Cyclone-hit Banglahdeshi needs billiions to recover

Banglahdeshi faces a multibillion-dollar battle to get cyclone survivors back on their feet and repair damaged infrastructure after Cyclone Sidir . Cyclone Sidir hit the Banglahdeshi coast on Nov 15, killing 3,300 people and 800 more are still missing and presume dead.$3.2 billion have been donated by other country so far.

Views->Countries shoould donate more so that they could recover from their loses, and the government could built homes for the victims.

New Word
interim-> having temporary effect: serving as a temporary measure until something more complete and permanent can be established

Snatch theift jailed-he was nabbed by resturant staff

He grabbed a woman handbag at a restuarant and almost got away with it- but for the quick thinking of the two staff members of the restuarant.The two gave chase and managed to wrestle him to the ground neat the staircase outside the shopping centre. Yesterday, Tan Kie Tiong,38, was jailed for a total of 31 and a half years for stealing the handbag and its contents worth $997 and for assualting a restuarant waiter.

Views->The two resturant staff who nabbed the theif should be rewarded as the risk their life to get the handbag back as the theif might be arm with a knife.

New Word
remission->a lessening or a reduction in the severity of something

Meat cheats nabbed by NEA

As cost and competition escalate, 31 pork retailers have been fined $300 each for trying to pass of thawed frozen pork as chilled fresh pork.Two were supermarkets, while the other were retailers at wet and dry markets. It declined to reveal names, as they were first-time offenders.A pork retailer at a wet market said some stallholder resort to such methods as competition from supermarkets has made it difficult to earn a profit. Of the 13 stalls selling pork at the market,he claimed, two or three mixed frozen pork in with the chilled pork alternative.

Views->They should impose a heavier fine for those who try to pass of thawed frozen pork as chilled fresh pork as thawed meat the is refrozen carriers a "risk of contamination" and could result in food poisoning.

Boy kills brother 9, with grandfather's gun

The victim and his 11-year-old brother were alone in their grandfather's orchard when their grandfather had gone to the mosque for prayers.The brothers, together with four friends toyed around with the gun for a while before the victim went to rest on the hammock. As the elder brother was walking down the steps with the shotgun, he tripped and the gun went off killing his little brother.

Views-> Guns should not be allowed to be purchase, as it is a dangerous object which have killed many people.

New Words
distruaght->extremely upset: extremely upset and distressed

China may sue over German Terracotta scam

Chinese cultural authories may take legal action over fake "Terracotta Warriors" that appeared at a German museum. Shaanxi's authority in charge of the orginal 2,200-year-old life-size clay soldiers,said it had not sent any artefacts fot the exhibition at the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology. The Hamburg Museum admitted on Thursday that it eight clay statue on display is fake.

Views->China should not sue them as they were only showing the statue and they never claimed it was real, also on a radio station a lot of people say they don't care if the warriors are real or fakes,they just want to see it .