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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