Hourly News 每日新闻 11:00 2013/06/21
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China urges for more consensus 1 with Vietnam
Chinese Premier 2 Li Keqiang has met with visiting Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.
The premier has suggested the proper handling of issues in the South China Sea is of vital significance for bilateral 3 ties and regional peace.
Li Keqiang has also told Sang the two sides need to avoid "internationalizing" the issue.
For his part, the Vietnamese President has repeated his contention 4 the two countries should manage and resolve their sea-related issues through friendly consultation 5.
China urges resumption of six-party talks
The Chinese government has issued a new call for the resumption of the six-party talks.
The call has been made at meetings between Chinese and North Korean officials here in Beijing.
The Chinese side has told the DPRK delegation 6 denuclearization, peace and dialogue are conductive to the interests of all involved.
For its part, the North Korean side says it's ready to join in any form of talks, including the six-party format 7.
Meanwhile, the U.S, Japan and South Korea are also calling for meaningful steps in denuclearization by Pyongyang in exchange for better ties with the North.
Mainland, Taiwan negotiators hold talks over service trade agreement
The mainland's negotiator for cross-Strait ties has started talks with his Taiwan counterpart inShanghai in connection with a service trade agreement.
It is the first time Chen Deming and Lin Join-sane have sat a negotiation 8 table since they took office as their side's chief negotiators.
The service trade agreement is one of the follow-up agreements included in the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement signed in 2010.
ECFA is designed to reduce tariffs 9 and commercial barriers between the mainland and Taiwan.
Over 111,000 affected 10 in SW China rainstorms
One person is missing after a series of heavy rainstorms in Sichuan.
Around 27-hundred others have been forced from their homes by the heavy rains around the city ofGuangyuan, which is located in the northeast of the province near the border with Gansu andShaanxi.
Heavy rains have been pounding the region since Tuesday.
Forecasters are warning of more heavy downfalls today in the region, which is home to over 100-thousand people.
Flood and landslide 11 alerts are currently in place.
France reports third victim due to floods
Flooding in southwestern France has claimed one more life.
This brings the death toll 12 from the flooding in the Pyrenees to three.
The latest victim drowned after her car was swept away in flooding.
Thousands have been forced from their homes in the region.
The flooding has also done millions of euros of damage around the Roman-Catholic commune ofLourdes, which draws in millions of pilgrims every year during July and August.
Egypt's court upholds Mubarak's release over illicit 13 gains
An Egyptian court has upheld a previous court order to release ex-president Hosni Mubarak in connection with allegations of illicit gains.
A Cairo Criminal Court has declined an appeal by the prosecution 14 to temporarily release the former president.
However, the ex-president will have to stay in custody 15 in connection with other charges, including the looting of public funds.
Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison a year ago.
However, he successfully appealed.
His retrial on that original conviction is due to begin on July 6th.
New Palestinian PM submits resignation: source
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has reportedly offered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas.
It's unclear if Abbas is going to accept the resignation.
This reportedly comes just two weeks after he was first sworn in.
It's being reported Hamdallah wants to resign because of "attacks on his power."
Hamdallah, a long time academic, was tapped to replace Salam Fayyad.
Fayyad quit over differences with members of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party.
Obama to nominate new FBI director: media
It's being reported US President Barack Obama is due to announce his choice for the new head of the Federal Bureau of Invesigation later this Friday.
Media reports say Obama is going to nominate former Deputy Attorney General James Comey to replace Robert Mueller.
Mueller is due to leave office in September.
Comey is a former number-2 in the Justice Department during the tenure 16 of former President George W. Bush.
He has been in the US government's national security aparatus for the past 2-decades.
Mueller is retiring after taking over the FBI shorly before the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
S China school girl rapists sentenced
A former school principal and a government clerk in Hainan have been jailed for rape 17.
The former principal of a local Primary School has been sentenced to 13.5-years years in prison for raping 18 primary school girls last month.
A former clerk at the property administration bureau in the city of Wanning has been sentenced to 11.5-years for the same crime.
Appeals are expected.
The case involved the men spending the night with groups of primary school girls in hotels.
Six stand trial over officials' sex video scandal
6 people have stood trial in Chongqing for allegedly blackmailing 20 government officials with secretly recorded sex videos.
All are facing extortion charges.
Prosecutors 21 say two of the suspects conspired 22 to lure 23 officials into having sex with women.
They would then secretly record their encounters in order to blackmail 19 them and to gain profits for their business.
- Can we reach a consensus on this issue?我们能在这个问题上取得一致意见吗？
- What is the consensus of opinion at the afternoon meeting?下午会议上一致的意见是什么？
- The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
- He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
- 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。
- The pay increase is the key point of contention. 加薪是争论的焦点。
- The real bone of contention,as you know,is money.你知道，争论的真正焦点是钱的问题。
- The company has promised wide consultation on its expansion plans.该公司允诺就其扩展计划广泛征求意见。
- The scheme was developed in close consultation with the local community.该计划是在同当地社区密切磋商中逐渐形成的。
- The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
- We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。
- Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
- The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。
- They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
- The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。
- British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by protective tariffs. 保护性关税使英国工业免受国际竞争影响。
- The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade. 新的关税制对开展贸易极为不利。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
- An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
- He had an illicit association with Jane.他和简曾有过不正当关系。
- Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year.今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。
- The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
- He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。
- He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
- He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。
- He remained popular throughout his tenure of the office of mayor.他在担任市长的整个任期内都深得民心。
- Land tenure is a leading political issue in many parts of the world.土地的保有权在世界很多地区是主要的政治问题。
- The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
- He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
- In response, Charles VI sent a punitive expedition to Brittany, raping and killing the populace. 作为报复，查理六世派军讨伐布列塔尼，奸淫杀戮平民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The conquerors marched on, burning, killing, raping and plundering as they went. 征服者所到之处烧杀奸掠，无所不做。 来自互联网
- She demanded ＄1000 blackmail from him.她向他敲诈了1000美元。
- The journalist used blackmail to make the lawyer give him the documents.记者讹诈那名律师交给他文件。
- The policemen kept blackmailing him, because they had sth. on him. 那些警察之所以经常去敲他的竹杠是因为抓住把柄了。
- Democratic paper "nailed" an aggravated case of blackmailing to me. 民主党最主要的报纸把一桩极为严重的讹诈案件“栽”在我的头上。
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
- They conspired to bring about the meeting of the two people. 他们共同促成了两人的会面。
- Bad weather and car trouble conspired to ruin our vacation. 恶劣的气候连同汽车故障断送了我们的假日。