Current Event- North Korea Destroys Tower at Nuclear Site

A big explosion happened around 5 pm at June 27, 2008, and it was located at the Yongbyon nuclear complex near Pyongyang, North Korea. The destruction of the highly visible symbol of North Korea's long-secret nuclear program came just a day after the country released details of its program. It was intended to be a powerful public symbol of a move to end nuclear activities by the Communist nation once branded a member of an "axis of evil" by U.S. President George W. Bush.

China's preparation of the Olympics

Before the Olympics, all the representative people in China, which are presidents top legislator are doing their best to make the Olympics that is held at Beijing. Because this is the first time that China has a chance to have this kind of big and important activity, and this activity is international. So of course they want to show the best to everyone. For example: China's top legislator Wu Bangguo went to Beijing to check the buildings and the arrangement of the whole thing. And I think people in China are working really hard, not just on the arrangement of the Olympic thing, they also did some things that really impressed me. People in China went to learn different languages, because Olympics is a international thing. And most people learn English, because almost every country speaks English. And even the schools are teaching them hard. In preparation for the Beijing Olympics and a series of other international events, Chinese also make their security better. So some American companies are helping the Chinese government design and install one of the high-tech public surveillance systems in the world. So this thing will make the police a better way to keep the place safe. They are very confident to this activity- Olympics, because they do their best to make the Olympics looks good, and safe.

How waste and recyclable materials are being sent to China from Europe and the USA?

America people own 3 billion electronic product, for example: computers, cellphones, TVs, but they never recycle, and they also export their trash to other country. Americans discarded over 300 million units in 2005, and at least half of the US.'s e- waste are ends up by overseas, in China, India, and also in Nigeria. Still, America today still cannot and doesn't have the system or kind of facilities to fully recycle it's e- waste. In Guiyu, you can see trucks or cars that came by and going to import the trash to the China people. And Guiyu is dumped with at least 1 million tons of e-trash a year, mostly is from other countries, which is foreign. People in China also work with e- trash at a stationery factory, which is a place that you burn the trash. And normally people in China that do that is usually poor people that needs the job the most. And the thing that shocked me the most is that they don't wear mask when they are doing these burning stuffs. People doing that with no protection, and no covers(mask, eye cover). They don't even care about will they be unhealthy after these burning plastic thing. And people burn every piece of plastic scrap before sorting them, they can make $6 per day. Even some of the teenagers are involved. So we can see from this thing, because it is obvious that they really need that job. A thing that I think China didn't do well is they dump everything into the river, so the river became messy and dirty, it looks nasty. And when you start doing that(dumping the trash into the river), then you can never clean it up again. And that's bad, but people in China doesn't care, because they don't live there, so it doesn't effect them. But if they don't try to solve it, then it will be a large problem in China forever, till the world ends.

The Problems and Causes that China have by Not doing recycling

So now China is not only facing the problem of the big earthquake. They are also facing a problem of not recycling and received some plastic and other things that is recyclable from other countries. In many places in China they don't recycle, and most of it is located in cities, and places which has high populations. So here is my question. What do they do if they don't recycle?
- What do they do if they don't recycle?
Answer: What do China people do when they don't recycle? One- they burn it. Two- they hide it underground. They might burn it sometimes, it has to be something that is recyclable. But when it is things like: plastic, bottles, and some cans. If they burn it, it will ruin their air. So they will find some places that is very countryside and hide it there. They only think about themselves, but they didn't care about the people that live there. And many people drink underground water, so if they hide the trash underground, then the water might be poisoned. And it might destroy their homes too.
I think this is terrible, and it might be a reason that there is global warming. So I really want to find ways to help China. So I found a really great group called: "The Gold Leader Enterprises Limited" It is a company that was set up in August, 1990. The company is located in the Zhong Tang Economic Development District, Dongguan City. The company is specialized in importanting Virgin Plastic Materials from Japan, Thailand, USA... etc. and scrap from USA and Europe. This company got a website: (http://www.goldleaderent.com/home.php)

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The scientist from NASA, they are working on a project which is "faster, better, cheaper". And the cheaper part of faster, better, cheaper led to not enough/inadequate testing of the parts and design of the lander. They did the Phoenix Mars Lander celebration after the spacecraft landed successfully on Mars.

Current Event- An Earthquake happened in China

There was a earthquake happened at China. And the earthquake is as big as a horrible tornado. There are 107 people that are dead, and 900 students that are buried under the collapsed school, as you can see, this earthquake is much much....... bigger than the earthquake in Taiwan. And some people calculate that this earthquake is 2 more times bigger than the 921 earthquake(which is the biggest earthquake in Taiwan). And there were a water tower fell in the city of Mianyang. This news socked almost everyone in the world and we should all think about it. I think maybe it is related to global warming, and so we need to be alert.

Current Event- Volcano Awakens

There was a horrible disaster happened in Chile, a volcano in Chile was erupted. This volcano is a dormant volcano, because it has not erupted for thousand of years, but this volcano just erupted yesterday May 8th. And it was really a big disaster, so the people around there were worry about it very much, because it might erupt someday sometime, and if it gets even bigger, then it might kill them. And the ashes are all over the city and village, so the people are all wearing masks. Fortunately, the helicopters had saved most of the people to a safer place. People are saved, but the animals are not. So they are very worried, but they don't know what would happen to them. Even though that they think the animals might die, but still they can't help it. Okay, so that is a very scary story. But now I am going to tell you about the environment of Chile, because the environment might related to this volcano eruption. Chile is located on south America's western coast, and bordering the pacific ocean. Chile is a land of geographical contrast, from the desert in the north, and the subantarctic in the south. And volcanoes are the only natural disasters that really affects the country very much.
I think this is terrible!!!! Even though I didn't have a experience of volcano eruptions before, but I can still feel the situation of ashes flowing all over the city, and everyone can't brief without masks. That is really scary, I hope it won't happen in Taiwan or anywhere.