With bullets flying, downtown Bangkok is an urban war zone

Link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011883084_thailand17.html

SUMMARY:

According to Seattletimes.com, the journalist is JOCELYN GECKER who wrote about the situation of Thailand Civil War, and the journalists also told Thailand civil war has so many people were dead. The Civil war happened since so many people from Red Shirt group had stroked to require the Government has to disband, but the President of Thailand is Abhisit Vejjajiva and his Government didn’t follow Red Shirt group’s request. That is the first cause of Thailand Civil War. The Government and Red Shirt group negotiated together, but the situation became more tense than before. The result is the army and Red Shirt group fought together, and the army has killed more than 30 people from Red Shirt group, and also Red Shirt group rioted everything in Bangkok. The fight between the army and Red Shirt group whenever can happen, so the Government advised everyone shouldn’t hang out and go to some street where Red Shirt group is occupying because a few day before, some people died because of bullets flying of the army and Red Shirt group. The life in Bangkok is deadlock because everywhere in Bangkok is the battlefield of the army and Red Shirt group, and the schools, hospital and supermarket closed. People in Bangkok want to evacuate, but it’s difficult because they can’t go out, and the fight is happening.


PERSONAL RESPONSE:

I think that is a bad things in Bangkok, and I also know Thailand has a long time on the disorderliness of political, but this is the first time that I see the disorderliness of political’s effect. I think the Government and Red Shirt group should be restraint and they should negotiate again. They should give the best way for the peace because if they fight together, both of them don’t have the gain, and the number dead will be much more. I disagree with the situation in Thailand. We hope that a few days to go the situation will improve.


VOCABULARY:

1- The Land of Smiles, urban warfare is raging outside luxury high-rises……
- Warfare (n): The act of waging war.
2- He photographed the gruesome scene….
- Gruesome(adj): Causing horror and repugnance, frightful and shocking.
3- Bloody bodies are being dragged down the pavement to waiting ambulances….
- Pavement (n): A paved surface.

Mariners reach .500 with 6-5 win at Kansas City

Link :http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mariners/2011727873_mari29.html

According to Seattletimes.com, Mariners was winning at Kansas City, and the article also told about Chone Figgins who is the member of Mariners. After the game, he told about his feeling when his team mates and he tried to compete to get the scores for their team. He felt very comfortable and admitted that wild victory by his Mariners. In the time of game, his team mates and he have to deal with 13,206 fans at Kauffman Stadium, but they didn’t feel nervous. Figgins and Ichiro who is Figgins’s team mate got many points for their team, and finally their team won.
My opinion: I didn’t watch this game, and when I read the article, I was very happy that Mariners won. I think Figgins and his team mates are the best players, and they made Mariners’s victory.
1- the wind and sun had wreaked……
- Wreak ( v ): To inflict
2- Instead of the inning being over right there, two runs scored and then an ensuing two-run triple tied the game and ruined Rowland-Smith's day.
- Ensue ( v ): To take place subsequently.
3- But he made up for it with a defensive gem to end the eighth…..
- Defensive ( adj ): Of, intended, or done for defense.

Air Travel Crisis Deepens as Europe Fears Wider Impact

Link :http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/europe/18ash.html?hp

According to The New York Times, we have to deal with the disaster of Volcano from Icelandic made the economy was going down, and it made many people couldn’t go out of Europe because many flight had to cancel. With the weather in Europe was bad, so in last week 17,000 flights were cancel. Many people had to find the way as they would go out Europe by the vehicles or they would wait the disaster was end, but it was very difficult for them to do that. Closing of the airlines made many aviation companies had to deal with suffering from the economic crisis. The disaster estimated to be costing airlines 200 million a day, and it influenced many people who work in airlines.

My opinion: This is the disaster for many people who wanted to go out of Europe or wanted go to there and the airlines, it made the situation were very bad. Also I know that many people, airlines were waiting Government accepted the flights would be active because they admitted that the weather didn’t prevent those flight, and I think so because if we don’t do that, the economy will go down.
1- The air travel shutdown could affect productivity……
- Productivity ( n ): the efficiency
2- But unless flights are disrupted for week…..
- Disrupt ( v ): To throw into confusion.
3- The shutdown has also affected American military operations.
- Operation ( n ): A method or way of operating.

Kyrgyzstan Uprising Forces President To Go Into Hiding

According to USA Today newspaper, Kyrgyzstan had to deal with the civil war. The citizen and the opposite side of Kyrgyzstan wanted to subvert Bakiyev, who was the president of Kyrgyzstan and his government. After many days the fact had happened, the president of Kyrgyzstan ran away. Nobody in this country knew where their president had lurked, but he declared on Thursday that he would not renounce his duty and authority. Everyone in Kyrgyzstan raised a strong protest against him, and Kyrgyzstan also had the provisional government. The opposite leader Roza Otunbayeva said that the parliament had no longer worked and she would run the government for six months until the elections were organized. She also waited for the president Bakiyev to resign. Bakiyev in Russian radio station said that he didn’t accept to lose in any way, and he also said that he hadn't had any power of a president.

However, Kyrgyzstan needed time to be settled in everything. Otunbayeva said they needed time to recover. Kyrgyzstan needed a new government and a new president because the situation in Kyrgyzstan was very bad; every day many countries were observing the situation to help Kyrgyzstan. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that President Obama had been handling the situation.

1- Lights in most buildings were turned off over fears they would attract gunfire……

· Gunfire (n ) : The firing of guns

2- ……the same accusations of corruption and cronyism that led to the ouster of his predecessor….

· Corruption ( n ) : To give something especial, very unrighteous.

3- He had ensured a measure of stability……

· Measure ( n ) : The dimensions, quantity as ascertained by measuring.

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