• 10AM EZ News Intro
• 10AM TAIWAN NEWS ....
• mideast
• pakistan
• australia
• gulf
• 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 ...

Residents of Mai-liao Township in Yunlin County have signed an agreement with
Formosa Plastics for finanical compensation.

The move comes over a month since two fires at the company's Yunlin County
refinery led to residents launching protests.

Protesters accused Formosa Plastics of creating long-term pollution to the
environment.

The agreement will see Formosa pay some 250 million N-T in electricity and
medical cost subsidies over the coming 12-months to residents of the
township.

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The Ministry of Foriegn Affairs is reiterating the Ma administration's aim of
achieving "meaningful participation" in international organizations.

The statement comes two weeks ahead of the United Nations' annual General
Assembly.

Ministry officials say the government hopes to gain participate in the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the International Civil
Aviation Organization in the coming months.

International support for Taiwan's efforts has come from the European
Parliament, the Australian Parliament and the United States Senate.

Taipei is expected to ask its diplomatic allies to state its case in the
65-th session of the U-N General Assembly - which is scheduled to open on
September 14-th in New York.

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The L-P-G-A Tour has confirmed that Taiwan will be included in the tour from
next year.

The inaugural event will take place at the Sunrise Golf & Country Club in
Taoyuan County next October.

The L-P-G-A-sanctioned event will be co-sponsored by the Golf Association of
Republic of China.

The four-round tournament will not have a cut, and the field will be made up
of the top 80 L-P-G-A Tour members and 10 host country exemptions.

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Subject: mideast
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in world news ...

In an early sign of promise, Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged in a
friendly first round of talks to keep meeting at regular intervals.

The two sies aim to nail down a framework to overcome deep disputes and
achieve lasting peace within a year.

As their facilitator-in-chief, U-S Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas to rise above the suspicion and skepticism that has blocked
peace efforts for decades.

The eventual aim is the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state beside a
secure Israel.

Netanyahu and Abbas will meet again on September 14th and 15th in the Middle
East, probably at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik.

However, there is a major obstacle. Israel's moratorium on Jewish settlement
construction in the disputed West Bank is due to expire September 26th.

The Palestinians have said that unless the freeze is extended, the peace
talks will quickly collapse.

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The International Monetary Fund has granted Pakistan 450 million U-S dollars
in emergency flood aid to help the country cope with its worst-ever
humanitarian disaster.

Separately, the World Bank has added 100 million dollars to its flood-related
support, bringing the total to one billion dollars.

The U-N has warned that international aid is almost at a standstill, and that
only about two-thirds of its emergency appeal has been met.

United Nations spokesman Farhan Haq said aid agencies are still struggling to
reach thousands of survivors.

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The devastating floods have affected more than 18 million people in Pakistan,
including 8 million who need emergency assistance to survive.

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One of four independent politicians in Australia has pledged support for
Prime Minister Julia Gillard's attempts to form a government.

Two weeks after the 21st August elections, neither Gillard's Labor Party nor
the Liberal-led coalition has managed to create the next Australian
government.

But Andrew Wilkie, who represents Denison in Tasmania, has now backed Gillard.

Wilkie says independents should quickly make a decision.

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The remaining independents have been in talks with the Prime Minister and her
rival Tony Abbott.

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An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast in the U-S today
... the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months.

This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.

The company that owns the platform, Houston-based Mariner Energy, does not
know what caused the fire.

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Subject: WEATHER AM .....
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expect scattered showers across nearly all of the island today ... with highs
of between 32 and 34


Current Temperatures ....

Taipei -- 32

Taichung -- 31

Gaoxiong -- 30

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