week 5 --- 曼谷爆炸案

Thailand arrests foreigner over Bangkok bomb blast

30 Aug 2015, Politics, Asia, Thailand

Thai police have arrested a foreign suspect and seized bomb-making materials in the investigation of a deadly shrine bombing that killed 20 people, officials said.

Saturday's arrest is the first in connection with the bombing at the Erawan shrine in the capital's bustling downtown district on August 17, which killed mainly tourists in Thailand's worst single mass-casualty attack.

"We have detained one person," deputy national police chief General Chaktip Chaijinda told reporters in a live televised broadcast on Saturday.

"We have found components of bomb-making materials in his apartment and I am confident that he is likely involved with the bomb attack," he said on broadcaster T News.

Police had been searching for a prime suspect, described as a foreign man, who was captured wearing a yellow T-shirt on security cameras and leaving a bag at the shrine moments before the blast.

Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler, reporting from Bangkok, said it was not clear if the suspect was the same man captured on security camera footage.

Investigators have said the attack was clearly aimed at damaging the tourism industry but insist that Chinese tourists - who visit Thailand in larger numbers than any other nationality - were not singled out.

Earlier this week Thai police said they were not ready to exclude any possibility about who was behind the attack.

Potential perpetrators named by the police and experts have included international suspects, members of Thailand's southern Malay-Muslim insurgency, fighters on both sides of Thailand's festering political divide or even someone with a personal grudge.

Some security analysts have also speculated that China's ethnic Uighur minority - or their co-religious sympathizers - may have been behind the attack, motivated by Thailand's forced repatriation of more than 100 Uighur refugees last month to an uncertain fate in China.


Structure of the lead:
WHO - foreigner
WHEN - 30 August,2015
WHERE - Thailand
WHAT - the police arrested a foreigner suspect over Bangkok bomb blast
WHY - he made a bomb and killed many people
HOW - not given

Keywords:
1.shrine: 聖地
2.bustling: 忙碌的
3.detain: 扣留
4.component: 成分
5.footage: 尺數
6.perpetrator: 犯罪者
7.fester: 使惡化
8.grudge: 怨恨
9.ethnic: 民族的
10.repatriation: 遣送回國

Week 4--- 長江船難

Stricken Chinese cruise ship lifted from Yangtze River; hundreds of bodies recovered

By Ivan Watson, Madison Park and Greg Botelho, June 6, 2015

The Eastern Star is upright once again, looking almost normal with its bottom resting on the water and its deck and cabins clear above it.

The ship's positioning Friday was a step forward in the daylong nightmare playing out on a section of the Yangtze River that flows through Hubei province. It means answers should be easier to come by as to why the Eastern Star capsized Monday night and what can be done to prevent similar tragedies in the future.

It also means closure could be coming soon to hundreds of families.

At least 396 bodies had been recovered by Saturday, according to Chinese state media. There are 46 people still unaccounted for.

Of the 456 people on board, 14 survived. But rescuers have had no luck since Tuesday, when a 21-year-old sailor and 65-year-old woman were plucked from the water.

The chances of more miracles have dwindled with each passing day. And the salvage process has begun.

That process involved huge floating cranes that set up alongside the overturned river cruise ship, dropped cables and hooks into the water, rolled the ship upright and raised it to the surface. About 50 divers took part overnight Thursday by tying slings around the 2,200-ton vessel, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.

State-run CCTV News tweeted pictures of the Eastern Star after this happened Friday. Parts of its top level looked smashed, but the other levels appeared largely intact. By draining the ship, the idea is that it could again float on its own.

Meanwhile, rescuers continue their work. After going through the submerged, capsized ship for three days, they'll now theoretically be able to walk its decks and open spaces.

The idea is to go cabin by cabin, looking for people who may have, by chance, survived in a cranny inside -- and for the many who most certainly did not. It's all part of a huge operation involving nearly 150 other ships, 59 machines, over 3,400 Chinese troops and 1,700 paramilitary personnel, Xinhua said.

Structure:
Who-stricken Chinese
When-June 6, 2015
Where-Yangtze River
Why-cruise ship lifted from river
How-not given

Keywords:
1.cruise: 行駛
2.upright: 筆直的
3.dwindle: 使縮小
4.salvage: 搶救
5.tweet: 發微博
6.submerge: 淹沒