Hourly News updated 10:00 2011/09/30

 Launch of Tiangong-1 Success

China's first experimental space lab, the Tiangong-1, has successfully entered its designated orbit, after blasting off from Gansu last night.

The launch of Tiangong-1 is the first step in what is ultimately expected to be the creation of a Chinese space station by 2020.

Commander-in-chief of China's manned space program Chang Wanquan announced the launch of Tiangong-1 is successful.

"According to report from Beijing Aerospace¹ Control Centre, Tiangong-1 has entered its designated orbit. Let me declare, the launch of Tiangong-1 is successful."

The unmanned module², carried by the Long March rocket, will test space docking with a Chinese spacecraft later this year, paving the way for China to become the third country in the world to operate a permanent space station around 2020.

Chinese President Hu Jintao watched the launch from the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center, while Premier³ Wen Jibao has watched the historical take-off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

China will turn its future space station into an international platform for space research and application.

 

 

Typhoon Nesat heading towards Vietnam

Typhoon Nesat is now losing power on its way to northern Vietnam, after passing over Hainan last night.

Nesat is now forecast to downgrade to a tropical depression by tomorrow when it hits Vietnam.

However, the Typhoon made landfall yesterday afternoon in Hainan, forcing some 300-thousand people to leave their homes because of landslides⁴ fears.

The heavy rains and winds forced the suspension of flights and ferry services.

Nesat also battered⁵ Hong Kong with heavy rain and winds, forcing the city to shut down the stock exchange.

Meanwhile, the death toll⁶ from Nesat in the Philippines has now risen to 39, with 45 others remaining missing.

 

 

No interim⁷ gov't until whole Libyan under NTC control: official

Libya's National Transitional Council is confirming that it's going to postpone⁸ the formation of an interim government until all of Libya is under its full control.

NTC head Mahmoud Jibril says the current executive office is going to remain in charge in the interim.

However, he has suggested there could be some changes in certain ministries⁹.

Jibril has also told reporters that he will not be "related to the transitional government."

However, he refused to expand on what exactly he means by that statement.

 

 

Interpol calling for the arrest of a second Gaddafi son

Interpol has issued a new alert, calling for the arrest of another of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's sons, Saadi Gadaffi, who is reportedly seeking refuge in Niger.

Interpol says the arrest warrant has been issued at the request of Libya's new authorities, who accuse him of violent crack downs on protesters.

Meanwhile in Sirte, anti-Gaddafi forces have reportedly taken the airport, which is about 5km from the city center.

US Senator John McCain, along with four other senators, has now met with Libya's new rulers.

McCain is hailing the success of the Libyan people, and pledges to help in the country's preparation for elections.

 

 

German parliament approves expanded EU bailout fund

German lawmakers have approved expanding the powers of the eurozone bailout fund, which is being viewed as a significant step toward trying to tackle the debt crisis.

In the 620-seat lower house, Bundestag, 523 members have voted to approve the expansion.

The measure is now expected to pass in the upper house later on Friday.

It means that Germany will be guaranteeing fresh loans to the so-called European Financial Stability Facility, or EFSF, of up to 211 billion euros.

 

 

Police nab over 800 suspects in transnational telecom fraud bust¹⁰

A major trans-national telecom fraud ring, based mainly on the mainland, has now been broken up.

The Chinese Ministry¹¹ of Public Security says that nearly 830 people have been arrested in China and 8 other Southeast Asian countries.

At the same time, the authorities say they've also shut down over 160 base operations, and have uncovered more than 18-hundred cases of fraud.

Telecommunication¹² scams in China are a relatively¹³ new, but growing, problem for the authorities.

 

 

Five recipients¹⁴ of HIV-positive organs test HIV-negative: hospital

Medical authorities in Taiwan have announced that five patients who received organs from an HIV-positive donor¹⁵ have all tested negative for the virus themselves.

At the same time, health authorities in Taiwan have also released the findings of their initial investigation¹⁶, saying that human error appears to be the root cause of the accident.

A month ago, the organs of a brain-dead patient were transplanted into 5 different people on verbal word that the patient's tests were 'non-reactive' to the HIV testing.

It was only after doctors at Taiwan University Hospital pulled the dead man's chart did they realize that he was, in fact, HIV-positive.

1 aerospace   

adj.航空的，宇宙航行的

参考例句：

• The world's entire aerospace industry is feeling the chill winds of recession.全世界的航空航天工业都感受到了经济衰退的寒意。
• Edward Murphy was an aerospace engineer for the US Army.爱德华·墨菲是一名美军的航宇工程师。

2 module   

n.组件，模块，模件；(航天器的)舱

参考例句：

• The centre module displays traffic guidance information.中央模块显示交通引导信息。
• Two large tanks in the service module held liquid oxygen.服务舱的两个大气瓶中装有液态氧。

3 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• 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。

4 landslides   

山崩( landslide的名词复数 )； （山坡、悬崖等的）崩塌； 滑坡； （竞选中）一方选票占压倒性多数

参考例句：

• Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
• The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。

5 battered   

adj.磨损的；v.连续猛击；磨损

参考例句：

• He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
• The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。

6 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• 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。

7 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

8 postpone   

v.延期，推迟

参考例句：

• I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
• She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。

9 ministries   

（政府的）部( ministry的名词复数 )； 神职； 牧师职位； 神职任期

参考例句：

• Local authorities must refer everything to the central ministries. 地方管理机构应请示中央主管部门。
• The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third. 部委的数量已经减少了1/3。

10 bust   

vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部

参考例句：

• I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
• She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。

11 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

12 telecommunication   

n.电信，远距离通信

参考例句：

• Telecommunication is an industry of service.电信业是一个服务型的行业。
• I only care about the telecommunication quality and the charge.我只关心通信质量和资费两个方面。

13 relatively   

adv.比较...地，相对地

参考例句：

• The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
• The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。

14 recipients   

adj.接受的；受领的；容纳的；愿意接受的n.收件人；接受者；受领者；接受器

参考例句：

• The recipients of the prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者的姓名登在报上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The recipients of prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者名单登在报上。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

15 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。

16 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。