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During a press conference today, an official the infected person was aged in her 20s and had been working at the Academia Sinica's Genomics Research Centre.
Official Chen Shih-chun, of the Central Epidemic Command Centre, said the woman was "exposed to the pathogen" in mid-November while working at the Biosafety Level-3 lab.
This comes amid claims that Covid-19 was initially leaked from a Level-4 lab in Wuhan, China - a theory which Beijing has strongly denied.
… a feared new Covid outbreak is believed have been triggered by an escape from a lab in Taiwan. Dozens of people are feared to have been infected after the researcher was bitten by a mouse while working at the BSL-3 facility in Taipei.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4239264/covid-lab-leak-taiwan/
https://www.the-sun.com/news/2976136/worlds-most-dangerous-biolabs-covid-leak/
Thailand is a hot spot for human trafficking, and migrants and refugees are particularly vulnerable to becoming victims.
https://thediplomat.com/2014/03/suspected-uyghurs-rescued-in-thai-raid-of-human-trafficking-camp/
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TRAFFICKING PROFILE: As reported over the last five years, human traffickers subject foreign men and women to forced labor and sex trafficking in Taiwan, and they subject local men and women to forced labor and local women and children to sex trafficking. Traffickers also subject Taiwanese people to forced labor in some European countries. Taiwanese traffickers increasingly use the internet, smartphone apps, livestreaming, and other such online technologies to conduct recruitment activities, often targeting child victims, and to mask their identities from law enforcement. Taiwanese traffickers also exploit persons with disabilities in sex trafficking.
Traffickers lure women from the PRC and Southeast Asian countries to Taiwan through fraudulent marriages and deceptive employment offers for purposes of sex trafficking. Many trafficking victims are migrant workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and, to a lesser extent, individuals from the PRC, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Thai nationals continue to represent the majority of foreign sex trafficking and forced labor victims in Taiwan. Taiwan is host to nearly 700,000 foreign workers, most of whom are hired in their home countries through recruitment agencies and brokers – including some from Taiwan – to perform low-skilled work as home caregivers and domestic workers (34 percent), or in farming, manufacturing, meat processing, construction, and fishing. In order to pay brokers’ often exorbitantly high recruitment fees and deposits, some foreign workers incur substantial debts, which the brokers or employers use as tools of coercion to obtain or retain their labor.
https://www.ait.org.tw/2022-trafficking-in-persons-report-taiwan/
CIB busts human trafficking ring
“Lee in November last year linked up with ‘snakeheads’ in Cambodia to set up conduits for human trafficking. He and members of his gang then put advertisements on social media platforms, offering up to NT$50,000 to NT$60,000 a month to work in Cambodia,” the CIB said.
The jobs offered included working in casinos, lending money and acting in adult films, it said.
Victims who refused to cooperate were beaten and even tortured with electricity, the CIB said.
The profits generated by the criminal operation were split evenly between the Taiwanese and Cambodian groups, it said. Eighty-two Taiwanese have been taken to Cambodia this way and nine have been rescued so far, the CIB said, adding that efforts are ongoing to find and repatriate the remaining victims.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2022/07/10/2003781491