East Asia Tonight: Typhoon Gaemi, North Korea balloons, Olympics

On East Asia Tonight (Jul 24), Taiwan braces for Typhoon Gaemi after the storm battered the Philippines, North Korea’s trash balloons land near South Korea’s presidential office, and Israel slams China’s Palestine unity deal. We also look at how East Asia’s top athletes are faring on mental health.

[kstash]

would be nice if you can add chapters or timeframes for each story

[pehclark]

16:00 UBS and Deustche Bank should Cut their losses and Exit that lackluster economy. There are better emerging market like Phillipines, Indonesia and Malaysia where they can make more money financially without being labelled as espionage.

[happymelon]

200 doping tests in 10 days: China's swim team staff cries foul over increased testing before Paris Olympics
Each athlete was tested an average of five to seven times since arriving in France for the Games.

the athletes were subjected to tests from “6am in the morning” and even during breaks in the afternoon.

“In these 10 days, our 31 athletes went through almost 200 tests for doping by the International Testing Agency (ITA) - this is on top of training and jet lag, ”

An average of 20 people were tested every day, with an average of five to seven tests per person.
(even then there were tests) from 9pm till past midnight.”

ITA staff reportedly told him the Chinese swimming team was “really subjected to too many tests, but it was out of the officers’ control as the testing regime was ordered from the higher ups”.

[mingwang]

you are so beautiful! I love you.😘😘😘