Hourly News 每日新闻 2013-10-03

China and Indonesia to lift bilateral¹ ties

The Chinese and Indonesian governments have agreed to increase their bilateral relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership².
The agreement has been made during talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Xi Jinping is now in Jakarta for an official state visit to Indonesia.
His time in Indonesia is the first stop of his maiden³ tour to Southeast Asia since taking office in March.
Apart from holding meetings with Indonesian state and business leaders, Xi Jinping is also set to make a speech to lawmakers, outlining his government's policies toward Indonesia and the rest of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN.
CRI will bring you live coverage⁴ of this speech starting at 11am today.
Xi Jinping is also set to attend an informal economic leaders' meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in the Indonesian resort of Bali before moving on for another state visit in neighboring Malaysia.

Obama cancels Philippine, Malaysia visits amid gov't shutdown

It's been confirmed U.S President Barack Obama has canceled stops in the Philippines and Malaysia in his upcoming trip to Asia.
Instead, Obama has spoken by phone with the leaders of the two countries.
the American President was scheduled to visit Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines as well as attend an APEC forum⁵.
His visit would have been the first by a U.S president to Malaysia in almost half a century.
Meanwhile, Obama has been meeting with US Congressional lawmakers to try to find a solution to the current US Federal Government shutdown.
U.S government went into partial shutdown on Monday after lawmakers were unable to come up with a new federal budget.
It has left around 700-thousand U.S federal government employees off-the-job without pay.

UN Security Council calls on Syria to facilitate humanitarian⁶ access

The UN Security Council has issued a new call for all parties in Syria to take "immediate⁷ steps" to open up the country to humanitarian access.
Well-over 4-million people in Syria are said to be internally-displaced.
Over 2-million others have either fled the country or are waiting for refugee status in other countries in the region.
It's under this context that the UN Security Council has voted unanimously to call on all sides in the conflict to let humanitarian aide flow into the respective regions they control.
The resolution also specifically calls for an increase of international and non-government humanitarian organizations access to Syria.
The over 2.5-year long conflict has already left over 100-thousand people dead and has left the immediate region in one of the worst humanitarian situations in the world in recent years.

Russian embassy in Tripoli attacked

The Russian embassy in Libya has come under attack by unknown militants⁸.
Reports from the ground say the embassy in Tripoli was hit by gunfire from an unknown number of militants.
Initial reports have also suggested the attackers stripped down the Russian flag from the embassy compound before eventually being fought off.
There have been no reports of injuries to any Russian embassy staff.
It's believed the Russian ambassdor was not inside at the time.
Some are suggesting the assault on the Russian embassy could be retribution for the killing⁹ of a Libyan military officer, allegedly by a Russian woman earlier this week.

Insurgents¹⁰ increase attacks on Pakistani forces in quake-hit areas

The Pakistani military says insurgents are increasing their attacks on military forces trying to carry out relief efforts the recent earthquake hit area in the southwest of the country.
In one of the latest attacks, a bomb blast has gone off, leaving two soliders dead and several others wounded.
Around 2-thousand soliders are involved in the relief efforts in the remote area around the epicenter of the quake, which is in the restive¹¹ province of Balochistan.
The 7.6-magnitude quake itself hit late last month, leaving over 350 people dead.
It also toppled around 20-thousand homes in the rugged¹² mountainous region around the epicenter.
Pakistani authorities are pleading with insurgents to put their attacks on-hold, noting the relief efforts can only work if Pakistani military personnel are involved.

U.S. private sector¹³ adds fewer jobs in September

A new survey is suggesting private companies in the US added fewer jobs in September than projected.
The joint¹⁴ report by ADP and Moody's is suggesting private US companies employed around 166-thousand workers last month.
Economists¹⁵ had been projecting that figure to come in around 180-thousand.
The analysis is suggesting this could be a sign of the labor¹⁶ market beginning to sputter¹⁷ a bit.
Private firms in the US back in June added 190-thousand jobs.
The US Labor Department had been scheduled to release its September jobs report this coming Friday.
However, it's believed the current shutdown of the US Federal Government may delay the release of that report.

Britain's Tesco, China's CRE sign supermarket joint venture agreement

British retail¹⁸ giant Tesco has officially signed an agreement with China Resources Enterprise to create a joint retail venture in China.
Tesco says the two companies have entered into a definitive¹⁹ agreement to combine their Chinese retail operations.
The joint venture will create a business with sales of around 16 billion U.S dollars.
Tesco will have a 20-percent stake, while CRE will control the rest.
Tesco entered the Chinese market in 2004.
 

1 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

2 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

3 maiden   

n.少女，处女；adj.未婚的，纯洁的，无经验的

参考例句：

• The prince fell in love with a fair young maiden.王子爱上了一位年轻美丽的少女。
• The aircraft makes its maiden flight tomorrow.这架飞机明天首航。

4 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

5 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

6 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

7 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

8 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

9 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

10 insurgents   

n.起义，暴动，造反( insurgent的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网

11 restive   

adj.不安宁的，不安静的

参考例句：

• The government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive.政府未采取任何措施放松出口限制,因此国内制造商变得焦虑不安。
• The audience grew restive.观众变得不耐烦了。

12 rugged   

adj.高低不平的，粗糙的，粗壮的，强健的

参考例句：

• Football players must be rugged.足球运动员必须健壮。
• The Rocky Mountains have rugged mountains and roads.落基山脉有崇山峻岭和崎岖不平的道路。

13 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

14 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

15 economists   

n.经济学家，经济专家( economist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

16 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

17 sputter   

n.喷溅声；v.喷溅

参考例句：

• The engine gave a sputter and died.引擎发出一阵劈啪声就熄火了。
• Engines sputtered to life again.发动机噼啪噼啪地重新开动了。

18 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

19 definitive   

adj.确切的，权威性的；最后的，决定性的

参考例句：

• This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
• No one has come up with a definitive answer as to why this should be so.至于为什么该这样，还没有人给出明确的答复。