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It's Shane Bigham with you on this Thursday, February 5, 2015.
Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital.
Coming up on our program this evening...
The number of dead from yesterda's TransAsia plane crash in Taiwan has risen to 32, including 18 passengers from the Chinese mainland...
The US Secretary of State is meeting with Ukranian leaders as Washington mulls sending weapons to help Kiev battle separatist forces in the east...
and China's first-ever ambassador to the country's new mission to the African Union talks about the challenges ahead...
In business...Chinese authorities approve a new communications link with America...
In Sports...World #4 Chinese golfer Feng Shanshan has pulled out of the next LPGA event...
In entertainment...the Berlin International Film Festival is getting underway...
First, let's check in with what's happening with the weather...
Weather
Beijing will be clear tonight, with a low of minus 4 degrees Celsius3. It will be cloudy tomorrow, with a high of 8 degrees.
Shanghai will be clear tonight, with a low of 1, tomorrow will be cloudy with a high of 7.
Elsewhere in Asia
Islamabad, sunny tomorrow with a high of 27.
Kabul, cloudy, 12.
In Australia
Sydney, cloudy, a high of 25.
Canberra, sunny, 28.
Brisbane, cloudy, 29.
Finally, Perth will be windy with a high of 31 degrees.
Top News
The death toll from the crashed TransAsia Airways6 plane has risen to 32, with 11 passengers still missing.
Eighteen deceased passengers were from the Chinese Mainland.
The TransAsia plane with 58 passengers on board came down in Taipei's Keelung River on Wednesday morning.
"I felt something was not right after the plane took off. The flight was not full. I told the woman next to me that we should buckle10 seat belts, hold on to the seat and cover our heads. I just finished saying it and then plane went down."
Rescuers are still searching the river for the eleven missing passengers, all believed to be from the Chinese mainland.
Meanwhile, families of the mainland passengers have left Xiamen for Taipei.
TransAsia Airways has announced compensation worth 200,000 yuan to be given to families to cover funeral expenses.
Chen Fusheng, General Manager of TransAsia Airways
"TransAsia today will identify the relatives of the victims and will be paying out compensation of over 38,000 US dollars to the families for funeral expenses. Media reports today said that some abnormalities had been detected in the plane engine, but no examination was done before letting the plane take off. We want to clarify in front of the media that that was not the case"
More compensation is expected once the investigations12 wrap up.
Taiwan's aviation authority has invited experts from the Chinese mainland for a joint13 accident investigation11, after discovering the plane's flight recorders yesterday.
Taiwan's civil aviation authorities have grounded all twenty-two ATR-72 aircraft currently in-operation on the island until safety checks are performed.
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For more on this, CRI's Xu Qing Duo spoke14 to Jonathan Hutt, deputy general manager of strategy, Spring airlines
Kerry to hold key talks in Ukraine on US weapons support
US Secretary of State John Kerry has met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev, as Washington mulls whether to send weapons to help Ukraine fight rebels in the country.
Ashton Carter, the White House's choice for defense16 secretary, has previously17 stated that he is "inclined" to start supplying arms to Ukraine.
"The nature of those arms I can't say right now because I haven't conferred with our military leaders or Ukrainian leaders, but I incline in the direction of providing them with arms, including lethal arms."
The talks come a day after shells hit two hospitals and a kindergarten in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in East Ukrainian, killing18 at least 15 people.
Fighting in eastern Ukraine began last April, after Russia annexed19 Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula.
Russia denies accusations20 by Ukraine and the West that it is arming the rebels in eastern Ukraine and sending its regular troops across the border.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict so far.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has held a symposium22 to solicit23 opinions from leaders of non-communist political parties on the draft of the annual government work report.
The participants have offered suggestions on a wide range of issues, such as administrative24 reform, agriculture, and pensions.
"We should finish the drafting of the administrative organizational and procedural laws soon so as to preserve the fruits of administrative reforms and push forward the establishment of a law-abiding government."
Chen Changzhi, chairman of the Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association, says efforts should be made to combat air pollution.
"We should actively25 promote the use of new energy vehicles and build a network of charging stations for electric vehicles."
Premier Li Keqiang will deliver the finalized26 government work report at the annual session of the National People's Congress in March.
China has eight non-communist political parties that participate in state affairs under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Under the multi-party cooperation system, the CPC and non-Communist parties work together and supervise each other.
Premier Li Keqiang's draft government work report has already drawn27 opinions from the general public.
China's export of railway equipment surges overseas
Official data shows there was a surge in the export of railway equipment last year, as Chinese rail companies keenly engaged in overseas expansion.
The country exported more than 4 billion U.S. dollars worth of railway equipment last year, surging 23 percent year on year.
"The 'go global' strategy of China's railway sector30 has shifted from an early stage of only exporting rail equipment to a later stage of exporting technologies involving the construction and operation of rail lines overseas."
So far, China has exported its railway equipment to more than 80 countries and regions, including ASEAN countries, Argentina, Australia and the United States.
The overseas march was mainly led by state-owned firms, with their exports accounting31 for around 70 percent of the total value.
Although a latecomer to the field, Chinese railway equipment companies have thrived due to cost advantages and shorter delivery times.
The rail expansion overseas is part of China's overall 'Go Global' strategy, which encourages domestic enterprises to invest outside of China.
Meanwhile, Zhou Zhencheng, another official with the Ministry of Commerce, is urging Mexico to protect the interests of Chinese railway companies.
"Chinese companies invested huge amounts of human labor32, materials and money during the two bidding processes for a high-speed railway project. Mexico should take measures to protect these companies' interests no matter what kind of domestic factors led to the suspension of the project."
At the end of last month, Mexico announced the suspension of its first-ever high-speed railway project due to budgetary constraints33.
A Chinese-led consortium won the bid to build the project last November. But the bid was soon canceled by the Mexican government and a second bidding was held last month before the whole project was shut down.
First Ambassador of China's Mission to AU to Take Office Later this Month
The first Chinese ambassador to the African Union has given an update on the progress being made regarding the Chinese mission to the AU.
Kuang Weilin made a statement to the media earlier today.
"The first batch34 of the team arrived at the end of last year to the African Union headquarters in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. I will set out and take on the job later this month. Departments of politics, economy, humanities, as well as peace and security will be established there. Those I believe will vigorously improve exchanges and cooperation between China and the AU."
Chinese premier Li Keqiang proposed creating the mission to the Africa Union during his visit to the organization last year.
He Wenping is the Director of African Studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She says the Chinese mission will help strengthen bilateral35 cooperation in the future, including infrastructure36.
"A mechanism37 for bilateral coordination38 is needed. It's not just about making contacts between China and individual nations, but also coordinating39 working groups involving transnational or trans-regional efforts. Communications between China and the whole African continent need to be developed. The Chinese mission to the AU will play a leading role in building that cooperation and coordination."
More than 200 militants from Boko Haram have been killed by Chad's army in northeastern Nigeria.
Nine soldiers from Chad have been killed.
The militant40 group has been fighting for five years to create an Islamist emirate in northern Nigeria.
An estimated 10,000 people died in the region last year.
An unidentified army officer in a video broadcast in Chad talks about the recent operation:
"We dispersed43 them completely, and have prevented them from regathering. They acquired weapons, and were killing people. You can't slaughter44 humans like animals."
Militants also attacked a town in Cameroon in the latest cross-border incursion by the group.
A Cameroonian officer says six Cameroonian soldiers were killed in the attack.
ISIS militants crucifying, burying children alive in Iraq, says UN watchdog
A UN watchdog is alleging45 that Islamic State militants are selling some abducted46 Iraqi children as sex slaves while killing others, including by crucifixion or burying them alive.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child says Iraqi boys under 18-years-old are increasingly being used by the militant group as suicide bombers47, bomb makers48, informants, or human shields to protect facilities against US-led air strikes.
UN Committee expert Renate Winter
"We have had reports of children, especially children that are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding what has happened or what they have to expect. We have also children used in very early age, there was a video placed that showed children on very young age, approximately eight years of age and younger, to be trained already to become child soldiers."
Children from the Yazidi sect29 or Christian49 communities, and also Shi'ites and Sunnis, have been victims.
Islamic State is a breakaway group from Al-Qaeda that declared an Islamic caliphate across parts of Syria and Iraq last summer.
It has killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes, in what the United Nations has called a reign50 of terror.
The UN body also gave fresh evidence of several incidences of mass executions of young boys.
But it also noted51 that a large number of children have been killed or badly wounded during air strikes or shelling by Iraqi security forces, while others had died of dehydration52, starvation and heat.
The 18 independent experts who worked on the report called on Iraqi authorities to take urgent steps to rescue children under the control of Islamic State and to prosecute53 perpetrators of crimes.
Academics Urge People Not to forget the WWII History
Academics at a retrospective on the historic Yalta Conference that happened 70 years ago are urging people not to forget the lessons of World War II.
Scholars from Russia, France, the United Kingdom, and Australia have exchanged thoughts on various topics regarding the Yalta Conference held in 1945.
Vyacheslav Nikonov, chair of the Russian State Duma Education Committee, says the historical significance of the conference deserves acknowledgement from the international community.
"It is worth remembering the 70-year anniversary. We have never forgotten it. In order to keep it from happening again, we need to remember 27 million people from Soviet54 Union who have dedicated55 themselves to it, as well as Chinese people who have made sacrifice."
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference, has to some extent shaped post-WWII Europe.
Statues of the "Big Three" allied56 leaders have been erected57 in Yalta to remind people of the historic moment.
Investigation on Deadly Car-train Crash is Underway
The US National Transportation Safety Board is now examining the black-box-style recorders from a train involved in a deadly collision yesterday.
Six people died and 15 others were hospitalized after the train hit an SUV in New York State.
Investigators58 are trying to determine how fast the train was going, if its brakes were applied59, and whether the train's horn was sounded as it approached a controlled rail crossing where the accident took place.
Investigators are examining whether the crossing gates were working properly, but haven't reported any results of their examination.
Authorities are using dental records to identify badly-burned victims of the crash.
Biz Reports
Anchor:
First, let's have a look at the numbers across the Asian markets on this Thursday evening.
Joining me on the desk is Poornima Weerasekara.
Reporter:
Chinese stocks ended in negative territory despite the central bank's decision to cut banks' reserve requirement ratio in an attempt to offset60 the impact brought about by capital outflows.
Across the board today, steel shares led the losses due to the concerns among investors61 over the effectiveness of the eased liquidity62.
At close,
The benchmark Shanghai Composite index finished down by one- and- one-fifth of a percent.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index added around one third of a percent.
Other Asian markets also headed lower, after the European Central Bank moved to tighten64 Greece's access to funding.
The Japanese Nikkei chopped nearly one percent.
South Korea's KOSPI dropped around half a percent.
Singapore's Straits Times index trimmed one third of a percent.
But in Australia, the ASX 200 traded higher by nearly three fifths of a percent, boosted by the gains in the banking65 sector.
China Cuts Reserve Ratio by 50 Basis Points
Anchor:
Starting from today, China's central bank has lowered the reserve requirement ratio by 50 basis points.
This represents the first across-the-board cut in the reserve requirement since May 2012.
On top of this, the central bank is additionally cutting the reserve requirement for banks that focus on lending to small and micro-sized enterprises, as well as the farming sector, by another 50-basis points.
China's major lenders currently need to hold 20 percent of their deposits in reserve.
The ratio for small and medium-sized banks is 16.5 percent.
The move comes just days after the purchasing managers' index, a main gauge66 of manufacturing activity, fell below 50 for the first time since October 2012.
For more on the move, the Beijing Hour's Zhao Yang earlier spoke with Liu Baocheng, Professor at the University Of International Business and Economics.
Crossing-Pacific Submarine Cable Project Approved
A new cross-Pacific cable directly linking China and the United States has been approved by China's National Development and Reform Commission.
The 14-thousand kilometre cable will be able to move data at a capacity of 60 tb/s.
China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile, together with companies from several other countries, will jointly67 contribute to funding and building the trans-Pacific link.
The goal is to meet the growing demand for telecommunications services between China and the US, and to reduce costs while enhancing network security.
Along with direct links to Shanghai and Taiwan, the line will also connect directly with other countries, including South Korea and Japan.
Alibaba is now testing its first drone delivery service.
Despite the tight controls on airspace in China, the Chinese e-commerce giant now has the ability to deliver ginger69 tea to customers within an hour.
Taobao, the company's flagship marketplace, started the trial service yesterday. It applies to only one brand of tea from one particular vendor70, with a limited 450 deliveries in total
Only three first tier cities in China are covered by this service, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
In China, permission is required before such deliveries can be made. Alibaba's courier company, YTO Express, is handling the logistical arrangements and had got the qualification.
Shanghai Disney Resort will open in the spring of 2016
Shanghai Disney Resort will open in the spring of next year.
Disney's Chief Executive Robert Iger says major construction work will be completed by the end of this year.
The park was initially71 scheduled to open later this year, but a decision to invest a further 800 million US dollars on additional attractions forced Disney to reschedule the park's opening.
The extra spending has increased the park size.
Disney says it hopes the extra investment will attract 30 percent more visitors than originally forecast.
Shanghai Disney Resort is a joint venture between the state-owned Shanghai Shendi Group which holds 57 percent of the project, and Disney, with 43 percent.
It will be the first Disneyland on the Chinese mainland and the sixth around the world.
Anbang Insurance to Buy Stake in South Korea
The Beijing-based Anbang Insurance Group has signed an initial agreement to buy a controlling stake in South Korea's Tong Yang Life Insurance.
The purchase is worth around 1-billion US dollars, which is estimated to take up 58% of Tong Yang Life Insurance's stake.
Anbang has been on a buying spree overseas since last year, starting with its purchase of New York's famed Waldorf Astoria hotel for nearly 2-billion US dollars.
Recently, Anbang has also become the biggest shareholder74 of Minsheng Bank, the country's largest non-government lender.
Chinese Internet security company Qihoo 360 has paid a record price of 17 million US dollars for the rights to the "360.com" domain.
The ownership of this domain name was previously own by UK-based telecom giant Vodafone.
This purchase breaks the world record for domain sales, out pricing sex.com's historic 14-million US dollars.
Headline News
Death toll from Taiwan plane crash rise as rescue operations continue
The death toll from the crashed TransAsia Airways plane has risen to 32, with 11 passengers still missing.
Eighteen deceased passengers were from the Chinese Mainland.
The TransAsia plane with 58 passengers on board came down in Taipei's Keelung River on Wednesday morning.
Fourteen survivors were pulled from the wreckage, including a two-year-old boy.
Meanwhile, families of the mainland passengers have left Xiamen for Taipei.
TransAsia Airways has announced compensation worth 200,000 yuan to be given to families to cover funeral expenses.
Taiwan's aviation authority has invited experts from the Chinese mainland for a joint accident investigation, after discovering the plane's flight recorders yesterday.
Kerry to hold key talks in Ukraine on US weapons support
US Secretary of State John Kerry has met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev, as Washington mulls whether to send weapons to help Ukraine fight rebels in the country.
The US has so far only provided only "non-lethal" assistance to Ukraine.
The talks come a day after shells hit two hospitals and a kindergarten in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in East Ukrainian, killing at least 15 people.
Fighting in eastern Ukraine began last April, after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula.
Russia denies accusations by Ukraine and the West that it is arming the rebels in eastern Ukraine and sending its regular troops across the border.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict so far.
China pledges to promote well-being76 of disabled people
The Chinese government has issued a new document aiming to promote the well-being of the country's disabled people.
The document states that China will take measures to better livelihoods77 and employment opportunities for disabled citizens, while ensuring access to public services for disabled people.
It further pledges to better social assistance, allowances, pensions and basic medicare insurance programs for the disabled.
The government also promises to further advance the construction of barrier-free facilities at public venues78 in both urban and rural areas.
China has about 85 million disabled people, with nearly 15 percent of them living below the poverty line in rural areas, while 3 percent of them are urbanites classified as having "life difficulties".
Iran to have more centrifuges if new sanctions applied: nuclear negotiator
Iran says it will increase the number of its uranium enrichment centrifuges if Washington imposes new sanctions against the Islamic republic.
Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Hamid Baeedinejad made the comment in Moscow, where he's meeting his Russian counterpart on Iran's nuclear issue.
Baeedinejad also says talks between Iran and the P5 plus one group have entered a crucial stage and Tehran has decided79 to upgrade cooperation with Russia.
Western nations suspect Iran has been developing atomic weapons under the cover of its civilian80 nuclear plan, which Iran denies.
Under an interim81 deal reached in 2013, Iran suspended critical nuclear activities in return for the limited easing of sanctions, with all sides seeking a comprehensive deal by last July.
The deadline for the deal was extended again late last year to July of this year.
Newspaper Picks
CHINA DAILY
"Cancer places 100billion yuan strain on nation's economy"
Chinese health organizations say cancer cases are rising rapidly in China and are estimated to cost the country 100 billion yuan, or 15 billion US dollars a year.
The World Health Organization, marking World Cancer Day, said more than 3 million Chinese people develop cancer each year and 2.2 million of them die.
In large cities like Beijing, the average medical cost for each cancer patient is up to 300-thousand yuan. Many patients abandon treatment because they cannot afford it.
An official with the National Health and Family Planning Commission said deaths from the disease place not only a burden on patients' families but also on the national economy, to the tune82 of more than 100 billion yuan a year.
Lung cancer is the most common type diagnosed among Chinese men and the leading cause of cancer deaths in China. Among women in the country, breast cancer is the type most commonly diagnosed and one of the deadliest.
CHINA NEWS SERVICE
"Study: PM2.5 kills like smoking"
A yearlong study showed premature83 deaths related to PM2.5 pollution in 31 major Chinese cities reached 257-thousand in 2013, making it a major killer84 equivalent to smoking.
The study, conducted by three environment organizations, took each of the 31 major Chinese cities' average PM2.5 concentration and applied a World Health Organization model to estimate health effects.
It focused mainly on four conditions, including lung cancer and strokes, which have been tied to exposure to the fine particulate85 matter.
The study said there were around 90 premature deaths for every 100-thousand people from PM2.5 pollutants86. The rate was higher in heavily-polluted cities like Shijiazhuang and Jinan.
That means pollution-related deaths would have exceeded 18-thousand in Beijing the past year.
Some public health experts were skeptical87 of the claim, saying that because PM2.5 pollution affects human health over time, it may take a decade or two to quantify its effects accurately88.
AFP
"Indonesia minister sparks anger with HIV comments"
Indonesia's trade minister sparked anger on Wednesday after saying that second-hand89 clothes could spread HIV as he campaigned to stop the import of used garments.
Rachmat Gobel was quoted in local media saying used clothes could cause "skin diseases, HIV. It is true, we have seen a lab result".
Indonesian officials have expressed alarm at what they say is a flood of cheap, second-hand clothing flooding into the country, saying that it is damaging the local textile industry.
Gobel quickly apologised after his comments were widely reported, posting on Twitter he had meant to say that "wearing used clothes can transmit many kinds of diseases".
But this did little to calm the public's anger, with some Twitter user saying that it was "such a shame that a highly educated man... still misunderstands HIV".
Gobel, a wealthy businessman, has been trade minister since October in the new government of President Joko Widodo.
CBS
USA Today reports that a company called ZaZZZ has brought its pot vending machines to Seattle Caregivers, which is a medical marijuana dispensary.
Because the machines will be housed within the dispensary, interested buyers will be required to show their medical marijuana ID before entering, which means random91 people off the street can't just walk in and buy a joint.
The vending machines will be climate controlled and will offer a "wide range of medicinal and recreational marijuana flowers, pot-infused edibles92 and merchandise".
Many precautions are in place to make sure the contents of the machine are only accessed by people who can buy it legally. Bar code information on the back of the buyer's driver's license93 is used to verify age.
Recent reports have indicated that growers in the state now actually face a huge glut94 of marijuana that they're having a hard time selling.
Special Reports
China Promotes new Citizens' Tax ID Numbers
Anchor:
China's tax authority is striving to improve the tax system for individuals.
The idea involves the use of the ID card number given to each citizen.
CRI's Min Rui has more.
The tax number would be the same as the number on the Chinese ID card, and similar to the social security numbers issued in other countries.
Currently, Chinese citizens pay taxes through their employers. Individual citizens don't have to declare their sources of income.
Liu Jianwen is a professor of law at Peking University. He says linking taxes with the permanent ID number will be easier to manage for the authorities and can help to create a national credit collection system.
The taxpayer95 identification number system aims to help establish the social credit system. It benefits all Chinese people, and it is a result of a pressing need. As we are in the time of Big Data, using the internet to manage information is a must. Also, the ID number is indispensable in pursuing fairness and justice in the construction of the legal system. It would be tricky96 without the system"
The idea of using the ID card number in the tax system was first brought up in 2005, but was never promoted nationwide to all Chinese citizens.
Du Liqun is the deputy of the Credit Research Center at Peking University. She says the ID number should be linked not only with the tax system but also with other aspects like credit history, social security, etc.
"So far the banks have done well in information acquisition, but they also should share info with other organs like taxation97, quality inspection98, the commerce department, and customs to improve the credit system on a larger scale in all aspects."
All Chinese citizens need a tax ID when signing work contracts, paying insurance, and buying properties.
The new system will also better help authorities to track individuals' sources of income and personal assets.
For CRI, I'm Min Rui
Sports
Golf: Feng Shanshan to miss this leg of LPGA Tour
The second tournament of the LPGA tour kicks off tonight in the Bahamas, but world no. 4 Chinese golfer Feng Shanshan will miss the event.
The golfer was also absent from the first tournament of the year in the U.S. state of Florida last week.
No word on what has caused Feng's absence in the two tournaments, but according to the LPGA website, the Chinese golfer is slated100 to appear at the Women's Australian Open, which tees off on February 19th.
Golf: Tiger Woods speaks out on Challanges ahead of him in preperation for masters
Tiger Woods played nine holes of golf at the Farmers Insurance Open pro1-am round then held a press conference on Wednesday in San Diego, California.
He is coming off his worst round as a pro, an 11-over 82 on Friday (30 January) in the Phoenix101 Open. He missed the cut by 12 shots and tied for last in the 132-man field.
Woods won the 2013 tournament for the last of his eight Torrey Pines tour titles, including the 2008 U.S. Open. But while he is playing at Torrey Pines, his mind was clearly on the Masters.
"Well, the whole idea is to make sure that I'm ready for Augusta, so I got a lot of rounds to play between now and then. And that's what we're building towards and if I happen to play well enough to get into Doral, then great, then I get four more rounds there. If I don't, then still trying to peak for Augusta."
Woods made it clear that his attempt to go back to his old swing would take time, and he mentioned for the second straight week that he was stuck between the old swing pattern under Sean Foley and the new pattern he wants to develop under the eye of Chris Como.
"Yeah, it's a, certainly it's a process. I'm going through it right now. And Chris (Como) and I are, we're working our tails off to try to get this. I want to get this. I want to be ready come Augusta and the rest of the majors. But we still got some work to do."
He plays the opening two rounds with Rickie Fowler and Billy Horschel, starting today on the North Course there at Torrey Pines.
Serena Williams has ended her boycott of Indian Wells, 14 years after suffering racist103 abuse at the tournament.
The American will contest the BNP Paribas Open at the Californian resort.
Williams beat Maria Sharapova in the Australian Open final last month to earn her 19th Grand Slam title.
She won her second Indian Wells title as a teenager in 2001.
The American beat Belgian Kim Clijsters in a final marred104 by the behaviour of some fans who heckled her and her family, apparently105 in response to sister Venus withdrawing injured from their semi-final.
In an interview with Time magazine, Williams confirmed her entry in next month's tournament.
She says she is fortunate enough to be at a point in her career she has nothing to prove. She adds that she is still as driven as ever, and playing for the love of the game.
Tennis: ATP to Investigate Tunisian Player's Withdrawl from Match against Israeli Player
The governing body of men's professional tennis, the ATP, says it is looking into the circumstances of a Tunisian tennis player's retirement106 from a tournament in France yesterday.
Malek Jaziri retired107 after winning the first set 6-3 against sixth-seeded Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan in the first round of the Open Sud de France in Montpellier.
Had Jaziri beaten Istomin, he would have played Israel's Dudi Sela in the next round.
In 2013, Tunisia's tennis federation108 ordered Jaziri to withdraw from a match against an Israeli opponent at a second-tier tournament in Uzbekistan.
Jaziri had been scheduled to play Israel's Amir Weintraub in the quarter-finals of the ATP Challenger tournament in Tashkent.
He withdrew before the match.
The ITF subsequently banned Tunisia from the 2014 Davis Cup, saying that the Tunisian federation was guilty of "interfering109 with international sporting practice".
Arab countries have for decades observed, to varying degrees, boycotts110 against Israeli athletes in protest over that country's occupation of Palestinian territory.
The Atlanta Hawks didn't want their long winning streak112 to suddenly turn into a losing streak as they hosted Washington at Phillip's Arena113 down in the Peach State.
And Jeff Teague made sure they got back on track.
Teague held his own in an electrifying114 duel115 with John Wall, scoring 26 points and dishing out eight assists as the Hawks bounced back from their first loss in more than a month with a 105-96 victory over the Wizards.
And over in California:
Stephen Curry116 added a season-high 51 points, capping an electrifying effort that rallied the Golden State Warriors117 from an early 22-point deficit118 to down the Dallas Mavericks119 128-114.
And in Houston:
James Harden's 27 points led the Rockets to a 101-90 victory over the Chicago Bulls. Fifteen of those points came in a pivotal second quarter that helped the Rockets build a lead that they never relinquished120.
Entertainment
Berlin International Film Festival kicks off today
The Berlin International Film Festival kicks off this evening with a star studded gala.
The festival will open with a red carpet event where the International Jury will be introduced.
It will see some high profile premieres including Queen of the Desert starring Nicole Kidman and James Franco and Robert Pattinson. The film adaptation of the Fifty Shades of Grey film will also premiere.
Chinese Film Gone With The Bullets directed by Jiang Wen is the only Chinese film in the competition and will be screened to judges next Wednesday.
The winners of the award will be announced on Saturday.
Last year Chinese film Black Coal, Thin Ice directed by Diao Yi'nan won the Golden Bear award.
The festival runs from today until next Wednesday.
Self-rated move One Night Stud to release tomorrow in China
The self-rated movie One Night Stud is to be released tomorrow in China.
One Night Stud tells the story of an architect played by actress Jiang Yiyan who wants to have a child without marriage. She eventually finds a man played by Zheng Kai who she has a baby with. The film then documents the troubles she has raising a child outside of marriage.
Though China has not introduced a film rating system yet, the producer made the decision to self-rate the film due to the sex scenes in the film. This is the first of its kind in China.
Director Li Xinman said during a press conference last year that the film is suitable for adults only.
The premiere was held last Monday in Beijing.
Zhang Leping wins award at Angoulême International Comics Festival
Chinese cartoonist Zhang Leping has posthumously121 won the Heritage Award at the 42nd Angoulême International Comics Festival.
His book San Mao: Le Petit Vagabond beat ten other contenders for the prize.
Zhang Leping started to publish books that featured the orphan122 San Mao with the series continuing for over a decade.
It was popular with readers because it showed a humorous side to life during the war.
San Mao sold newspapers, polished rich men's shoes and did odd jobs in order to survive. San Mao became a household name in China.
Zhang Leping's son picked up the award and told the crowd that his father would have been honored to receive the award.
The books have been republished into French and are sold in bookstores in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Canada.
The Angoulême International Comics Festival was launched in 1974 celebrating comics from around the world.
Topshop ordered to pay singer Rihanna's legal fees
UK clothing store Topshop have been ordered to pay singer Rhianna's legal costs after 2 year long legal battle.
The singer successfully sued the store for 5 million US dollars for selling a t-shirt bearing her image without her permission.
In 2013, a High Court judge found Topshop guilty of passing off Rihanna's image.
Topshop and its parent company Arcadia had disputed paying the legal bill estimated at around 1.5 million dollars however judges ruled that the clothing store should pay the singer's fees.
Rihanna's lawyer successfully argued that fans of the singer would have been deceived into buying the top because of a false belief that it had been approved by the singer. He also said it was damaging to the singer's reputation and goodwill123.
Taylor Swift has made chart history on the Billboard 200 chart as her album 1989 scored its 10th consecutive125 week at number one.
This puts the singer in an elite126 company of artists who have placed multiple albums at number one for over 10 weeks. She previously achieved double digits127 at the top spot when her 2008 album Fearless reigned128 the charts for 11 weeks.
Swift is only the second female to achieve this feat72 joining Whitney Houston in the Billboard records. There are only seven acts overall who have managed to chart multiple albums at number one for over ten weeks: The Beatles did it four times, Elvis Presley and the Kingston Trio achieved it three times and Henry Mancini and the Monkees both accomplished129 it twice.
As great as Taylor Swift's feat is, the Billboard album chart sales this week have been pretty poor. In fact, Swift's 1989 only sold 71,000 albums last week.
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| n.赞成，赞成的意见，赞成者 | |
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| (wide area network)广域网 | |
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| adj.摄氏温度计的，摄氏的 | |
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overcast
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| 航空公司 | |
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survivor
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survivors
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wreckage
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investigation
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investigations
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spoke
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| n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说 | |
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lethal
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defense
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previously
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killing
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annexed
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accusations
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symposium
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administrative
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finalized
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labor
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constraints
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bilateral
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mechanism
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coordination
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coordinating
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militants
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deployed
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| （尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用 | |
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dispersed
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slaughter
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alleging
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abducted
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bombers
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makers
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dehydration
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prosecute
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Soviet
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dedicated
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allied
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investigators
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applied
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offset
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investors
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liquidity
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component
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banking
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| n.银行业，银行学，金融业 | |
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jointly
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deploys
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feat
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shareholder
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domain
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well-being
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venues
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decided
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| adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的 | |
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interim
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tune
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premature
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killer
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particulate
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pollutants
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| 污染物质（尤指工业废物）( pollutant的名词复数 ) | |
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accurately
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second-hand
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vending
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random
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taxpayer
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tricky
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taxation
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inspection
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slate
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warriors
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goodwill
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reigned
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accomplished
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| adj.有才艺的；有造诣的；达到了的 | |
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