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• learn Chinese online – U.S. lawmaker Ron Paul announces third presidential bid

  Date: 2011.06.16 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese Tutor, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

  Representative Ron Paul formally announced Friday that he will seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.

  “I’m officially announcing that I am a candidate for president in the Republican primary,” he said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

  “Time has come around to the point where the people are agreeing with much of what I’ve been saying for 30 years,” he said.

  This will be the third presidential campaign for the 75-year-old Paul. He first ran in 1988 as the nominee of the Libertarian Party and again in 2008 as a candidate for the Republican nomination but failed.

  Paul, whose son is Senator Rand Paul, has gained prominence for his libertarian positions on many issues, often at odds with both Republican and Democratic leaders.

  The long-term congressman holds extremely conservative views on fiscal policy, which makes him enjoy strong support form the Tea Party activists. In terms of foreign policy, he opposes both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and has criticized President Barack Obama on the way the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was carried out.

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• learn Chinese – Syria expects comprehensive national dialogue in upcoming days: minister

  Date: 2011.06.15 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese Tutor, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

  Syrian Information Minister Adnan Hassan Mahmoud said Friday Syria would hold a comprehensive national dialogue across the country in the upcoming days.

  “Syria is determined to bring back security and stability to the country,” he said at a press conference in the Foreign Ministry when talking about latest developments on the turmoil which has been gripping the country for some two months.

  “Army and security forces have arrested many armed groups’ members and seized big amounts of weapons, ammunition and explosives which were prepared to target citizens and blow up vital and economic installations,” the minister said, adding 120 members from the army, security and police forces were killed, while 1,491 wounded in the operation.

  Meanwhile, thousands of anti-government protesters on Friday took to the streets in the cities of Damascus, Homs, al-Boukamal and Qamishli, chanting anti-government slogans and demanding President Bashar al-Assad to resign in what activists dubbed ” Friday of Syria’s female liberals.”

  Syria has seen almost two months of protests calling for reforms and demanding civil rights. The government blamed the unrest on terrorist groups and thugs to weather sectarian strife in the country.

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• Chinese language – Israel, U.S. Jewish groups praise Demjanjuk sentencing

  Date: 2011.06.14 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese Tutor, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

  Israel and U.S.-based Jewish organizations on Thursday lauded the sentencing of John Demjanjuk, a convicted war criminal, in a German court.

  Earlier in the day, a Munich court capped a legal saga that spanned three decades when it sentenced Demjanjuk, 91, to five years in prison for his part in the murder of upwards of 28,000 Jews at Sobibor, one of the Third Reich’s notorious death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

  The court charged Demjanjuk, who served as a guard at the camp for six months in 1943, with 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder.

  The prosecution could not present evidence directly linking Demjanjuk to any specific act of murder, since the handful of survivors of that camp are no longer alive. Rather, it argued that his physical presence at the camp while the mass killings were taking place in itself made him an accomplice.

  A statement issued by the Jerusalem-based Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Authority said that the trial and verdict “demonstrate that there is no statute of limitations on the crimes of the Holocaust, and served as a significant forum for raising awareness about it.”

  “Demjanjuk’s conviction today underscores the fact that even though the policies of the ‘Final Solution’ – the systematic murder of six million European Jews – were set and carried out by the German Nazi regime, the murder could not have taken place without the participation of myriads of Europeans on many levels. Their role was also criminal,” the statement continued.

  Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk was drafted into the Soviet Army in 1941 and a year later became a prisoner of war. As a POW, he was assigned to work as a guard at Sobibor, where an estimated 250,000 Jews were killed.

  He emigrated to the United States in the early 1950s, where he was eventually awarded citizenship, making his livelihood as an auto mechanic in Ohio.

  In 1981, after allegations of war crimes were tied to his name, Demjanjuk’s citizenship was revoked and he was extradited to Israel to stand trial. He was sentenced to death eight years later, after numerous Holocaust survivors pointed him out as “Ivan the Terrible” from the Treblinka extermination camp.

  Israel’s Supreme Court, however, overturned the ruling in 1993 after a local attorney defending Demjanjuk presented documents that cast doubt on his client’s identity as “Ivan the Terrible,” paving the way for his eventual exoneration and return to the United States.

  Stripped of his American citizenship for a second time in 2002, Demjanjuk was deported to Germany in 2009 to stand a new trial. He has been jailed in Munich up until Thursday’s sentencing.

  Demjanjuk continues to maintain his innocence, claiming that he was a victim of the Nazi regime. His attorneys said they will appeal the verdict.

  The World Jewish Congress (WJC) said justice had been done with Demjanjuk’s conviction, and praised Germany’s ongoing efforts to bring Nazi war criminals and their accomplices to trial.

  “There must never be impunity or closure for those who were involved in mass murder and genocide, irrespective of their age,” WJC President Ronald Lauder said.

  “The WJC will persist in its efforts to bring the few old men out there who have the blood of innocent Shoah (Holocaust) victims on their hands before courts of law, to be tried and held accountable for their actions,” Lauder vowed.

  Efraim Zuroff, who heads the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said that the sentencing “sends a very powerful message that even many years after the crimes of the Holocaust, the perpetrators can still be held accountable for their crimes,” the daily Jerusalem Post quoted Zuroff as saying.

  Zuroff said he hoped Demjanjuk’s trial would not be the last of its kind, saying that a “large number of aging ex-Nazis and their accomplices could still be tracked down and tried.”

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