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Still too many official cars
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車改16載 成效甚微
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China still spends 150-200 billion yuan annually to maintain a colossal fleet of official cars nationwide, some 16 years after the State Council decided to cut the number of official cars, the People's Daily reports. High maintenance costs, official cars for private use, rare use, and excessiveness are four major problems in the current official car fleet.
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據《人民日報》報道，自從1994年國務院宣布公務車改革、削減公務車數量，至今已有16年，但是全國每年在公務車方面的花銷仍達到驚人的1500至2000億元。公務用車維護費用高、公車私用現象嚴重、使用效率低下、超編屢禁不止是目前中國公務用車的主要問題。
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10 missing after shipwreck
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我貨輪在巴士海峽沉沒
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Ten Chinese sailors were missing after their vessel that was flying a Panamanian flag sank near the waters of Bashi Channel on Dec. 3, Xinhua reports. The ship went down in waters 240 nautical miles south of Shantou, Guangdong Province, bringing 24 crew members into the water; 14 have been rescued. Causes of the sinking are still unknown.
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據新華社消息，一艘搭載中國船員的巴拿馬籍貨輪3日在巴士海峽附近沉沒，至今10人下落不明。沉船地點在位于廣東汕頭市以南240海里的海域，貨輪載有24名船員，14人已經獲救。沉船的原因暫未查明。
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Spain resumes flights
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西班牙航班恢復運營
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Spanish airspace reopened Saturday after a strike by air traffic controllers paralyzed airports for a second day, Reuters reports. The controllers gave no warning before starting their walkout by claiming sick leave and leaving their posts Friday, effectively closing the whole of Spanish airspace except the southern region of Andalucia, and more than 250,000 people's weekend travel plans were affected.
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據路透社消息，西班牙領空在空管人員罷工后的第二日終于恢復。當地時間周五，罷工人員在未發布任何事先警告的情況下均以病假為由，離開崗位。因罷工事件，西班牙除南部安達盧西亞地區的所有領空被迫關閉，25萬人的周末出行計劃受到影響。
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PayPal cuts WikiLeaks access
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維基解密被斷財源
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The online payments platform PayPal announced it had cut access for donations to whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, the BBC reports. PayPal said its payment service cannot be used for "illegal activities." Previously, Amazon had decided not to host WikiLeaks on its server on the grounds of the latter's failure to adhere to its terms of services.
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據英國廣播公司報道，網絡支付平臺"貝寶"近日宣布，將斷開為泄密網站—維基解密進行捐贈的鏈接；貝寶表示無法為"違法活動"提供服務。此前亞馬遜網站也決定停止為維基解密提供服務器，理由是后者違反了亞馬遜的服務條款。
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Son hits father in hit-and-run
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男子撞父逃逸父阻報警
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A male motorcycle rider in Yizheng, Jiangsu Province ran away after hitting and injuring his father and another elderly man due to the dim light at night, the Yangtze Evening News reports. He didn't realize that one of the men hit was his father. But his father, who was less seriously injured, saw it was his son. In order to help him escape, his father stopped witnesses from calling police. The son has now surrendered to the police, and his father's actions was also recorded in police files.
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《揚子晚報》5日報道，江蘇省儀征市一男子駕車撞傷自己的父親及父親身邊的一位長輩后，因晚間光線差，沒看清是自己的老父，當即駕車逃逸。其受傷較輕的父親在看出是兒子"惹禍"的情況下，為了幫助兒子逃避經濟賠償和法律制裁，竟一路阻止目擊群眾報警。目前，肇事兒子向警方投案自首，糊涂父親也被警方立案調查。
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2 mln Britons wear 10-year-old underwear
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200萬英國人內褲穿十年
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According to a study published yesterday by shopping website Kelkoo, 1.7 million Britons still wear underwear they bought more than 10 years ago, the Mail Online reported. Almost a quarter of those admitted wearing the offending items more than 250 times before finally buying new ones. More than a quarter of men admitted wearing the same underwear two days in a row, without washing, compared to just 7% of women. A further 14% of men and 3% of women admitted wearing the same drawers for three days or longer. Laboratory tests detected bacteria on 83% of all tested underwear samples over a year old, and in some cases, they even discovered E. coli. The most popular reason given for hanging on to old briefs was comfort (68%) while others were reluctant to part with them for "sentimental reasons" (7%).
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英國《每日郵報》網站消息，購物網站Kelkoo昨天發布的一項研究表明，170萬英國人一條內褲穿十年，其中四分之一的人說他們一條內褲要穿250多次后才買新的。超過四分之一的受訪男性說他們兩天才換一次內褲，而女性的這一比例才7%。14%的男性和3%的女性說他們三天或以上才換一次內褲。研究人員從83%穿過一年以上的內褲樣本上檢出了細菌，甚至有的檢出了大腸桿菌。之所以一條內褲穿很久，68%的受訪人說是因為舒服，有7%的人說是有情感上的原因。
（China.org.cn）
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