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Fraudulent
oil firm raided (By Ted Chen ,The China Post)
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Prosecutors yesterday
raided the Changhua-based manufacturing facilities of Tatung Changchi Foodstuff
Factory Co. Ltd. (大統長基食品) to verify allegations of false advertisement and tainted products
against the company.
According to reports, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA, 食品藥物管理局) received a tip-off from the public on Aug. 28, raising concerns of
impure products being sold by the company. Following a monthlong investigation,
prosecutors yesterday afternoon stormed the company's facilities.
Prosecutors say they uncovered deceptive
advertising practices regarding a number of the firm's products. Most
scathingly, many of the company's cooking oils products contained no traces of
advertised ingredients, said investigators. Peanut and chili oils sold by the
company contained no traces of peanuts and chilies.
Most notably, the firm's purported
100-percent premium olive oil products were found to be not made from olives.
Prosecutors found that premium olive oils sold by the company were composed
entirely of cheaper low-grade cooking oils which were mixed with additives to
take on the guise and taste of olive oil. Investigators found that the company
had employed the use of copper cholorphyllin, an additive made from plant
extracts. The substance is permitted for use as food coloring in the European
Union, but its food use in the U.S. is limited to dry citrus beverages,
according to reports.
The company makes more than 100 types of
cooking oil products, some under its own brands and some as a contract
manufacturer for other brands. According to prosecutors, over half of the
companies were deemed questionable following the investigation yesterday.
According to the Ministry of Health and
Welfare (MHW, 衛服部),
depending on the conclusion of the investigations and severity of the
infractions, the company may be punished with a maximum fine of NT$15 million,
with management liable to prison sentences under three years. The company's
products have since been pulled from shelves nationwide.
Questions:
1. What do you think the fraudulent oil case?
How to tell if your olive oil is the real thing?
2. What do you think fake food?
3. Do you know what you're eating? Do you care?
4. Can you help us list the harmful food we should never eat?
How to avoid eating harmful food?
5. Does media influence your decisions in many ways?( buying products)
How much are you influenced by advertising?
6. What would you do to this fake oil case if you were the head of food and drug administration? Or a city mayor?
7. Should we increase punishments for food fraud?
8. Do you ever check food instructions when you buying food products?
最佳城市
The
World's Most Reputable Cities (Forbes Susan Adams)
What cities around the globe have the best
all-around reputations? What does that even mean and why does it matter? The
Reputation Institute, a global private consulting firm based in New York and
Copenhagen, has just released its third annual list of 100 cities, ranked
according to ratings in three categories: advanced economy, appealing
environment and effective government. According to the Institute’s managing
partner Fernando Prado, the list shows where people and companies are most and
least likely to want to visit, do business and invest.
Topping the list this year: Sydney,
followed by Toronto, Stockholm, Vienna and Venice. At the bottom of the list,
not surprisingly: Cairo, Nairobi, Karachi, Tehran and Baghdad, in last place.
Within the three categories, they ranked
cities on 13 attributes. The two most important, according to Prado: whether
the city is considered beautiful, and whether it is a safe place for visitors
and residents.
After those threshold questions,
respondents answered queries about cities’ economies, including whether they
produce a wide array of unique products and services, whether they house the
headquarters of leading companies, and whether the cities are technologically
advanced, financially stable, have potential for growth and are generally a
favorable environment for doing business.
In the government category, in addition to
safety, it asked about the structure of political and legal institutions,
whether the cities follow “progressive social, economic, and environmental
policies,” whether the transportation and communications infrastructure works
and whether they are “run by well-respected leaders.”
Aside from the No. 1 and 2 cities, Sydney
and Toronto, the top of the list is dominated by small European cities.
Florence is No. 6 and Edinburgh No. 7. A second Canadian city, Vancouver, comes
in at No. 14, followed by a second Australian city, Melbourne, at No. 15. (Taiwan
at No.69)
New York ranked No. 10. But it just doesn’t measure up to cities like Stockholm and Amsterdam when it comes to day-to-day quality of life and security from crimes like robberies.
Prado says that international media attention, including fictional films and TV shows, can have a strong impact on a city’s reputation, regardless of the facts. For instance, Bogota, Colombia ranks near the bottom of the list, at No. 89, because of the country’s reputation as a crime-ridden haven for drug dealers, even though both Rio de Janeiro (No. 64) and Sao Paulo (No. 72) have rising crime rates.
Questions:
1. Which city do you think is best to live around the world?
Can you list the world's 3 best cities to
live in the world?
2. In your opinion, which cities are the
best to live in: Taiwan?
3. What are the factors you take into
account before moving to a new city?
4. Where do you prefer to live? The city or
the countryside? -
Reasons you should live southern cities/ northern cities in twain?
5. Should you consider moving new cities
for job opportunities?
6. Do you consider safety, transportation and infrastructure
when moving to a new place? Do you consider friends when moving to a new place?
7. What city has the lowest crime rate in Taiwan?
Where is the safest city in Taiwan?
8. What country has the lowest crime rate/
highest crime rate in the world?
【簡嘉宏╱綜合報導】全球顧問公司「聲譽機構」日前公布全球百大城市聲譽調查報告，前三名分別為澳洲雪梨、加拿大多倫多與瑞典斯德哥爾摩，亞洲城市排行以日本大阪第26名最佳，台北名列第69，比去年退步15名。台北市政府昨表示，將在了解評比內容後，針對缺失來改進。
雪梨全球居冠
在前十名中，除冠亞軍雪梨與多倫多，其餘8個城市都位於歐陸。
大阪亞洲第一
亞洲城市中，日本東京排名第30，僅次大阪，台北則名列第69名，較去年的54名退步，排亞太第11。南韓首爾名列第71名。中國則以香港表現最佳，排名第54名，其次為第75名的上海與第77名的澳門，廣州與北京分列第81與82名。
台北市政府發言人張其強表示，台北已是國際城市，國際上的競爭既激烈又殘酷，不論城市治理、建設、投資環境與軟實力，市府都將繼續努力。
全球城市聲譽部分排名
2 （22） 加拿大多倫多
3 （9） 瑞典斯德哥爾摩
14 （1） 加拿大溫哥華
26 （14） 日本大阪
30 （28） 日本東京
48 （48） 新加坡
50 （34） 印尼峇里島
54 （66） 中國香港
66 （59） 馬來西亞吉隆坡
69 （54） 台灣台北
75 （77） 中國上海
註：（）內為去年排名
10月10日 紅河谷 健行剪影
說吧!英文讀書會
每周一句 10/20
the transience of life生命的無常 
2. "the transient beauty of youth" 稍縱即逝的青春
3. the transience of life and happiness
4. If your grandmother is always talking about how quickly the years go by, she is focused on life's transience, or briefness.
transience 轉瞬即逝/無常
-----Something that seem to be over in an instant.
-----not lasting, enduring, or permanent
相關例句:
1. There is a sense of transience about her.
她给人一種轉瞬即逝的感覺。
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