Megi throws life in disarray  posté le vendredi 22 octobre 2010 04:21

Hong Kong officials and residents were wary given the destruction Megi wreaked earlier in the week. Villagers in Tai O installed metal barricades and moved electrical appliances like refrigerators and washing machines to higher ground, Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper reported on Thursday.

The State Oceanic Administration and other government agencies have ordered efforts to strengthen seawalls and protect fishing facilities, and to patrol risk areas.

Meanwhile, strong gale accompanying Megi struck the eastern coast of Guangdong province on Thursday, severely paralyzing air and sea traffic.

The Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines, one of the country's three major carriers, has cancelled four international flights from Guangzhou to Manila, capital of the Philippines, and Xiamen, Fujian province, to Manila since Tuesday.

International flights from Guangzhou to Singapore and Jakarta will also be affected in the coming two days due to the bad weather, China Southern Airlines said.

Domestic flights between Guangzhou and gale-hit coastal cities such as Shantou, Xiamen, Haikou and Sanya were also affected, sources at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport revealed.

Megi, the 13th typhoon to hit the Chinese coast this year, is expected to land in Guangdong on Friday night or Saturday morning, said Zhang Dong, a senior forecaster at the Guangdong provincial meteorological administration.

Megi is bringing winds of up to 260 km per hour, making it the strongest typhoon to have appeared in the northwest Pacific Ocean since 1990 and the strongest globally this year, according to Zhang.

The railway ferry service across Qiongzhou Strait, which links the mainland to Hainan province, has been suspended for three days starting Thursday.

Many coastal cities in Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan have also cancelled or suspended their marine ferry services to avoid mishaps.

Xu Jianfeng, a resident of Shantou, said the gale was so strong that many people chose to stay indoors on Thursday.

The Guangdong provincial government has issued an emergency notice, urging relevant cities and departments to take effective and concrete measures to avoid or reduce casualties and minimize economic losses.

Meanwhile, Li Ronggen, vice-governor of Guangdong province, urged the Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee to do everything possible to ensure the venues for the 16th Asian Games and the Asian Para Games suffer no damages in the wake of the storm.

"The sports gala must open in Guangdong's provincial capital as scheduled on Nov 12," said Li, who is also the commander-in-chief of Guangdong's Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.

Li urged local governments and departments to give priority to protecting agriculture, water conservancy projects and coastal and river dikes.

The Guangdong provincial government has sent 43 expert groups to inspect reservoirs, coastal and river dikes, water conservancy projects in the coastal areas before Megi strikes.

By noon on Thursday, 48,646 fishing boats had returned to shore while 11,476 fishermen and the marine personnel had been evacuated to safety in Guangdong.

In Fujian province, more than 150,000 people had been evacuated, and 53,100 fishing boats have been recalled to harbor, provincial flood control authorities said on Thursday.

In Hainan, China's southernmost island province, 26,060 fishing boats returned to harbor and officials also prepared tents, flashlights, food and disinfectant.

Railway authorities have resumed train services into and out of Hainan after they were suspended on Oct 19, as Megi's impact is expected to be less than forecast.

AP contributed to the story.

Typhoon Megi weakened as it moved closer to China's southern coast, where authorities have issued a high alert and stepped up preparations for landfall.

Megi was located 450 kilometers southeast of Hong Kong late on Thursday morning, generating winds of 175 km per hour - much weaker than the winds of 225 km per hour that slammed the Philippines earlier this week, the Hong Kong Observatory said.

While traveling north over the South China Sea, it was expected to gain momentum on Friday, then pare back again on Saturday to winds of 155 km per hour just before it lands in southern Guangdong province, according to the observatory.

Its winds will further weaken to 85 km per hour on Sunday as it moves inland, the forecast said.  starte ouexz lvwvoe lovew

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will make China stronger  posté le mercredi 11 août 2010 05:56

By Justin Ward

As China strives to internationalize and attract more world-class talent to live and study here, its visa policies will play a crucial role. According to a Global Times article published on July 8, new visa policies are currently in the works and could go into effect as early as 2011.

Under the current policies, most foreigners are only eligible for one-year residence permits and the yearly process of renewing them is time consuming and requires a lot of paperwork. Only a handful of residents are eligible for a multi-year visa, which has strict requirements. The lack of a more long-term status makes foreign residents in China feel like permanent visitors though some may work here for years or even decades. Furthermore, foreigners lack access to affordable quality education for their children and other benefits such as social security, which can be disincentives for top talent.

But the issue of long-term visas for skilled workers and executives is not the only one that needs to be addressed. Perhaps more pressing is the need to create some kind of legitimate status for the thousands who come to China every year to teach— often in training schools and one-on-one tutoring. It is easy enough for high-level talent to get a one-year work visa and residence permit even though renewing it annually may be somewhat of a pain, but for teachers, a work visa is usually only available to those who work full-time at a school or universities.

Many English teachers, however, come to China on a tourist visa and teach illegally in training schools. The demand for this type of teacher is obvious and is evidenced by the sheer number of these types of schools proliferating all over China on a daily basis. Yet, few of these schools can legitimately offer a working visa to teachers.

These teachers provide a vital service to China, which needs native English speakers to train a new generation of workers to operate in an era of increasing globalization. China not only needs native English teachers in schools in universities, but also tutors to train ordinary Chinese who aim to continue their education for better job and business opportunities. That’s why any new visa policy should include a new type of visa for freelance English teachers who are unattached to any particular school.

If one looks at the rationale behind why most countries seek to limit immigration, namely to protect jobs for domestic workers and lower the burden on social services, it makes little sense for China to maintain such a restrictive policy. Foreign teachers are not in competition with ordinary Chinese for most jobs because many of them do not speak Chinese. They come over here to teach English, which is something most Chinese just cannot do.

Also, if foreign teachers are teaching illegally, they remain outside of the system. They are paid under the table and therefore do not pay taxes, while at the same time they are using publicly-funded services like mass transit. If the massive amounts of illegal teachers were given a legitimate status, it would increase China’s tax base significantly.

A freelance teacher visa would mean more and better teachers would come to China. According to the basic economic laws of supply and demand, this would drive the cost of English education down further meaning more average Chinese will be able to afford quality English instruction. The government could also implement some kind of standardized testing and certification process for the recipients of this freelance visa to ensure that the foreign teachers are of the highest caliber. This would effectively end the status quo in English training schools, which amounts to “any English speaker will do.”

But it is not only those on tourist visas who are teaching illegally right now. There are also the many thousands who come here to study but also teach illegally to support themselves while they are here. When it updates the visa policies, the government should also include a special “Work-Study” visa that allows foreign students to teach while they study in China.

Currently, those who can study in China are limited to people who have the means to support themselves or have help from their parents or scholarships. There are many more students who could benefit from living and studying in China if only they had some way to earn income while they are here.

If China seeks to cement its place as an international world power, it means more than just opening up to investment. It requires openness to immigration as well. At this crucial phase of development, reform to China’s visa policies is needed now more than ever.

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prolific legacy for South Africa  posté le samedi 24 juillet 2010 04:44

The first soccer World Cup hosted on African soil has been appraised as one of the most successful tournaments ever hosted.

South African economists believe the legacy of the soccer tournament will benefit the country, long after the final whistle has blown. Initial results indicate that 93 billion rands was injected into South Africa's local economy during the month-long event.

Speaking at a media briefing in the country's administrative capital Pretoria last week, government spokesman, Themba Maseko, said finance minister Pravin Gordhan was still doing the final calculations of the monetary gains the soccer World Cup generated, the results of which will only be available in the coming months.

One of the most notable benefits of the successful hosting of the event is the improvement in both South Africa and Africa's global image. At least 1.4 million international visitors flew into the country to attend matches in the nine provinces and government believes that the tourism sector will grow as a result of the showcase.

"We anticipate that this will translate into an increased number of tourists in the future," said Maseko. According to the Department of Home Affair's Movement Control System (MCS) international visitors had come mainly from Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Malawi and Zambia, followed by the United States, Britain, Germany, Australia, Brazil and Mexico to support their teams, as well as to explore South Africa.

Credit card company Visa Inc said that according to their cardholder spending data from June 1 to June 25, international visitors in South Africa on the company's payment cards exceeded 176 million U.S. dollars (1.33 billion rands), up 65 percent form 107 million U.S. dollars (810 million rands) for the same period in 2009.

Spending data indicated that the United States, followed by Britain, Australia, Brazil and France had been the strongest contributors to tourism spending.

The local tourism industry is optimistic that interest in the country will grow as a result of the tournament. According to SA Tourism, conference bookings in Gauteng alone are expected to exceed 1 billion rands. The upgrading in perception is important for the country, where the tourism industry contributed 69.5 billion rands (9.92 billion U.S. dollars) of the country's 545 billion rands (77.8 billion U.S. dollars) GDP in 1999.14 billion rands (285.59 billion U.S. dollars) originated from Gauteng.

One of the biggest contributing factors to the improved perception of the country is the security of international visitors. While the international community was initially concerned that South Africa, which has a high unemployment and crime rate, would not be able to host a safe event, police were on high alert and specialised crime courts fast-tracked the judicial system.

The police force deployed an additional 44,000 police officers during the tournament and over 50 dedicated courts, which operated around the clock, were established for the event. A total of 205 cases were heard and 122 convictions secured. In addition, 2014 soccer World Cup hosts, Brazil, have used South Africa's management of the event as a case study for the future.

"We had various requests from various countries that wanted to learn from how we have done things. Most notably the 2014 World Cup hosts, Brazil and the foreign police officers we have worked with have also said they were very impressed. To me this is an indication that what we have done here really worked well," said Deputy Police Commissioner and Joint Operational Committee (JOCOM) chair, Andre Pruis.

Government is now considering keeping these "World Cup courts" operational, in an effort to clear the justice system's case backlog. One of the biggest challenges the South African government faced when they won the bid to host the event in 2004 was to improve transport infrastructure.

The development of these basic services is possibly one of the most practical legacy's the hosting of the soccer World Cup will have for the country. National government spent 30 billion rands ( 4.28 billion U.S. dollars) on improving transportation: roads, airports, ports of entry; telecommunications infrastructure as well as stadiums: building six new stadiums and upgrading a further four.

The 11.7 billion rands (1.67 billion U.S.dollars) investment in 10 world-class stadiums resulted in the creation of 66,000 new construction jobs, generating 7.4 billion rands (1.05 billion U.S. dollars) in wages. The government spent 13 billion rands (1.86 U.S. dollars) to upgrade train stations near stadiums, improving roads and the massive upgrades of the country's airports.

Ports of entry received 3.5 billion rands (5 million U.S. dollars) for renovations, including improved information technology infrastructure equipment at borders. Some 1.5 billion rands (2.14 million U.S dollars) has been invested in broadcast technology, much of which was used for broadband Internet access.

This technology will remain an asset for years to come. Financial advisory company, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu said that the investment by the South African government into the country's infrastructure will see South Africa emerging as a competitive 21st century economy.

"Infrastructure shortfalls have contributed to South Africa not being able to realize its full economic potential. South Africa is reaping the rewards of hosting the World Cup, namely infrastructure improvements, an economic boost and increased national self-esteem," said spokesman for Deloitte's Southern African public sector, industry leader, Lwazi Bam, adding that the event served as a catalyst for much-needed improvements to infrastructure.

"The event has boosted national infrastructure improvements, increased employment during hard times ... and provided a unifying rallying point for a still-developing nation," said Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu global public sector industry leader Greg Pellegrino.

In addition to economic benefits, FIFA's 1Goal- Education For All campaign is also set to leave a tangible mark on the lives of thousands of African children who do not currently have access to education.

1GOAL is supported by the football world and its governing body, FIFA. 1GOAL supporters and ambassadors include a multitude of global football stars, celebrities and world leaders, all working to achieve the shared vision of education for all.

The campaign seeks to garner support from individuals to put pressure on governments to deliver the extra 12 billion dollars a year that is needed to pay for every child to attend school. South African President Jacob Zuma has applauded the initiative and it is hoped that the World Cup will garner international support for the campaign's objectives.

"The international response has been overwhelming, from political leaders, football stars, musicians, actors and other prominent personalities around the world. This has demonstrated the power of mass mobilisation for a good cause. Working together we can make education a lasting legacy of this World Cup," he said.
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Thank you for your love ___ nail  posté le mercredi 02 juin 2010 04:50


I never know what is online dating, what is online dating, I now understand, I am very lucky in this virtual network of met you, you know a song called net margin of it? The network has been rumored for a long time.

Do not know if you believe in fate it? I believe that in this immense network of world, should be a lot of people to meet. Knowing each other. Acquaintance, in the process of contact with each other with understanding, created a good impression, some married, some become friends even confidant, regardless of the type, are by fate. Is this without a trace, invisible. Intangible thing, and this is fate. It is like an invisible long to know each of us together, it was like an invisible net to tie us together, difficult to break free, this is a matter of how hard ah, this is the fate

Hua Xia Daguo in this, in this 1.3 billion population are met, this is a matter of how hard ah, that should be edge, but I have no copies, and it depends on our fate. If we are destined together, then who can not be changed, nor will not be disturbed by external factors, if we do not together, it was not going to insist, no copies of it on behalf of our affinity, affinity is not insist come, which is called the edge to edge distance, edge to edge casual, not too fussy.

With that logic is so simple, but often we do not necessarily want to see and do light, whether you believe in fate, edge, and were all closely linked, we will meet by chance in the time unexpected, this is fate.

You know? I am in this virtual network where I met you the most fortunate thing in this life, but also memorable things of my life.

You know? To you, let me indulge in the network, waiting for you, in order to you, I tired one day of physical force the machine sat there waiting for you.

Love a person is not easy, more difficult to forget someone. It is painful to love someone very bitter thing, like a man is tired of tired of things, such a person is really silly silly things, why we can not reject such an Acacia? Why do we willingly without regret? Why are we still so addicted?

You see I play characters on the screen, but can not see my tears fell on the keyboard ......

A corner of the network, perhaps there is a silly waiting for you! Who can not tell why is it so persistent to wait a only love, but they can not spend the people, why would a person who can not defend, together willing to come crashing? Perhaps the real marriage, people have too much responsibility. Human life, hope and reality often conflict, our expectations may not be available; we can get, but not necessarily expected; However, this is life.

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Waiting for such a love but only those who can not defend, can only love quietly, silently blessing for each other. Because when we need care and care when the other party will never be with me, but this time his is it? Nothing! Only to miss surrounded himself leads to his thoughts, to let the tears flow quietly, thinking he could only quietly, quietly waiting, waiting for a time convenient to him and you make a call or send a short message.

Can only wait for such a love but can not spend the people who need a courage, because we know that this love is great, but also should be selfless, it is sacred, love can not wait for such a spend the people, but also a sincere and generous heart, all the grievances and the scars are hidden in the mutual love of the same time, consideration should be given the responsibility to love, love can be many, many people may also lose a lot of many, this is the network of the price of love, love to pay, but not necessarily rewarded, get the returns are not necessarily true.

However, abandoning the hard-won love of late, but not the heart is so, then the pain, once whole-hearted love of the preparation is not the result of love, only far far away and watching silently The silence of love, mind share of the pain, how can it be relieved? Only love so cautious, but are both caused by pain, can not give up but can not be presumptuous of love, this is a what a sad thing ah. Between the two sides can only be deeply in love with such a love but only those who can not defend,; only Remote Blessing him happy all the time, every minute of peace, which is sufficient, Do not pray too much, can not imagine too many.

Seek only one able to hear themselves talk, so that their happy, because the pressure of daily life, too, as long as the happy people can become so dark and full of glory days. Although aware of this feeling can only be online, only in the fantasy world, also understand that we can only get the spirit, but also is enough!

I often wish networks which have no happiness, in fact, well-being of the network is to realize our dream of process, not results, in fact, is this fate, fate is the process of God's own fate is doomed, we can not insist, we must learn to Xi Yuan, when fate comes, that the process of feeding products carefully, we should cherish, know how to care, even if one day destiny to go, and we will not leave regrets, even if one day destiny evaporation, we also memories.

Thank you for loving me the network, regardless of when, thinking of our time away, in my heart will always have a good time permanent collection, this fate is a happy thought, is sweet, this is the most beautiful, worth collecting.

 

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