SYDNEY Serge Aurier Shirt , Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Leading Australian experts have called on the country's governments to hold tobacco companies accountable for damage done to people's health by taking them to court.
In an article published in the Medical Journal of Australia, public health experts from Macquarie University and Curtin University called on state and federal governments to seek remuneration from tobacco companies for the burden put on the public health system by smoking-related illnesses.
The authors, led by Macquarie University Health Studies lecturer Ross Mackenzie, said that Australia could use Canada, where the province of British Columbia's right to sue the tobacco industry was upheld by the Supreme Court, as a precedent.
"An estimated 2.6 million adult Australians were smokers in 2014, and smoking remains the country's leading preventable cause of death and disease," they wrote.
"It causes 15, 000 deaths annually and is likely to kill two-thirds of current users. Annual health, social and economic costs of smoking were estimated at more than $31.5 billion in 2008, and are now considered to be substantially greater."
Mackenzie and colleagues said there were lessons to be learnt from the Canadian experience.
"A major recovery in Australian litigation could potentially push an Australian subsidiary of a global cigarette manufacturer into bankruptcy, depriving plaintiffs of the opportunity to recover full damages... (It is) imperative that the parent (tobacco) companies remain as defendants in legal actions in order to satisfy the large damage awards necessary to provide just financial compensation," they said.
"Beyond the potential to recover billions of dollars spent on treatment of diseases caused by smoking, publicity around legal action would also emphasize the health and social impacts of tobacco industry corporate behaviour, furthering the denormalization of smoking in Australia and generating public and political support for further public health measures."
Norbert Csizmadia, editor-in-chief of Hungarian Geopolitics (HUG) and president of board of the Pallas Athene Geopolitical Foundation, shows a special Chinese-language edition of HUG during the launching ceremony in Budapest, Hungary, on Nov. 21, 2017. Hungarian Geopolitics (HUG), a major quarterly magazine covering geopolitical and geostrategic issues in Hungary, presented here on Tuesday a special edition in Chinese focusing on the Belt and Road initiative. (XinhuaYang Yongqian)
BUDAPEST, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Hungarian Geopolitics (HUG), a major quarterly magazine covering geopolitical and geostrategic issues in Hungary, presented here on Tuesday a special edition in Chinese focusing on the Belt and Road initiative.
Hailing the initiative proposed by China in 2013 as a "significant geopolitical and infrastructural investment" of the 21st century, Norbert Csizmadia, editor-in-chief of HUG and president of board of the Pallas Athene Geopolitical Foundation, the magazine's publisher, said the Central and Eastern Europe is a region of key importance for the Belt and Road, as the networks spreading from China reach Europe in that region.
The Chinese-language issue of the HUG magazine presents the process of the creation of the Ancient Silk Road and its historical connection to today's extremely important economic and infrastructural project, the construction of the new Silk Road in which Hungary can play a significant role.
It also presents the Hungarian explorers of the Silk Road, the relationships between the Silk Road and folk music, and especially the relationship between Chinese and Hungarian Folk Music.
The edition also deals with the Belt and Road and its connectivity to Central and Eastern Europe and its development through cooperation, and also about why Hungary can be a key a player for the Belt and Road.
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WUHAN, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- A new direct air route linking Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, with Manila, capital of the Philippines, will open in November, China Southern Airlines announced Tuesday.
It is the first regular direct flight between the two cities, it added.
The service will be launched on Nov. 6 at a special price of 670 yuan (about 100 U.S. dollars) for a round trip. Four flights will depart Wuhan at 0:45 a.m. and arrive in Manila at 3:40 a.m. Beijing time on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The return flight will leave Manila at 4: 40 a.m. and arrive in Wuhan at 8:10 a.m.
China, especially its central region, has become a major source of tourists for the Philippines, according to Wang Hai, marketing manager at the Hubei branch of China Southern Airlines.
Data from the Department of Tourism in the Philippines showed that from January to July this year, more than 454,900 Chinese tourists visited the Philippines, up 33.4 percent year on year.
In June 2015, Wuhan launched charter flights to Boracay Island, a popular resort island in the central Philippines.
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