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- China Company Halts Compensation for Suicide Victims' Families
- 中國公司停止對自殺者家屬發放撫恤金
- Chinese electronics manufacturer Foxconn says it will stop offering financial compensation to the families of employees who kill themselves, in an effort to stop a recent spate of suicides.
- 中國電子製造商富士康公司表示，公司將停止對自殺工人的家屬發放撫恤金，目的是設法阻止最近接連發生的自殺事件。
- Eleven workers have killed themselves at Foxconn plants in China this year.
- 在中國的富士康工廠今年以來已經有 11 名工人死亡。
- Chinese state media (Xinhua) reported Tuesday that most victims' families receive more than $14,600 in compensation.
- 中國官方媒體新華社週二報道說，大多數遇難者家屬獲得超過 1 萬 4600 美元的賠償。
- The report cites Foxconn officials who say they have solid evidence that some employers killed themselves for the financial payoff.
- 報道引述富士康官員的話說，他們有確鑿的證據顯示，一些工人自殺是為了讓家人得到撫恤金。
- Foxconn, which manufacturers products for companies including Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, recently announced plans to raise salaries by up to 66 percent to improve working conditions.
- 富士康為一些電子製造商代工生產產品，包括蘋果公司，惠普和戴爾等；富士康最近宣佈計劃提高工人的工資高達 66 %，以改善工作條件。
- Shares in Foxconn's parent corporation, Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, fell in recent trading due to concerns that the pay increase will cut into profits.
- 富士康母公司台灣鴻海精密工業公司的股票價格在近期的交易中下跌；投資者擔心給工人加薪會減少利潤。
- Protesters demonstrated outside of Hon Hai's shareholder meeting in Hong Kong Tuesday, calling on Apple to put more pressure on the company to improve labor conditions.
- 抗議者星期二在鴻海香港股東大會會場外面舉行示威，要求蘋果公司向富士康施加更大的壓力，改善勞動條件。
- Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has expressed concern about the recent deaths at plants that make Apple's iPhone, but has denied the factories are sweatshops.
- 蘋果首席執行官史蒂夫‧喬布斯已經表示對生產蘋果公司 iPhone 工廠最新發生的工人死亡事件表示關注，但他否認這些加工廠是血汗工廠。
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- Coast Guard: Efforts to Contain Oil Spill Are Progressing
- 艾倫上將表示：漏油收集工作取得進展
- The Obama administration says efforts to contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are making progress, with more oil captured each day.
- 歐巴馬政府表示，控制墨西哥灣泄漏的石油的工作正在取得進展，每天收集的石油都有增加。
- Speaking to reporters in Washington Tuesday, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said almost 15,000 barrels of oil were contained in the past 24 hours, up from about 11,000 barrels the previous day.
- 美國海岸警衛隊海軍上將泰德-艾倫星期二在華盛頓對記者說，過去 24 小時內已經收集大約 1 萬 5 千桶石油，而前一天則收集了 1 萬 1 千桶石油。
- Allen leads the government's response to the crisis.
- 艾倫上將領導政府處理石油危機的工作。
- He says vessels on the surface collecting the oil have yet to reach their maximum capacity.
- 他說，海上收集石油的船隻還沒有裝滿。
- Oil continues to escape from the leaking well, and Allen says experts led by the U.S. Geological Survey are working on finding an accurate flow-rate estimate to determine how much oil has been released into the Gulf.
- 石油繼續從破裂的油井中泄漏出來。艾倫上將說，由美國地質調查局領導的專家正努力制定精確的流量估計，以確定已經流入墨西哥灣的石油總量。
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