China Travel – Japan finalizes TEPCO compensation scheme

Date: 2011.06.13 | 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

Japanese government approved on Friday a plan to help Tokyo Electric Power Co. compensate victims of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant which was crippled in March’s twin disasters.

The government decided to set up a state-backed institution to keep TEPCO solvent and allocate to the institution subsidy bonds that could be cashed whenever it wanted, according to Kyodo News report.

The Japanese government will also establish a third-party commission to monitor the utility.

It required TEPCO to take steps such selling its assets and cutting the payrolls to streamline its management.

TEPCO’s compensation payouts are estimated to range from 37.1 billion U.S. dollars to 123.5 billion U.S.dollars.

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China Business – 68 killed, over 80 injured in twin suicide blasts in Pakistan

Date: 2011.06.12 | 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

People transfer an injured man to a hospital in northwest Pakistan’s Peshawar, May 13, 2011. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (Xinhua) — At least 68 people were killed and over 80 others injured in a powerful twin suicide blast that took place early Friday morning at a military training center in Charsadda, a city some 30 kilometers northeast of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, local media quoted the top official of the police department in the city as saying.

According to Nisar Khan, District Police Officer of Charsadda, the blasts have so far killed 68 people and injured some 80 others and the death toll could further rise due to the lack of adequate medical facilities in the local hospital.

Some of the injured people have to be shifted to the hospital in the neighboring city of Peshawar, said the report.

According to local media reports, the attack took place at about 6:10 a.m.local time when a motorcycle and a horse cart both laden with explosives attacked a Frontier Corps training center in the Shabqadar area of the city.

It is not known at this point how many kgs of explosives have been used in the attacks, said local police.

The blasts took place at the main gate of the training center when FC personnel were on their way back after morning exercises.

So far at least seven FC personnel have been confirmed killed in the blasts. Some of the killed also include civilians as the military training center is located nearby a market, said local media reports, adding that over 15 shops and a lot of vehicles were also destroyed in the blasts.

Police have cordoned off the area shortly after the blasts were reported. Journalists are kept away from the blast site. Local media reports quoted eyewitnesses as saying that ambulances were heard rushing towards the site.

No group has claimed the responsibility for the attack yet.

Friday morning’s terrorist attack is the most serious one of its kind in Pakistan since the killing of the al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden by the U.S.special task forces in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Abbottabad on May 2. Both al-Qaida and Pakistan Taliban have vowed to avenge the death of bin Laden by threatening to launch attacks in Pakistan as well as in other places of the world.

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Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility of twin attacks

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (Xinhua) — Pakistani Taliban Friday claimed responsibility for twin bomb attacks on a training center of security forces in the country’s northwest, which according to officials killed 68 security personnel, more than 10 civilians and injured over 100 others.

Geo TV reported that a Taliban spokesman called media outlets and claimed responsibility for the attacks on the main training center of Frontier Constabulary (FC), a paramilitary force to maintain security in the country. Full story

Taliban mean it, more attacks could follow in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (Xinhua) — Following the killing of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. special task forces in Pakistan’s northwestern city Abbottabad earlier this month, both al-Qaida and Pakistan Taliban have vowed to avenge the death of their common leader by threatening to launch attacks in Pakistan and the United States as well as in the other places of the world.

Partially due to the tightened security measures taken by many countries following the death of bin Laden and partially due to the lack of time for preparation, no major retaliatory actions have been taken by al-Qaida and Pakistan Taliban for a roughly two- week time though some minor terrorist attacks did occur time and again in Pakistan and a few terrorist attempts were foiled in other parts of the world. Full story

Pakistani PM says attacks can not deter anti-terror war

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (Xinhua) — Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Friday condemned bomb attacks on security personnel in the country’s northwest and said “such cowardly acts could not undermine the war against these elements.”

Officials said that death toll in twin attacks on the training center of Frontier Forces (FC) in the town of Shabqadar reached 70 and 100 more were injured.

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HSK – 80 killed in twin Taliban blasts in NW Pakistan

Date: 2011.06.11 | 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

People transfer an injured man to a hospital in northwest Pakistan’s Peshawar, May 13, 2011. At least 80 people were killed and dozens injured in a twin suicide blast that took place early Friday morning at a military training center in Charsadda, a city some 30 kilometers northeast of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (Xinhua) — Two Pakistani Taliban bombers Friday struck a training center of security forces in the country’ s northwest and killed 80 people and wounded over 100 others, a provincial minister said.

Taliban said the deadliest attacks were the first to avenge the death of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden who was killed by United States forces in the Pakistani city of Abbotabad on May 2.

The bomber struck the center of Frontier Constabulary (FC) at the town of Shabqadar, 35 kilometers from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province and killed 69 militia recruits, who had completed one-year training and were ready to assume duties including anti-terror mission. They were about to go home on a 10-day leaves.

Senior Provincial Minister Bashir Bilour confirmed that 80 people, mostly security men, were killed and around 115 others were injured.

The first bomber, riding on a motorcycle, detonated his explosive vest near the main gate of the roadside Frontier Constabulary training center. The second bomber, who too was on a motorcycle, struck about eight minutes later as security personnel were removing the dead and injured from the scene, witnesses and police said.

Frontier Constabulary commandant Akbar Hoti told reporters that precautions taken by his force had limited casualties.

“We were taking precautions, such as sending the personnel on leave in batches of 15. More casualties were caused by the second blast,” Hoti told reporters.

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