title: 「惠民」高鐵搶客

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原標題：「惠民」高鐵搶客

實 習 生 趙夢婷 北京報導

更大需求的出行增長正在靠高鐵快速分擔。

中國國鐵集團有限公司副總經理李文新預計今年春運鐵路將發送旅客4.4億人次，同比增加3257萬人次，這麼大的客運量，相當於鐵路在春運期間每天要運1100萬人次，同比增長8%。

面對機票價格的波動，有人覺得買不起遂改選乘高鐵回家。「機票比平時漲了快三倍，所以選擇坐高鐵回去。」南京上班族習楓坦承為了省錢，他今年已加入火車票搶票大軍。為確保能搶到火車票，他還特意花錢買了攜程VIP，希望加速包能有助臂。「那天我眼睜睜地看著它搶，心情跟過山車一樣。」

拋棄價格高昂的機票，改投高鐵懷抱的還有在廣州實習的武漢大學生柳旭，柳旭說1月16日機票價格最低1300元起，同期廣州到武漢的高鐵價格僅463元，且高鐵對於學生等群體有優惠政策，學生票只需350元，「坐飛機行程要兩個小時，加上機場比較偏而且可能誤機，實際上加上候機的各種時間跟高鐵總時長差不多，而且高鐵更加方便。」柳旭覺得相比航空，高鐵的惠民性更強，大家還是更願意乘坐。尤其是在不少航線價格飛漲的情況下，依舊在春運期間維持原價的鐵路票價顯得如此親民。

「火車票才218元，機票要兩三千。」老家在遼寧葫蘆島的北京文化公司員工周濤說，回葫蘆島沒有直達航線，很多航班都要經停或者中轉，時間長不說，價格還特別貴，尤其是春節期間，經濟艙兩三千元不出奇，有的甚至達到6000元以上。與高鐵票價相差十倍以上的機票讓周濤望而卻步。

其實讓越來越多人選擇坐火車回家過年，除了價格原因，更是因為如今高鐵方便又快捷。李文新表示，2019年全國鐵路新線投產8489公里，其中高鐵5474公里。到2019年底，全國鐵路營運里程達到了13.9萬公里以上，其中高速鐵路3.5萬公里，鐵路運輸能力大幅提高。

京張高鐵通車后，張家口到北京最快的運行時間從原來的3個小時多壓縮到47分鐘，呼和浩特至北京最快運行時間從9小時以上壓縮到2小時9分鐘。北京到太子城僅僅需要50分鐘，極大緩解了沿線地區的春運壓力，為老百姓提供了方便、經濟、快捷的出行選擇。而成貴高鐵也增加了一條成都地區至廣深地區的客運大通道，有效緩解熱門方向的運力緊張狀況。

但高鐵也有讓人頭疼的地方。「回東北的火車票實在是太緊俏了，各種方向的票總是光速一搶而光。」周濤告訴記者，來北京工作的東北人特別多，所以每年春節回家都是老大難，除了飛機和火車，大家還可以坐大客車或者拼車回去。雖然後兩種價格比較實惠，可不夠安全，一旦碰到雨雪霜凍天氣，回東北的道路安全係數堪憂，所以每年他盡量擠火車回去。「往年還能加價一兩百元從黃牛手裡買到票，今年徹底沒戲了。」周濤說今年鐵路部門多手段打擊黃牛的措施很得力，黃牛沒了，他也沒渠道弄票回家。無奈之下，周濤只好藉著出差以及看望朋友的機會遠道先去長春，然後從長春回葫蘆島「長春回葫蘆島的車票好買多了」。

李文新表示，從目前車票預售情況來看，相比去年春運，部分的熱門方向票額緊張的狀況已經得到了有效的緩解。截止到1月5日，節前除了臘月二十六至二十八客流最高峰這幾天以外，北京到武漢、成渝、南昌方向，滬寧杭至成渝、南昌、長沙、鄭州、合阜方向，廣深至武漢、成渝、南昌、長沙、鄭州、合阜方向都有餘票，節后除了初六、初七客流高峰期外，各地返回北上廣都有餘票，「所以今年春運緊張方向的票額緊張狀況比去年大大緩解，票好買多了。」

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路透社1月9日報導，中國正準備迎接1月下旬的農曆新年，這是一個重要的節日。

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期間，中國華為公司的手機銷量大增。

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薪資增長同樣令人失望，同比增幅僅為2.9%，這是2018年7月以來薪資同比增幅首次低於3%。此前經濟學家平均預期其增幅將為3.1%。

美國勞工部指出，12月零售貿易/醫療健康就業人數錄得增加，過去三個月，平均新增非農就業人數為18.4萬。

美國12月份就業增長的放緩程度超過預期，但是就業增長的速度仍然足以保持歷史上持續時間最長的經濟增長步入正軌，儘管受貿易局勢影響製造業陷入深度衰退。

該報告可能不會改變美聯儲的評估，即經濟和貨幣政策都處於「良好狀態」。經濟學家認為2019年底的經濟增長率應該在2.3%左右。儘管經濟學家擔心勞動力短缺會嚴重限制就業，但是勞動力市場仍在以健康的速度繼續創造就業機會。

美聯儲在2019年三次降息后保持利率不變，以防範貿易政策不確定性和全球經濟增長乏力帶來的風險，不過如果經濟進一步走軟，可能會引發人們對美國創紀錄的經濟擴張能否持久的擔憂。

有分析人士認為，特朗普的減稅措施影響逐漸消退、貿易局勢的不確定性、美伊緊張關係升級、2020年總統大選及全球經濟增長放緩都可能進一步抑制企業擴張，而就業水平的下降也限制了消費，這些都會拖累美國經濟。

分析指出，美國經濟的擴張已經進入了第11個年頭，就業總體情況的放緩也與許多經濟學家的預期相符。特朗普的減稅措施影響逐漸消退、貿易局勢的不確定性、美伊緊張關係升級、2020年總統大選及全球經濟增長放緩都可能進一步抑制企業擴張，而就業水平的下降也限制了消費，這些都會拖累美國經濟。

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在此之前，周三公佈的ADP就業數據顯示美國12月私營部門就業人數增加20.2萬，遠超出市場預期的15.7萬， 並創8個月新高。

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美伊關係方面，美國財長努姆欽周五宣布，因伊朗對美國聯盟軍隊的襲擊，美國對伊朗政權實施制裁。美國對伊朗的制裁包含製造業、紡織品、礦業以及其他伊朗經濟中的行業。美國將制裁8名伊朗高級官員。姆努欽稱，美國對伊新制裁將瞄準伊朗高級官員和鋼鐵行業。

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新浪財經訊 由脈脈主辦的「中國職場力量盛典」於2020年1月10日在北京舉行。三節課聯合創始人、《運營之光》作者黃有璨出席盛典並分享「職場人讀書的三個問題和建議」。

職場人如何學習和閱讀？黃有璨表示，應該以解決問題為導向的，那樣閱讀和學習才歸更加的高效，這是一個基本立場。

關於如何才能更好的從閱讀獲益，他的建議就是大家可以完善腦海中的問題庫，且在問題庫里慢慢的構建起來更多的基本問題，以及在不同的問題類型之間，讓他們構建映射關係。當閱讀一本書的過程，你可以不斷的找到非常多的信息點，而且這些信息點可以不斷的給到你各個問題領域里有啟發，讓閱讀一本書的收益無限放大。

以下為演講實錄：

感謝脈脈的邀請，也很有幸，因為這本書出版了三年，我自己都沒有想到在脈脈發佈的榜單上，能被列為年度最受歡迎的書籍。

我來給大家簡單的做一個關於閱讀的分享，首先先簡單介紹一下我自己，我有三個身份，第一個身份，我是一個創業者，在2015年年底的時候，創辦了三節課這家公司，面向互聯網新職業人才，提供職業教育的課程，主要包括互聯網的產品經理、新媒體、運營等等，我們致力於培養他們，讓他們進入到互聯網這個行業，讓這個行業得到更大的發展，這是第一個身份。

第二個身份，我是一個寫作者，我自己從很小的時候非常非常喜歡寫作，寫作這個事情對我有很大的樂趣，自己也在2016年的時候出版了《運營之光》，這本書在過去三年裡，是整個在互聯網的運營方向下，銷量最高，豆瓣評分最高的一本書，對我也有點受寵若驚的感覺，因為創辦三節課的原因，自己也在線上講很多運營的課程，在過去三四年時間里，累計在行業里超過一百萬的人聽過我的課，主要是工作年限0到5年的職場新人。

第三個身份，跟前兩個身份有一些反差，我是一個學渣，名副其實的學渣，為什麼？我自己在高的二時候就輟學了，所以我自己並沒有參加過高考，也沒有上過大學，如果問到在正兒八經的教育體系下，我是一個名副其實的學渣，但是放眼過去，我自己是從05年開始進入到職場開始參加工作，放眼過去十多年的時間，一路走到下來，這當中非常非常感謝互聯網這樣一個行業，能夠提供給很多普通人賦能的機會，有運氣，有各種方面的原因，走到現在，現在看起來似乎還可以，你要說有多大的成功，說不上，現在創辦三節課也是完成了B輪融資的公司，在新職業教育賽道下，也算是一家引跑的企業，從一個學渣的身份，到現在的狀態，還是有很大反差的。

不可否認，對我而言，雖然我在傳統的教育體制包括應試教育的邏輯下，我是一個學渣，但是不可否認，我覺得這當中閱讀這件事兒和學習對於我個人的成長，還是具有非常非常大的幫助，於是有了這麼一個小的主題。

我分享一下個人關於在閱讀上一些小的習慣和我自己小的做法，後邊我快速的給出三個基本的建議。

首先，我自己在當下是怎麼閱讀的，我自己關於閱讀這件事，我覺得要回到一個基本的東西，就是我自己是有一個問題庫的，這個問題庫裏面，囊括了各種各樣我認為當前自己亟待需要解決的問題。我是一個創業者，比如如何融資，如何管理好團隊，如何做戰略，包括如何制定銷售團隊和用戶增長的策略，有一系列這樣的問題，這是關於我們工作方面。

關於我一些更內在精神層面的，舉例子，一個人如何和一個他極端不滿的環境相處，會有一些類似這樣的問題。在我個人的愛好或者說我個人的能力成長提升方面，我肯定也會有一些問題。舉例子，如何像邱晨和馬薇薇那樣會說話，包括我自己喜歡看歷史，比如古希臘或者古羅馬的發展史到底怎麼樣，我會腦袋裡裝著這樣的問題。

我自己在閱讀之前會有這樣的問題清單，接下來關於我如何閱讀，我分為兩種邏輯，有且只有兩種邏輯。

第一種邏輯，我所有的閱讀一定都是為了解決我腦海中現存的問題，所以我一定會因為有問題要解決，所以我去挑書看，如果沒有問題，也許我不需要讀書的。比如我們怎麼去構建和塑造我們這家公司當前的企業文化，當我們存在這樣的問題，我不知道從何入手，我會看一些書，會從書里找到線索，再來思考沉澱，再跟朋友交流，最終看能不能幫助解決問題，這是先有問題，再去閱讀。

第二種閱讀方式，有可能我隨手在身邊撿起來一本書，看的過程我自然的會把這本書跟我腦海中的各種各樣的問題去關聯起來，比如說，最近我看一本書，是熊佩雲老師的西風東土，講他到日本做訪問學者，待了大半年時間，他所有的所見所聞，個人的經歷和日記，這本書我看他不斷的記錄在日本的所見所聞的時候，比如他會聊到日本的媒體和一些政府以及學者之間的關係，他提到這些東西，可能我會把它跟我們公司當前正在所處的狀態下，可能需要做一些什麼樣的PR，怎麼跟媒體構建關係，怎麼去處理好這當中種種敏感的問題，我會把這些東西關聯起來。

再比如說，看到日本國內的社會發展演變歷史的時候，我也會把這些問題跟我們公司的企業文化塑造關聯起來，這是我閱讀的第二種邏輯，隨手撿起一本書，但是我看書的過程，自然會在書中尋找這本書和我的問題庫那麼多的問題有什麼關係，一定要回到問題上去。所以這就構成了一個基本的立場。

職場人的學習和閱讀，更多時候我都認為它應該以解決問題為導向的，那你的閱讀和學習才歸更加的高效，這是一個基本立場。相反，如果我們作為一個職場人，我們的時間本來就很稀缺，你說對於大多數人而言，假設說你腦海里冒出一個念想，我要認真的學習一下經濟學，這個時候可能你買了兩本宏觀經濟學、微觀經濟學、經濟學通論之類的，你想細心的研讀一下，對不起，對95%的人來說這個事情是無效的，你既沒有時間也沒有堅持的動力，並且在其中你耗費的精神和動力也會產生很大的損耗，這是我基本的立場和觀點，作為一個職場人和成年人，更多的時候你的學習和閱讀是需要你致用為導向的。

這是我個人基本的閱讀邏輯和小的想法，跟隨這些想法，我在後面提出三個關於閱讀的常見問題，以及給出我的一點建議。

第一個問題，我們職場有很多人，包括我的很多朋友經常問我，因為我曾經在2012到2016年左右的時候，我長時間保持著每年至少閱讀一百到一百五十本書的習慣，這個對大多數人而言還是比較多的。所以很多人都會問我，說我工作特別忙，沒有時間看書，老覺得我看書太少了，我因為這個事兒而焦慮，該怎麼辦？針對這樣的問題，我覺得我給出的基本建議，其實某種意義上，如果你腦海當中沒有亟待解決的問題，也許閱讀和看書這件事情對你並非是一個必選項，很多時候如果你想從閱讀中獲得足夠大的收益，先有足夠多的問題再去閱讀，或許會是一個更好的邏輯，這是我針對第一個問題給出的一個建議。

第二個問題，有很多好書，也會讓我們很焦慮，每年都會有好幾十本經典的好書，朋友也會經常問我，有這麼多的好書，我看不完，我也感到很焦慮，怎麼辦？對此我給到的第二個建議，如果你的閱讀和學習是以問題和致用為中心為導向來看的，那我覺得很多書真的未必要看完，未必這本書一定要看完對你才有意義，如果你所有的閱讀都是在那還中裝著十個要解決的問題，其實你從這本書里找到了兩個點，找到了三個啟發，可以幫助你去把這個問題解決得更好，其實你已經從中獲得價值了，讀書也是一件看投入回報比的事情，當你投入了時間，獲得了回報，這不就已經是價值了嗎，為什麼一定要看完呢？當然對很多人而言，可能會顛覆大家的閱讀觀，但是事實對我就是這樣的，比如我看很多的書，比如提到的西風東土我也沒有看完，但是我覺得看這本書的過程已經幫助我解決三個問題了，我覺得這很棒，我不追求一定要看完。

第三個問題，面對這麼多的書，有很多人內心裡面也會有這樣的疑惑，因為我們總說有的人學習能力強，有的學習能力差，體現在同樣閱讀一本書，很多人閱讀完了獲得的價值和收益更高，有的人獲得價值和收益比較低，差別在哪，怎麼能更好的從閱讀中獲益？我在這要給出的非常非常重要的建議，叫做大家一定要不斷的建立更多的基本問題在你腦海里，並且要試著把更多的基本問題之間，構建起來一張網，之間產生聯繫，這是什麼意思？我覺得有兩個層次，很多上過高等教育的人都知道，科學分為兩種曾經，一種叫做基礎科學，另一種叫應用科學，基礎科學就是數學物理等等，類似這樣的基礎科學，應用科學就是像生物工程學等等，往往很多的時候基礎科學它的發展和水平決定了應用科學的上限和瓶頸，往往是這樣的邏輯。

所以我自己在閱讀的過程里，我剛才提到了我有一個問題庫，這個問題庫其實非常重要，我認為對大多數人而言，一開始你要在這個問題庫里填的問題，都是純粹應用型的問題。舉例子，怎麼跟老闆溝通，怎麼處理婆媳關係，怎麼學會更好的說話，做PPT等等，一開始很可能建立了很多的問題庫，都是這一類的問題，但是慢慢的，也許你建立的問題庫里，會有更多更深入基本的問題。舉例子，可能一家組織，演變發展的有沒有規律，兩個人的關係相處有沒有規律，這些東西更偏基礎的部分，我認為如果你想從一本書里獲得足夠多的收益，也許更多的時候你可以試著慢慢的完善你的問題庫，去豐富你的問題庫，一開始你的問題庫有很多的應用型的問題，往下逐漸的搭建起來一些基本的問題，更基礎的問題，問題和問題之間可以構建起來聯繫和構建起來一些映射，比如我們一個社會的發展，其實跟一家公司的管理和治理必然存在很多的關係和參考的維度，當你在這些很多的問題類型之間構建起來聯繫以後，你發現你閱讀一本書可以獲得收益的可能性在無限的放大。

舉例子，我自己在前兩個月閱讀《我的一舉之地》，副標題叫以色列的悲情和榮耀，講的以色列這個國家從二戰以後建國到後來慢慢的發展起來的全過程，全歷史，我閱讀過程映射了很多我的問題庫，我會摘一些金句，看如何更好的幫助寫作，我會找一些案例，比如我要講一堂課，怎麼更生動的給大家舉例子，表現我在課程的感染力做得更好，我也會看一個國家一個民族它的發展演變的背後，是不是有一些基本規律，而這樣的問題會跟我當前所在的這家公司的管理怎麼做得更好會產生直接的關係。

關於如何才能更好的從閱讀獲益，我給到最好的建議就是大家可以完善腦海中的問題庫，且在問題庫里慢慢的構建起來更多的基本問題，以及在不同的問題類型之間，讓他們構建映射關係，當你閱讀一本書的過程，你可以不斷的找到非常多的信息點，而且這些信息點可以不斷的給到你各個問題領域里有啟發，讓你閱讀一本書的收益無限放大。

以上是我的分享，希望對大家有啟發，謝謝。


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「重男輕女」的觀念在過去較為常見，但在這個進步的時代，仍有父母被這個觀念深深影響，並對孩子有差別待遇。一名住在苗栗的16歲女子，因穿的衣服與她的年齡非常不符，經詢問後才得知原來少女都是穿媽媽的衣服，且她的遭遇令人聽了相當心疼！

退休警官高仁和在節目《震震有詞》提到，過去他待在少年警察隊時，曾遇過一對父母重男輕女的觀念非常嚴重的案例，一名16歲少女就讀高職，但她的穿著與年齡非常不符，原來她穿的上衣、裙子，甚至到內褲，全都是「媽媽」的，且她從小到大從沒有過「新的東西」，不過她的弟弟就完全不同了，全身都穿戴名牌，且相較於少女國中畢業就被要求念高職出去工作，弟弟卻能讀學費較貴的私校。

這樣的差別待遇讓少女外公都看不下去，於是在學校附近幫少女租了一間房，且每個月給她7千元的生活費，沒想到少女父親得知後震怒，跑到學校向教官說女兒被外公拐走，且還威脅「不能讓我女兒住外面，學校內的東西還要有我的簽名才算數」，校方察覺情況不對，便到少女家中詢問母親。

沒想到少女的母親居然和父親站在同一陣線，表示女兒經常撒謊且叛逆，不僅會偷爸爸的錢、還會出手打弟弟，但根據少女就診精神科的紀錄，少女曾被父親在大熱天趕到陽台睡，弟弟卻能和媽媽同睡冷氣房，除此之外，少女得流感時，還不准她上廁所，只能用尿壺，如此不公平且侮辱的對待，讓少女萌生輕生念頭。因重男輕女而導致這樣的家庭虐待案例，讓高仁和印象深刻。

◎給自己一個機會：張老師專線1980、安心專線1925、免付費生命線1995。

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寶島夢想家的客場長征四連戰，首戰在1月8日與澳門戰狼交手拿下勝利，在原地停留訓練一天再次對上澳門戰狼，夢想家賽前四勝五敗位居聯盟第六，拿下這場勝利後排名上升至第五也是目前本季最長的三連勝。本場比賽夢想家一路領先，在塔克轟下31分13助攻、杰倫楊24分5抄截的超狂表現下夢想家順利以100比89分收下三連勝。

夢想家開局在塔克飆進三分球、杰倫楊拋射得手及楊敬敏底角三分球打出8比0攻勢，錢肯尼也積極強攻籃下取分，夢想家以21比9領先結束第一節，進入第二節，球隊靠著防守轉換快攻繼續維持領先，杰倫楊抄截助攻給塔克直接拔起三分入網，此時領先來到27比9，下一波坦克王柏智拖車接到塔克助攻輕鬆上籃，但第二節後半段戰狼開始反攻，打出一波21比9攻勢將比分追上，半場結束夢想家39比37僅以兩分領先。

▲ABL寶島夢想家，王柏智上籃。（圖／夢想家提供）

下半場開始，在塔克的穿針引線下幫助杰倫楊、喬丹獲得空擋輕鬆取分，塔克雖被綽號佛山林書豪的鐘顯超「嚴加看管」，但對塔克不僅沒有影響反而激起進攻慾望，先是Back to Back投進三分球接著好幾次輕鬆過掉鍾顯超上籃得分，剩下8秒時分球給到田壘投進一顆三分彈以76比60結束第三節。進入決勝節，杰倫拉開空間過掉湯瑪士轉身上籃，楊敬敏也在外線拔起投進第四顆三分球，下一波塔克亦毫不猶豫出手投進第六顆三分彈在沙溪體育館下起三分雨，終場以100比89再次踢館成功收下勝利。

攻下31分13助攻6籃板3抄截的塔克，有21分都在下半場所得，賽後被問到在下半場是否有被對手的防守刺激以至火力全開，塔克酷酷地說：「下半場卯足全力進攻，希望能加快比賽節奏將比分拉開，蠻高興最後也如願拿下勝利。」不僅洋將有好表現，本土MVP楊敬敏也繳出14分5籃板5助攻 三分球6投4中高命中率，次高是張宗憲的11分4助攻。

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中國國奧隊在U23亞洲杯首場比賽中0-1負於韓國國奧隊，從這場比賽的比賽過程來看，國奧隊原本不該輸掉這場比賽，甚至有希望戰勝對手。可惜，最後還是輸在了經驗上。比賽結束后，國奧隊主力后腰黃聰在接受採訪是表示：其實韓國沒有想像中的那麼強。

談及本場比賽失利的原因，黃聰說道：我閃參加洲際大賽的機會並不多，在這一點確實同韓國隊有差距，畢竟韓國隊踢過世青賽、世少賽。還有就是就是臨場把握機會的能力，比如我們也有機會，但沒有把握住。

輸掉這場比賽，國奧隊的小夥子們非常不甘心，黃聰就表示：我們也知道第一場非常重要，以我們幾乎是花費一兩個月時間準備這一場，包括對於韓國隊的每一名球員、每一個戰術細節都有研究，可以說準備十非常充分，但真的是太遺憾了。我覺得除了最後一個丟球，球隊這一場所有的內容，都應該讓人滿意，我們也拼出來了，也打出一些配合，甚至也創造出很多得分機會。包括在處理最後一腳什麼環節，大家也能看到，我們並不比韓國隊差。

雖然與韓國隊存在一些國際比賽經驗的差距，但黃聰看來，韓國隊並沒有那麼強：這場比賽我們踢了半場就能夠感覺到，韓國隊根本沒有外界傳說那麼強。比賽中雙方都有機會，這一場是可以爭勝的。踢到下半場中段，韓國隊倒是跟著我們節奏在踢。而且越踢到最後，韓國隊也被我們的反擊踢得有點害怕，好像也沒什麼辦法破門。大家都沒有機會攻進去。如果沒有最後那個進球的話，可能就是個平局。

對於後面的兩場小組賽，黃聰表示：我們還要努力去拼后兩場。同烏茲別克和伊朗的比賽，拼起來依然會有機會，我覺得我們有能力一戰他們。

（木蘭）


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根據ESPN和倫敦經濟學院的聯合調研，如果沒有VAR，那麼利物浦在英超聯賽中的領先優勢會比現在縮小一半！

本賽季VAR被引入英超，但引發了巨大爭議，很多關鍵判罰都讓人感到迷惑。對此，ESPN進行了假設性的對比，如果去除VAR對比賽的影響，英超又會是什麼樣的局勢？

如果沒有VAR介入，領頭羊利物浦的積分會從58分減少到56分，曼城則會從44分變為49分。也就是說，紅軍在榜首的領先優勢將比現在少一半。

另外，曼聯會從31分減少到29分，排名也會從現在的第5跌到第9。阿森納則會從第10上升到第7。

受到VAR影響最大的是諾維奇，該隊目前以14分在英超墊底，但如果刨去VAR介入帶來的影響，該隊會以20分排在並列第16名。

title: 英超如果去掉VAR：利物浦優勢減半 曼城仍有機會


content_text: 利物浦主帥克洛普當選英超官方12月最佳主帥，這令他追平了瓜迪奧拉的紀錄。 　　這是克洛普本賽季第四次拿到這一榮譽，而曼城主帥瓜迪奧拉曾創下過單賽季四次當選月最佳主帥的紀錄，如今，渣叔追平了瓜帥。利物浦目前在英超中形勢大好，少賽一場領先第二名萊斯特城13分。 　　克洛普對拿獎感到高興，他說：「這很好，而目前我所想的是，我想在一月份再拿一次。」 　　另外，利物浦右後衛阿諾德當選了英超官方12月最佳球員。                   ...

title: 利物浦獲英超月最佳主帥+球員 渣叔追平瓜帥紀錄


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曼聯主教練索爾斯克亞表示，由於球隊目前的傷病較多，他不希望阿什利-揚在冬季轉會時離隊。

34歲的阿什利-揚已經和國際米蘭談妥了加盟協議，並希望在冬季就完成轉會，但曼聯卻可能阻止這一交易。索爾斯克亞說：「等時機到來時，我和阿什利會談一談。我們並沒有太多健康的球員，因此我們需要現有的人。」

「他是我們的球員之一，是我們的隊長。現在有很多傳聞，我們需要應對。阿什利一直非常職業和專注，因此我不認為這會有什麼改變。他在這傢俱樂部一直表現非常好，這個賽季作為隊長很出色，因此我們要看看六月份會是什麼情況，還有二月份又會是什麼情況。」

曼聯此前給了阿什利-揚一份一年合同，周薪11萬英鎊，揚拒絕了。據披露國米給他的18個月合同，薪水要大大高出紅魔所提供的。國米主帥孔蒂對阿什利-揚很感興趣，他在執教切爾西時，就曾經詢問過引進揚的可能性。

title: 曼聯老臣想離隊索帥卻不放 國米開出薪水高於紅魔


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在利物浦對陣托特納姆熱刺的賽前發佈會上，紅軍主帥克洛普讓記者谷歌搜索，看看穆里尼奧在球員時代踢的是什麼位置。

起因是有記者提了一個奇怪的問題：球員時代的克洛普和穆里尼奧誰踢得更好？

對此，克洛普做出了有趣的回應。「有誰知道穆里尼奧踢什麼位置？如果你們不知道，那也別責怪我不知道。」

「有人知道嗎？我想他是一個守門員。」

「我現在就想知道，來吧，谷歌一下，我們有時間。」

有記者告訴克洛普，穆里尼奧球員時代是踢中場的，克洛普笑著說：「抱歉了，若澤。」

「那場慈善賽他打的是門將，所以……」

在球員時代，穆里尼奧確實踢的是中場，從1980年到1987年，他在葡萄牙低級別聯賽一些球隊效力，包括里奧阿維、貝萊內塞斯、塞西姆布拉等隊，出場94次，打進13球。

克洛普的球員時代有14年，其中11年是在德國美因茨隊度過的。

title: 克洛普發佈會搞怪一幕：上網搜穆里尼奧踢啥位置

countries: 葡萄牙 德國


title: 國奧主力中衛：多想把那個球解圍 跟韓國差在大賽經驗

countries: 韓國 中國

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在U23亞洲杯的首場比賽中，中國國奧隊0-1負於韓國國奧隊，這樣的結果也讓所有球迷非常遺憾，特別是國奧隊自己。比賽結束后，主力中後衛魏震在接受採訪時表示：多麼希望當時能夠把那個進球從門裡解圍出去。

對於首場比賽的發揮，魏震表示：整場比賽，我們的防守都是做得不錯，也有很多反擊的機會，但就是差在門前把握機會差了一點點，結果被韓國隊最後把握住了機會。丟球前，還是我們的一個定位球機會，結果被對手長傳反擊，只能說明踢到最後，我們的經驗還是沒有人家韓國隊老練。

談到韓國國奧隊在最後時刻的進球，魏震表示：那個球的進展過程時間很短，當時自己的第一反應，就是希望能夠沖向球門，爭取把皮球勾出來，但還是來不及了。

「那個球從對方中場長傳過來，那個11號先要停球，然後再把球扣過來，此時再射門的話，他就只有一個角度。我看到守門員陳威已經選擇出擊，那我就要補到後面，爭取把皮球勾回來。可是那個球實在太難了。」雖然這個進球，對於魏震來說，沒有絲毫的責任，但小夥子還是覺得如果能解圍成功，可能就會避免輸球。

最後，談到與韓國球員是否有差距，魏震坦言：我們的很多球員平時在中超各自俱樂部都有很好的鍛煉，但是國際比賽踢得不多。韓國隊的實力很強，而且他們踢過很多高水平比賽，特別是世青賽，而我們則缺少這種高水平的鍛煉，這也是整體差距所在。

（木蘭）


title: 穆帥公開表示要擺大巴？ 暗示利物浦陣容強於熱刺

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由於當家前鋒凱恩受傷，穆里尼奧表示，在周末對陣利物浦時，熱刺將改變打法和風格。

「不得不有所不同，」穆里尼奧說，「我們沒有另一個中鋒，陣容中現在沒有中鋒。我們只有一個，他傷了，我們再沒有中鋒了。」

「你知道，當哈里-凱恩不在隊里，我們無法像平時那樣正常的去比賽，我唯一能告訴你的是，我們當然不能再像擁有哈里時那樣踢。」

「當然，哈里很重要，無法替代，沒有球員能替代哈里。另外穆薩（西索科、也受傷了）發揮那麼出色，我想，自從我來，他就是表現最好的球員之一。」

「他們的復出可不是幾周的事情，做手術，需要很長、很長時間。」

「這就是生活，這就是足球，當然，會有壞消息，但我們必須保持積極，去看好消息。好消息是，在這個月底前，我們會有兩個新球員，洛里和本-戴維斯（兩人即將傷愈）。」

穆帥還暗示，克洛普手裡的陣容比熱刺的好得多。「即使是沒有遇到傷病的教練，即使是陣容沒有問題的教練，即使是擁有最好陣容的教練，比如說約爾根（克洛普）有最好的陣容，有令人驚嘆的球星，令人驚嘆的陣容，他也會很高興擁有一個新球員。」

「因此我們都一樣，但現實是，兩個月前我來這裏時，就知道大概情況。當然我那時候不知道會失去哈里和穆薩這麼久，但我知道，重要的是調動出現有球員的能力，這不會變的。」

談到冬季轉會，穆帥說：「如果老闆能帶來一個解決方案，幫助我們面對接下來艱難的幾個月，那麼很好，歡迎。但如果我們沒有合適的解決方案和機會，那麼我們會等到夏天，再對球隊進行調整，力爭做出一些正確的決定。一月份的市場很奇怪，並不容易，在一月的市場上，是關於機會的，有機會出現，如果你有條件把握就去做，或者就不做。我們必須冷靜，不去想市場，讓市場考慮我們。」

（Kata）


countries: 泰國 中國 韓國

title: 足協主席率國奧隊集體送行張玉寧 叮囑回國安心養傷

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1月10日晚，在前一天比賽中受傷的國奧隊球員張玉寧離開泰國，返回國內準備接受手術治療。臨行之時，中國足協主席陳戌源率領國奧隊所有球員、教練員、工作人員集體為張玉寧送行。

張玉寧是在國奧隊與韓國隊的比賽中受傷，隨後立刻被送往當地醫院檢查。經過檢查后，確認為第五跖骨骨裂，張玉寧也將無法參加後面的比賽，由於只能進行手術治療，所以國奧隊決定不讓張玉寧留在泰國，立刻返回北京。

剛剛進行了一場比賽就要離開球隊，這無疑是張玉寧和國奧隊所有人都無法接受的。但為了能夠儘快治療傷情，大家也只能忍受暫時的分離。張玉寧本來想悄悄離開球隊，不料在準備出發的時候，國奧隊所有人都已經等在酒店大堂，大家一起來送別這位戰友。每一名球員都與張玉寧擁抱道別。

除了國奧球員送別張玉寧之外，中國足協主席陳戌源、副主席高洪波、領隊陳永亮、主教練郝偉以及教練組、工作組所有成員一起來送別張玉寧，這也讓這位國奧前鋒格外感動。陳戌源特意叮囑張玉寧：你已經為了球隊盡了最大努力，現在你的最大任務就是回國之後安心養傷，足協會全力照顧你，已經把你的情況跟俱樂部說了，爭取早日康復。

（袁野）


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2020-01-11 01:27:11

〔中央社〕在位於伊拉克的軍事基地遭到伊朗攻擊後，美國今天對伊朗祭出新一波經濟制裁，其中包括8名伊朗高階官員與多家企業。

美國國務卿蓬佩奧（Mike Pompeo）今天與財政部長梅努欽（Steven Mnuchin）聯袂在白宮召開記者會，宣布對伊朗的新一波經濟制裁，包括8名伊朗高層與包括金屬、紡織在內的17家企業。

梅努欽表示，這項制裁行動主要是針對伊朗高階官員與企業，以切斷伊朗政府用以資助恐怖組織的數十億美元資金來源。

蓬佩奧也對美軍狙殺伊朗革命衛隊「聖城部隊」指揮官蘇雷曼尼（Qassem Soleimani）一事做進一步說明表示，情報顯示蘇雷曼尼正在策劃對美國進行立即的大規模襲擊。

蓬佩奧坦言，並未掌握正確的時間、地點，但情資顯示這項威脅迫在眉睫，包括對美國使館、軍事基地與美方設施的攻擊。

白宮隨後發布新聞稿表示，美國總統川普已簽署一項行政命令，對部分伊朗建築、製造、紡織與採礦企業進行經濟制裁。這項懲罰性制裁將持續到伊朗政權改變行為為止。

川普在聲明中表示，伊朗是全球主要恐怖主義贊助國，透過軍事力量與代理人威脅美軍、外交官與平民，以及美國盟邦與夥伴公民與利益。美國會繼續打擊伊朗政權，絕不允許伊朗擁有核武。

蘇雷曼尼（Qassem Soleimani）等人於3日在伊拉克遭美國以無人機狙殺，伊朗於7日發射十多枚彈道飛彈攻擊美國與聯軍部隊駐紮伊拉克的兩個空軍基地，以報復美軍行動。

川普8日透過公開談話表示，伊朗對伊拉克駐有美軍的基地發動攻擊，並未造成美國人傷亡，美軍很強大並準備好因應任何情況，但美國不希望動武PF3M5001.CAP [IN] 01/11/20 01:22:17基地遭伊朗攻擊後 美祭出新一波經濟制裁〔中央社〕在位於伊拉克的軍事基地遭到伊朗攻擊後，美國今天對伊朗祭出新一波經濟制裁，其中包括8名伊朗高階官員與多家企業。

美國國務卿蓬佩奧（Mike Pompeo）今天與財政部長梅努欽（Steven Mnuchin）聯袂在白宮召開記者會，宣布對伊朗的新一波經濟制裁，包括8名伊朗高層與包括金屬、紡織在內的17家企業。

梅努欽表示，這項制裁行動主要是針對伊朗高階官員與企業，以切斷伊朗政府用以資助恐怖組織的數十億美元資金來源。

蓬佩奧也對美軍狙殺伊朗革命衛隊「聖城部隊」指揮官蘇雷曼尼（Qassem Soleimani）一事做進一步說明表示，情報顯示蘇雷曼尼正在策劃對美國進行立即的大規模襲擊。

蓬佩奧坦言，並未掌握正確的時間、地點，但情資顯示這項威脅迫在眉睫，包括對美國使館、軍事基地與美方設施的攻擊。

白宮隨後發布新聞稿表示，美國總統川普已簽署一項行政命令，對部分伊朗建築、製造、紡織與採礦企業進行經濟制裁。這項懲罰性制裁將持續到伊朗政權改變行為為止。

川普在聲明中表示，伊朗是全球主要恐怖主義贊助國，透過軍事力量與代理人威脅美軍、外交官與平民，以及美國盟邦與夥伴公民與利益。美國會繼續打擊伊朗政權，絕不允許伊朗擁有核武。

蘇雷曼尼（Qassem Soleimani）等人於3日在伊拉克遭美國以無人機狙殺，伊朗於7日發射十多枚彈道飛彈攻擊美國與聯軍部隊駐紮伊拉克的兩個空軍基地，以報復美軍行動。

川普8日透過公開談話表示，伊朗對伊拉克駐有美軍的基地發動攻擊，並未造成美國人傷亡，美軍很強大並準備好因應任何情況，但美國不希望動武，仍盼與伊朗達成協議維持和平，讓美伊大戰危機暫時降溫。（編輯：徐睿承）

countries: 伊朗 美國 伊拉克

title: 基地遭伊朗攻擊後  美祭出新一波經濟制裁


title: 張玉寧:我們有能力擁有戰勝任何對手能力 別低頭繼續干

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1月10日晚，在U23亞洲杯第一場比賽中受傷的國奧隊球員張玉寧離開泰國，返回國內準備接受手術治療。返回國內之前，張玉寧也隊友們深情告別，並專門寫了一段動情的文字，希望國奧隊能夠相信自己，團結起來繼續戰鬥。

對於自己的因傷不能繼續參加後面的比賽，張玉寧寫到：兄弟們，我不能繼續陪伴大傢伙兒完成剩餘的比賽了，長久以來一直希望能和大家一起取得好成績，好回到祖國告訴所有人我們可以，如今自己不能做到，我心裏有很多不爽和不甘，卻只能接受現實了。但是，你們不能夠接受現實！！

對於昨天的比賽，張玉寧告訴隊友們：現在，最真實和有用的信息就是，在上一場比賽結束以後，我們就應該無比地確信，在這次亞洲杯我們擁有戰勝任何對手的能力和可能！你們個個都是好樣的！你們只要站著就能夠戰鬥，就能夠團結，團結就意味著沒有失敗。

雖然輸了球，但是張玉寧直言現在絕不能低頭認輸：我們在場上的努力所有人都看得見。我心裏難受，我覺得和你們一起唱國歌時候的那種感受是屬於我們自己的，很感動的那種回憶，因為我們都有感情的，我很珍惜這一份。帶上我那份，頭都別低下，繼續干啊！

最後，張玉寧特別感謝了球隊的每一個人：我還是要感謝高主席，郝導，還有所有的教練員、工作人員、醫生，謝謝你們給予的幫助和信任。保重，加油！

（木蘭）


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賈拉德（Pawan Jallad）來自劊子手家族，是家中第4代傳人。（圖擷取自India TodaY網站）

2020-01-11 00:39:42

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕印度劊子賈拉德（Pawan Jallad）將在1月22日執行4名犯人的絞刑，這4人在7年前犯下震驚國際社會的印度德里輪姦案。賈拉德也透露許多關於絞刑的細節，雖然還沒接到正式通知，但他說自己已經準備好了。

綜合外媒報導，現年58歲的賈拉德是印度官方的絞刑劊子手，這項職業更是家族事業，技術代代相傳。作為賈拉德家中第四代傳人，賈拉德從20歲左右與父親、祖父一起工作，從兩人身上學習執行絞刑的技巧。祖父卡爾盧（Kallu Jallad）曾執行幾項知名絞刑，包括處死刺殺甘地的刺客。

賈拉德發表自己對死刑的想法，認為要是德里公車輪姦案的犯人早點被處死，2019年11月的海德拉巴（Hyderabad）性侵案也許就不會發生。賈拉德非常期望能成為這次的行刑者，他說，自己身為5個女兒的父親，不能接受有人對無辜女子犯下如此滔天大惡，吊死是對這些兇手唯一的懲罰。他有信心地說，自己來自劊子手世家，絕對能勝任。

賈拉德認為自己的工作責任重大，因為劊子手的失誤將造成受刑人的痛苦。他講解了絞刑執行的程序：接到通知後他會在執行日3天前到達監獄，仔細檢查絞刑台，並根據犯人體重來檢查繩索的重量，再用麻袋進行模擬。

title: 德里輪姦犯1/22絞刑 劊子手世家第四代：準備好了


countries: 韓國 泰國

title: 張玉寧回國治傷臨行落淚 盼楊立瑜挑起國奧重擔

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1月10日晚，國奧隊主力前鋒張玉寧踏上了從泰國返回國內的航班，這也意味著這位國奧小將只能無奈地提前告別本屆U23亞洲杯比賽。臨行之際，面對前來送行的隊友，張玉寧也忍不住掉下眼淚，在依依不捨的同時，也希望隊友們能夠打好後面的比賽。

國奧隊在本屆U23亞洲杯的第一場比賽中以0-1負於韓國隊，在這場比賽中，張玉寧因為受傷被送當地的醫院。經過檢查后，確認為第五跖骨骨裂，張玉寧也將無法參加後面的比賽。為了讓張玉寧的傷勢得到更好的治療，國奧隊決定立刻讓張玉寧回國手術。

在確定了回國治療的方案，球隊立刻為張玉寧預訂了10日晚從曼谷返回北京的航班，張玉寧也將在11日早上抵達北京。由於張玉寧現在只能拄著雙拐行走，因此國奧隊還專門派了一名工作人員陪同張玉寧返回北京。

臨行之際，國奧隊所有球員都來送別張玉寧。無法與隊友們繼續並肩作戰，面對一個個給自己送上擁抱的隊友，張玉寧也忍不住掉下眼淚，顯然張玉寧非常不願意在這個時候離開球隊。當然，除了不舍，張玉寧更希望球隊能夠打好後面的比賽，在與另一名前鋒楊立瑜擁抱的時候，張玉寧大聲說到：「兄弟，靠你了。」看得出，張玉寧也期盼這位隊友能夠挑起國奧隊的進攻重擔。

（袁野）


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2020-01-11 00:40:47

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕中國北京中央10日派出「第一巡視組」視察國台辦工作情況，北京中央認為國台辦在落實共產黨政策、履行職責方面必須加強，應有效落實習近平對台工作的「重要論述」，有效履行職責使命。

北京中央第一巡視組長黃先耀10日視察完國台辦的工作情況後，與該機構主任劉結一，連同其他職員召開檢討會議，黃指出，國台辦領導團隊按照「習近平新時代中國特色社會主義思想」，阻止台獨分裂中國、對台工作取得新進展、推動「祖國和平統一」。

黃先耀提到，巡視國台辦時發現諸多問題，該機構學習、貫徹「習近平新時代中國特色社會主義思想」不夠深入、落實黨的路線方針政策不夠有力、履行職責使命不夠到位，應使對台工作不斷取得新進展、不斷創新對台工作理念、思路和相關措施。

國台辦主任劉結一認為黃先耀指責切中要害，劉承諾按照中央要求落實改善，確保對台工作取得紮實成效，堅決維護共產黨權威，同時以「集中統一領導」作為最高政治原則和基本政治規矩，會繼續落實習近平總書記關於對台工作的「重要論述」。

title: 北京巡查國台辦 要求落實習近平對台「重要論述」


countries: 加拿大 美國

title: 加拿大上月新增就業數優於預期 平均薪資增速放緩

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路透報導，加拿大周五（10日）公布的官方資料顯示，加拿大就業市場去年12月淨增加3.52萬個職位，增幅超過分析師預期的2.5萬人，且全都是全職工作，且失業率下滑至5.6%，也高於預期的5.8%。

據加拿大統計局 （Statistics Canada）的資料，上個月正職員工的平均薪資上升3.8%，增幅低於前兩個月的4.4%；全國勞動參與率從11月的65.6%微幅下滑至65.5%。渥太華和魁北克兩大省份，新增工作最多。

全職的工作增加3.84萬個職缺，兼職的工作減少3,200個職缺；製造業淨增1.57萬個職缺，主要來自建築業。服務業淨增1.94萬個職缺，其中最大宗的是住宿與餐飲業。

加拿大央行自2018年10月以來都維持基準利率，而美國聯準會（Fed）曾多次降息。加拿大央行下次公布利率決策時間為1月22日。

加拿大央行行長Stephen Poloz周四（9日）在溫哥華演說時表示，央行會持續關注，最近創造就業機會放緩的情況是否會繼續下去。

他還提到，最近經濟數據好壞參半，也說第4季出現異常氣候與罷工。

加拿大官方資料周五（10日）顯示，加拿大去年12月淨增3.52萬個工作，增幅超乎預期。路透 分享


taiwan-subdivisions: 沙鹿區 獅子

title: 致用美容科30位學生學以致用　為社區150長輩理容按摩獲好評

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致用高中十日結合台中港國際獅子會及沙鹿區六路里里辦公處，舉辦歲末寒冬送暖「愛心義剪」社區巡迴服務，三十位美容科學生以所學的技術為一百五位社區的長者義剪，場面溫馨。校長陳添旺表示，民眾到了過年，大都會理容，以新氣息，歡喜的過個吉利的農曆過年，三十位同學做這次的愛心活動，皆感到有敬老意義及成就。

寒冷的氣候裡，致用高中美容科學生發揮愛心，在歲末寒冬送暖「愛心義剪」的服務中，發揮所學，為五十位長輩理容，搭配簡易肩背按摩、彩粧、修指甲、並與長輩談心等，讓長輩美美的過個吉利的農曆年。

校長陳添旺表示，為關懷社會人士福祉，舉辦此次擴大服務社區，30位美容科學生以所學技能，深入社區服務民眾，學生秉持「以技術服務人群，用愛心溫暖人間」的理念，實際行動付出關懷，體驗社區敬老等有意義的活動。活動帶給長者一股暖流，學生除藉此一展所學，學以致用，更從中得到服務的經驗和喜悅。


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清華大學材料系教授陳學仕領導的研究團隊，突破量子點顯示器材料不穩定、易損壞的限制，為每個量子點都穿上1奈米的「盾牌」，成功製造出更穩定、更能顯現物體真實色彩的量子點新型材料，應用在電視、電腦、手機、相機螢幕上，呈現近似人眼所見的鮮艷色彩。

目前市面上常見的LCD液晶顯示器所顯現出來的色彩層次及飽和度，大約只有肉眼可見的3成，號稱「視網膜」等級如iPhone11的OLED顯示器也只能顯現出肉眼可見色彩的5成。陳學仕指出，最新的量子顯示器QLED色彩層次更豐富細緻且飽和，如波光粼粼或金屬反射的色澤都可仿真呈現，已逼近人眼所見的9成。 但量子點材料技術還有許多待突破之處。陳學仕解釋，量子點是約3奈米的球型微小晶體，很容易受到環境中水氣及氧化的損壞，喪失發光的功能，目前如三星等大廠的解決方案是將所有的量子點像三明治一樣夾在薄膜保護層內，但只要薄膜夾層內稍有空隙，保護層就會失效。

陳學仕從復仇者聯盟系列漫畫中美國隊長的盾牌得到靈感，「與其讓所有的發光士兵共同一個大盾牌，很容易被全體攻破，為何不為每個量子點都配上一個自己的專屬盾牌?」因此陳學仕研究團隊發展出獨家技術，在每顆僅3奈米的量子點上長出數個約1奈米的「盾牌」，可有效抵抗水、氧的攻擊，穩定性更佳，也可延長量子點顯示器的使用壽命。

近兩年已有業者推出演色性更佳的量子電視，但因量子材料十分脆弱，難以大量生產，價格也居高不下，60吋的量子電視售價高達台幣16萬元。陳學仕表示，有了獨步全球的「盾牌」技術保護量子點後，量子點電視易於生產，售價可望調降。

組成一片55吋的量子點螢幕大約至少需要1億兆(10的20次方)個量子晶體，陳學仕研究團隊還研發出精準控制每顆量子點尺寸的技術，讓所有的量子晶體大小差距皆在0.5奈米以內，如同1億兆個美國隊長拿著同樣大小的盾牌打仗。精準控制量子點與盾牌的大小，就能讓它們準確發出藍、綠、黃、橘、紅、紅外等顏色的光。

清華大學鼓勵師生將最新研發成果技轉成立新創公司。陳學仕研究團隊也為在清華實驗室研發出的量子點新材料申請專利，並成立新華光能新創公司，預計明年第一季就將有採用這項最新材料製成的量子點螢幕上市。

taiwan-subdivisions: 三星 成功

title: 打造比「視網膜」厲害的螢幕　清華量子點加盾牌超犀利


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彰化員林基督教醫院於10日舉辦『防癌找員基 健康不NG』防癌暨健康促進宣導記者會，開頭以「癌啊！篩檢真簡單」話劇揭開今日活動，劇中黑麻麻爸爸為了一家生計壓力大到以菸檳酒做為舒壓管道，卻搞壞身體，透過癌症篩檢為自己找回健康，也找回家庭幸福！現場由彰化縣衛生局保健科姚玉津科長、員基院長李國維醫師、協同院長林正純醫師、協同院長陳守棟醫師及副院長莊士逸醫師共同宣示：防癌找員基 健康不NG，呼籲民眾重視癌症篩檢重要性。

員基醫院李國維院長表示，癌症長年位居十大死因第一位，依據衛生福利部公佈，2018年癌症死亡人數為4萬8784人，占所有死亡人數28.2%，死亡率較上年上升1.5%。由於台灣人口老化快速及不健康生活型態，預料癌症發生人數仍將持續上升。台灣有完善的癌症篩檢政策，提醒民眾要善加利用免費的四癌篩檢，以便在癌前病變或癌症的早期，爭取最佳治療成效。

員基醫院防癌暨健康促進宣導 呼籲民眾重視癌症篩檢重要性
員基醫院推廣四癌篩檢（子宮頸抹片、乳房攝影、口腔黏膜、糞便潛血），2019年共完成26,149案，陽性個案數為1,304案，其中陽性個案確診為癌症為50案（確診率3.83%），此數據突顯出早期篩檢早期治療之重要性。

員基醫院莊士逸副院長指出，國內外研究顯示，子宮頸癌、乳癌、大腸癌和口腔癌等四種癌症是經證實可經由篩檢早期偵測進而降低死亡率，且具成本效益。配合政府「定期篩檢、早期發現、早期治療」方針很重要，早期發現接受正規適當的治療，治療成效更佳。

taiwan-subdivisions: 彰化縣 彰化 員林

title: 員基醫院防癌暨健康促進宣導　籲民眾重視癌症篩檢重要性


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預報都市 天氣 氣溫(攝氏)

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title: 中央氣象局國際各主要都市天氣預報

countries: 墨西哥 新加坡 智利


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週五 (10 日) 白宮發布記者會，宣布伊朗經濟制裁細節，美國國務卿蓬佩奧 (Mike Pompeo) 表示，美方將針對伊朗紡織、金屬、製造產業，以及八位伊朗高層官員進行制裁，但尚未公布制裁細節。

美國財政部長梅努欽 (Steven Mnuchin) 和國務卿蓬佩奧表示，制裁的對象包含伊朗金屬產業及其他經濟部門，像是建築、製造、紡織以及礦業等，另外，制裁對象也包含八名伊朗高層官員。

蓬佩奧於記者會上表示：「我們希望伊朗的行為舉止能像一個正常的國家。」

在伊拉克美軍基地空襲事件後，美國總統川普週三 (8 日) 表示將立即對伊朗政權實施懲罰性經濟制裁，且制裁措施將持續到伊朗改變其行為為止。美國財政部隨後表示已鎖定部分伊朗官員，包含伊朗最高國家安全委員會秘書，以及伊朗武裝部隊副參謀長等進行制裁。

美方上月已表態，為了減少伊朗在核武與地區衝突造成的風險，今年將持續施壓伊朗。

去年 12 月，美國國務院向伊朗最大空運公司馬漢航空以及航運公司實行新一輪制裁，指控它們協助伊朗政府散播大規模毀滅性武器，對伊朗的制裁行動再度擴大。

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countries: 伊朗 伊拉克 美國

title: 白宮宣布：對伊朗金屬、紡織等產業和八位高官進行制裁


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品牌大廠宏碁 (2353-TW) 旗下建碁 (3046-TW) 公告，根據旗下投資的創為公司提供的財務資訊，初步評估對創為投資價值恐有減損跡象，損失金額約為新台幣 3000 萬至 6000 萬元，因此將於第 4 季自結損益表中，暫估列新台幣 6000 萬元投資損失。

建碁表示，是否發生減損及確切減損金額，將洽會計師進行查核。

另一方面，因應國際經貿環境影響，建碁也公告，為兼顧轉型與策略發展，董事會通過子公司建碁科技 (中山) 營運優化與組織精簡計畫，將透過計畫調整自主生產製造與委外生產製造比重，以優化營運成本。

建碁指出，將估列新台幣 6350 萬元準備，作為執行移轉生產製造及組織精簡等優化營運費用準備，並將反映在 108 年度第 4 季財報中，而在營運優化與組織精簡計畫執行後，預估將節省每年約 3600 萬元相關成本與費用，並可降低產能利用率波動的不確定性等，對公司的影響。

建碁去年全年營收 17.26 億元，年增 1.3%。

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title: 建碁對創為投資價值恐有減損 去年Q4暫提列6000萬


title: 可成去年稅前盈餘年減逾5成 稅前每股賺25.9元

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機殼大廠可成 (2474-TW) 去年稅前盈餘 199.6 億元，年減 51.7%，每股稅前盈餘 約 25.9 元。可成去年受到產能利用率相對低檔影響，獲利表現不如 2018 年。

可成去年第 4 季營收 319.33 億元，季增 14.8%，年增 9.5%；毛利率 25.38%，季增 2.24 個百分點、年減 11.3 個百分點；營益率 17.91%，季增 1.86 個百分點、年減 9.33 個百分點；稅前盈餘 48.56 億元，季增 8.7%、年減 51.8%，每股稅前盈餘約 6.3 元。

可成去年營收 916.28 億元，年減 4%、毛利率 24.29%，年減 16.19 個百分點，營益率 15.37%、年減 15.65 個百分點，稅前盈餘 199.6 億元，年減 51.7%，每股稅前盈餘約 25.9 元。

展望今年，可成受惠 5G 機殼、車用新品挹注，加上原先 4G 手機、筆電、平板業務，營運有撐。

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（中央社記者江今葉華盛頓10日專電）在位於伊拉克的軍事基地遭到伊朗攻擊後，美國今天對伊朗祭出新一波經濟制裁，其中包括8名伊朗高階官員與多家企業。

美國國務卿蓬佩奧（Mike Pompeo）今天與財政部長梅努欽（Steven Mnuchin）聯袂在白宮召開記者會，宣布對伊朗的新一波經濟制裁，包括8名伊朗高層與包括金屬、紡織在內的17家企業。

梅努欽表示，這項制裁行動主要是針對伊朗高階官員與企業，以切斷伊朗政府用以資助恐怖組織的數十億美元資金來源。

蓬佩奧也對美軍狙殺伊朗革命衛隊「聖城部隊」指揮官蘇雷曼尼（Qassem Soleimani）一事做進一步說明表示，情報顯示蘇雷曼尼正在策劃對美國進行立即的大規模襲擊。

蓬佩奧坦言，並未掌握正確的時間、地點，但情資顯示這項威脅迫在眉睫，包括對美國使館、軍事基地與美方設施的攻擊。

白宮隨後發布新聞稿表示，美國總統川普已簽署一項行政命令，對部分伊朗建築、製造、紡織與採礦企業進行經濟制裁。這項懲罰性制裁將持續到伊朗政權改變行為為止。

川普在聲明中表示，伊朗是全球主要恐怖主義贊助國，透過軍事力量與代理人威脅美軍、外交官與平民，以及美國盟邦與夥伴公民與利益。美國會繼續打擊伊朗政權，絕不允許伊朗擁有核武。

蘇雷曼尼（Qassem Soleimani）等人於3日在伊拉克遭美國以無人機狙殺，伊朗於7日發射十多枚彈道飛彈攻擊美國與聯軍部隊駐紮伊拉克的兩個空軍基地，以報復美軍行動。

川普8日透過公開談話表示，伊朗對伊拉克駐有美軍的基地發動攻擊，並未造成美國人傷亡，美軍很強大並準備好因應任何情況，但美國不希望動武，仍盼與伊朗達成協議維持和平，讓美伊大戰危機暫時降溫。（編輯：徐睿承）1090111

title: 基地遭伊朗攻擊後  美祭出新一波經濟制裁


title: 中職／各隊洋投到位 今年「大聯盟級」爭鋒

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為備戰新球季，中職各隊補強外籍戰力，富邦悍將隊昨天宣布再簽三洋投，成為繼中信兄弟隊之後，第二支簽妥四名洋將的球隊，統一獅、樂天桃猿隊則都僅完成一名洋投續約，但今年四隊都確定有「大聯盟級」外援。

中信兄弟前天率先完成新球季四洋投布局，悍將隊則是在去年底簽回索沙後，昨天再確定留下三名洋投羅力、包林傑及伍鐸，四名「熟面孔」預計在農曆年後抵台向球隊報到、投入春訓。

其中羅力將迎接個人在中職的第八個球季，只差十六勝、卅六次三振，就能在今年完成中職生涯百勝及千Ｋ里程碑，他也和球迷相約，會竭盡所能替悍將隊拿下二○二○年總冠軍。

樂天隊日前宣布與李茲續約，成為今年首名洋將，進度最慢的獅隊則在昨天與前兩年都來台效力的羅里奇續約，第一名洋投確定，另外還鎖定四名人選，包括具有大聯盟資歷的球員，領隊蘇泰安表示，只要對球隊有幫助的，都會簽下來，沒有限制幾位。

羅里奇。 圖／聯合報系資料照片 分享


title: 德里輪姦犯1/22絞刑 劊子手世家第四代：準備好了


title: 基地遭伊朗攻擊後  美祭出新一波經濟制裁


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▲曾之喬今日頂著「最美鞭炮頭」出席資生堂國際櫃旗艦店開幕活動，好身材、美肌都無懈可擊。（圖／品牌提供、記者張毓容攝）

記者張毓容／台北報導

全台首家資生堂國際櫃Shiseido Ginza Tokyo旗艦店正式進駐遠東信義A13，今（10日）特別邀來人氣女星曾之喬擔任開幕嘉賓，以一襲亮紅色削肩小洋裝現身的她，不僅「腰瘦」好身材令人稱羨，肌膚更是透亮到會發光，加上一頭側面才能看出玄機的「鞭炮頭」髮髻，讓她笑封自己是「鞭炮界最美！」她也在活動上大方分享自己的發光秘訣，從養膚、妝前到彩妝全都曝。

▲她認為想有好肌膚，吃得健康、養生很重要。（圖／翻攝IG@chiaochiaotzeng）

肌膚好到讓現場記者都大讚的喬喬，談到肌膚透亮秘訣，立刻化身養生小老師，提醒大家養生的重要，她認為平時飲食吃得健康、吃得好，膚況就會好，肌膚才會透亮，這是她認為最首要的關鍵。

另外，皮膚出問題時，要先自己確認一下，如果不是身體不好，很可能就是你用錯產品或用錯方式，對肌膚來說負擔太重了，她也舉了自己的例子，「像我以前很愛很愛敷臉，常常推廣每天都要敷臉，但我後來發現一個弊端，原來我粉刺長那麼快，就是因為太營養了，才發現是敷臉的問題。」

▲她更推薦女生買美妝品一定要投資一罐好的粉底。（圖／記者屠惠剛攝）

想讓肌膚透亮有光澤，除了保養，彩妝上也有小撇步，她認為底妝非常重要，所以如果購買美妝品的預算有限的話，她很推薦要投資一瓶好的粉底，「有一個好的底，彩妝不管多一點或少一點都會很漂亮，但如果底亂七八糟的話那就沒救了！」她更提到現在的彩妝品或粉底裡都會添加保濕成分，所以建議妝前不用再擦很厚重的保養品，像她通常只敷清爽的面膜或是擦很清透的精華液，再搭配一瓶好的粉底液就夠了。

▲資生堂去年一推出就大受好評的「超進化底妝系列」，今年開春再添新成員。（圖／品牌提供）

而前一天在FB預告將要公開自己最近愛用底妝的她，也大方揭曉讓她頻頻被讚容光煥發的心頭好就是先前陪她征戰米蘭時裝週的「資生堂超進化底妝系列」，就連最近拍攝新戲都在用，不僅讓她拍戲不脫妝，肌膚透亮度更提升。

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title: 曾之喬頂「鞭炮頭」站台資生堂旗艦店　自曝肌膚亮到發光的秘密


title: 全演藝圈最有義氣！田村淳「直接開一間經紀公司」　簽下田村亮宣布回歸

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記者蕭采薇／綜合報導

日本諧星田村淳和田村亮組成「倫敦靴子」，共同主持《男女糾察隊》爆紅台日。不過田村亮去年6月被踢爆私接詐騙集團的尾牙表演，爭議延燒多日後遭停工處分。不過為了救自己的搭擋，田村淳（小淳）為了救夥伴，直接為田村亮（小亮）開了一間公司，10晚間更宣布小亮重啟演藝活動。

▲田村淳直接為田村亮開了一間經紀公司，宣布夥伴回歸。（圖／翻攝自田村淳臉書）

田村淳原本先宣布開設公司，以他們團名LONDON BOOTS（倫敦靴子）命名，更強調：「這間公司不是要自立門戶，而是連結田村亮與吉本興業所存在的公司。」當時他透露，小亮確實需要反省，也不知道需要多久的時間，但他很想重新開始演藝工作，讓小淳決定幫夥伴一把。

▲田村淳對夥伴情義相挺，不在乎曾遭對方背叛。（圖／翻攝自推特）

10日田村淳以公司代表名義宣佈，所開設的LONDON BOOTS經紀公司，正式和吉本興業合作，將幫助「旗下藝人」田村亮重新開啟演藝活動。吉本興業也證實此事，表示會盡全力幫助「LONDON BOOTS 旗下藝人田村亮」的藝能活動。

消息一出讓不少人震驚說道：「小淳真的是有情有義。」、「記得當初小亮不是還騙了他嗎？」、「直接為夥伴開一間經紀公司也太狂！」田村亮在觀眾心中形象忠厚老實，當時捲入私接尾牙事件，起初強調不清楚是詐騙集團，完全沒有收錢，搭檔田村淳也公開力挺「我相信他說的話。」

▲田村亮（左）出席詐騙集團尾牙領百萬酬勞，坦承說謊後被公司停工。（圖／翻攝自推特／男女糾察隊）

不過謊言還是破功，田村亮後來發表聲明坦承收錢，「因為只考慮自己的利益，向大家做出虛假的說明，真的非常對不起」、「背叛了淳怎麼道歉也道歉不完」，不過他仍強調不知道對方是詐騙集團，也會在停工期間深切反省。


title: 野火燒光牠們家！網募集「小袋子」變新窩　送給無家可歸動物

references: Facebook 臉書 網友

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▲網路發動募集物資，讓野火中失去家園的野生動物得到新家。（圖／翻攝自Facebook／Animal Rescue Craft Guild）

記者詹筠怡／綜合報導

澳洲大火持續延燒，自2019年9月以來已經造成25人及近5億隻動物死亡，宛如末日來襲的景象，讓澳洲人心惶惶，但在天災當中，也頻傳出暖心故事，有網友募集各種手做物品，讓受傷的野生動物重新有個家。

►即時接收毛毛軍團訊息！快加寵物雲Line

這場毀滅性的野火造成數以億計的動物死亡，當中無尾熊、袋鼠、蝙蝠是最大宗，被迫流離失所、無家可歸。澳洲救援組織「動物救援工藝協會」（ARCG）呼籲大眾提供簡易素材來幫助可憐的動物有個棲身之地，人們寄出了小袋子、毯子、手套、毛衣，當作小動物的新窩。

►沙發購物！毛孩好吃好玩好用一次滿足全館免運

▲小袋鼠在新窩裡面，看起來十分安心。

甚至還有手作課程教人們怎麼縫製可用的物品，協會也在臉書上PO出小動物們擠身在這些愛心物資裡的萌照，讓大眾知道這是非常實際的行動，就算沒有太多錢，也可以為在災難中受創的野生動物略盡棉薄之力。

►ETtoday寵物雲有IG了，來追蹤我吧！

▲愛心物資不斷湧入。


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By Chou Hsiang-yun and Jake Chung  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer
Red envelopes printed with homophonous Chinese characters that all read “fu” in different tones — belly, rich, blessing, giving — designed by the New Taipei City Sports Office are pictured in front of kettlebells in an undated photograph.Photo courtesy of the New Taipei City Sports Office
The New Taipei City Library and 19 local temples are giving out stamps to readers who borrow books over the Lunar New Year holiday with the possibility of lighting a free good-fortune lamp (guangmingdeng, 光明燈), a Taoist tradition said to bring a safe and smooth year.

City residents are encouraged to borrow 10 books from library branches near the participating temples, where they can obtain a stamp for the chance to be one of 630 people selected to light a lucky lamp, library director Wang Chin-hua (王錦華) said on Tuesday.

“The event will not only promote reading, but also gain the favor and good fortune of the gods,” the library said.

Meanwhile, the New Taipei City Sports Center is to give out packets of red envelopes from today, New Taipei City Sports Office Director Hung Yu-ling (洪玉玲) said.

The packets contain four large envelopes and a small envelope, each carrying one of four Chinese characters: Fu (富) for “wealth,” Fu (福) for “good fortune,” Fu (腹) for “belly” and Fu (賦) for “gift,” Hung said.

The characters convey having great wealth and being stately, having luck, having intelligence and being rid of excess belly fat, Hung said.

The packets also contain stickers that are more modern and fashionable, Hung said, adding that the New Taipei City Government has only prepared 1,000 packets.

The fitness center at each municipal sports center is also to offer visitors a discount price of NT$20, down from NT$50, from the second to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, or from Jan. 26 to 29.

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title: Libraries, temples promote reading


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2020 Elections: DPP seeks clarity over ‘spy’ case

DOCTORED IMAGES?A KMT official said screen grabs of Alex Tsai’s texts were altered and that a deal between Sun Tianqun and William Wang Liqiang was theirs alone
Chien Shu-pei, left, and Chuang Jui-hsiung, spokespeople for President Tsai Ing-wen’s re-election campaign office, speak at a news conference in Taipei yesterday about allegations that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Deputy Secretary-General Alex Tsai had made an offer to self-professed Chinese spy William Wang Liqiang.Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times
Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) presidential candidate, should clarify when he became aware of KMT Deputy Secretary-General Alex Tsai’s (蔡正元) alleged offer to self-professed Chinese spy William Wang Liqiang (王立強), President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) re-election campaign office said yesterday.

The office accused the KMT and China of colluding to sway today’s elections.

Australian newspaper The Age yesterday reported that Australian police briefed Taiwanese investigators on a suspected plot to bribe and coerce Wang to claim that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) paid him to fabricate his claims.

Chinese businessman Sun Tianqun (孫天群) asked Alex Tsai to text the KMT’s commitment to protect Wang, the newspaper reported, showing purported messages between Sun and Alex Tsai.

Alex Tsai promised that if Wang followed his directives, Wang’s wanted status in China would be lifted and Beijing would stop interfering with his attempts to seek residency outside China, The Age said.

Furthermore, he promised that Taiwanese businesspeople would pay Wang’s debts in China, while Beijing would downgrade his legal liability, and allow him free entrance and departure from his native country, the newspaper said.

At a news conference in Taipei yesterday, DPP Legislator Kuan Bi-ling (管碧玲) said that Alex Tsai’s messages with Sun included instructions that Wang record a video recanting his claims that he was a Chinese spy and for the KMT to arrange Taiwanese residency for him.

A photograph of Alex Tsai with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) was sent to Wang to indicate that he had close ties with the Chinese Communist Party, Kuan said.

Alex Tsai’s promise to help Wang settle in Taiwan might be a breach of the nation’s judicial rights, Tsai Ing-wen re-election campaign office spokeswoman Chien Shu-pei (簡舒培) said.

Chien asked whether Han had also promised to protect Wang.

Office spokesman Chuang Jui-hsiung (莊瑞雄) called on the KMT to clarify its role in the situation and what agreement it had reached with China.

Separately yesterday, Alex Tsai said in a radio interview that the messages in the report had been modified.

The promises were proposed by Wang and he was just passing them on to Sun, Alex Tsai said, adding that his conversation with Sun had been removed.

Wang is in Australia as the husband of a student, he said.

He is seeking political asylum there in an attempt to avoid fraud charges in China involving 4.6 million yuan (US$664,663), he said.

It was Wang who asked Sun to pay his debt, while Sun instructed Wang to tell authorities that China Innovation Investment Ltd (中國創新投資) executive director Xiang Xin (向心) was not his supervisor, Alex Tsai said.

Xiang and his wife, China Innovation Investment acting director Kung Ching (龔青), were detained by authorities in Taiwan on Nov. 24 last year after Wang accused them of being Chinese intelligence officers.

They have been barred from leaving Taiwan.

However, it seems that Wang just wants the money and has no intention of clarifying the matter, Alex Tsai said.

KMT Culture and Communications Committee deputy director-general Cheng Mei-hua (程美華) said the party believes that screen grabs of Alex Tsai’s text messages have been altered.

The agreements were made between Sun and Wang, while Alex Tsai just wanted Wang to explain the situation, Cheng said.

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people: 蔡正元 蔡英文 韓國瑜 習近平 莊瑞雄 管碧玲


taiwan-subdivisions: 太平 鳳山

people: 韓國瑜 蔡英文

title: 2020 Elections: Tsai delivers final plea at Taipei rally

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Supporters of President Tsai Ing-wen cheer at her presidential campaign rally in Kaohsiung yesterday.Photo: CNA

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President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) concluded her election campaign with a rally in Taipei last night, saying that today’s presidential and legislative elections would “decide the future of Taiwan’s young people.”

“Let us vote for a leader who is guiding Taiwan to link with the international community and participate in the world economy, not a candidate who wants to lock Taiwan to China,” said Tsai, who is seeking re-election as the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate.

“This is a vote for Taiwanese to cast their ballots for democracy and freedom, in defiance of China’s constant threat of annexation,” she told the crowd on Ketagalan Boulevard. “It is a vote for Taiwan to have a better future, and for Taiwan to move forward.”

She asked people to urge their friends and relatives in other cities and counties to cast their party votes for the DPP and not split them among other parties, “because we need to elect DPP legislators to retain a legislative majority, so I can do my job better, finish reforms, and safeguard Taiwan’s sovereignty and protect our homeland.”

“The world’s eyes are on us, to see what Taiwanese will choose,” Tsai said, adding that people must choose a leader who has undertaken new initiatives and has the courage to push for needed reforms, and has shown real leadership.

The DPP organized rallies in Taipei, New Taipei City, Taichung and Kaohsiung yesterday, along with numerous smaller events elsewhere in the nation.

In Kaohsiung earlier, a “Retake Kaohsiung” event was held at a plaza next to a metro station in Fengshan District (鳳山), where Tsai said that her Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) opponent, Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), has shown few accomplishments for the city.

“You were deceived by Han last time [in the 2018 Kaohsiung mayoral election] and you must not be fooled again,” she said.

“We have known that most Kaohsiung residents are not happy. You feel distressed because you were cheated by Han, who a few months after being elected mayor, abandoned you, choosing to contest the presidency,” Tsai said, adding that city residents were a springboard for Han’s ambition.

Tsai said that Han had a long list of promises that came to nothing

“Has the Love River Ferris wheel been built? Has Arnold Schwarzenegger come to Kaohsiung? Was there drilling for oil in waters near Taiping Island (太平島, Itu Aba)?” she asked.

“Have Kaohsiung people become wealthy?” she asked, to which the crowd replied with a resounding “No.”

Tsai touted her governance, saying that despite the many difficulties she instituted judicial reform, pension reform, and improved welfare and education.

“If Han is elected president, Taiwan would face endless feuds, confrontations and conflict 365 days of the year,” she said.

Organizers estimated that the crowd in Kaoshiung was 300,000, while a rally in Taichung reported more than 70,000, with a similar number for New Taipei City and an estimated 500,000 in Taipei.

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title: ‘Children’s mistakes’ cost Barcelona in loss to Atletico

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Barcelona captain Lionel Messi on Thursday said that his side were guilty of playing like children after Atletico Madrid staged a thrilling comeback to beat them 3-2 and set up a Supercopa de Espana final against Real Madrid.

Barca looked set for a showdown tomorrow against Real when they led 2-1 with nine minutes left, but instead it is to be a Madrid derby in Saudi Arabia to decide who lifts the trophy.

“It’s a shame, because we switched off for a few moments and made children’s mistakes,” Messi said. “We should have closed out the match.”

“It’s a blow for us, especially as we were the better team. Our mistakes cost us dearly,” he added.

All five goals were scored during a wild second half in Jeddah that began with Koke putting Atletico in front just 21 seconds after coming on as a substitute at the interval.

Goals from Messi and Antoine Griezmann turned the game on its head, only for Atletico to hit back with a late double: Alvaro Morata converting a penalty in the 81st minute before Angel Correa found a winner in the 86th.

In between, Barcelona also had two goals ruled out after the video assistant referee (VAR) spotted tight offsides, while Atletico were denied what looked a clear penalty at 2-2, after the ball clipped the hand of Gerard Pique.

“They had more legs than us and in the end it cost us,” Griezmann said. “We made mistakes in everything, in passes — I think I missed a pass to Sam [Umtiti] before they scored — and the little things can lose you a match, a league, a Champions League.”

The pulsating contest will have delighted the Royal Spanish Football Federation, which has faced heavy criticism for taking the competition away from Spain to a different continent and to a country that has a long-condemned human rights record.

“The goal for 2-2 came at a time when we didn’t know how to get a hold of the game,” said Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde, whose position will come under renewed scrutiny.

“There is always instability when you lose,” he added.

It remains to be seen how this defeat might affect the title race in La Liga, with Real Madrid and Atletico now enjoying the opportunity not only to claim a trophy, but score a psychological boost too.

“It is important for the club, we beat the best attacking team in the world,” Atletico coach Diego Simeone said. “You saw our bite, our belief, our desire. It’s what this club is all about.”

Atletico survived a frantic first half and frustration spilled over at the break as Jordi Alba poked a finger in the face of Joao Felix, who then went head-to-head with Messi. Suarez also had to be pulled away by Stefan Savic.

A spikey end to the first period was trumped by an explosive start to the second as Koke gave Atletico the lead by stabbing into the bottom corner.

Simeone chose not to celebrate and if he was worried about the amount of time left, he was right, as Barcelona scored twice in 11 minutes.

First, Messi equalized after muscling his way through Koke and Savic on the edge of the area and then he fired in again after steering a high ball around Koke.

However, this time VAR showed his elbow had served as a cushion.

Disappointment was brief, as Alba crossed for Suarez and while his header was brilliantly pawed away by Jan Oblak, Griezmann nodded in the rebound.

Pique thought he had a third after Arturo Vidal half-volleyed Messi’s free-kick across the box, but again VAR intervened.

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title: SPORTS BRIEFS

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GOLF

Morikawa secures Sony lead

Collin Morikawa on Thursday displayed wisdom beyond his 22 years in strong winds to vault to a two-shot lead after his opening round at the Sony Open in Hawaii. The Californian handled the windswept conditions with aplomb, although riding his luck at times after some errant drives, while running up five birdies in a five-under-par 65 at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. Australian Matt Jones and Americans Ted Potter, Ryan Palmer and Sam Ryder shared second place after they all posted rounds of three-under-par 67. Ten players were locked in a tie for sixth place in a round that was suspended due to darkness with a handful of players still out on the course. Morikawa, born in Los Angeles of Hawaiian and Japanese heritage, turned professional in June last year and took only six starts to clinch his first PGA Tour victory at the Barracuda Championship in Nevada. Part of an exciting wave of fearless young players with seemingly unlimited potential, he is already ranked 55th in the world, but has said that he needs to sharpen up his driving to stay atop the leaderboard. “Next few days I have to hit a few more fairways and we’ll be good from there,” Morikawa said.

GOLF

Veerman leads by one shot

American Johannes Veerman on Thursday fired nine birdies in a flawless 62 to lead the South African Open Championship by one shot as he maintained a great start to his first European Tour season. The key to the nine-under-par round at Randpark Golf Club in Johannesburg for the 27-year-old was finding 17 greens in regulation. Having picked up two birdies on the front nine, Veerman claimed three in a row from 10 and four more from 15 to 18 to head Italian Nino Bertasio and South African J.C. Ritchie. After just qualifying for a maiden European Tour, Veerman has proved his worth with two top-10 finishes in three starts before arriving in South Africa. Bertasio, whose No. 357 world ranking puts him 30 places below Veerman, had a chance to lead the field after an eagle-three at 17 left him at nine-under. However, after being just short of the green on the final hole in two, he chipped past the pin and failed to hole a par putt. Ritchie, a 25-year-old seeking his first European Tour victory, birdied eight holes and did not drop a shot in warm, dry conditions.

SOCCER

Torino advance to quarters

Torino on Thursday beat Genoa 5-3 on penalties to reach the Coppa Italia quarter-finals after both sides were tied 1-1 after extra time. Andrea Favilli put Genoa ahead after 14 minutes against their Serie A rivals in Turin, but Lorenzo de Silvestri pulled the hosts level on 23 minutes. Genoa goalkeeper Andrei Radu denied an Andrea Belotti header in the second half, with the Torino captain also missing a chance for the winner in injury time. Torino played the final 15 minutes of extra time a man down after midfielder Souahilo Meite was sent off for a second yellow card. The game went to a shoot-out, with Torino goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu saving Ivan Radovanovic’s effort and Alex Berenguer slotting in the winning penalty. Five-time winners Torino, who last won the trophy in 1993, are to meet either AC Milan or SPAL in the quarter-finals. Holders SS Lazio open their title defense against Serie B side US Cremonese on Tuesday next week.

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people: 林靜儀 李登輝 蔡英文

title: Put an end to the unification debate

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Today, Taiwanese voters go to the ballot box to elect the nation’s next president and legislature. Last month, the People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) official newspaper, published two articles about China’s Taiwan Affairs Office Minister Liu Jieyi (劉結一): the first an op-ed by Liu, which was followed a week later by an interview with him.

In the interview, published on Dec. 19, Liu said: “Today, we are closer, more confident and more capable of achieving the goal of unification with Taiwan than we have been at any other time in history.”

Liu’s comment was refuted by US Representative Ted Yoho, who also serves as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation, in an op-ed published in the Taipei Times (“Facing up to Beijing’s arrogance, ignorance,” Jan. 5, page 6).

Yoho pointed out that China’s idea of “reunification” is based on the “misguided belief that Taiwan is part of the PRC [People’s Republic of China],” which he says is “a false premise” that is the result of the “misdirected foreign policy under then-US president Richard Nixon and then-US secretary of state Henry Kissinger.”

More specifically, Nixon and Kissinger gave in to China’s interpretation of the Cairo Declaration and acknowledged that it meant that Taiwan should be handed to China.

Yoho wrote: “Is Taiwan an independent country or a province of the PRC? The people of Taiwan already know the answer and will give it during the elections.”

We are waiting in anticipation.

Lin Ching-yi (林靜儀), who recently resigned as spokeswoman for President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) campaign office after her statement that, “in terms of national sovereignty, advocating unification is tantamount to treason” caused great public controversy. If we accept the notion that Taiwan is not a part of China, then the word “unification” should really be replaced by “annexation.”

Moreover, Taiwan’s past foreign regime — the then-Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) administration — renounced unification a long time ago. This historic fact is, of course, also known to Yoho, and that was the reason he wrote that “Taiwan has risen from a backwater controlled by an authoritarian, exiled military regime” in another op-ed article published in the Taipei Times (“Recognize Taiwan as the country it truly is,” Dec. 11, 2018, page 8).

That “authoritarian, exiled military regime” is none other than the government of the two Chiangs — Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and his son Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國).

Following the reign of the two Chiangs, former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝), Chiang Ching-kuo’s successor, established the National Unification Council in July 1990 to deal with the KMT’s conservative Mainlander faction. In December that year, then-Tsinghua University president Shen Chun-shan (沈君山) visited Beijing as a member of the National Unification Council’s research committee to meet with then-CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin (江澤民, China’s president from 1993 to 2003) for a three-hour talk.

Shen later visited Jiang on July 15, 1991, and on Jan. 29, 1992. During the latter meeting, Shen said: “The Taiwanese independence faction could perhaps be called ‘Taiwan nationalists.’”

“What exactly does Taiwanese nationalism mean? The highland Aboriginal tribes? Apart from them, aren’t all Taiwanese Chinese who went there from China?” Jiang asked.

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The search for Eden and the pursuit of humanity’s origins

Our species, Homo sapiens, evolved in Africa over hundreds of thousands of years and now we are beginning to understand how
Underneath our skins, we are all Africans. That is the recent, simple conclusion of scientists studying the origins of our species.

Genes, ancient stone tools and fossil bones — analyzed over the past few decades — make it clear that men and women today are the direct descendants of hunter-gatherers who evolved somewhere in Africa and took over the continent before one group departed to conquer the rest of the world tens of thousands of years ago.

However, the location in Africa where we first appeared has never been established. Some researchers have argued that the cradle of humankind lay in the east, in Ethiopia or Kenya. Others have put their money on South Africa.

Most are sure that it is only a matter of time before our species’ birthplace is pinpointed — perhaps on land covering a huge estuary that once groaned with fish, or near a vast slice of savannah rich with game.

It was here, in some Stone Age paradise, that our more primitive predecessors honed their intellectual and cultural skills, and were transformed into Homo sapiens, a primate species notable for its rounded skull, small face, prominent chin, advanced tools, high intelligence and sophisticated culture.

It is a neat picture — but in recent years, cracks have begun to appear in this simple image of our distant past, mainly because plausible candidates for our birthplace have proved difficult to find.

As a result, a growing number of researchers are turning away from the idea that such an Arcadia existed. As Harvard geneticist David Reich has put it: “When it comes to human ancestry, there was no Garden of Eden.”

‘A BRAIDED STREAM’

Archeologists, fossil experts and geneticists are instead backing a dramatic new idea to explain the evolution of Homo sapiens, saying that a multitude of places in Africa acted as the cradle of modern humankind. We did not appear in one place and then spread, but instead constantly evolved for almost half-a-million years across the continent’s sprawling vastness.

“The immediate predecessors of modern humans probably arose in Africa about 500,000 years ago and evolved into separate populations,” said Chris Stringer, a research leader at the Natural History Museum, London. “When times were bad — for example, when the Sahara was arid, as it is now — you would get little isolated pockets of humans clinging on to existence. Some of these people would have gone extinct. Others managed to hang on.”

Later, when conditions improved — for example, when the Sahara became green again and lakes and rivers formed — surviving populations expanded and came into contact with each other. When they did, they would have exchanged ideas — and genes. Then the climate would have turned grim again and they would have separated.

“This happened over and over again in different places for different reasons for the next 400,000 years,” Stringer said. “The end product was Homo sapiens, the species that is more or less the version of modern humanity that now inhabits every continent on Earth.”

“Homo sapiens probably descended from a set of interlinked groups of people, who were separated and connected at different times. Each one had different combinations of physical features, with their own mix of ancestral and modern traits,” Eleanor Scerri of the University of Oxford said.

ROLE OF SOCIALIZING

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people: 張其祿 柯文哲

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2020 Elections: Taiwan People’s Party sues columnist for calling Ko ‘a comrade of China’

Taiwan People’s Party legislator-at-large nominee Jang Chyi-lu, center, and his attorney, right, accompanied by party spokesperson Chen You-cheng, press the bell at the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office to file a lawsuit yesterday.Photo: Chien Li-chung, Taipei Times
The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) yesterday filed a lawsuit against columnist Yao Ching-feng (姚清峰) for allegedly defaming the party and breaching the Civil Servants Election and Recall Act (公職人員選舉罷免法).

In an article titled “A Blue and White Majority Would Spiral the Legislature Into Chaos” that was published on Thursday by news Web site Newtalk (新頭殼), Yao said that Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), who is also TPP chairman, was “a comrade of China.”

The color blue in Taiwanese politics generally represents the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), while white denotes the third-party force led by Ko.

TPP spokesperson Chen You-cheng (陳宥丞) yesterday said that his party must defend itself against baseless accusations online, which could harm party interests.

The TPP has decided to sue anyone, whether during the election campaign or after the polls, who tries to slander the party or insinuate in any way that it is connected with China, Chen said.

The article’s claims that the TPP’s political stance is identical to that of China or the KMT are fabrications, TPP legislator-at-large nominee Chang Chi-lu (張其祿) said.

“The party fully supports the nation’s sovereignty and sides with Taiwanese,” Chang said, adding that the party would never side with China to oppress Taiwan.

The TPP on Wednesday also filed lawsuits against some Internet users for allegedly defaming the party and breaching the act.

The netizens posted parts of a China Central Television political talk show The Two Sides of the Strait (海峽兩岸) on Professional Technology Temple, the nation’s biggest online academic bulletin board system. During the show, the TPP was mentioned and described by guests as “a key minority party.”

The party is suing the Internet users because it wants to condemn actions in line with Beijing’s goal of creating dissent within Taiwan, Chang said.

The show did not once express support for the party, the TPP said.

That the analysis could be interpreted by Wang Hao (汪浩), a guest on the show, and others as an endorsement of the TPP becoming “a key minority party in the legislature” is absurd and ill-intentioned, the TPP said.

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title: Nanya profit slumps almost 84%

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Nanya profit slumps almost 84%

NEXT GENERATION:The firm plans to start pilot production of its first 10-nanometer 8-gigabyte low-power DDR4 and high-density DDR5 chips in the second half of the year
DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology Co (南亞科技) yesterday posted its weakest net quarterly profit in three-and-a-half years as prices dipped on excess inventory and sluggish demand.

Net profit for last quarter fell almost 84 percent to NT$1.28 billion (US$42.64 million) from NT$7.95 billion a year earlier, or earnings per share of NT$0.42 from NT$2.57.

While shipments last quarter grew more than 45 percent from a year earlier, prices plummeted more than 45 percent, Nanya said.

On a quarterly basis, net profit tumbled 42 percent from NT$2.21 billion.

Nanya said it sees clearer signs of a recovery this quarter as demand is picking up after major global DRAM suppliers reduced their inventories to healthier levels, putting an end to a slump lasting five to six quarters.

“We have seen significant improvement in demand, while supply growth will be limited as major chipmakers budgeted for conservative capital spending last year,” Nanya president Lee Pei-ing (李培瑛) told reporters.

DRAM prices and shipments are likely to rebound mildly this quarter compared with last quarter, which would help boost gross margin from last quarter’s 25.7 percent, Lee said.

Gross margin last quarter fell from 52.9 percent a year ago and 28 percent the previous quarter.

Nanya has a positive outlook for supply-and-demand dynamics this year, as overall DRAM supply is to grow by between 10 and 15 percent year-on-year, which is slower than estimated growth in demand of between 15 and 20 percent, he said.

The increasing demand stems from 5G-enabled and flagship smartphones with more memory, gaming and commercial laptops, cloud-based servers and consumer electronics, such as TVs and routers, he said.

Nanya plans to increase its shipments by 15 percent this year to cope with higher demand and the recovery would fuel revenue growth in each quarter, he added.

Nanya announced that it had finalized its technology road map for 10-nanometer-class technology.

The company said that it is developing its own advanced technology, rather than licensing from long-term partner Micron Technology Inc, to reduce costs.

“We would not have to pay licensing fees and royalties anymore,” Lee said.

The chipmaker is scheduled to start pilot production of its first 10-nanometer-class chips in the second half of this year.

It plans to target 8-gigabyte low-power DDR4 and high-density DDR5 chips used in consumer electronics, smartphones, laptops and PCs.

Nanya expects its capital spending to increase this year, compared with the NT$5.5 billion it spent last year.

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Taiwanese team unveils new display technology

REACHING PERFECTION:They said their new method for making QLED screens could bring costs down, and pave the way for use in TVs, wearables and cellphones
National Tsing Hua University department of materials science and engineering professor Sean Chen holds a bottle of quantum dots used to produce displays in an undated photograph.Photo courtesy of National Tsing Hua University
A research team led by a National Tsing Hua University professor yesterday announced that their cost-saving method that makes displays show brighter colors would be used in products being launched later this year.

Existing LCD screens are limited to only 30 percent of visible colors, OLED screens show nearly 50 percent and QLED screens can show 90 percent, materials science and engineering professor Sean Chen (陳學仕) said in a news release, adding that their breakthrough could push that even further.

Despite their better color reflection, quantum dots — semiconductor particles only 3 nanometers (nm) wide that are used in QLED screens — are susceptible to moisture and oxidation and can lose light emitting function, he said.

One of the solutions adopted by Samsung Electronics to stabilize them is to protect them in barrier layers, but the layers might become ineffective if there are cracks, he said.

His team developed shell-like structures around individual quantum dots that resist the effects of water and oxygen, which is an idea inspired by comic book superhero Captain America’s shield, Chen said.

They also control the size of the dots within 0.5nm, allowing them to emit different colors evenly, he said.

As the materials involved are delicate, a 60-inch QLED TV could cost NT$160,000, but their method might bring down the production cost, he said, adding that QLED could become the standard for TVs, wearable devices and cellphones.

The research led to the start-up HsinLight Inc (新華光能) in 2018.

The technique is valuable, as every gram of quantum dots costs nearly NT$150,000, said company chief technology officer Liu Meng-chi (劉孟奇), who previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Chen’s laboratory.

The company expects to apply the technique to produce commercial displays by next quarter, he said, adding that China, South Korea and Japan would be their target markets.

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FEATURE: Clock ticking for once-vast island in the Brahmaputra

Villagers examine soil erosion on a bank of the Brahmaputra River on Majuli Island in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on Sept. 17 last year.Photo: AFP

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Once a vast island in the heart of the Brahmaputra River, now Majuli’s days are numbered: Experts have said that it might disappear entirely by 2040 as increasingly violent flooding swells the river, wreaking havoc on the lives of those that live along its banks.

Millions rely on the vast waterway — which rises in Tibet and runs about 2,900km through the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal — for their livelihoods, but climate change means that the deluge from the annual monsoon has been increasingly extreme.

Human mismanagement has exacerbated the problem and for Majuli’s 170,000 residents the future looks bleak: The flood waters are submerging more and more areas of the island and for longer periods, wrecking crops and rendering land infertile.

The inhabitants — mostly indigenous Mishings who follow a unique offshoot of Hinduism — move to higher ground with their animals when the rains come, but soon there might be no place for them to migrate up to.

“We love the river, but we know it will one day devour all our land. We can only pray that Brahmaputra relents and we can live in harmony like generations before us,” said Sunil Mili, a farmer who grows mustard and rice.

India is grappling with a water crisis on all fronts as global warming creates more extreme weather and poor environmental planning puts millions at risk. The nation is struggling to cope with multiple crises — from severe drought and heavy flooding to rising sea and river levels — all leading to chronic water shortages.

“The water crisis is expected to worsen as the country’s population is set to grow to about 1.6 billion by 2050,” said Pradeep Purandare, a former professor with the Water and Land Management Institute.

Majuli, famed for its historic 16th-century monasteries, was 1,250km2 in 1890, but the Brahmaputra’s fast-flowing waters have eaten away at it.

Now just 515km2 remain — and the island could disappear entirely in the next 15 to 20 years, said the Majuli Island Protection and Development Council, a local nonprofit agency.

It is a reality that Nandiram Payeng knows only too well — his entire village was swept away by the Brahmaputra.

“We had our houses, farms and cattle in our village. We were content and happy, but in 2007 the river came and took everything away,” the widower said.

“Now we do cultivation in other people’s fields and we need to give them half the harvest,” the 55-year-old told reporters, the creases on his weather-beaten forehead deepening.

Islanders began to leave in the mid-20th century, but recently it has become an exodus — about 10,000 families have been displaced in the past 12 years, local officials said.

Named after the son of the Hindu deity Brahma, the river is considered sacred and people place offerings of earthen lamps and flowers to appease it.

“Every year the Brahmaputra is getting bigger. It is losing it depth and is getting wider. It is attacking the banks and eroding our land continually,” local journalist Mitu Khatamiar said.

Experts have said that that fast melting of Himalayan glaciers — two-thirds of which could disappear by 2100 according to a major report in February last year — caused by global warming is a major culprit for the heavy flooding.

The Brahmaputra and many of India’s other major rivers are reliant on snow and ice from the mountains, and while an increase in melting means more water in the short term, its arrival is uncontrolled — and intense.

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People in Toronto on Thursday attend a vigil for those killed when Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 crashed in Iran on Wednesday.Photo: EPA-EFE
Iran yesterday denied Western allegations a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed outside Tehran was brought down by an Iranian missile, and called on the US and Canada to share information they have on the crash, which killed all 176 people onboard.

Western leaders said the plane appeared to have been unintentionally hit by a surface-to-air missile near Tehran, just hours after Iran launched a series of ballistic missiles at two US bases in Iraq to avenge the killing of a top general in an US airstrike last week.

US, Canadian and British officials said it was “highly likely” that Iran shot down the plane on Tuesday.

US officials said the jetliner might have been mistakenly identified as a threat.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose country lost at least 63 citizens in the downing, said: “We have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence.”

“The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile,” Trudeau said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison offered similar statements.

The US officials did not say what intelligence they had that pointed to an Iranian missile, believed to be fired by a Russian Tor system, known to NATO as the SA-15, but they acknowledged the existence of satellites and other sensors in the region, as well as the likelihood of communication interceptions and other intelligence.

Iranian officials denied the claims.

“What is obvious for us, and what we can say with certainty, is that no missile hit the plane,” Iranian Civil Aviation Organization chief executive Ali Abedzadeh told a news conference.

“If they are really sure, they should come and show their findings to the world” in accordance with international standards, Abedzadeh said.

Hassan Rezaeifar, the head of the Iranian investigation team into the crash told the same news conference that recovering data from the flight recorders could take more than a month and that the entire investigation could stretch into next year.

He also said that Iran might request help from international experts if it is not able to extract the flight recordings.

The Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Abbas Mousavi as saying that Iran “has invited both Ukraine and the Boeing company to participate in the investigations.”

Mousavi said that the ministry would also welcome experts from other countries’ whose citizens died in the crash.

The US National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday said that it would “evaluate its level of participation,” but its role could be limited by US sanctions on Iran.

US officials have also expressed concern about sending employees to Iran because of tensions.

Under rules set by a UN aviation organization, the US agency is entitled to participate because the crash involved a Boeing 737-800 jet that was designed and built in the US.

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title: Hsieh, Strycova reach Brisbane semis

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Hsieh, Strycova reach Brisbane semis

DREAM COME TRUE:In Auckland, Amanda Anisimova outlasted Eugenie Bouchard to advance and make real her ‘biggest wish’ to play against Serena Williams
The Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova returns to the US’ Jennifer Brady in their Brisbane International women’s singles quarter-final in Australia yesterday.Photo: AFP
Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strycova yesterday overcame a rocky start to advance to the semi-finals of the doubles at the Brisbane International with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Lucie Hradecka and Andreja Klepac in 1 hour, 20 minutes at the Queensland Tennis Centre.

The top seeds, ranked No. 4 and No. 1 in the world, saved four of seven break points and converted five of 13, winning 50 percent of their first-return points against the unseeded Czech-Slovenian duo in their first meeting on the tour after the Taiwanese-Czech pairing had to withdraw due to injury when they were scheduled to face off in the quarter-finals in Cincinnati, Ohio, last year.

In today’s semi-final, the top seeds face unseeded Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine and Yang Zhaoxuan of China, who battled past Darija Jurak of Croatia and Alicja Rosolska of Poland 6-2, 4-6, 11-9 in their quarter-final on Thursday.

The winners face Ashleigh Barty, the Australian world No. 1 in the singles, and Kiki Bertens in the final after the Dutch player revealed news of their semi-final opponents — Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia and Kristina Mladenovic of France — withdrawing following her second-round singles win over Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit on Thursday night.

“We had a walkover, so I think we’re already in the final,” Bertens told the PerthNow Web site, before tipping her partner to bounce back from her shock singles exit to Jennifer Brady earlier on Thursday.

“It’s pretty tough. She’s [Barty’s] in a little bit of a different position of course this year, but I think in doubles she played great, so I think she’s going to be fine for the next few weeks,” Bertens said.

In the singles, Naomi Osaka battled for two hours while Petra Kvitova cruised to victory as both booked spots in the semi-finals.

Osaka’s form slipped after the first set, but the world No. 4 eventually saw off sixth seed Kiki Bertens 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 at the Pat Rafter Arena.

Bertens was on the attack in the second set, but lost control in the decider when she began to struggle with her first serve.

It was a more straightforward affair for fifth seed Kvitova, who downed American qualifier Jennifer Brady 6-4, 6-2.

Kvitova, a two-time Wimbledon champion who won her first WTA title in Brisbane in 2011, was in superb touch against Brady, who beat Maria Sharapova and Ashleigh Barty in the first two rounds, but was never in the hunt.

“I didn’t serve well at all the first game, but since then I served much, much better and that’s helped me a lot through this match today for sure,” Kvitova said. “My body’s still not falling apart yet, so that’s good as well.”

Osaka, who burst to stardom by winning consecutive Grand Slam crowns at the 2018 US Open and last year’s Australian Open, is next to play defending champion Karolina Pliskova.

Pliskova reached the semi-finals with a tough 7-6 (8/6), 6-3 victory over unseeded American Alison Riske.

The world No. 2 never had it easy against Riske, who let herself down with 11 double faults.

Kvitova is to face Madison Keys, who cruised past fellow American Danielle Collins 6-4, 6-1 to secure her berth in the final four.

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Serena Williams, chasing her first title in three years, yesterday wore down a tenacious Laura Siegemund to set up a semi-final showdown with Amanda Anisimova at the ASB Classic.


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David Goffin yesterday claimed an upset victory over world No. 1 Rafael Nadal in Sydney to keep Belgium’s hopes alive in their quarter-final clash at the inaugural ATP Cup team event.

Goffin, ranked 11th in the world, proved to be one of the few players who can handle Nadal’s heavy spin, which he did with aplomb on both return of serve and in general baseline play, to claim a 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) victory.

The tie was to be decided by a high-stakes doubles match, after Spain claimed the opening singles earlier in the evening when Roberto Bautista Agut defeated Kimmer Coppejans 6-1, 6-4.

The winners of the deciding doubles are to play Australia in today’s semi-final.

As of press time last night, Belgium’s Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen had won a hard-fought first set 7-6 (9/7) against Spain’s Nadal and Pablo Carreno Busta.

In the day session, world No. 2 Novak Djokovic battled through a stirring challenge from rising Canadian star Denis Shapovalov to propel Serbia into the semi-finals with a 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7/4) victory.

It was Djokovic’s fifth victory over the 20-year-old Canadian in as many clashes, but by far the toughest, after Shapovalov controlled significant portions of the match played in Australia’s intense summer heat.

The victory, set up earlier by Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic’s upset 6-4, 6-2 win over Canadian teenager Felix Auger-Aliassime, means Serbia are to play Russia in the semi-final, where Djokovic is to face in-form world No. 5 Daniil Medvedev.

The vocal crowds appear to be playing a pivotal role in the latter stages of the team event, after lifting hosts Australia on Thursday and then Serbia yesterday.

Djokovic said after the match that he understood Shapovalov’s frustration as the noise level kept threatening to interrupt play.

“They were so loud; they were engaged, sometimes a little bit too much,” Djokovic said.

“It was a Davis Cup-like atmosphere,” he said, referring to the traditional men’s team tennis event to which the ATP Cup is being compared.

Djokovic lost the first set against the heavy-swinging Canadian and struggled very early in the second before momentum shifted abruptly.

After some late third-set drama, where the two exchanged breaks of serve, the match fittingly entered into a tiebreak.

Shapovalov looked the more likely to prevail — but the Serbian had an ace up his sleeve he has successfully deployed over the years in tense situations: He simply refused to miss, daring his younger rival to find a way to hit seven winners and claim the tiebreak.

It was too much for the Canadian, and, after floating a ground stroke long, Djokovic raised his arms in victory.

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Open winner and Ryder Cup hopeful Shane Lowry yesterday cranked up the heat to close in on former champion Wade Ormsby at the Hong Kong Open.

Ormsby surged ahead in early play, carding a four-under 66 to go nine-under and stay top of the leaderboard at the historic Fanling course where he won his maiden European Tour event in 2017.

However, headliner Lowry went three shots better than his opening round, including two birdies on the final three, to end four off the top and set up the chase going into the weekend.

“I’m very pleased,” said the Irishman, who failed to make the cut when he last appeared at Fanling a decade ago.

“Wade’s nine now, if he has a really good weekend he might run away... but hopefully I can shoot two decent scores and give myself a chance on Sunday afternoon,” he added.

Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond — who also missed out on the cut in his last appearance — shot 66 to end three shots off the top.

“We’ll see,” he said, looking ahead to the final two days of the US$1 million tournament that is taking place six weeks late after being postponed due to pro-democracy protests. “This is new territory.”

India’s S.S.P Chawrasia carded a blistering 63 to surge up the leaderboard and end two shots behind Ormsby.

The four-time winner on the European Tour shot seven birdies on his way to setting the lowest round of the tournament so far — just two shots off the course record set by reigning champion Aaron Rai of England.

Compatriot Shiv Kapur finished six-under to sit in third place alongside Australian Fanling debutant Travis Smyth, Janewattananond and Thailand’s Charoenkul Gunn.

US world No. 16 Tony Finau started strongly after a lackluster first day, but shot three bogies over the round to card a one-under 69, seven points adrift.

That left “a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth,” said the American of Tongan-Samoan heritage, who was the first Polynesian to play in a Ryder Cup. “I’m going to have to play better on the weekend to chase the guys who are playing well.”

As well as light winds, Aussies Ormsby and Smyth battled to stay focused as devastating bushfires rage in their homeland.

Ormsby described the view from his airplane window on the way to Hong Kong as “just like a red dust storm.”

Smyth also has reason for distraction.

His sister’s boyfriend is a member of the special forces and was called up last week to help battle the blazes.

Along with fellow Aussie and 2014 champion Scott Hend, the youngster is to donate money to bushfire relief for every birdie he shoots, with the competition hosts announcing plans to match Hend’s contribution.

Taiwan’s Chan Shih-chang carded a one-under 67 to take a share of seventh on a five-under 135 total, just four strokes behind Ormsby.

Lu Wei-chih and Hung Chien-yao were in a group sharing 55th on one-over 141 overall and Wang Wei-lun shared 76th on three-over 143.

Additional reporting by staff writer

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title: How ownership concentration is happening and why it matters

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If the global economy were a chess game, few pieces would be left on the board. Most would be relegated to the role of bystanders, observing a concentration of power in the hands of an ever-dwindling number of global players. Now let us imagine that the pieces left standing are corporate entities, with a shrinking number of ultimate owners at the helm. This analogy fundamentally characterizes today’s global economy.

The globalization that embodied the 1990s unleashed the power of multinational corporations, enabling them rapidly to crush local competition in smaller markets. With the advent of the Internet economy a decade later, online distribution and network effects boosted corporate concentration further, giving rise to behemoths such as Amazon, Google, Airbnb and Facebook.

Today, corporate ownership concentration is being fostered by new factors, which could ultimately pose a systemic threat to the global economy. One of the most important is the decline of public equity markets across developed economies: The number of companies accessing them has halved during the past decade. In most markets outside Asia, new firms are not listing — some, in response to greater compliance and regulatory obligations, are delisting.

This is occurring despite policymakers’ attempts over the past five years to revitalize capital markets and create incentives for fresh listings, especially of technology and state-owned firms.

The recently aborted WeWork initial public offering (IPO) highlights the anemic condition of equity markets today. The listing of Saudi Aramco in December gained attention not only due to its size and symbolic importance, but also because IPOs have become rare.

With the decline in offerings globally, many of today’s “too large to fail” companies are not financial institutions, as was the case during the 2008 crisis, but privately held non-financial firms.

Ownership concentration is also a reality for listed firms, where the top three shareholders have majority control in 50 percent of the world’s largest firms, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates showed.

This trend — set to continue in the coming years — is underpinning an increasing rift in economic ownership rights between company founders and ordinary investors. For example, investors in the Snapchat IPO were offered — for the first time in modern history — non-voting shares.

While the IPO prompted an outcry, Snapchat is representative of the ownership structures at Tesla, Uber, Amazon and other large companies, where founders use multiple share classes to retain control with minority ownership.

At the same time, with enthusiasm for privatization declining globally, governments remain significant — and, in many cases, controlling — owners of large pockets of corporate wealth. In almost 10 percent of the world’s listed companies, the public sector has a controlling stake. The results can be seen in the Nissan-Renault debacle, which highlights the governance perils of state-invested multinationals.

Some investors — such as Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, which owns 2 percent of every European-listed company — take a diversified approach. Other sovereign investors, such as Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, have much more concentrated stakes and play a more active role in governance.

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The Singapore Exchange is about to make life easier for listed companies — at least the safer ones.

The bourse’s regulatory arm plans to end quarterly earnings reporting requirements that apply to all companies with a market capitalization of at least S$75 million (US$56 million), Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo) chief executive officer Tan Boon Gin (陳文仁) said.

When the rule change takes effect on Feb. 7, only riskier companies would need to report earnings every three months, Tan said at a news conference.

SGX RegCo is also to tighten other disclosure rules and introduce a new whistle-blower policy as part of efforts to protect investors, Tan added.

Other global exchanges have moved away from mandating quarterly reporting for all of their companies. The EU ended its requirement in 2013, while the Hong Kong Stock Exchange only applies the rule to companies on its small-cap exchange. The US Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing the issue.

“Internationally, there’s a shift away from quarterly reporting and this is to allow companies to focus on the long term,” Tan said.

About 75 percent of the Singapore market reports on a quarterly basis, SGX RegCo said.

Under Singapore’s new policy, a listed company would have to report each quarter when it receives a qualified report from its auditors, or when they express concern about the company as a going concern.

The requirement can also be imposed if SGX RegCo has regulatory concerns about a company regarding disclosure breaches.

Despite the new rules, most larger companies, including banks, would likely continue reporting on a quarterly basis, National University of Singapore associate professor Mak Yuen Teen (麥潤田) said.

“When a source of information disappears, investors will use other sources as proxies, like analyst reports, and these will be less accurate,” he said.

SGX RegCo said that the quarterly reporting requirements would apply to about 100 companies when the rules change. It plans to make the list public.

Other Singapore-listed companies would need to report semiannually, though the exchange would “encourage” them to provide business updates on a more regular basis, Tan said.

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Resorts blast snow to repel fires

PREPARATIONS:Residents in Australia’s alpine areas have reinforced containment lines around their homes and businesses while snowmakers watered dry ski slopes
Australia’s alpine resorts have dusted off winter snowmaking machines to blast ice-cold water onto dry ski slopes as huge bushfires threaten to engulf the Snowy Mountains region.

Heat and erratic winds were forecast for yesterday in the area, about 200km inland from the coastal fires ravaging the country’s southeast as officials warned of “extreme” danger.

Images from live cameras at Perisher, the largest ski resort in the southern hemisphere, showed “snow guns” connected to long twisting hoses funneling liters of water instead of white powder.

“We have been preparing the resort ahead of worse fire conditions,” the resort said in an e-mailed statement. “We are utilizing resort infrastructure including snowmaking to support fire authorities.”

The tactic was also being deployed at the Thredbo Ski Resort, southeast of Australia’s highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.

“They have turned all the snowmakers on, so that’s stopped the ember attacks,” Stephen Turner, owner of the Aneeki Ski Lodge in Thredbo, told reporters by telephone.

Air tankers yesterday flew low over Perisher and other ski fields, dumping bright red fire retardant to help protect infrastructure and chairlifts.

Locals are worried about suffering the same fate as the Selwyn Snow Resort, about 50km north of Thredbo in the Kosciuszko National Park, which was razed by fires a week ago. The blazes destroyed the resort buildings and damaged snow equipment.

The usually temperate Snowy Mountains region is a popular tourist spot even in summer, particularly with hikers, mountain bikers and other nature lovers.

An estimated 479,000 people usually visit during the snow-free period. This summer, tourists fled as authorities closed the national park a week ago because of the fire threat.

Residents who remained used a reprieve from searing temperatures this week to strengthen containment lines around their homes and businesses.

“We’ve got water tanks on the hill, so we’re going to put in sprinklers to where we pull all the vegetation around the building — we then are going to put the sprinkler system to keep the ground wet,” Mark Glover, part-owner of the Thredbo Farm Ski Lodge and a volunteer firefighter, told reporters.

Temperatures were yesterday forecast to top 30°C in parts of the region, where much of the bushland is very dry after a three-year drought.

High in the mountains, state park staff earlier this week wrapped some of the regions 200 heritage-listed wooden alpine huts — some built more than 100 years ago by stockmen, miners and skiers — in fire retardant foil.

“Our only hardware store ran out of anything remotely associated with firefighting,” Cameron Barton, who owns a sports apparel store in Jindabyne and lives at a property outside of town, told reporters by telephone. “We ran out of hoses, fittings, pumps … absolutely everything was gone and people have been scrambling.”

Snowy Monaro Regional Council Mayor Peter Beer said that locals had done as much as they could and the fate of the alpine towns was now in the hands of nature.

“They’ll be able to spread the ground with snow guns that they’ve got,” he said. “We don’t know how effective that will be, though.”

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Republic of Casino?

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) loves to make shocking remarks on occasion. One of these was that “ROC” stands for “Republic of Casino.” Witty or not, this contains referential values and deserves our attention. Behind the playful and flighty semiotics is an unsettlingly damnable and corrosive mindset that has everything to do with undoing the legitimacy of this election.

Why “damnable”? Because it nullifies everything Mayor Ko stands for. It has rendered all Ko’s political endeavors and maneuverings a matter of tongue and cheek exercise.

Why pit your values of integrity against the Democratic Progressive Party when you perceive your election campaign for your party is in essence gambling? Does this mean the more dirt you dish out against your political opponents, the better chance for you to come out ahead?

The goal is to win and whatever it takes to win. By Jove, how have you fallen to such a state of wanton callousness and indifference! Or, should we say, My Lord Cheng-huang, the God of Hades, to whom your parents had sought the oracle of approval on the final day for you to sign up as a presidential candidate.

Fortunately, you decided against signing up at the last minute. Lord Cheng-huang would not have taken your political gambling mindset lightly.

Why “damnable”? Because it nullifies everything Taiwan stands for. It implies a “deep state” that is controlling the destiny of the island, of which the people of Taiwan have no say.

This means for all the democratic achievements that the people of Taiwan pride themselves with, for all the bloodshed and lives sacrificed for democracy’s sake, Taiwan is and will remain a plaything of this “deep state” of super powers.

Why “damnable”? Because it nullifies creative endeavors and finds a replacement in “chance.” Does not the locale of a casino embody the spirit of chance and syphon out the drive to be other than casting the dice and taking a chance?

Honestly, Mayor Ko, you belong to the ilk of former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜). You are all depraved cynics, detrimental to the future of Taiwan.

You hide your betting spirit behind claims of integrity while Ma and Han veil theirs with claims of legitimacy as representatives of the Republic of China.

Let the young voters vote down these political gamesters and cynics. Taiwan has had enough of them. Let creative endeavors prevail. Vote for your own interests and ensure the democracy in Taiwan continues to flow and grow.

Yang Chunhui

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Martial law trope an insult

People First Party Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜) finally learned to defend press freedom in the presidential debate on Sunday last week, so it was timely for Han Cheung to remind us that Soong has yet to redeem himself after suppressing press freedom in the 1980s (“Taiwan in Time: Unleashing the media free-for-all,” Dec. 29, 2019, page 8).

We still remember those days of martial law and one-party dictatorship. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) insulted that memory when it tried to shout down the Anti-infiltration Act (反滲透法) with the slogan “martial law has been restored!” (“Legislature passes Anti-infiltration Act,” Jan. 1, page 1).

The KMT has yet to face up to the injustices it committed, but only knows to project those very injustices with a cheap trope and a false equivalence.

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title: EDITORIAL: A right worth cherishing

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A stinging condemnation of the Chinese government in a report released on Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington received less coverage than it deserved, as hours earlier Iran had launched missile attacks on Iraqi bases housing US forces in retaliation for a US drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad.

The shortsightedness is understandable, given the escalating tensions between the US and Iran, but the report should be of crucial interest, especially to Taiwanese as they head to polling stations today.

The report details the dystopian reality facing all who do not embrace the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) vision of ethnic solidarity and “one China” uniting all Chinese people.

Much in the Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s annual human rights report is not new, given the media coverage outside China of the concentration camps in Xinjiang, and the crackdown on other religious minorities, labor and civil activists and the media, and the efforts to erode Hong Kong’s political autonomy and freedoms.

However, one key finding is crucial: The commission said it believed that Chinese authorities’ actions in Xinjiang might be considered crimes against humanity under international law.

Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court lists 11 acts that constitute crimes against humanity “when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population,” and Beijing’s actions against Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in four areas could support a legal case that China has committed such crimes.

They are: The arbitrary detention of Uighur, Kazakh and other ethnic minorities in mass internment camps; the torture of detainees in those camps; the detention of people and suppression of religious and cultural traditions clearly targeted against specific groups; and the forced disappearances of hundreds of intellectuals.

The commission’s report called for tightening access to US capital markets for Chinese firms involved in Beijing’s crackdown in Xinjiang, restricting the purchases from US suppliers of surveillance and other equipment and technologies, and sanctions against businesses and officials involved in the mass internment and surveillance of Uighurs.

These restrictions are crucial, as Beijing is using facial recognition cameras and cellphone monitoring systems to turn the region, as the report says, into an “open-air prison.”

Today it is Xinjiang, but Xi and his CCP are unlikely to stop there, something that Hong Kongers understand well, which is why millions of them are willing to march on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. They do not want the territory to become the next open-air prison.

In a cover story, Time magazine’s Asia edition this week called Taiwan “the last free place in the Chinese-speaking world.”

Taiwanese voters today face a clear choice between those who say the nation has only one option, to engage with China, and those who believe that democracy and sovereignty are worth preserving: engage with a regime that commits crimes against humanity against its own people or say: “Hell no.”

Voters too young to remember the horrors of the White Terror era should not be fooled by people seeking to tar the Democratic Progressive Party with the same brush or paint the choice of engaging with China purely in terms of potential economic benefits.

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title: Stand up for women worldwide by voting

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Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙) once defined politics as the management of public affairs, but it is also the center of resource distribution and the power to set the agenda.

However, looking back, not everyone could participate in politics, and there were also thresholds for people who wished to exercise their basic civil right to vote.

THE ROAD TO SUFFRAGE

For example, women were often deprived the right to vote, and when the first local elections were held in Taiwan in 1935, that right was restricted to men of a certain financial status.

Following the arrival of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government from China after the end of World War II, the nation went through the 228 Incident, the implementation of martial law and the White Terror era.

Thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of the dangwai (黨外, “outside the party”) movement, then-president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) finally lifted martial law in 1987.

Only then was Taiwan able to truly begin the path toward democracy, and Taiwanese now enjoy the freedoms of speech, assembly, association and election, along with a number of other civil rights.

AN UPHILL BATTLE

Even so, at the time when martial law ended, the social situation was such that women still faced many challenges to political participation, including gender stereotypes, a lack of civic awareness and a male-dominated political world.

Despite women now having the right to participate in politics and vote in elections, Taiwanese must still exercise those rights in order to promote women’s participation in politics, fulfill their obligation as citizens and make sure that these rights are effective and impactful.

MAKING HISTORY

In 2016, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took office as Taiwan’s first female president, a historic moment shared by all Taiwanese.

When women receive election bulletins and hold voting notices from the Central Election Commission, they must all bear in mind that suffrage and other civil rights did not fall from the sky. Rather, they were earned through the hard work of previous generations.

A WORLDWIDE EFFORT

From the UK, the US and Saudi Arabia to Taiwan, women around the world belong to a shared community. When Taiwanese vote for a female leader, they are helping women around the world make another great leap forward.

In the current era of globalization, what is local is also global, and what is global is local. The map of global female leaders stretches across different ethnicities, colors and nationalities. When voters elect a female president, they are setting an example for the next generation of women, and endorsing them around the world.

SPEAK UP, VOTE

Today, Taiwanese will exercise their civic right to vote. Looking back at the history of political participation and the right to vote, women’s suffrage is even more precious, because although in the past Taiwan might have been a democracy, women seem to have been excluded.

Now, voters are about to add another page to history by voting for a female presidential candidate, and speaking up for all women by exercising the right to vote and showing support for all the world’s female leaders.

Huang Fei-hsin is a social studies editor at a Taiwan-based publishing house.

Translated by Eddy Chang

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