• 10AM EZ News Intro
• 10AM -- TAIWAN NEWS
• ukraine
• haiti
• explosion
• whisky/brandy
• WEATHER AM ........
• 10AM EZ News Outro

 

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Subject: 10AM EZ News Intro
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Good morning. It's 10 o'clock. I'm _______ and time for EZ News on ICRT.

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Subject: 10AM -- TAIWAN NEWS
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in local news ...

No damage or injuries were reported after yesterday's 6.3 magnitude
earthquake.

The quake -- which struck at 2:10 yesterday afternoon -- was centered
165-kilometers off the southeast coast in Hualien at a depth of 15-kilometers
and was felt across the island.

Residents of Hualien, Yilan and Taidong counties experienced the strongest
jolt -- with the quake measuring 3 on the Richter Scale in much of the three
counties.

The quake registered a magnitude 2 in 18 of the island's cities ... including
Taipei, Taichong, Taoyuan, Gaoxiong and Xinchu.

According to the head of the Central Weather Bureau's seismology office ...
the quake was a result of a collision between the Eurasian and Philippine sea
plates.

The tembler was the first magnitude 6 and above to hit Taiwan this year.

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The Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission says the Ma administration is
set to reverse Taipei's longstanding policy toward the regions.

According to commission Chairman -- Gao Su-bo -- the government will stop
pushing for expansions of relations between the three regions and instead
focus on promoting cross-strait exchanges.

The statement comes amid continuing plans by the Ma administration to combine
the commission with the Mainland Affairs Council by 2012.

Gao added that he believes the move will enable his office to find its
"constitutional" place when dealing with Mongolian and Tibetan affairs.

However ... the plan has drawn flak from several former commission officials
-- who have charged that it will lead to a lose of trust by Mongolia and
Tibet in Taipei.

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Subject: ukraine
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Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich is claiming victory in Ukraine's
presidential elections.

He is telling his riavl, Yulia Tymoshenko to resign as prime minister, but
she is refusing to concede.

Yanukovich's camp says it has counted 82 percent of the vote in a parallel
count, which shows him leading Tymoshenko by 4.5 percent.

Yanukovich, an ex-mechanic who wants better ties with Moscow, has promised
quick reforms to overcome Ukraine's deep economic crisis.

Tymoshenko was the co-architect of Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution, when
mass street protests overturned an initial Yanukovich election victory
tainted by fraud.

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Subject: haiti
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Hundreds of Haitian earthquake survivors are protesting in a suburb of the
wrecked capital ... accusing a district mayor of corruption and hoarding food
aid provided by relief groups.

The protest in the Petionville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince was one of the
largest since the January 12th quake that killed more than 200-thousand
people and left over 1 million homeless.

It reflects still simmering anger among survivors over problems in the
massive international relief effort.

Aid agencies from around the world have moved tons of rice and other food
into Haiti ... but distributions to the hungry and homeless have been slow
and sometimes chaotic.

Aid agencies are giving out food to women to prevent men from dominating
distribution sites, and because they believe women are more likely to share
it with children and relatives.

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in news from the U-S ...

At least five people were killed and 12 injured yesterday when a massive
explosion rocked a large gas-fired power plant being built in Middletown,
Connecticut.

Fire officials say a natural gas leak caused the blast during testing at the
Kleen Energy Systems facility.

The plant was 95 percent complete and due to come online this summer as the
largest electricity generating plant in New England.

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Subject: whisky/brandy
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Five crates of Scotch whisky and brandy belonging to the polar explorer
Ernest Shackleton have been recovered, after spending more than 100 years
buried under ice.

They were dug up from beneath Shackleton's Antarctic hut, which was built in
1908 for a failed expedition to the South Pole.

The Scottish company that made the whisky has described the find as a 'gift
from the heavens' for whisky connoisseurs.

As our U-K correspondent Olly Barratt reports.

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Subject: WEATHER AM ........
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rain in the north, center and east ....
and partly cloudy skies in the south

.... highs of 22 in the north and northeast
26 in the center
and 28 in the south and southeast .......


Current temperatures are ...

Taipei -- 21

Taichong -- 20

Gaoxiong -- 22

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Subject: 10AM EZ News Outro
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That's EZ News at 10. I'm _____