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Asia Cast for Monday 29th September

In this Bulletin…

- Typhoon Jangmi hits Taiwan, causing hundreds to evacuate;
- Xinhua news media caught publishing fake Chinese spacecraft article; and
- Twelve detained over latest Bomb attack in India.

-But first, here’s our SOH focus on China
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Its been reported HengTianRan Company, which owns 40 percent of Sanlu powdered milk, has been subjected to a further blow. A quality and technical report showed Sanlu milk powder was found to contain fatal bacteria ‘Enterobacter sakazakii’, which has caused the Sanlu ‘poisonous milk powder incident’ to escalate once again.

This bacterium can cause severe neonatal meningitis and inflammation of the stomach and could lead to serious after-effects on the nervous system.

The World Health Organization said it is the main disease carrier which can lead infants and young children to death.

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And now for the rest of Asia Cast
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Epoch times reported that on the 27th September, Xinhua.net, the official news agency of the Chinese regime, published a short apology on its homepage for fabricating an article dated Sept. 27, but was accidentally posted two days before.

The fabricated article titled, “An Exciting Night on the Pacific: Shenzhou VII Orbits 30 Times,” was published even before the Shenzhou VII spacecraft was launched. The article was soon deleted from the website.

Its been reported For the past few decades, the Xinhua media agency has been assisting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to strategically shape how the public views key events for the past few decades through falsified and misleading articles.

From events like the 1958 Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution, the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre to the persecution of Falun Gong starting in 1999, Xinhua has always been involved in fabricating news.

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Hundreds of people were evacuated as Typhoon Jangmi hit Taiwan with strong winds and heavy rain, causing a major landslide.

Forecasters warned of possible flash floods saying Jangmi, the sixth and biggest storm to hit Taiwan this year, could unleash up to 1,400 millimetres of rainfall in some areas.

Hundreds of residents evacuated from remote villages and fishing boats seeking shelter at ports, the National Fire Agency said.

Local television stations compared the typhoon to a category five hurricane.

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Epoch Times report that Indian police have detained about a dozen people in connection with a deadly bomb blast in a crowded New Delhi market, officials said on Sunday, this is the second attack in the capital this month.

Police said they had witnesses who could identify the two men who dropped a plastic bag in the capital’s busy Mehrauli market, before speeding away on a motorcycle on Saturday.

A boy picked up the bag and ran after the motorcyclists to return it when there was a huge explosion, killing him on the spot. A 60-year-old man died in hospital later. Twenty-two people were wounded in the blast.

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Six of the gunmen who kidnapped 19 tourists from a remote part of south-west Egypt have been killed by the Army. Reports suggest there was a high speed chase in the northern Sudanese desert.

But the missing hostages including five Germans, five Italians and one Romanian are still being held.

Their whereabouts is still unclear.

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