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Education ministry experts want to know what is “serious” school abuse

2016年11月18日

  A council of scholars are calling the attention of the Education Ministry to specify “serious” bullying and create guidelines for investigation. The standard law decreed the schools and boards of education to establish teams to investigate on “serious” school bullying cases, which are detrimental to students’ development. Despite this decree, the scope of “serious” cases under the law is nebulous so response of authorities are inefficient. The ministry must enumerate comprehensive examples of grave penalties for bullying so that “serious” cases will be defined. The scholars also required the ministry to create concrete guidelines on how to scrutinize cases of bullying, which includes: selection of third-party committee members, investigation…
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China’s October Exports, Imports Drop

2016年11月15日

  China’s October exports declined 7.3 percent, while imports dwindled 1.4 percent compared with preceding year’s figures–both dropped more than what’s expected. According to the General Administration of Customs, China currently has a trade surplus of $49.06 billion for October as a result. Compared against September’s trade surplus of $41.99 billion, their forecast is to have inflated to $51.70 billion. Analysts said that the changes in statistics lead to the recurring slack global demand.   Vocabulary: dwindle – to gradually become smaller preceding – existing, happening trade surplus – a situation in which a country sells more to other countries than it buys from other countries forecast – to say…
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Paris reveals plans to win back tourists

2016年11月15日

The French government publicized their new scheme in revitalizing the agitating tourism industry of Paris. This scheme of French government includes the employment of English-speaking tourism volunteers. The administration is also pushing for the term ‘state of emergency’ to be changed to ‘state of high security’. Terror attacks and flooding in France led to a 13% fall in visitor numbers between January and August this year, compared to the same period in 2015. It caused the loss of €1billion in monthly tourism revenue. The authorities came with their six-point plan to attract foreign sightseer back to the French capital. The plan will mainly focus on security, hospitality, and quality of…
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United Nations talks about climate change

2016年11月15日

MARRAKESH, MOROCCO– Fifteen thousand negotiators, CEOs and activists congregate for the Paris Agreement amidst US Elections. The Paris Agreement binds all countries equally to offset global warming. Despite the congregation of 196 nations for the twelve-day UN talks, the world is focused on the United States elections that could propel climate denier Donald Trump to the White House. US President Barack Obama warns that all the steps made for climate change now depends on the votes of the American citizens. Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton promised to preserve Obama’s policies in the cessation of global warming. Issues on each nations’ CO2 emissions shall be addressed in 2018. 2018 shall also be…
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Skin Patch for Children with Peanut Allergies

2016年11月15日

A new method to fight off peanut allergy has been devised that makes use of a wearable skin patch which trains the body to build up immunity to peanuts. According to a research published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, it had a fifty-percent success rate on its initial test run that enabled takers to tolerate doses of peanut protein that are 10 times more than they could before undergoing the therapy Children from ages 4 to 11 years old are found to benefit more from the immunotherapy. Those who are older than 12, on the other hand, didn’t seem to enjoy the same advantage. Although the method…
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Lowest bus service in Tokyo and Narita

2016年11月11日

Finding the cheapest transport to get to Tokyo from Narita is a worthy quest since Narita airport is not in the middle of Tokyo. The transport service to and from Tokyo is indeed pricey. However, an economical transport connecting Narita International Airport and Osaki station in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo was launched last Monday. The leading-edge for transport is now available for as low as ¥1,000 to ¥1,200. The Access Narita is the cheapest bus preference as of the moment. The said company claimed that their services is the most fitting transport service due to its features and amenities. Thus people anticipate that lowering the transport service fee will ease access…
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Human Antibodies Produced in Cows Counter Contagious Diseases

2016年11月8日

  A new method has been devised to counter contagious diseases by producing copious human antibodies in cows. The said technology engineered by SAB Biotherapeutics, a private biomedical company in South Dakota, follows the same procedure done during the Ebola outbreak when doctors injected plasma from recuperating patients to affected patients. Although the method was a success, it only worked on a small scale. The amount of plasma extracted from recovering patients was not enough to battle the outbreak; that’s when cows come into the picture. The human body can produce 4 liters of antibodies in a month at an average, which can be dwarfed easily by a cow’s ability…
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Kellogg’s Cereal Continue To Lose Sales

2016年11月8日

  Kellogg’s sales percentage goes through a rough patch for the seventh time. 2016 third-quarter reports show a comparable difference of 2.3% on net sales. The American multinational food manufacturing company account the extended shortfall on sales to the declining demand for cereals in the US and the UK. On the contrary, John Bryant, Kelloggs Chairman and CEO, says that their third-quarter earnings exceeded their expectations. Dr. Dimitrios Tsivrikos, a business psychologist at University College London, assumes that the deteriorating figures could be due to people’s differing breakfast habits. He elaborates that a lot of individuals allot only five to six minutes on their first meal, and are looking for…
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Lab grown stem cells are developed

2016年11月8日

  Mouse eggs are fertiled to produce offspring in the lab. This experiment is done by Japanese scientists. They have said that the experiment might be too risky and contentious if this will be done in human reproduction. Good thing about this experiment is that it may be useful to treat infertility but the process is going to be complicated. Embryos will turn to be normal but it’ll be fewer than expected. Lab-grown eggs will possibly have abnormalities. Stem cells that fertilized in the lab as well were grown into mature eggs. The data gathered interest not just the scientists but also the clinical interests to patients who lacks eggs…
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More low-cost options for smartphones

2016年11月8日

  Options for mobile carriers are stretching wider range unlike never before; as both small telcos and major phone carriers have started offering cheaper mobile plans on different data transmissions. While low-cost carriers capitalize on introducing flat-rates on both limited and unlimited call lengths, Telco giants, on the other hand, are trying to accommodate consumers with affordable mobile services under different brand names. The 5gb data volume on smartphones from low-cost service providers that starts at ¥2,000 a month (excluding the consumption tax) is a winning deal as compared to the same data package from bigtime carriers that starts their pricing at ¥7,000. In fact, a research by MM Research…
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