Week4-MH17

Dutch MH17 relative visits crash site: report

AFP
October 21, 2014, 12:03 am TWN

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands--A Dutch relative of a victim of downed flight MH17 has traveled to the crash site in eastern Ukraine to search for the remains of his missing cousin, Dutch television reported Sunday.

National public broadcaster NOS showed Robby Oehlers as he searched the burnt remains that still litter the site where the Malaysia Airlines flight crashed on July 17, killing all 298 on board.

Dutch forensic experts have so far identified 278 of the victims, but no trace has been found of Daisy Oehlers, 20, who was on her way to Bali with her friend Bryce Frederiksz, 23 when the Boeing 777 crashed.

German intelligence has accused pro-Moscow rebels of shooting down flight MH17 using missiles captured from Ukrainian government forces, media reported on Sunday.

Kiev and the West had previously charged that MH17 was blown out of the sky by separatist fighters using a BUK surface-to-air system supplied by Russia — charges denied by Moscow.

Oehlers' family was “angry and frustrated because it's taking so long” to find her, said the NOS.

“Robby Oehlers therefore decided to visit the site himself and organized it through contact with the separatists,” the broadcaster said.

Four Dutch experts returned to the crash site in pro-Moscow rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine a week ago, but the Dutch government have repeatedly complained that they have not been granted full access.

Dutch forensic experts called off their search of the area in early August because of fighting between Kiev and pro-Russian separatists in the area.

Shelling could be heard in the distance as Oehlers inspected a turquoise suitcase that may have belonged to his cousin lying amongst pieces of charred landing gear and engine lying around the site.

“It's sad to say, but an investigation simply cannot be done at this stage,” Oehlers was quoted as saying.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/europe/2014/10/21/419924/Dutch-MH17.htm

Structure of the Lead：

who-A Dutch relative of a victim of downed flight MH17

when-Sunday

what-search for the remains of his missing cousin

why-not given

where-THE HAGUE, The Netherlands

how-traveled to the crash site in eastern Ukraine

Keywords：

1. litter     使凌亂

2. forensic     法庭的

3. separatist     獨立派

4. shelling     砲轟

5. turquoise     寶綠色

6. charred     燒焦的

Week3-Nuclear power plant

Activists want no referendum and no nuclear plant

By Lee I-chia  /  Staff reporter

During the first day of the new legislative session yesterday, anti-nuclear power environmentalists again gathered in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, calling on legislators to stop the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao (貢寮), New Taipei City (新北市), and withdraw the referendum proposal on the plant.

Taiwan Environmental Protection Union founding chairman Shih Hsin-min (施信民) said the referendum proposal suggested by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lee Ching-hua (李慶華) is aimed at exploiting the “problematic” Referendum Act (公民投票法), ignoring public opinion and supporting the Cabinet’s will of allowing the plant to go into operation.

Although Lee last week publicly announced that he wished to withdraw the proposal, Shih said the proposal has already passed the first reading and is scheduled for a second reading in this session, so even if Lee claims to want to withdraw the proposal, he still has to go through procedures to make it effective.

“Lee should finish going through the procedures as soon as possible. The Legislative Yuan should acknowledge the public’s wish to bring a halt to the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant project,” he said, urging the KMT caucus not to block the proposal withdrawal.

The protesters said President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) approval rating had already dropped to 9.2 percent and if he does not stop the construction project, it may even plunge lower.

Pan Han-shen (潘翰聲) of the Green Party Taiwan said, ahead of next month’s National Day, that “we do not have anything to celebrate, because we have so many nuclear power plants in the nation and Taiwan is the only country that builds nuclear power plants right next to its capital.”

Pan said the public is invited to join in a “Fourth Nuclear Power Plant termination” relay walk around the nation, ending at the Presidential Office on Jan. 1.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/09/18/2003572423

Structure of the Lead：

who-anti-nuclear power environmentalists

when-During the first day of the new legislative session yesterday

what-calling on legislators to stop the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao (貢寮), New Taipei City (新北市), and withdraw the referendum proposal on the plant.

why-not given

where-in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei

how-gathered in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei

Keywords：

1.session     會議

2.referendum     公投

3.exploit     利用

4.problematic     有問題的

5.Cabinet     內閣

6.acknowledge     承認

7.halt     停止

8.caucus     黨團

9.termination     終止

10.relay     接力