| Rusty blades found in baby's diaper |
紙尿片里突現(xiàn)生銹刀片 |
| Five rusty blades found in his baby son's diaper stunned Pan Zerui and his family, the Guangzhou Daily reports. On Nov. 3, Pan's newly born son began crying and scratching at his genitals. Pan's wife felt something solid in the baby's diaper, which had the brand name "Quanrimei". It turned out there were five rusty blades in the diaper. Quanrimei said the blades must have accidentally fallen into materials used to make the diaper, and offered to pay 1,200 yuan compensation. But Pan said the blades might have affected his son's fertility and demanded 10,000 yuan. No agreement has yet been reached. |
兒子使用的嬰兒紙尿片里竟藏了5片銹刀片，這讓潘澤瑞一家大驚失色。據(jù)《廣州日報》報道，11月3日，潘澤瑞出生不久的兒子忽然大哭不止，并用手抓下身。他的妻子摸到兒子使用的“全日美”牌紙尿片里有硬梆梆的東西，結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)竟是5片生銹的刀片。全日美公司后來回應稱，刀片是不小心掉進紙尿片制作材料里的，并表示可以賠償潘家1200元，而潘澤瑞則擔心刀片可能影響兒子的生育能力，要求全日美公司賠償1萬元。目前，雙方尚未達成一致。 |
| 'Most difficult' railway opens |
宜萬鐵路今日正式通車 |
| The 377km long Yiwan Railway, from Yichang in Hubei Province to Wanzhou District in Chongqing, opens for traffic Wednesday, the Beijing Daily reports. It took 50,000 workers seven years to build the railway, advancing only 50 km each year, the slowest rate of construction in the history of Chinese railways. Designer Hu Ziping said the Yiwan Railway had been so difficult to build because of the karst landforms along the route. Erosion by the Yangtze River had formed numerous gorges and construction was dogged by underground rivers and caves. Workers faced the constant danger of collapse and flooding. After other links are completed next year, the 18-hour journey time from Wuhan to Chongqing will be cut to 5 hours, and the trip from Chongqing to Shanghai will take less than 12 hours. |
《北京日報》報道，全長377公里的宜萬鐵路（湖北宜昌至重慶萬州區(qū)）周三正式通車運營。該鐵路的建設耗時7年，5萬名工人參與建設，年均進度僅50多公里，是中國鐵路史上建設最慢的一條線路。宜萬鐵路設計負責人胡子平說，宜萬鐵路之所以難修是因為沿線的喀斯特地貌。沿路因長江侵蝕有許多峽谷，而且建設經(jīng)常被暗河和山洞所阻斷。工人們持續(xù)面臨著洞穴塌方和河水泛濫的危險。待明年其它鐵路貫通后，現(xiàn)在從武漢到重慶18小時的路程可以縮短到5小時，而從重慶到上海將不到12小時。 |
| Hong Kong looks to mainland for maids |
內(nèi)地保姆或許可赴港工作 |
| The number of Filipino domestic help workers bound for Hong Kong has decreased by half since the hostage crisis in the Philippines in August, leaving a shortage of maids for the city's residents, Guangzhou Daily reports. The Hong Kong government is now looking to the possibility of allowing domestic help workers from the mainland, which currently is illegal. Hong Kong laws allow Chinese mainland citizens to become permanent residents of Hong Kong after working in Hong Kong for seven years, which is apparently a problem for somebody. Many Hong Kong residents also worry that a large number of young women entering the city would have a negative impact on the stability of Hong Kong families. |
《廣州日報》22日報道，由于受到菲律賓人質(zhì)事件的影響，赴港菲傭的數(shù)量減少了一半，香港政府現(xiàn)正尋求允許內(nèi)地保姆到香港工作的可能性，目前內(nèi)地保姆赴港工作是不合法的。根據(jù)香港法律，內(nèi)地居民如果在香港工作七年以上就可以成為香港永久居民，這就使允許內(nèi)地保姆到香港工作產(chǎn)生了問題。另外，許多香港居民也擔心內(nèi)地大量年輕女性涌入香港，會對香港的家庭穩(wěn)定造成沖擊。 |
| US population sees slowing rise |
美國人口增10%達3.08億 |
| New data from the latest US census shows the total population of the US grew to 308,745,538 in 2010, up from 281.4 million a decade ago, BBC reports. Despite the nearly 10% rise, the population figure marked the slowest growth in a decade since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Roughly 60% of the increase was from individuals born inside the US, while 40% was the result of those immigrating to the country. |
據(jù)英國廣播公司報道，美國人口普查局公布的最新數(shù)據(jù)顯示，美國總?cè)丝趶?0年前的2.814億增長到2010年的3.08745538億。雖然增長率達10%，但卻是上世紀30年代“大蕭條”以來美國人口增速最低的十年，其中約60%的新增人口為在美國出生的新生兒，另40%是新移民。 |
| Spain votes for tough smoking ban |
西班牙再推嚴格禁煙令 |
| Spanish lawmakers have voted to approve a tough new anti-smoking law, meaning that from Jan. 2, bars and restaurants will be no-smoking zones, BBC reports. Smokers will also not be allowed to light up on television broadcasts, near hospitals or in school playgrounds. Bar and cafe owners fear the law will adversely affect business. But doctors argue the new legislation will help smokers give up. About 160 Spaniards a day die from smoking-related illnesses, four of them from passive smoking. |
據(jù)英國廣播公司報道，日前，西班牙立法者投票通過了又一項嚴格的禁煙法規(guī)。這意味著從1月2日起，所有的酒吧和餐館將成為無煙區(qū)。煙民將不得在電視廣播里、醫(yī)院附近或?qū)W校操場上抽煙。盡管酒吧和咖啡店老板擔心該法規(guī)會嚴重影響他們的生意，醫(yī)生們卻認為這有助于煙民戒煙。據(jù)悉，每天約有160名西班牙人死于和吸煙相關的疾病，其中的1/4死于被動吸煙。 |
| Spy game: UK, Russia oust diplomats |
英俄間諜案互遣外交官 |
| The UK expelled a Russian diplomat on suspicion of spying on Dec 10. Then on Dec. 16, Russia kicked out a British embassy staffer in Moscow in apparent retaliation, the British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Tuesday, CNN reports. A Russian aide to a British lawmaker was arrested recently and faces deportation, but that case is unconnected to the embassy expulsions, the Foreign Office stated. London's Sunday Times said the British intelligence service MI5 determined that the 25-year-old is a Russian sleeper agent. |
據(jù)美國有線電視新聞網(wǎng)報道，英國12月10日遣返了一名俄羅斯外交官，稱其從事間諜活動，俄國12月16日進行反擊，也遣返了一名英國駐莫斯科大使館的工作人員。一名英國立法人員的俄國助手近期被逮捕并面臨被驅(qū)逐出境，但英國外交部表示這起案件與驅(qū)逐大使館人員無關。倫敦的《星期日泰晤士報》曝料稱，英國的情報機構(gòu)MI5認為這名25歲的俄國人是俄潛伏間諜。 |
