Trade figures ease fear of deepening slowdown

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France and Finland to do so. The
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Trade figures ease fear
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China’s exports jump 10.6% in January
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Xinjiang
quake
hits rail
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Longest Bridge
Work on the world’s longest
cable-stayed bridge linking
Shanghai and Nantong in Jiangsu
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this month. Authorities say the
bridge will significantly shorten
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Koreas Talking
North and South Korean officials
sit down to their highest level
talks for years, seeking an improvement in ties despite a bitter
row over looming military exercises. Among items under discussion is the planned February
20-25 reunion for family members
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Dairy Investment
French food company Danone is
to spend US$665 million to raise
its stake in China’s largest dairy
company as it seeks to boost
its sales in the country. Danone
will purchase 121.2 million new
Mengniu Dairy Co shares through
a joint venture with state owned
COFCO Group and Denmark’s
Arla Foods. A12
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999 messages of love
METRO/A4
A giant bouquet of 999 red roses at a florist’s in Shanghai yesterday is ready for delivery
on Valentine’s Day tomorrow. The buyer paid 22,000 yuan (US$3,630) for his grand
gesture of love. Lovers ordering flowers this year are having to pay more due to heavy
snow which caused a dramatic decrease in the yield of roses in southwest China’s
Yunnan Province. A single rose could cost around 30 yuan this year, more than triple
last year’s price. The price of special roses with different-colored petals is also up this
year, selling at 200 yuan each, more than double last year’s price. Meanwhile, more than
1,100 couples will be lining up to tie the knot across the city tomorrow. — IC
Love At Home
Valentine’s Day is an important
date for lovers, and a huge event
for restaurants where privacy and
intimacy may not be on the menu.
Dinner at home might be a better
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CHINA is to set up a 10 billion
yuan (US$1.65 billion) fund to
fight air pollution, offering rewards for companies that clean
up their operations, as a more
affluent urban population turns
against a growth-at-all-costs economic model that has poisoned
much of the air, water and soil.
Authorities have issued countless orders and policies to try to
clean up the country, invested
in various projects to fight pollution, and empowered courts
to mete out the death penalty in
serious cases.
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been patchy at local level, where
authorities often rely on the taxes
paid by polluting industries.
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China will spend billions to
reward cleaner companies
set up the fund to “use rewards
to replace subsidies to fight air
pollution in key areas.”
Companies which were considered leaders in their field
at cleaning up their emissions
would be given “incentives,” a
government statement added,
without giving details.
The government said China
had already made some progress
toward tackling the smog that
has blighted several cities and
regions.
“But the issue of air pollution
has been forming for a long time,
and we must recognize the serious nature of tackling this and
must persevere unremittingly,”
the statement said.
T h e gov e r n m e nt w o u ld
continue to promote energy efficiency and clean energy schemes,
including improving gasoline
standards for vehicles, and the
phasing out of outdated equipment and factories, it added.
It said the government would
also keep on “perfecting” the
oversight role of environmental
protection bodies and “standardize” the release of public
information about pollution.
Many Chinese cities have once
again been choked by smog this
winter, with the problem unusually acute in the cosmopolitan
commercial hub of Shanghai and
in the capital, Beijing.
China may grant its environment ministry new powers over
resources, and more muscle to
punish polluters as part of a
government shake-up due to take
place next month.
(Reuters)
Beijing ‘barely suitable’ for life
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BEIJING is “barely suitable” for
living in because of the highly
polluted air breathed in by its
residents, according to an annual report on worldwide cities
published yesterday.
Air in the Chinese capital was
highly polluted at least once
a week on average in 2013, according to the 2014 Blue Paper
for World Cities compiled by the
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the Beijing-based Social
Sciences Academic Press.
Of 40 cities monitored, Beijing ranks last but one in an
assessment of environmental
conditions.
Stockholm tops the list as the
best place to live while Moscow
is in bottom place because of its
long and chilly winters.
Shanghai and Hong Kong also
fare badly, coming 36th and 34th
respectively.
However, Shanghai and Beijing
get better marks for their comprehensive competitiveness.
Beijing’s tolerance of different cultures can rival Paris and
London, the report says, and
its Gini coefficient, a measure
of the income gap between rich
and poor, is also low. That helped
push the capital into 31st place
overall, despite its poor environment, high crime rate and
insufficient public health care,
the report said.
Shanghai ranks 21st overall but
no details of its other good points
were given. Tokyo tops the ranking, followed by London, Paris
and New York.
The Beijing Environmental
Protection Bureau said the city
suffered air pollution for 189
days last year, with PM2.5 density around 89.5 micrograms per
cubic meter on average, compared
to the nation’s limit of 75.
In Shanghai, PM2.5 density was
recorded at 600 micrograms per
cubic meter on December 6. The
severe pollution forced schools
to close, caused flight delays and
contributed to the rising number
of people emigrating to other
countries over health concerns.
The nation has imposed air
clean targets on 11 provincial
regions this year, including an
annual 25 percent decrease, the
highest, for Beijing.
Shanghai will have to cut the
PM2.5 figure by 20 percent.
300 factories to be shut
Beijing is to shut 300 polluting factories this year to
improve the city’s air quality.
According to a document
detailing key tasks based on
the Beijing Clean Air Action
Plan (2013-2017), energy and
pollution-intensive projects
such as steel and cement
are not to be approved in
principle.
Labor intensive manufacturing is also not an option for
city development.
A list of industrial projects
to be halted or suspended
will be published by the end
of April.
A clean production audit
will be carried out in over 200
factories and at least 50 clean
production projects will be
promoted citywide.
The local government will
also phase out some industries, manufacturing techniques and equipment that
are not in line with Beijing’s
function as the capital.
(Xinhua)
US$162m drugs found in Chinese kayaks
AUTHORITIES in Australia have
seized A$180 million (US$162
million) of methamphetamine
stashed in a consignment of
kayaks from China and arrested
four Taiwan citizens, police said
yesterday.
The 183-kilogram haul was discovered during a joint Australian
Federal Police and Customs and
Border Protection Service operation at Sydney’s container port.
Border officers selected a
container from China for X-ray
inspection which revealed that 19
of the 27 kayaks inside contained
packages of methamphetamine,
or crystal meth.
Police then conducted a controlled delivery of the container
to a storage facility in Sydney,
and on Tuesday arrested three
men and one woman — all Taiwan citizens.
A fifth person, an Australian,
was arrested at his home.
“This is a great example of
authorities working together to
identify and disrupt criminals
who are seeking to import drugs
into Australia,” said Sydney police commander Ray Johnson.
“The police and its partner agencies will continue to stop these
harmful drugs from reaching our
streets and affecting our neighborhoods and communities.”
The 32-year-old Australian
man and the Taiwan woman,
28, were each charged with one
count of attempting to import a
commercial quantity of a controlled drug. The other three
Taiwan citizens, aged 35, 30 and
21, were charged with possessing a commercial quantity of a
controlled drug.
(AFP)
Domestic
biofuel
licensed
for flights
Yang Jian
CHINA has licensed the commercial use of a domestic
aviation biofuel made with
palm oil and recycled cooking
oil, becoming the fourth country after the United States,
France and Finland to do so.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China granted the
license, the first of its kind, to
Sinopec, China’s largest oil refiner, allowing the company’s
No. 1 Aviation Biofuel to be
used by airlines.
Xu Chaoqun, deputy head of
the administration’s Flight Criteria Department, hailed the
development as a significant
breakthrough for the country’s
research, production and application of aviation biofuel.
The biofuel underwent several rounds of tests before it
was given the green light, Xu
said.
The administration received
Sinopec’s application for commercial use of the biofuel in
early 2012, and a test flight
was successful in Shanghai
last April, Xinhua news agency
reported.
“China is now among the
very few nations to have full
capacity to mass-produce biofuel in an effort to contribute
to carbon emission cuts in the
world’s aviation industry,” Xu
said at a ceremony in Beijing.
Also present were officials
with the US Federal Aviation
Administration and the European Aviation Safety Agency.
Xu said Sinopec will work
to diversify biofuel sources,
lower production costs and
push forward the fuel’s commercial applications.
Biofuel generates a reduction of around 40 percent in
carbon emissions.
Last year, a Chinese Eastern Airbus 320 completed a
125-minute test flight from
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport using some 1.7
tons of biofuel.
The biofuel produced sufficient power during the test
flight and “was no different
from traditional fuel,” said
pilot Liu Zhimin.
The carrier said yesterday it
would be using the biofuel on
its commercial routes but gave
no details of when it would
start.
The airline’s busiest route is
Shanghai to Beijing.
With an annual consumption of nearly 20 million tons,
China has become a large consumer of aviation fuel, and
the development of biofuel
will help ease pressure on resources and cut pollution.
The International Air Transport Association forecasts that
30 percent of aviation fuel will
be biofuel by 2020.
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Shanghai Daily Thursday 13 February 2014
Slowdown fears
eased by strong
trade figures
Richard Fu
Search for clues to deadly crash
An investigator works amid the wreckage of a military plane which crashed near the village of Ouled
Gacem in northeast Algeria on Tuesday. There was only one survivor when the military transport
plane carrying members of the Algerian armed forces and their relatives crashed into a mountain
about 500 kilometers from the capital, Algiers. Search teams using sniffer dogs were combing the
area yesterday for clues as to why the C-130 Hercules aircraft, carrying 74 passengers and four
crew, crashed. The male survivor, suffering from serious head injuries, was taken to a military
hospital in Constantine, where the plane had been headed, as were the bodies of the 77 dead. The
black box flight recorder has not yet been found. The plane was flying from the desert garrison
town of Tamanrasset in the deep south of the country. It lost contact with the control tower as it was
preparing to make its descent. Algerians have begun three days of national mourning. — Reuters
Quake hits Xinjiang rail route
RAIL services were temporarily
suspended after a 7.3-magnitude
earthquake rocked a sparsely
populated area of northwest
China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region yesterday
afternoon.
The Urumqi railway administration suspended a section
from Hotan to Moyu on the Kahe
Railway, which links Kashgar
and Hotan, for safety reasons.
Some 531 passengers were
left stranded at Moyu.
The earthquake struck Yutian
County in the Hotan prefecture
at 5:19pm, according to the
China Earthquake Networks
Center.
The tremor was 12 kilometers
deep and hit about 270 kilometers east-southeast of Hotan in
an extremely remote area.
Another tremor of 5.7 magnitude struck five minutes later,
5 kilometers deep, followed by
a series of aftershocks of up to
4.2 magnitude, it said.
“We were at the office at the
time and felt strong shaking,
the windows were rattling,” a
reporter in Keriya County near
the epicentre told China Central
Television.
He said few people lived in the
mountainous area.
The civil affairs ministry said
there had been no reports of casualties but it was likely some
houses had been damaged, Xinhua news agency said.
CCTV said Hotan was not seriously affected, while several
people in the city told reporters
they felt less than a minute of
shaking.
“It was not strong, there are
no buildings collapsed,” one
resident said.
An expert told CCTV that the
affected area often experienced
earthquakes but was thinly
populated, so the impact was
likely to be limited.
A 7.3-magnitude earthquake
struck the county in March
2008, affecting 40,000 people
and destroying 200 homes.
China is regularly hit by
earthquakes, especially its
mounta i nous western a nd
southwestern regions.
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake
in Sichuan Province in the
southwest killed about 200 people last April, five years after
almost 90,000 people died when
a huge tremor struck the same
province.
Twin 5.6 and 5.9-magnitude
quakes killed at least 95 people
in the northwest province of
Gansu last July.
Xinjiang contains roughly 30
percent of China’s onshore oil
and gas deposits and 40 percent
of its coal.
(Agencies)
However, JPMorgan China
economist Zhu Haibin said
STRONG trade figures for
that might not be the case.
January could help ease some
“While there are suggestions
worries about a deepening
of the return of the fake exslowdown of the Chinese
ports phenomenon in recent
economy.
months, we note that the
The value of exports jumped
discrepancy between China’s
10.6 percent from a year earmainland and Hong Kong
lier in January after a 4.3
trade figures is still lower
percent increase in December,
compared to early last year,”
the General Administration of
Zhu said in a note.
Customs said yesterday.
The discrepancy between
“The better-than-expected
the mainland and Hong Kong
data added to evidence that
trade figures was the major
the global economy, led by
source of fabricated exports
the US, is better than what it
in late 2012 and early 2013,
was last year,” said Li Huiyong,
as traders sneaked cash into
analyst at Shenyin Wanguo
the country hoping to benefit
Securities.
from higher interest rates and
But he said it was premature
appreciation of the yuan.
to gauge the trend of export
Customs data also showed
growth based on a single
imports advanced 10 percent
month’s reading.
last month, the highest since
The market should wait for
July and far ahead of market
combined January-February
projections of a 3 percent
data to have a better undergain. Imports of crude oil, iron
standing of export momentum
ore and copper hit all-time
because of the
highs, benefitdifferent timing commodity
ing of the Lunar
producers from
New Year holiday
A u s t r a l i a to
and the figures’
Brazil.
The value of China’s
i ncon s i ste nc y
Econom ists
exports
last
month
with other ecosaid
that while
rises by 10.6 percent
nomic readings
the strong imcompared
with
last
in January.
ports showed
year after December’s
Several Ch ist reng t hen i ng
4.3 percent gain, easnese purchasing
i n te r n a l d e ing slowdown worries.
managers’ indexmand, they may
es, which gauge
also reflect immanufacturing
port plans being
activity, fell into contraction
brought forward ahead of the
in January, suggesting China’s
Lunar New Year holiday.
growth was losing steam.
Overall, China’s trade surSome economists, includ- plus, the difference between
ing those from ANZ, also exports and imports, h it
cautioned that January’s trade US$31.9 billion in January,
data may have been inflated up 14 percent from a year
by “fake exports,” where trad- earlier and 25 percent from
ers forge deals to disguise December.
money inflows amid capital
The expansion may put
controls.
more pressure on China to let
Chinese regulators cracked its currency rise faster.
down on such behavior last
A US dollar can buy 6.06 yuan
year after a divergence be- currently. ANZ maintained its
tween its export figures and forecast for the exchange rate
corresponding imports from to fall to 5.98 yuan by the end
overseas raised questions.
of the year.
10.6%
Japan ex-PM: Sex slavery an indescribable wrong
JAPAN committed indescribable wrongdoings by forcing
women from South Korea and
elsewhere to serve as sex slaves
to its wartime troops, former
Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama said yesterday.
Murayama, who as prime
minister issued an apology in
1995 for Japan’s wartime aggression, said that it was time
for Tokyo to finally resolve the
issue of the so-called “comfort
women” who were drafted into
military brothels.
“Indescribable wrongdoings
were committed, in which these
women’s dignity was forfeited.
Japan must solve it,” he said in
a speech inside the parliament
building in Seoul.
On Tuesday, Murayama, now
89, met with three aged South
Korean comfort women, after
which he said he realized “that
this issue must be settled expeditiously,” he said.
He a lso criticized some
Japa nese pol it ic ia n s a nd
opinion-makers for making
“nonsensical remarks” about
the former sex slaves and
stressed that the vast majority
of Japanese people understood
the w rong that had been
committed.
Katsuto Momii, the new head
of Japan’s national broadcaster
NHK, angered South Korea recently by stating that wartime
sex slavery was common to any
country at war.
Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule
over the Korean Peninsula remains a hugely emotive issue
in South Korea, which believes
Japan has failed to live up to the
spirit of the 1995 apology and
not properly atoned for its past
aggression.
Japan must squarely face up
to its history and apologize for
it, Murayama said, noting that
Seoul and Tokyo must establish
future-oriented relationship
based on Japan’s repentance
over its past brutalities.
Ties between South Korea
and Japan have been strained
since Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe took office in late
2012.
In December last year, Abe
visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japan’s
militaristic past as it enshrines
14 World War II class-A war
criminals.
South Korea’s President Park
Geun-hye has made it clear she
will not hold a summit with Abe
until the Japanese leader takes
steps to address South Korea’s
historical grievances.
(AFP)
A4 METRO
Hospital to
compensate
woman for
plastic surgery
City’s singles
pull a fast one
on lovebirds
Hu Min
A VALENTINE’S Day joke by
playful singles who booked
up all odd numbered seats
at a downtown cinema for
Friday night is creating a
buzz online.
Some netizens have said
they would participate in
the “game” by buying the
rest of the seats and turn it
into some sort of a matchmaking party, but many
others dismissed it as a
disgusting stunt.
All the 60-plus odd numbered seats for the 7:29pm
show for the feature film
“Beijing Love Story” at the
Shanghai UME International Cineplex in Xintiandi on
Valentine’s Day have been
sold out, meaning couples
will have to sit separately.
It has long been a tradition for singles to play
pranks on lovers on Valentine’s Day that many
attribute to “revenge” act
out of loneliness. Pranks,
jokes, tricks that keep couples apart are immensely
popular online.
One of the oft-repeated
mischievous trick involves
walking up to a stranger
with a girlfriend or wife on
the street and slapping him
and crying out aloud, “how
could you betray me?”
Buying odd or even numbered seats at cinemas is
the latest in the practical
jokes. The Shanghai Morning Post reported that a
single man urged other
singles to buy all the odd
numbered seats online for
the Friday show.
The man, who was not
identified, reportedly broke
up with his girlfriend last
year and had planned to
spend the Valentine’s Day
evening with his other single friends when he saw the
trick online and decided to
put it into practice.
The ploy initially did not
work as his effort to buy the
odd seats at the cinema all
by himself was rejected by
the theater. He then tried
his luck on a ticket booking
website and was unsuccessful again. But persistence
paid off after he called the
website which sold him
most of the tickets.
Ironically, the website
said the feelings of singles
should also be taken into
account!
The man received support from eight netizens
within an hour after initiating the idea online and all
of the odd numbered seats
were sold out.
Kevin Gan, a 30-year-old
single electrical engineer,
said it was a fun idea. “I will
probably buy a ticket which
will also give me a chance
to meet other singles,” he
said.
But not all were so welcoming. “It is fun and
creative, but this goes too
far,” a netizen said.
Another slammed it as
“evil and crazy.”
A survey of over 16,000
singles by matchmaking
website jiayuan.com found
more than 38 percent of
females and more than 10
percent of males were in no
mood to celebrate the lovers day.
Meanwhile, travel agencies said hotel bookings and
tour packages were nearly
sold out for Valentine’s
Day. More than 70 percent
of those who booked hotels
are males, online travel
operator Ctrip said. Rooms
with riverside view are
most preferred, and short
trips to neighboring cities
are equally popular.
Christine Cai
Dressing up for festival
A worker checks lanterns in Yuyuan Garden for fire hazards
as firefighters keep a watch on him yesterday. Tomorrow is the
Lantern Festival that will mark the end of the Spring Festival
celebrations. — Xinhua
Mercury rises despite a
mix of ice, sleet and snow
Ke Jiayun and Hu Min
THE moderately increasing
temperatures seemed unaffected by the mix of ice, sleet
and light snow that fell in the
city yesterday.
According to Shanghai Meteorological Bureau, snow could
be attributed to the remaining
influence of colder air, which
made the city’s morning temperature low enough to prevent
the ice pellets from melting.
Chongming County and Jiading District recorded the lowest
mercury of 0.2 degrees Celsius
yesterday morning, while temperatures in the other districts
mostly ranged between 0 to 2
degrees.
The bureau is predicting
warm days as moist air is on its
way back to the city.
The wet days will take a break
on Friday and Saturday but the
coming southwesterly moisture,
clashing with the cold air, will
bring drizzles back on Sunday
and Monday.
There could be sleet and
drizzle with a low of 3 and a
high of 7 today. Overcast skies
will turn cloudy on Friday with a
slight increase in temperatures.
Saturday will be cloudy too with
mercury hovering between 4
and 10 degrees Celsius.
New bridge to link Shanghai, Nantong
Yang Jian
WORK on the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge
linking Shanghai and Nantong in Jiangsu Province
will commence at the end
of this month.
Authorities sa id the
bridge will significantly
shorten the travel time
from the current 3 hours
to just about an hour.
The massive 11-kilometer
highway-railway bridge, including a 5-kilometer span
across the Yangtze River,
will be built at the cost of
14.2 billion yuan (US$2.3
billion). It is expected to be
ready in 2017, the transportation authority of Jiangsu
Province said yesterday.
Such bridges have one or
more towers for cables that
support the bridge deck.
The bridge will have four
railway and six vehicle
lanes and will be part of the
137 kilometer-long Shanghai-Nantong Railway.
With expected speed of
200 kilometers per hour, it
will take only an hour for a
one-way trip by bullet train
from Jiading District in
Shanghai to Nantong city,
less than half the time of
a long-distance bus.
The train trip to Nantong
can take more than 8 hours
now because of a circuitous route. Since there is
no direct railway between
Shanghai and Nantong,
passengers have to transfer from Nanjing or other
Jiangsu cities to Nantong.
The project will ease
traffic pressure on the Jiangyin and Sutong bridges
in Jiangsu Province.
Jiangsu Province
Nantong
ShanghaiNantong Bridge
Shanghai
N
A LOCAL hospital agreed to pay
10,000 yuan (US$1,613) to a Malaysian woman who was not satisfied
by plastic surgery.
The woman went under the knife
for a double eyelid and reshaping
of her nose at Shanghai Anda
Hospital in July last year but she
complained that the nose wasn’t
perfectly in shape.
At her request, doctors carried
out small surgeries to correct it.
For most Asians, double eyelid
means bigger eyes and nose reshaping usually makes a higher
bridge of nose, which is considered
more beautiful.
The woman returned to Malaysia
after a week, according to Shanghai
Morning Post. But feeling dissatisfied, she returned to the hospital
three weeks later. The same doctor
carried out three more correction
surgeries in the next 20 days.
Still unhappy with the changes, she demanded 20,000 yuan
in compensation but eventually
settled for 10,000 yuan that the
hospital offered.
The hospital said the surgery
was successful but the woman
kept using cotton buds to clean
the wound inside nasal cavity
which stimulated the wound and
changed the shape of the nose.
The Pudong New Area medical dispute affair office said the
woman had called the office to
complain several times.
2 held for
smuggling
African ivory
Zhao Wen and Zhang Cheng
TWO suspects were detained in
January for smuggling more than
95 kilograms of ivory products
from Africa, making it the biggest
ivory smuggling case at Pudong
International Airport, Shanghai
Customs reported yesterday.
The suspects, surnamed Yang
and Zhu, are under investigation.
They were caught on January
28 after customs officers found
eight tusks and nearly 200 ivory
products wrapped in newspaper
in their luggage. The total weight
was 95.82 kilograms.
Police declined to reveal the African country where the suspects
bought the ivory products.
Zhu told police they took risks
to smuggle the ivories because of
remarkable profits. For instance, a
tusk of an African elephant is sold
for about 40,000 yuan (US$6,596)
in Africa while it could fetch them
over 250,000 yuan in the underground market in China.
On January 6, a total of 6.1 tons
of ivory and ivory products were
destroyed in Dongguan city in
south China’s Guangdong Province
to emphasize that China strictly
plans to implement the bans.
METRO A5
Risk to power cables
from floating lanterns
Yang Jian
The toy story
An installation art work by German artist Michael Wolf is on display at the K11
shopping mall in downtown Shanghai yesterday. “The Real Toy Story” is an
elaborate installation comprising 16,000 second-hand toys collected from flea
markets and stores and portraits of Chinese workers who made them. — IC
Mobile phones’ 3-in-1 service
Zhu Shenshen
CHINA Mobile users in Shanghai can
now use their phones to pay Metro
fares by directly swiping their phones
through the turnstiles with an upgraded technology, the country’s No. 1
mobile carrier said yesterday.
The new services include a mobile application featuring mobile payment and
other financial transactions, the services providers China Mobile, Shanghai
Metro and the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank said.
The technology also allows people to
pay bills in 20,000 stores in Shanghai
including Xujiahui and Nanjing Road
West regions. To protect consumers,
there is a limit of 1,000 yuan (US$164)
per day. That will limit the losses in
case people lose their phones.
“It is the first time that people can
enjoy 3-in-1 services that involves a
bank card, mobile payment and Metro
payment,” China Mobile said in a
statement.
In 2010, Shanghai Mobile launched
similar services during the World Expo
for a short period. It then stopped the
services for technology upgrade.
Consumers can access the service by
replacing their SIM cards with radio
frequency identification (NFC) technology at Shanghai Mobile’s outlets if they
have NFC phones.
By 2015, more than half of the
smartphones will feature NFC function globally, according to Gartner,
a US-based research firm, boosting
potential for payments made from
mobile phones.
299 workers fall sick after lunch
Christine Cai
AROUND 300 workers at a local plant
were rushed to four different hospitals
after falling sick with food poisoning
symptoms.
Workers at the SIIX Shanghai Electronics Co said the company only offered
lunch and did not feel any discomfort
after having lunch on Tuesday.
But some people started to feel sick at
around midnight and went to hospital.
A total of 299 workers were treated for
fever, nausea and vomiting.
Nine workers have been kept under
observation while the others have been
discharged, Jiading District Government said yesterday.
The departments of food and drug
administration, health commission,
police, quality inspection, environmental watchdog are investigation for the
cause of the sickness.
The company has 531 workers. It
manufactures, processes and assembles electronic circuit board and other
electronic items.
Man succumbs after dog bite
Cai Wenjun
A MAN who was bitten by a stray dog
last month died of rabies yesterday.
He did not visit any hospitals to receive treatment for dog bite.
The man, who was in his twenties,
was rushed to Punan Hospital in the
Pudong New Area yesterday morning
after showing symptoms of extreme
agitation and confusion.
His father said the man was bitten
by a stray dog in early January and
did not receive any treatment. Doctors
suspected it could be rabies and transferred him to Shanghai Public Health
Clinical Center, the designated hospital
for infectious disease in the city.
The public health center confirmed
it was rabies.
The incubation period for rabies is
usually from one to three months. It
can be as short as one week or even as
long as over a year.
Doctors said rabies vaccine is a must
immediately after being bitten. Once
clinical signs of rabies appear, the disease is nearly always fatal.
Death due to rabies happens every
year in the city, although the numbers
are in single digit.
FLOATING sky lanterns can affect local
high voltage electric wires that can cause
widespread blackout in downtown, the
State Grid Shanghai Municipal Electric
Power Company warned yesterday.
The lanterns, known in Chinese as
Kongming, are made of paper and floats
in the air after a candle is lit inside similar to a hot air balloon.
Company officials said they found at
least three small lit lanterns flying close
to major local power facilities.
Friday is the Lantern Festival when the
Chinese traditionally set off the flying
lanterns to pray for good luck.
“After being released, the burning
lanterns can fly thousands of meters
away and could drop or twine around
the cables and cause severe accidents,”
a power company official said.
A green lantern was found burning on
the ground on Monday very close to the
220 kilovolt substation in Liantang Town
in Qingpu District. Another huge lantern
was found flying near the Xinghua substation in Minhang District.
Patrolling officers cleared them away
to avoid any potential dangers, the official said.
While urging local residents to avoid
setting off the lanterns during the
festival, the official said company officers will patrol the facilities during
the festival.
The city has no laws to ban the sky lanterns but during the World Expo 2010, it
banned the lanterns temporarily along
with light aircraft, hot balloons and
parachutes. The lanterns are available
for 3 yuan on taobao.com.
The airport authority has also prohibited lighting lanterns near the city’s
Pudong and Hongqiao international airports. China’s civil aviation regulator
has stipulated that group lantern flying
activities should be reported beforehand
to avoid posing risks to the aircraft.
The lanterns can hit aircraft during
takeoff and landing when they fly over
1,000 meters in the sky, an official with
the local air traffic controller said.
The burning lantern can be sucked in
by aircraft engines with deadly consequences, he said.
“Worse, the lanterns cannot be detected on the radar but can be seen by
the pilots and air traffic controllers,”
he said.
In 2009, a China Southern Airlines
flight from Shantou in southeast Guangdong to Shanghai was forced to alter
its flying route after a sky lantern was
found floating over the airport.
A6 OPINION
Global economic recovery on track
but long-term risks, fragility remain
Stephane Garelli
T
❛
Right now
money is
moving in
a kind of
“closed circuit” from
central
banks to
commercial
banks, and
then either
to governments
or stock
exchanges.
— Stephane
Garelli
he global economy is looking
better as we start 2014, but
is it good enough? And what
factors might delay or derail the
recovery story?
Let’s start with the biggest piece
of good news, which is the US recovery. The US economy grew by
almost 4 percent if we compare Q3
of 2013 to Q2. This confirms what
we said when we announced IMD’s
2013 World Competitiveness rankings last May — that the US is again
starting to drive the world economy
a bit.
The US financial sector is in better shape, real estate is looking
healthier, household consumption
is picking up, and there’s also this
extraordinary “energy renaissance”
in the US. In 2015 the US might produce more gas than Russia, and by
2020 it could produce more oil than
Saudi Arabia — about 11 million
barrels a day.
Other big economies are doing
well too. China is still growing very
strongly at 7-8 percent a year. Germany is posting good results and
looking very stable. Britain is growing almost 3 percent quarter over
quarter, and Spain finally seems to
be coming out of recession.
But there are some dark spots.
France, the second largest economy
in Europe, is in danger of becoming
the “sick man of Europe” because
of its disappointing economic
performance and the difficulty of
reforming the country. And Japan,
although improving a bit, still has
its issues.
Although headline economic data
is generally looking better, the road
to recovery is not a 100-meter dash.
It’s a longer journey, and I see four
big obstacles:
Four risks
• Debt and budget deficits. These
are huge issues affecting the sustainability of future growth. Take
budget deficits. Britain is performing much better, but its budget
deficit is still 6.7 percent of GDP. In
Japan the deficit is 8.2 percent of
GDP, and in Spain it’s 7 percent.
Or look at the US, which has US$17
trillion of federal debt and five years
from now will very possibly have a
federal debt still equivalent to 100
percent of GDP. The debt issue is
present on state and household levels too. Households outside the US
have debt problems too; the Netherlands, Ireland, Spain and Portugal
all have household debt above 200
percent of GDP. It will take a long
time to correct this.
• Taxation. These debts and deficits mean that governments need
money, and they will try to find it by
increasing taxation in three areas.
One is taxing offshore money — now
we’re seeing China starting to look
at Chinese money held overseas.
The second is introducing a new
form of taxation, such as Europe’s
so-called financial transaction
tax on shares and derivatives. But
the real big one is reforming the
taxation of global companies. What
firms such as Apple, Starbucks and
Google currently do is perfectly
legal, but the US, the EU and the
OECD are all looking to tighten the
rules here — simply because governments need money.
• Regulations. These are increasing, and increasingly complex. The
Basel III Agreement, for example,
has more than 640 pages of regulation, and the Dodd-Frank Act in
the US has more than 800. The big
mistake is that our complex economic system is being managed by
even more complex regulation, and
companies will find it very hard to
deal with this combination.
• Lack of bank credit for SMEs.
Right now money is moving in a
kind of “closed circuit” from central
banks to commercial banks, and
then either to governments or stock
exchanges. So while large companies can still get funding, small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
can’t get enough credit at reasonable rates.
‘New normals’
This is a big problem, because
SMEs are the lifeblood of many
economies. Money is going to money
when it should be going to business.
If we want to have a real recovery,
more cheap money should go to
smaller enterprises.
In terms of economic performance, I think we will start to see
two “new normals” emerge in 2014
— one for advanced economies and
the other for emerging markets.
Advanced economies may have a
lengthy spell of stagnation or weak
growth interrupted by bursts of activity that may not be sustainable.
This is in contrast to the pre-2008
pattern of increasing growth occasionally interrupted by a recession.
It means cost efficiency and resilience will be the name of the
game for companies in advanced
economies.
Emerging economies, on the other
hand, will produce more and more
companies competing on the world
stage with global brands. About
1,000 companies from emerging
economies can now be classed as
“global” with a turnover of about
US$1 billion. Many of these enjoy
support from their home governments and are acquiring assets
around the world.
I think we should be positive
about 2014. The global economy is
in better shape than one year ago,
and certainly in much better shape
than three years ago. But the world
remains economically fragmented,
with some countries racing ahead
and others stuck in recession. So
companies will need to balance
their optimism with flexibility, and
with awareness of the long-term
risks to sustainable growth.
Stephane Garelli is professor of
world competitiveness at IMD
and the founder of IMD’s World
Competitiveness Center. Reprinted
with permission from IMD.
Sex trade expose likely signals wider probe into graft
Ni Tao
A CRACKDOWN on prostitution
is sweeping Dongguan’s sex
paradise in southern China’s
Guangdong Province.
The police’s new get-tough
policy was triggered by an expose on Sunday from China
Central Television (CCTV).
Despite the apparent righteousness of its revelations, the
broadcaster has been blasted
by many people for “meddling”
and not doing its proper job.
By “doing its proper job,”
critics mean genuine investigative reporting — muckraking
in the best sense — going after
corrupt and unscrupulous officials and pursuing cases of
egregious injustice. Zeroing in
on prostitution is trivial, insignificant and a typically “penny
wise, pound foolish” measure,
some critics say.
Besides, there have been myriad reports and anecdotes about
Dongguan’s steamy reputation
as a sex capital.
CCTV’s story is neither news
nor especially sensational.
Indeed, that sex services have
become one of Dongguan’s
name cards, albeit a very unsavory one, is already an open
secret.
Public response
Actually, public ire at CCTV’s
expose is largely inspired by
perceived lost opportunities
to pursue higher-value targets.
Due to the political protection
it enjoys, CCTV should have
devoted more energy to covering topics like corruption, land
misappropriation and counterfeit products — it need not
fear retribution. But it seldom
does, and fails to live up to what
should be its mission, CCTVbashers say.
Another reason for the criticism heaped on CCTV lies in
the nature of its reports, which
many find priggish and staid.
Is CCTV really being meddlesome or is it just doing its job?
The reason many people,
mostly men, root for decadent
Dongguan is that it satisfies the
basic sexual needs of vast numbers of migrant workers in the
manufacturing hub as well as
more exotic tastes. Many don’t
wish to see the end of the sleazy
sex paradise.
But what if CCTV’s probe
not only shone light on the
famous sex emporium but
also unearthed murky business, scandals and serious
transgressions? Is it still being
meddlesome?
CCTV’s political clout naturally fuels speculation that
the high-profile expose may
be a harbinger of the supreme
authority’s plan to expand
the anti-graft drive into entertain ment, a hotbed for
prostitution.
What distinguishes CCTV’s
report from past journalism
on the booming sex business in
Dongguan is that CCTV’s carries
explicit political overtones.
In the crackdown, hotels were
raided, arrests were made, and
a handful of policemen were
suspended for complicity and
taking payoffs to look the other
way. Hu Chunhua, the provincial Party chief, talked tough.
Any officials who protected sex
trade operators will be punished, he said. The Ministry of
Public Security made similar
promises and dispatched investigators to Dongguan.
Apart from punishing the
protectors, the key point of the
crackdown would be to shine a
light on corruption in the sex
trade, worth up to 50 billion
yuan (US$8.3 billion) a year,
according to some estimates.
Palms were almost certainly
greased so that authorities
ignored the elephant in the
room.
Media’s proper role
As the Beijing News opined on
Tuesday, inordinate attention to
arrested sex workers only panders to crass, unsophisticated
tastes while distracting us from
lesser-known problems such as
sex offered as bribes and violent
crime in the sex industry.
The crackdown in Dongguan
isn’t only about fighting prostitution per se, but signals that
the nationwide anti-corruption
campaign is increasingly fullblown and aggressive.
In the past, ombudsmen
mostly acted on tip-offs received from whistleblowers, but
now they are taking the fight to
where corruption festers — the
sex industry and corruption
often go hand in hand.
As such, critics who say CCTV
isn’t doing its “proper job” have
missed the point themselves.
Some commentators support
Dongguan’s red-light districts,
arguing, with some justification,
that prostitution helps to curb
rapes and sexual assaults.
But they seem to forget that
many women and teenage girls
are coerced into the trade,
rather than join it of their
own volition. The exploitative
industry breeds evils such as
human trafficking, drug abuse,
organized crime and political
patronage.
We have been more tolerant of
things we used to regard as immoral. Instead of repugnance,
the mention of Dongguan and
its “standardized services” too
often piques the imagination
and fantasies of a pheromonefilled safari. Following the
backlash against CCTV, it’s time
for us to consider the cruelty,
depravity and corruption behind the racket.
BIZ COMMENTARY A7
China to fare well with US tapering
of leadership in 2013, partly due to the
success of the anti-corruption program,
while other emerging market countries,
such as Thailand, Turkey, South Africa,
India and Brazil, are now either experiencing serious political challenges
and/or facing very uncertain election
outcomes. The recent Edelman Trust Barometer survey, which measures trust
in government among 27,000 people
online in 27 countries, reported that
China ranked No. 1 in public trust in
2013 and its score improved by 4 points
from 2012.
Ma Jun
Chief China economist
Deutsche Bank
S
ince the beginning of December
2013, the MSCI emerging markets
index has declined 13 percent.
The selloffs in many emerging
markets, especially Turkey, Argentina
and Brazil, were triggered by their sharp
currency depreciation on US tapering as
well as market fears of an external debt
crisis (in Turkey), the negative impact of
local rate hikes (in Brazil and India), high
inflation (in Argentina, Brazil, India,
Russia, South Africa), and potential economic contractions, as well as political
instability (in Turkey and Thailand).
Interestingly, the Chinese H share
index (HSCEI) has also dropped by a
significant 16 percent during the same
period. This decline was close to the fall
in the country equity indices of Turkey
(-22 percent, in US dollar) and Argentina
(-19.8 percent), and sharper than that of
Brazil (-12.7 percent). It appears that the
market believes that China’s economic
situation has deteriorated by as much as
those in Argentina and Turkey in recent
weeks. Some investors are now asking
us when China will ease macro policy to
stimulate the Chinese economy, which is
a question no one in the Chinese government is talking about, simply because
there is not such a need.
We think this market perception of
China is wrong. We strongly believe that
China’s economic fundamentals are
much healthier than most other emerging markets and China is one of the least
vulnerable emerging market economies
to US tapering in 2014. Our specific arguments are as follow.
First, compared with other emerging market currencies, China’s yuan
has been the most stable in the past
weeks, and it will likely remain stable
in 2014. The yuan appreciated against
the US dollar by 0.5 percent between
December 1, 2013 and February 5, 2014,
while the Argentine peso fell 22 percent,
and the Turkish Lira fell 8.6 percent.
Based on past experience of global crises (2008-09, 2011, and mid-2013), the
yuan should remain one of the most resilient to external shocks in 2014, given
that its capital account is still largely
Aggressive reforms
China’s econom❛ic fundamentals
are
much healthier ... China
is one of the least vulnerable emerging market economies to US
tapering in 2014.
controlled for portfolio flows, and macro
fundamentals are very supportive of its
currency. We continue to expect the yuan
to appreciate by about 2 percent against
the US dollar in 2014, although a modest
increase in its flexibility is possible (for
example, an increase in annualized daily
volatility from the current 2 percent to
3 percent).
Marco fundamentals
Second, macro fundamentals are
much stronger in China than in many
other emerging market countries.
China’s GDP growth was 7.7 percent in
the fourth quarter, higher than the 7.5
percent annual target, and its volatility was within 0.2-0.3 percentage points
on a year-on-year basis in the past few
quarters. Its CPI inflation was 2.5 percent in December and will likely remain
around 2.5 percent for the coming few
months, representing the most stable
period in history. Its current account
maintained a healthy surplus of about 2
percent in 2013 and will almost certainly
stay in surplus in 2014. External debt is
8.8 percent of GDP. These data compare
favorably with many other emerging
market countries that saw significant
growth deceleration, large current account deficits, and higher inflation.
Many people view the drop in China’s
manufacturing Purchasing Managers’
Index January (by 0.5 percentage points
to 50.5) as an indication of China’s economic weakness. Some even say the
emerging markets selloff was partly
triggered by the Chinese PMI number.
We believe this is a gross exaggeration
of the significance of a monthly PMI
figure, especially in January. Note that
historically, Chinese PMI could move by
anywhere between -1.7 percentage points
to 0.2 percentage points in January (from
December) due to the Chinese New Year
effect. In addition, at the beginning of
this year, some cities implemented emergency measures in order to prevent a
sharp rise in the air pollution index, by
tentatively suspending the production
of some coal-burning factories.
Thirdly, China’s political situation has
become more stable since the change
Fourth, China is implementing the
most aggressive structural reforms in
decades, while this determination is not
seen in most other emerging markets due
to political stalemate. The 60 reforms
announced in November last year were
unprecedented, and the recent establishment of the Central Leading Group for
Comprehensively Deepening Reforms is
another sign that the leadership is fully
committed to forcefully implementing these reforms. As we discussed in
previous reports, China’s new reform
program, especially deregulation, would
enhance the country’s growth potential
and reduced macro risks.
Fifth, China’s financial risks are being
addressed by reforms. Many investors
fear that China’s wealth management
product (WMP) defaults and local government financing vehicle (LGFV) loans
will lead to a blow up of the financial
system. This is very unlikely, in our view.
Given the recent resolution of the China
Credit Trust event, it is now clear to us
that the authorities are embarking on a
path toward “managed defaults” to gradually improve risk pricing in the trust
loan sector, while tightening rules on
shadow banking activities (for example,
by centralizing the WMP operation to
banks’ headquarters, and by tightening
supervision on trust companies).
As for LGFVs, their leveraging ratio
(liability/asset ratio) actually declined in
the past two and half years by 4.9 percentage points, according to the recent
National Audit Report. The local government bond market will be developed to
gradually replace LGFV loans as a more
important source of financing for local
government expenditure. In sum, these
changes are in the direction of reducing,
instead of increasing, financial risks.
Alibaba’s US$1.6b map deal fuels online land grab
Robyn Mak and John Foley
ALIBABA’S purchase of AutoNavi is a
land grab, in two senses. The Chinese ecommerce group has offered a premium
price to buy out the 72 percent of the
US-listed mapping company it doesn’t
already own, valuing the whole thing
at US$1.6 billion. There’s a compelling
competitive reason for Alibaba to get
deeper into online maps, but what’s hard
to locate is the financial rationale.
One driver of the deal is keeping up
with the Joneses. Arch-rival Baidu, China’s leading search engine, is also the
country’s dominant online mapper — its
map-apps account for 35 percent of total
downloads, according to research by T.
H. Capital. Tencent, the third member
of China’s internet triopoly, is far behind, but its killer chatting app WeChat
is rapidly branching into location-based
services, posing a potential e-commerce
threat.
Buying AutoNavi also plugs into the
growing mania for O2O commerce —
online-to-offline. The theory is that
consumers will increasingly use smartphones to point them to nearby services
and shops, or even pre-order from restaurants online, all of which benefit
from detailed mapping.
In Alibaba’s case, there’s also an opportunity to weave in its fast-growing
payment and financial service, Alipay.
What doesn’t appear on the plan is
strong financial logic. It’s plausible that
AutoNavi might be worth more with the
backing of a cash-rich internet giant.
Competition is fierce, and the US-listed
group has seen its revenue, which comes
partly from making in-car navigation
systems, starting to decline.
But Alibaba is valuing AutoNavi at
around five times forecast revenue for
2014 according to Eikon estimates —
and a 39 percent premium to AutoNavi’s
10-day average trading price — for a
business analysts estimate will swing
from a small operating profit to a US$46
million loss this year.
Expanding O2O services sounds racy,
but it’s not clear if it will translate into
incremental advertising revenue.
While China’s Internet continues to
grow rapidly, such concerns are remote.
Alibaba is paying for AutoNavi in cash,
and the additional US$1.2 billion payment is small for a company likely to
command a market capitalization of
over 100 times that if a long-awaited
listing takes place in 2014.
As long as grabbing market share is
the priority, questions about return on
investment can be easily buried.
Robyn Mak and John Foley are Reuters
Breakingviews columnists. The opinions expressed here are their own.
A8 NATIONAL
Wage deal ends guards’ strike
Yang Meiping
after running out of cash that
would normally have been supplied by Suibao, also reopened
yesterday, it said.
The guards gathered in front
of the company’s offices in Baiyun District on Tuesday to call
for higher salaries, improved
social insurance packages and
better management, the report
said. It did not say how much
the workers earned before the
strike or how they wanted management to be improved. They
had, however, been working
under a lot of pressure, it said.
Police officers were dispatched to help direct traffic
HUNDREDS of armored car
guards who went on strike
on Tuesday in Guangzhou returned to work yesterday after
agreeing a new pay deal with
their employer, the Southern
Metropolis Daily reported.
The dispute was settled after
management at the Suibao Escort and Convoy Co agreed to
increase wages by 600 yuan
(US$99) per month. The package
includes a 500 yuan basic wage
rise and an extra 100 yuan food
allowance, the report said.
Several banks in the city,
which were forced to closed
in areas affected by the action,
while a task force of officials
from Guangzhou’s human resources and social security
bureau, police and labor union
met at Suibao’s offices in a bid
to resolve the dispute.
The strike was not the first
by armored vehicle guards in
Guangdong. In December, nearly 500 guards in Zhongshan
walked out after their employer
threatened to cut welfare benefits, the Southern Metropolis
Daily reported.
The dispute was settled when
the workers accepted a 510 yuan
monthly wage increase.
SHANGHAI
Today
Tomorrow
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(37/45OF)
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(39/46OF)
251-300 Heavily polluted
4/ 10OC
(39/50OF)
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CHINA
Harbin
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(-8/12OF)
Urumqi
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(-4/14OF)
Lhasa
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Shanghai
Chengdu
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Wuhan
-4/ 6OC
(25/43OF)
Chongqing
5/ 9OC
(41/48OF)
Hangzhou
2/ 6OC (36/43OF)
Guangzhou
7/9OC (45/48OF)
Kunming
4/ 17OC (39/63OF)
Taipei
13/ 17OC
(55/63OF)
Hong Kong
8/ 11OC (46/52OF)
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formally with Zhang Zhijun,
head of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, in the first
such meeting since the KMT,
led by Chiang Kai-shek, fled
to Taiwan in 1949 after being
defeated in a civil war.
Cross-Strait relations over
the past 65 years had their
worst moment when the two
sides almost came to war.
However, since 2008, regular
talks and closer cooperation,
based on the “1992 consensus,” have promoted peace
and stability in the region,
Wang said after the mausoleum visit.
The two sides need to be
pragmatic to solve disputes
and forge a stable long-term
relationship, he added.
At Tuesday’s meeting, Zhang
and Wang agreed to open a
regular communication channel between their respective
departments. Zhang also accepted Wang’s invitation to
visit Taiwan.
Their meeting is considered
a breakthrough in cross-Strait
relations and the result of
deepening mutual political
trust.
(Xinhua)
Hubei man detained for
spreading H7N9 rumors
Nanjing
-1/ 6OC (30/43OF)
Cloudy
TAIWAN’S mainland affairs
chief Wang Yu-chi yesterday
paid tribute at the mausoleum
of Sun Yat-sen, the renowned
statesman who led the revolution to end imperial rule in
China.
On the second day of his
groundbreaking mainland
visit, Wang bowed to Sun’s
statue in the mausoleum
and presented a wreath, before paying tribute at Sun’s
sarcophagus.
Born in 1866, Sun Yat-sen
is known for his leading role
in the 1911 Revolution, which
overthrew the imperial Qing
Dy nast y (1644-1911) a nd
ended more than 2,000 years
of feudal rule in China. He is
also considered a founder of
Kuomintang (KMT), now the
ruling party in Taiwan.
Sun founded a republican
government in Nanjing in 1911
after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. After his death in Beijing
on March 12, 1925, his remains
were moved to the mausoleum
in Nanjing in 1929.
Wang arrived in Nanjing,
now capital of east China’s
Jiangsu Province, on Tuesday morning for a four-day
visit. Later in the day he met
Beijing
-6/ 3OC (21/37OF)
Xi’an
-11/ 2OC (12/36OF)
Sunny
Taiwan official
pays respects
to Sun Yat-sen
A MAN from central China’s
Hubei Province has been detained by police for allegedly
spreading rumors about H7N9
bird flu on the Internet, local
authorities said yesterday.
The suspect, surnamed Zhou,
from Zigui County, is said to
have made the comments on
Sunday via mobile messaging application WeChat and
on Tencent’s microblogging
platform, the public security
bureau of Yichang City, which
governs Zigui, said.
He was detained on Monday
and will remain in custody for
seven days, police said.
Zhou is said to have posted
a comment saying, “A doctor
from Yichang People’s Hospital
died of H7N9 at 4:21am yesterday. She is only 31. A baby is
still in the mother’s belly and
doctors who participated in
the emergency treatment have
been quarantined.”
The post continued, “Multiple
cases of human H7N9 infection were also found in other
regions in the province.”
The online rumor was distributed widely and sparked
panic among the public, police
said.
Hubei provincial health and
family planning authorities on
Monday denied the rumor, saying no cases of human H7N9
virus infections have been reported in the province.
China has so far this year reported more than 120 human
cases of H7N9, including at
least 31 deaths.
(Xinhua)
Zhejiang reports 3 new bird flu cases
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The government yesterday reported three more cases of
people infected with the H7N9 virus.
The three men, aged 84, 58 and 46, are from east China’s
Zhejiang Province, which now has 82 reported cases. The
oldest patient is in a critical condition while the two other
cases are described as severe.
Experts have yet to find evidence of widespread human to
human transmission, but have warned of the danger of transmission to domestic poultry from birds sold at markets.
(Xinhua)
WORLD A9
Belgium
set to give
children
right-to-die
BELGIUM, one of the very few
countries where euthanasia is
legal, is expected to take the
unprecedented step this week
of abolishing age restrictions
on who can ask to be put to
death — extending the right to
children for the first time.
The legislation appears to
have wide support in the largely
liberal country. But it has also
aroused intense opposition
from foes — including a list of
pediatricians — and everyday
people who have staged noisy
street protests, fearing vulnerable children will be talked into
making an irreversible choice.
Backers like Dr Gerland van
Berlaer, a prominent Brussels
pediatrician, believe it is the
merciful thing to do. The law
will be specific enough that it
will apply only to teenage boys
and girls who are in advanced
stages of cancer or other terminal illnesses and suffering
unbearable pain, he said.
Under current law, they must
let nature take its course or wait
until they turn 18.
“We are talking about children that are really at the end of
their life. It’s not that they have
months or years to go,” said
Van Berlaer, chief of clinic in
the pediatric critical care unit
of University Hospital Brussels.
They ask to be allowed to die
with their dignity, he said.
Belgium’s Senate voted 50-17
on December 12 to amend the
law on euthanasia so that it
would apply to minors. The
House of Representative was
yesterday scheduled to debate
whether to agree to the changes,
and vote on them today. Passage
is widely expected.
Though one opinion poll
found 75 percent of Belgians
in favor, there has been a vocal
opposition.
“We are opening a door that
nobody will be able to close,”
Andre Leonard, archbishop of
Mechelen-Brussels and chairman of the Episcopal Conference
of Belgium, said.
“There is a risk of very serious consequences for society in
the long term,” he said.
(AP)
Koreas hold rare high-level talks
NORTH and South Korean officials sat down to their highest
level talks for years yesterday,
seeking an upswing in ties
despite a bitter row over looming South Korea-US military
exercises.
The discussions in the border truce village of Panmunjom
had no fixed agenda, but aimed
to cover a range of “major”
issues, including a planned
February 20-25 reunion for
family members divided by the
Korean War.
The South Korean delegation
was led by top National Security
Council official Kim Kyou-Hyun,
who said Seoul’s focus was on
ensuring that the reunion went
ahead as scheduled.
North Korea is likely to make
another push for South Korea
to cancel its annual military
drills with the US, which are
slated to start on February 24.
Kim said he was entering the
talks with “an open attitude to
explore the chance of opening
a new chapter on the Korean
peninsula.” He did not mention
whether North Korea’s nuclear
program would be discussed.
It was the first high-level sitdown between the two sides
since 2007, and came a day before US Secretary of State John
Kerry’s arrival in Seoul for a
visit focused on North Korea.
North Korea wants to resume
talks with Seoul and Washington on nuclear matters, but
both have insisted that Pyongyang must first make a tangible
commitment to abandoning
nuclear weapons.
The Panmunjom meet was
requested by Pyongyang and
made headlines in South Korea,
but barely merited a mention in
North Korea’s state media.
The morning session lasted
90 minutes, with the two sides
reconvening after lunch.
Kim Yong-Hyun, an expert on
North Korea, said Pyongyang is
keen to make a public display
of its diplomatic credentials.
“It wants to demonstrate a
willingness to improve ties
with South Korea,” Kim said.
North Korea is also likely to
push for a resumption of South
Korea tours to its Mount Kumgang resort, which South Korea
suspended after a tourist was
shot and killed by North Korean soldiers in 2008.
The success of the upcoming
family reunion event would be
key to Seoul considering starting up the tours again.
“If the first step goes well,
it can move to the next level,
expanding the scope of interKorean cooperation,” South
Korea’s Unification Minister
Ryoo Kihl-Jae said on Tuesday.
There are fears North Korea
may cancel the reunion in protest at the military exercises
between South Korea and the
US. Pyongyang views them as
rehearsals for invasion.
Seoul and Washington have
made it clear that this year’s
drills will not be canceled, but
US officials have indicated they
may be toned down.
South Korean President Park
Geun-Hye had promised greater engagement with Pyongyang
and held out the possibility of
a summit with North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un.
(AFP)
Joyrider, 10,
claims to
be a dwarf
Sky’s the limit for champion pooch
Sky, a wire fox terrier, is held by her handler Gabriel Rangel (right) as she “kisses” judge
Betty Regina Leininger after winning Best in Show at the 2014 Westminster Kennel Club Dog
Show in New York on Tuesday. Sky, who also won the Terrier group at the show, held off the
challenge of canines in six other groups at one of the oldest sporting events in the United
States, to take the coveted prize. — Reuters
A 10-YEAR-OLD Norwegian boy
came up with a novel excuse
after he drove his parents’ car
into a snowy ditch yesterday
morning: He told police he was
a dwarf who had forgotten his
driving license.
The boy lives near Dokka, a
town about 110 kilometers north
of Oslo. Sometime before 6am,
he loaded his 18-month-old sister into the car and headed for
their grandparents in Valdres,
about 60km away, police said.
He drove more than 10km
before veering off the road. A
snowplow driver found him and
alerted the police.
“The parents woke up and
discovered the children were
missing and that someone had
taken off with their car. They
were pretty upset,” said Baard
Christiansen, a spokesman for
the Vest Oppland police.
“The boy said he was a dwarf
and had forgotten his license.”
Police said no charges will be
filed and the case is closed.
“We have talked to them, and
I’m pretty sure they’re going to
pay very close attention to their
children and car keys in the future,” Christiansen said.
(Reuters)
Snows, icy rain cause havoc in southeastern US
A DEADLY winter storm brought
heavy snow, freezing rain and a
possibly historic accumulation
of ice to the southeastern US
yesterday, causing hundreds
of thousands of power outages
and treacherous driving conditions, meterologists said.
T h e w o r s e n i n g s to r m
stretched from eastern Texas to
the Carolinas, and was likely
to reach the middle Atlantic
states later in the day, National
Weather Service meteorologist
Roger Edwards said.
Power outages spread rapidly
as temperatures dropped.
More than 110,000 Georgia
Power customers were without
electricity yesterday, with most
outages reported in metropolitan Atlanta. Some customers
may have to wait up to a week
for power to be restored, said
spokeswoman Amy Fink.
“It appears the storm could
have an even greater impact
than we originally had predicted,” she said.
The wintry mix had already
caused two weather-related
traffic deaths in Mississippi and
three in northern Texas earlier
in the week, authorities said.
The state Highway Patrol in
South Carolina had responded
to 273 weather-related calls for
service overnight.
Nearly 3,000 US flights were
canceled and hundreds more
delayed early yesterday, according to flight-tracking website
FlightAware.com.
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta was
hardest hit, with more than
800, or 69 percent of flights,
canceled. Delta Air Lines and
AirTran, the two dominant
carriers there, had the most
cancellations.
Up to 2 centimeters of ice was
expected in a broad section of
Georgia, including metropolitan Atlanta. Some areas could
see more than 2.5cm.
The Interstate 20 corridor
from north central and northeastern Georgia into South
Carolina would be among the
hardest hit by icy conditions,
said meteorologist Edwards.
Snowfall totals were expected
to be unusually high in the region, with nearly 20cm forecast
for Charlotte, North Carolina,
and 23cm for Spartanburg,
South Carolina.
Hundreds of schools and
government offices across the
south were closed yesterday,
and shelters were opened in
Georgia and Alabama to help
those stranded by the storm.
(AP)
A10 WORLD
Fukushima operator
got radiation wrong
US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle meet the press with French President Francois
Hollande as he arrives for a state dinner in his honor at the White House on Tuesday. — Reuters
French aesthetics inform
first lady’s dinner gown
MICHELLE Obama chose a Venezuelan-American designer for
the gown she wore on Tuesday
evening to the state dinner
honoring French President
Francois Hollande.
But the formal, ornate style
of the sumptuous gown by Carolina Herrera reflected French
aesthetics, from the intricate
beaded black bodice to the
train and full skirt in a color
called liberty blue, according
to Susan Swimmer, author of
“Michelle Obama: First Lady of
Fashion and Style.”
“From the White House to
Versailles it’s not that far,” said
Swimmer, who is also contributing fashion features editor
for More magazine. “It’s much
more keeping in a French aesthetic than I’ve seen her wear
before. It’s very French in terms
of how ornate it is and the use
of lace and the velvet sash.”
The gown featured a black,
hand-sewn beaded embroidery
applique scallop-edged top
that came to Michelle Obama’s
elbows. The top went over a
blue silk faille corset and long
skirt with a train that billowed
behind the first lady as she
walked with President Barack
Obama. It was matched with a
black velvet belt. The color also
echoed the blue color that both
countries share in their flags.
The first lady had the fashion spotlight to herself during
the evening’s events because
Hollande was without a date
after a very public breakup
with his longtime girlfriend,
Valerie Trierweiler.
The French president sat between the Obamas at dinner.
A four-course meal — including a main course of dry-aged
rib-eye beef from a family farm
in Colorado, with blue cheese
from Vermont — was served
in a pavilion on the South Lawn
that had vines hanging from
the ceiling like chandeliers.
Democratic donors, polit ic i a n s , ce lebr it ies a nd
business types who made
up the 350-person guest list
avoided mentioning the French
intrigue.
The White House last autumn invited Hollande and
Trierweiler to come for a state
visit, the first such honor for
France in two decades.
But just weeks ago, the two
abruptly split after a magazine
reported that a helmeted Hollande zipped via motorcycle to
a liaison with French actress
Julie Gayet.
Obama, in his dinner toast,
was sparing with his French.
He welcomed the g uests
with a hearty “bonsoir,” then
confessed that “I have now officially exhausted my French.”
Hollande delivered a good
portion of his reciprocal toast
in respectable English before
switching to French.
“We love Americans, although we don’t always say
so,” he told the crowd.
Guest Ben Jealous, former
president of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, was nothing
but admiring of the evening.
“I think the French are way
cooler than we are on a whole
lot of fronts,” he said, including “way better gossip.”
(AP)
JAPAN’S nuclear regulator has
criticized the operator of the
stricken Fukushima plant for
incorrectly measuring radiation
levels in contaminated groundwater at the site.
Almost three years since the
reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi station, Tokyo
Electric Power Co still lacks basic
understanding of measuring
and handling radiation, Nuclear
Regulation Authority Chairman
Shunichi Tanaka said yesterday.
The utility has been widely criticized for an inept response to
the March 2011 disaster.
TEPCO said last week that
groundwater drawn from a monitoring well last July contained a
record 5 million becquerels per
liter of dangerous radioactive
strontium-90 — more than five
times the total beta radiation
reading of 900,000 becquerels
per liter recorded in the well, 25
meters from the ocean.
TEPCO said there was a calibration mistake with one machine
measuring strontium levels of
well water, and it had also found
an error with devices that decipher all-beta radiation.
“Something like this cannot
happen ... This (data) is what
becomes the basis of various
decisions, so they must do their
utmost to avoid mistakes in
measuring radiation,” Tanaka
told reporters, though he added
the mistake did not pose a serious safety risk at the plant.
The legal limit for releasing
strontium 90, which has a half
life of around 29 years, into the
sea is 30 becquerels per liter.
A TEPCO spokesman said the
utility will recheck radiation
readings of groundwater in light
of the record strontium levels.
Last year, radiation leaks,
power outages and other mishaps sparked international
concern and prompted Japan’s
government to step in with more
funds and support. As part of
a turnaround plan approved
by the government last month,
TEPCO hopes to restart its
biggest nuclear station, Kashiwazaki Kariwa, this summer.
TEPCO in November began
the hazardous process of removing fuel rods from the
damaged No. 4 reactor building
at Fukushima. It said last week
it had removed about 9 percent
of more than 1,500 unused and
spent rods.
(Reuters)
Teen suicide prompts calls
for Italy cyberbullying law
ITALIAN lawmakers yesterday
called for a law against cyberbullying following the suicide
of a 14-year-old girl whose cry
for help on a website was met
with a torrent of abuse and encouragement to self-harm.
“Kill yourself,” “Nobody wants
you” and “You are not normal”
were some of the comments
received by the teenager on
the social networking site Ask.
fm after she turned for advice
when her boyfriend left her.
When she posted photographs
of cuts she said she had made
on her arms, one person wrote:
“I hope that one of these days
you cut the big vein on your arm
and die.”
The girl, who called herself
“Amnesia,” jumped to her death
from an abandoned hotel in
her hometown Fontaniva, near
Padua in northeast Italy on
Sunday.
“We can no longer read about
young people who take their
lives because of threats and
psychological pressure,” Micaela Campana, a member of
parliament from the center-left
Democratic Party, said.
“It is urgent that parliament
discuss a law on bullying and
cyberbullying soon,” said Campana, who has proposed a draft
bill that would increase the punishment for Internet abuse.
Mara Bizzotto, a member of
the European Parliament from
the Northern League party,
asked the European Commission for stronger EU legislation
so that there can be “justice.”
Prosecutors in Padua have
opened an investigation.
(AFP)
Father of 12-year-old Australian ‘bride’ arrested
THE father of a 12-year-old
girl was arrested in Australia
yesterday after allegedly marrying her off to a Muslim man
14 years her senior.
C h i ld abu se detect ives
charged the 61-year-old with
being an accessory before the
fact of having sexual intercourse
with a child and procuring a
child under 14 years for unlawful sexual activity.
A Pakistan-born Muslim cleric
was charged on Tuesday with
conducting the illegal marriage
and the “husband” — a Lebanese
national — was arrested last
week on 25 child sex offenses.
The father, reportedly an Australian who converted to Islam,
was refused bail at court at Raymond Terrace, north of Sydney,
while the 26-year-old Lebanese
also remains in custody.
Magistrate Caled Franklin
said it appeared that the father
did not believe he had done
anything wrong.
“Even if the allegations ...
are proved, he believes there is
nothing wrong with the behavior alleged,” said the magistrate,
reported the Newcastle Herald.
The newspaper quoted a Legal
Aid solicitor as saying the man
denied the allegations against
him and argued that his daughter was “a very, very mature and
strong-willed young woman.”
“He says they are in love and
it is a very strong love,” the
solicitor added.
While child marriages remain
prevalent in parts of the world,
in Australia 18 is the minimum
age to tie the knot and the case
has sparked debate about how
widespread the problem is.
An investigation by the Sydney Daily Telegraph published
yesterday said there was an
“epidemic” of child brides with
hundreds of underage teenagers in unregistered “marriages”
in New South Wales alone.
The state’s Com mu n it y
Services Minister Pru Goward
last week sa id a necdota l
evidence suggested forced marriages between children and
adults was an ongoing issue,
particularly in Sydney.
“I understand there are actually a significant number of
unlawful, unregistered marriages to underage girls in NSW,
particularly in western Sydney,
southwest Sydney and the Blue
Mountains.”
(AFP)
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www.shanghaidaily.com/business
OPEC ups
global oil
demand
estimate
ENERGY
FIRMING growth in leading
economies has pushed OPEC
to raise slightly its estimate
for global demand for oil this
year.
OPEC, which produces about
35 percent of the world’s oil,
said in a report yesterday that
it now expected demand to
total 90.98 million barrels per
day.
That is an increase of 80,000
bpd from the last estimate in
January.
OPEC also revised slightly upward its estimate for how much
oil was consumed last year to
89.89 million bpd.
“The United States recovery
continues with a better-thanexpected dynamic,” OPEC said
in its monthly review of the oil
market.
“The eurozone continues its
recovery from a very low level
and a mixed growth pattern.”
OPEC raised its estimate of
demand this year from the 34
advanced democracies in the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
It now estimated that this
consumption would shrink by
130,000 bpd from the level last
year.
The overall growth of global
demand between last year and
this year is being driven again
by emerging economies, OPEC
said.
Demand from China was expected to increase by 340,000
bpd to 10.4 million bpd.
That is in line with the increase of 330,000 bpd expected
for 2013 from the 2012 level.
In North America, demand remained on a strong trend in the
fourth quarter, OPEC said.
Initial data for December
and January indicated that this
trend would continue in the
next few months.
The International Energy
Agency, the oil monitoring and
energy policy arm of the OECD,
is to publish its monthly estimates and review today.
(AFP)
Stake sale puts Alibaba at US$128b
TECHNOLOGY
A RARE sale of a stake in
Alibaba Group Holding values
China’s dominant e-commerce
company at around US$128
billion.
Alibaba is expected to go
public later this year in the
world’s biggest listing since
Facebook Inc’s debut in 2012,
and the potential value of the
firm and its IPO are a key focus
for investors keen to cash in on
China’s booming online retail
market.
A recent Reuters poll of eight
analysts had put Alibaba’s
market value at around US$140
billion and the value of the IPO
at US$15 billion.
Chinese video game company Giant Interactive Group
said on Tuesday that it is selling a stake in Alibaba to a Tiger
Global fund for roughly US$199
million but did not disclose
further details.
Giant Interactive bought a
US$50 million stake in Alibaba
in 2011 through Yunfeng Capital, a China-based private equity
firm co-founded by Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma.
Around that time, Alibaba
was valued at around US$32
billion after a private equity
consortium led by Silver Lake,
Yunfeng Capital and DST Global bought a 5 percent stake for
US$1.6 billion.
Assuming that Giant’s stake
has not changed since 2011,
it is now worth roughly four
times its original amount, and
Alibaba’s value would have
correspondingly increased to
US$128 billion.
The IPO has suffered delay as
Alibaba has struggled to reach
an agreement with Hong Kong
regulators over a partnership
January
car sales
hit record
high 1.88m
Lu Nengneng
AUTO
Toyota recalls 1.9m Prius hybrids
Toyota’s hybrid vehicle Prius is seen on a street in Tokyo yesterday. Toyota Motor Corp
announced a global recall covering all 1.9 million of the third-generation Prius hybrid cars
because of a problem in the software to control the hybrid system that could cause the vehicle to
slow down suddenly, in the latest safety blow to the Japanese auto giant. — AFP
IBM chief visits Beijing to restore trust
TECHNOLOGY
A SLIDE in IBM Corp’s sales in
China amid a broad backlash
against claims of US government spying has triggered a
rare visit to Beijing by Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty.
The head of the world’s
biggest technology services
company arrived in China’s
capital yesterday for three days
of meetings with government
leaders, according to people familiar with her visit. The visit
comes as US firms like IBM
and Cisco Systems Inc seek to
restore trust with Chinese regulators and reverse slumps.
Beiji ng has encou raged
state-owned companies to
buy China-branded products
since last year’s revelations by
former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden
of spying. That has undercut
business at some US-based
multinationals in the world’s
second-biggest economy.
Rometty will have meetings
with officials including Vice
Premier Wang Yang, who helps
formulate economic policy.
(Reuters)
Shanghai to improve tax policies for FTZ
Feng Jianmin
FTZ
SHANGHAI’S fiscal and tax
authorities are to study tax policies for overseas investment and
offshore businesses to bring
a boost to the city’s free trade
zone, officials said yesterday.
Song Yijia, head of the Shanghai Finance Bureau, said the
bureau’s prime task this year is
structure it hopes to use as part
of the IPO. The location of the
listing has yet to be decided.
Giant Interactive said it is
selling its holdings in Yunfeng
E-Commerce Funds to a fund
owned by Tiger Global Management LLC.
Tiger Global also owns a 22.1
percent stake in Alibaba’s Chinese e-commerce rival JD.com,
according to a JD.com filing.
JD.com, China’s second-largest
e-commerce company, formerly
called 360buy.com, filed for a
US listing in January.
(Reuters)
to promote the FTZ by improving tax policies and opening up
auditing services for foreign
investment.
“We w ill learn from inter nat iona l pract ices a nd
actively cooperate with state departments to further study and
improve tax policies related to
Shanghai’s pilot free trade zone,
such as foreign equity investment and offshore businesses,”
Song said at the city’s annual
fiscal and tax conference.
Gu Ju, head of Shanghai’s tax
authorities, said the bureau will
seek central government support in terms of tax policies to
encourage such businesses to
open in the zone.
This initiative is part of the
tax bureau’s mission to improve
tax collection and incentive
policies in the zone in order to
facilitate cross-border trade and
investment.
The conference heard that
Shanghai’s public spending
has been set at 472 billion yuan
(US$78 billion) for this year.
This figure, approved by the
city’s lawmakers, is up 4.2 percent from last year.
Public revenue is set to be
441.8 billion yuan, 7.5 percent
higher than for 2013.
CHINA’S passenger car sales
reached an all-time monthly
high in January, with 1.88
million vehicles sold, industry data showed yesterday.
Del iveries of seda ns,
s p or t- ut i l it y ve h ic le s ,
multi-purpose vehicles and
minivans rose by 10.1 percent year on year last month,
the China Passenger Car Association said.
Sales were 3.7 percent
more than the h ighest
monthly total last year —
recorded in December.
The association’s Secretary-General Rao Da said
the market, which achieved
17 percent growth last year,
is still faring well.
“Two new groups of car
buyers have been driving market growth since
the fourth quarter,” Rao
explained.
“These are panic buyers living in cities that
may impose car purchase
restrictions and civil servants buying their own
cars because management
of official fleets has been
tightened,” Rao said.
But domestic carmakers —
among which only Chang’an
Automobile managed to
make it into the top-10 in
January — are still having a
hard time, he added.
Car sales will continue
growing this month, Rao
predicted.
This is despite the Spring
Festival holiday that saw
many dealerships close for
a week and the fact that bigger price cuts are expected
in March, when the peak
season arrives, he said.
A12 BUSINESS
Danone to
buy bigger
stake in
Mengniu
Ding Yining
DAIRY
German economy expected to strengthen
A general view shows a container terminal in Hamburg, Germany. Europe’s largest economy will gain traction this year as
domestic demand strengthens although foreign trade will drag on the traditionally export-oriented economy’s growth for a
second consecutive year, the country’s Economy Ministry said yesterday. Exports will climb by 4.1 percent after a subdued
performance last year but imports will rise by some 5 percent — meaning foreign trade will deduct 0.1 percentage point from
gross domestic product growth, the ministry said in its annual report. — Reuters
US Democrats pass measure to
increase ability to borrow money
FINANCE
HOUSE Republicans backed away from a
battle over the government’s debt cap on
Tuesday and permitted US President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies to drive
quick passage of a measure to increase
the government’s borrowing ability to
pay its bills and avoid a default ahead of
the November elections.
The 221-201 vote came hours after
Republican House leader John Boehner
announced his fractured party would
relent.
Just 28 Republicans voted for the
measure, including Boehner. But 193
Democrats more than compensated for
the low support among Republicans.
Tuesday’s developments amount to
a bitter defeat for the Republicans who
have sought to use must-pass debt ceiling
legislation measures as leverage to force
spending cuts on Democrats. Republicans
won more than US$2 trillion in spending
cuts in a 2011 showdown, but gave Obama
two debt limit increases last year with
only modest legislative add-ons.
Ahead of congressional elections,
both political parties have backed off
the bitter fiscal battles that have gripped
Washington in recent years. Faced with a
tough battle over control of the Senate in
particular, neither party wants to shoulder most of the blame for Washington’s
dysfunction.
The measure now goes to the Democratic-controlled Senate which is expected to
easily approve it later in the week.
The White House applauded Tuesday’s
vote. “Tonight’s vote is a positive step in
moving away from the political brinkmanship that’s a needless drag on our
economy,” White House spokesman Jay
Carney said. He said Congress should now
take additional steps to strengthen the
economy and praised efforts by Obama
and Democrats to restore jobless benefits
to the long-term unemployed and to increase the minimum wage.
The bill would permit the Treasury
Department to borrow money to pay the
government’s bills normally for another
13 months, diffusing the chance of a debt
crisis well past the November elections
and providing time for a newly elected
Congress to decide how to handle the
issue.
“The full faith and credit (of the United
States) should be unquestioned and it
is not negotiable,” said House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.
The vote comes four months after Washington defused a government shutdown
and debt crisis that burned Republicans
politically — an experience they did not
want to repeat.
The measure does not raise the debt
limit by a set amount.
(AP)
FRENCH food company Danone
said it will spend US$665 million
to increase its stake in China’s
largest dairy firm Mengniu Dairy
Co as foreign companies are betting on higher demand for quality
food and dairy products in the
country.
Danone will purchase 121.2
million new shares of Mengniu
through a joint venture with China’s COFCO Group and Denmark’s
Arla Foods, a joint statement by the
two companies said yesterday.
Shares of Mengniu jumped 2.99
percent to HK$37.95 (US$4.89) yesterday in Hong Kong.
Danone will pay HK$42.50 for
each new Mengniu share, a 15.3
percent premium over Mengniu’s
closing price on Tuesday. The
purchase will raise its stake in
Mengniu from 4 percent to about
9.9 percent.
The deal is subject to the approval of Mengniu’s shareholders,
and is expected to be completed
within a few months.
Mengniu said in the statement
that the deal will strengthen its
partnership with Danone and put
it in a better position to capitalize
on other opportunities.
Mengniu will use the funds to
repay debts and strengthen its balance sheet.
“Through the collaboration with
Mengniu, Danone could speed
up the expansion of its yogurt
business and also boost its milk
powder business,” said Song Liang,
a senior analyst at market research
firm China Commercial Distribution Promotion Center.
Danone spent 2.6 billion yuan
(US$429 million) to purchase a
4 percent stake in Mengniu and
establish a joint venture with the
company last year.
BOE suggests interest rates will rise early next year
MACRO-ECONOMY
THE Bank of England hinted yesterday
interest rates may need to rise in just
over a year after it sharply revised up
its forecasts for economic growth over
the next three years.
It also announced an update to its
“forward guidance” policy laying out
the likely path for rate changes, saying
it will focus on a range of measures of
the spare capacity, or slack, in Britain’s
economy.
The BOE said interest rate increases
in line with current market expectations seemed consistent with keeping
inflation close to its 2 percent target. It
added that markets priced in a first rate
rise in the second quarter of 2015.
It stressed any interest rate rises
would be gradual, and the ultimate level
of British interest rates was likely to
end up well below the 5 percent average
before the financial crisis.
The Bank’s Governor Mark Carney
defended the BOE’s decision to adopt a
forward guidance plan last year, even
though the first version was quickly
overtaken by a fast fall in the unemployment rate to which the pledge of
low rates was linked.
“Forward guidance is working,” Carney said. “Expected interest rates have
remained low even as the economy has
recovered strongly, uncertainty about
interest rates has fallen, and most
importantly, UK businesses have understood the message.”
The BOE was forced into making a new
statement on when and how it intends
to raise interest rates by the unexpectedly sharp fall in unemployment since
Carney made his first stab at forward
guidance in August.
Shortly after arriving from his native
Canada, Carney persuaded the other
eight BOE policy-makers to make an
unprecedented pledge to keep rates
on hold until unemployment fell to 7
percent. The BOE said that would take
three years.
Barely six months later, unemployment
stands at 7.1 percent, and the BOE forecasts it will reach 7 percent in the three
months to January and sink further to
6.5 percent by early next year.
Carney said the BOE will now monitor
a broad range of indicators including unemployment, business surveys
and the number of hours worked as it
weighs up the need for an increase in
interest rates.
Britain’s economy has grown at an annualized rate of 3 percent since August.
But output is still 2 percent below its
2008 peak, unlike many other advanced
economies, which have more than made
up the damage caused by the financial
crisis.
The BOE revised up its growth forecast for 2014 to 3.4 percent from 2.8
percent, a more bullish forecast than
most other economists, and one which
the BOE said was due in part to its belief
the Office for National Statistics had
underestimated fourth-quarter gross
domestic product growth.
(Reuters)
Warning to Scots over currency
Britain is likely to warn Scots that
they cannot have a currency union with
the rest of the United Kingdom if they
vote for independence in a September
referendum, local media reported, citing
unidentified government sources.
The pro-independence Scottish National Party wants to keep the pound
if there is a “yes” vote in the September 18 referendum but finance minister
George Osborne is likely to reject a currency union, the BBC and the Guardian
reported.
Osborne’s intervention in the currency
debate will be echoed by Ed Balls, the
Labour party’s finance spokesman, and
by Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat finance chief. Bank of England chief
Mark Carney has said a currency union
would mean Scotland having to surrender some sovereignty.
(Reuters)
BUSINESS A13
Shanghai
shares inch
up on upbeat
trade figures
Investment product misses payments
Hu Xiaocen
FINANCE
A HIGH-YIELD investment
product distributed by China
Construction Bank has missed
four interest and principal payments, raising concern similar
products may default in future.
The product created by Jilin
Province Trust Co raised 972.7
million yuan (US$160.5 million) in six tranches from CCB
clients, Shanghai Securities
News reported yesterday. The
trust then invested that money
in a Shanxi-based coal mine
company’s projects.
Ye Zhen
STOCKS
SHANGHAI stocks yesterday
rose for the fourth consecutive
day as easing liquidity conditions continued to support the
market while upbeat trade data
alleviated concerns about a possible economic slowdown.
The Shanghai Composite
Index added 0.3 percent to
2,109.96 points.
“The market was partly
buoyed by expectations the
global liquidity environment
will remain loose after Janet
Yellen, the new head of the US
Federal Reserve, pledged to keep
interest rates low,” said Dong
Wangfei, an investment consultant with Western Securities.
“The decline of the Shanghai
Interbank Offered Rate also
points to easing domestic liquidity conditions,” Dong said.
The seven-day Shibor fell for
a second day yesterday, losing
2.3 basis points to 5.18 percent,
National Interbank Funding
Center data showed.
Strong trade figures also
boosted the market.
Chinese exports jumped 10.6
percent year on year in January,
up from a 4.3 percent gain in
December. Imports surged 10
percent, compared with an 8.3
percent rise in December.
Sha res of Tia nji n-based
companies soared after China
Securities Journal reported the
city may receive approval to set
up a free trade zone this year.
Tianjin Port Co surged 8.31
percent to 8.99 yuan (US$1.48).
The report said the product
failed to pay back investors
when the fourth tranche matured last Friday.
“The account manager at CCB
repeatedly told me the product
was a safe investment. I didn’t
think otherwise before I transferred the money into CCB’s
account. I didn’t even look at
the product description,” the
newspaper quoted an unnamed
investor as saying.
The investors were ignorant
about the trust company and
the coal market and most of
their investment contracts
were signed after they had
finished money transfer, the
newspaper said.
The trust product required
a minimum investment of
3 million yuan and returns
were based on the amount
invested.
An investor placing 50 million yuan in the trust was
expected to receive 6 million
yuan a year, according to the
product description.
Jilin Trust said in a statement in December that the
debtor, Fuyu Energy Co, failed
to pay back the principal and
interest on the first and second tranches. Payments for the
other four tranches were not
guaranteed at that stage. The
company would cooperate with
CCB’s Shanxi branch to properly handle the situation, the
statement said.
Last month, investors of a
trust product distributed by
the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China suspected a
default as one interest payment
was overdue and owners of the
coal company they invested in
were detained by the police. Investors got back their principal
earlier this month but not the
interest from the last tranche,
according to media reports.
St Kitts sees influx of wealthy Chinese
Lu Nengneng
FINANCE
A GROWING number of Chinese
entrepreneurs are emigrating
to St Kitts, a small island in the
Caribbean Sea, as part of efforts
to bypass Chinese regulations
over offshore fundraising.
A recent media report about
the influx of Chinese immigrants to the island sheds new
light on the motivation behind
the current immigration wave
of China’s wealthy, including
Zhang Lan, founder of restaurant chain South Beauty.
Their motive appears not confined to seeking better air, food,
or education opportunities as
the public thought. In some
cases it is just about business.
The island does not require a
minimum residency period to
apply for citizenship like most
countries. This makes it appealing to Chinese businesspeople
as a shortcut to obtaining a
foreign identity.
“They don’t stay here very
long or take time to enjoy
the island. They just want
citizenship,” an immigration
consultant surnamed Feng
told Legal Weekly.
He said that in mid-2012, the
number of Chinese immigrants
to St Kitts was fewer than 20.
The figure has increased multifold since then. Some of his
clients with plans to get their
companies listed said they feel
like they are “forced” to immigrate to St Kitts.
The idea is to avoid the tedious
procedures of getting regulatory
approval for a listing overseas,
according to the report.
HK firms settle US insider trading case
SECURITIES
TWO Hong Kong investment
firms have agreed to pay a total
of US$10.9 million to settle US
regulators’ allegations of insider trading prior to CNOOC’s
takeover of a Canadian oil and
gas producer.
The US Sec u r it ies a nd
MARKETS DIGEST
Exchange Commission announced the settlement on
Tuesday with CITIC Securities
International Investment Management and China Shenghai
Investment Management.
In July 2012, CNOOC said
it was buying Canadian energy producer Nexen Inc for
US$15.1 billion. The SEC said
CITIC, China Shenghai and
several other firms had confidential information about
the planned acquisition and
bought Nexen stock before the
announcement.
CITIC is pay i ng US$6.6
million in restitution and
penalties. China Shenghai and
eight of its clients are paying
US$4.3 million. The firms neither admitted nor denied the
allegations.
Robert Giuffra, an attorney
for CITIC, said the firm was
pleased to resolve the matter.
(AP)
(As of 9pm Wednesday, Beijing Time)
CHINA’S MAINLAND STOCK MARKETS
WORLD MARKETS
Shanghai Composite Index
Best 5 performers
Code
600586
Company
Shandong Jinjing Science & Tech. Co
Price (yuan)
3.48
Change
10.13%
000897
Tianjin Jinbin Development Co
5.67
10.10%
600360
Jilin Sino-Microelectronics Co
4.80
10.09%
600380
Joincare Pharmaceutical Group Ind. Co
5.57
10.08%
600122
Jiangsu Hongtu High Technology Co
4.92
10.07%
2,109.96
2,120
+0.30%
2,110
+6.28
2,100
2,090
Worst 5 performers
Shenzhen Component Index
Code
002400
Company
Guangdong Advertising Co
Price (yuan)
41.47
Change
-6.26%
7,985
000851
Gohigh Data Networks Technology Co
16.08
-6.02%
600766
YanTai Yuancheng Gold Co
11.26
-5.85%
7,902.08
7,935
+0.82%
7,885
+63.96
Xinghui Auto Model Co
37.66
-5.61%
7,835
600626
Shanghai Shenda Co
11.26
-4.66%
7,785
5 most actively traded companies
Company
China CITIC Bank Corp
Price (yuan)
4.52
Change
(10,000 yuan)
8.13% 3,200,226.29
000100
TCL Corp
2.64
-1.12% 2,533,244.02
600016
China Minsheng Banking Corp
7.76
1.70% 2,331,108.70
601818
China Everbright Bank Co
2.56
-0.78% 1,730,631.16
002024
Suning Commerce Group Co
10.64
3.60% 1,716,864.98
ASX All Ordinaries
5,319.82
+1.00%
Frankfurt DAX
9,543.37
+0.68%
FTSE-100
6,676.91
+0.06%
CSI 300
Turnover
Code
601998
Nikkei 225
14,800.06
+0.56%
KOSPI
1,935.84
+0.20%
2,080
300043
Hang Seng
22.285.79
+1.47%
2,300
2,291.25
2,295
+0.25%
+5.68
Dow Jones
15,994.77
+1.22%
2,290
2,285
2,280
Nasdaq
4,191.04
+1.03%
CURRENCIES VS YUAN
Currency (100)
British pound
HK dollar
US dollar
Yen
Canadian dollar
Australian dollar
Euro
PBOC rates
1,004.43
78.75
610.78
5.9358
554.45
549.42
832.62
SHIBOR (%)
O/N
1W
1M
6M
1Y
Percent
4.0750
5.1780
5.6500
4.9955
5.0001
Change (BP)
-6.20
-2.30
-10.80
+0.19
0.00
COMMODITIES
Shanghai Futures Exchange
(yuan/ton)
al1402
13,340
+35
zn1402
15,080
-10
pb1402
13,340
+35
au1402
253.00
+1
rb1402
3,393
-14
Shanghai Gold Exchange
(yuan/gram)
Au9995
252.08
+0.87
Au9999
252.06
+0.57
Au100g
252.40
+0.85
Pt9995
286.25
+0.25
A14 SPORTS
Durant fires Thunder past Blazers
Tanaka ‘happy
to be a Yankee’
BASKETBALL
BASEBALL
OKLAHOMA City extended its lead over
nearest divisional rival Portland to five
games by winning 98-95 at the Trail
Blazers on Tuesday.
NBA leading scorer Kevin Durant continued his stellar season with 36 points
and 10 rebounds for the Thunder.
Also, LeBron James bounced back to
near his best to lead Miami over Phoenix,
Charlotte earned a rare win over Dallas,
and Memphis hung on for a narrow victory over Washington.
Oklahoma City widened its advantage
over Portland in the Northwest Division,
and made it 14 wins from 16 games, due
in no small part to Jeremy Lamb’s vital
3-pointer with 1:38 left which put the
Thunder up by a point. Lamb finished
with 19 points.
Durant connected on 15-of-28 shots
as Oklahoma City improved to 42-12 for
the season.
“We respect this team and they respect
us, but we don’t like them and they don’t
like us,” Durant said. “Point blank.”
LaMarcus Aldridge, who missed a
mid-range jumper in the final seconds
that could have salvaged the win for
Portland, was asked what he thought of
Durant’s comment. “We’re not trying to
make friends out there,” he said. “We’re
trying to win games.”
Nicolas Batum had 18 points for Portland, which led by 13 points in the first
half and held a 55-45 advantage at the
break, but the Thunder kept chipping
away and the teams went into the fourth
quarter tied.
Miami’s LeBron James responded to
one of his worst games of the season by
THE latest high-priced addition to the
New York Yankees stood on the dais
in front of a large news conference,
put on his pinstriped jersey with No.
19 and smiled.
“Hello. My name is Masahiro Tanaka,” he said slowly in English. “I’m
very happy to be a Yankee.”
After chartering a Boeing 787
Dreamliner for his trip from Tokyo to
New York, the 25-year-old right-hander
with the US$155 million, seven-year
contract was presented on Tuesday not
in the news conference room downstairs at Yankee Stadium, but in the
Legends Suite Club, where the high
rollers congregate on game days.
Yankees spokesman Jason Zillo concluded the team’s latest Pacific overture
drew New York’s most-attended news
conference since Hideki Matsui was
introduced in January 2003.
Managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said obtaining Tanaka was
worth the economic pain of exceeding
the US$189 million luxury tax threshold New York had hoped to stay under.
“We needed another starter, and when
we do things, we try to do them right.
And this guy, he’s tough. He’s got tremendous ability. We all know that. And
US$189 (million) or not, we wanted a
good quality starter, and we got it.”
New York, which also added Brian
McCann, Jacoby Ellsbury and Carlos
Beltran during the offseason, figures to
have a big following in Japan. Tanaka
joins pitcher Hiroki Kuroda and outfielder Ichiro Suzuki on the roster.
(AP)
Oklahoma City Thunder shooting guard Jeremy Lamb (left) and Portland Trail
Blazers small forward Nicolas Batum fight for a loose ball during the third quarter
of their NBA game in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday. — Reuters
LA Lakers
Sacramento
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
Tuesday’s Games
Cleveland 109, Sacramento 99; Charlotte 114,
Dallas 89; Chicago 100, Atlanta 85; Memphis
92, Washington 89; Miami 103, Phoenix 97;
Oklahoma City 98, Portland 95; Utah 96, LA
Lakers 79.
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Toronto
27
24
.529
—
Brooklyn
23
26
.469
3
New York
20
31
.392
7
Boston
19
34
.358
9
Philadelphia
15
38
.283
13
Southeast Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Miami
36
14
.720
—
Atlanta
25
25
.500
11
Washington
25
26
.490 11 1/2
Charlotte
23
29
.442
14
Orlando
16
37
.302 21 1/2
Central Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Indiana
40
11
.784
—
Chicago
26
25
.510
14
Detroit
22
29
.431
18
Cleveland
19
33
.365 21 1/2
Milwaukee
9
42
.176
31
Western Conference
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct
GB
San Antonio
37
15
.712
—
Houston
35
17
.673
2
Dallas
31
22
.585 6 1/2
Memphis
28
23
.549 8 1/2
New Orleans 22
29
.431 14 1/2
Northwest Division
W
L
Pct
GB
Oklahoma
42
12
.778
—
Portland
36
16
.692
5
Denver
24
26
.480
16
Minnesota
24
28
.462
17
Utah
18
33
.353 22 1/2
Pacific Division
W
L
Pct
GB
LA Clippers
36
18
.667
—
Golden State 31
21
.596
4
Phoenix
30
21
.588 4 1/2
Anthony Tolliver added 22 for the Bobcats, who had won only one of their
previous 18 games against Dallas.
Charlotte scored 60 points in the key
and tied a season-high with 12 3-pointers. Tolliver was 5 of 6 from 3-point
range.
Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki sprained his left
ankle in the second quarter but returned
in the second half and finished with 16
points.
Elsewhere, it was: Grizzlies 92, Wizards 89; Bulls 100, Hawks 85; Cavaliers
109, Kings 99; and Jazz 96, Lakers 79.
(Agencies)
scoring 37 points to lead the Heat to a
103-97 win over the Suns.
James, who had matched a season low
with 13 points in Saturday’s loss at Utah,
scored 25 in the second half. Chris Bosh
added 21 points for Miami, which has
beaten Phoenix eight straight times.
Gerald Green scored 21 of his 26 points
in the second half for the Suns, who
dropped half a game behind the Golden
State Warriors in the Pacific Division.
Charlotte reversed its horrible run of
results against Dallas by beating the
Mavericks 114-89.
Al Jefferson scored 30 points and
18
17
34
35
.346
.327
17
18
CYCLING
Tour of Qatar
Tuesday’s 3rd Stage (10.5km time trial at the
Losail motor circuit)
1. Michael Hepburn, Australia, 13 minutes, 28
seconds; 2. Lars Boom, Netherlands, at 1 second;
3. Daniele Bennati, Italy, 6; 4. Fabian Cancellara,
Switzerland, 6; 5. Niki Terpstra, Netherlands, 8;
6. Martin Elmiger, Switzerland, 10; 7. Guillaume
van Keirsbulck, Belgium, 13; 8. Philippe Gilbert,
Belgium, 15; 9. Jens Mouris, Netherlands, 16; 10.
Gert Steegmans, Belgium, 17.
Overall Standings
1. Niki Tersptra, Netherlands, 6 hours 57 minutes, 06 seconds; 2. Jurgen Roelnadts, Belgium,
at 21 seconds; 3. Lars Boom, Netherlands, 24; 4.
Tom Boonen, Belgium, 28; 5. Ian Stannard, Britain, 35; 6. Guillaume van Keirsbulck, Belgium,
45; 7. Michael Morkov, Denmark, 49; 8. Marcel
Sieberg, Germany, 49; 9. Stijn Vandenbergh,
Belgium, 58; 10. Andrew Fenn, Britain, 1:06.
SOCCER
Copa Libertadores
Tuesday’s Results
Group Stage
Group 1
Universitario (Peru) 0, Velez Sarsfield
(Argentina) 1.
Group 2
Botafogo (Brazil) 2, San Lorenzo (Argentina) 0.
Group 4
Independiente SF (Colombia) 3, Nacional
(Paraguay) 1; Zamora (Venezuela) 0, Atletico
Mineiro (Brazil) 1.
Group 8
Santos Laguna (Mexico) 1, Arsenal (Argentina) 0.
English Premier League
Tuesday’s Games
Cardiff City 0, Aston Villa 0; Hull City 0, Southampton 1; West Ham United 2, Norwich City 0;
West Bromwich Albion 1, Chelsea 1.
P W D L GF GA Pts
Chelsea
26 17 6 3 48 21 57
Arsenal
25 17 4 4 48 26 55
Man City
25 17 3 5 68 27 54
Liverpool
25 15 5 5 63 30 50
Tottenham
25 14 5 6 32 32 47
Everton
25 12 9 4 37 26 45
Man United
25 12 5 8 41 31 41
Southampton 26 10 9 7 37 29 39
Newcastle
West Ham
Aston Villa
Swansea
Hull City
Stoke
Crystal Palace
Norwich
West Brom
Sunderland
Cardiff City
Fulham
25
26
26
25
26
25
25
26
26
25
26
25
11
7
7
7
7
6
8
6
4
6
5
6
French Ligue 1
Tuesday’s Game
Toulouse 1, SC Bastia 3.
P W
PSG
24 16
Monaco
24 14
Lille
24 13
St-Etienne
24 12
Marseille
24 11
Lyon
24 10
Reims
24 9
Bordeaux
23 9
Nantes
24 10
SC Bastia
24 9
Lorient
23 9
Toulouse
24 7
Nice
24 9
Montpellier
24 5
Rennes
24 6
Guingamp
24 6
Evian
24 5
V’ciennes
24 5
Sochaux
24 3
Ajaccio
24 2
4
7
7
6
6
8
2
7
12
6
7
2
D
7
8
5
5
6
7
9
7
3
6
5
9
3
13
9
8
8
6
6
8
10
12
12
12
13
11
15
13
10
13
14
17
L
1
2
6
7
7
7
6
7
11
9
9
8
12
6
9
10
11
13
15
14
32
28
27
32
25
26
18
19
30
25
19
24
GF
55
39
26
33
36
37
29
29
25
30
31
24
23
29
26
23
22
24
17
19
34
33
36
35
31
40
34
39
38
38
44
55
GA Pts
16 55
17 50
14 44
22 41
26 39
30 37
29 36
25 34
25 33
35 33
30 32
31 30
30 30
29 28
28 27
27 26
39 23
37 21
46 15
41 14
French League Cup
Tuesday’s Last 16
Cannes 1, Montpellier 0; after extra-time;
Angers 4, CA Bastia 2; aet; Lille 3, Caen 3; aet;
Lille wins 6-5 on penalties.
German Cup
Tuesday’s Quarterfinal
Eintract Frankfurt 0, Borussia Dortmund 1.
Italian Cup
Tuesday’s Semifinal Second Leg
Fiorentina 2, Udinese 0; Fiorentina advances
3-2 on aggregate.
Spanish Copa del Rey
Tuesday’s Semifinal Second Leg
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28
28
27
27
26
26
25
24
24
22
20
Atletico Madrid 0, Real Madrid 2; Real
advances 5-0 on aggregate.
TENNIS
ATP-ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament
(Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Tuesday’s Results
Singles First Round
Igor Sijsling, Netherlands, def. Mikhail Youzhny (7), Russia, 6-2, 6-2; Grigor Dimitrov (8),
Bulgaria, def. Dmitry Tursunov, Russia, 6-2,
1-6, 6-4; Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, def. Denis
Istomin, Uzbekistan, 6-4, 7-6 (4); Marin Cilic,
Croatia, def. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic,
6-2, 6-2; Jerzy Janowicz, Poland, def. Julien
Benneteau, France, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles
Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, and Andreas
Seppi, Italy, def. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Marcelo Melo (1), Brazil, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 10-6; Johan
Brunstrom, Sweden, and Jarkko Nieminen,
Finland, def. Rohan Bopanna, India, and AisamUl-Haq Qureshi (4), Pakistan, 7-6 (4), 2-6,
11-9; Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Horia
Tecau, Romania, def. Michael Berrer, Germany,
and Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-7 (6),
10-5; Julian Knowle, Austria, and John Peers,
Australia, def. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany,
and Florian Mayer, Germany, 6-3, 3-6, 10-7.
ATP-Copa Claro (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Tuesday’s Singles First Round
David Ferrer (1), Spain, def. Maximo Gonzalez,
Argentina, 7-6 (7), 6-4; Fabio Fognini (2), Italy,
def. Julian Reister, Germany, 7-5, 6-2; Robin
Haase (6), Netherlands, def. Martin Alund,
Argentina, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3; Albert Ramos,
Spain, def. Juan Monaco (7), Argentina,
6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2; Filippo Volandri, Italy, def.
Christian Garin, Chile, 5-7, 6-0, 6-3; Leonardo
Mayer, Argentina, def. Facundo Arguello, Argentina, 6-3, 6-4; Santiago Giraldo, Colombia,
def. Albert Montanes, Spain, 7-6 (4), 6-2.
ATP-US National Indoor Tennis
Championships (Memphis, Tennessee)
Tuesday’s Results
Singles First Round
Alex Bogomolov Jr, Russia, def. Sam Querrey (6),
United States, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7); Mikhail Kukushkin (8), Kazakhstan, def. Teymuraz Gabashvili,
Russia, 7-6 (9), 7-5; Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus,
def. Rajeev Ram, US, 6-3, 6-4; Alex Kuznetsov,
US, def. David Goffin, Belgium, 6-4, 6-3; Ivo
Karlovic, Croatia, def. Matthew Ebden, Australia,
7-5, 6-4; Benjamin Becker, Germany, def. Lukas
Lacko, Slovakia, 6-3, 6-2; Jack Sock, US, def.
Adrian Mannarino, France, 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (5); Ryan
Harrison, US, def. Bjorn Phau, Germany, 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles
Frantisek Cermak, Czech Republic, and Mikhail
Elgin, Russia, def. Samuel Groth, Australia,
and Max Mirnyi (4), Belarus, 6-2, 7-6 (4);
Chris Guccione, Australia, and Lleyton Hewitt,
Australia, def. Tomasz Bednarek, Poland, and
Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 10-7.
WTA-Qatar Total Open 2014 (Doha)
Tuesday’s Results
Singles First Round
Ana Ivanovic (9), Serbia, def. Daniela Hantuchova,
Slovakia, 7-5, 1-0, retired; Alisa Kleybanova,
Russia, def. Dominika Cibulkova (10), Slovakia,
5-5, retired; Samantha Stosur (12), Australia,
def. Marina Erakovic, New Zealand, 6-4, 6-2;
Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, def.
Eugenie Bouchard (15), Canada, 7-5, 6-1; Lucie
Safarova, Czech Republic, def. Kirsten Flipkens
(16), Belgium, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; Zhang Shuai, China,
def. Maryna Zanevska, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-2; Mirjana
Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, def. Yvonne Meusburger,
Austria, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Sorana Cirstea, Romania,
def. Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, 2-6, 6-1, 7-5;
Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, def. Cagla
Buyukakcay, Turkey, 6-3, 6-3; Monica Niculescu,
Romania, def. Fatma al-Nabhani, Oman, 6-1, 6-0;
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, def. Tadeja
Majeric, Slovenia, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3; Kaia Kanepi,
Estonia, def. Varvara Lepchenko, US, 6-3, 6-4;
Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, def. Francesca
Schiavone, Italy, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (3); Jana Cepelova,
Slovakia, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, 6-4,
7-6 (5); Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, def. Alize
Cornet, France, 7-6 (6), 7-5; Karin Knapp, Italy,
def. Caroline Garcia, France, 6-4, 6-1; Klara
Zakopalova, Czech Republic, def. Elina Svitolina,
Ukraine, 6-2, 6-4; Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium,
def. Andrea Petkovic, Germany, 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles
Raquel Kops-Jones, US, and Abigail Spears (6),
US, def. Mona Barthel, Germany, and Megan
Moulton-Levy, US, 6-4, 7-6 (5); Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, and Nadia Petrova (7), Russia, def. Yuliya Beygelzimer, Ukraine, and Olga
Savchuk, Ukraine, 3-6, 6-4, 10-5; Lisa Raymond,
US, and Zhang Shuai, China, def. Janette Husarova, Slovakia, and Alicja Rosolska, Poland, 6-2,
6-4; Chan Hao-ching, Chinese Taipei, and Liezel
Huber, US, def. Sandra Klemenschits, Austria,
and Ioana Raluca Olaru, Romania, 6-2, 6-3.
SPORTS A15
Mourinho rues lack of killer instinct
BRIEF NEWS
SOCCER
CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho lamented his side’s failure to
kill the game off as it was held
1-1 at West Bromwich Albion on
Tuesday and missed the chance
to go four points clear at the top
of the English Premier League.
Chelsea, which had won nine
of its last 11 games in all competitions, was expected to make
light work of a Baggies side languishing in the bottom three.
The league leader looked in
control until the closing moments but it was its inability to
handle the late pressure which
frustrated Mourinho.
“In the last 20 minutes they
put us under pressure and they
scored a goal as a consequence.
Maybe they deserved that point.
A point is a point and at the end
of the season we will see,” he told
the BBC after his side moved on
to 57 points. “I think the game
for 60 minutes was completely in
our hands, West Brom didn’t put
one foot in our box. We couldn’t
kill the game.”
The 51-year-old Portuguese
has consistently played down
Chelsea’s title credentials, labelling it a ‘little horse’ in the
race with second-placed Arsenal, which is two points behind,
and Manchester City, which is a
further point back in third.
“I was feeling that the only
thing we could do is defend well.
We were not strong enough to get
out in the last 10 minutes. The
game doesn’t end until the last
whistle,” he added.
Chelsea defenders exploited
slack opposition defending to
put the visitors in front, with
Branislav Ivanovic turning the
ball into the net on the stroke
of half time after David Luiz
flicked on William’s corner.
But Chelsea’s defense left Victor Anichebe in too much space
to meet Saido Berahino’s cross in
the 87th and head the leveler.
(Agencies)
Guangzhou players’
cash bonus slashed
Ma Yue
GUANGZHOU Evergrande will
cut cash bonus for its players
by half next season as it tries to
adopt a healthy and sustainable
development mode.
In the bonus system announced by the club for the 2014
season for both domestic and
Asian leagues, cash bonus for
winning every Chinese Super
League match has been cut to
1 million yuan (US$165,000)
from 3 million yuan last year.
The players can earn 3 million
yuan for winning a match in the
AFC Champions League, while
the bonus was as high as 6 million yuan last year.
A “rookie bonus” system will
also be set up for the new season,
as extra cash will be awarded to
the team after a victory in which
players younger than 21 years
old are sent onto the pitch.
After a successful season in
which it won its first AFC Champions League crown and a third
successive CSL title in 2013, the
real estate enterprise backed
club is seeking a long-term developing mode.
“The new bonus system will
ensure the club’s achievements
in the new season while we explore a profitable management
mode,” a club official explained
on Tuesday.
The club has set a target of
defending both titles in the
2014 season, and will put more
emphasis on the cultivation of
local young talents.
“We have adjusted our bonus
system according to the club’s
needs and development strategy,” said the club official.
Diamanti signs up
Guangzhou Evergrande
has signed a three-year
contract with Italy midfielder
Alessandro Diamanti, 30,
who moved from Serie A
side Bologna on a 6.9 million euro (US$9.37 million)
transfer.
Along with Brazil midfielder Rene dos Santos Junior,
who joined at the end of last
year, Evergrande is heading
to Spain for training to get
ready for the 2014 season
which kicks off on March 8.
“(Club owner and Evergrande
Real Estate Group president)
Xu Jiayin hopes that the rookie
bonus system will encourage
the team to use more young
players. He won’t interfere with
the head coach’s personnel
strategies, though he expects
to see more young faces on the
pitch this season.”
Led by veteran Italian coach
Marcello Lippi, Evergrande
clinched the 2013 CSL title with
four matches to spare. Despite
the bonus adjustment, the club
remains one of the richest
thanks to its owner’s support.
The tea m pocketed 250
million yuan bonus from its benevolent investor for its superb
performances on both home
and international stages — 69
million yuan from the CSL; 157
million yuan from AFC Champions League matches and 24
million for reaching the final of
CFA Cup and the quarterfinals
of the FIFA Club World Cup.
NINTH-SEEDED Ana Ivanovic of
Serbia advanced to the second
round of the Qatar Open on
Tuesday after Slovakia’s Daniela
Hantuchova retired from their
match with a right knee injury.
Ivanovic was leading 7-5, 1-0
when Hantuchova withdrew
after falling 0-40 behind in the
second game.
The match started slowly for
Ivanovic, who surrendered her
first two serves as Hantuchova
took a 5-3 lead. But Ivanovic
won the next four games to secure the set, winning the ninth
game at love with her final three
serves being aces.
“She started really well, and
I managed to get back into the
set and break her back,” Ivanovic
said. “I played some really good
tennis towards the end of the first
set and then in the second.”
RIGHT-HANDED pitcher Roy
Oswalt is retiring after 13
major league seasons.
Oswalt’s agent, Bob Garber,
confirmed Oswalt’s retirement on Tuesday and said
the pitcher would come to
work for his agency. Oswalt,
36, had a 163-102 career record with a 3.36 ERA. His
best season came with the
Houston Astros in 2004,
when he went 20-10 with a
3.49 ERA. The durable righty
— a three-time All-Star and
2006 National League championship series MVP — went
over 200 innings seven times
in his career but dealt with
injuries in recent years. He
was 0-6 with an 8.63 ERA in
nine outings and six starts
for Colorado last year. He
signed a minor league deal
with the Rockies in May
2013 and missed time with a
strained left hamstring.
Pietersen deal
Real into Copa final
Atletico Madrid’s Tobias Albertine Maurits Alderweireld (right)
fights for the ball with Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo during
their Copa del Rey semifinal second leg at the Vicente Calderon
in Madrid on Tuesday. Ronaldo, who was hit on the head by a
cigarette lighter at halftime, scored two penalties as Real won
2-0 on the night to advance 5-0 on aggregate. It will play either
arch-rival Barcelona or Real Sociedad in the final. — Reuters
Ivanovic advances as Hantuchova retires
TENNIS
Oswalt retires
after 13 seasons
Wildcard entrant Alisa Kleybanova of Russia also advanced
after her opponent retired.
At 5-5 in the first set, 10thseeded Dominika Cibulkova of
Slovakia, the Australian Open
finalist, retired from the match
with a gastrointestinal illness.
Karin Knapp, who led Italy to
a 3-1 Fed Cup victory over the
United States in Cleveland at the
weekend, was told she had to
be in Doha to play a first round
match on Tuesday.
Knapp started her journey
early on Monday morning and
after going from Cleveland to
Washington DC, and then to
Dubai, she landed in Doha on
Tuesday in time to play her afternoon match.
Knapp played impressive tennis to defeat Caroline Garcia of
France 6-4, 6-1 straight off the
plane.
(AP)
ENGLAND may have jettisoned Kevin Pietersen but the
maverick batsman’s hard-hitting ability fetched him the
highest bid among foreign
players at yesterday’s Indian
Premier League auction. Pietersen, available for the entire
duration of the cash-rich IPL
after being shunned by England, was picked up by Delhi,
the franchise he played for
last year, for 90 million Indian rupees (US$1.45 million)
after an intense bidding war.
The Chennai, Hyderabad
and Punjab franchises bid
heavily for the 33-year-old,
whose base price was 20 million Indian rupees, but Delhi
bagged his services after
using their right to match the
highest bid. India’s Yuvraj
Singh drew the highest bid
of 140 million Indian rupees
in the morning session of the
auction and was bought by
the Vijay Mallya-owned Bangalore franchise.
Cyclist dies
SOUTH Africa’s Olympic
committee says a top cyclist
hoping to compete at the
Commonwealth Games has
died after crashing at a track
meet. SASCOC says Jeanne
Nel, a former national sprint,
time trial and Keirin champion, died after the crash at
a velodrome in Bellville near
Cape Town on Tuesday. It
said yesterday that Nel was
a member of the South African men’s sprint team trying
to qualify for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow,
Scotland, in July-August.
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kill the game off as it is held 1-1
at West Bromwich Albion and
misses the chance to go four
points clear at the top. A14
A16
Drama in mountains with first downhill tie
WINTER OLYMPICS
IN a finish a Hollywood scriptwriter would struggle to match,
the women’s downhill at Russia’s
Winter Olympics produced a tie
for gold for the first time yesterday, in a thrilling start to the
fifth full day of competition.
Despite clear skies and mild
temperatures, complaints about
slushy snow conditions in the
Caucasus mountains melted
away, while on the Black Sea
coast excitement grew with the
first puck set to drop in the
men’s ice hockey competition.
History was made when Switzerland’s Dominique Gisin and
Tina Maze of Slovenia shared
the women’s Olympic Alpine
skiing downhill gold medal
after clocking exactly the same
time down the gleaming Rosa
Khutor descent.
“It’s better to be two on top
than one to be 1/100th behind.
Two happy faces,” said Maze,
Slovenia’s first Winter Games
gold medalist. Few had given
much of a chance to 28-yearold Gisin, a pilot in the Swiss
Air Force.
“I have had a lot of injuries in
my life, I had nine knee surgeries. I was close to the podium
a lot. I never medaled on a big
event, so what comes around,
goes around,” she said.
The pair sped down the Rosa
Khutor course in 1 minute, 41.57
seconds. Lara Gut of Switzerland was 0.10 behind in third.
Alpine skiers have shared
medals before at the Olympics,
but never gold.
It was the second time in two
days that women athletes set a
precedent at the Olympics.
On Tuesday night, women ski
jumpers finally had the chance
to prove their mettle, 90 years
after the first men competed at
a Winter Games and following a
long battle for inclusion.
Added to the shock failure of
United States snowboard king
Shaun White to win a medal in
the halfpipe on Tuesday, sport
has grabbed the attention of the
Medals Table
Country
G
S
B
T
Germany
5
1
0
6
Norway
4
3
5
12
Canada
4
3
2
9
Netherlands
3
2
3
8
US
2
1
4
7
Russia
1
3
3
7
Top: Tina Maze skis during the women’s Alpine skiing downhill at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center
during the Sochi Winter Olympics yesterday. The Slovenian shared the gold with Swiss Dominique
Gisin (inset). Above left: China’s Cai Xuetong competes during the women’s snowboard halfpipe
qualification round. She was among the 12 athletes who qualified for the semifinals. Above right:
Germany’s Eric Frenzel won the Nordic combined individual normal hill 10-km event. — AFP/Reuters
China’s skip Wang Bingyu
delivers a stone as teammates
Zhou Yan (left) and Yue
Qingshuang (right) sweep
ahead of it during their
women’s curling round-robin
game against the United States
at the Ice Cube Curling Center
yesterday. China won 7-4 for
its second victory of the day,
following its earlier 8-4 triumph
over Russia. The women have
only lost to Canada so far while
the Chinese men are unbeaten
after they edged the Swiss 5-4
yesterday. — Reuters
world and pushed a troubled
buildup to the Sochi Games
further into the background.
The more the action and
excitement take hold, the happier Russia will be and later the
host nation could be celebrating
pairs figure skating gold when
world and European champions
Maxim Trankov and Tatiana
her fourth Winter Games — and
China’s Cai Xuetong.
The puck drops for the start of
action in the eagerly anticipated
men’s ice hockey tournament,
in which Czech Republic plays
Sweden and Latvia meets Switzerland in the opening group
games.
(Reuters)
Volosozhar take to the ice.
Russia lingers in seventh
place in the medals table, with
Germany ahead of Norway and
Canada at the top.
German favorite Eric Frenzel
won the Nordic Combined normal hill, landing the longest
jump of the day and then mastering a slushy cross-country
course to beat Japan’s Akito
Watabe by 4.2 seconds. Magnus Krog of Norway earned the
bronze, denying Alessandro Pittin of Italy.
Aust ra l ia n Tora h Bright
defends her snowboarding
halfpipe title against rivals who
include America’s Kelly Clark —
the 2002 winner is appearing at
Takanashi, White fail to shine in Sochi
JAPANESE ski jumper Sara Takanashi
and snowboarding pioneer Shaun White
suffered embarrassing Winter Olympics
flops on Tuesday as both were left without medals after failing dismally to live
up to the runaway hype.
Takanashi, the 17-year-old World Cup
champion and overwhelming favorite to
triumph as women’s ski jumping finally
made its Olympic bow after a gruelling
10-year battle, could only finish fourth
as the form which had seen her take 10
wins in 13 outings this season deserted
her.
She finished on 243 points with jumps
of 100 meters and 98.5 as German Carina
Vogt grabbed gold with a total 247.4
points with jumps of 103 and 97.5.
“It’s amazing, I’m the first woman
(Olympic) champion in ski jumping. I’ve
not won a World Cup round till now.
It’s unbelievable,” said the 22-year-old
German.
Austrian favorite and 2011 world
champion Daniela Iraschko-Stolz was
second with 246.2 points, ahead of
France’s Coline Mattel on 245.2 points.
“I couldn’t jump the way I wanted to
on both attempts,” said Takanashi. “I
came here wanting to do my best. I’m
incredibly disappointed.
“But it’s a good experience being at
the Olympic Games and I’m glad to be
part of it.”
Takanashi wasn’t the only gold medal
favorite finishing off the podium as
America’s Shaun White, the two-time defending halfpipe champion, was fourth
behind Iouri Podladtchikov of Switzerland and Japanese teenagers Ayumu
Hirano and Taku Hiraoka.
White, who had scored 95.75 in topping the heats, hit the lip of the pipe on
his first run in the final and touched
down with his backside on his second,
finishing fourth with a score of 90.25.
Podladtchikov scored 94.75 points
with 15-year-old Hirano second on 93.50
Carina Vogt (left) and
Iouri Podladtchikov
and 18-year-old Hiraoka third on 92.25.
“I am disappointed. I hate the fact that
I nailed it in practice, but it happens. It’s
hard to be consistent,” said White, who
had earlier criticized the conditions at
the Extreme Park site.
“The conditions were pretty tough —
the hard part is not practising but it was
the same for everyone.”
(AFP)
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Valentine’s Day dinner at home
(without parents) is much more
relaxed and intimate than dining
out. Ruby Gao suggests easy,
elegant dishes, takeout and
fancy home chefs.
alentine’s Day is supposed
to be the big night out
for lovers and very good
friends, but the red-letter
day in China is a huge commercial
event for restaurants where privacy
and intimacy may not be on the
menu.
Waits, crowds, lack of space, busy
staff and prying eyes make that candlelit dinner less than the romantic
and cozy event it’s supposed to be.
Then there’s the tab.
“Dining in is more exclusive and
intimate. We choose the food, music,
even tableware. We can also shop
together, creating a sweet memory,”
says Monica Li, who will have a
romantic dinner at home with her
boyfriend tomorrow night.
Newlywed Bamboo Li will also
celebrate at home. Last year’s restaurant dinner was a disaster.
“The price was incredibly high,
while the food was disappointing and the restaurant was fully
booked, crowded and noisy,” she
says. “There was no romance at all.”
A Valentine’s dinner set menu in
Shanghai ranges from 500 to 2,000
yuan (US$82-330) per person.
Of course, young people who live
with their parents or parents-in-law
usually prefer to go out.
“I can’t have any privacy since I
live with in-laws,” says newlywed
Jasmine Zhao, among many married
young people who choose to save
money by living with parents.
“Dining at home lacks privacy,
while a restaurant evening takes
the edge off nervousness in a new
relationship,” says Amanda Li who
plans dinner tomorrow night with
her new boyfriend in a restaurant.
If the relationship becomes long
lasting, she would prefer a more
relaxed Valentine’s dinner at home.
Preparing an elegant dinner at
home is difficult for busy young
people who seldom cook, but food
delivery, simple dishes and even
hiring a chef can make dining at
home a pleasure.
Shanghai Daily presents home
dining options.
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Order in tapas or gold
dust swirls in soup
From P1
Quick and easy
Not all foods are suitable for delivery,
especially when plating, presentation
and serving temperature are important. Avoid soup that can be spilled.
Foods that needn’t be served at a
precise temperature are best, such as
tapas, sushi, sashimi, pizza, salad and
cakes.
Many expats choose Sherpas, one of
a few take-out services with English
service. Its website lists around 200
restaurants and their menus, covering
a wide range of cuisines, and promises
delivery in 45 minutes when it’s not a
special day. Valentine’s Day is peak, so
it’s best to order before 6pm.
Cooking yourself shows sincerity,
even if you don’t really know how to
cook. Find ingredients in premium
supermarkets, so the so-called cooking
is actually cutting and serving.
Roast chicken, which can be a main
course, is available in many supermarkets. Heat it for minutes before serving.
Sliced bread spread with a thick layer
of foie gras is a nice way to start. Dice
Parmesan cheese and arrange it with
pieces of sweet melon to make a classical, sweet and savory appetizer. Serve
slices of fresh tomato and mozzarella,
drizzled with garlic and topped with
fresh basil.
Caviar, considered by some people to
be an aphrodisiac, is easy to serve, but
it must be chilled in advance and kept
chilled. Serve on buttered toast with
Champagne.
A plate of biscuits and assorted
cheese, hard, soft and aged, makes
a nice dessert, served with nuts and
honey.
Luxury
For lazy lovers who can’t cook but
want to impress, home chefs can be
hired from hotels. The culinary team
does everything, from preparing dinner to setting a romantic table.
Pasquo King, executive sous chef
at Pudong Shangri-La, East Shanghai,
tailor-makes the dinner.
“Women seek delicate and refined
taste and I suggest seafood, pork, veal
and seasonal pheasant,” says King.
Whimsical touches such as gold dust
swirling through duck consommé and
pop rocks candy with a sorbet course
are recommended.
“Men look for masculine food so dark
meat with rich sauce and powerful
flavors are preferred,” the chef says,
recommending a terrine of foie gras
and black truffle and seared fillet of
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wagyu beef.
A shared dessert, such as a melting
chocolate sphere makes a harmonious
conclusion.
The tab isn’t small. Take Pudong
Shangri-La. It costs at least 20,000 yuan
for a two-person set.
Wine, music, flowers and candles — a
perfect table setting — also create a
romantic mood.
“I choose a nice bottle of wine and
an elegant decanter to complement the
table and make the dinner more entertaining and relaxes,” says Bamboo Li, a
wine lover.
Saint Amour from Beaujolais is
perfect for Valentine’s Day dinner, says
Alvin Gho, an advanced sommelier at
Three on the Bund.
Music critic and writer Shen Qihua recommends Edith Piaf and
Beethoven’s “Romance for Violin and
Orchestra in F Major.”
“Beethoven starts with a dialogue
between violin and orchestra, gentle
and soft, and ends with an ornamented
melody that seems like a beautiful
relationship,” he says.
Roses, red and pink, are usually considered the perfect Valentine’s flower,
but French hydrangeas are recommended by Emily Zhou, chief florist at Park
Hyatt Shanghai.
Valentine’s foods are predominantly
pink and red so pale blue or light
purple hydrangeas build harmonious
color on the table, she says. And they
are easy to arrange.
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Pasquo King,
executive sous
chef at Pudong
Shangri-La,
East Shanghai
French cuisine, luxury, personal
service
Tel: 2828-6888 (Usually reservation three
days in advance is required, but urgent
booking can be managed too.)
Cost: At least 20,000 yuan
Le Royal Meridian
French and Italian cuisine
Tel: 3318-9999 ext 8036 (Booking a week
in advance is required.)
Cost: At least 20,000 yuan
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City Shop
Cheese, ham, bread, chocolate, wine
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Home chefs
Pudong Shangri-La, East Shanghai
Valentine’s dessert
City’super
Caviar, foie gras, oyster, Valentine’s
Wild berry cobbler with
vanilla ice cream
Florence Dalia, French
executive chef de cuisine
at New Heights of Three on
the Bund, shares her recipe
for Valentine’s desert that is
pink, sweet, feminine and
balanced.
Ingredients (for two):
Mix berry compote: Strawberries (75g), blueberries
(75g), raspberries (75g),
cooking class, decanters, candles
Address: LG2/F, ifc Mall, 8 Century Ave,
Pudong
Tel: 5012-0998
Ole’
Wine, baguettes, fruits and vegetables,
olive oil, flowers
Address: B1/F, Kerry Parkside, 1378
Huamu Rd, Pudong
sugar (50g), fresh orange
juice (50g), corn starch (5g)
Cookie crumble: Cake flour
(20g), butter (15g), sugar (10g)
2 scoop of vanilla ice ream
Preparations:
1. To make cookie crumble,
mix butter, sugar and cake
flour together like dough.
Break dough into very small
pieces and refrigerate.
2. Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
3. To mix berry compote, cut
strawberries in half, mix with
orange juice, raspberries,
blueberries, sugar in large
sauce pan. Heat until boiling.
Add corn starch and a little
water. Heat until boiling.
4. Remove pan from heat
and pour into a big, deep,
oven-proof plate. Add cookie
crumble on top. Warm in
preheated oven 15 minutes.
5. Add two scoops vanilla
ice cream on top and serve.
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Artistic, exquisite options for Valentine’s
Victoria Fei
F
ew things symbolize love and devotion better than a gift of elegant
chocolates.
This Valentine’s Day also is the day
for celebrating the traditional Chinese
Lantern Festival, which falls on the
15th day of the first month on the
lunar calendar.
Amidst all the romantic celebration,
chocolate is a must-have. With true
passion, lovers and devoted romantics
can turn to Godiva and French artist
Nathalie Lété for heartfelt inspiration.
Lété’s collection features little notes
of true love. Each bears a French
term — “Amour” (love), “Bisou” (kiss),
“Merci” (thank you) and “Pour Toi” (for
you).
“This adorable quartet was inspired
by Valentine’s irresistible mood of
romance and generosity,” says Philippe
Daue, chef chocolatier for the Pacific
Rim and China at Godiva. “For Chinese lovers, these words can express a
romantic feeling.”
Bisou Matcha Macadamia Chocolat Noir is a smooth matcha green
tea ganache that frolics with a rich,
creamy macadamia paste, complete
with a complex Venezuelan-origin dark
chocolate shell.
Amour Abricot Cérise Chocolat au
Lait is a silky ganache made with fresh
apricot, cherries and Peruvian-origin
chocolate in combination with the richness of Australian macadamia praliné,
Dominican-origin chocolate and rice
crisps. The delightful crunchiness is
completed by a milk chocolate shell.
Nie Xin
Above: Godiva’s heart-shaped, 36piece chocolate gift box
Left: French artist Nathalie Lété
“Valentine’s Day is about appreciating and sharing, as well as generosity
and sweetness,” says Lété. “I envisioned creating a romantic collection
to be treasured and enjoyed by all.”
Offering an extensive collection that
includes new chocolates of desire,
heart-shaped delicacies and an impressive romantic range, Lété’s loveinspired graphics add a collectible,
creative touch to every selection.
Delivered with her own perspective,
this packaging conveys the simple
Valentine’s Day messages of love and
gratitude in a poetic and sentimental
manner.
Born in 1964 to a Chinese father
and German mother, Lété is currently
residing in Paris.
After studying fashion design and
lithography in Paris, she ventured into
broader fields of art.
Lété is known for her original works
that are always colorful, naive and
poetic. Inspired by her travels, vintage
toys, old engravings and folk art, the
artist crafts her creativity through
her beautiful illustrations, ceramics,
textiles, graphics and paintings.
The inspiration she draws from her
fondness for flowers and animals is
the perfect touch for the message of
love and gratitude.
Lété also designed gift boxes for the
collection.
The overall feel generated by the
colorful, delicate lace base connecting
Lété’s hand-sketched hummingbirds,
kittens, butterflies, flowers, hearts,
and other creations of nature, rendered
in a folk art motif, is an expression of
an embracing tenderness.
Chocolate makes heart grow fonder
Qu Zhi
CHOCOLATE, which is identified with
love, makes a great gift for Valentine’s
Day. One legend says a Spanish princess once sent cacao, the seeds that
make raw chocolate, to Louis XIV as an
engagement gift.
Moreover, chocolate contains theobromine and caffeine, which stimulate
the nervous system and increase blood
pressure and heart rate, just the reactions the body has when a person is in
love. Chocolate also can release endorphins, the neurotransmitters that make
people happy.
Shanghai Daily picks some chocolates
that feature different flavors from City
Shop and city’super.
1 Thorntons Premium Collection
Origin: United Kingdom
Price: 125.8 yuan/359g
Description: This sumptuous collection includes a selection of truffles,
pralines and mousses covered in milk,
dark and white chocolate. Thorntons
uses fine ingredients from all over the
world — from West African cocoa beans
to California almonds.
2 Nestle After Eight Chocolate
Peppermint Filling
Origin: Germany
Price: 45 yuan/200g
Romantic play
opens on the
day of love
Description: Nestle After Eight is
known as a fine brand of chocolates
with mint flavor, made with an enticing combination of 100 percent natural peppermint covered in rich dark
chocolate.
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3 Hachez Cocoa Orange Chocolate
Origin: Germany
Description: Established in 1890, Hachez is devoted to producing exclusive,
cocoa-rich chocolate specialties of high
quality. This cocoa orange chocolate is
delicious, with a mild taste.
4 Fedora Miniature Bars Milk
Origin: Germany
Description: These classic whole milk
chocolate bars with 37 percent cocoa
have a rich flavor and are individually
wrapped.
5 Royce’s Nama Chocolate
Champagne
Origin: Japan
Price: 135 yuan/190g
Description: Nama chocolate refers to
raw chocolate in Japanese, also known
as raw organic cacao, which essentially
is made of cold-pressed cacao beans.
Combined with Champagne Pierre
Mignon, this selection has a fruity fragrance and a rich, smooth flavor.
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ON Valentine’s Day tomorrow,
Shanghai’s longest-running
English-language amateur theater
troupe, East West Theatre, will
present a romantic comedy, “Almost, Maine.”
Nine entanglements of the
heart will merge in this romantic
comedy of love and loss. A search
for love unfolds under the magic
of the Northern Lights on one cold
February night.
“Almost, Maine,” written by
American actor and playwright
John Cariani, premiered offBroadway in 2004. The play is
about people who are normally
very grounded, but who have
become excited by love and other
extraordinary occurrences.
In nine interrelated vignettes,
set simultaneously on one night,
audiences are presented with
both the joys and the perils of
romance.
Rather than a real town, Almost,
Maine is a mythical composite of
several northern Maine towns.
Were it to exist, Almost, would be
found in the heart of Aroostook
County, the sparsely populated,
northernmost county in Maine.
The people of Almost are ordinary people — they work hard.
They are dignified, honest and
true. They are not glib, but they
are also not stupid.
They just take their time to wonder about things.
The plot of each scene in the
play climaxes with a magical moment, happening simultaneously,
as the clock strikes 9pm, under
an appearance of the Northern
Lights.
East West Theatre has produced
21 critically acclaimed shows
since 2006 ranging from family
favorites like “A Christmas Carol”
to Shakespearean classics such as
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,”
to contemporary classics such as
“The Memory of Water” by Shelagh
Stephenson, and even including
original writing like “Exit 2nd
Banana” by David Foote and Ross
MacLeod.
A Valentine’s Day special is offered. Get two tickets for just 200
yuan on Valentine's Day opening
night as part of a special offer
available to the first 30 patrons
who e-mail to east.west.info@
gmail.com with “Almost, Maine
for Valentine’s Day” in the subject
line.
The theater also will offer two
free tickets for any night to a
lucky reader of Shanghai Daily.
They can e-mail to east.west.info@
gmail.com with the title “Jeezum
Crow” to be in the running for a
pair of tickets.
Date: February 14-16, 20-23, 8pm
Venue: Strictly Designers United, Bldg
A, 55 Fuxing Rd E.
Tickets: 150 yuan (presale), 180 yuan
(at door)
For reservations and further information,
contact East West Theatre at east.west.
[email protected], call 1820-2164-553, or
visit www.eastwesttheatre.com.
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Passionate wines’ love chemicals
stir Valentine’s romance
John H. Isacs
V
alentine’s is a stressful day. The
contrived commercialism and
oft-unrealistic expectations of
romance as often lead to abject misery
as they do to blissful love. How many
modern-day revelers of this celebration even know its origins?
Historically Valentine’s Day celebrates both fertility and the trials
and tribulations of ancient lovers. In
ancient Rome the Lupercalia festival of
fertility was held in mid-February.
With the advent of Christianity, the
church sought to replace this pagan
festival that was replete with animal
sacrifice and overt sexual displays
with a more sedate Christian observance. In the 5th century, Pope
Gelasius proclaimed February 14 as
Valentine’s Day. But who was this legendary saint of love?
The Catholic church recognizes
three saints by the Roman name
Valentinus or Valentine in modern
English. How he actually became the
patron saint of lovers is somewhat
murky, but two tales may hold the
answer.
The first claims Valentine was an
early priest who defied the ban on
marriage by Emperor Claudius II who
believed that single men made better
soldiers for his legions. In this tale
Valentine was put to death for secretly
marrying lovers.
A second popular account of the
origin of Valentine claims he was
imprisoned for helping persecuted
Christians escape tyrannical Roman
overlords. In prison he fell in love with
his jailor’s daughter and just before
he was executed he wrote her a note
signed, “From your Valentine.”
We may not know the definitive
origin of Valentine’s Day, but we know
it’s traditionally a day to honor true
lovers throughout history. So amid the
crass commercialism of the modern
Valentine’s Day, how can we truly be
romantic?
Being romantic
The obligatory nature of being
romantic on Valentine’s Day actually
makes real romance more difficult.
The days of just buying a box of chocolate and a dinner at an overcrowded
restaurant are long gone.
To truly be romantic in 21st century
Shanghai takes creativity, effort and
communication. Thank god, or rather
thank Valentine, that the true art of
wining and dining provides several
solutions.
As I have written in the past, the relationship between wine and romance
is not purely fanciful, there’s actual
science behind it.
In the book “Scents and Sensuality,”
author Dr Max Lake explains how wine
aromas replicate human pheromones
that help stimulate feelings of attraction in the brain. He further notes that
the earthy, leathery and musky scent
of oak-aged red wines most closely
resemble male pheromones while the
lighter, fresher and subtly yeasty notes
of white and sparkling wines resemble
female pheromones.
Because other scientists concur with
Dr Lake’s finding it’s probably a good
idea to have both white and red wines
to ensure both genders are equally
aroused.
While wine doesn’t actually warm
your body temperate, the alcohol
causes blood vessels to dilate and
move blood flow to the surface, giving
sensations of warmth.
In addition to aromatic stimulation
and sensations of warmth, wine also
provides a healthy dose of antioxidants that benefit your health. A sick
date is hardly romantic. Finally, the
effect of lowering of inhibitions can
also increase the probability of a truly
romantic evening.
Aphrodisiac foods
Wine shouldn’t be the only facilitator in successful romancing, the right
foods can also do wonders. This isn’t
as easy as you think because most
Western restaurants in Shanghai and
elsewhere only offer uninspired Valentine’s Day set menus designed with the
lowest common denominator of diners
in mind.
Insipid menus intended to accommodate overworked kitchens and
service staff aren’t romantic. In fact,
many food and beverage professionals
derogatorily refer to Valentine’s Day
as amateurs’ night out as the serious
gourmets find other venues to satiate
their palates.
Regardless, most readers will dine
out so it’s best to find restaurants
that have dishes with ingredients that
will embellish, not dampen romantic
tendencies.
High on this list are oysters, lobster,
asparagus, almonds, vanilla, honey
and of course chocolate. All have
historically been considered aphrodisiacs that not only taste great but also
heighten physical arousal.
Intimate gestures can also help
turn a common meal into something
special. As the evening enters its final
moments and the last sweet morsels
of fruit, cookies or chocolate adorn
the table, use your hand to feed your
partner select piecess of their favorite
foods.
This physical intimacy, along with
the gentle inebriating effects of fine
wine, will surely amplify romantic
tendencies.
Passionate wines
Wines, like good lovers, communicate something special. They are not
merely a product; rather they reflect
history, culture or a special human
narrative. Therefore, I suggest the
wine you pick this Valentine’s Day be
one that somehow conveys a meaningful and romantic story.
As you savor these delightful wines,
look deeply into your lover’s eyes and
enlighten him or her with the compelling and emotional tales of these
wines. Not only will your lover revel
in the tale, but the wine will actually
taste better.
Pick wines from Veneto, Italy,
because they come from the same
place as Romeo and Juliet, two of the
world’s most famous lovers.
Prosecco sparkling wines are the
perfect start to your dinner as they
pair well with oysters and other seafood, and bubbles are always emotionally uplifting.
Then move on to a big and sensual
Amarone red wine.
Made with semi-dried Corvina
grapes with some Rondinella and
Molinara blended in, these are some
of Italy’s best red wines with super
ripe, slightly sweet cherry and plum
flavors and velvety tannins.
Another option is to show your
lover that you love her or him over all
other processions by serving Chateau
Calon Segur, a third growth from
Saint Estephe in Bordeaux.
Not only is this a superb, typically
hearty Saint Estephe red wine, but it
also has a great story.
In the early to mid-18th century, a
noble gentleman named Nicolas Alexander, Marquis de Segur, was fortunate enough to own three of the most
famous Pauillac chateaux, namely
Lafite, Latour and Mouton.
Despite possessing these most
august of chateaux, Nicolas Alexander
proclaimed, “My heart is with Segur,”
so to this day a big heart adorns every
label of Chateau Calon Segur.
And if your date doesn’t appreciate the sublime dark fruit and rich
tannins of this third-growth wine, he
or she will certainly appreciate the
label and story. Just remember to say
that just like Calon Segur, you prize
your lover more than the world’s most
famous wines.
John H. Isacs
Isacs is the founder and CEO of EnjoyGourmet, a leading gourmet
digital (www.enjoygourmet.com.cn) and print media company in
China. He has authored over a dozen wine and food books including
the awarded ISACS Guides and other gourmet books and is a wine
consultant to governments, wine regions and organizations. He also
hosts wine events for leading organizations and companies throughout
China. Contact John via [email protected].
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Challenges, rewards great
for cross-culture couples
Xu Wenwen
I
t’s not uncommon to see couples
composed of a Chinese person and
a Westerner. But while attraction
can be found in curiosity and exotic
charm, it also can be put off by cultural differences.
Do different cultural backgrounds
and childhood environments among
couples create psychological distance,
or does it add magnetism to the relationship? With Valentine’s Day coming
up tomorrow, Shanghai Daily interviewed some Asian-Western couples to
see what they had to say.
“It all depends on the couples’
characteristics and compatibility,” said
Miao Yiqing, a doctoral candidate in
clinical psychology at Chestnut Hill
College in Philadelphia in the United
States, whose dissertation is about
interracial relationships.
Miao, born in Hangzhou, calls herself an “international dater.” She now
is dating an American man.
Her dissertation involves a qualitative study of 20 couples composed
of Asian women and Caucasian men,
which is the type of relationship she
is involved in. She said Asian women
become involved with Caucasian men
three times more often than with men
of other Western ethnic groups.
Miao said she has found two essential points for the quality of a
cross-cultural relationship. First, the
partners should be open-minded about
their partner’s background, be curious
about it and learn about it. Second,
they should be respectful about their
partner’s needs regarding his or her
culture.
Miao, who dated an English man
for eight years, said the relationship
lasted a long time because “we were
both open-minded people who loved to
try new things, and fascinated by each
other’s culture.”
Another Chinese woman, Li Mengxi,
agreed on the need for compatibility.
“To have a cross-cultural marriage is
actually more difficult than to maintain an ordinary marriage,” she said.
Li married husband Rodolphe Touca,
from France, last year. They work and
live in Hangzhou. “The cultural differences require more patience and compatibility from the couple,” she said,
adding that their romance is anchored
by mutual understanding.
Different backgrounds also can be a
big attraction.
“The cultural differences actually are an advantage that makes us
unique in each other’s eyes, and drives
both of us to learn,” said Xu Sujuan,
whose boyfriend, Julien Chhengis, is
French. “By learning, I mean to learn
the good values of foreign culture, so
as to make us better people.”
Communication is an important key
to solve problems and to understand
each other in any relationship, but “in
an international relationship, communication is more than important, it’s
essential!” said Jessica Dearing from
Minnesota in the United States.
Dearing just got engaged to Chinese
man, Xue Yan, who is from Xi’an city
in central China. They now work and
live in Hangzhou.
They’ve been together for almost
two years and differences in customs
and cultural shocks ranged from their
respective preferences for “drinking
hot water or cold water” to the realization that “marrying a Chinese man
is like marrying him and his family
together.” Also, Dearing noticed a big
difference that required adaptation:
Chinese men speak less to their partners, while American women need to
“talk things out.”
“This was the cause of many fights
at the beginning,” she confessed. But
as they learned more about each other,
they arrived at a balance through the
man learning that he needed to express himself better, while the woman
learned to give the man more time to
think in silence.
Eventually, love conquered all the
difficulties since the two know “in
our hearts that we don’t want anyone
else,” and “whatever the future has
in store for us, I know we will cross
those bridges when we get to them,
together.” She also gradually has been
accepted as “the daughter” of the
Chinese family.
‘My Chinese Love Story’
To celebrate tomorrow’s Valentine’s Day,
Hangzhou has been working with The New
York Times to promote the “My Chinese
Love Story” campaign to let people express
their feelings to their loved one. Participants
can create an e-card with a “Dreamlike
West Lake” theme to send to the one they
love, or have it placed in a special letter-box
for a random drawing. The luckiest will appear on a full page in The New York Times.
Visit https://www.facebook.com/Hangzhou.
China/app_600979466632798?ref=br_tf
to learn more.
Lantern Festival lasts a week in Hangzhou
Wu Huixin
T
he Lantern Festival’s main event
tomorrow is special because this
year it falls on the same day as
the Western Valentine’s Day. But the
Lantern Festival, also called Yuanxiao
Festival, is special for Hangzhou
locals, who extend the celebration to
seven days to mark a historic event
that avoided a war a millennia ago.
The festival’s main day is celebrated
on the 15th night of the first lunar
month, the first full moon of the
traditional year, marking the end of
Chinese lunar New Year celebrations.
Many famous poets described how
young lovers would meet after nightfall beneath the romantic glow of
lanterns.
The first full moon’s appearance
was considered by Chinese people as
an auspicious astronomical phenomenon. Dating back to the Han Dynasty
(206 BC-AD 220), people began to
celebrate the moon’s appearance with
a series of folk customs. The Yuanxiao Festival includes making paper
lanterns and eating tangyuan (༔ᇶ*,
which are glutinous rice balls traditionally stuffed with sesame paste.
The lanterns are made into animal
shapes with complex patterns and
ornaments. They symbolize good
wishes for the Chinese New Year and a
farewell to the previous year.
Chinese people consider tangyuan
to be symbolic of the holiday’s customary family reunion and believe
eating them can bring good fortune to
families.
Today, the varieties of tangyuan
have expanded and the stuffing may
contain red bean paste, meat, peanut
paste and pulp of the longan fruit.
People also sometimes toast or fry
tangyuan, which makes them crisper.
Hangzhou locals celebrate the
Lantern Festival longer than others,
usually from the 12th to the 18th day.
The longer holiday is attributed to an
ancient king of the Wuyue Kingdom
(today’s Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Fujian
provinces).
During the Northern Song Dynasty
(960-1127), the king voluntarily submitted to the dynasty. This allowed
the imperial court to avoid a war, so
the court awarded Wuyue people a
seven-day Yuanxiao Festival holiday.
On the 12th day, locals would finish making the lanterns, but before
hanging them, take them to Longshen
Temple on Chenghuang Hill to get
divine blessings.
On the 13th day, people would hang
the lanterns from trees and eaves and
light them. In the meantime, women
would start to make tangyuan.
From 15th to 18th day, the Yuanxiao
temple fair was underway. Lines of
glowing and gorgeous lanterns with
riddles written on the sides decorated
streets. People would try to solve the
riddles. It was also an ideal time for
lovers.
Shanghai Daily picks a few Yuanxiao
activities held across Hangzhou this
year to provide a good overview of
Hangzhou natives’ celebrations.
• Handmade Lanterns Show @
Dengxin Lane Community
Date: February 14
Address: 14 Dengxin Rd
• Lantern Festival Traditional Folk
Custom Seminar @ Wulin Street
Community
Date: February 14
Address: 12-1 Zhugan Lane
• Lantern Festival Show and Performance @ Zhuganxiang Community
Date: February 14
Address: 18 Hai’er Lane
• Lantern Riddle Guessing @ Liuying
Community Park
Date: February 13
Address: 109-117 Xinhua Rd
• Tangyuan Making Competition @
Wangma Community Park
Date: February 13-15
Address: 2 Yaoxiangsi Lane
• Yuanxiao Blind Date @ Datieguan
Pailou
Date: February 14
Address: 1 Datieguan Rd
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Periphery brings local fans a metal valentine
Victoria Fei
T
he Maryland-based, Djent-style
metal band Periphery will land
in Shanghai on Valentine’s Day
to give Chinese fans a surprise.
With a heavy, modern and progressive sound that includes soaring melodies, the band will offer chic lovers a
special way to celebrate the occasion
at Q-House of Shanghai Qianshuiwan
Culture and Art Center.
“Only something secret is special.
Come to the show with your loved one
to experience a special Valentine’s
Day,” says Spencer Sotelo, the lead vocal of Periphery.
“Shanghai features a cultural fusion
in its full scale. We will deliver our
most exciting sound wave for all our
fans and look forward to your whole
bodies and souls joining in this live,”
he adds.
Formed by guitarist Misha Mansoor
in 2005, the six-piece band is best
known for their progressive sound
constructed on polyrhythmic patterns.
“We have developed a process of
composing music and we all serve
Periphery’s music,” Sotelo says.
“Everyone has his position and when
one member deviates, we will fix him
right.”
The band’s self-titled, full-length
debut album “Periphery” was released
in 2010 on the label Sumerian Re-
cords. It shocked fans with its use of
the ground-breaking new style called
Djent and opened another chapter in
the history of modern metal music.
Djent is a distinctive high-gain, distorted, palm-muted guitar sound.
The highlight of the debut album
was the 15-minute “Racecar,” which
contains many elements.
In 2012, Periphery released their
sophomore album “Periphery II: This
Time it’s Personal.” They invited Wes
Hauch (The Faceless) and John Petrucci
(Dream Theater) to stop by the studio
to contribute several jaw-dropping
solos. The album reached 44 on the
Billboard 200.
“Periphery II” delivered the same in-
novative brand of engagingly complex
metal as its predecessor, though it’s
presented in an audibly more cohesive
and mature manner.
Drawing influences from iconoclasts like Meshuggah, Dream Theater
and Sikth, the 14 tracks abandoned
conventional song structure, adapting a more linear and lucid cinematic
quality that demands an attentive ear
to cherish.
Date: February 14, 8pm
Venue: Q-House, Shanghai Qianshuiwan
Culture and Art Center, 179 Yichang Rd
Ticket: 220 yuan (pre-sale), 280 yuan (at
door), 500 yuan (VIP)
Tel: 962-388
Big Honor
Hangzhou
Wyndham Grand Plaza Royale, Hangzhou is
awarded by Trip Advisors “Travelers’ Choice.”
Picture shows Chris Dexter (center), vice
president of operations at Wyndham Grand
Plaza Royale Hotels and Resorts and general
manager of Wyndham Grand Plaza Royale
Hangzhou, shares the happy moment with the
management team.
Ningbo
Pierre Barthes,
general manager of
Mandarin Oriental
Pudong, Shanghai,
receives the award
honoring the hotel “one
of the finest four star
properties in the world”
at the Forbes Travel
Guide 2014 Awards.
Richard H’ng,
general manager of
Shangri-La Hotel,
Ningbo, receives
the award “MICE
Hotel Ningbo Star
Performer” granted
by Hurun Report.
Guests from
France
Robert Rippon (right),
general manager
of Sofitel Shanghai
Hyland, welcomes
the La Fondation
Charles-de-Gaulle delegates, including President
Jacques Godfrain (center), who arrive for the 50th
anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic
relation between China and France.
“Cirque Classique” at Cirque Le Soir in Bund 22
Employee
Awarded
A preview event
for XUAN Bar
was held at
Andaz Shanghai,
with more
than 60 media
representatives
invited for the
launch of this
first Andaz bar in
China.
Edison Shao (second from
left), assistant front office
manager of Shanghai Marriott Hotel Pudong East,
has been granted “Outstanding Individual Performance” of working with
Exit-Entry Administration
Bureau of Pudong. Picture
shows General Manager
Michael Seow (second from
right) with him.
Fantastic
Shanghai Trip
“The World’s Best Beer
Trip” global finalist,
Kentucky native Jordan Flinchum (left),
enjoys his Shanghai
trip with a day tour
of the city with the
Kerry Hotel Pudong,
Shanghai’s brew master Leon Mickelson.
New
Appointment
Bechara Sader
Bechara Sader has
been appointed
director of Food and
beverage at Pudong
Shangri-La, East
Shanghai.
Distinguished Guests
Jan Devadder (center), director of legal affairs at
Belgium’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Werner
Claes (right), deputy director of chancery at Belgium’s
Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade
and Development Cooperation, are welcomed by Alex
Wu, executive assistant manager of sales and marketing at The Longemont Shanghai.
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Happy Chinese New Year
Marcel van
Mierlo (right),
general manager
of New World
Shanghai Hotel,
wishes guests and
staff a happy and
prosperous Year of
the Horse.
Jessica Dong
(left), director
of sales and
marketing at
Renaissance
Shanghai
Zhongshan Park
Hotel, attends
a lion dance
performance
to celebrate the
arrival of Year of
the Horse.
Gerd Knaust
(center), general
manager of Hilton
Shanghai, and
Zhang Yu (right),
director of Jing’an
District Tourism
Administration,
dot the eyes of the
lion during the
Chinese New Year
celebration.
Roger Fung
(left), general
manager of
InterContinental
Shanghai Puxi,
and Tony Colella,
vice president of
operations of hotel
management and
development center
at B.M Holding
Group, attend a
Chinese New Year
celebration.
Xiamen
David
Katemopoulos,
general manager
of Le Meridien
Xiamen, dots the
eyes of the lion
during a Chinese
New Year lion
dance show.
Arne
Heuwekemeijer,
general manager of
Radisson Blu Hotel
Shanghai Hong
Quan, joins the
God of Fortune at a
festive celebration
on the Chinese
New Year’s Day.
Gilbert Mennetret (with red scarf), general
manager of Grand Mercure Shanghai Hongqiao,
attends a lion dance performance on the Chinese
New Year’s Day.
Daniel Aylmer, general manager of Le Royal
Méridien Shanghai, enjoys the traditional lion dance.
Sanya
MGM Grand Sanya hosts a festive Chinese New
Year lion dance to greet guests and wish for a
prosperous Year of the Horse.
Julian van den Bogaerde (left), general manager
of the Swissôtel Grand Shanghai, and Yu Liang
(right), chairman of the owning company, share a
festive moment on Chinese New Year’s Day.
Howard Johnson Plaza Shanghai celebrates
Chinese New Year with a lion dance show. Seen
in the picture are Chairman Li Yujian (fifth from
right), General Manager Erik Rufer (fourth from
right) and Deputy General Manager Waven Fan
(seventh from left).
Christophe Lajus (center with red tie), general
manager of InterContinental Shanghai Expo and
area general manager, joins elderly residents from
Nanmatou Senior Citizens’ Home for a Chinese New
Year celebration.
Shanghai
Marriott Hotel City
Centre General
Manager Neeraj
Govil (right) and
hotel owner’s
representative Tony
Zou (left) attend a
festive celebration
on Chinese New
Year’s Day.
General Manager Gottfried Bogensperger
(left) and Executive Assistant Manager of Food &
Beverage Edouard Demptos of Hyatt on the Bund
participate in the Chinese New Year celebration.
General Manager Peter Khong (left) and Deputy
General Manager Wang Guxiang of Sheraton
Shanghai Hongqiao Hotel attend a lion dance show.
The management team of Renaissance Shanghai
Yangtze Hotel visits senior citizens in Hongqiao
area with festive Chinese New Year gift boxes.
General Manager Paul Gill (second from right)
and Deputy General Manager Carrie Fu (center in
yellow) of Renaissance Shanghai Yu Garden Hotel
join associates and the God of Fortune on the
Chinese New Year’s Day.
The management team and staff of Crowne
Plaza Shanghai Fudan, led by General Manager
Robert Shi (left, second row), are all dressed up for
the Chinese New Year party.
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༔ཷईᇮၪ
ฬूୣ!!ፕॆǈெ๋ॆ!
༔ཷ๟ዐࡔ‫ڠ‬௝࿔ࣅ‫ڦ‬মፕǈ௅౎‫ؾ‬ব๟
ፌ๴࣌ᆓ‫ڦ‬Đ‫ॆړ‬ၭิđǈᇦᅪཷཷᇶᇶĂངང௡
௡ă!
౎࠲ॽৎǈॆॆࢽࢽ‫ࣷۼ‬ఉᅃଇߓ຤ఉ‫ݹ‬٪
ጣǈཀ৞૛Ă౬༗੨ǈླྀ็ఉ‫ׇڦ‬ৠ࿒౱ට႐ă၄
ሞຣᄺுᆶኄ߲ှ߾‫ސ‬କǈ‫ڍ‬ᅈ৹ᆶထྭཚࡗ‫׺‬
༔ཷ൱߲ࢇॆཷᇶ‫ڦ‬႐૙Ⴔ൱ǈᇀ๟৽ߋ‫גڟ‬๨
ई༔ཷ‫ی‬ச‫ิۅ‬ಹઠዳጣ‫׺‬ă૗ਸࠤཱིबๆ౎‫ڦ‬
ࣀെĂ࡛ྔࣀටǈ࣮ฉ࡛༑ൕ‫ݡ‬ᆷǈᅜ‫׺‬ᅃྜྷ༔ཷ
ᣡ঴ၕؔăฉ๘ुӗๆ౎‫پ‬ǈ‫ྦྷذ‬Ԉᇗߑ৽๟‫׺‬
କॆၕ੨࿆‫ڦ‬ౢհ༔ཷܸඤ્஢৅‫ڦ‬ă
ฉ࡛Ԩ‫ں‬ටፔ‫ڦ‬༔ཷ‫ํܸٷ‬ǈᆶ‫ك‬඾Ăᔭ֓
း඾Ă۹෭‫ڪ‬೗ዖǈ޷ࡍටॆ࣏ࣷሞ۹෭၈૛े
෇ࢃ༦ඦࢅဇࠩඦǈৃཀሞ೿ԐĂߛൃ‫઻ڪ‬ኔฉ
ईႹ࣏ీ‫ڟ׺‬ăසৃ‫ٷ‬ႜᇀ๨‫ڦ‬ይᆳ࢒ᄝ໌༔ཷ
ഄํ๟ᆯౢհට‫ڟټ‬ฉ࡛ઠ‫ڦ‬ǈౢհ༔ཷሶᅜ‫׭‬
ᑪ௳‫ߓڦ‬ღࠑǄ‫ی‬ዷఁঢॿҮࠑǈᅺྺփ๎ጴǈ
໯ᅜᆩෙᄣ۫ဇፔ‫ی‬ቲǈൽഄၿᅼǅፌྺዸఁă
࿢ᇑ໿໿ඁౢհǈጆ‫ײ‬ඁቴߓღࠑǈ‫ڍ‬๟‫׭ںړ‬
ᑪ௳૛‫๋ڦ‬ਜ਼ߢ໕࿢ǈኄॆ઻ጴࡽӭጽକǈ߀ஜ
஛‫ړ‬હକă࿨ࢬƽߓሖღ‫ݧ‬ǈࠑᄺ᫔ፕࠑ඾आࡒ
କă
ฉ࡛‫׭‬ᑪ௳৵൸ൃՉฉᄺᆶᅃॆౢհ༔ཷ
‫ی‬ǈዐࣀ઻ጴࡽă‫؜ాی‬೗‫ڦ‬ይᆳ࢒ᄝ໌༔ཷ๟
ቲಈኮᅃǈ௞ਧሞᇀǖ჋ᆩฉ‫׉ڪ‬ຄ౶௝ఉ‫ݹ‬ǈም
ᅜۨ‫࢒ڦׂ؜ۅ‬እ஑ĂԊକೄ‫ڦ‬ӱᆳࢅ‫ڦݹׯٶ‬
ӣ෪༛ǈӴཪࢫ᪝‫ׯ‬၈႐ǈᅃኻኻ๮߾‫ׯٮ‬ăዳ
༔ཷ้ǈᆩଇ੨‫ٷ‬ཎࡒǈሞ‫ݮ‬຤૛ዳຄ‫ޝ‬ഐࢫǈ
સ‫ڟ‬ൣ຤૛೏ǈܸٗԍኤೄጱփ೦փયǈྔႚெ
࠵ăൟൟᅃᄯǈၑང‫ڦ‬እ஑၈႐৽࣐࣐ୁ‫؜‬ǈᅃ
ࠣၑ࿆೫Աܸઠăฉ๘ुܾๆ౎‫پ‬ǈఐೌ้‫ڦپ‬
࿀‫ٷ‬ၲ႓ጝ՚ଠઠฉ࡛ǈᆯࡣનߵಥ໱࠾௳ࣷǈ
‫৽้ړ‬೗‫׈‬କౢհ༔ཷăጝ՚ଠᅃ੨ഘ‫׺‬କෙ
ྜྷǈ࣏࿚࢒ᄝ໌၈႐๟සࢆ‫ݣ‬৊௝‫ݹ‬ᇶጱ૛‫ڦ‬Ǜ
ࡣનߵࠤፕห௞‫ں‬ຫǖኄ๟࿢்ዐࡔට‫܀ڦ‬ோ௞
रǈທփ‫ߢތ‬ăጝ՚ଠདକࡘࡘ‫ٷ‬ၲăኄॆౢհ
༔ཷ‫ی‬ೝ้ิᅪ৽༬՚ࡻǈ௅዁ෙবĊĊ۬዁Ă
‫ؾ‬বĂᇮၪǈ‫׺‬༔ཷĂྔச༔ཷ‫ࠥڦ‬ਜ਼༬՚‫ܠ‬ǈ‫ی‬
༗૛फ‫ڥ‬஢੡஢ࠢǈేሞኄ૛‫׺‬༔ཷǈ՚ටራ৽
ཌྷሞేวՉ‫ڪ‬ፗ࿋କăྺକச‫ڟ‬ᅃ࢈༔ཷǈᄲሞ
ࡦ‫ޅ‬ዐಇ‫ܓ‬ᅃ߲‫ܠ‬ၭ้ă
ԛ‫ݛ‬๟ၭ஛࿔ࣅ‫ٷڦ‬Ԩᆐǈ‫ࡗڍ‬ᇮၪব้ᄺ
ࣷፔᇮၪǈփࡗຫํࣆǈᇮၪுᆶౢհ༔ཷ৛ዂǈ
‫׺‬੨ᄺฎსᅃؕă࿢ਥ‫ڥ‬ԛ‫ݛ‬ටԲডભǈ႐ᆼथ
ሮǈ๮ᄺԩጜǈᇮၪ֍੍ླྀࡐܸ‫ׯ‬႙ăᇮၪ໚ୁ
ႜᇀԛ‫ݛ‬ǈ‫ڍ‬ሞฉ࡛ᄺᆶ๨‫ׇ‬ă৹้‫׭‬ᑪ௳৽ᆶ
ࠃᆌǈౢհ༔ཷ‫ی‬ᄺፔࡗăਏ༹֡ፕ๟ኄᄣ‫ڦ‬ǈ
ᆩ࢒ᄝ໌ईӥࡕྺ၈ǈံൎࡻժ‫ٮ‬ᇶǈ‫ݣ‬ሞฺᆶ
౶௝߅‫ڦݹ‬ዱᎎ૛ઠ࣮ླྀ‫ۯ‬ǈ၈႐ቖକ‫ݹ‬ǈሁࡐ
ሁ‫ٷ‬ǈၟࡐდ൰ຼ‫ڦ‬ǈፌࢫ৽‫ׯ‬କᇶጱă࿢ၭ้ࢪ
ሞ‫׭‬ᑪ௳ཡࡥ‫ؾ‬ᆃೌ‫׍‬ோ੨ੂ฾‫்ޱ‬ፔ࿪चӣ
‫ྚލ‬ǈ৽๟ኄ߲ᄣጱ‫ڦ‬ăࢫઠᆩዱᎎፔઠփतࠃ
ᆌǈٓ௽‫ڦ‬฾‫݀৽ޱ‬௽କᅃ߲ആ༬‫߾ڦ‬ਏĊĊ୧
ೄኝቧԊူઠෳ߅ǈ‫ׯފ‬ᅃ߲ᄦጱႚ‫ࡐڦ‬ཤǈଇ
ཀྵॐሞఢॐጱฉǈጎฉᄩդăॽ၈႐ࢅ߅‫ݣݹ‬ᅃ
ഐሞ૛௬‫ࡐ݋‬ǈၳ୲ᆯُ‫ߛ༵ٷٷ‬ă༬՚๟฾‫ޱ‬
‫ړ‬নᄩࡐ‫ۯ݋‬ǈ‫ۯ‬ፕၟԖ‫ך‬௝ࢾǈੲቧܸߴ૰ǈ
टਏ՗ᄇႠǈኄᆼ๟փࢾബ‫ߢ࠽ڦ‬ăኄॲࡻ྘‫ڦ‬
‫ڢ‬ਏ၄ሞቴփ‫ڟ‬କǈຣᄲ๟݀၄న߲ঙ஌૛ᆶ੺
‫ߢۅ‬໕࿢ǈ࿢ᇼᅪ‫ٷ؜‬ॏബசူǈఫ੝ۨ๟ዐࡔ
ᆃ๋࿔ࣅ๏ฉ‫ڦ‬ኆࡍ࿔࿿ƽ
࠲ᇀᇮၪࢅ༔ཷǈ࣏ᆶᅃ߲‫د‬ຫୁ‫د‬዁ৃă
਍ຫ‫౎ړ‬ᇰ๘਻ሞፔକ‫ٷ‬ጺཥࢫၙ‫ڽ࣠ړ‬ǈగන
໱‫ڦ‬ᅔ໿໿ຫᄲ‫׺‬ᇮၪǈࣆᅼ࿄஌ǈᇰ๘਻ᅃ߲
ܺ࠼ขࡗඁǈᅺĐᇮၪđᇑĐᇰၩđၿᅼǈ໿փञ
૧ઞăᇀ๟ᇰ๘਻ူସǈփႹ௷क़ምຫĐᇮၪđǈ
઻ӥႡኻ‫׬߀ڥ‬Đ༔ᇶđă‫ݙ‬क़ᆶ‫ٶ‬ᆳใऻຎُ
๚ǖ
Đใᅿᇶጱ໓മ‫ו‬ǈዳ‫ڟ‬ຄ้຤ฉ೏ăࢡ၊‫ړ‬
౎‫্د‬ସǈᄂনփႹࡨᇮၪăđ!
10-11 iDEAL
ฉ࡛༔ཷ઻࿆‫ڢ‬
ਲ਼ശᆀ
ᄘዒ௽!!ፕॆĂጋਗ਼ॆ
Ӻᒤ‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲ᐗ䙷ĀᛵӪ㢲āˈ
↓ᱟௌк࣐ௌʽߌশ↓ᴸॱӄᱟк
⎧Ӫௌ⅒䖗䰩⥋Ⲵ‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲ˈਲ਼⊔ഒ
ᱟ㿴ᇊࣘ֌ˈ䇠ᗇӾࡽⲴᆙᆀ䘈Պ
᣹⵰‫ݳ‬ᇥ‫ބ‬ᆀ⚟к㺇ˈ᡻䟼޽᤯⵰
ሿሿⲴĀ❠⚛āࡂ⵰സസ⧙ˈॱ䏣
ᔰᗳǄ
ਲ਼⊔ഒⲴᦼ᭵བྷᾲоୀཚᇇᴹ
‫⴨˛ޣ‬Րབྷሶᵾ䶆⦷‫ࠪޥ‬ᖱˈഎᵍ
ਾ᱕㢲ᐢ䗷ˈཚᇇ‫ׯ‬൘к‫ݳ‬㢲ਛ৘
ᐸ⭘㌟㊣‫ڊ‬ᡀഒᆀˈ⣂䍿ሶ༛Ǆ䘉
⿽伏૱ਾӪ〠ѪĀୀ‫ݳ‬āˈਆަᖒ
⣦ശശ┑┑ˈᴹਸᇦഒശѻ᜿Ǆሿ
ᰦ‫ˈى‬ཆၶՊᑖᡁࡠ෾䲽ᓉⲴ⊔ഒ
᩺кਲ਼勌㚹⊔ഒˈ䘉ᱟа⿽к⎧ᵜ
ൠӪௌ⅒Ⲵབྷᖒ⊔ഒˈ૱⿽䘈ᴹ䉶
⋉ǃ㦐㨌勌㚹ǃ㩍ঌэ侵Ⲵˈᡁௌ
⅒ਲ਼૨Ⲵ⊔ഒˈቔަᱟࡊӾ䬵䟼ⴋ
ࡠ䶂⬧⻇䟼┊┊✛Ⲵ勌㚹⊔ഒˈ䖫
䖫а૜ˈа㛑勌≱⎼ࠪᶕˈਫ਼ка
ਓ൘౤䟼ˈણ䚃य㾱ཚྭǄ䛓ᒤཤ
Ⲵ⥚㚹ᖸᯠ勌ˈཆၶ䈤ᱟ㾱勌ᦹⴹ
∋Ⲵੰʽ
ᰗᰦ‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲ˈᱟк⎧Ӫᇦ᱕㢲
䟼ᴰਾањ㢲ⴞˈᇦӪ㚊൘а䎧ˈ
㖾㖾ൠਲ਼ка亯ˈ⎃⋩䎔䞡ણ䚃ྭ
ਲ਼Ⲵ㘱к⎧ሿ㨌ߧⴈǃ✝⛂ǃ⸲䬵
᩶┑‫ޛ‬ԉṼˈаᇦӪਲ਼ਲ਼㘱䞂䇢䘠
⵰ᯠᒤ䟼ਁ⭏ⲴᔰᗳһĂĂཌ㢢ᵖ
㜗ˈ෾䲽ᓉ਴ᔿᖙ⚟┑㺇ᕐᤲˈ㿲
⚟Ӫ⍱ྲ▞⎼ᶕˈ⸣ᓃ䰘ᔴา䟼❠
⚛䖠呓ˈ᱐㓒Ҷ䶂⹆້Ⲵа䀂Ǆ
䇠ᗇᴹаᒤ‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲ˈᡁ⡦ӢӾ
к⎧҄ᇦḵ⛩ᗳᓇⲴ㘱ᐸ‫ڵ‬䛓䟼ᔰ
ਾ䰘ᔴࡠҼᯔĀ᫲⋉ശāˈ仌㢢ᴹ
⛩㍛㓒ˈણ䚃␵⭌ˈᰒᴹ⊔ഒⲴ㖾
ણˈ৸ᴹ䎔䉶Ⲵ㣣俉ˈ‫ޕ‬ਓ䖟㌟ˈ
ྭਲ਼ᶱҶʽӰѸਛĀ᫲⋉ശā઒˛
ᴮੜտ൘ইᐲⲴҍॱ㘱㗱⦻㘱՟
䈤ˈĀᲊ␵ᰦˈк⎧㘱෾޵Ⲵй
⡼ᾬᴹаսᔰ⊔ഒᓇⲴဃ䴧Ⲵ㘱ཚ
ཚˈѪҶᯩ‫ׯ‬ᇒӪᢺ➞⟏Ⲵ⊔ഒᑖ
എᇦ৫ˈྩᜣࠪањ࣎⌅üüᢺ➞
⟏Ⲵ⊔ഒᦎ䎧ˈ൘⊔ഒ㺘䶒┊аቲ
㌟㊣ᒢ㊹ˈਾ৸䈅ࡦҶ਴㊫ᒢ㊹ˈ
㔃᷌ᣅ‫Ⲵ⟏⛂ޕ‬䎔䉶㊹ѝ┊᣼Ⲵ᭸
᷌ᴰ֣ˈ㢢ᖙҏྭⴻˈ⊔ഒⲴཆቲ
㋈┑䎝㓒㢢Ⲵ䉶⋉㊹ˈௌ≄⌻⌻ˈ
䘉ṧⲴ⊔ഒнᑖ⊔≤ˈᖃ❦нᙅ⎨
⛲ˈᩪᑖᯩ‫ˈׯ‬᤯എᇦ䟼ˈ✝Ⲵߧ
Ⲵ䲿‫ׯ‬ਲ਼ˈ᭵〠þ䴧⋉ശÿǄāਾ
ᶕੜ䈤҄ᇦḵⲴĀ䴧⋉ശā᭩䘋ࡦ
֌ᯩᔿˈ㘱ᐸ‫ڵ‬ᢺ䎔䉶㊹⛂ࡦᡀᒢ
⋉ਾˈ޽⭘ॱг⵬ㆋㆋ䗷ˈ֯䉶⋉
㊹ᴤ㓶㞫ਲ਼ਓᴤ㖾ણˈਾᶕᢺĀ䴧
⋉ശā᭩਽ѪĀ᫲⋉ശāǄ⧠൘Ⲵ
к⎧҄ᇦḵ伏ᓌˈ䲔Ҷ‫׋‬ᓄĀ᫲⋉
ശāཆˈ䘈‫׋‬ᓄަԆྭਲ਼Ⲵ‫ݳ‬ᇥ⊔
ഒǄ
1973ᒤ‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲ˈᡁࡠጷ᰾ዋߌ
ᇦ‫ڊ‬ᇒˈਲ਼ࡠߌ≁㠚ᐡ‫Ⲵڊ‬བྷ⊔
ഒˈഋਚⴋ┑аབྷ⻇ˈ侵ᆀ࠶࡛ᱟ
䶂㨌⥚㚹ǃ⋩⑓㩍ঌэǃ㳅䉶䉶
⋉ǃ㓒ᷓᷓ⌕Ǆ䘉ᱟⵏ↓Ⲵጷ᰾Ā
ߌᇦҀā⊔ഒણ䚃ྭਲ਼ᗇˈĀಒᔰ
䈍Ժʽ˄ጷ᰾䈍þ⋑ᴹ䈍䇢஖ʽÿ
Ⲵ᜿ᙍ˅āᰗᰦ‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲ˈк⎧ᵜൠ
Ӫ䜭ௌ⅒㠚ᐡࣘ᡻‫ڊ‬བྷ⊔ഒˈ൘ᇦ
䟼⭘⸣⼘⼘ࠪ⒯㌟㊣㊹ˈ侵ᆀᴹ䉶
⋉ǃ㓟勌㚹ǃ唁⌻䞕ǃ㦐㨌勌㚹ˈ
㩍ঌэㅹˈਲ਼ਓ━ǃ⡭ǃ㌟Ǆ⧠
൘ˈᴹⲴ⸣⼘ᐢ㓿㻛Ӫᣋᔳ൘㘱້
а䀂ˈᡆ㘵㻛Ӫ֌Ѫ≁؇㘱ਔ㪓᭦
㯿஖ʽ
к⎧гᇍਔ䭷кᴹᮠᇦ⊔ഒ
ᓇˈᴰᴹ਽≄ⲴᱟĀгᇍ㘱㺇⊔ഒ
ᓇāˈᓇ䟼伏ᇒ┑าˈᴹ㣍哫ǃ㣡
⭏ǃ勌㚹ǃ䉶⋉ǃᷓ⌕ǃ俉㧷ǃ
ᒢ㫨㦐㨌ǃ㦐㨌勌㚹ǃ䞂䞯ശᆀㅹ
Ր㔏⊔ഒˈ䘈ᴹ㍛㯟ǃᶯṇㅹᯠ૱
⿽Ǆгᇍ勌㚹⊔ഒ䖟㌟䘲ਓˈ䘉ᱟ
ᑨᑨ৫䛓䟼Ⲵ㘱ਲ਼ᇒᴹਓⲶ⻁ⲴǄ
↔ཆˈ䲅㾯े䐟105ਧᴹ⡯1937ᒤ
ᔰࡋⲴ㘱ᓇਛ㖾ᯠ⛩ᗳᓇˈ䛓њ⊔
ശⳞ㮴侵䏣ਲ਼ਓ㓶㞫ǃ䖟㌟━⡭㘼
н㋈Ǆкц㓚50ᒤԓˈк⎧‫ޛ‬ԉẕ
㨌൪䗩ᴹࠐњ㘱к⎧⊔ഒ᩺ˈ‫Ⲵڊ‬
⊔ഒҏн䭉ˈᑨᑨᱟ伏ᇒ⳸䰘ǄӾ
ࡽӁই䐟䘈ᴹᇦу䰘‫ڊ‬䞂䞯ሿശᆀ
᩺ཤˈᖸᴹ㘱к⎧仾ણ⢩㢢ⲴǄ⧠
൘ˈк⎧亪᰼䐟˄䘁ᔪഭь䐟˅ᴹ
䰘䶒⡯ᵍьᔰⲴк⎧Ӫ㠚ᐡ‫⊔ڊ‬
ഒǃ侴侘Ⲵሿᓇˈ㘱Ѯਲ਼ᇒௌ⅒ࡠ
䛓䟼૱ቍˈᡁҏᑨᑨ৫䀓䀓侻ˈ
ਲ਼ᆼਾ䘈ՊᑖӋ⭏Ⲵ⊔ഒǃ侴侘എ
ᇦǄ
ੜ੮৻к⎧Җ⌅ᇦࡈഭᮼ䈤ˈ
Ḁᒤ‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲Ԇ৫ইӜ㾯䐟кⲴ⦻ᇦ
⋉⛩ᗳᓇਲ਼㸩㊹བྷ⊔ഒˈ㿱䛫Ṽᴹ
њ䮯ᗇ‫ۿ‬ᵾ䙥⁑ṧⲴ≹ᆀˈаਓ≄
ਲ਼ᆼєབྷ⻇ˈॱਚ㸩㊹བྷ⊔ഒˈᑖ
⵰┑౤㸩哴⋩ˈ⥋ൠㄉ䎧ᶕᢺṼᆀ
а᣽ˈབྷ஺а༠˖Ā૸૸ʽ䘉њ㶳
㸩⊔ഒˈཚྭਲ਼஖ˈ᰾ཙ޽ᶕʽā
ᯱṼࠐս伏ᇒ‫ق‬㻛੃Ҷа䐣ˈ‫ڌ‬л
ᶕˈ੶੶ൠᵋ⵰䘉ս㘱‫ˈݴ‬ԕѪਁ
⭏ҶӰѸབྷһǄ
⧠൘䎵ᐲ䟼Ⲵ⊔ഒ䘹ᤙཊཊˈ
ߧ߫⊔ഒ䲔ҶՐ㔏૱⿽⊔ഒཆˈ
ᴹ⭘Ṩṳӱǃᵿӱǃ㣡⭏ǃ唁ⲭ
㣍哫ǃ㪥㣡㊭ӱǃ㞠᷌ǃᶮӱ‫ڊ‬ᡀ
Ⲵ‫ޛ‬ᇍ侵ᆀ⊔ഒˈ䘈ᴹ⭘⌒㩍ǃ㬍
㧃ǃ哴ṳǃ⭌₉ǃᵿӱǃ㥹㧃Ѫ侵
Ⲵ≤᷌⊔ഒǄੜᴻ৻䈤䘈ᴹྦ⋩ᐗ
‫⊔࣋ݻ‬ഒǃᒢਲ਼⊔ഒǃ⋩⛨⊔ഒǃ
㰅㊹Ⳟ‫≤Ⲵڊ‬Ღ⊔ഒˈਟ䉃ᰕᯠᴸ
ᔲੁࡽਁኅǄ
‫׺‬༔ཷࡻඁ‫ت‬
ǆฉ࡛൅ॆቆ๋ު
!!ၓᄞళୟ447ࡽ
ǆ೿Ԑ઻ন༔ཷ‫ی‬
!!ฉ࡛೿Ԑࠟኔ
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ᇮၪ
৹ৠ
ᴹ‫ݳޣ‬ᇥ㢲ǃ⊔
ശǃ‫ݳ‬ᇥ⚟Ⲵ䎧Ⓚˈ≁
䰤Ր䈤㓧㓝Ǆ
ᴹӪ䈤ˈ‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲о
≹↖ᑍᰦ≹ᇔཌ⾝а
սਛĀཚ҉āⲴ⾎᰾ᴹ
‫ޣ‬Ǆ৸Րˈо≹᰾ᑍᰦ
↓ᴸॱӄሪ䲒ᕐ⚟⽬֋
Ⲵ֋ᮉ⍫ࣘᴹ‫ޣ‬Ǆ㘼⋚
к⭫㱾਽ᇦ㭑㛢䍔‫⭏ݸ‬
䈤˖Ā‫ݯ‬ᰦ䗷‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲ˈ
⡧⡧ᴮ੺䇹ᡁˈߌশ↓
ᴸॱӄ㺇к⟳⚟ˈᱟ≹
᮷ᑍᰦѪ㓚ᘥþᒣ੅ÿ
㘼䇮Ǆ⇿ᒤ↓ᴸॱӄˈ
≹᮷ᑍ㾱ࠪᇛо≁਼
⅒ˈਾᇊѪ‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲Ǆ䘈
ᴹањ≁䰤Ր䈤ˈ≹↖
ᑍᰦˈᒭ䰝ҾᇛѝՊ‫ڊ‬
⊔ശⲴþ‫ݳ‬ᇥခ၈ÿ↓
ᴸॱӄ⭡བྷ㠓ьᯩᵄُ
⚛⾎һ⭡ˈᑞࣙྩՊ㿱
ᇦӪˈ䘉ҏᱟањ‫ݵ‬
┑⿫ཷ㢢ᖙⲴശ┑᭵
һǄāᡁᜣˈ䘉Ӌ᭵һ
аᇊ㔉䘉սク㱾ཤ䶻
ⲴĀ㭑㘱㱾āⲴㄕᒤᑖ
ᶕ䗷ᰐ䲀䚀ᜣĂĂ
ᲊ␵᮷Ӫ䱸՟⟉൘
ǉк⎧䖦һབྷ㿲Ǌѝ
ᴮ߉䚃˖Ā‫ݳ‬ᇥᛜᤲ⚟
ᖙˈྷᆪ䖸⢥⦷ཌ⑨ˈ
ᴹþ䎠йẕÿѻ䈝Ǆā
᱄Ӫᴹ䈇Ӂ˖Ā‫ݳ‬ᇥ䐿
ᴸ䰩᱕㺇ˈ਼䎠йẕ
ㅁๅ䫇Ǆа䐟ⴻ⚟ᖂ
৫ᲊˈতჼ䵢⒯⢑ѩ
䶻Ǆā෾䲽ᓉ䊛ഝа
ᑖˈն㿱ᄹ᱕ԅྣˈ䷝
эᑭᖡˈ元ᖡ㺓俉ˈ䑥
䏮⴨䭉ˈ㛙㛼Ӕ᪙ĂĂ
ᄘዒ௽!!ፕॆĂጋਗ਼ॆ
ǆฉ࡛༔ཷၭ‫ی‬
!!ຩ‫ׅ‬ୟǄৎॺࡔ۫ୟǅ
ǆྦྷॆ෭‫ۅ‬႐‫ی‬
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཮ǋUQ
к⎧৯ߌ≁‫ݳ‬ᇥཌ伏ই⬌ǃ㤖㥹ǃ儈㋡ശᆀˈሃ᜿
哴ǃ㔯ǃ㓒й㢢‫ݶ‬Ѡᒤ˗ᡆ‫ڊ‬12ਚབྷശᆀˈ⭘᡻ᤷ൘ശ
ᆀ亦ㄟᨯࠪ▝ঠˈ㫨⟏ਾⴻ▝ѝ〟≤ཊቁˈԕঌᖃᒤ⇿
ᴸ䴘≤Ǆ
ᐍ⋉ት≁‫ݳ‬ᇥ⡡ਲ਼䉒ᒤⲴĀ᭦ᗳ侴侘āˈ‫ޕ‬ཌˈሪ
ᓉࡽ儈ᛜгቲ㠣ҍቲ㓒⚟ˈߌӪ᡻ᤱ⚛ᢺ䎠൘⭠ཤĀ䈳
⚛嗉āˈୡĀ㣡йᣵˈに‫ˈ⸣ޝ‬䎔㊣㔯䉶᭦є⸣āˈ⽸
⾧Ѡ᭦˗ԆԜ䘈⛩⟳⭠䗩㤵㥹ˈ؇〠Ā⛝㤵ḤāǄ
ই≷ൠᯩᇦᇦ‫ڊ‬儈㋡ǃ㌟㊣ശᆀˈѝॸव侴侘ˈཌ
䟼ᆙᆀԜ⧙Ā⛝㤵㦑āˈѮ⵰⚛ᢺ㔅⵰㠚ᇦⲴ⭠ཤ䗩䐁
䗩஺аӋ⾍ᝯ㠚ᐡᇦ⿽Ⲵᒴぬ∄࡛ӪྭⲴ䈍ǄᇍኡⲴẦ
ᖒཙ⚟࡛ᴹᛵ䏓ˈ⛩⟳⋩⚟ˈᑖ⵰ӪԜ㖾ྭⲴ⽸ᝯ޹޹
伈ੁ␡䚳ⲴཌオĂĂ
ཹ䍔‫ݳ‬ᇥཌˈߌᇦ⛩⟳ཙ俉㵑✋ˈ⾕⪎ѻ‫ݹ‬ਟ‫ݶ‬Ѡ
ᒤǄ↔ൠ‫⊔Ⲵڊ‬ശབྷн਼ˈ㣡वᖒ〠Ā㣡वശāˈにึ
ᖒ〠Āにึശāˈሃ᜿㋞ỹབྷѠ᭦Ǆ
ጷ᰾ൠᯩ㌟㊣㥗ഒᖒ⣦ᐗˈєཤབྷᶕѝ䰤ሿˈ‫ݳ‬ᇥ
ѝॸवⲴ侴侘ਛĀ‫ތ‬䍒āˈлॸ⭘ㆧᆀᨂк㥗ഒˈ᭮㖞
⭠ཤˈ⽸≲Ѡ᭦ˈਛ֌Āᮻ⭠ཤāǄཌ䟼ˈ儈ㄩㄯкᤲ
㓒⚟ˈ䎠ᶁ‫ݯ‬ㄕᨀᖙ⚟ˈ䘈ᴹӪ⧙Ā᧬⚛⨳ˈ➗⭠䍒āǄ
䠁ኡǃᶮ⊏ൠ४‫ݳ‬ᇥཌˈᴹӪ൘⭠䰤ᥕ䟾⚛ˈᴹӪ
ᢺ⚟ㅬ⃀ࡽᤲˈॺਲ਼Ⲵ侴侘ਛ‫ڊ‬䍪ᒤ㗩ˈ৸ԕ䶒㊹ഒ᥿
ᡀ㕨⬿ㅹ⣦㫨➞〠ѪĀ㫨㕨⬿āˈⴻĀ㕨⬿ā▝޵≤⊭
ཊቁˈঌаᒤѻᲤ䴘Ǆ䶂⎖Ӫᇦ⡡ਲ਼⭘㦐㨌ǃ⋩䉶㞀ǃ
㋣㊣㊹ㅹ‫Ⲵڊ‬㋺⎲㗩ˈሃ᜿ཚᒣᰐһ㋺䟼㋺⎲䗷аᒤǄ
཮ǋUQ
ⴻ㣡⚟
཮ǋUQ
䲔ᣇᡈᵏ䰤઼⽮Պ◰⛸ࣘ㦑Ⲵᒤཤཆˈᰗᰦ⭣෾‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲
ࡽˈ෾䲽ᓉаᑖབྷሿᓇ䬪ǃտᡧ‫ׯ‬ᕐᤲ䎧⭘㔛㔒ǃ㓨ㅹᶀᯉ
ࡦ֌Ⲵᖙ⚟ˈᴹႤᠿǃ⾕Ӂǃ䬦эǃ‫ޠ‬㥹ǃ㦧㣡ǃᖙ㲮ǃ㶉
㶐ǃࠔ㶦ǃ䠁㸮ǃ伎呏ǃ‫ޛ‬ԉ䎠傜⚟ˈ䘈ᴹ‫ބ‬ᆀǃ㶳㸩ǃ勔
劬ǃ勼ኡǃ㲼༣ǃ⾿ᆇǃ仾䖖⚟ㅹǄ䊛ഝ޵Ⲵഋ㖾䖙ǃᗇᴸ
ᾬㅹ㥦ᾬˈᡷᒴˈᓇ䬪䘈൘ᖙ⚟лᛜᤲ⚟䉌㔉⑨ӪĀ⥌䉌䉌
ᆀāǄ‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲བྷ㺇кᴹ㡎嗉⚟ǃᠿ⤞ᆀㅹ㺘╄ˈ嗉⚟࠶䠁
嗉ǃ䶂嗉ǃⲭ嗉Ǆ㡎嗉⚟䗩㹼䘋ˈ䗩㘫┊ˈ㡎㘵ྲⰤˈ㿲㘵
ྲӁǄ䊛ഝ‫ݳ‬ᇥ⚟Պ㋮ᖙ㓧੸ˈǉ♋༆ᵲᘇǊ䇠˖Āк‫ݳ‬ѻ
ཅˈ㖇㔞ᡀ㗔ˈ㇑ᕖྲ⋨ˈ⚛ṁ䬦㣡ˈᔲᑨ⪰⫘ˈഝѝ㥇ሞ
䟽ᮎˈ⑨Ӫ∅䳶ĂĂ䘌䘁ӝਠˈ⚟⚛ཊҾ㑱ᱏˈ⠶ㄩѻ༠㍟
㍟ྲ䍟⨐н㔍ˈُԕҹཷ䀂㜌Ǆā䘉аཌˈ⋚෾޵ཆབྷ㺇␡
ᐧкˈሿ഑վ᣹‫ބ‬ᆀ⚟ǃབྷᆙ儈Ѯሿ㓒⚟ˈ⚯⚯ॾ⚟ˈྲ⍱
ᱏ䰚䰚ˈࠐ࠶⾎〈ˈᙽྲỖຳʽ䈇Ӂ˖Ā䭉䇔⪦⊐তᵚⵏˈ
┑ഝ㣡ḣ৺ᰦᯠǄ䈅⚟仾䟼⑨Ӫ䳶ˈॺᱟᄹ᱕ॺ᧒᱕ǄāĀ
ॱ䟼⨐ᑈ䜭нধˈⴻ⚟Ӫⴻⴻ⚟ӪāǄཌ␡ˈ䊛ഝҍᴢẕㅹ
༴⟳᭮བྷ㣡ㆂǃҍ嗉ǃ㣡㶤㶦ㅹ❠⚛ĂĂ
к⎧ߌᶁߌ⭠䟼ᤲка⳿⚟ˈ〠‫ڊ‬Āᵋ⭠⚟āˈ亴‫ݶ‬ӄ
䉧Ѡⲫˈ䇘њཚᒣᒤᡀǄ੤␎аᑖᓇᇦᤲ䐁傜⚟ǃ劬⚟ㅹˈ
ґ䰤਴ᓉᇤ⾎ˈ൘ᓉ䰘ࡽ・⚟ຄǃᷦẕ⚟ˈ侦ᴹᛵ䏓Ǆ
ᗶᰗ؇
⋚䛺ߌᇦᴹ‫ݳ‬ᇥ㢲Āᢋйခ၈āĀ䗾㍛ခāҐ؇Ǆ
Ā㍛ခā؇〠Āඁйခ၈āˈՐ䈤ѝⲴĀ৅⾎āǄ
⭘аਚ␈㊣㇙ˈ㇙кᨂаਚ䬦㉚ˈ⭡ࠐњခ၈Ā䙊⾎ā
䚰䈧⭠䀂ခ၈ǃ൪䀂ခ၈ǃඁйခ၈ㅹĀйခ၈āĀ䱽
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൘ᵘኁᡆ㌐々к߉ᆇԕঌ䴘≤ǃᒤᡀ৺ႊһㅹˈཊ⭡ྷ
ྣ৲࣐ˈ䈒䰞ਹࠦ⾨⾿Ǆ
‫ݳ‬ᇥཌˈ੤␎ㅹൠ䘈ᴹĀ䎠йẕā仾؇ˈྷྣ㔃դ
⴨㹼ˈᡆᤆ‫ݯ‬ᩪྣˈᡆ᥏ᤱႤ‫ݯ‬㺓㺛䎠䗷йᓗབྷẕˈ䇔
Ѫਟᇎ⧠аᒤ‫؍‬ᒣᆹˈ≲⭏䍥ᆀˈ⽸⾍ᒬ‫⚮⎸⯵⾋ݯ‬ㅹ
ᝯᵋǄ
⋚ൠґᶁӖᴹĀঌ⍱㣡āᰗҐˈ⚺ࡽ⭘㌟㊣ᡆ⦹㊣
ㅹᣅ‫Ⲵ⋨➞ޕ‬䬵≤ѝˈ䉧⢙⠶ᔰ㊹⺾Ѫᵛᱟབྷྭᖱ‫ݶ‬ʽ
ᦞ䈤ˈ‫ݳ‬ᇥѻཌቁྣ৫㿲Ӆ≤Պਈᗇᴤ࣐㖾ѭǄཙ
オа䖞᰾ᴸⲾ⌱ྲ⦹ˈൠка⡷⚟⚛ˈ㢟䗠㖾ᰦ‫؟‬㿶Ӆ
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཮ǋUQ
12 iDEAL
‫ݗך‬
‫࠷ְ઻ۼׯ‬
ᄾჽ՟!!ใටĂፕॆ
࿢ຫ‫࠷ְڦ‬փ๟઻ป‫࠷ְڦ‬ǈ๟‫ۼׯ‬ኄፗ
ళ‫࠷ְ઻ڦ׭ูݛ‬ă
‫ܔ‬ᇀॆབྷࢅᆽܹᇴྔ௬‫ڦ‬Đมࣷđǈ࿢ፌ
ራথ‫৽ڦة‬๟ְ࠷ǈ๟‫࠷ְ઻ڦۼׯ‬ă઻ְ࠷
๟ፌਏ‫ۼׯ‬༬෥‫ิໍ௷ڦ‬ऄ‫ׇ‬ৠǈᅃቧఢጞǈ
बӝዱᅖǈՍ੗ਸቧᆓਜ਼ă
ְ࠷ᆶ‫ڦٷ‬ǈ‫ڦ౎ړ‬ට௷ࠅᇴĂ࿴ࢦَኄ
ၵড‫ࠅڦٷ‬ᇴ‫ۼ‬ᆶ‫࠷ְٷ‬ǈְ࠷‫ۼ‬๟ᇐಱ๕
‫ڦ‬ਸ‫ॺݣ‬ዾǈᆶ‫ۥ‬ு഻ǈ‫ݝ‬ዹኮक़ᆶ‫گ‬ҷ‫ڦ‬ఢ
તǈఢતփߛǈ੗ፖǈට‫ࢪ้ڦܠ‬੗ࠃ‫ڇ‬ӻ‫ְڦ‬
ਜ਼ፖူᅘጣ࿭ዹ೗ְႩတăְ࠷຺௬ਸ‫ݣ‬ǈྷ
ጣְ࠷‫ڦ‬ᇾӟᄺ๟ְ࠷‫ڦ‬ፇ‫ׯ‬և‫ݴ‬ǈӦ஢କዱ
ᅖఢጞǈᇾӟ૛‫ڦ‬ຏఢǈՍྺְਜ਼ቼᄞǈ໿ᄞ
ၽକǈຏᅹᅎକǈְਜ਼ኻ๟ӝዱᅖ౴‫ۯ‬ᅃူǈժ
փҹ๚ă‫࠷ְڦٷ‬ǈְ࠷૛ྔǈీӦबๆቧְ
ጞăၭ‫࠷ְڦ‬ǈਸሞၭন቏ၝጱǈෙ࿵ቧጞጱǈ
‫ۼ‬ӦሞনՉฉǈְ࠷ၭ‫ڥ‬ኻᆶᅃಎሲǈӦጣब
ኻཟְୗă
‫ࡀ࠷ְ઻ڦۼׯ‬ਈࡻǈਜ਼ටಟକְǈٗራ
ࢀ‫ྟڟ‬ǈໜᅪăසࡕ‫ڦ߲ڇ‬ටઠࢀְǈᄲ‫ྔ؜‬
‫ݛ‬Սጽ‫ۯ‬ᅃူǈኻᄲӝ߃ྜྷְ‫ݣ߃ְڦ‬ሞᅖጱ
ฉăְּ‫ڦ‬฾‫৽ޱ‬փࣷ๭ְྜྷǈే੗ᅜ࣮ઠথ
ጣࢀă
ְബՍᅓǈᅃԗᆶ೗प‫ְࢾڦ‬ᄺ৽ᅃঙ
ബǈࠅᇴ૛‫ڦ‬ኄዖ‫৽࠷ְٷ‬ၟ‫ٷ‬ण๨ǈ࿪ឹ࿪
ឹᅃ‫ೌٷ‬ටǈְਜ਼ࡨĐְּஆƽđְ฾ঢĐઠ
ஆƽઠஆƽđ࣏ᆶၲ‫ڦ‬஖‫ڦ఺ڦיڦ‬ǈኝְ߲࠷
৽ၟᅃࢰਸ຤ǈ࠘ᘙ࠘ᘙ‫ں‬ඤഘ༮༮ăᆶਔ઻
ࣆǖ఺ዐൽৢǈ࿢ᅜྺኟ๟ຫ‫࠷ְ઻ۼׯڦ‬ă
ሞְ࠷૛‫ݮ‬༮‫ڦ‬ำષ৽๟ፌࡻ‫ڦ‬ೡ‫ޅ‬ǈඟ
௅ቧጞጱฉ‫ڦ‬ටबࢭኻీད९ጲमཞӵ঄ࣆǈ
စစඝඝ‫ְڦ‬ਜ਼்Ս߳ᆶ۴ཀǈ၎Ҿ࿮ඡă
઻ְ࠷փၟ၄ሞ‫้ڦ‬Ỵ୍ְǈӦ‫؜‬Đᆃְ
೗ᔬđ‫ߛڦ‬ჯǈ઻ְ࠷๟๨৞‫ڦ‬ม঍‫ׇ‬໯ă਍
ຫᅜമ઻ӱࣷཌྷᅃቧĐఎ༌ࡔ๚đ‫ڦ‬ཏጱăኄ
߲ཏጱ࿢ሞְ࠷૛ு९ࡗăְ࠷๟߲ਸ‫࣍ڦݣ‬
ৣǈຫჯᅃ‫ۅ‬Đᄞ࠼ူ‫ڦ‬঍ा‫ׇ‬໯đǈ‫ݐ‬๟ీ९
࠼‫ڦ‬๚ǈሞኄ૛‫ీۼ‬ፔăࣷವᆷĂ༌ิᅪĂ၎ൕ
९௬Ăੂກ‫܁‬ԒĂདೠກǈෳ໿ᄞǈ౗ज़ӾĂྌ
ܺ‫ܤ‬ččᅃདূຌ౛ጱࣄ‫ڦ؜‬ำᅼǈఫ৽๟༡
ܺ‫ڦܤ‬฾‫ࡗޱ‬ઠକă࿢߶ጣፖְ࠷ǈՍᆩၭට
‫้݀ٶ‬क़ăְ࠷૛ᆶ‫؜‬ፀ૶࣍ࣃ‫ڦ‬ǈᅃ‫ݴ‬ബੂ
ଇԨǈ࿵‫ݴ‬ബՍీ‫ੂڦ੺׏‬ฉӷཀǈ‫ٷ‬ට்༌
๊஺ǈᄺ৽ٗփ࠲႐କă
਍ຫ‫࠷ְڦۼׯ‬࿔ࣅฺႜǈ๟ᇑ‫౎ړ‬ళኙ
‫ڦ‬Đӗഌጱ‫ھ‬đᆶ࠲ဣăൣբళኙǈᅃ಼஢௏ጱ
‫ھ‬ାሞ‫ۼׯ‬ǈ໱்ิऄ‫ںڦ‬൶Ս๟ࢫઠ‫ڦ‬Đณ
‫׭‬đǈኄၵှටǈඟ‫ۼׯ‬Վ‫ׯ‬ၩ‫ݯ‬ኮ‫ۼ‬ǈՓ‫ݗں‬
࠷ְ࠷ඟ‫ۼׯ‬ऄ෥ิၑă
֔઩!!ፕॆĂெ๋ॆ
‫ݗך‬ǈ๟ಭۙኮዐፌएԨ‫ڦ‬ᅃ‫֓ڢ‬ǈ‫ڍ‬๟ᄲ‫ך‬ᅃۜీ‫ڥ׬‬ฉࡻ‫׺‬
‫ڦ‬ǈፌవă๊஺ঢፕࡻ‫ࢅ׺‬փࡻ‫఼׺‬Ǜੂᅃᄅनኪăံӝ‫ڒ‬ख़ຄକǈምं
෇‫ݗ‬ዐ‫ڦ‬ǈᅙঢ়փत߭ǈᅺྺӝኄଇዖ۫ဇᅃ‫ݴ‬ਸǈ৽փࠕၑକă
‫ڦݗך‬ፌߛৣহሞᇀ‫ڒڥך‬Ԉዿ௝૭ǈ‫ࣜূװ‬ǈ֍ీঢ‫ڥ‬ฉ๟‫ך‬
‫ݗ‬ăᄲ‫ڟٳ‬ኄ߲ၳࡕǈံ‫ူڥ‬ᆳǈ‫ځ‬ඤ‫ڥ‬ஶჶǈ‫߰෇ڛ‬ᅁ‫ݗ‬ǈ‫ך‬዁௝૭ሞ
ᰚዐཌሂǈ֍‫ڒٶ‬৊ඁă‫ڒ‬փీ๚ံ݀ࡻǈᄲኝ߲ူǈምᅜᰚׁߟኮǈ৽
ీ‫ڒڟٳ‬Ԉ‫ڦݗ‬ၳࡕǈߴ‫ڒ‬ӣԈዿ‫װڦ‬ᆀǈ‫ূװࣜڒ‬ăଇኁंሗǈ෱๟
ࡻੂă
ྺ๊஺ᄲᆩ߰ᅁ‫ݗ‬Ǜ௝૭ૐඐኮࢫ֍ీ‫ݴ‬ਸǈߑ‫غ‬ຄ‫ڦ‬๟ᅃཷǈփ
ඹᅟ૭૭‫ۼ‬ቷࠥ‫ڟڥ‬ă዁ᇀᆩ๊஺௝ઠ‫఼غ‬Ǜರટ௝ࢅනԨ௝໚඗‫ݨݨ‬
ಘಘǈ‫ڍ‬ᰰႠटഽǈփ๟ฉ჋ǈ೵ཚ௝ฉॅǈ໽ࡔၑ௝࿢ፌဠᆩă
ದଙᆌ޿๟գၒ૛ᆶ๊஺৽ᆩ๊஺କǈփՂ੏൱ăԖၑၭࢤٔǈ࠽
۫ටঢ߅ٔǈᅙ࢔փ‫ٱ‬ǈᆩᄝٔઠ‫༺پ‬ᄺႜǈփࡗᄲൎ૭ǈԖ዁ྲঋ֍
ངăएԨฉ໯ᆶ‫ڦ‬ದଙ‫ۼ‬ᆌൎ૭ǈኻీ‫ࡗٷ‬௝૭ଇෙԠǈ֍փ჆ՠ‫ܡ‬
ዷăेฉᅃཉൎ૭જ‫׌‬ǈ‫ݗך‬नഐՎࣅǈજ‫׌‬๟‫ڦݗך‬ፌॅಆ‫ڔ‬ă
ᆶ‫ۅ‬ဨ߸ࡻǈૐ۳‫ॅࠦڦ‬ǈ‫ڍ‬ႎးᆴ຤ဨӣጤኮࢫǈൎ૭‫ך‬ኮ๟ኟ
཰ăਨ‫ܔ‬փీᆩᄢኳ‫ڦ‬ǈᄢဨᅙփ๟ဨǈ๟݀ಟঌăূࣀआེൎ૭ᄺ๟
ࡻದଙǈ‫ڥံڍ‬ኖຄăໜՍᅃ‫ۅ‬ǈᆩဇᄝಢߵ‫༺پ‬ǈԖ٤ࢫ‫ݣ‬ሞᅃՉ‫ځ‬
ᆩǈுᆶኄଇዖǈᄺ੗ᆩ֮ฏ૭෇‫ݗ‬ă
නԨට‫ڦ‬ዐࣀଙ૙‫ݗך‬ǈဠ࣌ेࢁન۹ǈᅃ૭૭ᇶᇶ୴୴‫ڦ‬ǈӳ၎
ࡻǈ‫ֶڢ࿆ڍ‬ă๷֓ኮዐࢅ‫ݗך‬ದ‫ڥٲ‬ፌࡻ‫ڦ‬๟সનǈॽসન߅ൎೌǈ
ᄾጱൎີ‫ך‬ኮă
ࡸࣀท؄ഐઠǈ੗ᆩᵌႃ඾ઠ‫༺پ‬းဨǈኖࡻᵌႃָ඾Ԣᆩăኖ้
ิᴂ
ሞ຤ዐူ‫ۅ‬ٛǈຄକᄺփࣷ໗ǈ‫ָڍ‬඾৽ඹᅟ‫ܠڥ‬ă‫ړ‬඗ǈᅜ‫ٷ‬ቄႃ‫ڦ‬
ߜઠ‫ך‬ǈெ௴‫࢔ڥ‬ăምጕ൱ူඁǈᆩ࡛‫ڊ‬ઠ‫ך‬ǈ߸ฉᅃ୍֫ă‫׺‬ཎӱฏ‫ڦ‬
้ࢪǈፌࢫ‫ٷ‬฾‫ޱ‬ᅃۨઠۜ‫ݗך‬ǈኄ้ಷઠᅃ࢈࡛‫ڊ‬ǈᙞ‫ڦ‬ᅃำ೬ሞ‫ݗ‬
ฉǈ۵बူǈन‫ׯ‬ă
࿆ۙ‫ݛ‬௬ǈ֌ଙ‫ۅිࣆڦ޷ݿ‬ჸ৽๟ă‫ڍ‬๟‫ڦڇڇ‬ᅃ࿆ၭࢤٔ‫ך‬
‫ݗ‬ǈ৽ᄲ঺ዺᇉ୞କǈᇉ୞‫ټ‬႔ǈ੗Նࠫǈీᆶഐຶ࣮ิ‫ڦ‬ፕᆩăฉጞኮ
മිփිࢲউǛ৽ᄲੂేࡻփࡻُ࿿ǈ࿢ူࢲউ๟ሞӝ‫ڒ‬Ԉሞ௝૭‫ڦ‬঩
܎ዐă
‫ݗך‬փీຶ๰ᅃ݆ǈ໿‫ۙڇ‬ǈՍ฿ඁૂ඀ă࿢໚඗࢔‫ܔݒ‬໯࿍‫ंڦ‬
ࢇଙ૙ǄGvtjpo!Gppeǅǈ‫ڍ‬๟൱Վࣅ้ǈሞ‫ڦݗך‬ฉۜ঩܎े෇ᅉશᇉ
ጱআǈᄺ๟ᅃቲă݆ࡔ‫ߊܬ‬আሶփࡻᆩǈ໲໿โକǈᄲख़ࡗኮࢫᆩᰚׁൎ
૭֍ႜăܸ൐‫ڥ‬჋ፌࡻ‫ڦ‬ǈփ඗‫׺‬ഐઠጺᆶᅃࠣᅴ࿆ǈُٗ‫ߊܬܔ‬আᆇ
ၡटֶǈᅜྺ‫ۼ‬๟వ‫׺‬ǈఫ஺ටิᆼᄲณକᅃዖ࿆ਥକă
ᔮӣ৐຤ࢫൎ૭‫ݗך‬ᄺ๟ࡻ‫׺‬ǈ‫ڍ‬සࡕӝਪૌಋฉᆩ‫ׇ‬ǈఫ஺ᄺᆶ
݆ࡔ࢒຿୞ਪࢅᅪ‫ٷ‬૧ӣਪ‫ڦ‬჋ስăህටᆶᅃ‫ॼڢ‬ඳ‫ڦݗך‬ăᅃӯ๟ӝ
ॼൎ‫ׯ‬ໟ૭ǈᆳԖኮăኄዖ‫݆ݛ‬ሹ஺ԖᄺԖփ‫ॼ؜‬ၑઠǈॼඳ‫ڦݗך‬௞
ਧሞᇀӝॼఉໟኮࢫǈԈքफ‫؜‬ክઠǈܸॼክചኮǈኻ֑ॼቀǈं෇௝‫ݗ‬
ዐ‫ך‬ǈ֍ࠕၑ࿆ă
ഥྤऻዿ‫ڦ‬๟ᄲᆩይᆳ‫ݗך‬ǈഄ໱๊஺໐௝ᆳĂࢾิᆳĂᧉᦧᆳǈ
‫ۼ‬փీฏ‫؜‬ᅃۜࡻ‫ݗך‬ăԖྜይᆳࢫ‫ڦ‬ይᆳቀǈᅙ๟‫ڦݗך‬ፌॅದଙă
๊஺ǛᆩይᆳǛփ಄‫ـࠦڊ‬஘Ǜඪࢆ۫ဇ౾ᅃ๋ኮǈጺ੗‫ݣ‬႐ăܸ
൐ǈ‫ۼॆٷ‬ኪ‫ـࠦڊڢ‬ᆶࡻ‫ڦ࣋ࢅڦ‬ă՚ට‫ڦ׺‬ǈ‫ۼ‬๟࣋‫ڦ‬Ǘ࿢்‫ڦ׺‬ǈ
‫ۼ‬๟ࡻ‫ڦ‬ă
ᇚਯ!!ࣃॆĂጆતፕॆ!
ઠຫຫཱིࡸƽփ‫؜‬ᄝ၎ǈᆮഄփሞࡔྔ‫؜‬ᄝ၎ǈ৽փ໙ཱིࡸăཱིࡸ
‫ܔ‬ඇ๘হ‫ڦ‬ጎǈ‫ۼ‬ᆶᅃዖ੗಄‫ڦ‬঴ࠓ૰ଉǈᆶ้ࢪ࿢ሞศศ൓‫ޜ‬ኮᇆᄺ
ၙ‫ڟ‬ǈ໱்ᄺႹኈኟ‫؜ڢ‬କ๘হฉᅃၵ०‫ڇ‬ᆼ࿮ටߎ‫ة‬त‫ڦ‬ኈ૙ă
ኄཱི࣮ࡸඁ‫ڦ‬๟ә૔ǈ࢙෢ఁ೗‫ی‬ኄၵၭӄጱǈఫ๟නԨටራ౎߅
‫ڦ‬ऄܹǈሟ்ཀ‫ו‬ഽࡔࠅǈํሞᅪ႗ધ෴ǈྭጣᅃ၍ఁಈ‫ی‬ோ੨‫׊׊‬ಇ
‫ڦܓ‬ටඖǈԱጱ‫؜‬ഘߌ਼ᅃਔǖұǈ߾ႉፃኈփඹᅟҭăူઠ๟ઙ‫࢒܇‬
ǄMbevsffǅ‫ڦ‬கਸ਼ୄ‫ی‬ǈ߰ጣի૱‫ش؝‬ᅃྭǈཱིࡸࡻആ႐‫ٷ‬ഐǈ࿚ཞႜ
ᶠೌǖ঻ි྘ᅪܹҭǈၭࡲԎܹǛᶠೌํჾ၎ߢǖᄷǈኄ๟ང೗ăཱིࡸຫ
ང‫ڦ‬ሟփߌ႗඀ǈྦྷອຫఴටኻ‫ܔ‬੮‫ڦؙڦ‬ฉᲕǈჶҭ৶ҭ෰෰෰ă
৆থጣཱིࡸ৽ԥ਌ਨକଇ࣮ǈᅃ๟ሞSJNPXB‫ڦ‬ၒጱ‫ی‬ǈටॆ
ຫ‫ܔ‬փഐ౞੗ᅜඁऐ‫ׇ‬சǈ࿢்ኄܹփথ‫ځ‬ăཱིࡸՍሞோ੨‫఺י‬ഐઠǈ
ຫĐ੍ǈ࿢ీӝే்ኄ߲‫ۼی‬சူઠđăփၙә૔ටࡻၟ‫ࡗ܁ۼ‬௕ጱǈ޷
ࡍᆁփକǈࢅෙ߲ၭཱུጱᅃᄣǈփਸփਸ৽փਸăᶠೌሞՉฉඌǈᄷ໙କ
ӕǈኄၒጱ໿ቲටऩ࢖ǈି‫ࣀڤ‬ሞࡔాፖĐࣨऐđǈփ‫ۼ‬ԥሖ࣋କࡻब߲
஗ă
‫ڟ‬କ‫ܹۅݗ‬ǈཱིࡸᆼԥ࠷ጱߋକ‫؜‬ઠǈᶠೌᆩ݆ᇕࢅቲ‫ځ‬঍ภକӷ
ཀǈுဥǈටॆຫକଇ‫ۅ‬ǖ2ǈፐܹኄ࿋ᄷӝ‫ی‬૛‫֕ڦ‬িߟሤକǈٗઠு९
ࡗኄ஺ሤ‫֕ڦ‬িǈᄺփኪ‫ڢ‬๟ሹ஺‫ڦ׺‬ǈ։‫ڦ‬๟փ๟੨ഹǈ౞ᄺኪ‫ڢ‬ǈኄ
۫ဇփՍᅓǗ3ǈኄ࿋ᄷ‫׺‬ᅪ‫ٷ‬૧௬ཉǈᆩ‫ڦ‬๟નዝ‫ڦ‬Ӹ݆ĊĊᚈǈତጞ
଎ཀ‫ۼ‬དփൣ‫ؤ‬କăཱིࡸሞோྔಚၦӷཀǈ࣏๟ுኀǈኄ࿋‫ی‬ᇵ੝ۨᄺ
‫ࡗ܁‬௕ጱă
ೝ௷ԕᇉ
ࡻକዕᇀ୾‫ڟ‬Ԩ࿔ዷঙĊĊิᴂ‫ׇ؜‬ăཱིࡸ཈჋‫ڦ‬ǈᅃۨ๟ә૔ፌ
ࡻ‫یڦ‬ǈᅃ߲‫ٷ‬ӣಎጱࠃጣႹ‫ܠ‬գǈᄠ௬༝ጣᅃ‫ٶ‬ᴂǈ౟ௐٜᆛጣ‫؜܋‬
ઠǈཱིࡸᅃੂǈঢၭܾǈఫ๊஺ߴ‫࣮܋‬ඁǈฉ௬ߥ‫ۅ‬໘පǈߴኖᅃူምధ
ฉઠࡻ஺ǈేຫኄิ‫ڦ‬ǈ‫׺‬କᄲ٠ဏăᇀ๟঳ࡕዮ࿋ᄺ֊‫ڟ‬କǈ໱ᆼᅃْ
ԥߋକ‫؜‬ઠă
ഄํኈᄲ‫ิࡔ݆׺‬ᴂǈփՂඁә૔ǈฉ࡛Ԩ‫৽ں‬ᆶǈᅃఇᅃᄣ‫ڦ‬੨
ߌዊ‫ں‬ǈಞ༗‫ڦ‬ǈਸᴂ‫ڦ‬ǈ‫ۼ‬๟݆ࡔටǈఫཀ࿢்ሞُ‫׺ں‬ᴂǈኟേᅃ߲
ವᆷሞә૔ǈ‫ۅ‬କཞᄣ‫۫ڦ‬ဇǈྲ႑ฉࢻ၎ੂᅃੂǈׂ‫ں‬ǈፔಋǈॏബǈ
‫ۼ‬ᅃӯ࿮ܾăฉ࡛၄ሞీ‫ڦڟ׺‬ᴂǈᆶ࿵ୃዖǈएԨ‫ۼ‬ઠጲ݆ࡔళև࡛
ᇘǈ౾ܻ࣏ᆶҺܻન‫ڦ‬ǈఫࣷ߸ངᅃၵǈఫՉ‫࡛ڦ‬຤੗ీԲড‫ڏ‬ǈ‫߭ڱݰ‬
નǈኆዩኮૌǈᅙঢ়ጕऀ‫ܡ‬೧ǈ‫ڟ‬ञઙ‫ܠ‬ǈԥ‫׬‬ኮྺહຯટຯǈฺఁኮူ
࿮Ⴕ๗ǈ੨ߌඓํࡈᅴးిǈᅃ‫׺‬ฉᲕǈᆶ܎้क़ཀཀඁǈ԰‫ڥ‬࿢ᄲ‫ܠ‬
ࣃᅃၵࣃઠ‫ڸ‬ቐăਸᴂ๟༹߲૰ऄܹǈᅺକᇕ࿔ੜԨ‫࠲ڦ‬ဣǈ࿢்‫׬‬ਸ
ᴂ‫ࡔ݆ڦ‬ᄷ๽ྺĐᇀુđǈᇀુฉว጑ຬස๏໽ୄǈਸᅃ‫ٶ‬ᴂ፟ጲႴᄲ
ๆઠ‫ݴ‬ዓǈᄲ๟࣑କ࿢ǈ‫߁ٷ‬ኻᆶሖਸ‫ڦ‬Ԩ๚କă
‫ڍ‬๟೗‫ิ׈‬းኮᇆǈ࿢࣏๟‫ڦࡸཱིܔ‬ፔಋǈ՗๖ᅃ‫ۅ‬ཞ൧ǈᅃ߲ට
සࡕ࿆ૅփࠕ௺ߌǈ࿄Ղኈ‫ิ؜ڥ׺ీڦ‬ᴂဦዂ‫ۯ‬ට‫ݛںڦ‬ǈఫ‫ܔ‬໱
்ઠຫǈසࡕॏബࢇ๢ǈྺ๊஺փీӝፌࡻ‫ڦ‬ᴂኖຄକ‫܋‬ฉઠǈፔசஜ
஗ǈ৽๟঄৯ᅃ߲Վཚăํሞ႐૙ฉอெฉথ๴փକǈᄺᆌ޿ࡻࡻ‫ࢅں‬
ਜ਼ටࠏཚǈ‫ܔ‬փഐ౞ǈၭ‫ی‬փ๟փၙߴ౞ፔ໘ප‫ڦ‬ǈ੗๟ǈ੗๟࿢்ۨ‫ڦ‬
ኟጸୄ੨‫ີݹ‬ǈ݆ࡵ࣏ுઠ‫ڥ‬तሏࡗઠă
੥௽ዩ!!ፕॆĂெ๋ॆ
ԕᇉࡗඁຌᇀߛप෷ኆ࡛࿆ǈᆯᇀሏ๼փ‫ݛ‬Սǈᅃӯ๟࡛Չվસฉ
ઠෳ߅ࢫԍ٪‫ڦ‬ă߅ऋச࣮ॆࢫႴᄲቩ݀ࢫም৊ႜಭۙǈ໯ᅜᇀॏ߭ᇀ
ಭۙरຍǈᅃӯ઻ӥႡ‫פྭۼ‬ఎतă
࠽۫ට঄৯‫׺‬ǈฉࡻ‫ڦ‬᫦༔૛ጺࡃᄲ‫ݣ‬बኻԕᇉۗးǈસ‫ڟ‬ᅃኻǈ
Ӂዐ৚ဠăሞ‫یݗ‬૛൩ፎࡍ‫ڦ‬ਜ਼ටǈ‫ۅ‬௅ටᅃ‫ܬڦݻ‬ቨದԕᇉǈ໙‫ڥ‬ฉ
༹௬ăࢫઠ຤ׂጆॆჺ݀କԕᇉᄢኳ݆ǈᆩฉ੔ბ‫݆ݛ‬ǈཀళ‫ں‬ԛሏࡗ
ඁ‫ۼ‬փ಄ă‫یݗ‬૛‫ٷ‬ᇉߓዐᆴᄿጣ߳ዖኆആᇉૌǈၭԕᇉᄺញଚഄዐǈ
‫ځڪ‬ਜ਼ට؎႞ă
‫ڍ‬๟‫ܔ‬ᇀ߾ႉ঩֫ઠ঄ǈሞ‫یݗ‬૛‫ۅ‬ԕᇉ‫࣏׺‬๟ডࡍǈ‫׺‬փຢ੺ă
ዕᇀ֓‫ׇ‬းᇉ༃ᄺஜᄢኳԕᇉǈܸ൐ஜӣ֓ॏକǈ஡ၟᄣ‫ڦ‬ๆઠᇮᅃ
ኻăጲमઠჺ݀ߛ༔᫔ԕᇉăߛ༔ᆩ०ᅟӲ‫ڦ‬ǈच༔े߅Ԟံዳ‫ׯ‬౪༔ǈ
඗ࢫူඁ੕ඁ‫ڦ׌‬ႎး߅Ԟǈٔॼଙ৶ඁ႔ǈၭआ᫝31‫ݴ‬ዓፑᆸन‫ׯ‬ă
ၭԕᇉሞच༔૛௬᫝‫้ڦ‬क़փీ໿৳ǈ໿৳‫઻ܸࣷݒࣆڦ‬ǈܸ൐໫‫࢔ڥ‬
ၭăട‫෉໌ڦتࡻڟ‬๑ԕᇉ෇੨ट޷ၛ๴ă
ࢫઠ࿢ᆼჺ݀ኖԕᇉǖٔĂॼĂ໘ໟ఍ۙኖᇉ᷽ᆳࢅଙ৶এሞԕᇉ
ฉ௬ǈ຤ਸࢫ‫ࡒ෇ݣ‬ኖ9‫ݴ‬ዓǈᆼ‫ڟٳںࠀׯ‬းిՔጚă໯ᅜටຫǈெ๋
૛‫؜ڥ׺‬Һ‫ڢ࿆ڦ‬ǈᄺ‫؜ڥۂ‬Һ‫ڦ‬ዘଉă
ᇑವᆷᅃഐඁषዝ‫ڜ‬ǈఫ૛‫ڦ‬ԕᇉፔ݆ᆼ๟ႎആă࡛໺ዠ૛௬‫ݣ‬
ൎၭ੷‫ڦ‬ԕᇉǈ‫ి׉ݥ‬ǈࠚऺ๟ᅃࡐ৽ဖआ‫ڦ‬ǈምි୴෥࡛໺‫ݹ‬ǈํሞ
໿ࡻࢀକăܸ‫ٷ‬ԕᇉ໱்ᆩઠፔĐ෫ဇ௝đᇑฏੌມ೔ǈ௅‫ݻ‬ଇኻǈፑ௬
‫ڦ‬๟ิ‫׺‬ǈᆸՉ‫ڦ‬๟ੌຄ‫ڦ‬ăԲডူઠǈ࣏๟ཱࡗࣜᆳੌຄ‫׺ࡻڦ‬ǈဇ
๕‫࿆ޅ‬ăܸิ‫ڦ‬ԕᇉԲิ‫֖࡛ڦ‬ඹᅟ঒ᅃၵǈ࿆‫࣏ڢ‬๟ཞᄣ႔ǈ‫׺‬փသ
࠹ă‫ڍ‬๟षዝ‫ڦڜ‬ԕᇉ኱থ࡛ٗՉվસઠ‫ڦ‬ǈ۫ဇ๟ኈ‫ڦ‬ႎးǈิ௓ǈ
‫׺‬ሞፊ૛඾ዊᩉᩉ‫ڦ‬ǈኈႴᄲ঺৶጑‫֍ڊ‬ႜ‫ڦ‬ă
ᅜฉᅙ঻ถକ6ዖԕᇉ‫ڦ‬ፔ݆ǈፌࢫᅃ‫ࣜڢ‬ᆳख़ၭԕᇉದӥଳࠗă
ሞೝ‫ࡒڹ‬ዐཱ‫ࣜۅ‬ᆳǈӝၭԕᇉଇ௬ख़ᅃူăӣଳࠗᄺມ௬ख़ࢫ‫ۈ‬ሞԕ
ᇉ੕ాǈฉ௬‫ݣ‬ԕᇉǈ඗ࢫএጲۙ‫ڦ‬ክฉඁ৽ࡻକăክ‫ڦ‬ದ‫ݛ‬ᄺ੄਼ࠅ
քକǈ๟;‫ނ‬௡Ăิ؏Ă஑ᆳ2;2;2‫ݻڦ‬ଉǈӴ෇ٔĂॼĂ໘Ăࢤউ఍न੗ă
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Travel info
ANA special tickets
Garuda gets jazzed
ANA’s special tickets to Japan and
America after April 2014 are on sale
now and bookings are more flexible.
For more information, dial 4008-828888 or visit ANA official website
(www.ana.co.jp/cn/c/).
The Java Jazz Festival, the world’s
largest jazz festival, will be held in Indonesia from February 28 to March 2.
Garuda Indonesia offers a six-day-andfour-night music journey to Jakarta
and Bali for 6,980 yuan (MOQ:2 Pax),
plus one free ticket to the jazz festival.
For details, contact Horizon Travel at
400-800-2595, or check Garuda’s official website (www.garuda-indonesia.
com).
Turkish Airlines trip
Studios, valued at around 370 yuan.
For more information, visit singaporeair.com.
British Airways fares
Singapore to Australia
Turkish Airlines’ global event, Social
Trippin’, was held in Istanbul, involving experts in global aviation. The aim
was to harvest new ideas to enrich
the flight experience and maximize
customer satisfaction.
The event started with a tour of the
Turkish Flight Academy and ended
on January 19 with a workshop titled
“Global trends: new and innovative
ways to improve in-flight services.”
Turkish Airlines aims to further
consolidate its position as a global and
innovative airline brand.
For more information, visit www.
socialtrippinistanbul.com.
Singapore Airlines provides special
tickets to Australia booked before
April 18. Flights depart from Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen,
Xiamen, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan,
Changsha and Kunming — for Sydney,
Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth
and Darwin — from February 17 to
May 31 on Singapore Airlines or Singapore Silk Air. Tickets start at 4,500
yuan, including tax.
SIA Holidays provides self-guided
tours, starting at 6,600 yuan round
trip (including tax) with accommodation in four-star hotels. For around
215 yuan, Singapore immigration
passengers can enjoy a Singapore
Stopover Holiday, including one-night
hotel accommodation and discounts
for shopping, dinner and scenic spots.
During the promotion period, passengers selecting a halfway stopover in
Singapore can get tickets for Universal
British Airways announces 2014
year-round fares in China across all
cabins, including first class, Club
World business class, World Traveler
Plus premium economy class and
World Traveler economy class. Special
fares offer great value, with return
flights to the UK and Europe starting from 3,100 yuan. Fares available
through December 31, 2014.
Customers who want year-round
fares in Club World business class
must book 28 days before departure.
• Return fares from Shanghai to the
UK or Europe starting from:
World Traveler economy class —
3,300 yuan
World Traveler Plus premium economy class — 9,300 yuan
Club World business class — 22,800
yuan
First class — 67,640 yuan
• Return fares from Beijing to the UK
or Europe starting from:
4,050 yuan
yuan
• Return fares from Chengdu to the
UK or Europe starting from:
3,100 yuan
yuan
Musical Lufthansa
As a leading European airline,
Lufthansa not only offers 72 weekly
flights from six Chinese gateways to
more than 170 European destinations,
but also brings a prestigious German
orchestra to China and Asia. Sponsored by Lufthansa globally, Guerzenich Orchestra of Cologne will fly to
Shanghai and other Asian cities for
five concerts under the baton of chief
conductor Markus Stenz, between February 13 and 23.
The orchestra is one of Europe’s best
and an important cultural ambassador
of Germany throughout the world. In
Shanghai, the Guerzenich Orchestra
will play two concerts in the evenings
of February 20 and 21 at Shanghai
Grand Theater.
14 iDEAL
Horoscopes
Garfield
Pooch Café
Happy Birthday: Head down the
path of least resistance. Getting into
the groove and feeling comfortable
as you move along will be half the
battle. Opportunities will escalate as
long as you take care of business and
set realistic goals. Learn from your
past experience and you will find the
satisfaction you've been searching for.
Your numbers are 3, 5, 12, 26, 32, 39,
42.
gets you into trouble. Stay calm.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18)
Serious talks will bring interesting
results. You may not see the value in
what's being offered initially, but look
closer and you will discover a multitude
of options that will help you advance. A
change of heart will be to your benefit.
VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22)
Take charge. Don't be afraid to
express what you want and your plan
for making your dreams come true.
Include the people you care about
in your plans and you will find a way
to get things done faster. Love is
highlighted.
PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20)
Don't be confused by what others do
or say. Rely on your own resources
to find out exactly what you need to
know in order to close a deal or invest
in something of interest. Romance will
improve your personal life.
ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19)
Complete unfinished business, then
take a little time to do the things you
enjoy or to be with someone you love.
Make plans or find a way to build up
your assets. Invest, make a move or
set up a new budget.
Stone Soup
TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20)
Avoid meddlers trying to find out about
your private business. Focus on the
things you want to do and the people
you enjoy spending time with most.
Make changes to your home, but ask
for approval if you'll affect others.
Non Sequitur
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Talk will get you what you want. Your
charm, coupled with your confident
way of expressing your ideas, will draw
attention and should result in offers. Be
sure you don't exaggerate or promise
something you cannot deliver.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
Expect to experience changes
regarding how you earn your living.
Don't let anything or anyone upset
you or cause you to falter when you
should be focused on doing the best
job possible. Overreacting will be what
Crossword
ACROSS
1
Biggest round
trip in the
world?
6 Blossom
holder
10 Crave
14 Animal
followed
by a tickbird
15 "Les
Miserables"
novelist Victor
—
16 Miscellaneous
mix
17 Balance point
20 Palm tree
variety
21 Bran source
22 Coughs up
23 Where
grapplers
grapple
24 Outlaw
hunter's
reward
25 Carnivorous
freshwater fish
29 Except for
30 They divide
Europe and
Asia
31 Dublin's isle
32 Pond coating
36 One way to
attract attention
39 Quite a few
40 Possessive
adjective
41 Unit of
magnetic
flux density
42 Moments, for
short
43 Dinner-table
accessory
44 Islamic spiritual
leader
47 Check
48 Former
Nicaraguan
president
Daniel
49 Yonder damsel
50 "It — what you
think!"
54 Place for
younger
criminals
57 Beloved person
58 Apple-seed
holder
59 Previously,
previously
60 Quick-footed
61 Proceed with a
game plan?
62 Behaving like a
ruffian
DOWN
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
18
19
23
24
25
26
27
Mythical
monsters
Actress
Perlman
Perry on
"Friends"
Obsessed with
Little piggie
Little hog
Cockatoo's
crest
Bacon go-with
Additionally
Interlaced
Choice invitees
Gritty lead-in
Kiddie litter?
Kind of horse
or leather
Chills, fever
and
sweating,
together
"Other"
category (Abbr)
Less leafy, like
a tree
"No ifs, ands,
or —"
Kind of
communication
Become
conscious
(February 13)
28 Went
Southwest?
29 Original
positions
31 Eldest son of
Cain
32 Resign, with
"down"
33 Winery
container
34 "Unattractive"
Jamaican fruit
35 Intend
37 Item for a
pirate,
stereotypically
38 Brief try
42 Make a
contract official
43 Drug cop
44 Willies giver
Puzzle answer
45 Floral perfume
46 Uneasy
47 Believe it,
coming or
going
48 At —
(disagreeing)
49 Feature of
14-Across
50 Insider
dirt
51 Cram into the
overhead
52 Role in many
teen flicks
53 Deuce beater,
barely
55 Bad bettor's
letters
56 Word before
drop or drum
LEO (July 23-Aug 22)
Leave important decisions until you
feel certain you are making the right
choice. A change of scenery will help
you clear your mind, giving you a fresh
look at old problems. Be careful with
money and possessions. Loss is likely.
LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 22)
Take note of how others are reacting.
Listen carefully, remain calm and look
for reasonable solutions that will buy
you the time and the freedom to do the
things that interest you the most. Use
your intuitive intelligence and you will
get your way.
SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21)
Learn from past mistakes. Don't let
emotions interfere with decisions
that can influence how much you
earn or the way you do business. Be
creative and handle domestic matters
unconventionally and you will bypass
or put an end to any trouble you face.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21)
Take care of medical, financial or legal
problems before they escalate. It's
important to make necessary changes
at home before they are forced on you.
Helping others will show your concern
and bring you something good in
return.
CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19)
Do whatever needs to be done. Asking
for help or depending on someone
else will lead to disappointment. Poor
information regarding a financial matter
is likely. Do your research before you
spend on something that can influence
your assets.
©2014 UNIVERSAL PRESS
SYNDICATE
Sudoku
Fill the grid with the numbers 1 to 9 so
that each row, column and 3x3 block
contains the numbers 1-9.
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February
Sun.
Fri.
Ballet ‘The Butterfly Lovers’
by Shanghai Ballet
‘Loving You • Valentine’s Day’
Date: February 14, 7:45pm
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center, 425 Dingxiang
Rd, Pudong
Ticket: 380/280/150/100/60 yuan
Date: February 16, 2pm
Venue: Shanghai Daning Theater,
1222 Pingxingguan Rd
Ticket: 50/40/30 yuan
15
Sat.
Children’s Play ‘Little Pigeon Saisai’
“The Butterfly Lovers” is a Chinese
legend of a tragic love story. It is
often regarded as the Chinese version
of “Romeo and Juliet.” This ballet
version by Shanghai Ballet tells the
story in elegant body language with
beautifully designed costume and
stage sets.
Date: February 15, 10:45am
Venue: Little Friends Theater, 64
Yan’an Rd M.
Ticket: 60 yuan
Lantern
Festival
HOT
18
19
Tue.
Wed.
20
21
Thur.
Fri.
22
Sat.
Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne Concert
Avril Lavigne Live in China 2014
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theater, 300 People’s Ave
Ticket: 1,080/880/680/480/280/180 yuan
Date: February 21
Venue: Mercedes-Benz Arena, 1200 Expo Ave, Pudong
Ticket: 1,680/1,280/980/780/580/380 yuan
NEW
F.T. Island 6th Anniversary
Concert Live In Shanghai
NEW
24
25
26
27
Mon.
Tue.
Wed.
Thur.
Venue: Shanghai International Gymnastic Center, 777 Wuyi Rd
Ticket: 1,380/980/680/380 yuan
HOT
28
Fri.
4
2
March
Tue.
Sun.
Concert by Berliner Barock Solisten
Emmanuel Pahud Flute Recital
Date: March 2, 7pm
Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall, 523 Yan’an Rd E.
Ticket: 880/680/580/480/380/280/180/100 yuan
Date: March 4, 7:30pm
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center, 425
Dingxiang Rd, Pudong
Ticket: 680/480/380/180/80 yuan
HOT
5
6
Wed.
Thur.
Shanghai Opera Vocal Concert by
Yang Yin
Venue: Yifu Theater, 701 Fuzhou Rd
Ticket: 380/280/180/120/80 yuan
Born into a non-musical family, Pahud was
captivated by the sounds of the flute when
he was a child and started to learn flute
at four years old. Now based in Berlin, the
44-year-old flutist is most known for his baroque and classical repertory. He also plays
in diverse music genres including jazz, contemporary, orchestral or chamber music.
HOT
‘Tea & Coffee’ Concert
Venue: Shanghai City Theater, 4889 Dushi Rd
Ticket: 200/160/120/80 yuan
8
9
Sat.
Sun.
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Inquiry hotline: 5292-0164
Iván Fischer and Budapest Festival
Orchestra
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theater, 300 People’s Ave
Ticket: 1,280/980/780/580/380/180 yuan
12
13
Wed.
Thur.
HOT
Next
iDEAL
16 iDEAL
http://www.iDEALShanghai.com/dining
Changning
District
2) 4/F, KWah Centre, 1028
Huaihai Rd M.
Tel: 5403-8865
Tel: 6208 - 5888
www.millenniumhotels.com
Bubba's BBQ: Smoking the
good stuff since 2006
www.bubbasasia.com
• Bubba’s Hongqiao
2262 Hongqiao Rd, near
Jianhe Rd
6242-2612
• Bubba’s Expo Village
101, Expo Village, 1101 Xueye
Rd, Pudong
2206-0338
• Bubba's Riverside at the
Cool Docks
Cool Docks Section 4
653 Waima Rd (near Wangjia
Matou Rd)
5302-7588
4) 6/F, Silver Court, 228
Xizang Rd S.
Tel: 6334-3598
5) Grand Gateway Plaza, 1
Hongqiao Rd
Tel: 6407-5972
6) 331 Hongfeng Rd
Tel: 3382-1700
7) 2088 Yan’an Rd W.
Tel: 6083-7436
Element Fresh
(American)
1) 1/F, Shanghai Centre,
1376 Nanjing Rd W.
Tel: 6279-8682
Tainan Tan-TsuMien 2F (Chinese/
Taiwanese)
MELROSE (Pizza)
24/7 Pizza Delivery, Anytime!
Anywhere! Shanghai & Suzhou
1) 388 Furongjiang Rd,
Yanlord Riverside store.
2) 218 Wusong Rd, BM
Tower store
Tel: 400-88-PIZZA (74992)
Marriott Shanghai
Hotel Hongqiao
• Shark’s Fin & Rice
(Chinese)
• Marriott Café (Western)
• Manhattan Steak House
(Western)
2270 Hongqiao Rd
Tel: 6237-6000
www.marriotthotels.com
Everyday a great
experience
@ O’Café
• Semi Dinner
Buffet
@ O’Café
RMB 128 per person*
*Subject to 15% service
charge
• Free Parking
Millennium Hongqiao
Hotel Shanghai
2588 Yan An Xi Rd
Sunrise On The Bund
Crystal Café 1F
(Western)
www.hyattonthebund.cn
HYATT ON THE BUND
199 Huangpu Road
Tel: 21 6393 1234 ext 6328
Super Business Lunch Set
Menu
Starting from RMB58, enjoy
Western, Chinese, and
Japanese Set Menus.
Monday-Friday 11:30-14:00
3) 1/F, Super Brand Mall, 168
Lujiazui Rd W., Pudong
Tel: 5047-2060
Bubba’s Texas-style
Bar-B-Que and Saloon
(American)
GO
Hongkou
District
Warm your soul this winter
with Taiwanese Sugar Cane
Seafood Hot Pot (RMB128+)
and Braised Lamb Stew
(RMB138+)!
Sho-u To Japanese
Restaurant 2F
Banquet Hall 3F
7 available venues with
exquisite catering selection
Zan Teppanyaki 5F
(French/Japanese
Fusion)
L Spa 6F
Spa, Gym, Pool, Hair Salon
Old Captain Bar (136 Gao
Yang Road)
Monthly Happy Hour Event
On the 15th of every month,
rain or shine, enjoy a 50%
discount on all menu items!
*Promotions cannot be used
together and excludes bottle
prices
Daily Happy Hour
RMB85/Person Free Flow
Home Made Beer!
Live Band: ThursdaySaturday
168 Gao Yang Road
Tel: 5558 9999
www.sunrisesha.com
2nd Floor LuJiaZui, Pudong,
Shanghai, China
Tel:6877 9198
3) Hongmei Pedestrian Street
26 Hongmei Pedestrian
Street, 3338 Hongmei Rd.
(across from the pearl market)
Tel:6465 9099
4) Shanghai Science &
Technology Museum
288 Jin Yan Rd. at JinXiu Rd.
HuaMu Rd, Pudong
Tel:6845 0398
www.citybull-china.com
Huangpu
District
• VUE Bar
Tuesday After Work Party
Thursday Ladies’ Night
• VUE Restaurant
Valentine’s Day Set Dinner
Red Crustacean
VUE serves up a banquet
of shellfish appetizers all
month, with dishes like fresh
Boston lobster salad served
with basil, mint and apple,
king crab cake with creamy
mustard sauce and a lobster
glaze, and tiger prawn
cannelloni with sweet and
sour pineapple sauce.
BOCCA
Add: 5F,No.22 Zhongshan
Rd E2 near Xinyong'an
Rd
Tel: 6328-6598
Business Hour: Tue. -Sun.
11:30am-2pm & 6pm-11:30pm
Bar rouge
Founded in 2004, by the F&B
Consulting Company VOL
Group, Bar Rouge has been
a consistent trendsetter,
offering an innovative and
unique way of partying. It
has become an icon of
Shanghai’s glamorous
nightlife and its bartending
concept has been imitated
across China.
Bar Rouge is more than a
bar; it is alchemy – a magic
formula that blends the
crowd, drinks and music into
a fantastic venue where the
night becomes alive.
www.bar-rouge-shanghai.com
Bund 18, 7/F, 18 Zhongshan
Dong Yi Rd.
Tel: 6339-1199
• VUE Private Dining
Seafood Hot Pot
Hot Pot Menu was specially
created by Chef Kevin Kong
with a choice of succulent
red meat such as the finest
Wagyu beef and top grade
Mongolian baby lamb or
seafood including baby
geoduck, Australian king
scallop, Australian oyster,
Alaskan snow crab leg,
Boston lobster, and garoupa,
all served raw to dip and
simmer in a choice of stock.
Weekend All-You-Can-Eat
Nothing impresses like a
private dining room with a
magnificent view. It offers
nearly forty Eastern and
Western courses for your
weekend feast.
CITY BULL
Steakhouse & Bar
1) Nanjing Road
No.300 Nanjing Rd E.,
Pedestrian Street at Henan
Rd.(start of pedestrian street
east side)
Tel:3330 2339
2) Shanghai World Financial
Center 100 Century Avenue,
‘Shake and Bubbles’ party
fizzes in Brazilian passion
Victoria Fei
THE famous carnival in
Brazil begins at the end of
this month and the 2014 FIFA
World Cup kicks off in June,
but the party is already underway in Shanghai.
Tropical fruit, barbecue,
specially cooked black beans
and more Brazilian-inspired
food showcase the creativity
of the Renaissance Shanghai
Pudong Hotel team.
The hotel threw a “Welcome to Brazil” event on January 23, with samba
dancing, DJs, Brazilian cocktails and
cuisine as part of “Shake and Bubbles,” a monthly party organized by
the Marriott hotel group to showcase
each property and to highlight the
diversity of their different brands
in the city by bringing best food,
drinks and entertainment. Each
party has a different theme. This
event was all about Brazil, Samba
dancing and passion for football.
Silvano Dressino, general manager
of Renaissance Shanghai Pudong
Hotel, said it was an opportunity
for Chinese customers to get to
know more about Brazil, its people
and its culture. “The year 2014 is a
big sports year and the highlight is
clearly the World Cup in Brazil starting in June,” Dressino said. “Here in
Shanghai, as part of our Renaissance
culture, we inspire our customers to
discover new things and learn more
about the host country.”
“Shake and Bubbles” is a great
Silvano Dressino, general manager
of Renaissance Shanghai Pudong
Hotel, with the beauties at the party.
opportunity to showcase the lifestyle element of the Renaissance
brand.
“It’s a networking event with hotel
guests, corporate clients and industry partners, in which we show our
passion for service and creativity in
organizing events.”
To achieve an authentic Brazilian
party scene, the hotel’s team consulted Marriott sister hotels in Brazil
about indigenous drinks, food,
music playlists and decor, paying
great attention to detail.
One of the highlights at the January part was an array of cupcakes
in the shape of Brazil, as well as
Brazilian flags and footballs. They
were designed by the pastry chef for
the occasion.
“We even introduced a Brazilian chef from Latina restaurant in
Shanghai to serve typical Brazilian
churrasco barbecue,” said John
Wang, executive chef of the hotel.
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