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NASA planet hunter finds Earth-sized world in ‘Goldilocks zone’

行星獵人出手 發現可適居行星

An image released on Jan. 6 courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shows an artists’ illustration of the planet TOI 700 d.
NASA的戈達德太空飛行中心於一月六日發布的這張影像，呈現行星「TOI 700 d」的想像圖。Photo: AFP
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NASA’s planet hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water. Another first for TESS is its discovery of a world orbiting two stars, evoking the planet Tatooine from Star Wars, but unlikely to be hospitable to life as we know it.

The potentially habitable planet, named “TOI 700 d,” is relatively close to Earth — only 100 light years away, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced during the winter American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii on Jan. 6. Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth, is just over four light years away.

“TESS was designed and launched specifically to find Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby stars,” said Paul Hertz, NASA astrophysics division director. TESS initially misclassified the star, but several amateur astronomers identified the error. “When we corrected the star’s parameters, the sizes of its planets dropped, and we realized the outermost one was about the size of Earth and in the habitable zone,” said Emily Gilbert, a graduate student at the University of Chicago. The discovery was later confirmed by the Spitzer Space Telescope.

TESS stabilizes on one area of the sky to detect whether objects — planets — pass in front of stars, which causes a temporary drop in the stars’ luminosity. This allows TESS to infer the presence of a planet, its size and orbit. Star TOI 700 is small, about 40 percent of our Sun’s size and only about half as hot.

TESS discovered three planets in orbit, named TOI 700 b, c and d. Only “d” is in the so-called “Goldilocks zone,” not too far from and not too close to the star, where the temperature could allow the presence of liquid water. The name is an allusion to the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” in which a young girl samples three bowls of porridge and finds that one is “just right — not too hot and not too cold.”

TOI 700 d is about 20 percent larger than Earth and orbits its star in 37 days. It receives 86 percent of the energy that Earth receives from the Sun. It remains to be seen what d is made of. Researchers have generated models based on the size and type of star in order to predict d’s atmospheric composition and surface temperature.

In one simulation, NASA explained, the planet is covered in oceans with a “dense, carbon-dioxide-dominated atmosphere similar to what scientists suspect surrounded Mars when it was young.” The planet is tidally locked to TOI 700, meaning that one side always faces the star, in the same way that Earthlings never see the “dark side” of the Moon. This synchronous rotation meant that, in another model, one side of the planet was constantly covered in clouds. A third simulation predicted an all-land world, where winds flow from the planet’s dark side to its light one.

Another discovery announced at the meeting was TESS’s first finding of an exoplanet orbiting two stars instead of one, also known as a circumbinary planet. The announcement prompted comparisons with Luke Skywalker’s home world of Tatooine in the “Star Wars” movie series, with its bewitching double sunsets. But the newly found planet’s size alone — it is 6.9 times larger than Earth, almost the size of Saturn — makes it unlikely to be livable.

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B: Talking of year-end banquets, something really miraculous happens every year.

A: What do you mean?

B: For many years, I’ve been giving monthly donations to help disadvantaged groups and stray animals. I even adopted a child. Every year, these costs added up to almost exactly the same as what I get from the banquets.

A: Amazing: perhaps a higher being was rewarding you for your generosity.

B: 說到尾牙這種東西，其實每年都有很神奇的事情發生。

A: 怎麼說？

B: 好幾年來，我每個月都會固定捐款給弱勢團體和流浪動物，甚至還認養小孩。每年這些支出算起來，都跟我在尾牙獲得的獎金差不多。

A: 真神奇：可能就是好人有好報吧。

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OLYMPICS

Committees join Russia case

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) want to have a say on Russia’s doping ban. With Russia facing a four-year ban on its name and anthem at major events, including the Olympics and Paralympics, the IPC on Friday said that both bodies filed a formal “notice of intervention” in the Court of Arbitration for Sport case that is to decide the matter. The committees said they want to make sure the punishment is clear-cut. “The only purpose of this intervention is limited to the interest of the IOC and the IPC that the pronounced sanctions are clear, leave no room for any interpretation and can be applied without any further procedures,” the two organizations said in a statement.

GOLF

Man makes one-armed ace

One-armed Canadian amateur Laurent Hurtubise made a hole-in-one playing alongside two PGA Tour pros at the American Express pro-am event. Born without a right hand, Hurtubise aced the 151 yard par-three fourth hole at PGA West’s Stadium Course in the first round on Thursday. The ball landed near the front of the green and rolled in. “As a kid, sports was a way for me to prove that even though I had a difference that I could perform as well as normal people ... as they call them,” Hurtubise told the Desert Sun. “People have differences and handicaps and whatever, but it was my way to prove that I could be as good as everybody else.” Hurtubise was paired with professional Troy Merritt. “The coolest experience I’ve had on the course,” Merritt told PGA Tour.com.

SOCCER

Cyprus suspends games

The Cyprus Football Association on Friday suspended all matches after a referee walkout because of a bombing attack against a colleague’s car. The federation said all matches are on hold indefinitely. Police said the predawn detonation of an explosive device placed on the hood of the car caused extensive damage. The federation earlier condemned the attack against referee Andreas Constantinou’s vehicle as an “act of terrorism” that breeds fear among referees and harms the sport.

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

Grasso misses weight

Strawweight contender Claudia Gadelha’s bout with Alexa Grasso on the pay-per-view portion of UFC246 has been canceled after Grasso badly missed weight. The Nevada State Athletic Commission made the decision on Friday after Grasso weighed in at 121.5 pounds (55kg), missing the strawweight allowance by 5.5 pounds. The bout has been replaced by bantamweight veteran Brian Kelleher’s bout with Jamaica’s Ode Osbourne. Kelleher (19-10) and Osbourne (7-2) had been previously scheduled for the second fight of the entire show. Because Gadelha made weight at 115.5 pounds, the weight difference between the competitors was too big to allow the fight to go on, with a financial penalty for Grasso (11-3). Strawweight fighters must be only three pounds apart at the weigh-in to allow such a consideration, according to the commission. “I worked so hard for this and I was so excited to put in a show for you all tomorrow,” Gadelha wrote on Instagram. “We will run it back!” UFC246 is topped by Conor McGregor’s return to the cage against Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone in a welterweight bout. Both headliners easily made the 170-pound limit and no other fighters missed weight.

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Trump assembles TV-friendly defense team for impeachment trial at Senate

US President Donald Trump has assembled a made-for-TV legal team for his US Senate trial that includes household names like Kenneth Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation two decades ago resulted in the impeachment of then-US president Bill Clinton.

Former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said that he would deliver constitutional arguments meant to shield Trump from allegations that he abused his power.

The additions on Friday brought experience in the politics of impeachment as well as constitutional law to the team, which faced a busy weekend of deadlines for legal briefs before opening arguments begin on Tuesday even as more evidence rolled in.

The two new Trump attorneys are already nationally known both for their involvement in some of the more consequential legal dramas of recent US history and for their regular appearances on Fox News, the US president’s preferred TV network.

Dershowitz is a constitutional expert whose expansive views of presidential powers echo those of Trump.

Starr is a veteran of partisan battles in Washington, having led the investigation into Clinton’s affair with a White House intern that brought about his impeachment by the US House of Representatives.

Clinton was acquitted at his Senate trial.

Still, the lead roles for Trump’s defense would be played by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and personal lawyer Jay Sekulow, who also represented Trump during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Democrats released more documents late on Friday from Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, with photographs, text and audio, as they make their case against the US president over his actions toward Ukraine.

There are some signs of tension involving Trump’s outside legal team and lawyers within the White House.

Some White House officials bristled that the announcement was not coordinated with them.

The White House waited until late on Friday night to confirm the full roster of Trump’s lawyers.

Hours after Dershowitz announced his involvement with the team in a series of tweets, he played down his role by saying that he would be present for only an hour or so to make constitutional arguments.

“I’m not a full-fledged member of the defense team,” he told The Dan Abrams Show on SiriusXM.

He has long been a critic of “the overuse of impeachment,” he said, and would have made the same case for a president Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A legal brief laying out the contours of the Trump defense, due at noon tomorrow, was still being drafted.

Those inside the Trump administration have echoed warnings from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that the pleadings must be sensitive to the Senate’s more staid traditions and leave the sharper rhetoric to Twitter and cable news.

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ICELAND

Chinese hikers found dead

Two young Chinese nationals have been found dead near the wreckage of an airplane that crashed in 1973, a popular tourist spot in the country’s south, police said on Friday. The young man and woman, both in their 20s, were discovered on Thursday after police received reports that a woman’s body had been found on the Solheimasandur plain, near the footpath leading to the fuselage of the old US military transport plane. The body of the young man was found a short distance from the woman, police said in a statement. “We have had very bad and cold weather on Monday afternoon and on Tuesday, and it is most likely that they died from exposure,” police Chief Superintendent Oddur Arnason said.

SPAIN

Force gets female chief

The country on Friday appointed a woman to head its oldest police force, the Guardia Civil, for the first time in the agency’s 175-year history. The Ministry of the Interior said in a statement that it had appointed Maria Gamez, formerly the central government representative in the southern province of Malaga, as the “first woman” a the helm of the 80,000-strong force. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, in office since June 2018, has made feminism and the promotion of women to positions of power a cornerstone of his policies.

UNITED STATES

Four killed in shooting

Four people were killed and another wounded in a shooting at a home in Utah on Friday night, with the suspect taken into custody, police and media reported. The attack took place in the small town of Grantsville, on the outskirts of the state capital, Salt Lake City. “Officers arrived, they did clear the residence and were able to locate the four deceased,” Grantsville police officer Rhonda Fields said. Police were working to notify relatives and the fifth victim was being treated in hospital, Fields said. She did not confirm media reports that the attacker and victims were all from the same family.

UNITED STATES

Disney to rename Fox

Disney is to rename 20th Century Fox to distance its film studio from the assets of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, US media reported on Friday. The entertainment conglomerate last year acquired most of the assets of 21st Century Fox group, including the film house, while former owner Murdoch and his shareholders kept several TV channels, including Fox News. Variety magazine reported that Disney decided to rename its subsidiary to remove all links with Fox due to the conservative image of Murdoch and his Fox News channel. Disney’s decision is a symbolic step for one of Hollywood’s founding studios, which began production in 1914 and merged with 20th Century Pictures in 1935.

GREECE

Official Web sites targeted

Turkish hackers on Friday claimed to have hijacked for more than 90 minutes the official Web sites of the parliament, the foreign affairs and economy ministries, as well as the country’s stock exchange. The hacker group said on Twitter that “Greece is threatening Turkey in the Aegean Sea and in the eastern Mediterranean. And now it’s threatening the conference on Libya.” The hacking came as Libyan General Khalifa Haftar held talks in Athens, two days ahead of a peace conference in Berlin, which he and the head of UN-recognized Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj are expected to attend. Ankara is providing military support for the government of Sarraj.

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UK to issue Brexit coin, fly Union Flag

TOLL-FREE:Boris Johnson urged his supporters to raise funds so that Big Ben could be bonged to mark Brexit, but officials later said the money cannot be spent on a state asset
The Union Flag flutters near the clockface of Big Ben during renovations to the Tower and the Houses of Parliament in London on Thursday.Photo: AFP
The UK is to issue special coins, fly the Union Flag and project a countdown clock on the walls of Downing Street — but not bong Big Ben — on Brexit night, the British government said on Friday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson would also deliver a special address to the nation, his office said, ending days of debate about how to mark the country’s delayed departure from the EU.

“January 31st is a significant moment in our history as the United Kingdom leaves the EU and regains its independence,” a government statement said. “The government intends to use this as a moment to heal divisions, reunite communities and look forward to the country that we want to build over the next decade.”

Brexit supporters are crowdfunding a campaign to get Big Ben — mostly silent since 2017 as its clock tower undergoes restoration work — to strike at 11pm when Brexit finally happens.

It had raised almost half of the ￡500,000 (US$650,775) it could cost to get the clock’s ringing devices reinstalled and the floor supporting its workers set back up.

The idea has infuriated those who voted against Brexit in the 2016 EU membership referendum, and the British government has distanced itself from the campaign after initially coming out in strong support.

Instead, plans were laid out for what it said would be “a clock counting down to 11pm projected onto the black bricks of Downing Street.”

Her Majesty’s Treasury would also release commemorative Brexit coins reading: “Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations.”

Johnson, who was one of the Brexit campaign figureheads in 2016, “is expected to be one of the first to receive the new coin on the day,” the British government said.

His team was reportedly forced to melt down the coins prepared for Oct. 31 last year — the day Johnson originally promised to deliver Brexit after coming to power in July that year.

It had already been delayed twice by then, costing former British prime minister Theresa May her job.

Looking past Brexit, the Cabinet is to hold a special meeting on Jan. 31 at a still-undisclosed location in the north of England, which formed the bedrock of Brexit support.

The Conservative Party won over the north’s traditionally Labour voters as it stormed to victory in a snap general election last month.

The British government is now focused on locking in those votes for the coming years by spending more on regional development programs.

Talks to thrash out a new trade deal between London and Brussels are due to begin by early March, once the formal divorce is in place.

However, first, Johnson must temper the anger of Brexit supporters who rallied around his call on Tuesday to crowdfund “a Big Ben bong,” which is estimated to cost ￡50,000 a peal.

“It’s ridiculous, isn’t it? The prime minister said: ‘If the people can raise the money then it can happen,’” Brexit Party Chairman Richard Tice said. “And now, grungy bureaucrats in the House of Parliament said: Oh no, that’s all a bit scary, even if you raise the money you can’t spend it on a state asset. It’s ridiculous.”

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Irregular migration to EU at lowest level since 2013

BORDER FORCE:While the total number of immigrants fell 92 percent from 2015, the number of those entering the bloc from its eastern borders increased 46 percent
The level of arrivals of irregular immigrants to the EU last year dropped to its lowest level since 2013, the bloc’s border security agency, Frontex, said on Friday.

At the same time, the number of migrants sent back to their country of origin has risen, Frontex Executive Director Farbice Leggeri told a news conference in Brussels.

However, a breakdown of the figures for last year showed that, while overall arrivals at the EU’s external borders had declined 92 percent from the massive spike recorded in 2015, that was due to a big cut in migrants trying to cross from the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Italy or Spain.

There were still sustained numbers trying to enter the EU along its eastern rim, through Greece, Bulgaria and Cyprus, where border crossings were 46 percent higher than in 2018, and a similar jump was noted for Croatia and Hungary.

Afghans and Syrians were the biggest groups entering the bloc, Leggeri said, adding that conflict and political instability were driving the influx.

Increasingly adverse conditions for Afghans in Iran and Pakistan were also spurring their movement.

Leggeri said that returns were at a record level, with 15,850 being sent back, many on commercial flights, which he hailed as “an extremely effective” method.

Germany, Italy, France and Belgium topped the EU countries availing themselves of Frontex’s returns operations, with the main countries taking back their nationals being Albania, Tunisia and Georgia.

Leggeri said that Frontex’s mission would be significantly beefed up from next year, when the agency’s first full-time uniformed staff of border and coast guard officers would start being deployed.

That corps, recruited from 7,500 applicants over the past three months and soon to be trained up, would supplement national border forces when EU member states in the Schengen zone need help.

The Frontex force, to eventually be built up to 10,000 over the next seven years, can also be called on to assist countries outside the EU’s borders when requested.

However, Leggeri said that Frontex would need sufficient funding from the EU’s long-term 2021-2027 budget that is the subject of heated negotiations between members states.

Some EU countries are balking at how much more they would have to cough up to cover some of the 84 billion euro (US$93 billion) shortfall over the next seven years to be caused by the UK’s exit from the bloc.

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Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, talks during an interview in London on Jan. 9.Photo: Reuters
Former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos has denied links to alleged public company embezzlement during his rule, in his first response to corruption investigators last month freezing his daughter’s assets.

Isabel dos Santos, the ex-president’s billionaire first-born, has been the target of an anti-corruption campaign led by her father’s successor, Angolan President Joao Lourenco.

She is accused of using state-owned companies to divert more than US$1 billion for her personal enrichment, allegations that she denies and calls part of a political vendetta.

The investigation is looking at alleged irregularities involving diamond marketing firm Sodiam and Sonangol — Angola’s national oil company, which was handed over to Isabel dos Santos by her father in 2016.

In a letter to the Angolan National Assembly and its Constitutional Court, Jose Eduardo dos Santos distanced himself from investigations into illicit enrichment during his rule.

It was the first time that he has responded to allegations surrounding his daughter, who has repeatedly claimed her innocence.

“The [former] president of the Republic... had no direct participation in diamond sales,” the ex-president stated in the letter, dated Jan. 13 and seen by reporters on Friday.

He also denied “participation in the sale of crude oil” produced by Sonangol, saying that revenue was monitored by the Angolan Minister of Finance and only incorporated into the state budget after parliament’s approval.

“The [former] president of the Republic... has never transferred [money] to himself or to any other state,” he added. “[Those] who said he did it lied.”

Lourenco forced Isabel dos Santos out of the state oil firm within months of coming to power in 2017. He has since launched a purge of his predecessor’s administration.

Jose Eduardo dos Santos ruled the oil-rich southern African country with an iron fist for 38 years.

During this time, top positions were awarded to the ex-president’s cronies and wealth accumulated in the hands of a select few.

Last month, prosecutors froze the bank accounts and holdings owned by Isabel dos Santos and her Congolese husband Sindika Dokolo.

The ex-president’s children have said that they have been unfairly targeted.

His son, Jose Filomeno, is being tried for allegedly embezzling US$500 million from the Angolan Sovereign Wealth Fund, which he oversaw from 2013 to 2018.

Nicknamed “Zenu,” he is the first member of the Dos Santos family to be prosecuted and faces a maximum of 12 years in jail if found guilty.

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title: Off-duty HK police officer arrested for backing protests

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An off-duty Hong Kong police officer on Friday was arrested along with seven other people as they tried to put pro-democracy posters on a footbridge, police said.

It is the first known case of a police officer being apprehended for supporting the massive demonstrations that have led to more than 6,500 arrests in the past seven months.

The officer, 31, and the seven other people, aged 14 to 61, were arrested at 3am on Friday in Hong Kong’s Tuen Mun District.

The people were accused of “possessing objects with intent to damage or destroy property,” and suspected of attempting to damage a footbridge, police said in a statement.

Police said that they found the group in possession of posters, plastic scrapers, gloves and electric drills, and that all eight were still in detention for further investigation as of Friday night.

Local media reported that the group was trying to build a “Lennon wall” — a collage of pro-democracy visual art.

“The police force attaches great emphasis to its members’ professional ethics,” the police said in the statement.

Any breaking of the law must be handled “seriously and justly,” they added.

Among the thousands of protesters who have been arrested, 41 have been civil servants, including 24 from disciplines such as the fire services.

No police officers had been arrested, despite complaints of blinding some protesters, driving a motorcycle into a march and showing a reporter’s ID card to a camera on a live broadcast.

Any accusation of police brutality would not be accepted, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥) said on Thursday, adding that the Hong Kong Police Force has been smeared.

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Two Baghdad protesters killed

NEW ESCALATION?Political factions in Iraq have yet to reach a consensus on a new prime minister, but organizers have struggled to bring large crowds to Tahrir Square
People walk past protesters staging a sit-in at Tahrir Square during anti-government demonstrations in Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday.Photo: AP
Two protesters were killed and more than a dozen wounded in central Baghdad on Friday in renewed violence between anti-government demonstrators and Iraqi security forces, activists and officials said. The deaths followed weeks of calm.

Riot police fired tear gas and hurled sound bombs to disperse crowds on the strategic Sinak Bridge after protesters attempted to breach cement barriers previously erected by security forces, causing the casualties, activists and medical and security officials said.

Two protesters were killed and at least 20 wounded, three activists and a security official said.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

The violence on Friday broke a period of relative calm between protesters and security after tensions soared between Tehran and Washington following a US drone strike early this month that killed former Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

Both countries showed signs of de-escalation after Iran retaliated by attacking two military Iraqi bases hosting US troops without causing fatalities.

Mass protests engulfed Baghdad and the predominately Shiite southern provinces on Oct. 1 last year, when thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to decry rampant government corruption, scarcity of jobs and poor basic services.

At least 500 have died at the hands of security forces, that have fired live ammunition, tear gas and sound bombs over the course of the four-month protest movement.

Demonstrators are demanding sweeping reforms, new leadership and snap elections.

Since November, protesters have occupied three strategic bridges in Baghdad — the Sinak, Ahrar and Jumhunriyah bridges — leading to or near the fortified Green Zone, the seat of Iraq’s government, in a standoff with security forces.

In an attempt to bring back focus to the goals of the protest movement, anti-government protesters in the southern city of Nasiriyah gave the government a week’s deadline to take serious steps to implement changes.

The deadline runs out early next week.

The movement has been successful in bringing about key changes, but it remains to be seen whether protesters can keep up the momentum amid regional tensions and political infighting.

Pressure from the protests triggered the resignation of now-caretaker Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, after Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, withdrew support for his government.

Political factions have yet to reach a consensus on a new candidate to replace Abdul-Mahdi.

In late December last year, the Iraqi parliament approved a new election law aimed at giving political independents a better chance of winning seats, a key demand of protesters. Once implemented, the new law would change each of the country’s 18 provinces into several electoral districts, with one legislator elected per 100,000 people.

However, protest organizers have struggled in recent weeks to bring large crowds to Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the movement, sparking fears that the movement might be losing momentum.

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title: NBA reportedly delays vote on changes to schedule

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The National Basketball Association does not plan to vote on major schedule changes at meeting of team owners in April, but still hopes to install them by the league’s 75th anniversary in 2021, ESPN reported on Friday.

Citing unnamed sources, the sports television network’s Web site said that the league informed clubs on Friday that it would study and talk over such changes as an in-season tournament modeled after European soccer, reseeding of playoff teams in the conference finals and a play-in tournament to expand the post-season beyond 16 of its 30 clubs.

The NBA needs a two-thirds majority of owners to implement changes ahead of the 2021-2022 season. The league has talked over variations of the plans with the players union and telecasters and will do so with hopes of making a presentation to team owners in April even without plans for a vote.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver has backed the in-season tournament for years, but deciding a time for the event has been a sticking point, with late November to mid-December and Christmas into mid-January as ideas, ESPN reported.

The NBA would trim the regular season from 82 games per club to 78 to allow room on the calendar for the in-season event and play-in games, where lower-finishing clubs could compete for the final spots in a playoff field of 16.

Some team owners are concerned about financial losses from having two fewer home games, but the NBA figures new revenue streams — such as an event sponsor and higher broadcast rights fees for the in-season event and extra play-in games — could more than offset any lost game revenue.

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UK police’s use of facial recognition is testing public tolerance

When British police used facial recognition cameras to monitor crowds arriving for a soccer match in Wales, some fans protested by covering their faces.

In a sign of the technology’s divisiveness, even the head of a neighboring police force said that he opposed it.

The South Wales police deployed vans equipped with the technology outside Cardiff City Stadium on Sunday last week as part of a long-running trial in which officers scanned people in real time and detained anyone blacklisted from attending for past misbehavior.

Rights activists and team supporters staged a protest before the game between Cardiff City and Swansea City, wearing masks, balaclavas or scarves around their faces.

“It’s disproportionate to the risk,” said Vince Alm, chairman of the Football Supporters’ Association Wales, which helped organized the protest.

“Football fans feel as if they’re being picked on” and used as guinea pigs to test new technology, he said.

The real-time surveillance being tested in Britain is among the more aggressive uses of facial recognition in Western democracies and raises questions about how the technology will enter people’s daily lives.

Authorities and companies are eager to use it, but activists warn it threatens human rights.

The British have long become used to video surveillance, with one of the highest densities of closed-circuit television cameras in the world.

Cameras have been used in public spaces for decades by security forces fighting threats from the Irish Republican Army and, more recently, domestic terror attacks after Sept. 11, 2001.

The recent advances in surveillance technology mean a new wave of facial recognition systems is likely to put the public’s acceptance to the test.

South Wales police have taken the lead in Britain. In 2017, they started rolling out and testing face scanning cameras after getting a government funding grant.

While a court last year ruled the force’s trial is lawful, regulators and lawmakers have yet to draw up statutory rules on its use.

The van-mounted cameras, using technology by Japan’s NEC Corp, scan faces in crowds and match them up with a “watch list,” a database mainly of people wanted for or suspected of a crime.

If the system flags up someone passing by, officers stop that person to investigate further, the force’s Web site says.

Rights groups say this kind of monitoring raises worries about privacy, consent and algorithmic accuracy, as well as questions about about how faces are added to watch lists.

It is “an alarming example of overpolicing,” said Silkie Carlo, director of privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch. “We’re deeply concerned about the undemocratic nature of it. This is a very controversial technology, which has no explicit basis in law.”

Her group has scrutinized other British police trials, including one by the London Metropolitan force last year, when officers pulled aside a man who tried to hide his face.

They ended up fining him for a public order offense , the group said.

North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones said that using facial recognition to take pictures of soccer fans was a “fishing expedition.”

He also raised concerns about false positives.

British police and crime commissioners are civilians elected to oversee and scrutinize the country’s dozens of forces. They were introduced in 2012 to improve accountability.

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Asian markets end week broadly up

OPTIMISM:The signing of a ‘phase one’ US-China trade agreement, improvement in global economies and lower rates have contributed to a sunnier outlook for equities
Asian equities on Friday rose as investors, still buoyed by a China-US trade deal, turned their focus to earnings season and the global outlook, while they were also cheered by data indicating that China’s economy appears to be stabilizing.

Apart from last week’s blip caused by the US assassination of a top Iranian general, markets have enjoyed a strong start to the new decade, building on a rally late last year.

The gains have been fanned by the “phase one” trade agreement, as well as signs of improvement in worldwide economies, lower interest rates, government stimulus and easing Brexit concerns.

With the prospect of a healthy batch of company reports, there are hopes for further advances.

“It’s very hard to be bearish here,” Federated Investors Management senior equity strategist Linda Duessel told Bloomberg TV.

“We could have really good earnings surprises to the upside” as more profit reports roll in, she said.

All three main indices on Wall Street on Thursday ended at record highs, boosted by the US Senate’s approval of a new North American free-trade deal, while Google parent Alphabet Inc joined Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp to become a trillion-dollar firm for the first time.

The positive energy funneled through to Asia, where most markets ended broadly up.

In Taipei, the TAIEX on Friday closed up 23.36 points, or 0.2 percent, at 12,090.29, rising 0.5 percent from a close of 12,024.65 a week earlier. Turnover totaled NT$131.27 billion (US$4.38 billion).

In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng on Friday gained 173.38 points, or 0.6 percent, to 29,056.42, surging 1.5 percent from a close of 28,638.20 on Jan. 10.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 on Friday rose 108.13 points, or 0.5 percent, at 24,041.26, a jump of 0.8 percent from 23,850.57 a week earlier.

The Shanghai Composite on Friday edged up 1.41 points, or 0.1 percent, to 3,075.50, but slid 0.5 percent from 3,092.2 on Jan. 10.

Seoul’s KOSPI on Friday rose 2.52 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,250.57, surging 2 percent from 2,206.39 a week earlier.

Sydney added 0.3 percent, with Mumbai, Bangkok, Wellington and Manila also well up.

Beijing added to the mood, releasing data showing that the world’s No. 2 economy expanded 6.1 percent last year.

While that was the slowest pace in three decades and well down from 6.6 percent in 2018, it was in line with expectations and the government’s target.

The 6 percent growth for the October-to-December quarter was the same as the previous quarter, while traders were also cheered by figures showing a better-than-forecast rise in retail sales, industrial output and investment.

The slowdown in growth in China has been a major headache for investors over the past few years, as the country’s leaders struggle with the US trade war, slowing global demand and a worrying debt mountain.

Still, while there is hope that this year could see healthy advances for equities, some doubt remains.

Progress on the next round of US-China talks “will continue to hog the limelight in 2020,” said AxiTrader chief Asia market strategist Stephen Innes, who added that “trade discussions between the US and the EU remain open-ended, while the commencement of bilateral EU and the UK trade discussions could get thorny.”

“But perhaps the real elephant in the room, the US [presidential] election in November, will also increasingly preoccupy investors as we move through the year,” he said.

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title: Rent forces LGBT bookshop out of Paris neighborhood

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The Saint-Jacques Tower stands amid buildings in the Marais district in Paris on Feb. 27 last year.Photo: AFP
In the window of France’s best-known gay bookshop, above the display of Lucian Freud art books, opera singer Maria Callas’ memoirs and a history of the pride movement, a poster warned in giant red letters: “Cultural heritage in danger.”

An urgent note on the door added: “We need your help!”

Les Mots a La Bouche, a 40-year-old Paris institution, is the top LGBT bookshop in France and considered one of the best in the world — a focal point of Paris’ historic gay neighborhood in the Marais district.

However, as property speculation in central Paris reaches dizzying heights — it is estimated that at certain times of year there are more Airbnb rentals than residents in the Marais — the bookshop is being forced out by rising rents.

Its departure is a blow to Paris’ gay community as advocates warn that central Paris is destroying its cultural identity by allowing luxury fashion shops aimed at rich tourists to force out local businesses, including gay bars.

As the local cabaret star, Yvette Leglaire, said: “The gay Marais is dying.”

The Paris tourist board still promotes the Marais as “an authentic yet trendy little village,” but its gay scene, which began in the 1980s when the area was still working-class, shabby and cheap, is slowly being eroded.

Several historic gay bars have closed in the past few years as fashion labels from Lacoste to Chanel move in.

The Marais’ Jewish area, situated around Rue des Rosiers, is not immune, with commercial rents doubling between 2012 and 2018.

There are fears that, as with Barcelona or Venice, property speculation and commercial pursuit of profit from tourism will strip central Paris of its originality and local appeal.

One long-term resident said that the onslaught of luxury fashion brands is turning the Marais into “a giant, open-air duty-free shop.”

Sebastien Grisez, manager at Les Mots a La Bouche, said: “Paris City Hall promotes the gay history of the Marais and it has painted the crossroads here in rainbow colors, but no longer having our bookshop here seems absurd.”

The shop, which has been in the Marais since 1983, is open seven days a week until 11pm and stocks more than 16,000 titles.

However, like many historic gay bars that closed under pressure from rising rents, the shop has been given until March to find a new location elsewhere in Paris.

There are rumors that a Doc Marten shoe shop will take its place.

“Ten years ago, there were far more gay bars here, now only a few are left. It’s true that gay sociology is changing — people are more spread out, there is perhaps less need to meet in bars when you can meet on apps. But even so, people regret that this neighborhood meeting point is disappearing,” Grisez said.

Alain Lesturgez, who works for the forestry federation, has been coming to the bookshop for 20 years.

“This move would be the end of an era. It’s a place where a bookseller would take time to advise you. Once, the Marais had a lot of life, but now the luxury shops make it look the same as many other places in the world,” he said.

At the Open Bar, a historic gay venue set up by rights activist Sebastien Fossa, the manager, said: “The neighborhood is increasingly losing its soul. It started out as a working-class neighborhood. Gradually, the arrival of luxury brands has broken the dynamic here.”

Faycal Khiatine, who runs nearby gay bar Cox, said: “When a bookshop leaves, it’s daily neighborhood life that will lose out.””

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Brazilian culture minister quits over ‘Nazi quotes’

‘CULTURAL WAR’:Roberto Alvim said that he detested the Nazi regime, but added that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’ words, in themselves, were perfect
Brazilian Secretary of Culture Roberto Alvim resigned on Friday over a speech in which he appeared to quote Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

In a video, Alvim, a member of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, announced a new arts funding program to the background of music by Richard Wagner, a composer many associate with Nazism.

“Brazil art over the next decade will be heroic and national,” Alvim said, sitting behind a desk as he stared intensely at the camera, with a picture of Bolsonaro behind him, a Brazilian flag to one side and two-barred cross to the other.

“It will be endowed with a great capacity for emotional involvement and will also be imperative, because it will be profoundly linked to the urgent aspirations of our people, or it will be nothing,” he said, speaking in Portuguese.

The wording was similar to phrases attributed to Goebbels in a biography written by German holocaust expert Peter Longerich and published originally in German in 2010.

“German art over the next decade will be heroic, it will be resolutely romantic, it will be objective and free of sentimentality,” Goebbels was quoted in the book as saying in German. “It will be national with great poignancy and also imperative or it will be nothing.”

Having initially claimed any similarities between the two speeches were a “rhetorical coincidence,” Alvim later stepped down.

“Given the huge discomfort caused by this unfortunate episode, I presented my immediate resignation,” Alvim wrote on Facebook. “I deeply repudiate any totalitarian regime and declare my absolute repugnance of the Nazi regime.”

Earlier, Brazilian House of Deputies President Rodrigo Maia called for Alvim to be sacked over the speech, which lasted several minutes.

The Israeli Confederation of Brazil, which represents Jews in the country, described the comments as “unacceptable” and also demanded his removal.

Alvim initially blamed the furor on “the left” and said the similarities were “a fallacy of remote association.”

“The whole speech is based on a nationalist ideal for Brazilian art and there was a coincidence with one phrase from a speech by Goebbels... I didn’t quote him and I never would,” he said.

However, Alvim admitted he was a fan of what Goebbels said.

“The phrase, in itself, is perfect: Heroism and the people’s aspirations is what we want to see in national art.”

Bolsonaro described the speech on Twitter as “an unfortunate statement” and said it made Alvim’s position “untenable.”

The Brazilian president, too, expressed “rejection of totalitarian and genocidal ideologies, such as Nazism and communism.”

Alvim had struck an unexpectedly solemn tone in the speech, which announced the creation of an arts prize worth 20 million reals (US$4.8 million).

When taking on his current role in November last year, he promised to launch a “cultural war” against progressiveness and vowed to align public policy to conservative values.

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title: Taiwan in Time: Fixing the KMT, 1950 edition

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Committee members work on planning the restructuring of the Chinese Nationalist Party in August 1950.Photo courtesy of National Central Library

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Party members calling for the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to reform after last week’s elections have been using the word gaizao (改造) — the exact same phrase the party used 70 years ago for its two-year restructuring plan.

Although using the same word, the nature and circumstances of the two events are vastly different. In 1950, the KMT had just retreated to Taiwan after losing the Chinese Civil War, and its leader Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) has just resumed his presidency on March 1.

Chen Sheau-huey (陳曉慧) writes in “Revolution from the top down: a study on the reform of Kuomintang” (由上而下的革命：中國國民黨改造之研究), “After losing China, could the KMT discard its old baggage, shed its weak and corrupt image and create a new opportunity to oppose the communists and reclaim their country?” The KMT even considered changing its name to signal a new beginning at one point, but ultimately decided not to.

Chen writes that historians generally offer two different takes on the results. One side states that the restructuring process gave the KMT new life to secure its footing in Taiwan, and using the island as a centralized base, the party was able to build Taiwan’s economy and launch it to prosperity. Critics, however, say that it merely led to a redistribution of power within the KMT that allowed Chiang to rule Taiwan as a strongman.

Nevertheless, “by the end of the process in October 1952, the reformed KMT essentially had complete control over the Republic of China government as well as Taiwan,” Chen writes.

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Chiang originally drafted the party restructuring plan in July 1949 to better deal with the ongoing Chinese Civil War, but after the KMT’s expulsion from China, he had to reconsider the entire operation. A new plan was devised in January 1950.

By then, the Korean War was underway and the US had changed its policy on not helping Taiwan, sending the Taiwan Patrol Force to keep both sides from attacking each other. Chiang took this lull in action to launch the plan.

Chiang notes in the plan’s introduction that this would be the KMT’s sixth such restructuring, the first taking place in 1914 when founder Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙) established the Chinese Revolutionary Party in exile after the demise of the Nationalist Party.

“In the past 40 years, every time our country’s survival and the success of our national revolution was at stake, we dedicated ourselves to party reform,” he writes.

Aside from internal instability caused by government misrule after World War II and the massive influx of refugees from China, the party was also plagued by infighting that intensified after World War II. Chen lists four major factions within the party when the reform began, most notably the CC Clique led by brothers Chen Kuo-fu (陳果夫) and Chen Li-fu (陳立夫), whose uncle was an early mentor of Chiang. The KMT believed that internal discord, in addition to disconnect with the general populace, was the main reason they lost the Chinese Civil War.

On Aug. 5, 1950, the 16-person restructuring committee began its work. Chen writes that the committee was made up of relatively young and well-educated party members with close ties to Chiang, including then-premier Chen Cheng (陳誠) and Chiang’s son, Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國).

In September, the KMT announced its updated political objectives: “To reform the organization of the party, to establish discipline within the party, to change the party’s operational methods, and transform the party into a powerful fighting body that carried out the Three Principles of the People,” as well as “stabilizing and developing Taiwan.”


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An avalanche in Nepal’s Annapurna region has left at least seven people missing, including four South Koreans and three Nepalese, officials said yesterday.

The incident occurred at an altitude of about 3,230m close to the base camp for Annapurna — one of the highest peaks in the Himalayas — following heavy snowfall on Friday.

“We are getting reports that four South Koreans and three Nepalis are out of contact after the incident. A rescue team was dispatched last night,” Mira Dhakal of the Nepalese Department of Tourism said.

At least one Chinese national injured in the avalanche was rescued by helicopter, it said.

The avalanche hit along the popular Annapurna circuit trekking route, which encircles Mount Annapurna.

Rescuers have so far been able to pick up 30 trekkers trapped on a trail blocked by the avalanche and to fly them to safety.

Kaski Superintendent of Police Dan Bahadur Karki said that poor weather was hampering rescue efforts.

“The team is on its way. We also have a helicopter on standby to take off if the weather improves,” Karki said.

Annapurna is an avalanche-prone and technically difficult mountain, and has a higher death rate than Everest, the world’s tallest peak.

Education officials in South Korea said that their four missing compatriots were part of a team of volunteer teachers working with children in Nepal.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday said that information received so far indicates that four South Koreans and two Sherpa guides have been hospitalized, with three mountain climbers from Taiwan having reported that they are safe.

Its representative office in India is closely monitoring the situation and in contact with the authorities, the ministry added.

Additional reporting by staff writer and AP

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title: India-Malaysia Davos meet likely in palm oil row

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A worker unloads a truck of palm fruit at an oil factory in Salak Tinggi, Malaysia, on Aug. 4, 2014.Photo: Reuters
Trade ministers from India and Malaysia are likely to meet this week on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, amid a palm oil spat between the two countries, a Malaysian government spokesman said on Friday.

Hindu-majority India has repeatedly objected to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaking out against its policies, which critics have said discriminate against Muslims.

Malaysia, a Muslim-majority nation, is the second-biggest producer and exporter of palm oil, and restrictions that India last week imposed on the refined variety of palm oil have been seen as retaliation for Mahathir’s criticism of New Delhi’s actions.

Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Thursday denied that the government was trying to hit out specifically at Malaysia.

Nevertheless, on Friday, the row between the countries pushed benchmark Malaysian palm futures to its biggest weekly decline in more than 11 years.

No agenda has been set for the proposed meeting on Friday between Goyal and Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry Darell Leiking, Malaysian Ministry of International Trade and Industry spokesman said, adding that the request for a meeting had come from India.

An Indian government source confirmed that a meeting between the two is likely, while an Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.

Media reports on Thursday said that Malaysia did not want to escalate the palm spat with India by talking of any retaliation for now, after Mahathir’s media adviser called for tighter regulations on Indian expatriates and products. Malaysia instead wants to rely on diplomacy.

A separate Indian government source said that it was also important to New Delhi to talk things out with Malaysia.

“We too have a lot to lose in Malaysia, there are 2 million Indian-origin people there,” the source said.

A total of 117,733 Indian nationals were registered as foreign labor in Malaysia as of June last year, accounting for nearly 6 percent of the total foreign workforce in the country, while ethnic Malaysian-Indians are the third-largest community in the Southeast Asian country.

Another reason for the frosty ties between the countries is the continued presence of controversial Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Naik in Malaysia, one of the sources said.

Naik, who faces charges of money laundering and hate speech in India, has lived in Malaysia for more than three years and has permanent residency in the country. He denies the Indian accusations.

The sources declined to be identified as they were not authorized to talk to the media.

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NTU, Fu Jen best public, private schools: recruiters

National Taiwan University (NTU) and Fu Jen Catholic University are the top public and private institutions for graduate employability, a survey released on Friday by the online 1111 Job Bank (1111人力銀行) showed.

The survey of corporate recruiters ranked NTU first among public universities, followed by National Cheng Kung University, National Chengchi University, National Tsing Hua University and National Chiao Tung University.

Fu Jen in New Taipei City took the top rating for private institutions favored by Taiwanese employers, followed by Chung Yuan Christian University, Soochow University, Feng Chia University and Tamkang University.

The survey, which was conducted between Oct. 16 and Nov. 20 last year, collected valid responses from 1,940 corporate executives and employers based in Taiwan.

NTU’s placement on the list is not surprising, as it is the most prestigious and comprehensive institution in the nation, 1111 Job Bank career development and public relations head Daniel Lee (李大華) said.

As for Fu Jen, Lee said that it is well known as one of the few private institutions with a hospital on campus, and is also one of the largest in terms of the number of colleges it has.

However, Lee cautioned that while coming from a prestigious school could add some points to an applicant’s resume, roughly 60 percent of the recruiters polled said that allure would fade after a year.

By that time, employers would be focused on how their recruits handled stress and work life, and judge them on their character and whether they are easy to communicate with, he added.

At the end of the day, it is not only about the school from where a candidate has a degree, but about how competent they are on the job, Lee said.

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people: 卓榮泰 陳菊 蘇嘉全 蔡英文 游錫堃 蔡其昌 蘇貞昌

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Premier dismisses media report on appeasing China

NO OPINIONS NEEDED:’President Tsai will have new plans and take new measures. Other countries should not poke their noses into this,’ Premier Su Tseng-chang said
Premier Su Tseng-chang takes a picture of him and his wife, Chan Hsiu-ling, during a visit to the Pingtung Tropical Agriculture Exhibition in Pingtung County’s Changjhih Township yesterday.Photo courtesy of the Pingtung County Government via CNA
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday dismissed a newspaper report that said the only way for President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration to show goodwill toward China would be to reshuffle the Cabinet.

The president does not need the opinion of other countries to make plans, Su added.

Citing an anonymous “key cross-strait policymaker” in the government, the Chinese-language United Daily News yesterday reported that the only way Tsai’s administration could extend its goodwill toward China would be through a Cabinet reshuffle.

Beijing could reciprocate by lifting a ban on individual travelers to Taiwan, as well as allowing larger tour groups and more officials handling Taiwan affairs to visit the nation, the United Daily quoted the source as saying.

Tsai would likely accept the goodwill of Beijing, which controls the situation, the source was quoted as saying.

“Taiwan is a sovereign nation... At the start of her second term, President Tsai will have new plans and take new measures. Other countries should not poke their noses into this,” Su said in response to media queries about the report.

The Chinese-language China Times yesterday reported that Tsai would likely be re-elected as Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairperson, while Legislative Speaker Su Jia-chyuan (蘇嘉全) would replace Chen Chu (陳菊), who plans to retire, as Presidential Office secretary-general.

Su Tseng-chang would stay on as premier, while former premier Yu Shyi-kun (游錫堃) would be named legislative speaker and would share the duty of presiding over legislative proceedings with Deputy Legislative Speaker Tsai Chi-chang (蔡其昌), the report said.

DPP Chairman Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) would likely become a Cabinet member, as he has extensive administrative experience and was instrumental in securing the DPP’s election victories on Saturday last week, it said.

Asked for his thoughts on Su Jia-chyuan becoming Presidential Office secretary-general, Su Tseng-chang said that Su Jia-chyuan is a very capable person, but that he would respect Tsai’s plans.

Asked about members of the DPP’s former New Tide faction having been left out of any reshuffle and whether the move was aimed at balancing power among the factions, Su Tseng-chang said the party would not give in to factionalism after winning the elections.

As a democratic party, rivalry within the party would inevitably spark competition between factions, but the DPP must prioritize the expectations of the people, who just gave Tsai another term, the premier said.

Tsai would certainly base her actions on public opinion and make any plans based on each government official’s expertise, he said.

The Presidential Office yesterday rejected the China Times’ report.

The office would respect the autonomy of the legislature and the caucuses in electing the legislative speaker, Presidential Office spokesman Xavier Chang (張惇涵) said, adding that the report was baseless.

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HK teachers live in fear for backing protests

‘WATCH OUT’:His personal information revealed online although his anti-police posts were only viewable to his friends on Facebook, ‘Nelson’ now gets threats from strangers
Primary-school teacher “Nelson,” who asked to be identified by a pseudonym, poses for a photograph as he joins colleagues taking part in a rally to support teachers at Hong Kong’s Edinburgh Place on Jan. 3.Photo: AFP
Hong Kong’s teachers say that they are living in fear as the territory’s pro-democracy protests rumble on, with some not daring to discuss the movement and others anxious that they could even lose their jobs if they are caught supporting it.

The education sector has always been at the vanguard of the financial hub’s pro-democracy fight, with teachers and students taking to the streets in 2012 to oppose a government order for schools to teach classes that praised China’s communist history while criticizing democracy movements.

Out of the 6,500 people arrested since the wave of protests that started in June last year, about one-third are students and about 80 are teachers, police said.

Millions have participated in demonstrations sparked by opposition to a now-abandoned proposal to allow extraditions to mainland China, protests that have morphed into wider demands for greater democratic freedoms and police accountability.

Primary-school teacher Nelson is facing disciplinary proceedings for writing Facebook posts critical of the police, telling reporters that he is under investigation by the Hong Kong Education Bureau following an anonymous tip.

Nelson, who asked to be identified with a pseudonym, has no idea who made the complaint, although the posts were only viewable to his Facebook friends.

The complainant — who said they were a parent — presented screen grabs of Nelson’s private posts expressing anger at police behavior.

After their own probe, Nelson’s school confirmed that he had not discussed politics in class with students — but the education bureau is still pushing him to explain every post.

“I think they [the authorities] have gone too far... When I get off work, I am off duty. Just like the police, when they are off-duty, they can also express their views on Weibo,” Nelson said.

He has now deactivated his Facebook account and has become extra careful with what he posts on other networks, including not writing the word “police.”

His caution echoes that of some Cathay Pacific personnel last year who said that they were deleting their social media accounts after former colleagues said that they were fired for supporting pro-democracy protesters.

Earning more than HK$30,000 (US$3,862) a month from his first permanent teaching job, Nelson fears losing his post, while waiting for the authority’s final verdict.

His and his family’s personal information have also been disclosed online, leading to dozens of menacing calls a day.

“Some threatened that they knew where I live and told me to ‘watch out,’” Nelson said.

Hong Kong Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung (楊潤雄) has vowed harsher disciplinary action for arrested teachers — including revoking their teaching licenses — and spoke about what he called “a small number of black sheep in the education sector.”

Yeung told lawmakers that most of the complaints about teachers’ professional misconduct involved “inappropriate messages posted on social media, such as hate, malicious or abusive messages and messages that promote violence.”

Yeung said that what the education bureau has been doing did not violate teachers’ freedom of speech, because “the moral values displayed by teachers in a private forum are also part of their professional conduct.”

However, he has also said that “using biased teaching materials” could trigger an investigation, leading to concerns that classes about protests, democracy and social justice movements might be risky.

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title: 癱瘓卻超陽光！輪椅男孩夜市賣刮刮樂 媽媽當「助手」

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〔記者陳鳳麗／南投報導〕南投縣草屯鎮、南投市的夜市，常可看到輪椅男孩蔡承恩賣刮刮樂彩券的身影，受傷癱瘓的他，有媽媽汪依容當助手，幫他收錢、找錢、拿彩券，母子默契十足。蔡承恩說，賣刮刮樂彩券收入雖不多，但能為別人服務，與人互動，日子過得充實、有意義。

24歲的蔡承恩前年才從國立台中科技大學資管系畢業，他在4歲時出車禍頸椎斷裂，導致行動不便，認真復健後恢復正常行動能力，想不到五專一年級時又不慎跌倒，導致全身癱瘓，從此媽媽汪依容每天伴讀，從他唸專科陪到科大畢業。

有資訊專長的承恩畢業後遞出多張求職履歷，其中有2、3家通知他上班，但媽媽不能全程陪伴，只能在午休時去協助承恩吃飯。承恩上班時間只能包尿布或裝尿袋，汪依容擔心長時間包尿布會有感染問題，只好說服兒子放棄。

因身體狀況而無法發揮所長到科技公司上班，蔡承恩也失意了好幾個月，但後來即決定另覓出路，去夜市賣刮刮樂彩券。

媽媽汪依容全力支持承恩的決定，去年6月草鞋墩人文觀光夜市董事長江欽良免費提供場地讓他賣彩券，承恩在媽媽的幫忙下，開始賣刮刮樂彩券的生活。後來再增加南投市南崗、市區家樂福夜市，現在再加入草屯年貨大街。

蔡承恩全身癱瘓，雙手無力，媽媽充當他的手，客人選好彩券後，收錢、找錢都由媽媽負責，承恩很感謝媽媽無怨無悔地支持、幫助他，汪依容則很佩服承恩既堅強又樂觀，從不喊累也不說苦。

蔡承恩說，賣刮刮樂彩券常有客人噓寒問暖，關心他的身體，叮囑他要穿暖一點，這些關心話語都讓自己很感動。

承恩也說，賣刮刮樂彩券賺的錢不多，但能為別人服務覺得很有意義。儘管收入不多，但仍努力存錢，等存夠錢要帶爸媽和姊姊出國旅遊，感謝他們的幫助與支持。

taiwan-subdivisions: 南投 南投縣 草屯


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冷氣團餘威還在！入夜清晨下探10度
 〔即時新聞／綜合報導〕中央氣象局預報，明(19)日白天冷氣團逐漸減弱，高溫比起今天略有回升，北部及宜花回到18至20度，中南部及台東地區23至26度，降雨以東半部局部短暫雨為主，大台北山區雨勢零星、天氣逐漸好轉。 氣象局預報表示，今夜至明晨由於大氣環境轉乾、風力轉弱，輻射冷卻效應會更加明顯，溫度仍低，中部以北至東北部低溫12至13度，新竹、苗栗一帶部分區域有機率出現接近10度低溫，南部14度左右，花東地區15、16度，且北部3000公尺以上高山路段有結霜發生的機率。 明日因白天冷氣團逐漸減弱，高溫比今天略有回升，北部及宜花回到18至20度，中南部及台東地區23至26度。降雨以東半部局部短暫雨為

死刑廢不廢？蔡英文首度表態
 新頭殼newtalk 死刑存廢一直是台灣正反兩方爭執不休的議題，對此，蔡英文日前接受BBC專訪時被問到付除死刑的議題，她表示「這是一個很棘手的議題。」蔡英文進一步解釋，廢除死刑或許是人們一直想要達成的目標，但問題是這裡大多數的人都不支持。 蔡英文也說，要改變人民的思維，需要很長一段過程與時間，實際上，在民主社會中，需要人民能接受這些想法，才能採取行動。「我想在人民有足夠的信心，覺得可以放心之前，我們很難有足夠的支持採取行動。」   延伸閱讀： 緬甸：認為台灣是中華人民共和國不可分割的部分 「台灣前途由中國人決定？」 王世堅一句話嗆爆國台辦

法拉利姐吃屎哥合開店 開幕日警察就上門
 繼三重開飲料店後，法拉利姐張婷婷今天與網紅吃屎哥一起在桃園中壢舉行合開飲料店開幕及粉絲見面會，就看他們在店門口又唱又跳。大概是音樂聲太大結果引來當地警員過來關切。    雖然寒風颼颼，但是這個飲料攤卻熱力四射，原來是法拉利姐張婷婷，與網紅吃屎哥合作的新店開張。   法拉利姐張婷婷：「（吃屎哥）是住中壢這附近，對那我們想說，就是說開這家飲料店，日後我們就是輪流顧。」   ▼法拉利姐和網紅吃屎哥一起合開飲料店。（圖／東森新聞）   法拉利姐先前在台灣，以餐車販售黑鮑魚香腸，但屢遭檢舉，之後她轉戰大陸開手搖飲料店，又慘賠百萬元，不過她不氣餒，去年在三重開飲料店後，18號她與網紅吃屎哥，在中壢飲料店開

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 下週就將迎來除夕春節年假，農曆春節除了大掃除之外，相信許多當過兵的朋友都知道，各營區之內也有不少不成文的習俗，像是大年初一單位統一著裝運動服、或是不掃地等等，雖然這些規定或許不見得有什麼道理，但總之是一種代代傳承的習慣。接著就來瞧瞧由《DailyView網路溫度計》替大家整理出的新年第一週有哪些禁忌吧！ 大年初一 大年初一早上忌洗頭、洗衣服，有一說是認為這樣會把財運洗掉。另外也不要叫人起床，會讓對方一整年都被催促做事，但也忌諱睡午覺，會慵懶一整年；初一早上還忌吃稀飯，因為古時候窮人才會吃稀飯，有觸霉頭的感覺，同時也忌殺生，最好不要吃葷。此外，還有人認為初一不能吃藥，除非真的生重病，不然也會觸霉

怕媽媽生氣！男將亡父遺骨丟車站
 日本東京車站的清潔人員，去年11月中旬在車站的公廁內，發現一包人骨。警方調查後發現，原來嫌犯是因為父母離異，母親要求他別帶父親的遺骨回家，才會將骨頭丟在車站裡。 日本最繁忙的車站之一！東京車站的公廁裡，竟然發現人骨！這起發生在去年11月的棄骨案，日本警方經過多日追查，循線逮捕今年53歲的嫌犯比志島。 日本記者：「嫌犯比志島供稱，被母親要求不能帶(父親)遺骨回家，覺得麻煩，所以丟掉。」 原來嫌犯的父母在多年前離婚分居，獨處的父親過世後，區公所通知他來領回遺骨。沒想到比志島嫌麻煩，又沒有錢辦喪禮，只好把遺骨丟進車站裡。 日本記者：「嫌犯比志島來區公所領取父親遺骨後，卻在返家途中，將遺骨丟在車站廁所

countries: 日本 緬甸 中國 中華人民共和國 台灣

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帶點紳士感、可以優雅也可以帥氣，是千鳥格的一大特色，因此深受許多時尚名人喜愛，尤其是千鳥格的西裝外套、大衣等，有些精品品牌甚至打造浮誇的全套千鳥格正裝，呸姐蔡依林就曾穿著登台唱跳，讓千鳥格這時尚趨勢從 2019 秋冬持續發燒到 2020 春夏。...
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countries: 中國 日本 德國

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NASA planet hunter finds Earth-sized world in ‘Goldilocks zone’

行星獵人出手 發現可適居行星
NASA’s planet hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water. Another first for TESS is its discovery of a world orbiting two stars, evoking the planet TatooineFULL STORY

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B: Talking of year-end banquets, something really miraculous happens every year.
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Dihua Street’s Lunar New Year market

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Every year, in the two-week run up to the Lunar New Year break, businesses along Taipei’s Dihua Street hold a special Lunar New Year specialties market.
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Singer Justin Bieber reveals he is fighting Lyme disease

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Fans around the world were shocked when Canadian singer Justin Bieber revealed last week that he has Lyme disease. “I’ve been recently diagnosed with Lyme disease, not only that but had a serious case of chronic mono which affected my skin, brain function, energy, andFULL STORY

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content_text: 法國總統馬克宏去年底宣布了退休金改革方案，隨即引發全國性罷工，民眾示威從12月5日開始持續至今已經進入第二個月，目前都還沒有退燒的跡象，昨天（1/17）示威者甚至佔領了羅浮宮入口，導致羅浮宮暫時關閉。馬克宏聲稱這個退休金改革方案，是以「平等」和「普遍性」為號召，但事實上卻是對退休金制度的修惡。正如本文所指出：所謂的「平等」，不過是將給付「拉低到同樣的水平」。此外，這次的改革還有其他更多不利於...

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圖：日本柴燒大師安倍安人的陶藝、繪畫作品及內田江美重覆重疊暈染的油彩畫作，是這對日本藝壇著名的夫妻檔首次在高雄的展出。（記者鄭婷襄攝）

日本柴燒大師安倍安人的陶藝、繪畫作品及內田江美重覆重疊暈染的油彩畫作，「安倍安人與內田江美聯展」於一月十七日至二十九日在高雄市文化中心至真堂二館展出，此次共展出陶藝作品五十件、畫作四十件，這對日本藝壇著名的夫妻檔表現當代藝術的事典，帶領觀者感受當代陶藝術和抽象藝術的新世界。

安倍安人是現代備前陶瓷不可或缺的偉大人物，基於獨創的燒成理論，追求散發金屬光澤的備前燒質感，不僅是日本國內，海外也獲得極高的讚譽，安倍安人的作品氣質厚重質樸富有張力，釋放獨一無二的個性魅力，近些年他使用數次重複燒製的技法，在備前燒特有的燒成肌理上施加重彩從而創作出「彩色備前」，並在四十五年前成功燒出了被認為不可能的黃色「胡麻」，備受矚目。

「安倍安人與內田江美聯展」於一月十七日至二十九日在高雄市文化中心至真堂二館展出。

安倍安人本身就是卓有成就的畫家，更難能可貴的是他把繪畫的形式賦予備前燒的載體之上，描繪富士山、花鳥昆蟲等自然趣味，再融入雕刻的造型手法，無論是繪畫還是立體造型都拓展了其延展度，獲得極大的表現張力。

生於山梨縣的內田江美，初出茅廬階段即以線條的特殊感有趣而備受藝術學界矚目，以重覆重疊暈染的油彩，創造了線中的夢幻空間，其中用木炭引伸的作品「Trace」系列是其獨創的世界唯一表現形式，搭配襯底油彩呈現出無以言比的透明感。

內田江美的繪畫作品存在著否定過去、引發革命的前衛藝術方法論，在她的表現手法中，「痕跡」是個一直貫徹的主題，她在時間中感受到邊界，並發覺邊界便是空間，無論她有多抗拒自己存在於空間，時間讓她達至一個我毫無選擇、只能無色無線地承認自己存在的境地。

策展的安如公司表示，安倍與內田兩位藝術家透過微妙的藝術形式，結合生活週遭環境以及生命的經驗，透過各自表述和作品藝術價值的呈現，運用顏色和線構築出對藝術無限生命圖景，和樂，分享多元性現代藝術新視野，展現藝術創作更多的交集與對話。

日本柴燒大師安倍安人的陶藝、繪畫作品及內田江美重覆重疊暈染的油彩畫作，是這對日本藝壇著名的夫妻檔首次在高雄的展出。

圖：記者盧繼先攝

高雄大八大飯店去年七月無預警關門，聯上建設旗下聯上餐旅集團租下原址更名為聯上大飯店，本月十五日試營運，前三天兩人同行一人費，今天起至本月二十二日四人同行一人免費，吸引大批民眾排隊。

聯上大飯店一、二樓花費近億元改裝，一樓是自助餐，二樓是悅品中餐廳，預計全年業績目標上看五億元。一樓的帕里巴黎自助餐走精緻化路線，小細節看得出新團隊的用心，本月十五日至十七日連續三天開放買一送一用餐，吸引大批人龍排隊。

MLD都會生活開發總經理蘇聖峰表示，自助餐方面，有十大主題餐區，共有二百多道菜色，過去大八主打海鮮，聯上大飯店除海鮮外，西餐、甜點及日本料理為賣點，另外提供現沖咖啡、果汁、鐵板料理等。

昨天一大早七點就有民眾排隊，吸引超過數人搶排兩人同行一人免費，原本每一餐開放一百組，現場阿莎力加碼五組。本月十八日至二十二日推出四人同行一人免費，需提前一天預約，十人以上團體不適用。 聯上大飯店一樓為帕里巴黎自助餐目前預約已到三月，二樓悅品中餐廳年節檔期定位已達九成，三樓以上是晶綺盛宴宴會廳也是九成年節預約量，好北高雄中高端餐飲市場發展，因此聯上餐飲才會進駐，目前營運目標業績估可達四至五億元。

聯上大飯店行銷企劃經理謝青芬表示，昨天試營運聯上大飯店一樓自助餐推出最後一天兩人同行一人免費活動，包含中午、下午茶與晚上共三時段，每天三個時段分別釋出一百個名額，三天就有九百個名額共一千八百人受惠，預計三天活動自助餐就可吸引約四千五百人用餐。

圖：台視提供

「鐵肺歌姬G.E.M.鄧紫棋」除夕夜登台北小巨蛋飆嗓，高亢歌聲宛如行動CD；納豆則揚言「撞」柱他送一萬元，果真有男粉絲撞柱，他樂賠笑稱得到現場上萬人的愛！

台視除夕特別節目《2020超級巨星紅白藝能大賞》將在農曆除夕1月24日晚間7點台視播出，1月12日於台北小巨蛋盛大登場，國內外24組嘉賓熱力接演，其中特別企畫邀請「鐵肺歌姬G.E.M.鄧紫棋」登台飆嗓，不隸屬紅白隊的G.E.M.鄧紫棋，身穿淡粉色連身服演唱「差不多姑娘」，高亢歌聲宛如行動CD，更邀現場歌迷朋友大聲齊唱新歌「句號」，最後演唱「倒數」，再度讓全場觀眾沸騰到最高點，一度掀翻小巨蛋。

甫發新專輯<摩天動物園>的G.E.M.鄧紫棋現場同時呼籲，還沒買新專輯的歌迷們，記得過年買給親友，主持人黃子佼逗趣笑說：「原來天后也是有銷售壓力的！」。 除了新專輯之外，G.E.M.鄧紫棋接下來也將密集籌備巡演，更隔空喊話小巨蛋力邀她來登蛋開唱。她在現場還與觀眾玩起小遊戲射龍門，G.E.M.鄧紫棋大方說：「贏家送簽名新專輯、輸了也有拍立得」！

納豆則喊撞柱的話，就自掏腰包送一萬元，結果一位男粉絲就真的撞柱，吸引力法則全場歡聲雷動，而納豆也說話算話，真的掏出一萬元現金，鄧紫棋更喊話該名粉絲拿到贊助款，記得多買幾張<摩天動物園>分送給親朋好友們，逗得全場笑聲連連。

納豆也大方表示：「雖然賠了一萬元，但我得到的是小巨蛋全場上萬人對我的愛！」他還呼籲現場觀眾趕快上「納豆粉絲團」按讚！

countries: 臺灣 台灣 日本

taiwan-subdivisions: 高雄市 高雄 成功

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BMW「14黑絲正妹」神級美腿拜年！ 網暴動：想換車了

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遊客：「遠遠的看 覺得超漂亮，就特地下來看一下。」

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主持人：「星星出現了。」

只見無人機在空中，不斷變換各種形狀，讓遊客看了目不轉睛，有小朋友還帶特殊的眼鏡，來賞燈，加上一連串表演，開幕第一天 會場擠滿了人。

南投縣長林明溱：「我們今年燈會，九九峰為主題，有燈光來照射 我們整個水舞，可以說非常的好看。」

南投燈會今年主題是旋轉乾坤，透過360度旋轉的發財鼠，象徵財源滾滾來，配上精彩的水舞秀，讓人看了印象深刻。

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國民黨2020總統、立委大敗，前主席吳敦義總辭，新任黨主席人選將在3月7日產生，目前前總統馬英九、前新北市長朱立倫呼聲高，另前副主席郝龍斌、中央委員連勝文也被視為可能參選人選。

不過，近期有黨內人士開始串連，提議由鴻海創辦人郭台銘參選黨主席，他們認為，雖郭台銘不是國民黨黨員，但若郭台銘有意願，一定都有為郭開門的方式。

該人士指出，約有20名中央委員、百名黨代表認可郭台銘參選黨主席的想法，且這些人絕非在初選時力挺郭台銘，而是一路力挺國民黨總統候選人韓國瑜、為韓輔選的人，只是現階段他們認為郭台銘是最好人選，目前仍在持續與黨內溝通中。

黨內人士認為，國民黨如果一直都是在內部找人，很難期待國民黨有新氣象，應仿效民進黨2008年敗選時，找了並不在權力核心的蔡總統擔任黨主席，帶領民進黨起死回生的模式，而郭台銘正是「國民黨的蔡英文」。

不過，黨內人士說，若郭台銘要參選黨主席，必須滿足一個前提，要簽下不參選總統的切結書，主要考量是，前黨主席吳敦義因有參選總統的私心，才把國民黨搞成今天的局面，國民黨現在需要一個無私的領導者。

黨內人士認為，簽切結書只是一種政治表態，宣示自己能夠無私辦理黨務，若郭台銘真的把國民黨帶領得很好，屆時呼聲高、人氣高，參選總統也是順理成章。

該人士分析，郭台銘擔任黨主席可以用企業角度經營國民黨，而不是用黨務角度，若成功重振國民黨，暗助高雄市長韓國瑜度過罷免危機，也將讓郭台銘有歷史定位，國民黨與郭台銘可互相成就。

該人士坦言，這個想法在黨內提出討論之後，的確反對聲浪大，大多質疑郭台銘主動退出國民黨，又造成國民黨分裂一事，但他們認為，郭最終沒有獨立參選總統，也沒有表態支持親民黨總統候選人宋楚瑜，對國民黨仍有善意。

不過，郭台銘辦公室回應，從未聽説此事，無從表達意見。國民黨面對巨大挑戰，不回應任何空穴來風之事，避免給國民黨選後重整添亂。

根據國民黨黨章規定，黨員、曾任中央評議委員或中央委員，經具黨權的黨員3%以上連署者，得申請登記為國民黨主席選舉候選人。

國民黨已公告黨主席補選時程，17日起到2月3日開放參選人進行黨員連署，1月30日至1月31日受理參選人領表，2月3日至4日受理參選人登記，3月7日進行投開票。（中央社）

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線上音樂平台舉辦風雲榜頒獎典禮，對歌迷而言是一場豪華的拼盤演唱會。鄧紫棋、高爾宣、頑童輪番開唱，互拚人氣。

鄧紫棋《來自天堂的魔鬼》：「You took my heart away away away，My head is blown away。」

鄧紫棋以年度風雲歌手的身分，打頭陣開唱，連唱三首歌，尤其這一首破千萬金曲，鄧紫棋覺得最有意義。

鄧紫棋《句號》：「可惜我們終於來到一個句號，窗外不願飛的蜂鳥也在哀悼。」

藝人鄧紫棋：「從16歲的時候當歌手到現在28歲了，然後回顧著這一段路裡面，經歷過的好多開心與不開心，感謝曾經愛過我 傷過我的人，因為是他們給了我一些動力。」

除了LIVE女王鄧紫棋獻唱，2019年暴紅的新人高爾宣，把所有代表作唱成一首組曲。

高爾宣《Why You Gonna Lie》：「因為我相信，But why you gonna lie like that，Why you gonna break my heart，'Cause I believed it，我愛得像神經病。」

高爾宣《Without you》：「I don't wanna live without you，I dont wanna be alone and，想念妳的每個角度。」

高爾宣理了個大平頭，笑說自己就是一顆小巨蛋，其他新生代歌手Karencici、屁孩、吳卓源也輪番上陣，成為潮流新世代的代表。頑童壓軸開唱，直接把小巨蛋變成大型夜店。

頑童MJ116《幹大事》：「我只幹大事我幹大的，恁爸起大厝我蓋大的，DAT ASS SO FAT 我幹大的，賓士AMG 我開大的。」

頑童MJ116《辣台妹》：「辣台妹辣台妹騷底，辣台妹辣台妹WU。」

去年宣布單飛不解散的頑童，隔了一年在頒獎典禮上合體，送給歌迷驚喜的過年賀禮。頒獎典禮眾星雲集，歌手們精心準備歌單和舞台表演，回饋所有粉絲。

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journalist: 楊慈茵

title: 超豪華頒獎典禮　鄧紫棋、高爾宣尬人氣│TVBS新聞網


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農曆新年將至，許多公司紛紛向顧客祝賀拜年，不過一間知名汽車廠牌台南分公司，日前卻在臉書曬出一群高顏值女員工齊聚店內的賀歲照片，只見所有人身穿同樣制服，搭配黑絲襪露出修長美腿排排站好，引起許多男網友暴動直呼「美女比車還好看！」

「BMW台南汎德」臉書日前PO出新年照及不同車款樣式，並祝賀寫下「2020迎金鼠入財庫，4如破竹、5力全開、添福添富8大財」。不過當中最吸睛的還有一群手拿紅包、齊聚店內的女職員，只見14名顏值超高、身材姣好的正妹員工身穿緊身襯衫及膝上短裙制服，搭配黑絲襪露出甜美笑容，排列整齊站在鏡頭前，瞬間融化網友的心。

journalist: 范安褀

references: 網友 臉書

title: 汽車大廠曬「14高顏值女員工」拜年　絕美照惹網暴動│TVBS新聞網


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雖然今(18日)冷颼颼，但好消息是，冷到週日(19日)清晨，接著就會「回暖到小年夜」。中央氣象局表示，週日白天開始冷氣團逐漸減弱，除東半部偶有短暫雨，各地天氣逐漸好轉。而農曆春節的腳步將近，不少人都要辦年貨跟大掃除，最關心的莫過於，「年前、過年」的天氣如何？

氣象局表示，週日白天起至下週一(20日)大陸冷氣團逐漸減弱，北台灣氣溫略微回升，高溫約21、22度，中部及花東高溫23至25度，南部高溫26、27度；除了迎風面的東半部地區仍有局部短暫雨，北部地區偶有零星短暫雨外，其他地方大多為多雲到晴的天氣。

至於，「年前」的天氣是如何？氣象局指出，下週二(21日)到小年夜(23日)各地都是多雲到晴且溫暖的天氣，西半部及南部高溫達29度，屬於溫暖穩定的天氣型態，大家可把握這段時間趕緊大掃除、辦年貨。

臉書「天氣風險 WeatherRisk」粉專也發文說，春節連假的天氣，抓出大概的趨勢「前期暖、後期濕冷」，變天的時間可能在「除夕至初一」，預估下一波冷空氣將會南下。從年初一(25日)開始，隨著鋒面系統靠近配合南方水氣北上影響，，一直到收假年初五(29日)的天氣可能都不太理想，下雨的範圍有機會擴及全台，如果預測沒有太大變化的話，這個過年假期有可能要在比較容易下雨的天氣中渡過。

溫度方面，也會逐漸下降，特別是假期後半段，大約年初三(27日)之後，冷空氣勢力較強，中北部地區低溫有可能降到14-15度甚至更低，加上下雨的天氣，濕冷的感覺會比較明顯。
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journalist: 談雍雍

title: 回暖迎除夕！一張圖秒懂「年前、春節」天氣│TVBS新聞網


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新华社贵阳1月18日电 特写：一张返乡车票的“温度”

新华社记者骆飞

数九寒冬，哈气成霜。飞驰在贵广铁路上的D2812次列车里，却是另一番温暖而热闹。

1月18日10时许，这趟“共青团号”列车从广州火车南站缓缓驶出，载着600多名在粤的贵州籍务工者奔向家的方向。

春节临近，列车车窗上贴着窗花，车厢内张灯结彩。为了让老乡们快乐回家，贵州团省委组织的青年文艺志愿者与广铁集团广州客运段动车2队的乘务员们一起在车厢表演起丰富多彩的文艺节目。

逗趣的相声、悠扬的古筝、迷幻的魔术……狭小的车厢过道搭建起“流动舞台”。人群中充满欢声笑语，处处洋溢着喜悦的笑容。

“拿这个‘车票’给我拍一下照。”“稍等，我先拍了再给你！”“妈妈，我想和那张‘车票’合影。”……当贵州团省委工作人员拿出一张“车票”时，瞬间“点燃”了务工者们的热情。

只见他们争相传递，纷纷用手机或相机与“车票”合影。

从外形看，这张特制的“车票”犹如务工者手中普通车票的放大版，长度有1米多，淡蓝色底面印着所乘列车的车次、发车时间等。车票金额的地方写着“向黔进·开往小康的幸福列车”。

接过老乡递来的“车票”时，青年务工者杨秀祥仔细端详着。“这句来自家乡人的祝福特别温暖。”他说，自己真的很幸运，连续5年申请到春运回家的免费车票。

2014年，贵广高铁正式开通运行。当年春运，贵州团省委便与广州团市委、广铁集团等部门携手开通了一趟“农民工专列”，免费接在粤打拼奋斗的贵州籍青年务工者回家过年。

让很多人都感动的是，原以为只是一次公益“尝试”，贵州团省委至今坚持了6年。

回家“囧途”变“暖途”，这张有“温度”的春运返乡车票，累计搭乘了近4000名贵州籍务工者春节前顺利从广州返乡。

“最初回家过年既期望，又担忧，经常要乘坐20多个小时的大巴车或绿皮火车，路上折腾两三天。”在外打工10多年的杨秀祥感慨道，这几年回家过年，既能坐高铁，还有“家人”接，特别幸福。

来自家乡的温暖不只属于杨秀祥，已5年没回家过年的薛廷秀更觉倍感幸运。

“家里贫困，我一直在广东打工。自己玩不转手机，之前春运根本抢不到票，几年没回家，和小孩都生疏了。”她眼里噙着泪水，双手紧握着车票，“特别感谢政府关心，今年终于能和小孩一起过年了。”

一旁的小伙子曹国飞接过话茬。“背井离乡在外打拼，生活的辛酸与疲惫只有自己知道，但‘家乡人’却以这样的方式理解自己，这张车票，握在手里，暖在心里。”

贵州团省委副书记史麒麟说，这趟春运“农民工专列”开行了6年，目的不仅在于单纯地用一张车票‘温暖’务工者的返乡路，更想让他们感受政府的关怀，共享贵州发展的红利。“贵州这些年发展很迅速，需要人才，拥有机遇，这趟‘幸福的小康专列’希望能搭载更多老乡，回到故乡，建设家乡。”

title: 特写：一张返乡车票的“温度”-新华网


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新华社北京1月18日电 题：推动新时代政法工作再上新台阶——透视2020年政法工作六大焦点

新华社记者刘奕湛、罗沙、白阳

中央政法工作会议17日至18日在北京召开。2020年是决胜全面建成小康社会、决战脱贫攻坚之年，政法工作如何回应群众关切？新华社记者采访权威专家为你解析六大看点。

看点一：对十大行业开展扫黑除恶专项整治

扫黑除恶专项斗争开展两年多来，一路爬坡过坎、攻坚克难，一些社会强烈关注的大要案件水落石出，人民群众拍手称快。

漫画：动刀 新华社发 徐骏 作

今年是实现扫黑除恶专项斗争三年为期目标的决胜之年，中央政法工作会议提出，要建立一个长效机制、整治十大行业领域突出问题、挂牌督办百起大案、缉拿追捕千名逃犯、依法审结万起案件，以此为牵引夺取扫黑除恶专项斗争全面胜利。

根据部署，今年将对社会治安、乡村治理、金融放贷、工程建设、交通运输、市场流通、资源环保、信息网络、文化旅游、教育卫生等十大重点行业领域存在的突出问题，开展专项整治。会议要求，各地各主管部门要切实担负起责任，敢于向一些地区、行业、领域的顽症痼疾动刀。

会议明确，要形成打击、整治、管理、建设长效机制，建立以人民群众获得感、幸福感、安全感为导向的评价体系。对整治不积极、效果不明显、行业乱象依然突出的，要督促依纪依法追究责任。

中国政法大学校长马怀德表示，扫黑除恶专项斗争是一项长期的工作，要从根本上改善社会治安、遏制黑恶势力的滋生和蔓延，就必须要建立长效机制，而不能依靠“运动式”的模式解决问题。今年是扫黑除恶的决胜之年，会议提出向一些重点行业领域的“顽症痼疾”动刀，形成打击、整治、管理、建设长效机制，有利于从源头遏制黑恶势力的滋生蔓延，消除黑恶势力的生存土壤。

看点二：构筑打击遏制网络犯罪的“新高地”

近年来，电信网络诈骗等新型网络犯罪蔓延迅速、花样不断翻新，给受害人造成严重损失，人民群众反映强烈。对此，会议提出，要把防控新型网络安全风险摆在突出位置来抓，不断健全网络社会综合防控体系，构筑打击遏制网络犯罪的“新高地”。

会议指出了三方面治理措施——

一是要抓住群众反映强烈的网络贩枪、网络黄赌毒、网络传销、电信网络诈骗、网络套路贷等新型网络犯罪，完善线索快速落查、跨区域协作和跨境执法司法合作机制，深化打击整治行动，坚决打掉网络黑灰产业链；

二是构筑大数据安全的“防护罩”，依法严厉打击侵犯公民隐私、损坏数据安全、窃取数据秘密等违法犯罪活动；

同时，还要坚持鼓励创新与确保安全相统一，对新技术、新产业、新业态、新模式，既留足发展空间，又坚守安全底线。

中国人民大学法学院院长王轶表示，新型网络犯罪伴随着社会结构的深刻改变应运而生，花样不断翻新，令人防不胜防。会议提出健全网络社会综合防控体系，深刻说明了打击网络犯罪不是某个部门的职责，而需要各部门共同发力综合施策。当前网络诈骗等新型犯罪的目标群体呈现出分众化的趋势，王轶对此认为，今后政法机关应当注重面向不同知识层次、不同年龄阶段人群，更有针对性地开展防范网络犯罪法治宣传，提高群众的风险意识。

看点三：最大限度压减司法权力设租寻租空间

湖南怀化“操场埋尸案”挖出数名当地司法机关公职人员徇私枉法，云南昆明孙小果案一系列公职人员因职务犯罪获刑……司法权力的滥用、乱用，严重破坏社会公平正义，人民群众深恶痛绝。

管住枉法的权力，斩断寻租的黑手。会议提出，着力健全司法权监督制约体系，扭住司法责任制改革这个“牛鼻子”，加快构建权责一致的司法权运行新机制。进一步完善政法系统司法监督政策措施，加强政法单位内部监管和问责，最大限度压减权力设租寻租空间。

“落实司法责任制，让审理者裁判，由裁判者负责，同时不能忽视对司法权的监督。必须采取严格的监管、严厉的措施，将司法人员违法乱纪问题最大限度消灭在萌芽状态。”国家法官学院副院长蒋惠岭说，要加强司法人员职业道德建设，综合运用包括媒体监督、上级监督、其他部门监督在内的各种监督形式，构建起符合司法权运行自身规律的监督制约体系。

作为国家法律监督机关，检察机关在维护司法公正中肩负着重要职责。会议提出，着力强化检察机关法律监督职能，完善刑事、民事、行政检察监督和公益诉讼检察案件办理机制，拓展监督的广度和深度。加强对民事案件审判的检察监督机制建设。

会议明确提出，积极推进在市、县公安机关执法办案管理中心派驻检察机制改革，着力构建一站式、全要素、即时性的执法监督管理新模式。

看点四：完善严格规范公正文明执法制度

公平正义，民之所向。完善规范公正文明执法，回应了新时代人民群众对司法公平正义的更高需求。严格规范公正文明执法，是维护人民合法权益、实现社会公平正义、推进法治中国建设的客观要求，也是政法机关执法中必须坚守的价值追求。

会议提出，把严格执法和文明执法、打击犯罪和保障人权结合起来，善于运用释法析理、说服教育、思想疏导等方式，实现执法形式和执法目的的统一。贯彻宽严相济刑事政策，依法严厉打击严重刑事犯罪，同时把握少捕慎诉原则，努力扩大教育面、减少对立面。

“规范文明公正执法，实现执法形式与目的统一，意义重大。文明执法不以公正执法为前提，文明执法就会流于形式。公正执法不以文明执法为依托，就会影响公正执法的效果。”王轶说，要把执法形式与执法目的有机统一起来，努力实现最佳的法律效果、政治效果、社会效果。

看点五：为企业发展营造更好法治环境

党中央、国务院出台关于营造更好发展环境支持民营企业改革发展的意见，人民法院依法纠正涉产权冤错案件，检察机关、公安机关对民营企业慎用强制措施……“有恒产者有恒心”，风清气正，才好放手创业干事。

法治是最好的营商环境。会议提出，要聚焦民营企业发展中的难题，健全、落实执法司法平等保护机制。

马怀德认为，中央政法工作会议再次强调为企业发展营造更好法治环境，对于保障经济高质量发展意义重大。优化营商环境，建设法治政府是关键。政府诚实守信、依法行政，才能让企业家吃下定心丸，不会因政策或人事变动而使自身权益受损。

会议强调，依法保护民营企业家合法权益，坚决防止将经济纠纷当作犯罪处理、将民事责任变为刑事责任。健全涉企冤错案件依法甄别纠正的常态化机制。

“民营企业，是社会经济发展不可或缺的重要力量。”王轶说，为民营企业发展营造更好法治环境，关键就是要落实平等保护、全面保护、依法保护的基本原则，让法律在社会实践中得到有效实施，这样才能充分调动民营企业家创业创新的积极性，推动经济社会良性健康发展。

看点六：抓好矛盾风险源头防控

社会治理的最佳效果，就是将矛盾消解于未然，将风险化解于无形。

会议提出，以推进市域社会治理现代化为牵引，努力建设更高水平的平安中国。社会治理现代化是国家治理现代化的重要支柱，是“中国之治”的支撑点。要守紧矛盾风险源头关、监测关、管控关，提高预测预警预防能力。健全社会心理服务体系和危机干预机制，严防个人极端案事件发生。

“市域社会治理现代化就是要把社会矛盾消解在市域范围，把风险控制在源头。”马怀德说，从源头解决社会矛盾必须规范政府或党委的重大决策，让决策规范化制度化法制化，遵循公众参与、专家论证、风险评估、合法性审查等程序。

政府机关要依法履行职责，减少社会矛盾由小变大，由大变炸的风险。马怀德表示，这要从保证法律严格实施做起，确保所有制度能够有效落实、落细，将矛盾化解在最基层，解决在市域范围。

title: 推动新时代政法工作再上新台阶——透视2020年政法工作六大焦点-新华网


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TEHRAN, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- The black box of a passenger plane which crashed over Tehran's airspace earlier this month will be sent to Ukraine for reading the data, an official in Iran's Aviation Organization said on Saturday.

"The black box cannot be read in Iran, and following the request of the Ukrainians, it will be sent to Ukraine," said Hassan Rezaeefar, the director of Incident Investigation of Iran's Aviation Organization, the Iranian Daneshjoo news agency reported.

If the black box cannot be read in Ukraine, it will be sent to France for the same purpose, Rezaeefar said.

On Jan. 8, a Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 passenger plane crashed near Tehran, and all of the 176 people on board were killed.

title: Iran says black box of crashed plane to be sent to Ukraine - Xinhua | English.news.cn


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新华社台北1月18日电（记者祁星、金立旺）他当过拳击手、当过记者，10年前却投身柴烧陶器创作，57岁的台湾陶艺家陈金旺用“不走回头路”定义自己的多彩人生。烧制过璀璨夺目的天目盏、返璞归真的“铁定”系列茶壶，如今他将精力更多投注到两岸陶艺交流中，希望将老祖宗留下的陶艺技术传承到两岸各地。

“两岸之间的陶艺交流我已经做了八九年了。”在台中市沙鹿区的窑谷工坊里，陈金旺告诉记者，“我走过南方，比如海南；也到过东北，那个地方叫辽阳。”

2019年他两赴辽宁辽阳，5月参加辽阳市冮官窑博物馆开幕展演后，7月又在当地开展柴烧讲习和实地教学。

“大陆南方的陶瓷行业比较发达，东北从事这样工作的人比较少，所以他们对陶艺的认知相对较低。”陈金旺说，现阶段他在东北主要教的是如何烧窑，从基础技术教起，下一步则准备将老祖宗传承下来的许多釉色的烧法教给他们。

“祖先的智慧从陶艺兴盛的宋朝一直传承下来，我现在使用的技法和对在地材料的选择使用也是传承。”陈金旺指着窑谷所在地大肚山的红土告诉记者。过去，台中大肚山岩矿红土被视为低温土，主要用来制作红砖。陈金旺打破“低温不能为器”的限制，尝试以它为浆釉和化妆土制作柴烧茶器，这也成为他柴烧作品的一大特色。

陈金旺表示，大陆地大物博，不同地方的陶艺通过取材不同的土质、采用不同的烧法形成了各自的特色，内涵丰富的传统茶文化也为不同材质的茶具提供了广阔舞台。“宜兴紫砂享誉国际，用紫砂壶喝起茶来真的非常好。大肚山的红土也是自有特色，因为透气性好、石英砂含量高，适合泡发酵茶、老茶。”

2018年初，陈金旺曾将台中大肚山红土和海南陶土融合在一起，经过4天3夜1300摄氏度的高温烧制后，呈现出如同太阳光芒般的釉色。

今年3月，他将再次前往大陆教学，希望从观念、技术及在地文化推广等方面提升东北陶艺水平，将先辈留下的陶艺技术更好地传承下去。

taiwan-subdivisions: 沙鹿 大肚

title: 台湾陶艺家陈金旺：把老祖宗的技艺在两岸弘扬-新华网


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电力交通逐步恢复无人员伤亡 1月18日，西藏日喀则市聂拉木县干部群众在县城清理积雪。新华社发

新华社拉萨1月18日电（记者王沁鸥、侯捷）西藏自治区日喀则市西部和南部地区16日开始出现暴雪天气。截至18日上午，吉隆县、聂拉木县等降雪集中区域降雪天气已停，吉隆县、聂拉木县不同程度存在交通、供电中断情况，目前无人员、牲畜伤亡报告。降雪集中区域已进入保障道路抢通、电力恢复阶段。

记者从吉隆县政府了解到，吉隆县城降雪已于18日上午停止，县城积雪厚度约20厘米。全县平均积雪厚度最深的萨勒乡积雪厚度约为75厘米。214县道通往县城的道路目前实行全面交通管制，县城至吉隆镇道路中断。县委县政府正对上述道路进行抢通。由于吉隆口岸水电站至县城供电线路受损，吉隆县城目前仍处停电状态。县城至吉隆镇道路打通后，县委县政府将对供电线路进行检修。

吉隆县无房屋倒塌、人员和牲畜伤亡或失踪等情况。暴雪来临前，县委县政府已将应急食品、燃料、饲草等发放至6个乡镇。

记者从聂拉木县政府了解到，全县降雪也于18日上午停止，天已放晴。全县积雪最深处为县城所在地聂拉木镇，目前约为85厘米；降雪最强时为17日20时，并伴有7至8级大风。其余各乡镇积雪厚度均在15厘米以下。

由于持续暴雪和大风天气，聂拉木县曲乡电站一度无法正常运转，导致全县除樟木镇外均无法供电。经抢修线路和清理电站入水口处浮冰，18日17时，聂拉木县城和多个乡镇已恢复供电。

此外，聂拉木县318国道、219国道部分路段因积雪结冰车辆无法通行，门布乡至吉隆县、门布乡至聂拉木县城，县城至樟木方向均已实行交通管制。交通运输部门正在抢通至曲乡电站和县域内318国道等段道路。

截至目前，聂拉木县无人员、牲畜伤亡情况，物资供应充足。

电力交通逐步恢复无人员伤亡 1月18日，工作人员在西藏日喀则市聂拉木县抢通道路。新华社发

title: 西藏日喀则普降暴雪 电力交通逐步恢复无人员伤亡-新华网


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新华社华盛顿1月17日电 美国波音公司17日表示，正在努力修复上周新发现的737MAX飞机上的软件问题，希望尽快解决这一新问题并避免延迟该机型的复飞。

据美国媒体当日报道，波音公司上周在艾奥瓦州对停飞的737MAX进行软件升级技术审查时发现一个新问题。报道援引一名要求匿名的知情人士的话说，该问题与飞机上用于核实监控器是否正常工作的软件相关。在此次检查中，有一个监视器没有正常启动。

波音公司在一份声明中说，正在就这一问题进行必要的升级，并向美国联邦航空局提交这一变动，同时告知客户和供应商。“我们的最高优先事项是确保737MAX是安全的，在复飞前符合所有监管要求。”

2018年10月29日和2019年3月10日，印度尼西亚狮子航空公司和埃塞俄比亚航空公司接连发生空难，总计346人丧生。失事飞机均为波音737MAX系列客机。这两起空难被认为与该系列客机上的“机动特性增强系统（MCAS）”自动防失速软件被错误激活有关。

目前全球多个国家和地区停飞或禁飞737MAX系列客机。美国联邦航空局2019年3月要求美国各航空公司运营的所有波音737MAX系列飞机暂时停飞。要获得监管机构“放行”复飞，波音737MAX需要先通过全面审核、模拟机测试和安全认证飞行测试。目前波音公司正在协同联邦航空局评估审核737MAX飞机软件系统的修复和升级情况。

title: 波音737MAX出现新问题 复飞面临推迟威胁-新华网


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新华社北京1月18日电（记者罗沙）人民法院将坚持把加强产权司法保护作为一项长期重点工作抓紧抓好，坚决把全面、依法、平等保护产权要求落到实处，对各类市场主体一视同仁，稳定社会预期，促进经济发展。

这是记者从18日举行的全国高级法院院长会议了解到的信息。据悉，人民法院将持续加大产权司法保护力度，健全支持民营经济发展的法治环境，依法保障民营企业平等使用资源要素、公开公平公正参与竞争、同等受到法律保护，助力民营企业改革创新、转型升级、健康发展。

“要严惩侵犯产权犯罪，坚决纠正涉产权冤错案件，坚决防止利用刑事手段干预经济纠纷，坚决禁止超标的查封财产，严格区分企业家个人合法财产和违法犯罪所得，依法保护民营企业和企业家合法权益。”会议强调。

会议同时提出，营造更加稳定公平透明、可预期的法治化营商环境。坚定不移贯彻新发展理念，更好发挥法治固根本、稳预期、利长远的保障作用，依法纠正不适应甚至违背新发展理念的行为和做法，服务高标准市场体系建设。

据悉，人民法院将坚决贯彻党中央、国务院关于优化营商环境的决策部署，围绕“执行合同”“办理破产”“保护中小投资者”三项指标加大工作力度，在指标巩固提升和政策落实创新上狠下功夫。深化行政审判体制机制改革，支持和监督政府依法行政，加强行政争议调解工作机制建设，强化实质性化解行政争议，服务“放管服”改革。

title: 我国法院将持续加大产权司法保护力度-新华网


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新华社柏林1月18日电（记者任珂 沈忠浩）德国《法兰克福汇报》18日报道，德国联邦内政部长泽霍费尔近日在接受该媒体采访时明确表示，反对将中国华为公司排除在德国5G网络建设之外。

“我反对仅因存在某种可能就把某个产品排除出市场的行为。”泽霍费尔说，如果没有华为参与，德国可能无法在短期内建起5G网络，5G网络建设进程可能会因此推迟5年至10年。

泽霍费尔强调，在这一问题上，他与总理默克尔的观点“十分一致”。

是否准许华为参与德国5G网络建设，近来在德国一直是热议话题。在美国的压力下，一些德国政界人士以网络安全为由，建议将华为排除在外；但以总理默克尔为代表的很多人士认为，不能先入为主地排除特定供应商。

默克尔近日接受英国《金融时报》专访时说，德国应加强对所有电信设备供应商的安全要求，并使供应商多样化，这样就不会在5G领域依赖于某一家公司。她表示，简单地把某一公司排除在外是错误的。

中国驻德国大使吴恳16日在德国巴登-符腾堡州一个地区工商大会年会上发表演讲，呼吁德方最终就华为问题作出独立、公正的决定。吴恳说，在中国持续对外开放市场、德国企业在华经营良好的背景下，德国若出于政治考量将华为排除在5G建设之外，不仅是一种歧视，还将释放保护主义的错误信号。

德国联邦议院近期将就是否在5G网络建设时排除华为公司作出决定。

title: 德内政部长：反对将华为排除在德国5G网络建设之外-新华网


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新华社德黑兰1月18日电（记者张栩 柳伟建）据伊朗半官方媒体塔斯尼姆通讯社18日报道，伊朗民航组织官员表示，本月8日在伊朗境内失事的乌克兰客机的黑匣子将被送回乌克兰进行分析。

报道说，伊朗民航组织事故调查委员会主任哈桑表示，伊朗目前无法读取失事客机黑匣子的内容。应乌克兰方面要求，黑匣子将被送回乌克兰。

哈桑说，如果乌克兰方面也无法读取，黑匣子将被送往法国进行分析。

乌克兰国际航空公司一架波音737-800客机8日早晨从德黑兰霍梅尼国际机场起飞前往乌首都基辅，但起飞后不久坠毁，机上167名乘客和9名机组人员无一生还。伊朗军方11日发表声明，称失事客机系被伊朗军方“非故意”击落，事故是“人为错误”导致。

title: 伊朗称失事客机黑匣子将被送往乌克兰-新华网


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Xinhua Headlines: Kyaukpyu port to become model project in China-Myanmar BRI cooperation

Surrounded by superb natural conditions, the Kyaukpyu deep-water port in the western Rakhine State of Myanmar, is set to become another model project under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) framework, benefiting both Myanmar and China.

NAY PYI TAW, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Along the Bay of Bengal on the west tip of Myanmar, the town of Kyaukpyu in Rakhine State sits tranquilly on a 25-meter deep harbor.

This deep-sea port, surrounded by superb natural conditions, could be developed into another demonstration project under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), mutually benefiting both Myanmar and China.

During Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Myanmar on Jan. 17-18, the two sides agreed to strengthen their BRI cooperation, and work hard to push forward the construction of the Kyaukpyu Special Economic Zone (SEZ), according to a joint statement issued by the two countries on Saturday.

MASTER PLAN

In 2014, the Myanmar government invited bidders from around the world for its plan to set up the Kyaukpyu SEZ, one of the country's three national SEZs, in an effort to kick-start the local economy and raise living standards.

The master plan includes a deep-sea port and an accompanying industrial park nearby.

Two men ride a motorcycle in Kyaukpyu, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Jan. 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Du Yu)

In 2015, a consortium of six companies led by the China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) won the tender for building the Kyaukpyu SEZ. Three years later, after a marathon of negotiations, the CITIC-led consortium struck a framework agreement with Myanmar on the project.

Port development is divided into four phases, according to the CITIC Group, and the first stage involves the construction of two berths with a total investment of 1.3 billion U.S. dollars. The construction of the port will soon commence after completing economic and social impact assessments.

With the newly reached consensus, the Kyaukpyu port project should pick up pace, raising hopes the project will substantially transform the economic landscape of the township and inject fresh vitality into Myanmar's drive for sustainable development and prosperity for its people.

The CITIC consortium told Xinhua that the port and the industrial park combined will create more than 100,000 jobs each year for local residents and create tax revenues of 15 billon dollars during the initial franchise period of 50 years.

Photo taken on Jan. 13, 2020 shows students in Kyaukpyu, Rakhine State, Myanmar. (Xinhua/Du Yu)

BRI WIN-WIN

More than six years after China first put forward the BRI, a grand undertaking to build a trade and infrastructure network linking Asia with Europe, Africa and beyond, the Kyaukpyu deep-water port will join the ever-expanding list of BRI projects.

In fact, the port is not only a pivotal point in the "Y"-shaped China-Myanmar Economic Corridor, but also a key project that is win-win in nature in the global blueprint of BRI cooperation.

Photo taken on Jan. 13, 2020 shows students in Kyaukpyu, Rakhine State, Myanmar. (Xinhua/Du Yu)

The multi-purpose container port, if completed, is expected to improve transport and logistics, strengthen inter-connectivity and spur the local economy.

The deep-water harbor will help China, Myanmar and other countries enhance trade and play an important role in accelerating regional economic integration.

"With the Kyaukpyu project and the building of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor, Myanmar can embrace new development opportunities. It's a win-win affair," said Hu Biliang, executive dean of the Belt and Road School at Beijing Normal University.

The Kyaukpyu SEZ project could consolidate trade and economic ties between Myanmar and China's southwest region, push for stronger cooperation in capacity building, and facilitate the development of an export-oriented economy in southwest China.

HIGH EXPECTATIONS

Although construction has yet to begin, residents in the town have expressed support for the project, and the hope for more jobs, higher incomes and better lives.

A girl rides a bicycle in Kyaukpyu, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Jan. 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Du Yu)

"Many people in Rakhine State have left to other cities or gone abroad for work due to lack of jobs here," and creating more work is the only way to bring them back and help revive the local economy, said Nyeinn Chann Maung, who owns a hotel in Kyaukpyu and is chairman of Kyaukpyu District Native Ethnic Development Association.

"We face transport difficulties, power shortages, and we don't have a big market, so building only one or two factories alone cannot change the game," he told Xinhua. "That's why we need a large-scale special economic zone."

"We have been looking forward to this project for quite a long time, like people in dire need of water yearning for a timely rain," he said. "With this visit of the Chinese leader, we feel we finally have that long-awaited rain."

Tun Nu, chairman of a local elders' association made up of 18 respected people from various sectors, voiced his hope for launching the Kyaukpyu SEZ as soon as possible.

Children study in a school in Kyaukpyu, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Jan. 13, 2020. (Xinhua/Du Yu)

"This is a poverty-stricken area, and we want this project to push for development," he said.

The 72-year-old said the deep-sea port would not only boost living standards but provide a growth engine for the local economy.

Kyaw Kyaw Soe, an entrepreneur who has helped build China-Myanmar oil and gas pipelines, showed strong interest in the port project, saying "We wish to join the project because we want to share the development dividends."

Such a huge investment is bound to instill vitality into local development and push up the gross domestic product of the region, he said.

FOSTERING TALENT

Because Kyaukpyu remains underdeveloped, young people have little opportunity to receive a higher education. They either fish for a living or opt to work elsewhere. To help equip young people with more practical skills, the CITIC consortium has set up a training center.

Local young people study Chinese in CITIC consortium training centre in Kyaukpyu, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Jan. 13, 2020. (Xinhua/Du Yu)

The first training program, which began in September last year and lasted two months, provided English-language and power engineering courses. The second program designed to teach Chinese is now underway.

Aye Thandar Linn, who is learning Chinese at the center, is an associate professor at the Government Technical Institute in Kyaukpyu, which focuses on training young talent for the Kyaukpyu SEZ.

"It will be much easier for me to communicate with Chinese enterprises in the future if I can speak Chinese, when the special economic zone is completed," she said.

"I also hope mastering Chinese can enable me to get more opportunities for my students, for them to work in Chinese companies," Aye said. "My expectation is that our graduates land good jobs because of the deep-sea port."

(Video reporters: Jiang Chao, Qiu Bo, Yuan Mengchen, Zhang Dongqiang, Che Hongliang; Video editor: Zheng Xin)

title: Xinhua Headlines: Kyaukpyu port to become model project in China-Myanmar BRI cooperation - Xinhua | English.news.cn