“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” / Gotōge Koyoharu	The main character of “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” on Facebook of the Hong Kong Police

The Hong Kong Police let the mascot character of “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” appear on Facebook. The animation of “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” is making a big hit now. The Hong Kong Police is exposed to criticism. People say “The police violates the copyright”.　

The police insists “It is not a rights abuse, because it has the aim to tell the prevention of fraud to inhabitants clearly”.

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Manila City Mayor Francisco ‘Isko Moreno’ Domagoso on Thursday, August 20 called for the deportation of two Chinese nationals for branding the capital city as a “province of China.”

In a mayoral address via Facebook Live, Domagoso said that tagging Manila as a province of China on the labels of cosmetic products being sold by Elegant Fumes Beauty Products Inc. is “unacceptable.”

“Dalawang Chinese nationals (ay nag-ooperate ng business establishment). Akin pong gagawin ay susulat sa Bureau of Immigration to deport and declare these two Chinese nationals as undesirable aliens,” Domagoso said.

The Mayor also blasted in his mayoral address the Chinese nationals for disrespecting the sovereignty of the Philippines.

The Mayor ordered Bureau of Permits director Levi Facundo to issue a closure order and revocation of permit to operate against their business establishment in Binondo.

Facundo said the business establishment was also found to be violating rules and regulations of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

He said that the Chinese nationals do not indicate on their products any “batch/lot number” and “name and address of the company or person responsible for placing the product in the market.”

“These are the minimum information required by law to appear on the immediate and or outer packaging of a cosmetic product,” Facundo said.

Facundo said that his office will also revoke the Mayor’s permit of the corporation. The FDA is also set to cancel the license to operate of Elegant Fumes Beauty Products Inc. due to the various issues, he said.

Likewise, four more establishments were ordered closed for selling products bearing the same labels tagging Manila as a “province of China.”

抹茶Matcha, powdered tea (丸久小山園Marukyu Koyamaen,　Japan)

抹茶, powdered tea （济南超威生物技术有限公司, Jinan Cowi Biotechnology Co.、Ltd.,　China）

Marukyu Koyamaen’s announcement：

Announcement：Similar Packaging Sold in China

Recently, we have discovered that there are Matcha products with a similar packaging being sold on China’s online shop.

The color, shape, and marks design on the Similar Packaging are identical to our own product packaging. However, it is not produced by us. Please be aware of the situation.

※Please understand that Marukyu Koyamaen Co. Ltd have no any relation, and assume no responsibility to the damage and lost cause by the product with a similar packaging.

Many coastal communities in Sierra Leone depend on fishing for food and their livelihood

Sierra Leone has banned industrial fishing in its territorial waters for a month from Monday in a move to try to shore up stocks that was applauded by environmental activists.

The government also decreed an April 1-30 halt to exports by major fishing companies “to protect our fish stock from depletion”, said a statement from the fisheries ministry.

The West African states of Mauritania, Senega, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone lost about $2.3 billion (more than 2.1 billion euros) a year from 2010 to 2016 due to illegal and undeclared fishing, according to the Greenpeace environmental group.

Sierra Leone National Fishermen Consortium chairman Alpha Sheku Kamara accused China and Korea of destroying stocks.

“Industrial fishing boats from China and Korea are destroying our nets and also depleting the fish stock,” he said.

“We are calling on the government to effectively enforce the ban with surveillance.”

“Illegal fishing accounts for about 30 percent of catches by industrial foreign fleets in Sierra Leone, according to the 2017 Sea Around Us project at the University of British Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley and five other organisations.

It found that in the past decade industrial foreign vessels have increased illegal activities off Sierra Leone either on their own or by enticing small-scale fishers into illicit partnerships.

A representative of a large Chinese fishing company in Sierra Leone declined to comment to AFP.

On February 22, the Consumer Affairs Agency of Japan (消費者庁 shouhishach?) warned that “CGJP” sold the imitation of the high-quality down jacket “Canada Goose” at discount price as the regular products while announcing its name.

According to the Agency, CGJP placed the products of Canada Goose in the advertisements such as SNS and guided it to the website of CGJP. It publicized that it sold them at the bargain price of the 20% degree of the regular products.

The products that arrived to the buyers who ordered through the site of CGJP were different from the regular products on the weight, texture and the embroidery of the brand logo. And the forwarding origins were the address of China and Japan.

Even if a buyer offers a complaint and return of goods in the inquiry form or the e-mail address, there is no reply. there are no consumers who received repayments.

The homepage of the company is not already seen and the company name has been changed to “益天合同会社” as of February 5, but it may be still changed.

The Agency said “the site of CGJP had the funny Japanese style and expression. Fraud sites and mail order sites that are hard to distinguish easily are increasing recently. If you feel even slightly uneasy, please refrain from the purchase them.”

MUJI (無印良品), UNIQLO (ユニクロ), DAISO (ダイソー)　-　Japan		MINISO（メイソウ）　-　China

There are approximately 2,000 “MINISO” stores in the world. “UNICLO” has 2,127 stores in the world. There are more “MINISO” than “UNICLO” in the world except Japan.

The signboard and the logo resemble Japanese “MUJI” or “UNIQLO” if you look at them in a long distance. Its name MINISO sounds like the mini-version of “DAISO”.

“メイソウ” is Japanese letters, and Japanese explanations are attached to the products. However, it is the company of Chinese capital definitely irrelevant to “MUJI” or “UNIQLO” or “DAISO”.

This is a very vicious example. It abuses Japanese quality and reliability, and it is “the culture destruction” beyond a country and the sense of values and “the profanity” to manufacturing.

The most vicious is “三宅順也”. His big photos are raised in 2,000 stores of “MINISO” in the world. However, there is not such a Japanese in Japan.

Billionaire political donor and Beijing’s former top lobbyist in Australia, Huang Xiangmo, has been stranded overseas after Australian officials declared him unfit to hold an Australian passport and cancelled his permanent residency.

The decision is the first enforcement action to be made by Canberra against a suspected Chinese Communist Party influence agent after the Coalition launched a counter-interference campaign against Beijing in 2018.

Senior government sources have confirmed that the Home Affairs Department denied Mr Huang a passport for a range of reasons, including character grounds. They were also concerned about the reliability of his answers in interviews and correspondence with authorities including ASIO.

Mr Huang rose to prominence through his prolific political fundraising and networking, his funding of former foreign minister Bob Carr’s Sydney think tank, the Australia-China Relations Institute, and his role as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party’s top influence group in Australia.

The citizenship decision, confirmed by government sources, came after ASIO and immigration officials spent more than two years analysing Mr Huang’s background as a businessman, his ties to the Chinese Communist Party in Australia and China, and answers he gave in interviews with Australian security officials.

In 2015 and 2016, ASIO privately warned both major parties that Mr Huang’s donations may be entwined with his ties to the Chinese Communist Party, although figures like Mr Dastyari and Mr Robb said those warnings had never been shared with them. Labor and the Coalition accepted tens of thousands of dollars in donations after the ASIO warnings.

The Chinese Communist Party removed an online anti-corruption video that was nearly identical to a clip from Nintendo Co.’s video game “Super Mario Bros.” following complaints of copyright infringement.

The party’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission posted the video on its official Weibo microblog account on Jan. 30.

Ironically, the video was apparently produced by a court in Hunan province to boast of its record on cracking down on copyright violations, corruption and other crimes last year.

“Our country’s court shows us what piracy is by committing it itself,” one online critic said.

The video uses sound effects remarkably similar to those in the Japanese video game.

The main character, resembling Mario, grows by eating mushrooms and vanquishes the villains--a tiger and flies.

In Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, he pledged to get rid of both “tigers,” who are senior officials of the party and government, and “flies,” who are rank-and-file party members.

The protagonist in the video resolves a slew of problems by collecting coins bearing such signs as “right to intellectual property” and “bankruptcy case.”

Criticism quickly ensued after the video was posted.

Complaints of copyright violation were rife, while others said the video was simply “too embarrassing.”

The video was deleted by the night of Feb. 2.

Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party placed an animation in the Internet.

Including the title written as “Super Mario” in English, a character looking just like “Mario” defeats the bureaucrats who get involved in corruption in sequence.

The BGM and the sound effects looks just like the original Super Mario, and “Mario” dressed like a judge sentences to death on a criminal. The coin written as “intellectual property rights” in Chinese comes up.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is extremely concerned that China has chosen to “arbitrarily” apply the death penalty against a Canadian.

The comments are Trudeau’s strongest yet against China. The prime minister says he is “extremely concerned as should all countries around the world” that China is choosing to act arbitrarily with its justice system and with its choice not to respect longstanding practices regarding diplomatic immunity.

A Chinese court announced Monday that it had given Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg the death penalty on drug charges. The Chinese press began publicizing Schellenberg’s case in December after Canada detained Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, on Dec. 1 at the request of the United States.

Since then, China has arrested two Canadians in apparent retaliation for Meng’s arrest. It arrested both Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat, and Michael Spavor, a businessman, on suspicion of endangering national security.

A former Canadian ambassador to China, Guy Saint-Jacques, believes the Chinese likely interrogated Kovrig about his time as a diplomat in China and that would break the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations. He says there is a notion of residual diplomatic immunity that means a country is not allowed to question someone on the work they did when they were a diplomat.

Chinese reminder was posted at the vegetable and fruit department in a Spainish supermarket. It says, “Please do not touch the fruits, because our staff chooses them for you.”.

Screenshot of Hong Kong Economic Daily

According to the article, a chain clothing store named Blutsgeschwister in Germany recently posted a simplified Chinese reminder in the store to remind Chinese tourists to abide by the rules. The first one is not to eat or drink in the shop, the second one is not to cut hands, feet, nails, spitting and so on. The last one is more straightforward: Dont burp or fart in the shop.

Data Chart: Blutsgeschwister Clothing Store

Lets first look at these simplified Chinese prompts:

1. Please dont eat or drink in the store.
2. Our shop does not provide rest places.
3. Please dont cut your hands, feet and nails in the shop.
4. Please dont pick your teeth with toothpicks in the shop
5. Please dont spit anywhere inside or outside the store.
6. We refuse to bargain, but we can issue a shopping tax rebate.
7. Please dont talk too loudly, so as not to interfere with his customersshopping.
8. Dont burp or fart in the store

Although this prompt is also in German, the Chinese font is obviously larger.

Canada said on Thursday that 13 of its citizens have been detained in China since Huawei Technologies Co Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested last month in Vancouver at the request of the United States.

“At least” eight of those 13 had since been released, the Canadian government said in a statement, without disclosing what charges if any have been laid.

Prior to Thursday’s statement, detention of only three Canadian citizens had been publicly disclosed. Diplomatic tension between Canada and China has intensified since Meng’s arrest on Dec. 1.

The Canadian government has said several times it sees no explicit link between the arrest of Meng, the daughter of Huawei’s founder, and the detentions of Canadian citizens.

But Beijing-based Western diplomats and former Canadian diplomats have said they believe the detentions were a “tit-for-tat” reprisal by China.