Week6- Aylan Kurdi

Surviving family members of Aylan Kurdi have revealed how the Syrian three-year-old came to be washed up dead on a beach in Turkey on Wednesday morning.

Aylan's distraught father, Abdullah Kurdi, tried and failed to hold on to his wife and two sons after their boat to the Greek island of Kos capsized. He has reportedly now said his only wish is to return their bodies to their home town of Kobani and then “be buried alongside them”.

The family had been making the treacherous journey across Turkey to Europe in the hope of joining Abdullah’s sister, Teema Kurdi, a hairdresser who has lived in Vancouver, Canada for more than 20 years.

The Independent has taken the decision to publish the image, which some may find offensive, lower down in this article because among the often glib words about the "ongoing migrant crisis", it is all too easy to forget the reality of the desperate situation facing many refugees.

Speaking to the National Post’s Terry Glavin, Ms Kurdi said she had learned of Aylan’s death, as well as that of his brother Galip and mother Rihan, at 5am on Wednesday morning. The images of Aylan emerged in Turkish media at around midday, and have since sparked international outrage over the refugee crisis.

Glavin told BBC Radio 5 live on Thursday that Ms Kurdi had heard from family members about Abdullah’s desperate battle to save his family in the sea.

“There's a terrible story he told about swimming from one to the other, finding one [son] who seemed to be alright and then going to another, finding him drowned... and then going back to the first boy and finding him drowned,” he said.

“He made it, but his wife didn’t.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/aylan-kurdi-s-story-how-a-small-syrian-child-came-to-be-washed-up-on-a-beach-in-turkey-10484588.html

Structure of the Lead：

      WHO-Aylan Kurdi

      WHEN- on Wednesday morning.

      WHAT-the Syrian three-year-old came to be washed up dead on a beach

      WHY-no given

      WHERE-in Turkey

      HOW-no given

Keywords：

   1.reveal:揭示

   2.distraught :發狂

   3.capsized:翻船

   4.alongside:並肩

   5.treacherous :奸詐

   6.offensive:進攻

   7.glib :巧舌如黃

   8.outrage :暴行

  

Week 5-Singles’ Day

E-commerce giant Alibaba has broken its own record for sales on China's Singles Day, the world's biggest online shopping event.

By the close of trade, the site had seen sales worth 91.2bn yuan ($14.3bn; £9.4bn), a 60% increase from last year.

In comparison, sales on Cyber Monday, which is the biggest online shopping day in the US, hit $1.35bn, according to data analytics firm ComScore.

Singles Day is held every year on 11 November.

The day is also referred to as Double Eleven because of its date.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34773940

Structure of the Lead：

      WHO-no given

      WHEN- 11 November

      WHAT-E-commerce giant Alibaba has broken its own record for sales on China's Singles Day

      WHY-no given

      WHERE-In Tainan

      HOW-no given

Keywords：

   1.E-commerce:電子商務

   2.yuan:元

   3.analytic:分析

   4.firm:公司

   5.refer:參考

Week 4-dengue fever

Taipei, Oct. 31 (CNA) The dengue fever outbreak has come under control in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, where the disease has been concentrated since the start of May, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Saturday.

As of Friday, Tainan had reported 81 new cases for this week, but that was 21 fewer than the figure it reported on the same day last week, the CDC said.

The number of accumulated confirmed cases there now stands at 21,688, out of a total of 29,052 cases nationwide, CDC data showed.

However, the endemic continues unabated in neighboring Kaohsiung city, where 227 new cases were reported as of Friday this week, an increase of 77 cases from the same day last week, according to the agency.

The CDC added that while 129 patients had died from the mosquito-borne disease in Taiwan, 28 remain under intensive care units and 26,693 have recovered. 

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201510310006.aspx

Structure of the Lead：

      WHO-no given

      WHEN- Oct. 31

      WHAT-the dengue fever outbreak has come under control

      WHY-no given

      WHERE-In Tainan

      HOW-mosquito-borne

Keywords：

   1.accumlate:累積

   2.confirmed:確認

   3.endemic:流行

   4.unabated:不減

   5.agency:機構

   6.mosquito-borne:蚊子傳播