week7-香港佔中-Hong Kong, occupy central, Leung Chun-ying, (umbrella revolution)

Hong Kong student protesters consider pulling up stakes

HONG KONG Thu Dec 4, 2014 5:50am EST

(Reuters) - One of the main student groups leading pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong said on Thursday it was considering ending more than two months of street demonstrations in the Chinese-controlled city.

The Hong Kong Federation of Students will decide in the next week whether to call on protesters to pull up stakes despite having failed to achieve their goal of ensuring open nominations in the election for the city's next leader in 2017.

"Some people wish to stay until the last minute and we respect that - but we cannot occupy without meaning," federation spokeswoman Yvonne Leung told local radio. "We will decide within the next week whether to stay or retreat."

The federation is one of several groups driving the protests in the former British colony. Some members of another student group, Scholarism, have gone on hunger strike while leaders of the pro-democracy "Occupy Central" movement surrendered to police on Wednesday and called on students to retreat.

Student leaders held talks with Hong Kong officials in late October but failed to break the deadlock after the government said their demand for open nominations was impossible under the laws of the former British colony.

Last month, three student leaders were stopped from boarding a flight to Beijing to take their fight for greater democracy to the Chinese government. Airline authorities said their travel permits were invalid.

Hong Kong returned to Chinese Communist Party rule in 1997 under a "one country, two systems" formula that gives it some autonomy from the mainland and a promise of eventual universal suffrage. Beijing has allowed a free vote in 2017, but insists on screening any candidates for city leader first.

The protests at their peak drew more than 100,000 into the streets but the numbers have now dwindled to just a few hundred.

(Reporting by Diana Chan; Writing byClare Baldwin; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/04/us-hongkong-china-idUSKCN0JI0LE20141204

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- Joshua Wong

WHEN-Thursday

WHAT- Ending more than two months of street demonstrations in the Chinese-controlled city.

WHY- not given

WHERE-Hong Kong 

HOW-not given

Keywords：

1. stake:賭注

2. democracy:民主

3. demonstration:示威

4. dwindle:萎縮

week6-年輕演員吸毒-actor, Ko, Jaycee, drug, arrest

Jaycee Chan and Kai Ko Arrested for Drugs in China News

BY LIN CHEN · AUGUST 18, 2014

 Jackie Chan‘s (成龍) son Jaycee Chan (房祖名) and Taiwanese actor Kai Ko (柯震東) were arrested by mainland Chinese authorities for drug use last week. Authorities seized over 50 grams of drugs at the site of Kai and Jaycee’s arrest. Due to their criminal offenses, Kai and Jayce may face three to five years in prison in China.

Hong Kong actor and singer, Jaycee Chan, is known for his extravagant lifestyle and nightlife. Jaycee was born in California and largely raised by his mother, retired actress Joan Lin (林鳳嬌), with little involvement from father Jackie Chan. Frustrated by Jaycee’s escapades and box office failures, Jackie had declared that he will give all of his financial assets to charity after death while forcing Jaycee to earn his own money.

Kai Ko debuted in 2011 through the Taiwanese film You’re the Apple of My Eye <那些年，我們一起追的女孩>, which set box office records in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Shooting to instant fame, Kai released his debut album that same year and received numerous love calls to star in mainland Chinese dramas and films. The 23-year-old was previously linked with Elva Hsiao (蕭亞軒) and rumored to be dating Dream Girls’ Tia Li (李毓芬).

Manager Said Kai Ko Must Be Held Responsible

A Chinese netizen on Weibo first leaked the news of Kai Ko’s drug arrest on August 17. The netizen wrote, “Kai Ko was arrested for doing drugs. My father interrogated him overnight.”

The news was at first met with speculation by Kai’s manager, Angie Chai (柴智屏). Losing contact with Kai Ko over the last few days, Angie and her lawyer flew to Beijing to confirm that Kai has been detained by mainland authorities for 14 days.

In a press statement issued today, Angie expressed her disappointment in Kai’s behavior. “The company emphasized that young people, no matter what they play with, cannot touch drugs. Kai also told me in person that he promised his mother he will not touch drugs!” Angie said that Kai’s “youth is not an excuse” and that “he should be held legally responsible” for violating the law.

To add further irony to the situation, Kai had previously promoted an anti-drug campaign. At the time, he stated, “Perhaps people think that using drugs can help them relax and solve problems. But I don’t think this method has any effects.”

Jaycee Fong’s Arrest Confirmed 

Last night, Jaycee Fong’s management company confirmed his arrest for drug use. In the press statement, the company stood firmly behind Jaycee and asked the public for forgiveness: “We believe in Jaycee’s character. We are willing to monitor him, along with the public and involved agencies, to allow him to correct his mistakes and go back on the right path”.

The press was unable to reach Jackie Chan for comment on the drug arrest.

http://www.dramanewsnetwork.com/jaycee-chan-and-kai-ko-arrested-for-drugs-in-china-news/

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- Jaycee Chan and Kai Ko

WHEN- last week

WHAT-They were arrested by mainland Chinese authorities for drug use.

WHY-not given

WHERE- China

HOW- They may face three to five years in prison in China.

Keywords：

1.extravagant:奢華

2.escapade:越軌行為；惡作劇

3.previously:先前

4.interrogate:審問

5.speculation:推測

6. anti-drug campaign:反毒運動

week5-美警槍殺黑人-Ferguson, Michael Brown, Darren Wilson, Missouri

Ferguson officer, Darren Wilson, who shot Michael Brown resigns

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Ferguson police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown has resigned, his attorney said Saturday, nearly four months after the confrontation between the white officer and unarmed black 18-year-old that ignited protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation.

Darren Wilson, who has been on administrative leave since the Aug. 9 shooting, resigned effective immediately, said his attorney, Neil Bruntrager. He declined further immediate comment.

The Brown family attorney, Benjamin Crump, didn’t immediately return phone and email messages from The Associated Press.

Wilson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he was stepping down out of his “own free will” after the police department told him it had received threats of violence if he remained an employee.

“I’m not willing to let someone else get hurt because of me,” he told the newspaper.

A grand jury spent more than three months reviewing evidence before announcing Monday that it wouldn’t indict Wilson, who had testified that he feared for his life when Brown hit him and reached for his gun. Some witnesses have said that Brown had his hands up when Wilson shot him following a confrontation in a street in Ferguson.

The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting and a separate investigation of police department practices.

Wilson’s resignation didn’t seem to affect protesters outside Ferguson police headquarters Saturday night.

Rick Campbell said he didn’t care about the resignation, saying: “I’ve been protesting out here since August.” Several other protesters merely shrugged their shoulders when asked about the resignation.

“We were not after Wilson’s job,” civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton said in a written statement. “We were after Michael Brown’s justice.”

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson didn’t immediately return a message left on his cellphone seeking comment.

Wilson spent months in hiding and made no public statements following the shooting. Wilson, who recently got married, broke his silence after the grand jury decision, telling ABC News that he couldn’t have done anything differently in the encounter with Brown.

Wilson said he had a clean conscience because “I know I did my job right.” Brown’s shooting was the first time he fired his gun on the job, he said. Asked whether the encounter would have unfolded the same way if Brown had been white, Wilson said yes.

Wilson began his career in nearby Jennings before moving to the Ferguson job a few years ago. He had no previous complaints against him and a good career record, according to Jackson, who called Wilson “an excellent police officer.”

A few months before the shooting, Wilson had received a commendation for detaining a suspect in a drug case.

http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20141129/ferguson-officer-darren-wilson-who-shot-michael-brown-resigns

Structure of the Lead：

WHO-Darren Wilson

WHEN-Saturday

WHAT-shot Michael Brown

WHY-not given

WHERE-not given 

HOW-The Ferguson police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown has resigned

Keywords：

1.attorney:律師

2.confrontation:對抗

3.administrative:行政

4.commendation:讚許

week4-復興航空墜機-TransAsia Airways plane crash, Penghu

TransAsia Airways plane crashes in typhoon-hit Taiwan, killing 47

(Reuters) - A TransAsia Airways turboprop plane crashed on its second attempt at landing during a thunderstorm on an island off Taiwan on Wednesday, killing 47 people and setting buildings on fire, officials said.

The plane, a 70-seat ATR 72, crashed near the runway on the island of Penghu, west of the mainland, with 54 passengers and four crew on board, they said. No one was killed or hurt in the buildings.

Eleven injured people on the plane were taken to hospital, the government said.

The aircraft took off from Taiwan's southern city of Kaohsiung, headed for the island of Makong, but crash-landed in Huxi township of Penghu County, the main island of the chain also known as the Pescadores.

"It was thunderstorm conditions during the crash," said Hsi Wen-guang, a spokesman for the Penghu County Government Fire Bureau.

"From the crash site we sent 11 people to hospital with injuries. A few empty apartment buildings adjacent to the runway caught fire, but no one was inside at the time and the fire was extinguished." About 100 firefighters were sent to the scene, as well as 152 military personnel and 255 police, he added.

According to an official at the Civil Aeronautics Administration, air traffic control reported that the inclement weather at the time of the crash did not exceed international regulations for landing.

Visibility was 1,600 meters and the cloud cover was as low as 600 meters, added the official, who declined to be identified.

Television networks aired footage of TransAsia's president, Chooi Yee-choong, bowing in apology.

"We express our deepest apologies to everyone for this unfortunate event."

Typhoon Matmo hit Taiwan on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds, shutting financial markets and schools. It passed the island and headed into China, downgraded from typhoon to tropical storm.

TransAsia Airways is a Taiwan-based airline with a fleet of around 23 Airbus and ATR aircraft, operating chiefly short-haul flights on domestic routes as well as to mainlandChina, Japan, Thailand and Cambodia, among its Asian destinations.

(Writing by Nick Macfie; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/23/us-taiwan-crash-idUSKBN0FS1EK20140723

Structure of the Lead：

WHO-not given

WHEN-Wednesday

WHAT-A TransAsia Airways turboprop plane crashed on its second attempt at landing during a thunderstorm on an island off Taiwan

WHY-a typhoon hit 

WHERE-Penghu

HOW-killing 47 people and setting buildings on fire

Keywords：

1.turboprop:渦輪螺旋槳飛機

2.bureau:局

3.adjacent:相鄰

4.extinguish:熄滅

5.inclement:惡劣的

6.chiefly:主要是

7.short-haul:短途

8.domestic:國內的

week3-加州大學城慘案-University of California, Santa Barbara, Elliot Rodger

Taiwanese among six killed in California

SANTA BARBARA:Hong Cheng-yuan was the roommate of suspected killer Elliot Rodger. The foreign ministry is still checking whether another victim is Taiwanese

By Jake Chung  /  Staff writer, with CNA and AP

US authorities have confirmed that at least one of the victims in a killing spree last week in California was a Taiwanese student, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Anna Kao (高安) said yesterday.

Representatives from the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Exchange Office (TECRO) branch in Los Angeles has “established direct contact with local authorities” and the University of California at Santa Barbara to offer its assistance, Kao added.

On Friday night, Elliot Rodger, 22, allegedly stabbed to death his two roommates — Hong Cheng-yuan (洪晟元), also known as James, 20, and George Chen, 19 — and a visitor, Wang Weihan, 20, from Fremont, California, in their apartment near the university campus.

Rodger then drove to the Alpha Phi sorority house on campus and shot three women on the lawn.

Katherine Cooper, 22, and Veronika Weiss, 19 — both students at the university — were killed. The third women, as yet unidentified, is being treated for multiple gunshot wounds.

Rodger drove on to a local deli, went inside and shot and killed Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, 20.

He injured 13 more either with gunshots or a car that he used as a battering ram against bicyclists and skateboarders.

The killing spree claimed seven lives, including Rodger’s.

The Santa Barbara County Sherriff’s Office said Rodger took his own life after the rampage.

US media reports said Rodger had uploaded multiple YouTube videos, including one, which has since been removed, titled Day of Retribution, promising to have “his revenge against humanity” — particularly the women whom he claims rejected him.

Hong, who identified himself on Facebook as having grown up in Taipei, had graduated from Lynbrook High School in San Jose, California, the TECRO office in Los Angeles said.

The office is still seeking confirmation with the university whether Chen was also Taiwanese.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/05/27/2003591349

Structure of the Lead:

WHO-Hong Cheng-yuan

WHEN-yesterday

WHAT-US authorities have confirmed that at least one of the victims in a killing spree last week in California was a Taiwanese student

WHY-not given

WHERE-not given

HOW-The foreign ministry is still checking whether another victim is Taiwanese

Keywords：
1.ministry:(政府的)部
2.killing spree:殺戮行為
3.allegedly:據宣稱
4.sorority:女學生聯誼會
5.campus:校園，校區
6.deli:熟食店
7.claim:奪走(生命)

week2-台北捷運屠殺: Taipei MRT, mass murder, killer, attack

Taiwan: Four killed, 24 injured in Taipei MRT subway knife attack

By Descrier Staff on May 21, 2014 

Four people have been killed and 24 injured after a drunk university student went on a stabbing rampage aboard an MRT subway train in Taiwan.

The attack occurred at around 16:00 local time (08:00 GMT), when a 21-year-old student from Tunghai University(東海大學) in the central city of Taichung appeared to attack other passengers at random.

Panicked passengers rushed from the train when it arrived at Jiangzicui station(江子翠站), and shouted at those waiting to flee from the knife-wielding attacker.

Security guards at the station called the police, who quickly arrested the student and confiscated the 10cm knife he was using as a weapon. He is reported to have smelled strongly of alcohol.

Taipei Police Chief Chen Kou-en told reporters that the attacker told police that he had planned the attack from childhood and wanted to make headlines by committing an act that was “shocking and big”.

The three victims who died at the scene have been described as a 47-year-old woman, one man in his 20s, and another in his 30s. AP(美國聯合通訊社) is reporting that a 62-year-old woman has also died in surgery following the attack.

http://descrier.co.uk/news/world/taiwan-four-killed-24-injured-taipei-mrt-subway-knife-attack/

Structure of the Lead：

WHO-Cheng Chieh

WHEN- May 21, 2014 around 16:00 local time

WHAT- Taipei MRT knife attack, attack other passengers at random

WHY-he had planned the attack from childhood and wanted to make headlines by committing an act that was       “shocking and big”

WHERE-in Taipei MRT

HOW-four killed, 24 injured

Keywords：

1.stab:刺

2.rampage:橫衝直撞

3.panicked:驚慌失措的

4.flee:逃跑

5.knife-wielding :持刀

6.confiscate:沒收

7.commit:犯下

week1-2013年回顧-Haiyan

Philippines evacuates coastal areas as approaching typhoon strengthens

MANILA Wed Nov 6, 2013 2:42am EST

(Reuters) - The Philippines evacuated coastal areas and put emergency workers on alert on Wednesday as a storm expected to grow into a super typhoon headed towards central islands still recovering from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit last month.

Typhoon Haiyan, with gusts of up to 185 kph (115 mph), was moving over the sea at 30 kph (18 mph) and may make landfall at mid-day on Friday in the central islands of Samar and Leyte, said Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo.

"We are advising the people to secure their homes because we are expecting a powerful typhoon, a super typhoon," Montejo said.

"It's still in the Pacific but it has gained speed and may enter our area of responsibility by tomorrow (Thursday)."

Officials in the central Cebu, Bohol and Albay areas have closed schools, prepared emergency shelters and food and put emergency workers on alert.

"We're aiming for zero casualties so we sent advisories to local disaster agencies to start evacuating people from coastal and low-lying areas as well as those in landslide-prone areas," said Flor Gaviola, a regional disaster official.

Thousands of people on Bohol island are still in shelters after their homes were destroyed in an October 15 earthquake that killed more than 200 people.

About 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year.

Typhoon Bopha, the strongest storm to hit last year, flattened three coastal towns on the southern island of Mindanao, killing 1,100 people, and destroyed crops, property and infrastructure worth $1.04 billion.
(Reporting By Manuel Mogato; Editing by Robert Birsel)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/06/us-philippines-typhoon-idUSBRE9A508H20131106
Structure of the Lead：
WHO-not given
WHEN-Wednesday
WHAT-The Philippines evacuated coastal areas and put emergency workers on alert
WHY- A storm expected to grow into a super typhoon headed towards central islands
WHERE-Philippines
HOW-not given
Keywords：
1.evacuate:疏散
2.coastal:沿海
3.strengthen:增强
4.magnitude:震級
5.casualties:傷亡
6.flattened:夷為平地
7.property:財產
8.infrastructure:基礎設施