothing and face masks. China attaches great importance to The new figures come a week vaccinations has fallen markedly in Kikeo, when talking with the Chinese cooperation with Laos in COVID19 pre before Europe’s secondhighest part because people are hesitant experts on their arrival, said the Lao vention and control. In building a com court is due to make a ruling on about the vaccines. It would mean side is grateful the Chinese government munity with a shared future, China is the company’s appeal against an administering 100 million shots sent the medical team to Laos. This ready to work together with Laos to get order by the European Union over the next 60 days, senior admin reflects the profound friendship from through difficulties and the two sides that it must pay around 250 mil istration officials said on Tuesday. the Chinese side with the Lao people. “must share weal and woe”, Jiang said. lion euros of back taxes in Lux The US administered about 220 mil With Chinese medical assistance, embourg, a small country which lion shots in Biden’s first 100 days as the Lao deputy prime minister firmly XINHUA attracts many major corpora president. tions because of its tax system. “Now that we have the vaccine sup ply, we’re focused on convincing even that people opposed to vaccines Minister Boris Johnson’s green light Matter in question more Americans to show up and get tend to remain steadfast in their system for travel, The Sun newspa The matter in question dates Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan (left) and Kenya’s the vaccine that is available to them,” refusal to get vaccinated. But the per reported on Tuesday. back to a European Commission President Uhuru Kenyatta exit the State House after their meeting Biden told reporters in an afternoon vaccinehesitant can be persuaded. With vaccines among the main ruling in 2017 that Luxembourg, in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday. BAZ RATNER / REUTERS address from the White House. “If we “Vaccinehesitant people usually weapons in the fight against the where Amazon is a significant succeed in this effort … then Ameri end up getting vaccinated but may pandemic, pharma giant Pfizer employer among the population cans will have taken a serious step need encouragement or to be reas reported a 45 percent jump in first of less than half a million people, toward a return to normal.” sured,” he told China Daily. quarter revenue largely due to its had allowed the company to fun Kenya, Tanzania leaders Biden had previously announced Shikha Jain, an assistant profes COVID19 shot, as a campaign for nel its profits through a holding the Fourth of July, Independence sor of medicine at the University of patent waivers gathers pace for company, avoiding tax. Day, as a target date for when people Illinois in Chicago and cofounder of poorer nations to get more vaccines. The state of Luxembourg has vow to improve trade ties can gather in small groups to signal IMPACT, a group that works to Among the leaders of that cam defended its actions, saying a return to greater normalcy. improve the equitable distribution paign is India, which is grappling with Amazon did not gain a selective By EDITH MUTETHYA come up with a structured system A US official told reporters that 105 of vaccines, told China Daily that one of the world’s worst outbreaks. advantage from the treatment. in Nairobi, Kenya of testing our people at the border million US residents are fully vaccinat some people also don’t have easy “The devastating speed with which Amazon established its busi [email protected] points to allow easy movement of ed, and more than 56 percent of access to smartphones or comput the virus affects different regions of ness in Luxembourg in 2003, our people so as to do their busi adults, or 147 million people, have ers to book an appointment. the country has to be matched by when the country’s prime minis The leaders of Kenya and Tanza nesses,” Hassan said. received at least one shot. swift and wideranging actions,” ter was JeanClaude Juncker, nia have agreed to improve trade The leaders also agreed on the Despite a flood of vaccines availa Booster trials Reserve Bank of India governor Shak who went on to serve as presi ties between the East African need for a system in which corona ble, providers are administering In Britain, which like the US got tikanta Das said as he announced dent of the European Commis neighbors after years of strains. virus test results can be recog about 2.29 million doses per day on off to an early start with its vaccina $6.7 billion in cheap financing for sion before Ursula von der Leyen The commitment arose from nized on both sides of the border. average, a decrease of 32 percent tion program, everyone aged over vaccine makers and hospitals. took up the post. talks on Tuesday between Kenyan Kenyatta said: “We have agreed from the peak of 3.38 million doses 50 will be offered a third COVID19 On Wednesday, the Philippines’ In a 2014 interview with Lux President Uhuru Kenyatta and his to reenergize the Joint Commis reported on April 13, according to vaccination jab in the autumn, The Food and Drug Administration embourg newspaper d’Letze Tanzanian counterpart Samia sion for Cooperation between our data from the Centers for Disease Times newspaper reported. granted emergency use authoriza buerger Land, Bob Comfort, who Suluhu Hassan, who was on a two two countries, and we have direct Control and Prevention. It is hoped the booster shots will tion for a vaccine from Moderna, was Amazon’s head of tax until day state visit to Kenya. ed our ministers to meet regularly The White House is also develop eradicate the threat from the infec FDA Director General Enrique 2011, said Juncker had offered to In addition to the trade discus to ensure that they continue ing plans to speed up vaccinations for tion entirely by Christmas. Trials of Domingo said. help Amazon. sions, the leaders also agreed to strengthening our relations by adolescents aged 1215 as the Food two options are under way, the Moderna’s is the seventh COVID “His message was simply: ‘If improve ties in matters relating to sorting out minor problems affect and Drug Administration is expected newspaper said. 19 vaccine given the green light by you encounter problems which security as well as in infrastructure, ing our people as they do business.” to authorize the Pfizer vaccine for Some 34.6 million people in Brit the FDA. you don’t seem to be able to transport, culture and tourism. those in that age group next week. ain have been given a first dose of a resolve, please come back and tell The leaders acknowledged that, Improving connectivity Those who are hesitant to get a COVID19 vaccine, government sta Agencies and Xinhua contributed to me. I’ll try to help’,” Comfort said. on trade, nontariff barriers were They also agreed to improve COVID19 vaccine are being offered tistics showed on Tuesday. this story. In later years, Comfort became hampering growth. They agreed to their connectivity through new a host of incentives, including cash People from Britain will be able to the honorary consul for Luxem eliminate the barriers to the roads and aviation and maritime and gift cards by states and cities. fly to Gibraltar and Malta, but not to Contact the writers at bourg in Seattle, the location for smooth flows of trade and people links to hasten economic growth. Scientist Jonathan Berman said Spain and Greece, under UK Prime [email protected]. Amazon’s headquarters in the US. between the two countries. Over “We also discussed the need to the past year, these flows have been hasten the construction of the hindered by disagreements on cor MalindiLunga LungaBagamoyo onavirus protocols. Road to ease movement of goods Number of children in Japan tumbles to lowest in decades In August, Tanzania banned and people,” Kenyatta said. Kenyan airlines from its airspace Kenyatta said the two countries after Kenya excluded it from a list have agreements relating to sales By WANG XU in Tokyo est figure since comparable data in mo no Hi” in Japanese. The national ing a coronavirusinduced state of of countries whose nationals are of Tanzania’s natural gas, and the [email protected] 1950 because of the baby boom. festival that dates back hundreds of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka, and exempted from mandatory quar imports will help Kenya meet its Children in Japan now account years and traces its origins to other major urban areas as the Sum antine on arriving in the country. growing energy demands. The number of children in Japan for just 11.9 percent of the popula ancient China. mer Olympics scheduled to begin on That issue was resolved. Addressing Hassan, Kenyatta sank to its lowest level in 40 years tion, reaching a nadir after 47 In Tokyo’s landmark Tokyo Tower, July 23 draws closer. The two countries also had a dis said: “We want to assure you that as the country celebrates its Chil straight years of decline. a total of 333 colorful fish flags, or Meanwhile, according to a gov pute over coronavirus tests for Kenya will be in the forefront dren’s Day on Wednesday, high The ratio also made Japan the koi carp streamers, were set in front ernment report being released on truck drivers crossing the border, working together with you and lighting an issue that needs to be worst among countries with a popu of its main gate because the tower is Wednesday, the US birthrate fell 4 which was also resolved. your administration to ensure dealt with given the nation’s aging lation of over 40 million. The figure also 333 meters tall. percent last year, the largest single Following the talks between the that our unity, especially as East population. for China stood at 18 percent in 2019 Kenji Ninomiya, who came to the year decrease in nearly 50 years. leaders, a joint team of experts will African nations and neighbors, Japan’s Ministry of Internal and 18.6 percent for the United tower with his parents, said his hope The pandemic no doubt contrib be set up to streamline crossbor will continue to grow.” Affairs and Communications said States in 2018. on Children’s Day is the end of the uted to last year’s big decline, experts der coronavirus containment pro According to the United Nations the number of children aged 14 or On Wednesday, long strands of COVID19 pandemic. “I wish all peo say. Anxiety about COVID19 and its tocols. These are among the most International Trade Statistics younger totaled 14.93 million as of fish flags hung from balconies, they ple are immune to the virus because impact on the economy likely caused pronounced nontariff trade barri Database, Kenya’s exports to Tan April 1. There were 7.65 million boys were strung up in public spaces and no person is safe until all are safe,” many couples to think that having a ers between the two nations. zania came to $329.6 million in and 7.28 million girls. also hoisted up in front of business said the 9yearold boy. baby right then was a bad idea. “We have agreed that our health 2019, with imports from Tanzania The number is some 190,000 few es in Japan to celebrate Children’s Japan’s Yomiuri Newspaper said ministers need to sit down and valued at $269.8 million. er than a year before and is the low Day, a festival known as the “Kodo the country is considering extend Agencies contributed to this story.