2014年12月24日 星期三

week7-Hong Kong,occupy

HK police clear protest camp, arrest student leaders

Thu, Nov 27, 2014
AFP, HONG KONG

Hundreds of Hong Kong police yesterday cleared a pro-democracy protest camp, arresting Joshua Wong (黃之鋒) and another student leader, and reopening a main road blocked for almost two months.
Pushing back protesters, police with the help of workmen removed tents and other obstacles blocking the six-lane Nathan Road in Mong Kok district.
It is seen as the most significant move so far in efforts to clear away protest camps at three separate locations in the territory, as public sympathy with the demonstrators wanes.
Scuffles broke out earlier in the day as police wearing helmets and brandishing batons moved in to protect the workmen from the crowds that surged forward to try to stop them tearing down road barricades.
The operation went ahead a day after nearly 150 demonstrators were arrested as authorities cleared a smaller section of the Mong Kok protest camp.
Hundreds of police quickly pushed protesters back, and removed wooden and metal barricades, tents and other obstructions along a 500m stretch of Nathan Road.
About two hours after the operation started, only a handful of protesters remained at the edge of the site.
The movement’s student leaders Wong and Lester Shum (岑敖暉) were arrested at the scene, according to protest group Scholarism and the Hong Kong Federation of Students

Structure of the Lead：
   WHO-Hong Kong police
   WHEN-yesterday 
   WHAT-cleared a pro-democracy protest camp
   WHY- not given 
   WHERE-not given
   HOW-not given

Keywords：
   1. pro-democracy：支持民主的
   2. obstacle：障礙物
   3. territory：領土
   4. wane：減弱
   5. scuffle：混戰
   6. brandish：揮舞
   7. baton：警棍
   8. barricade：路障
   9. obstruction：障礙物
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2014年12月17日 星期三

week6-actor, Ko, Jaycee, drug, arrest

Jackie Chan’s son Jaycee arrested in Beijing drug bust with Taiwanese actor Kai Ko

by Wu NanMonday, 18 August, 2014

Jackie Chan's son, Jaycee Chan, and Taiwanese actor Kai Ko have both been detained by Beijing police for drug-related offences, police revealed last night.
Jaycee Chan, also known as Fang Zuming, was detained by Beijing police together with his friend, 23-year-old Taiwanese movie star Kai Ko Chen-tung, the Beijing News and Beijing Times newspapers reported on Monday.
In a  statement released on its official Weibo account on Monday evening, the Beijing public security bureau said that police officers detained a number suspects for drug use last Thursday in Dongcheng District, including a 32-year-old Hong Kong actor with the surname Chan and a 23-year-old Taiwan actor named Ko. These descriptions seem to match Jaycee Chan and Kai Ko. 
Urine tests on both Chan and Ko have returned positive results for marijuana, and both actors have confessed to using it, the police statement said. Police also recovered more than 100 grams of marijuana from Chan's home, it said. 
The police statement says Chan has been put under criminal detention for the suspected crime of "providing a shelter for others to abuse drugs," which carries a maximum prison term of three years if a suspect is convicted.

Structure of the Lead：
   WHO- Jaycee Chan and Taiwanese actor Kai Ko
   WHEN-not given
   WHAT-they have both been detained by Beijing police
   WHY- drug-related 
   WHERE-not given
   HOW-not given

Keywords：
   1. detain：扣留
   2. offence：罪行
   3. statement：聲明
   4. bureau：局ˋ辦公處
   5. suspect：嫌疑犯
   6. urine test：尿液篩檢
   7. marijuana：大麻
   8. confess：承認
   9. detention：拘留
  
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week5-Ferguson, Michael Brown, Darren Wilson, Missouri

Marchers across US rally to protest police killings

Mon, Dec 15, 2014Reuters, WASHINGTON and NEW YORK

Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, New York City and Boston on Saturday to protest killings of unarmed black men by police officers in the US.
Organizers said the marches were among the largest in the recent wave of protests against the killings of black males by police in Ferguson, Missouri; New York City; Cleveland, Ohio, and elsewhere.
The protests were mainly peaceful, although police in Boston said they arrested 23 people who tried to block a highway.
One person was arrested in New York City after two officers were assaulted by protesters, prompting a condemnation from New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said the alleged assault marked “an ugly and unacceptable departure from the demonstrations thus far.”
“Those who reject peaceful protest and provoke violence can expect immediate arrest and prosecution,” said De Blasio, who has been sharply criticized by the city’s police officers’ union for not supporting the police department.
Police in Oakland, California, ordered hundreds of demonstrators to disperse on Saturday night after a grocery store was looted.
Decisions by grand juries to return no indictments against the officers involved in the deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York have put police treatment of minorities back on the national agenda.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2014/12/15/2003606808


Structure of the Lead：
   WHO-thousands of demonstrators
   WHEN-Saturday
   WHAT-thousands of demonstrators marched
   WHY- to protest killings of unarmed black men by police officers in the US.
   WHERE-Washington, New York City and Boston
   HOW-not given

Keywords：
   1. demonstrator：示威者
   2. unarmed：手無寸鐵的
   3. assault：襲擊
   4. prosecution：起訴
   5. departure from：違背
   6. indictment：控告
   7. alleged：所謂的
   8. condemnation：譴責
   

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2014年11月12日 星期三

week4-Israeli Gaza conflict

Israeli strikes on Gaza, rocket fire break lull in fighting

Tue, Jul 29, 2014by AP, JERUSALEM

Israeli jets struck three sites in Gaza yesterday after a rocket was launched at Israel, the military said, disrupting a relative lull in the war-torn territory at the start of a major Muslim holiday.
The strikes followed an almost 12-hour pause in fighting and came as international efforts intensified to end the three-week war between Israel and Hamas.
The UN called for an “immediate” ceasefire in the conflict that has already killed more than 1,030 Palestinians, 43 Israeli soldiers and three civilians on the Israeli side.
Israel’s military said it struck two rocket launchers and a rocket manufacturing facility in central and northern Gaza after a rocket hit southern Israel earlier in the day. The rocket caused no damage or injuries.
As Muslims began celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday yesterday that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, there was fear and mourning instead of holiday cheer in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian families huddled inside their homes, fearing more airstrikes, while those who came to a cemetery in Gaza City’s Sheik Radwan neighborhood to pay traditional respects at their ancestors’ graves gathered around a large crater from an airstrike a week ago that had broken up several graves.

Structure of the Lead：
   WHO-Israeli military
   WHEN-yesterday
   WHAT-Israeli jets struck three sites in Gaza
   WHY- not given
   WHERE-Gaza
   HOW-not given

Keywords：
   1. military：軍方          2. intensify：強化          3. crater：彈坑          4. cemetery：墓地          5. ceasefire：停火          6. war-torn：受戰爭的國家          7. territory :領土
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2014年11月5日 星期三

week3- Robin Williams dead suicide

Actor Robin Williams dead at 63

Wed, Aug 13, 2014 - Page 7by Reuters, TIBURON, California

    Robin Williams, the versatile actor whose madcap comic style made him one of television and film’s biggest stars, was found dead on Monday after an apparent suicide at his home in Northern California. He was 63.
    The comedian’s appeal stretched across generations and genres, from family fare as the voice of Disney’s blue Genie in Aladdin to his portrayal of a fatherly therapist in the 1997 drama Good Will Hunting, for which he earned his sole Oscar.
    However, many remembered the master of impressions on Monday for his tender portrayal in Mrs Doubtfire, when he played the part of a British nanny whose identity he assumed as a divorced father to be with his children.
    Williams had been recently suffering from severe depression, his publicist Mara Buxbaum said in a statement and the actor had repeatedly talked about his past struggles with alcohol.
    The Marin County Sheriff’s coroner’s division said it suspected Williams committed suicide by asphyxia, but the cause of death is still under investigation and an autopsy was to be conducted yesterday.

Structure of the Lead：
   WHO-Robin Williams
   WHEN-Monday
   WHAT-Robin Williams dead suicide
   WHY- not given
   WHERE-at his home in Northern California
   HOW-not given

Keywords：
   1. versatile：多才多藝的
   2. madcap：狂妄的
   3. genre：流派
   4. sole：唯一的
   5. portrayal：描述
   6. assume：認為
   7. publicist：公關
   8. autopsy：屍檢
   9. alcohol：酒精
   10. asphyxia：窒息
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2014年10月29日 星期三

week2 - Korean ferry sank

Students Among Hundreds Missing After South Korean Ferry Sinks

APRIL 16, 2014

 By SU-HYUN LEE and 
    
    JINDO, South Korea — The parents waited in dread through the night, huddled under blankets in this South Korean port town, staring out to sea for a sign that rescuers had found any of the 281 people, many of them high school students, still missing after a ferry sank on Wednesday.
    
    They refused to sleep in a tent set up for them, preferring to scan the horizon for helicopters returning from the rescue effort 11 miles off the country’s southwest coast. As the hours passed with little news of what may be one of South Korea’s worst peacetime disasters, they demanded information from officials who said that fierce tides were keeping divers from entering the ship, which had mostly slipped beneath the waves long before.
    
    By Thursday morning, the Ministry of Security and Public Administration, which is coordinating the rescue efforts, reported that 175 passengers and crew members had been rescued. Nine people were confirmed dead, including four students, two teachers and a member of the ferry’s crew. But fears of a much higher death toll were stoked as survivors said they believed that many people had been trapped below deck. According to some who spoke to the local news media, passengers had been told to remain in their seats and may have stayed there until it was too late.


Structure of the Lead：
   WHO-the parents
   WHEN-Wednesday
   WHAT-waiting for their children
   WHY- the ferry which their children took was sunk
   WHERE-South Korean port town
   HOW-not given

Keywords：
   1. port：港口
   2. horizon：地平線
   3. coordinate：協調
   4. diver：潛水員   
   5. confirm：證實
   6. crew：機組人員
   7.  toll：死亡人數
   8. deck：甲板
   9. stoke：困住
           
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2014年10月22日 星期三

week1-2013年回顧

War zone at mile 26: ‘It’s all blood’

Wed, Apr 17, 2013NY Times News Service, BOSTON
About 30m from the end of the 42km Boston Marathon, explosions shook the street and sent runners frantically racing for cover. The marathon finish line, normally a festive zone of celebration and exhaustion, was suddenly like a war zone.
“These runners just finished and they don’t have legs now,” said Roupen Bastajian, 35, a Rhode Island state trooper and former US Marine. “So many of them. There are so many people without legs. It’s all blood. There’s blood everywhere. You got bones, fragments. It’s disgusting.”
The Boston Marathon, which takes place on Patriots’ Day, a state holiday, is usually an opportunity for the city to cheer with a collective roar.
However, the explosions turned an uplifting day into a nightmarish swirl of bloodied streets and torn-apart limbs as runners were toppled, children on the sidelines were maimed, and a panicked city watched its signature athletic spectacle destroyed.
This year, more than 23,000 people started the race in near-perfect conditions. Only about 17,580 finished.Three people were killed in the blast and more than 100 were injured.

Structure of the Lead：
   WHO-marathon runners
   WHEN-not given
   WHAT-explosions shook the street and sent runners frantically racing
   WHY- not given
   WHERE-Boston
   HOW-not given

Keywords：
   1. frantically：瘋狂的
   2. festive：喜慶的
   3. fragment：碎片
   4. maimed：殘廢的
   5. swirl：漩渦
   6. near-perfect：近乎完美
   7. collective：集體的
   8. roar：咆哮
   9. spectacle：眼鏡
    10. topple：推翻
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