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US Democrats face off over war, gender

TENSIONS IN CHECK:Elizabeth Warren accused Bernie Sanders of misogyny, while Sanders attacked former US vice president Joe Biden over his stance on the Iraq war
US Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday attacked Democratic frontrunner former US vice president Joe Biden on foreign policy, but found himself fighting accusations of sexism in the final presidential debate before Democrats begin choosing who challenges US President Donald Trump in November’s election.

With no candidate yet to carve out a clear lead less than three weeks to go before the first votes in the nominations battle, the stakes were high for the six presidential hopefuls on stage in Iowa.

The largely civilized showdown defied earlier expectations of fireworks, with tensions largely held in check during the two-hour debate.

However, a rift between Sanders and US Senator Elizabeth Warren appeared to widen afterward when Warren declined to shake hands with her long-time friend and fellow progressive.

The candidates tangled over everything from troop deployments and foreign policy to healthcare, international trade, climate change and a woman’s chance of winning the White House.

Sanders, 78, assailed Biden, 77, over his vote in support of the 2003 Iraq war as the current tensions in the Middle East dominated the opening exchanges.

With Washington’s conflict with Iran as the backdrop, non-interventionist Sanders drew a sharp contrast, saying that while he opposed an Iraq war that was “based on lies,” former vice president Biden trumpeted the effort.

“I thought they were lying,” Sanders said of then-US president George W. Bush administration’s justifications for war in 2002. “I didn’t believe them for a moment. Joe saw it differently.”

Biden said he had long acknowledged the war was “a mistake,” but refrained from sparring with Sanders over Iraq.

Instead, Biden appealed for unity in preventing Trump from winning a second term.

“The American character is on the ballot,” Biden said. “Not what Donald Trump is spewing out — the hate, the xenophobia, the racism. That’s not what we are as a nation.”

Each candidate is desperate for a breakout moment that could give them the vital momentum heading into the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 3, which begins the presidential primary season.

The four candidates in the top tier — Biden, Sanders, Warren and former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg — are bunched together in polling.

US Senator Amy Klobuchar and billionaire advocate Tom Steyer rounded out the debate participants in Iowa’s capital, Des Moines.

For months, Sanders and Warren have battled peacefully for the right to wave the campaign’s progressive flag.

However, their non-aggression pact unraveled in the past few days, with Warren endorsing a report that Sanders privately told her he believed a woman could not defeat Trump.

“I didn’t say it,” Sanders said at the debate, adding that it was absurd for anyone to think a woman could not win the White House.

Warren said he did, before adding that she was “not here to try to fight with Bernie.”

She then proceeded to highlight the electability of women, noting that the men on stage collectively lost 10 elections, prompting laughter from the audience.

However, when the debate concluded, signs of lingering animosity remained: Viral video shows Warren refusing to shake Sanders’ outstretched hand and instead speaking briefly to the senator.

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While lacking the effervescence of earlier debates, the candidates dutifully debated trade (Sanders said he opposes the new US-Mexico-Canada trade pact), climate change (Steyer said if elected would declare a climate “state of emergency”) and taxing the rich (Warren pushed her wealth tax).

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Indonesia’s ‘mosque hunters’

A government team of over 1,000 people have spent years traveling the archipelago to count the nation’s places of Islamic worship, partly to monitor radicalism
As Friday prayers wrap up at Suada mosque, worshipers turn their attention outside where Fakhry Affan steers a drone high above, snapping pictures of the building tucked in a corner of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.

Affan leads a government team of some 1,000 mosque hunters who have spent years visiting every corner of the 5,000km long archipelago to answer one question: how many mosques are there in the world’s biggest Muslim majority nation?

“Only God knows exactly how many mosques there are in Indonesia,” former vice president Jusuf Kalla quipped recently. “Some say around one million and people will take it for granted.”

So far, Affan’s team has registered 554,152 mosques and the census — which kicked off in 2013 — is only about 75 percent done, Affan says. Earlier government estimates pegged the total at more than 740,000 nationwide.

Nearly 90 percent of Indonesia’s 260 million people are Muslim and it is home to Jakarta’s Istiqlal mosque, Southeast Asia’s biggest with room for 200,000 worshipers. So it’s an Herculean task for Affan and his team at the religious affairs ministry as it scours a country of some 17,000 islands, where new mosques are going up all the time.

After getting key information about Mamuju city’s 3,000 capacity Suada mosque — including building permit and mosque committee details — Affan uploads his drone pictures to a bulging online database.

“We did it manually in the past, but now we’re going digital,” he said.

The government is also planning to launch an Android-based app called Info Masjid (Mosque Info) so Muslims can use their smartphone to find the nearest place of worship.

Nur Salim Ismal, who attends the Suada mosque, hopes the move online will bring greater transparency.

“Mosques manage huge amounts of money from worshipers and it should be clear how it’s being used,” he said.

But the mosque hunt isn’t just a counting exercise — it’s also a way to keep an eye on radicalism.

“Radical ideology can mushroom anywhere and mosques are one of the easiest places for it to spread,” Affan said. “Why? Because you don’t need to invite people to the mosque, they’ll come anyway.

“We want to ensure that all imams and (mosque) committees are moderate because Islam in Indonesia is moderate,” he added.

Indonesia’s long-held reputation for tolerant pluralism has been tested in recent years.

Muslim hardliners are becoming increasingly vocal in public and the country is home to dozens of extremist groups loyal to Islamic State group’s violent ideology.

In 2018, Indonesia’s intelligence agency said it had found dozens of mosques that catered to government workers spreading radicalism and calling for violence against non-Muslims — in one Jakarta neighborhood alone.

The alarming figures came several months after Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya was rocked by a wave of suicide bombings carried out by families at churches during Sunday services, killing a dozen people. Members of an IS-loyal group tried to assassinate Indonesia’s chief security minister last year, while in November a militant suicide bomber killed himself and injured six others during an attack at a police station.

Indonesia’s new vice-president Ma’ruf Amin, a cleric-turned-politician, has said the government would start certifying preachers and mosque congregations nationwide to stamp out militants in their ranks.

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EU accuses Iran of failing to observe nuclear deal

‘THOUGHTLESS ACTIONS’:Moscow condemned the move, saying it could cause a new escalation, while the US Department of State called for more pressure on Iran
Three EU countries on Tuesday launched a process charging Iran with failing to observe the terms of the 2015 deal curtailing its nuclear program, a move that sparked anger and threats from Tehran at a time of growing tensions.

Russia also condemned the European move, saying that it risked causing a “new escalation.”

The UK, France and Germany said that they remained committed to the agreement, which has already been severely tested by the US exit from it in 2018.

A US Department of State spokesperson said Washington fully supported the three countries, adding that “further diplomatic and economic pressure is warranted.”

However, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also indicated he might prefer a new comprehensive accord negotiated with US President Donald Trump instead of the 2015 deal.

The decision to begin the so-called dispute mechanism process came as tensions soar between the West and Iran following the killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in a US airstrike, and the admission by Tehran days later that it had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner.

The foreign ministers of the three European nations said Iran had been progressively scaling back its commitments under the deal since May last year.

“We have therefore been left with no choice, given Iran’s actions,” to begin the dispute process, they said in a statement.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it saw “no reason for such a move.”

“We do not rule out that the thoughtless actions of the Europeans could lead to a new escalation around the Iranian nuclear accord,” it said in a statement.

The 2015 nuclear deal signed in Vienna — known as The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — has a provision that allows a party to claim significant noncompliance by another party before a joint commission.

If the issue is not resolved by the commission, it then goes to an advisory board and eventually to the UN Security Council, which could reimpose sanctions.

The first meeting of the process — set to include the European nations, Iran and the other parties to the deal, China and Russia — would take place in Austria by the end of the month, a diplomatic source told reporters in Vienna.

Iran intensified sensitive activities to enrich uranium, which can be used to make a nuclear weapon, in response to Trump’s pulling out of the deal.

Its latest step this month to forgo the limit on the number of centrifuges used in uranium enrichment prompted the Europeans to trigger the mechanism.

However, Tehran lashed out at the European countries and appeared to threaten unspecified retaliation.

“Of course, if the Europeans ... seek to abuse [this process], they must also be prepared to accept the consequences,” the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, without elaborating.

However, the three powers said they “once again express our commitment” to the deal and expressed “determination to work with all participants to preserve it.”

“Our hope is to bring Iran back into full compliance with its commitments under the JCPOA,” they said.

The accord aimed to restrict Iran’s nuclear ambitions, which Western powers feared were aimed at developing weapons, in return for sanctions relief.

The three countries said they would not join “a campaign to implement maximum pressure against Iran” championed by Trump.

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Plant explosion kills 1, injures at least 9 in Spain

‘CHEMICAL ACCIDENT’:People in nearby towns were warned not to go outside, but containment measures were lifted after about three hours
Firefighters and police are deployed to the surroundings of a petrochemical company during the search for a missing worker in Tarragona, Spain, yesterday.Photo: EFE

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A massive explosion at a petrochemical plant in northeastern Spain on Tuesday killed one person and injured at least nine others, three seriously, regional authorities said.

A press spokesman for the port city of Tarragona, where the plant is located, said a preliminary investigation indicated the force of the blast killed a man in a nearby neighborhood.

The spokesman said he had no further details.

He spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with city hall regulations.

The regional fire service tweeted that the man had died in a building affected by the blast.

One other person was injured in the building, they said.

Catalan Minister of the Interior Miquel Buch said that eight workers at the factory were injured, three seriously, and one person remained missing.

Emergency services said that two of the injured were being treated for major burns.

The civil protection agency in the Catalonia region called the blast a “chemical accident” and initially warned people in parts of the city of just more than 130,000 and in nearby towns to refrain from going outside as preventive measures.

The confinement measures were lifted and two roads that had been cordoned off were reopened about three hours after the evening blast.

Buch tweeted that the fire was not toxic, but he advised residents to remain inside.

The blast took place on the premises of IQOXE, according to a woman who answered the telephone at the company and who quickly hung up without giving her name.

According to the company’s Web site, IQOXE is Spain’s sole producer of ethylene oxide, a chemical compound used for making detergents, solvents and other products, as well as glycol, one of the main raw materials in the production of plastics.

Local residents posted videos showing the aftermath of the blast, with flames and a big column of black smoke emerging from an area dotted with big industrial tanks.

Fire departments sent 29 brigades to the area, the regional emergency service said.

It said that firefighters were inspecting the complex’s building structures as well, trying to fully extinguish the fire in one ethylene oxide tank.

Some local residents told Tarragona Radio that the blast could be heard kilometers away.

Tarragona is 115km southwest of Barcelona, the regional capital of Spain’s Catalonia region.

Since 2015, the city has housed a 1,200 hectare “chemical hub,” ChemMed, that was described as the largest of its kind in southern Europe.

The government said that Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had been in contact with Catalan President Quim Torra, to inquire about the blast and offer help.

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The treason trial of Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha opened yesterday, more than two years after his arrest in a case decried by his family as a “farce” and described by the US as politically motivated.

The 66-year-old cofounded the now-banned Cambodia National Rescue Party, once considered the sole opponent to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party led by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia for 35 years.

Kem Sokha was arrested in 2017 and his party dissolved ahead of widely criticized elections the following year — leaving the Cambodian People’s Party to canter to victory virtually uncontested.

The opposition leader was first detained in a remote prison and then placed under house arrest before his bail conditions were relaxed in November last year.

“I haven’t committed any acts ... detrimental to national interests,” Kem Sokha said in a statement posted on Facebook as the court sat. “My political activities were focused on the participation in free, fair and just elections.”

He stands accused of conspiring in a “secret plan” with foreign entities to overthrow the government, court documents showed — charges he denies.

If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in prison.

Police yesterday surrounded the Phnom Penh Municipal Court as Kem Sokha arrived for hearings.

Reporters and human rights monitors were barred from entering the court, with the limited seating reserved for foreign diplomats and relatives.

Kem Sokha’s daughter, Kem Monovithya, yesterday decried the proceedings.

“This whole ordeal is a farce,” she said. “It is damaging to Cambodia’s image. We hope he will be acquitted, so Cambodia can begin to get back on a democratic path.”

Amnesty International called the trial “a mockery of justice,” while the US Department of State has said that the charges “appear to be politically motivated.”

Concerns over human rights has pushed the EU to review whether Cambodia should be withdrawn from a tariff and duty-free scheme. If axed, it could deal a blow worth billions to the kingdom’s lucrative garment sector.

While preferential access to Western markets is crucial for some sectors, the kingdom’s economy has been pumped up on Chinese investment and soft loans, which are delivered without questions over rights and democracy.

To relieve international pressure, the government might reach for a compromise to the Kem Sokha issue, said Ou Virak, director of Phnom Penh-based think tank Future Forum and former chairman of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights.

This could come in the form of a royal pardon if Kem Sokha is convicted, he said.

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Hundreds of Syrians deployed to Libya

‘INTERVENTION’:All of the fighters have been promised Turkish nationality, and while many have crossed into Libya, some are still being trained at camps in southern Turkey
Two thousand Syrian fighters have traveled from Turkey or are to arrive imminently to fight on the battlefields of Libya, Syrian sources in all three countries have said, in an unprecedented development that threatens to further complicate the north African state’s civil war.

The deployment came after Turkey last month agreed to come to the aid of Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, who is backed by the UN, in the face of a months-long campaign by his rival, Libyan National Army Commander Khalifa Haftar.

Ankara has supported the Syrian opposition since the early days of the battle against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, even as the original Free Syrian Army umbrella group grew weak and splintered because of infighting and the growth of Islamist elements within rebel ranks.

Turkey now uses some rebel fighters as proxies against Kurdish-led forces, despite allegations of human rights abuses from watchdogs.

“This is a very different situation to Syria,” said Claudia Gazzini, a senior Libya analyst with the International Crisis Group. “Anti-Turkish sentiment is already strong, because of Ankara’s intervention, and could grow as a result of this, playing in Haftar’s favour.”

An initial deployment of 300 men from the second division of the Syrian National Army, an umbrella of Syrian rebel groups funded by Turkey, left Syria through the Hawar Kilis military border crossing on Dec. 24, followed by 350 more on Dec. 29.

They were then flown to Tripoli, the Libyan capital, where they have been posted to frontline positions in the east of the city.

Another 1,350 men crossed into Turkey on Jan. 5. Some have since been deployed to Libya with others still undergoing training at camps in southern Turkey. More men from the Islamist Sham Legion are also considering traveling to Libya.

The figures are significantly higher than most previous estimates.

Once source said that the Syrian men are expected to coalesce into a division named after Libyan resistance leader Omar al-Mukhtar, who was executed by Italy in 1931 and became popular in Syria during the 2011 Arab spring.

The fighters have signed six-month contracts with the UN-backed Government of National Accord, rather than with the Turkish military, Syrian National Army sources said, for US$2,000 a month — a vast sum compared with the 450 to 550 Turkish lira (US$76 to US$93) a month they earn in Syria.

All have been promised Turkish nationality, a carrot Ankara has used to cajole fighters in brigades on its payroll for several years.

Turkey is also paying medical bills for injured soldiers and is responsible for repatriating the dead to Syria.

At least four Syrians have died in Libya already, the Guardian can confirm, although their units said they died while stationed on front lines against Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria.

Last month, cellphone footage of men with Syrian accents claiming to be in Tripoli surfaced on social media, in which one man said: “The Free Syrian Army is in Libya to defend Islam.”

“We liberated this entire military camp from Haftar’s forces,” said another, before turning to a colleague to ask: “What is his name? Haftar? Hantar?”

The footage was questioned by many who wondered how and why Syrian men — nominally still fighting in the nine-year-old war against al-Assad — were so far from home.

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Feliciano Lopez, playing his second match of the day, yesterday knocked top seed and world No. 12 Fabio Fognini out of the ASB Classic in Auckland to advance to the quarter-finals.

Karen Khachanov, the third seed, was also eliminated, losing to Australian John Millman, while the second and fourth seeds, Denis Shapovalov and John Isner, went through to the final eight.

Lopez, at 38 the oldest player in the tournament and one of several players forced to double up following a rain disruption on the previous day, played three sets in each match and spent 4 hours, 25 minutes on court.

He began the day by beating Pablo Andujar 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 and after a three-hour rest, he came from behind to beat Fognini 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Lopez, ranked No. 61, believes the rain delay did him a favor.

“The first match was tough, but I honestly think it was very helpful for me against Fabio,” Lopez said. “It was my first match this year, it was two-and-a-half hours on the court, so that was very helpful for me and without that match, I don’t think I could have played the way I did against Fabio.”

Lopez is to face Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz in the quarter-finals after the sixth seed put away Mikael Ymer of Sweden 6-2, 7-6 (7/2).

While Lopez found two matches beneficial, two other players required to play twice lost in the second round.

Italian Marco Cecchinato, who won a three-hour marathon against Leonardo Mayer in which the second set tiebreak went to 20-18, was then beaten by Frenchman Ugo Humbert 6-1, 6-4.

Andreas Seppi of Italy beat seventh seed Adrian Mannarino in three sets before going down to Kyle Edmund 6-3, 7-6 (7/4).

Edmund is to play two-time Auckland champion Isner, who opened his campaign after a bye with a three-set win over defending titleholder Tennys Sandgren.

Fourth seed Isner won 7-6 (7/3), 6-7 (1/7), 6-3, pulling away in the deciding set with the first service break of the match when Sandgren faltered at 2-2. Until then, the pair had only been separated by tiebreaks, with Isner taking their previous encounter in Stockholm two years ago in three tiebreak sets.

“I feel good about that,” Isner said of finding a way around Sandgren’s serve and dishing up 16 aces of his own.

After losing all three of his matches last week at the ATP Cup in Australia, Isner was relieved to register a win.

“The freshest memory I have right now is winning and playing a good third set, so I have to use that to gain momentum going forward,” Isner said.

“I won a tiebreaker, he won a tiebreaker, there wasn’t much separating us at all,” he said. “Eventually I played a good game at 2-2 in the third and was able to break and give myself some momentum. It’s a good sign.”

Shapovalov beat Vasek Pospisil 6-4, 7-6 (7/2), while Millman dropped the first set against Khachanov before recovering to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

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Does Han even care?

Many supporters of Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) presidential candidate, cried on election night; some even said there was something wrong with this or that ballot box, or that election staff at this or that polling station had registered votes for Han as votes for President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文).

Despite his supporters’ grief, Han said that he had said everything there was to say.

He decided to cancel an election-night international news conference to go for hotpot, despite the rising agitation among supporters outside his campaign headquarters in Kaohsiung.

Surely the reason that his supporters’ high expectations ended in great disappointment was Han’s strategy to abandon opinion polls.

He built up the idea that he was destined to win by continuously talking about “winning the election by winning public support” and the “passionate public,” while telling his supporters to ignore opinion polls.

When he lost by a massive 2.64 million votes, his die-hard supporters became increasingly agitated, but he gave no thought to calming them down, instead leaving as if everything was just normal.

That is the kind of politician who will never be able to understand the meaning of the word “responsibility.”

A dirty post-election power struggle is awaiting the KMT, Han’s fans are crying their eyes out, the media is full of criticism — does Han even care?

Lin Chih-han

Tainan

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Avalanches, flooding and harsh winter weather has killed more than 130 people across Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past few days, leaving others stranded by heavy snowfall, officials said on Tuesday.

At least 93 people died and 76 were injured across Pakistan — with several still missing — while 39 more were killed in Afghanistan, officials in both countries said.

Forecasts suggest more harsh weather is on the way.

Pakistani Kashmir was the worst-hit area, with 62 people killed and 10 missing, the Pakistani National Disaster Management Authority said in a statement.

In Kashmir’s Neelum Valley, heavy snowfall triggered several avalanches, including one that hit a village and killed at least 19 people.

“Ten people are still missing,” the authority said.

Authorities have shuttered schools, while several highways and roads were closed across the country’s northern mountainous areas, officials said.

“The severe snowfalls and landslides in AJK have caused misery & deaths,” tweeted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, referring to the part of Kashmir controlled by Islamabad.

To the southwest, in Balochistan Province, at least 31 people were killed in separate weather-related incidents.

“Most of those who died were women and children,” Balochistan Provincial Disaster Management Authority Relief Officer Mohammad Younus said, adding that hundreds remained stranded.

Across the border in Afghanistan, more than 300 houses were either destroyed or partially damaged throughout the country, Afghan National Disaster Management Authority spokesman Ahmad Tamim Azimi said. “A cold snap, heavy snowfall and rains that started two weeks ago have caused damage.”

Most casualties were caused after roofs collapsed under a thick layer of snow, he added.

Hardest hit were Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul provinces in the south and Herat Province in the west.

In Herat, a family of seven died when their roof caved in, Azimi said.

Harsh winters often take a heavy toll in mountainous Afghanistan, and the country remains poor, despite billions of dollars in aid from the international community.

In Indian-administered Kashmir, avalanches triggered by heavy snowfall killed at least 12 people, including six soldiers.

Army personnel and a paramilitary soldier died in separate avalanches along the border of India and Pakistan, officials said.

“Five army soldiers and a border security force officer were killed in the snow avalanches on the Line of Control,” Srinagar-based Indian Army spokesperson Colonel Rajesh Kalia said.

Separately, a top official from Kashmir’s civil administration said that six people were killed after their house was hit by a massive snow avalanche in the northern part of the valley that saw heavy snow over the past few days.

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Five years ago this month, Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed the Paris offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and, in a nightmare lasting just minutes, killed 12 people. In the days that followed, millions marched in France and elsewhere to express solidarity with the murdered journalists.

For Europeans, the Charlie Hebdo killings represented the first mass attack on journalists close to home. #JeSuisCharlie (“I am Charlie”) became one of the most popular Twitter hashtags ever. Press freedom was trending.

However, since then, the fight to defend journalistic freedom has flagged, and public mobilization has proved to be fleeting — including in the case of Charlie Hebdo.

In January last year, the magazine’s staff complained in an editorial that people no longer wanted to hear about the shootings.

“Perhaps you should move on,” they were reportedly told.

This apparent indifference has a lot to do with what many believe Charlie Hebdo represents: the freedom to express yourself in a way that might provoke others. This freedom has come under even more pressure in the past five years.

Such a trend is evident in the responses directed at journalists who shine a light on unpopular or inconvenient facts and opinions. They are exposed to a daily barrage of attacks on their integrity, including by important political leaders.

In the US, President Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to journalists who are critical of him as the “enemy of the people.” At a news conference two years ago, Czech President Milos Zeman brandished a replica of an AK-47 inscribed with the words “for journalists.”

By indulging in such behavior, these and other leaders normalize attacks against members of the press, and they are very much under attack.

According to Reporters Without Borders, 49 journalists worldwide were murdered last year because of their work. (The annual average for the past five years is even higher, at 81.)

In addition, the number of journalists who were arbitrarily detained rose to 389 last year. Threats on social media, against female journalists in particular, are an everyday occurrence, and journalists are routinely beaten up, teargassed or robbed of their equipment.

Violence against journalists is an assault on an essential pillar of democracy. As long as these attacks continue, it is not “time to move on” at all.

On the contrary, it is time for EU leaders to wake up and better protect journalists at risk. Efforts like the PersVeilig initiative in the Netherlands, in which police, public prosecutors, the journalists’ union and editors collaborate to counter violence against journalists, should be implemented across Europe.

Politicians who verbally attack journalists must be held accountable, and media organizations should do more to show solidarity with colleagues at rival outlets.

More generally, there is an urgent need for greater awareness and a stronger public defense of journalism’s value for society. There have been successful examples of this in recent years. The murders of journalists Jan Kuciak in Slovakia and Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta sparked mass protests that forced these two nations’ prime ministers to resign.

In addition, the investigation by UN special rapporteur Agnes Callamard into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post, raised public awareness of the criminal behavior of the Saudi Arabian leadership.

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Ben Stokes was yesterday named the International Cricket Council (ICC) Player of the Year, capping an unforgettable year for the swashbuckling England all-rounder that included a match-winning knock at the ICC Cricket World Cup.

Stokes won the coveted Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy — voted for by a panel of media representatives and former players — thanks to an unbeaten 84 in a dramatic final against New Zealand in July last year, followed by a brilliant 135 not out to win the third Ashes Test against Australia six weeks later.

Stokes, 28, said that it was a huge honor for any cricketer to receive such an award.

“To be recognized and be the person to win that [award], it’s pretty amazing,” he said in a video statement.

During the voting period, Stokes aggregated 719 runs and bagged 12 wickets in 20 one-day internationals (ODIs). He also scored 821 runs and took 22 wickets in 11 Tests.

However, the New Zealand-born star said that his award was not solely for him as an individual.

“The past 12 months have been incredible for England cricket and to lift the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup for the first time was our greatest achievement,” Stokes said.

“This award is testament to my teammates and the support staff that have been there every step of the way,” he said.

Stokes, who carried his form into this year with a man-of-the-match performance in the second Test victory over South Africa last week, said that the strong bonds between players can lead to further success.

Indian opener Rohit Sharma was named the ODI Cricketer of the Year, while captain Virat Kohli bagged the Spirit of Cricket award for his gesture to stop fans from booing Australia’s Steve Smith during a World Cup match.

Smith was returning to international cricket from a one-year suspension for changing the condition of the ball.

Kohli was also named captain of both the ICC Test and ODI teams of the year.

In other major awards, Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins was named the Test Player of the Year and teammate Marnus Labuschagne was declared Emerging Cricketer of the Year.

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When a system has only been implemented in just over 30 nations since the 1940s and the nations are located in essentially the same region, there must be a particular background and rationale involved. Moreover, if the system has been opposed for years by international professional organizations, one cannot be too careful.

Public lending rights is a case in point. It is a special system of remuneration that allows authors to be paid when their works are lent through public libraries, but the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions states that it “does not favor the principles of a ’lending right,’ which can jeopardize free access to the services of publicly accessible libraries, which is the citizen’s human right.”

In addition to 29 European countries, only members of the Commonwealth — including Australia, Canada and New Zealand — and Israel have legislated and implemented the system.

The National Taiwan Library and National Library of Public Information were selected to conduct a trial implementation from Jan. 1 of a Taiwanese version of a “public lending right” program, under which the government pays NT$3 to authors and publishers each time their work is borrowed, in the hope of encouraging creativity and promoting publication.

The Taiwanese version of public lending rights, which aspires to become the first of its kind in Asia, is well-intended, but the implementation of the trial version is questionable.

Based on a preliminary assessment that the two libraries would only have to pay out about NT$10 million (US$333,890) per year, an upper payout limit has been removed, although other countries have insisted on one to avoid differences in checkout rates resulting in unbalanced payments.

As the government subsidizes the program through its public affairs budget, the program — serving as a policy tool — should aim to achieve a maximize benefit to society regardless of the size of the budget. Based on this idea, remuneration would naturally incentivize the publication of books in the categories that receive the most in remuneration fees.

However, the principle behind the trial — that everything should be subsidized irrespective of category — determines remuneration recipients based on public taste, instead of subsidizing outstanding publications to enhance the public’s taste.

The annual list of top remuneration recipients would likely show a growing distance from the cultural diversity promoted by the ministries of education and culture. It would be difficult to keep the publishing industry from following the list and focusing more on popular categories than less popular ones.

Lastly, a payment of NT$3 per loan, without consideration of a book’s price, goes against the principle of proportionality. Giving the same loan remuneration to all books is unfair to high-quality publications and does nothing over the long term to encourage publishers to invest in outstanding works.

Despite its eager pursuit of “first in Asia” honors, Taiwan should learn from other countries’ 80 years of experience, instead of rushing headlong into a process of trial and error. As the saying goes: “A miss is as good as a mile.”

The first book-lending remuneration system in Asia should be carefully deliberated and cautiously implemented.

Jerry Hsia is a professor at National Taiwan Normal University and director of its Graduate Institute of Performing Arts, as well as a former member of a public library book selection committee subsidized by the Ministry of Education.

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title: Rewarding book loans is counter to ‘wisdom’


title: Lukaku brace sends Inter into Coppa Italia quarters

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Romelu Lukaku on Tuesday scored after just 21 seconds as he bagged a brace in a 4-1 thumping of Cagliari that fired Inter into the last eight of the Coppa Italia, while SS Lazio and SSC Napoli are set for a quarter-final clash after easing past second-tier opposition.

Belgian Lukaku has looked a player reborn since moving to Italy and his double took his hot streak to six goals in his past four appearances in all competitions, with his Serie A tally standing at 14 in 19 games.

The 26-year-old lashed home his opener with the match barely underway and then, after Borja Valero had made it 2-0 in the 22nd minute, headed home his side’s third from Nicolo Barella’s corner just three minutes after the break as Antonio Conte’s side ran riot at the San Siro.

There were nerves among the home fans when Christian Oliva pulled one back for the Sardinians in the 73rd minute with a fierce drive, but Andrea Ranocchia headed in Cristiano Biraghi’s corner to seal the win.

The victory helped Inter bounce back after letting Juventus take top spot in Serie A with a 1-1 home draw with Atalanta BC over the weekend, and the return of Alexis Sanchez after an injury layoff will also boost Conte.

Inter are to face either Atalanta or ACF Fiorentina in the next round. They are to be joined in the quarters by Lazio and Napoli, who both cruised through with comfortable wins over second-tier sides US Cremonese and AC Perugia to set up a mouth-watering last-eight tie with each other.

Holders Lazio, who are on a club-record run of 10 straight wins in Serie A and well in the title discussion, made short work of Cremonese in their easy 4-0 victory in Rome.

The hosts were ahead in less than 10 minutes in front of a sparse crowd at the Stadio Olimpico thanks to Patric, who tapped home the opener after Cremonese goalkeeper Michael Agazzi palmed the ball to him in the box, and the tie was done 16 minutes later when Marco Parolo bundled home the second from a Jony cross.

Simone Inzaghi made eight changes from the side that beat Napoli 1-0 over the weekend, but kept Saturday’s goal-scorer Ciro Immobile, who took his tally to 23 in all competitions from the penalty spot 12 minutes after the break.

Impressive Jony turned provider again for the goal that rounded off the scoring, his fizzing cross from a set-piece being met with Bastos’ bullet header in the final minute.

Meanwhile, troubled Napoli are languishing in 11th in Serie A after winning just one league game since the middle of October last year, but eased into the quarters with a 2-0 win over Perugia thanks to two Lorenzo Insigne penalties.

Insigne struck the opening goal from the spot on 26 minutes after Mexico’s Hirving Lozano went down inside the area under a challenge from Mardochee Nzita.

The Italy international added a second when Pietro Iemmello handled at a corner, with a penalty awarded following a video assistant referee (VAR) review.

Napoli goalkeeper David Ospina, whose blunder proved costly in their league loss at Lazio, then saved an Iemmello penalty before halftime following another VAR intervention.

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An airliner with engine trouble on Tuesday dumped jet fuel that fell as a smelly mist on dozens of schoolchildren as it made an emergency return to Los Angeles International Airport, officials said.

The fuel, described by fire officials as a vapor, caused minor skin and lung irritation to 56 children and adults, but nobody was taken to hospital, and the only decontamination required was soap and water, officials said.

Delta Air Lines Flight 89 to Shanghai reported an engine problem only minutes after takeoff.

“Delta 89, heavy, we have engine compressor stalls on the right engine,” the pilot reported to air traffic control, according to a recording of the radio conversation.

The pilot was asked whether he wanted to keep the aircraft over the ocean to dump fuel, but declined, although it appears he might have changed his mind later about whether the plane could safely land weighing as much as it did.

The fuel sprayed out of the plane in two lines and descended at midday in the city of Cudahy and nearby parts of Los Angeles County, about 21km east of the airport.

The mist fell on five elementary schools, but all injuries were minor and there were not any evacuations, Los Angeles County Fire Department Inspector Sky Cornell said.

All the fuel evaporated very quickly and nothing flammable remained in the air or on the ground, he said.

Diego Martinez, a sixth-grader at Park Avenue Elementary in Cuday, said he and his classmates were outside for physical education class when they saw the airplane flying low overhead.

“It was very close,” he said.

Shortly afterward, the air filled with the pungent odor of fuel.

Diego was not doused, but some of his friends complained that their skin was itching.

Some teachers at Park Avenue had headaches from the smell, said Antonio Buenabad, area representative for the United Teachers Los Angeles union.

“They were anxious to get home and shower because the stench was very strong,” he said.

Delta Air Lines said the aircraft landed safely after releasing fuel, “which was required as part of normal procedure to reach a safe landing weight.”

The FlightAware Web site’s flight track showed the jet took off over the ocean, then made an immediate right turn toward land and circled back over Southern California to approach the airport from the east.

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title: Jet dumps fuel that lands on schoolchildren near LA


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US’ Pompeo talks with Japan and South Korea as new sanctions hit North Korea

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday met with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts to discuss stalled nuclear talks with North Korea, and to stress the importance of the US’ relationship with both countries.

The meeting in California came as the US Department of the Treasury announced new sanctions on North Korea for failing to comply with a UN requirement to repatriate guest workers that provide the nation with needed foreign currency.

Pompeo’s discussions with Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi and South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung-wha in Palo Alto, California, also came as the administration of US President Donald Trump continues to send signals to Pyongyang that it is willing to resume talks on dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

In a three-way meeting, Pompeo, Kang and Motegi spoke of the importance of their alliances “to security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region and the world,” the US Department of State said. “They also stressed that trilateral cooperation is essential to ensure the future of peace in the region.”

Trump and his national security aides have repeatedly said that they would like to return to the negotiating table with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who has shunned talks with the US since a failed attempt to restart talks in Sweden in October last year.

As Pompeo held his talks, the treasury department announced that it had imposed sanctions on North Korea’s Namgang Trading Corp and China-based North Korean lodging facility Beijing Sukbakso, which continue to provide North Korean labor abroad in a breach of UN Security Council sanctions.

“The exportation of North Korean workers raises illicit revenue for the government of North Korea in violation of UN sanctions,” US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.

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people: 蔡英文 賴清德 習近平

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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had been eagerly anticipating Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections this year ever since President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) 2016 victory upset its plans, and it has worked hard since then to frustrate Tsai’s efforts to improve the nation’s economy and forge cross-strait dialogue.

Its “united front” efforts have let slip the dogs of war to infiltrate, distort and manipulate in an attempt to see the reins of government in Taiwan returned to the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), which Beijing regards as far more amenable to its cause.

Taiwanese voters on Saturday last week once again thwarted Beijing’s plans, sending a clear message that, on the level of cross-strait relations at least — the scale of the presidential victory was not reflected in the party vote in the legislative elections — they preferred the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) vision over that of the KMT, and felt more comfortable under Tsai’s stewardship than what the KMT’s candidate was offering.

The results should have been a confirmation that 2016 was not simply an inconvenient blip, and was a true representation of the Taiwanese public will. It would be reasonable for Beijing to adjust its calculations accordingly.

However, as the legislative elections showed, the KMT has retained its core voter base. Some of its supporters hope for unification, others remember the heyday of Taiwan’s economic miracle under the KMT before China opened its market to the world, associating the KMT with economic prosperity.

Yet as time goes on, the proportion of the electorate that remembers this heyday will shrink, just as the proportion of the electorate that has known nothing but life in a democratic system, and who identify with Taiwan over China, increases.

If the CCP wants to win Taiwanese hearts and minds, and was hoping for the KMT’s assistance, time is trickling away.

In addition to the aforementioned “natural independence” effect, the CCP has to accept that the DPP will continue to be the ruling a party, at least in the short term.

Not only does Beijing have another four years of a Tsai presidency to contend with, it should prepare for the possibility that vice president-elect William Lai (賴清德), her natural successor within the DPP, could succeed her as president. The former Tainan mayor is more openly pro-independence than Tsai, and he enjoys broad support within the party.

After four years of rejecting dialogue with Tsai because of her refusal to enter talks with the so-called “1992 consensus” as a prerequisite, Beijing might now be wise to soften its approach and compromise on its demands, but it appears to be in no mood to do so yet, judging by the reaction yesterday of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office.

Office spokesman Ma Hsiao-kuang (馬曉光) told a Beijing news conference that the CCP would continue to insist on the “1992 consensus” as a prerequisite to dialogue.

Advocating Taiwan independence was the greatest threat to cross-strait peace and stability, and Beijing was determined to frustrate these efforts, he said, citing word-for-word parts of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) speech to the opening of the CCP’s 19th National Congress on Oct. 18, 2017.

Nobody should obstruct the peaceful and stable development of cross-strait relations, he said, without a hint of irony.

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title: EDITORIAL: PRC’s stance unchanged by election


title: Farglory Hotel forecasts sales boost from highway

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Farglory Hotel (遠雄悅來大飯店) and affiliate Farglory Ocean Park (遠雄海洋公園) in Hualien are forecasting a sharp increase in revenue this year as the completion of the Suhua Highway Improvement Project should boost tourism in eastern Taiwan.

The project has cut driving time between Taipei and Hualien by an hour and is expected to increase tourist arrivals by 30 percent to 13 million a year, said Jack Wu (武祥生), new vice chairman at Farglory Recreation and Leisure Business, a unit of Farglory Group (遠雄集團).

The recreation arm is to spend NT$200 million (US$6.68 million) to renovate the 18-year-old hotel and the adjacent park in next three to five years to make them more appealing and user-friendly, Wu told a media briefing in Taipei.

A larger crowd should help boost occupancy at Farglory Hotel from 43 percent last year to 60 percent this year, while raising average room rates by NT$1,000 to NT$4,142, hotel general manager Emily Liu (劉慧美) said.

With nearly 400 rooms, the hotel is almost fully booked over the Lunar New Year holiday and is extending promotion offers through the first quarter to ramp up business, Liu said.

Although domestic travelers account for 95 percent of its customers, the hotel is seeking to grow its foreign clientele by 10 percent, as the Hualien County Government is in talks to introduce direct flights from South Korea, Liu said, adding that Hualien is also gaining popularity among Japanese tourists.

Farglory Ocean Park is looking at a 20 percent upturn in tourist visits to 600,000, which would push its revenue by 15 percent to NT$530 million, the park’s general manager Nelson Shen said.

The 51-hectare facility, known for its dolphin and seal shows, reported a 20 percent in ticket sales last year, after emerging from the blow of a major earthquake in early 2018, Shen said.

The theme park has updated programs at its theater and exhibitions at its aquarium, in addition to allowing guests to play with dolphins to attract customers, Shen said, adding that the benefits of improved transport would be more evident in the summer.

The park plans to sell admission tickets online and install an electronic scan system next month for faster and easier entry for visitors, Shen said.

The two facilities in Hualien represent the beginning of Farglory Group’s interest in the hospitality industry, Wu said.

The conglomerate is about to sign a pact with an international hotel brand to run a new property in Kaohsiung, which might start operations next year, Wu said, declining to give further details.

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title: India mulls plan to woo Apple and Samsung suppliers

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India is considering a plan to offer subsidized loans to mobile handset manufacturers in a bid to attract Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co’s suppliers to open factories in the nation, a government official said.

The proposals by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, which include offering interest subsidy on local borrowing by manufacturers, might form part of the federal budget to be unveiled on Feb. 1, the official said, asking not to be identified.

They also include setting up industrial zones equipped with taxation and customs clearance, along with infrastructure, such as roads, power and water supply, the official said.

India plans to make US$190 billion of mobile phones by 2025 from US$24 billion now, the official said.

Two calls made to the spokesman of the ministry remained unanswered.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which is under pressure to bring down a jobless rate that is the highest in 45 years, wants to attract overseas component makers and help boost the share of manufacturing in Asia’s third-largest economy to a quarter of the nation’s GDP.

Modi’s flagship “Make in India” program has been foundering, as poor road and port facilities deter investors.

There has been some success. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密), known internationally as Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團), the largest assembler of Apple handsets, is ramping up manufacturing of iPhones in India.

It already has two factories in the southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, where it makes devices for Xiaomi Corp (小米) and Nokia Oyj.

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China Airlines Ltd (CAL, 中華航空) and EVA Airways Corp (長榮航空) slashed their average year-end bonus payments on the back of weaker profits due to labor strikes, the two carriers said yesterday.

CAL cut employee bonuses from NT$27,000 (US$902) a year earlier to NT$12,000 for last year, as the company expected to remain in the red last year, it said in a statement.

Although the state-run airline has not announced earnings result for the fourth quarter of last year, its cumulative losses in the first three quarters totaled NT$346.43 million, indicating a slim possibility that it could post a profit for the full year, corporate data showed.

The company made a net profit of NT$1.27 billion in the same period of 2018.

CAL attributed the losses to increased operating expenses, as it dispatched more pilots to fill vacancies left by striking pilots in February last year.

To compensate its employees, the airline said that it would give out a safety reward of NT$30,000 in March and raise regular wages by NT$700 a month applicable to all employees this year.

“As the company swung into losses last year, it is difficult to negotiate for year-end bonuses,” China Airlines Employees’ Union president Liu Hui-tsung (劉惠宗) told the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the sister paper of the Taipei Times).

“Management has agreed to maintain payments at a similar level with past years, which is acceptable,” Liu added.

EVA Airways, which saw a significant reduction in revenue and profit when its flight attendants went on strike in June last year, also slashed its year-end bonuses from four months of wages to two-and-a-half months, it said.

Flight attendants who joined the strike would still receive bonuses, as the company treats employees equally, but bonuses would vary depending on performance, EVA spokesman David Chen (陳耀銘) said by telephone.

EVA’s cumulative profit for the January-to-September period last year contracted 46 percent annually from NT$5.98 billion a year earlier to NT$3.21 billion.

CAL’s revenue for last year declined 1.44 percent annually to NT$168.39 billion, while EVA’s edged up 0.76 percent to NT$181.27 billion, company data showed.

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title: Having more sex delays menopause, researchers find

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Women approaching menopause who have frequent sex are less likely to cross that threshold than women of the same age who are not as active sexually, researchers said yesterday.

On average, intimate relations at least once a week reduced the chances of entering menopause by 28 percent compared with women who had sex less than once a month, they reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

The difference, the study suggests, reflects the body’s response to evolutionary pressures.

“If a woman is having little or infrequent sex when approaching midlife, then the body will not be receiving the physical cues of a possible pregnancy,” wrote Megan Arnot and Ruth Mace, scientists at University College London.

Rather than continuing to ovulate, according to this theory, “it would be better — from a fitness-maximising perspective — for the woman to cease fertility and invest energy into any existing kin she has.”

Post-menopausal killer whales — the only animals besides humans and pilot whales to go through menopause — are known to care for grandchildren, a behavior sometimes called the “grandmother effect” that is thought to serve an evolutionary purpose.

Earlier research seeking to explain why married women reach menopause later than never-married or divorced women points to the influence of male pheromones, natural chemicals in the animal kingdom that attract the opposite sex.

To find out whether either theory held water, Arnot and Mace examined data on nearly 3,000 women in the US recruited in 1996 and 1997 to take part in a multi-decade health study.

The project was designed to collect data and track changes — both biological and psychological — that occur alongside menopause.

The average age of the women going into the study was 46. None had entered menopause, but just under half were “peri-menopausal,” with minor symptoms beginning to appear.

During the following decade, 45 percent of the women experienced a natural menopause, at an average age of 52.

Going into the study, nearly 78 percent of the women were married or in a relationship with a man, and 68 percent lived with their partner.

The correlation between frequency of sex and onset of menopause was unmistakable, the researchers found.

All the relationships reported were heterosexual, so it is not known whether same-sex activity would have a similar effect.

However, no link was seen between the live-in presence of men and the subliminal chemical signals males might be emitting.

“We found no evidence for the pheromone hypothesis,” the researchers said.

There is considerable variation in the age of natural menopause across cultures, but genetic factors only account for about half of those differences, earlier research had shown.

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Green algae, blue water

add to fears over health

of Mekong River

New dams in Laos are worrisome because the plains of that nation are where the Mekong
begins to pick up most of the sediment that feeds the system, an expert said
By Panu Wongcha-um and Kay Johnson  /  Reuters, BUNGKHLA and BANGKOK, Thailand
When the normally murky brown Mekong River turned a brilliant blue late last year, villagers in northeast Thailand were surprised.

Then, this week, unusually large patches of green algae appeared, clogging up nets and making it almost impossible to fish.

Both the Mekong’s strange color and the algae have heightened worries about the health of the river that more than 60 million people in Southeast Asia depend on for their livelihoods.

“This is unnatural,” fisherman Tongchai Kodrak said of the algae and the blue waters, which both signal a lower level of life-bringing sediment in the water.

He said a bit of algae appears every dry season, but this year it is more than anyone can remember.

This year is shaping up to be crucial for the Mekong River, which is under threat from climate change and faces uncertain changes wrought by two new hydropower dams that have come online in Laos in the past three months.

Many fear the new Laotian dams — the first on the Lower Mekong that generates most of the vast system’s sediment — would impede the nutrient flow.

Scientists say the Mekong’s new blue color — first seen in November last year in northern Thailand and now evident down the river into Cambodia — is caused by shallow, slower moving waters.

Normally, sediment flows all through the 2,390km Lower Mekong, nourishing fishing grounds and farmlands as it flows in from China then winds through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

It is the sediment that keeps the river a muddy brown, but when the water flow slows, the sediment can settle.

The fishers and farmers of the Thai village of Bungkhla said they have seen the Mekong gradually changing before their eyes in the past decade, with less predictable rainy and dry seasons, and fewer, smaller fish.

However, in the past year the change has been more dramatic as a drought during the last rainy season — from May to October — extended into this dry season.

“I’ve never seen the river this dry,” said Tongchai, 52, who has plied the river since he was a teenager.

The drought — which saw the Mekong’s levels at lows not seen for 50 years — is fueled by El Nino, a naturally occurring weather phenomenon related to warming seas that climate scientists predict is to become more frequent as average global temperatures rise.

The Mekong’s lower regions are also endangered by rising seas threatening to inundate its delta in southern Vietnam.

Ocean levels are already increasing saline levels in parts of the river, rendering the water useless for irrigation and threatening native fish.

Climate change would mean more unpredictable and extreme weather, said the Mekong River Commission, an intergovernmental organization.

That is bad news for farmers and fishers, who for centuries have relied on the river’s yearly ebb and flow.

Environmental activists said that while hydropower does not add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in the way coal-fired plants do, the region’s planned hydro projects nevertheless represent a huge threat to the river.

Advocates of hydropower argue that the fast-growing region needs electricity, and that dams with reservoirs are useful in controlling floods and storing water during droughts.

How much of the changing Mekong is caused by climate change and how much by damming is at the center of a controversy surrounding hydropower development as Laos, backed by Thailand’s state electricity company, and now Vietnam’s state power company, moves ahead with plans to build nine new hydropower dams on the Mekong.

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CIP sells stake in wind farms to insurers

A CHANGING INVESTMENT:A financial analyst said the sale to the local financial firms might help the Danish company handle later investments into the projects
Danish wind energy developer Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has sold more than 12 percent of its Taiwanese wind farm holdings to Taiwan Life Insurance Co (台灣人壽保險) and Transglobe Life Insurance Co (全球人壽) through a joint venture, it said yesterday.

Earlier this month, CIP formed Taiwan Wind Investment Co Ltd (台灣風能) with the insurance companies to sell them a combined 12.5 percent of its stake in the Chang Fang (彰芳) and Xidao (西島) wind farms to comply with Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) regulations.

FIRST FOR INSURERS

The FSC approved the investments of NT$2.5 billion (US$83.47 million) and NT$1.7 billion from Taiwan Life and Transglobe respectively, making them the first insurers to invest in wind energy.

Taiwan Life Insurance said it has invested up to NT$7 billion to date in the nation’s green energy sector.

CIP remains the largest shareholder, with an 87.5 percent stake, in the two wind farms, which have a combined capacity of 600 megawatts and are scheduled to integrate with the nation’s power grid by 2024.

A SENSIBLE DEAL

Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy chairman Eugene Chien (簡又新) said the sale makes sense as input and support from the finance industry is necessary.

The government plans to reach a combined capacity of 7.5 gigawatts in offshore wind energy by 2025, which would require investments of an estimated NT$850 billion, which might be difficult for wind developers to shoulder alone, he said.

BUILDING TIES

CIP Taiwan project office chief executive Jesper Krarup Holst said the company is the first among wind energy developers to receive investments from local life insurance companies and aims to strengthen cooperation between the offshore wind power industry and the finance industry.

Holst is confident that CIP would meet all requirements set by the Taiwanese government, he added.

CIP signed power purchase agreements with Taiwan Power Co (台電) in February last year and has also obtained approval from the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Industrial Development Bureau.

The firm is currently developing, with China Steel Corp (中鋼) and Diamond Generating Asia Ltd (DGA), the Site 29 project, which would have a capacity of 300 megawatts and is scheduled to be completed by 2024.

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title: 高雄「直播主之亂」偵結 雄檢起訴27人

taiwan-subdivisions: 高雄 鼓山區 前鎮

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去年9月，高雄出現直播主之亂，兩派人馬因為尋仇，使得高雄街頭連續好幾天出現暴力、開槍事件，當時連刑事局長也都南下坐鎮。而檢方在下午，宣布偵結，起訴連姓、鄭姓直播主在內的27人。而其中，連姓直播主還被檢察官建議，在服刑之前應該要強制工作3年。

警力在旁戒備，白色車輛卻衝撞高雄連姓直播主位在鼓山區的倉庫大門，眼見現場脫序，警方對空鳴槍，

當時相隔3小時後，前鎮一間寵物店又遭人開槍。這是去年9月，高雄因為連姓、鄭姓2家直播業者起糾紛引發的街頭暴力，接連亂象讓警政署無法忍受，一度派刑事局長南下坐鎮。高雄地檢署15號偵查終結，將連姓、鄭姓直播主等27人，依組織犯罪、槍砲、恐嚇等罪嫌起訴，但沒有具體求刑。高雄地檢署襄閲主任檢察官曾靖雅說：「指使幫派成員持槍射擊恐嚇，造成社會大眾恐慌，影響社會治安甚鉅。連姓被告犯行敗露後，於偵查中始終否認相關犯行，未見其確實悔悟、記取教訓等情，建請法院量處適當刑度，以昭炯戒。」

引發這次重大治安事件的2名直播主，1人去年以35萬元交保，連姓直播主仍在押。而他與另一名謝姓被告，也因為2人主持、指揮幫派，被檢察官建議服刑前，強制工作3年。高雄地檢署襄閲主任檢察官曾靖雅表示，「這部分檢察官是綜合考量犯行所造成的損害，還有犯後態度等情。那綜合考量之後，向法院聲請，宣告刑前強制工作3年。」

檢方表示，刑前強制工作3年是檢察官審酌相關資料後所做的決定，連姓直播主下午將移審高雄地方法院，召開接押庭。能否農曆年前交保將是關鍵，不過，律師私下表示機率不高，但會全力以赴。


taiwan-subdivisions: 臺南 臺南市 南區

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【大成報記者杜忠聰/臺南報導】台南市醫療機構為因應中國武漢市發生的嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎，台南市政府衛生局於14日辦理醫療機構應變整備研討會，邀集各機構防疫領域代表共同研商。
 依據衛生福利部疾病管制署公布資料，截至1月12日，在中國有新型冠狀病毒感染的肺炎病例41例，其中重症6例治療中、死亡1例，已出院7例，其餘病情穩定。世界衛生組織(WHO)已將此次檢出之病毒命名為2019-nCoV（2019新型冠狀病毒），並呼籲各國加強監測及防治作為。於此同時，衛生福利部疾病管制署即將正式公告中國武漢市新型冠狀病毒肺炎為第五類法定傳染病-「嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎」。
 市長黃偉哲對疫情發展從不存有僥倖心態，勉勵防疫應如同作戰，各單位間的聯繫十分重要！衛生局於109年1月14日下午召開「因應嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎臺南市醫療機構應變整備研討會」，由衛生局陳怡局長主持，由衛生福利部臺南醫院洪元斌主任及傳染病防治醫療網南區柯副指揮官文謙說明各項應變整備措施。參加人員有醫師、牙醫師及中醫師三大公會理事長及代表和基層診所醫師等，消防局救護體系與站在執行第一線的勤務中心等出席，另衛生福利部疾病管制署南區管制中心李翠鳳主任亦列席指導，共同研商相關應變整備事宜。在開會前，事先彙整各單位之提案，於研討會中討論達成共識。
 市長黃偉哲再次呼籲，由於目前也是流感、禽流感及肺炎等呼吸道疾病好發季節，請市民朋友於武漢或鄰近地區從事旅遊、探親、工作、洽商或轉機等活動，務必做好個人防護措施。為謹慎起見，凡14天內從該地區回來的市民朋友，即使無明顯症狀，仍建議減少與他人接觸、要勤洗手、妥善處理口鼻分泌物等。如有發燒或上列疑似症狀者，請儘快配戴一般外科口罩就醫，就醫時請主動告知您的旅遊史、職業別、接觸史及群聚情形(TOCC)，以供醫師確切診斷。由於此2019新型冠狀病毒被政府列為第五類法定傳染病，相關疫情僅能由衛生福利部疾病管制署發布，請市民朋友勿傳播錯誤或未經證實的資訊。
 相關疫情資訊可參閱衛生福利部疾管署網站(https://www.cdc.gov.tw/)，或撥打免付費防疫專線1922(或0800-001922)洽詢，如果是有關本疫情需要轉診協助的市民或醫療院所，請撥打06-2880180，將由專人依您的情況妥為安排。

title: 台南市「醫」起「消」滅嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎毫不懈怠，昨日招集各領域代表達成應變整備共識


title: 憲兵錯誤轉向引酸民霸凌！本人苦訴：我真的沒辦法再承受

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2020-01-16 00:33:42

〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕因黑鷹事故殉職的8名將士靈車日前從三總出發，卻被眼尖鄉民指出，當總統蔡英文等人結束致意轉身時，前方官兵疑出現轉向失誤，有的往左，有的往右，宛若轉圈圈，引發各方議論。現在一名疑似4名憲兵之1的人在臉書粉專投稿，指出這段時間受到大量酸民網路咒罵、霸凌，恐怕無法再承受這些言語壓力。

有網友指出，黑鷹事故殉職的8名將士移靈時，現場憲兵似乎轉向失誤，方向不一，有如轉圈，憲指部對此表示，4名憲兵原規劃不須轉向、位置不動，但臨時調整，而儀程結束後交管甫解除，現場哨聲、車輛引擎雜音大作，部分官兵未確實聽聞左轉口令，訓練部分有進步空間。

一名疑似4名憲兵之1的人在臉書粉專「靠北長官2020」投稿指出，被選中陪伴總長走完最後一程時百感交集但也非常榮幸。不過接下來排練時間卻沒幾天，加上正式狀況和原先規劃的方式完全不同，當時在沒被告知的狀況下，加上現場吵雜，發生轉向失誤的事情。

他表示，自己已經盡力了，不怕長官責難，但接下來媒體不斷批評，酸民甚至用「愛的魔力轉圈圈？狗蛋大兵第87集？」等言語暴力不停霸凌。

他難過地表示，犧牲許多睡眠時間來練習儀態、擦亮甲鞋、調整甲服、拋光白盔，卻沒人看見，只因為這次事件，就換來許多咒罵，並痛苦說道「我真那麼低賤？三軍之恥嗎？我到現在看到電風扇再轉都覺得電風扇在羞辱我」。

最後他希望網友能再給他一些正面能量或是按愛心，不然他真的怕自己無法再承受這些言語壓力，「假如沒有po出來也沒關係，我覺得我也只能陪總長繼續走下一段路程」。

臉書粉專小編看完表示「學弟辛苦了你要好好的活著完成任務，退伍後還是好漢一條，不要像那些酸民要死不活還只剩下一張嘴！這篇小編幫你置頂」。

許多網友看了也相當憤慨，紛紛留言表示「辛苦該單位的弟兄了！229營加油！」、「現在太多人唯恐天下不亂，還更愛用一張照片說故事。」、「學弟加油！坦然面對錯誤，不用理會酸民」、「真的辛苦了，陪伴總長的路始終都是令人驕傲的，別讓酸民改變這個事實！加油」、「憲兵同仁辛苦了，任務完成即可，別在意太多，加油！」、「辛苦了，凡事盡力就好，做好自己份內的事，別人愛嘴，隨他去」。

關心您︰自殺不能解決問題，勇敢求救並非弱者，社會處處有溫暖，一定能度過難關。
安心專線：1925
生命線協談專線：1995。
張老師專線：1980「靠北長官2020」臉書全文

references: 網友 臉書


title: Uber Eats快閃店！春節大送5萬個紅包

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文／景點家整理報導    農曆金鼠年倒數計時，Uber Eats 從18個營運城市的10,000家以上合作餐廳、百萬道餐點中找出台灣人的美味數據，並且於1月16日至1月20日期間在台北市大安區打造一個獨一無二的快閃空間，舉辦「Uber Eats 慶團圓 『食』境派對」，集結平台上的8家熱門餐廳一起提供開運年菜，提早讓鐵粉和親友一起歡慶。

    盧廣仲是Uber Eats的代言人，平日三餐常仰賴Uber Eats送餐。（圖／Uber Ea...


title: 交通部：原則16日核准捷運環狀線營運

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（中央社記者汪淑芬、黃旭昇台北15日電）交通部今晚 證實，傍晚收到捷運環狀線營前6項須改善的報告，原 則上明天就會核准環狀線的營運；新北市長侯友宜說， 通車典禮等台北市長柯文哲返台後共同決定。

交通部是在1月5日完成新北捷運環狀線第一階段履 勘，提出21項須改善事項，其中有6項是營運前須改善 ，並要求雙北市府確認完成改善並報交通部核准後，由 雙北自行會商通車日。

交通部路政司長陳文瑞晚間向中央社記者證實，傍 晚收到環狀線改善完畢報告，已附上改善前後的情況及 照片，並有履勘小組的土建、機電及營運3組組長簽名 ，原則上明天就會核准環狀線通車案並回文兩市政府。

新北市長侯友宜今天表示，交通部核定准許捷運環 狀線通車後，會先舉行試乘以讓服務盡善盡美。等台北 市長柯文哲從國外訪問回台後，雙北會協商敲定捷運環 狀線的通車典禮時間。

侯友宜預定16日上午與新北市府捷運工程局，視察 環狀線營運前改善狀況。依據市府公布的行程，將在環 狀線大坪林站前往新北產業園區站，搭乘列車移動視察 環狀線改善成果，及公共藝術、音樂通廊建置情況。

新北市長侯友宜今天下午前往環保署，參加淡水河 北側道路工程環評大會，會後接受聯訪時，記者也詢問 他，捷運環狀線是否有機會在春節前通車。

侯友宜表示，台北市政府與新北市府的捷運工程單 位，都依據履勘委員的意見改善完畢，並將結果呈報給 交通部，等交通部核定下來後，還會試乘一段時間。

侯友宜表示，因目前柯文哲人在國外，新北將利用 核定通車與通車前，先行試乘，看還沒有沒有什麼需要 更盡善盡美的地方。

6項環狀線營運前改善並已完成的項目如下：

一、緊急模擬演練，8車聯結成功後，故障列車產 生緊急把手作動警，造成列車剎車無法釋放，致無法推 拉救援，應檢討原因並全面檢視改善。

二、101車環型軸承及螺栓生鏽，應改善。

三、板橋站平面站外轉乘指標不足、新站路地下道 往環狀線通道無明顯轉乘指標、板橋站電梯B2層往地下 道壁面指標張貼位置不妥，應改善。

四、景安站月台空調箱側面有污漬，應改善。

五、十四張站至大坪林站軌道步道上，有2處塑膠 管凸出物，應改善。

六、新北產業園區站月台端點作業門上有導線外露 ，應改善。（編輯：陳清芳）1090115

people: 柯文哲 侯友宜

taiwan-subdivisions: 坪林 板橋 成功 新北市 淡水


title: 法官愣了！連千毅恍神認罪「霸氣全失」答6字 　講完...法庭空氣凝結

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▲連千毅15日被移審高雄地方法院，當日下午開接押庭 。（圖／記者吳奕靖攝）

記者吳奕靖／高雄報導

已經在看守所羈押近3個月的知名直播主連千毅，檢察官偵結起訴後接受移審，就在接押庭當中面對法官詢問，對於檢察官起訴的犯罪事實，有沒有什麼辯解，連千毅回答：「尊重司法審判」，當場讓法官愣住，不知道該回答什麼，經過律師討論連千毅才說除了槍砲以外，全部都認了！

連千毅來到接押庭，氣色不差，但是身型消瘦了一圈，已經不復見當初在臉書直播時的霸氣模樣，面對法官詢問是否對於檢察官在起訴書當中寫到的犯罪事實，又沒有要辯解的部分，連千毅想都沒想就說了「尊重司法判決」，法官愣了一下，臉色稍微變，不過立刻調整回來，而在一旁的辯護律師葉銘進立刻提醒連千毅，似乎答錯了話，連千毅才改口稱自己全都認了，除了槍砲彈藥管制條例這個部分，案件當中涉及的槍械都與他無關。

在接押庭當中，法官也問到蘭庭精品的成員，也就是連千毅底下的員工平常都是在哪裡聚會，連千毅回答平常聚會地點都是哪裡有喜宴或熱鬧，才會一起去，不過就在講到這邊的時候，連千毅突然間不知道怎麼了，就跟法官來抱歉，同時間還說自己「法官不好意思，最近一兩個月很恍神」。

▲連千毅15日下午於高雄地方法院開庭。（圖／地方中心攝）

法官最後在詢問連千毅對於自己被羈押事實，有沒有要辯駁的，連千毅當場道歉，「對於這次的事件深感道歉與遺憾，對於這一次的教訓我會引以為戒，另外本人會省思改過、反省，決不再犯，也會尊重檢察官的專業及司法審判，以及庭上法官對我的調查，懇請鈞長給我一次交保後悔的機會，如蒙恩准，深感恩澤，謝謝庭上」。

連千毅的接押庭進行大約40分鐘左右，法官宣布休庭10分鐘，等到同案其他被告一起辯答完之後再一起裁定。最後整個裁定在15日晚間九點多才開始，連千毅仍然沒有獲得交保機會，第三次延押3個月。

▲連千毅15日下午於高雄地方法院開庭。（圖／地方中心攝）


title: 航空業年終獎金縮水　華航：罷工衝擊「年度恐無盈餘」仍發1.2萬紅包

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▲華航今（15）日表示，2019年度前三季營運狀況稅後結算不樂觀，年度恐無盈餘，但仍發放定額紅包春節激勵金12,000元。（圖／記者湯興漢攝）

記者林淑慧／台北報導

航空業年終獎金水準出爐，去年受到機師罷工事件衝擊的華航，今年年終縮水只剩1.2萬元，華航15日表示，2019年度前三季營運狀況稅後結算不樂觀，年度恐無盈餘，但仍發放定額紅包春節激勵金12,000元，3月將發放飛安獎金3萬元；另外，全職同仁將晉支調薪700元。

華航經營團隊強調，公司整體薪資與各項福利近來已大幅提升，足令外界稱羨，未來將持續以長遠、安定為原則照顧每位華航成員。

華航表示，公司本著一貫照顧員工的立意，經與工會數次協商，除於2019年12月業已核發1個月基本薪的年度獎金外，國內員工另將發放定額紅包春節激勵金12,000元，並於2020年3月發放飛安獎金新台幣30,000元，另有循例核發之三節獎金10,000元。

去年油價與匯率對航空業來說相對有利，不過受到香港反送中影響，全球最繁忙航線「台港線」衰退幅度達兩位數，而兩岸航線客量也減少，衝擊華航的客運業務表現；雖然公司透過機動調度，貨運也在去年第四季明顯好轉，營運亦有獲利，但整體營運全年恐無盈餘。

依據財報，華航2019年前三季營收達1263.02億元，較前年同期微幅成長0.08%，受到罷工事件影響衝擊獲利，去年前三季淨利為27.96億元，年減9.6%，每股稅後虧損（EPS）0.06元。

events: 罷工 反送中


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▲環狀線第一階段圖。（圖／交通部提供）

記者董美琪／綜合報導

交通部今晚（15日）證實，傍晚已經收到捷運環狀線營前6項須改善報告，原則上明天（16日）就會核准營運；新北市長侯友宜回應，目前因台北市長柯文哲出國訪問，待柯返台後將共同決定通車典禮時間。

交通部於5日完成新北捷運環狀線第一階段履勘，要求21個項目須改善，其中有6項是要在營運前改完，並要求雙北市府都要確認後，再報請交通部核准，接下來將由雙北市府自行協商通車日。

▲侯友宜視察環狀線中和站。（圖／翻攝自侯友宜臉書）

侯友宜表示，交通部核准環狀線通車後，會先跟所有環狀線市民們一起試乘一段時間，利用這段期間，看看還有沒有需要做到更盡善盡美的地方。等到柯文哲回台後，將一起討論捷運環狀線的通車典禮時間，再對外公布。

根據《中央社》報導，交通部路政司長陳文瑞證實，原則上明天（16日）會核准環狀線通車案並回文兩市政府。

新北環狀線是新北市政府推動三環六線的計畫之一，與文湖線、環狀線第二階段構成第一環，起點自新店大坪林，終點到新莊新北產業園區站，全線長15.4公里，橫跨新店、中和、板橋及新莊等4個本市主要行政區，由新北市與中央出資，委託臺北市政府興建，共設14座車站與1處機廠，串連捷運新店線、安坑輕軌、中和線、萬大中和線、板南線、新莊線及機場線，以及臺鐵與高鐵等城際軌道系統

▼捷運環狀線板橋站鳥瞰。（圖／記者湯興漢攝）

▼侯友宜視察環狀線中和站。（圖／翻攝自侯友宜臉書）

▼環狀線周邊房價漲跌互見-中和站(周邊大型賣場包括Costco、家樂福、HOLA特力和樂等)。（圖／記者宋良義攝）

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title: 快訊／新北捷運「環狀線」來了！　交通部：1/16核准營運


title: 「新制坑殺」！foodpanda外送員罷工　16日北中南三區集結抗議

taiwan-subdivisions: 板橋 新北 宜蘭 高雄 中正 萬華 內湖

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▲foodpanda部分外送員16日展開罷工。（圖／記者林敬旻攝）

記者邱茀濱／綜合報導

foodpanda熊貓外送平台之前調降薪資，引發不少外送員的不滿，，甚至有人在「靠北熊貓」上發起16日全國性罷工，總共分成北中南三區，以抗議熊貓的新制度。不過，似乎有部分外送員認為他們屬於承攬制，不爽就不要跑，因此不會參加罷工。

據「靠北熊貓」指出，近期許多外送員都有接收到平台的通知，告知外送員要「調整報酬結構」，號稱單量增加30%，並提升整體報酬，然而實際點開foodpanda網站比較「新制」與「舊制」薪資的差別，會發現每單從基本的70元降至60元，中彰高屏地區一單57元，宜蘭雲嘉更只有55元，此外累積接單要滿200件，才有500元獎金。

針對foodpanda片面更改制度，不少外送員計畫16日展開拒送，並預計在北、中、南三區集結抗議。雖然有不少人表示支持，但還是有部分外送員不認同拒送行為。

據《中央社》報導，一名陳姓熊貓外送員指出，16日上午11時預估會有30至50名外送員集結在台北市內湖敬業三路；新北外送員則預計在下午4時抵達板橋中正路上體育場罷工，現場初估會有50至80人。

至於中部地區，陳男估計上午10時會有50至80人到台中市政府前廣場集合，並於半小後集體向台中市勞工局陳情。但是南部區域，陳男則認為人數沒有那麼多，可能只有20至30名外送員上午11時在高雄瑞豐夜市前機車停車格集結抗議。此外，陳男還說，北市勞動局16日下午2時將在萬華召開勞資調解會，外送員與資方將在會上展開協調。

記者致電向foodpanda求證，foodpanda證實公司為了調整接單及薪資結構而做了大幅度的修正。針對「外送員對薪資異動、單量沒改變的說法」，foodpanda回應，「我們盡全力優化系統對於時段劃分、精準預測區域時段及訂單需求、調整外送區域，每小時平均單量將提升，讓外送夥伴可以有穩定報酬。」

另外，關於「調降薪資的原因」，foodpanda則表示，「配合政府行政指導原則持續改善現行制度，本次制度調整最終目標是為了在台灣建立可長久經營的外送環境。」而外送員發起罷工，foodpanda該如何應對？foodpanda說，「希望不斷優化並調整更好的營運模式，來建立一個更加完善的外送生態圈。我們將積極了解外送夥伴的反饋與新制度的執行狀況，並持續優化營運模式以建立可長久經營的外送環境。」

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title: 春節豬肉、蔬菜、水果會集體漲價？農業農村部回應

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原標題：春節豬肉、蔬菜、水果會集體漲價？農業農村部回應 來源：中新網微信公眾號

漲！漲！漲！春節豬肉、蔬菜、水果集體漲價？農業農村部回應

馬上要過春節了，現在正是家家戶戶置辦年貨的日子。豬肉、蔬菜、水果價格怎麼樣？會不會集體漲漲漲？快來看看官方回應。

圖為農業農村部2019年重點農產品市場運行情況發佈會現場。

豬肉：不會進一步上漲

「豬肉餃子、干炸丸子、紅燒肘子、糖醋排骨……」，春節就是要吃吃吃，肆意長膘。豬肉作為春節餐桌上的重頭戲，保障好供應、穩定住價格才能讓老百姓吃得開心。

不過， 近日，有市民反映，豬肉價格出現小幅上漲。對此，農業農村部畜牧獸醫局二級巡視員王俊勛表示，從12月份的監測情況看，豬肉供需矛盾緩和。

據農業農村部市場與信息化司司長唐珂介紹，10月份以來，隨著國家和地方一系列生豬穩產保供政策措施密集出台、落地，養殖場戶增養補欄信心增強，全國生豬生產止降回升，市場預期趨穩，豬肉價格有所回落後保持總體穩定，12月豬肉批發均價每公斤43元左右。

王俊勛進一步表示，另外，目前存欄的大豬還有一定數量，春節前將逐步出欄，一些屠宰加工和流通企業的庫存正陸續出貨，政府儲備和進口豬肉也在陸續投放，加上南方做臘肉、北方殺年豬的高峰期馬上就要過去。

「這些積極因素都不支持春節前豬肉價格進一步上漲。」王俊勛說。

資料圖：12月27日，市民在長沙市天心區一家超市選購豬肉。 魯毅 攝

同時，2019年牛羊肉、禽肉、雞蛋和牛奶生產全面增長，按監測數據初步測算，禽肉產量增幅在15%以上，牛羊肉產量約增長3%左右，雞蛋產量增長5.7%左右。「這些產品市場供應充裕，一定程度上能填補豬肉供應缺口，又能滿足和豐富老百姓『菜籃子』。」王俊勛指出。

1月17日，華商儲備商品管理中心又將出庫投放競價交易3萬噸中央儲備凍豬肉，這是2020年第三次投放儲備凍豬肉。2019年9月以來，華商儲備商品管理中心累計投放25萬噸中央儲備凍豬肉。近期，多地儲備肉也陸續投放，以保證春節豬肉供應。

蔬菜：有望保持基本穩定

春節馬上來臨，這個時候，誰家不囤點蔬菜，都不好意思說自己準備過春節。

不過，2019年入冬以來，我國蔬菜價格進入季節性上升通道。2019年12月份漲幅有所加大。農業農村部重點監測的28種蔬菜全國平均批發價每公斤4.56元，環比漲16.3%，同比高22.3%。

另據商務部監測，1月6日至12日，30種蔬菜平均批發價格為每公斤4.97元，較前一周上漲0.6%，其中黃瓜、大蔥、辣椒價格分別上漲4.9%、4.7%和3.2%。

對於冬季蔬菜價格上漲，唐珂表示，按照往年情況，冬季大部分露地蔬菜上市量減少，「大棚菜」和「南菜」成為市場主供產品，生產和流通的成本相應增加，菜價一般都會出現較為明顯的上漲。總的判斷，當前蔬菜價格波動基本符合往年規律。

「近期價格環比漲幅偏大一些，主要是因為前期冬春蔬菜主產區有兩輪雨雪降溫天氣，蔬菜跨區域流通受到階段性影響，加之2020年春節較早，市場備貨提前，導致短期價格上漲較快。」唐珂說。

至於很多人感受到蔬菜價格高於2018年同期，唐珂解釋稱，主要是因為2019年上半年，菜花、豆角、黃瓜和西葫蘆等部分品種價格低迷，菜農種植意願降低、面積下降，導致市場價格漲幅較大，拉高了總體菜價。

春節的腳步越來越近，菜價還要一直漲漲漲嗎？

「從後期走勢看，由於2019年冬季氣溫正常偏暖，對北方設施蔬菜和南方露地越冬蔬菜生產較為有利，蔬菜生產供給總體有保障。春節前如果不出現持續性大範圍災害性天氣，菜價有望保持基本穩定，節后價格或穩中有降。」唐珂稱。

水果：預計春節前小幅上漲

蘋果象徵平平安安，橙子寓意心想事成，柚子代表團團圓圓……水果可是春節餐桌上不可缺少的點綴，既用來招呼親朋好友，也為來年取個好兆頭。近期水果價格怎麼樣呢？

據唐珂介紹，2019年下半年隨著夏秋季水果大量上市，蘋果、梨恢復增產明顯，水果價格季節性下跌，從10月份開始已低於上年同期水平，11、12月價格基本穩定，同比降幅在10%以上。

不過，據商務部監測，1月6日至12日，6種水果平均批發價格為每公斤6.71元，比前一周上漲0.9%。

「從後期走勢看，水果市場供給以庫存果為主，成本有所增加，且消費處於旺季，預計春節前水果價格小幅上漲。」唐珂說。

「但隨著水果市場供給總量充足、品種豐富，尤其蘋果入庫率達到歷史高位，多數地區冷庫入庫率達到8-9成，水果價格大幅度浮動的可能性不大。」唐珂強調，節后隨著消費趨弱，價格將略有回落。

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記者蕭采薇／綜合報導

日本恐怖片《咒怨》當年於日本上映時，原本只被安排在東京和大阪的兩家小戲院上映，沒想到卻大受歡迎，口碑迅速擴散全國，上映戲院數不斷飆升，嚇出票房新高點，甚至被譽為日本史上最強的恐怖片，也讓《咒怨》在台上映時一舉打破當年台灣日片影史開票紀錄，嚇壞台灣觀眾。如今經典將再次上映。

▲日本最恐怖鬼片《咒怨》系列將重返大銀幕。（圖／暗光鳥電影院提供）

《咒怨》不僅亞洲觀眾買單，好萊塢更多次改編翻拍《咒怨》引發世界級現象，今年好萊塢最新翻拍版本《怨咒》即將於春季上映，勢必再掀起一波驚嚇狂潮！片商暗光鳥電影院也特別於2月21日、2月27日安排《咒怨》、《咒怨２》連番上映，讓台灣觀眾重溫當年怨靈伽椰子在大銀幕帶來的恐懼。

▲日本最恐怖鬼片《咒怨》系列將重返大銀幕。（圖／暗光鳥電影院提供）

《咒怨》系列為「日本恐怖大師」清水崇一鳴驚人之作，除了電影嚇人，當年拍攝《咒怨2》的過程更傳出不少鬧鬼傳聞。有眼尖的工作人員在某張幕後照片上，發現女主角酒井法子背後的窗簾上，出現兩個疑似人頭的模糊白影。

▲日本最恐怖鬼片《咒怨》系列將重返大銀幕。（圖／暗光鳥電影院提供）

後來經過日本靈媒查證，發現那兩個白影是一對枉死於10年前一場車禍的情侶，死後一直待在《咒怨》劇組借用拍攝的屋子內，靈媒也打趣的表示「這對鬼情侶見到現場拍攝燈光也嚇了一跳，所以好奇地跑來偷看。」

▲日本最恐怖鬼片《咒怨》系列將重返大銀幕。（圖／暗光鳥電影院提供）

此外，劇組中某位有孕在身的工作人員在拍完《咒怨2》後，突然和片中女主角酒井法子一樣流產，監製也在家中被玻璃割傷因而縫了12針，接二連三發生的意外，也讓《咒怨》系列電影更顯邪門。

▲日本最恐怖鬼片《咒怨》系列將重返大銀幕。（圖／暗光鳥電影院提供）

《咒怨》故事描述「咒怨」是含怨而死者下的詛咒，於死者生前的居所積聚沖天怨氣，凡觸碰者必死無疑。《咒怨2》故事描述原瀨京子是被邀請到《被詛咒的家》靈異節目中的特別來賓，沒想到節目的主持人、導播和工作人員等均接連遭遇不幸，沒有人知道這一連串的詛咒何時會中止。《咒怨》將於2月21日、《咒怨2》將於2月27日重返大銀幕。

title: 拍攝現場吸引「鬼情侶」好奇躲窗簾上偷看　最恐怖鬼片《咒怨》重登大銀幕


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記者許皓婷／綜合報導

天氣冷颼颼，許多人會選擇在冬季吃鍋物進補暖胃，吃的時候雖然非常過癮，但其實需要格外當心，否則嚴重的話可能會因此送命，就有人在寒流時，吃了薑母鴨和羊肉爐，結果卻因為溫差太大而猝死。

毒物科護理師譚敦慈在《醫師好辣》分享碰過的例子，她透露曾有人在寒流來時，去吃了全酒的薑母鴨，吃完後覺得全身非常熱，因此就沒有穿外套，但卻在走到停車場準備開車時，人就倒下去了，「因為冷熱溫差大，萬一血壓又沒控制好，其實是非常危險的。」

▲男子吃薑母鴨進補意外猝死。（圖／翻攝自YouTube）

而另一個案例則是一名年輕男子，下班和同事聚餐吃羊肉爐，並喝了一些酒，他回到家後，可能覺得很熱，就將窗戶打開，直接躺在客廳睡覺，隔天同事發現他沒去上班，打電話也沒人接，趕到現場才發現他已經猝死，因此喝酒後要特別注意保暖，碰上寒流來襲的話，更容易出現失溫狀況。

▲年輕男子吃羊肉爐進補，失溫猝死。（圖／翻攝自YouTube）

毒物科護理師譚敦慈更提醒，喝了酒又碰到寒流的話，很容易失溫，她更表示腎臟科的病人要排出鉀離子較困難，所以不建議洗腎病人吃羊肉爐或薑母鴨，更不應該喝湯，「因為煮到最後，加了一堆東西，鉀離子會很高，喝一喝心臟會亂跳，有時來不及送到急診就會出事。」

title: 寒流來「年輕男吃完羊肉爐猝死」　醫曝恐怖真相：非常危險


title: 中國首迎10萬億GDP省份 26省份今年GDP目標出爐

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原標題：中國首迎10萬億GDP省份 26省份今年GDP目標出爐

中新網客戶端北京1月16日電(記者 李金磊)2020年省級地方兩會密集召開，在曬出2019年成績單的同時，各省份今年經濟社會發展預期目標也陸續出爐。

截至1月15日，至少有26個省份在政府工作報告提出了2020年GDP預期增長目標。較2019年相比，多數省份GDP增長目標下調，不過也有省份逆勢上調。

部分省份2020年GDP增長預期目標。

首次誕生10萬億GDP省份

2019年，很多省份的經濟總量邁上了新台階，「10萬億GDP俱樂部」首次「開張」，而且可能還是一下子迎來兩位成員。

1月14日，廣東省政府工作報告指出，初步預計2019年廣東地區生產總值10.5萬億元以上，同比增長6.3%左右。

1月15日，江蘇省政府工作報告預計，2019年江蘇省地區生產總值增長6.4%左右，總量可望達到10萬億元左右。

作為全國第一梯隊的經濟大省，廣東、江蘇2019年GDP總量依然是一騎絕塵，遠超其他省份。

同時，還有不少省區市GDP總量也躍過新的門檻。其中，浙江省2019年GDP首次突破6萬億元，增長6.8%；河南省GDP預計突破5萬億元，增長7%以上；湖北GDP首次突破4萬億元，預計增長7.8%左右。

多數省份下調2020年GDP增長目標

當前國際環境不穩定不確定因素增多，世界經濟貿易增長繼續放緩，中國經濟下行壓力依然較大。在此形勢下，多數省份2020年GDP預期目標較去年有所下調。

其中，西藏2020年GDP增長目標為9%左右，目前是已公佈GDP增長目標省份中最高的，但是比2019年10%左右的目標有所下調；貴州2020年GDP增長目標由去年的9%左右下調到8%左右。

北京、上海、廣東2020年GDP增長目標為6%左右，均較去年的6%-6.5%目標有所調整；江蘇2020年GDP增長目標由去年的6.5%以上調整為6%左右。

江蘇省發改委主任李侃楨解讀稱，隨著經濟下行壓力加大、外部挑戰增多，既要為高質量發展的「進」積蓄勢能，又要為更大力度轉型升級的「優」留出空間，6%的增速既具有較好的支撐條件，也保持了延續性、穩定性。

天津逆勢上調GDP增長目標

此外，也有一些省份2020年GDP增長目標跟2019年持平。

其中，重慶2020年GDP增長目標為6%，河北2020年GDP增長目標為6.5%左右，內蒙古2020年GDP增長目標為6%左右，新疆2020年GDP增長目標為5.5%左右，吉林省2020年GDP增長目標為5%-6%，均與2019年預期目標一致。

而天津逆勢上調2020年GDP增長目標，天津2020年GDP增長目標為增長5%左右，這相比於2019年的4.5%左右有所上調。

天津市市長張國清表示，天津正處在負重前行、爬坡過坎、滾石上山的緊要關頭，面臨的形勢依然嚴峻。既要正視困難迎接挑戰，更要保持定力增強信心。(完)


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南韓歌手宣美身高166公分還有一雙超長美腿，每次推出新歌都會引起話題，編舞更是每每造成模仿風潮。她近年為了身體健康和體態，積極改變飲食、運動，成功從40公斤增至50公斤，身材變得更加火辣。她日前在頻道上傳了一支公演遇上大雨的影片，為了和台下觀眾同樂，她要求把舞台遮雨棚撤掉，淋著暴雨努力熱情唱跳。

▲宣美要求撤掉遮雨棚與觀眾同樂。（圖／翻攝宣美IG）

宣美14日在YouTube頻道上傳了一支標題名為「召喚暴雨的慶典女神，宣美」的影片，影片裡可看到她應邀前往首爾中央大學慶典，在台上挨著傾盆大雨，還是使盡全力表演了《Siren》、《Gashina》、《LALALAY》等熱門曲。

▲宣美一連表演好幾首熱門曲。（圖／翻攝YouTube／선미 SUNMI）

宣美在表演完《LALALAY》後，對著台下來看她表演的學生們說道：「雖然雨很大，但是大家真的等了很久，所以請工作人員把遮雨棚撤掉，我們也跟大家一起淋著雨表演。」並安慰擔心她感冒的學生們「上面有遮雨棚的話，沒辦法好好跳，也看不清楚大家」，超敬業又暖心的舉動引起台下觀眾們的熱烈歡呼。

▲宣美享受在雨中表演。（圖／翻攝YouTube／선미 SUNMI）

她接著因為在與觀眾們對話時，外面套的罩衫就已經濕掉，在開始表演《Siren》前索性將罩衫脫掉，並帥氣地對著台下說道「下著雨，大家就一起濕吧」、「真的是要瘋了」，穿著一件細肩帶短洋裝便展開了熱舞表演。

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圖：嚴正嵐吃洋蔥奪走李冠毅螢幕初吻！拍完【老姑婆】台語突飛猛進！ (照片提供：華視）

嚴正嵐吃洋蔥奪走李冠毅的螢幕初吻！拍完【老姑婆的古董老菜單】，台語突飛猛進！

由《雙城故事》導演葉天倫執導的《老姑婆的古董老菜單》，拍攝歷時兩個月日前殺青，女主角嚴正嵐表示這次演完戲，台語突飛猛進，拍戲期間自己每天都在聽「空中台語教室」，不斷replay老師的翻譯，更享有「影帝級別行動翻譯機」，常常跑去找龍劭華練台語。

男主角李冠毅則說台語不是他的坎，反而是跟異性有一些肢體接觸的時候，常常害羞尷尬，旁邊的嚴正嵐一聽，還很驕傲地說：「我搶走了他的螢幕初吻！自曝是早上還不小心吃了洋蔥！」李冠毅則貼心護航說： 「其實我那天鼻塞很嚴重啦。」貼心的舉動不管戲裡戲外都很有愛。

殺青宴現場也搶先播放經典花絮，爆料于子育是NG女王！同一幕戲竟NG高達20次，竟是「蚵嗲」惹的禍！原來是于子育在台語還不太輪轉時，拍一場戲，把「蝴蝶」的台語，發音唸成「蚵嗲」，也導致她拍這場戲時，頻頻出戲吃螺絲。 于子育之前在《俗女》開出漂亮成績單，對於這次在《老姑婆的古董老菜單》客串忍不住抱怨：「這部戲有一個缺點，就是戲份太少了！」

曾子益戲裡跟嚴正嵐飾演的淑美組CP，有一幕因為戲感爆棚，兩個人都哭得唏哩嘩啦，沒想到，卻被導演喊卡，理由是因為鼻涕流太長了！而曾子益也很自豪的表示：這也是他唯一一次NG，他給自己打了90分的高分。

新人黃聖雅是已故資深演員馬如龍的女兒，從小在演藝世家中長大，跟金鐘影帝拍戲沒在怕的，直言：「人生最可怕的是跟爸爸演同一場戲，所以其他人相對輕鬆很多！」不過這部戲，也是有黃聖雅苦惱的時候，就是大夥的親友帶美食探班太頻繁了，害她胖了2公斤！

戲裡飾演的角色很活潑，黃聖雅表示其實自己的個性很極端，沒想到自己平常最活潑的時候，還跟不上這個角色，直說這個角色個性：「真得很瞎！」

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〈蒙古極限特技秀〉由劍湖山世界邀請蒙古國特技專家演出，每項表演都在挑戰人體極限，有美女軟骨功、倒立腳射箭、三人疊羅漢花式跳繩等精彩表演，精彩萬分，非常值得闔家欣賞。

除了門票優惠，劍湖山世界主題樂園更舉辦〈金鼠抱喜〉百萬抽獎活動，從一百零九年一月十八日起至三月一日止，於活動期間依指定方式消費，凡透過飯店官網訂房系統或訂房專線，預訂二零二零元宵燈會一泊一食專案，即可享有+一元購買一張劍湖山世界單日門票，並可參加主題樂園〈金鼠抱喜〉百萬抽獎活動。就有機會兌換摸彩券參加抽獎，最大的超級特獎是「Honda HRV」運動休旅車一輛，另外還有五星級的劍湖山渡假大飯店貴賓套房住宿券、48吋JVC液晶電視、主題樂園貴賓入園券、哈根達斯下午茶券、哈根達斯冰淇淋券等超值好禮等你來博好運。

劍湖山指出，交通部觀光局擴大國旅秋冬遊補助延長至一月底，除了過年期間不適用外，補助十二歲以下兒童免費入園，阿公阿媽、爸爸媽媽可以把握寒假的機會，帶著寶貝子女、孫子女到劍湖山世界暢遊各項遊樂設施，品味滷味小吃冰品等美食，欣賞台灣首次引進的〈蒙古極限特技秀〉；劍湖山世界也於每週末加碼，讓使用秋冬遊補助方案的同行者每人享四百九十九元優惠價，六十歲以上長輩搭配使用可享二百九十九元的優惠。

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最近推出新專輯的歌手張韶涵，全新造型的雜誌封面廣告，成了2020年開春首位登上美國時代廣場的華籍女藝人！

元月十一日，台灣總統、立委大選的日子，有歌迷在紐約時代廣場的納斯達克大屏幕上，看見歌手張韶涵的雜誌封面廣告，頓時難以置信這個亮麗時尚的美女，正是台灣歌迷久違的唱將張韶涵。許多人駐足仔細打量廣告人物，紛紛駐足仔細端詳：「這真的是張韶涵嗎？怎麼變得這麼漂亮！」。

睽違多時，近來推出新專輯的張韶涵，大膽嘗試各種完全顛覆傳統印象的新嘗試。決定做一次大突破。與大陸雜誌合作拍攝封面，就是其一。她也因此成為2020年開春以來，首位登上美國時代廣場的華籍女藝人！

2019年歲末，張韶涵的第十張專輯《？》正式問世。從企劃概念到專輯製作，她無不親自參與，更透過這張專輯探索神秘的精神世界。猶如整張企劃概念當中貫穿其中的「？」，人生中有太多的疑問，不同的人有不同的的思考方向與邏輯，產生不同的結論。

張韶涵在新專輯發行同時，開啟一連串新媒體封面時尚，幾乎同一時間登上大陸雜誌The G magazine、VW magazine、拓本UMORE、K!ND magazine、格調雜誌與時尚畫報。其實早在成為新媒體女王之前，張韶涵即透過自媒體的經營，長期與歌迷深入互動連結，也因此對媒體生態的改變，有了新的體認，率先放膽嘗試，這才有了「新媒體女王」的封號！

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countries: 台灣 中國

things: 九二共識 經濟

title: The Liberty News - 自由新聞報新聞網


content_text: 國立台灣美術館長期將常態性的展場人力委外由廠商供應，這些展場人員雖長年在國美館工作，卻每隔一到三年需要重新換約更換雇主，導致屢屢年資歸零和工作權不保。去年（2019）更有三名國美館展場人員因為是工會成員，在換約時遭拒絕雇用，經勞動部裁定違反《工會法》後，至今仍未能復職。台灣勞動派遣產業工會今天（1/15）召開記者會，呼籲國美館停止濫用非典人力，改為直接雇用。

title: 苦勞網


content_text: 一名黃姓女子，騎機車沿途掉落信封袋，而其中一袋，裝有現金13萬6千300元，一名古姓男子，騎摩托車路過看到，竟然逆向又折回來撿走信封袋，但他的犯案過程，全被監視器拍了下來，最後被依侵占遺失物，函送地檢偵辦。

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真面目快藏不住！Ford 全新休旅準備亮相

 預計在今年現身的 Ford 全新休旅，竟跟先前外媒推測的雛型不謀而合，看起來就像大一號的 Suzuki Jimny！...
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American & British English

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The UK system of roads includes major high-speed limited-access routes known as motorways, with a network of smaller A-roads — with traffic lights or intersections — radiating out of London to other parts of England and into Scotland and Wales. In American English, the equivalentsFULL STORY

EVERYDAY ENGLISH
A: I’m shattered. For the past two days I’ve been taking dance classes during my lunch break to prepare for tomorrow’s performance.
B: Hey, that’s not right: Employees have a right to a lunch break.
A: Actually, I practiced for another half an hour after work todayFULL STORY

Sleeping orangutan dies after falling from tree at Hsinchu Zoo

新竹動物園「人瑞」紅毛猩猩從樹上摔落 傷重送醫不治2020-01-15
Hsinchu Zoo recently reopened to the public at the end of last year following a major refurbishment. The newly remodeled zoo, which features more spacious animal enclosures and improved visitor flow, has been attracting large numbers of visitors on a daily basis. Within the zoo’sFULL STORY

EVERYDAY ENGLISH2020-01-15
A: So you didn’t need to prepare a special program for your company’s year-end banquet?
B: Nope. It was on Friday last week. I went there with an empty mind and stomach and just ate my fill.
A: Did you win any interesting prizes?
B: Strangely, I keptFULL STORY

Severe childhood deprivation reduces brain size, study finds

幼年嚴重缺乏關愛 將導致腦部較小2020-01-14
Children who experience severe deprivation early in life have smaller brains in adulthood, researchers have found.
The findings are based on scans of young adults who were adopted as children into UK families from Romania’s orphanages that rose under the regime of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
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EVERYDAY ENGLISH2020-01-14
B: If the idea is to reward employees for their hard work, why is the company asking them to perform on stage?
A: Hmm, good question. Perhaps because it makes the event more fun and makes employees feel like they are involved. Otherwise, would you preferFULL STORY

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content_text: 60歲林先生腳受傷無法像過去爬山運動，體重增加到8、90公斤，因覺得心有灼熱感、到醫院胃腸科就醫，成大醫院醫師以胃鏡檢查有輕微胃食道逆流，給予最新藥物治療。醫師指國內曾有調查指國人2成5...

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2020.01.15
 社論》戒慎恐懼

這次大選，蔡英文總統連任，民進黨國會席次過半，再度完全執政。...

 2020.01.15
 鏗鏘集》在中國之外

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 社論》國民黨何時東山再起

2020.01.14
 鏗鏘集》北京也該醒了！

2020.01.13
 星期專論》台灣的飛彈應該瞄準北京？

2020.01.13
 自由共和國》江雅綺／大選結果 是台灣選民的意志展現

2020.01.13
 自由共和國》鄭政秉／小英能為台灣經濟再創高峰？

2020.01.13
 自由共和國》張志堅／民族大義與土地大義

2020.01.13
 社論》台灣選舉為何像雲霄飛車？

2020.01.13
 高教展望》成大校長蘇慧貞︰爭優質人才 新竹以南大學誘因不足

2020.01.13
 高教展望》境外生人數翻數倍 國際名聲影響大

2020.01.12
 社論》台灣民主嘹亮的勝利

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taiwan-subdivisions: 新竹 東山

title: 自由評論網 - 自由電子報 自由評論網


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國防部宣布，海軍司令黃曙光升任參謀總長，海軍司令由副參謀總長執行官劉志斌上將接任，副總長執行官則由現任國防部陸軍常務次長徐衍璞中將接任，同時晉升陸軍二級上將。

已故參謀總長沈一鳴在月初的黑鷹直升機失事意...(觀看更多)

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content_text: 高雄市製造業四大產業生產毛額概況資源105年本市資訊電子工業生產毛額增加金額與成長率為四大製造產業最高，是帶動本市製造業成長的主力。

title: 高雄市政府全球資訊網-中文版


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羅斯朝觀眾席丟筆 聯盟開罰2.5萬美元活塞隊球星羅斯（Derrick Rose）昨天（15號）輸球又空了荷包，他面對鵜鶘隊之戰在倒數37秒暫停時，朝觀眾席丟筆，今天遭聯盟開罰2.5萬美元（註：約台幣75.4萬元）。羅斯昨天對鵜鶘隊攻下全隊

吳斯懷辭立委是假議題 國民黨權力結構不許他辭2020年台灣大選，國民黨大敗收場，國民黨主席吳敦義跟充滿爭議的不分區立委吳斯懷，遭點名為本次選舉的「兩大戰犯」。1月11日敗選之後，國民黨內立即掀起要求吳敦義跟吳斯懷立即辭職的批判聲浪。吳斯懷本人表示，「未戰先降」不是他的作風，不改即將赴任台灣立法院的態勢。

events: 敗選 選舉

people: 吳敦義 吳斯懷

title: 觸動未來 新識力


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吉普車越野翻車 2歲女童遭拋撞地亡
 記者陳穎亭／屏東報導 桃園市陳姓一家四口人，2017年9月間開心出遊到屏東縣玩「吉普車」越野體驗，不料在活動過程中，駕駛為閃避水坑不慎翻車，其中僅2歲大的小女童遭拋出車外，因頭部直接撞擊地面，搶救送醫後仍不治身亡，女童父母認為因駕駛疏失才導致車禍喪失愛女，氣得提告，而屏東法院經審理後，依業務過失致死罪嫌，將張姓駕駛緩起訴處分、另外莊姓業者則判處8個月有期徒刑，全案仍可上訴。 ▲桃園夫妻帶女兒體驗越野活動，為閃躲水坑車體翻覆，小女兒不慎飛出車外身亡。（示意圖／翻攝網站） 據《ettoday》報導，2017年9月10日上午，桃園市一對夫妻帶著2名女兒到屏東縣滿州山的168關道，去體驗吉普車越野活動

新北3級地震傳巨響 萬里民眾：超有感
 新北市今晚8時41分發生地震，最大震級在萬里，金山、萬里都有民眾在臉書社群貼文，有聽到轟隆一聲巨響，接著地板搖有10多秒，原本以為是打雷，後來知是地震，臉書社群頓時湧入大批網友留言，詢問發生什麼事，地震好大。新北市消防局表示，目前並無災情傳出。 金山一位民眾說，今晚8點40多分時，突然聽到天空一個轟隆的聲響，接著地板就有響聲，搖了10多秒，以為是打雷，後來才像地震。 根據中央氣象局資料，今晚8時41分48秒，位置：北緯 25.18度，東經 121.62度，即在新北市政府東北方 24.3 公里 ，位於新北市萬里區，地震深度5.2公里，芮氏規模3.3。各地震度級，萬里3級、石門2級、新北市1級。

網紅砸50萬買刮刮樂 結局令人吃驚
 知名網紅「黃氏兄弟」，每年過年前都會砸大錢買刮刮樂來實測，而今年也不例外，他們一共砸了50萬元，買每張要價2000元的春節限定刮刮樂，還找來網紅「見習網美小吳」一起刮，沒想到最終刮完的獎金，扣完稅之後，比他們想像的還要多，讓他們相當驚訝。 黃氏兄弟已經連續3年春節都集資買2000元刮刮樂，近日他們與親友集資50萬4000元，買了14本2000元的刮刮樂，並請來「見習網美小吳」一起埋頭猛刮，起初3人一直刮，卻幾乎都摃龜，只有其中幾張有中1、2000元，基本上都是賠錢的狀態，後來才終於刮到一張1萬元，讓他們忍不住歡呼。   ▼3人認真猛刮。（圖／翻攝自黃氏兄弟Youtube）   不過後來3人又頻

化解照顧難題 2/15週六改要上課
 （中央社記者陳至中台北15日電）教育部表示，為了讓親子作息同步，2月15日（週六）將調整為中小學上課日，第二學期結業式相應提前。 為了方便民眾春節返鄉和分散車流，行政院人事行政總處擬定今年1月23日的小年夜彈性放假，2月15日補班。不過，中小學由於有寒假，1月23日還在寒假期間，原本沒有要補課。 教育部今天表示，近來陸續接到許多民眾反應，家長要上班、學生卻不用上課，會導致作息不同步，造成照顧難題。 教育部國民及學前教育署今天邀集全國22縣市政府及家長、教師、校長團體代表開會，會中達成共識，確認2月15日同步調整為中小學的上課日。 學生一學期上課天數固定是200天，既然多了一個週六要上課，108

journalist: 陳穎亭

events: 地震 放假

taiwan-subdivisions: 屏東縣 桃園 石門 金山 萬里區 新北市 萬里 新北 屏東 滿州

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快看世界 / 熱議伊朗、外交 民主黨首投前最後一辯！

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彈劾案推進 眾院表決移交參院 川普批：又一場騙局！

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比太陽系還古老！澳洲隕石藏70億年前星塵

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友人爆料：梅根將定居洛杉磯…就等川普下台

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抵抗美帝抗衡革命抗爭 中東兩股意識形態交鋒

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前外交官涉嫌為中國刺探情報 德國檢方調查

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美財長：第二階段貿易協議中 將取消更多中國商品關稅

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忠誠航空低價搶客 單程33元

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狂生800子嗣！百歲「花花公子」海龜功成身退 將返鄉

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網球天后李娜砸千萬買紐約豪宅？錯！此李娜非彼李娜

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路邊乞討2年！他好心幫助街友 意外揭「富二代」身分
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countries: 台灣 中國 德國 澳洲 伊朗

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content_text: TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The opposition should stand by its promise to freeze the NT$420-million...

title: Taiwan News Online － Breaking News, Politics, Environment, Immigrants, Travel, and Health


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鼓勵青年在屏東發展，縣府推出「屏東好貼薪」、「青創好夥伴」、「縣府挺起家」協助青年就業、創業、安居在屏東！
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taiwan-subdivisions: 屏東縣 屏東

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大型打臉現場：英領館承認主動報警驅趕香港示威者
早前，香港警方在英國駐香港總領事館外拘捕一名示威者，被亂港派大肆炒作抹黑。不過，在回應港媒查詢時，英領館承認是他們主動報警，要求警方采取行動防止“可能發生的犯罪行為”，真可謂是大型打臉現場。

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【大纪元2020年01月15日讯】（大纪元记者曾薇心编译报导）韩国人气女团TWICE，1月迎来久违的假期，台湾成员周子瑜在7日返台后，10日与家人出国旅游。子瑜13日于TWICE官方IG公开了一张骑自行车的照片，写下“喜欢这里的安静”并标注“#Amsterdam”透露自己人在荷兰首都阿姆斯特丹。

今日（15日）晚间，子瑜又上传了两张照片，并写下“Netherlands Maastricht （汽车符号）>>>Belgium”，与大家分享自己在荷兰东南部的马斯垂克及比利时度过假期。

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【大纪元2020年01月15日讯】山东省招远市“610”副主任宋少昌迫害法轮功20年，策划迫害、绑架、酷刑折磨和骚扰法轮功学员不计其数。招远法轮功学员被非法劳教的至少有134人。宋少昌现被大陆民众举报到明慧网。

自明慧网于2019年5月31日发表《通告》，呼吁海内外法轮功学员收集、整理大陆迫害法轮功的参与者的名单等信息以来，大陆民众向明慧网大量举报了中共迫害者的名单及其罪恶。

2019年5月，美国国务院告知法轮功学员可以向美国政府提供迫害法轮功的中共人员名单，美国将严格执行对人权和宗教的迫害者拒发签证等新规。

2020年新年依始，招远市“610”副主任宋少昌正是被举报者之一。

1999年6月10日，在江泽民的授意下，中共成立了“中央处理法轮功问题领导小组”，即中央“610办公室”。随后几个月，其分支机构陆续设立，遍布全中国。

20年来，“610”系统从上至下传达指令，指挥中共的公安、警察、国保、武警、法院、检察院、监狱、劳教所、精神病院等职能部门非法绑架、拘禁、审判、判刑、虐待、监控、骚扰法轮功学员，甚至催生出活摘器官的惊天邪恶。

中文姓名：宋少昌
中文姓名拼音：Song，ShaoChang
性别：男
出生日期：1973年 1月15日
出生地：山东省招远市张星镇年头宋家村
工作单位名称：招远司法局
职务：山东招远“610”副主任
手机：18596131303；座机：8230523；手机：15589578075
宋少昌妻：吕艳红 Lv，YanHong，金晖学校教师
宋少昌女儿：宋x林，18岁，在招远一中高三上学
宋少昌儿子（私生子）： 10岁，上小学

1999年7月，中共开始迫害法轮功时，宋少昌在招远公安当警察，积极参与迫害；2010年提升为招远市委“610”副主任，更加卖力迫害，现调入了招远司法局工作。

以下列举宋少昌迫害法轮功学员的部分犯罪事实：

1999年10月，宋少昌绑架了李玉凤；2009年，把她又绑架到洗脑班铐手铐、绳子捆全身，关小黑屋七天七夜，非法关押了三个月，期间不断地去李玉凤家骚扰她上学的女儿和年迈的老父亲。老人被吓得精神恍惚，遇车祸离世。

2002年正月，为找到流离失所的法轮功学员苏良莹，宋少昌绑架了苏良莹不修炼的丈夫，用酷刑折磨他；又绑架了苏良莹上中学的儿子逼问、恐吓、毒打并非法关押了孩子三天三夜。

孙艳佩的父母因修炼法轮功被迫流离失所。2002年暑假，宋少昌逼学校把这个独自生活的13岁的女孩送入洗脑班当人质；2005年8月，宋少昌为抓到孙艳佩的父母，又把孙艳佩绑架到洗脑班当人质，非法关押了15天。

2007年高考结束后，宋少昌又把孙艳佩绑架到了烟台洗脑班关押了15天；2010年8月29日，宋少昌为了绑架孙艳佩的妈妈，把孙艳佩绑架到招远公安局非法关押；孙艳佩大学毕业，学校要保送她读研究生，宋少昌写了诬告材料，致使孙艳佩没有保研。

2004年5月11日半夜，宋少昌带人到夏甸镇英庄夼村，翻墙入室绑架了70多岁的刘书文老人到洗脑班酷刑折磨。

2005年正月，杨文杰劳教期满后被招远“610” 和国保拉到招远洗脑班。宋少昌指使几个恶人扒下她的外衣，用各种酷刑折磨了她八个月后又直接劳教了她两年。2010年7月，杨文杰再次被绑架，宋少昌用各种酷刑折磨她后非法判刑四年。

2006年12月，宋少昌绑架了招远灵山金矿男法轮功学员郑美君，把他关小黑屋后，宋少昌用电刑电了他近四个小时。郑美君被电得全身焦糊，双手变黑、流血水，脸色苍白、恶心。

2007年12月，宋少昌与李建光配合，绑架了全市8个乡镇的50多名法轮功学员。

2008年12月25日，宋少昌等十几人翻墙入室，绑架了傅彩霞和她的被迫害得几乎瘫痪的弟弟傅新立（傅新立后被迫害致死）到洗脑班。宋少昌把傅彩霞打得鼻口流血，又用吊铐、老虎凳等酷刑折磨她，七天七夜不准她睡觉。她被关押、酷刑折磨四个月后遭冤判十年。

2010年5月至8月，宋少昌与国保大队配合，绑架了多名法轮功学员。其中考福全、杨兰香、宋桂华、杨文杰、刁云英、房翠荣、滕英芬7人被非法判刑四至八年。

考福全、杨兰香、杨文杰被宋少昌折磨得几次昏死。宋少昌与招远公检法串通一气，剥夺了以上7名法轮功学员的合法权利。

2010年12月，以上法轮功学员的辩护律师梁小军、李春富、谢燕益联名向烟台市中级法院、检察院，山东省高级法院、检察院、山东省公安厅，最高法院、检察院、公安部控告招远“610”、公检法联合违法，被控告的7个责任人中有宋少昌。

2016年6月，流离失所的法轮功学员王忠贤到济南监狱接冤狱期满的妻子王好红回家，被在监狱门口蹲坑的宋少昌等人绑架。宋先抢了王忠贤的2,000元钱和手机、一双新皮鞋，又拉到出租房抄家，后绑架到招远洗脑班。王忠贤被宋少昌打得浑身青紫、非法关押了72天。

2011年11月11日，宋少昌与国保绑架了48岁的法轮功学员张桂好到招远洗脑班，把他关在一层楼上，白天晚上用酷刑折磨得他大声惨叫，20天后。12月1日，张桂好被活活打死。

2018年，宋少昌与公安国保策划绑架法轮功学员70多人（不完全统计），被敲门骚扰的更多。在市委书记王浩指使下，对行政、事业单位退休的更不放过，逼录音、录像、签字，骚扰、恐吓他们的家人。

20年来，宋少昌抢劫、敲诈勒索了法轮功学员多少钱现在无法统计，至少有十几万。有抄家时抢的，有绑架前勒索的，有绑架后勒索的，有的家人送的，有的家人被敲诈后不敢吱声或不敢承认。2018年9月，宋少昌绑架了毕郭镇一名法轮功学员，向她的家人勒索了2万元。

20年来，宋少昌犯罪事实罄竹难书，法轮功学员多次劝善不听，明慧网多次曝光其恶行，宋少昌不知悔改，说什么：“越给我糊小报，我越抓你们。”“招远法轮功（学员），我说劳教谁就劳教谁。”

2019年11月15日，明慧网正式公布恶人榜，收录了逾十万行恶者，并将分批向美国、英国、新西兰、澳洲和加拿大提供名单，使迫害者在这些国家依法受到制裁。#

文字整理：李洁思，责任编辑：高静

journalist: 文字整理：李洁思，责任编辑：高静

countries: 加拿大 中国 澳洲

title: 山东招远610副主任宋少昌被举报到海外


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【大纪元2020年01月15日】（大纪元记者李平多伦多编译报导）大多伦多地区房市经历2018年低迷后，去年开始复苏，房价涨幅再次超多数家庭年入涨幅。

据dailyhive网站报导，Zoocasa地产网数据估计，去年大多区房价中位数涨8%至72万元，相当于房价平均涨5.5万元，这一金额相当于多伦多居民税后年收入中位数5万8,264元的94%。

其中，多伦多中区房价涨幅最大，去年房价中位数涨9%至70.58万元，相当于涨5万5,800元，这一金额相当于普通家庭税后年收入中位数的96%。多伦多西区房价涨幅居其次，涨8%至71.5万元，相当于涨5.5万元。多伦多东区房价涨6%至74万元，相当于涨4.5万元，这一金额相当于通家庭税后年收入中位数的77%。

Zoocasa数据显示，去年全年大多区房屋成交量总计8万7,825万套，比2018年10年新低水平一下子飙升12.6%。去年平均房价涨4%至81万9,319元，相当于房价涨了3万2,079元。多伦多平均房价涨5.6%至88万3,520元。

大多区所有城镇中，西姆科县和约克区房价中位数涨幅最小，微涨2%至58万8,250元和85万150元。

Zoocasa本月初报告曾预计，大多区房市经历2016～2018年的火爆和泡沫后，已逐渐适应各级政府房价遏制政策，去年下半年需求开始劲升，今年房价估计会稳定上涨，其中安省和卑诗省两省的涨势估计引领全国。

报告预计，安省今年房屋销量估计冲至20万4,200至21.38万套之间，升幅4.2%～7.3%，房价估计涨至61.4万元至63.37万元之间，涨幅5.4%～6.5%。◇

责任编辑：文芳

title: 多伦多去年房价均涨5.5万 近普通人年收入