• 3PM Intro
• DPP: Tourism Not Up to Snuff
• DPP blasts Opening of Strait Midline
• President Manuel Zelaya Warned to Stay Away
• The UN's top health official Calls Flu Unstoppable
• Rogue Broker Blamed for Spike in Oil Prices
• weather
• 3PM Outro

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Subject: 3PM Intro
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Good afternoon. It's 3 o'clock. I'm _______

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Subject: DPP: Tourism Not Up to Snuff
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The opposition is blasting the government's decision to allow greater numbers
of Chinese tourists in Taiwan, saying it is causing the country's tourism
industry to deteriorate.

Led by legislator Cai tong-rong, the DPP lawmakers said that President Ma
Ying-jeou claimed that mainland visitors would bring business worth 60
billion NT annually, but the numbers so far don't support him.

They also say that the arrival of so many Chinese has turned back the clock
on tourism quality here, putting current levels the same as in the 70s.

Cai said that not only has the opening to Chinese tourists not improved
Taiwan's tourism industry, it has also driven away visitors from other
countries.

Another lawmaker added that the mainlanders aren't spending as much as
forecast, and occupancy in local hotels is down from the same period last
year.

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Subject: DPP blasts Opening of Strait Midline
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The DPP is blasting the suggestion that Taiwan and China open up the midline
of the Taiwan Strait.

Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office head Wang Yi suggested that the two sides
could sign a memorandum of understanding to that effect.

Wang said that this could lead to greater trust between the two militaries,
which could help resolve the issue of the missiles China has pointed at the
island.

However, the DPP says this idea would be tantamount to giving up Taiwan's
defenses against the mainland, and they will oppose it to the end.

They say that the nation's security takes precedence over everything else,
and this suggestion doesn't merit any consideration at all.

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Subject: President Manuel Zelaya Warned to Stay Away
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An interim government in Honduras warned ousted President Manuel Zelaya to
stay away but indicated it could be more conciliatory in talks today with the
Organization of American States over the country's crisis.

Roberto Micheletti, head of a caretaker leadership set up after an army coup,
said he welcomed the chance to talk with OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel
Insulza, who was expected to arrive in Honduras early today with an ultimatum
to reinstate Zelaya or be suspended from the regional body.

Micheletti said he could be open to holding an early presidential election
and even a plebiscite on bringing Zelaya back to serve the last few months of
his term.

Insulza was cautious however, telling reporters late yesterday he doubted he
could defuse the crisis in one visit.

The new Honduran administration has so far rebuffed any attempt to bring back
Zelaya, who was ousted in a dawn coup in a dispute over presidential term
limits.

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Subject: The UN's top health official Calls Flu Unstoppable
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The UN's top health official has convened a forum in Mexico on swine flu,
reportedly saying there's no way to stop the spread of the disease.

The BBC quotes World Health Organization head Margaret Chan as saying with
well over 100 countries reporting cases, once a fully fit pandemic virus
emerges, its further international spread is unstoppable.

However, the reports also has her stressing that the overwhelming majority of
patients experienced mild symptoms and made a full recovery within a week,
often in the absence of any form of medical treatment.

The exceptions, she said, were pregnant women and people with underlying
health problems, who were at higher risk from complications from the virus
and should be monitored if they fell ill.

As the summit opened, the UK alone was projecting more than 100,000 new cases
of H1N1 a day by the end of the summer.

Leaders and experts from 50 countries are in Cancun for the two-day meeting
to discuss strategies for combating the virus.

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Subject: Rogue Broker Blamed for Spike in Oil Prices
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The startling spike in oil prices to their highest level this year on Tuesday
is being blamed on a rogue broker who placed a massive bet in the Brent oil
market, triggering almost $10m of losses for his company.

According to the Financial Times ... PVM Oil Associates, the world’s largest
over-the-counter oil brokerage, said it had been the “victim of unauthorised
trading”.

In total, futures contracts for more than 16m barrels of oil changed hands in
an hour hour – equivalent to double the daily production of Saudi Arabia,
the world’s largest oil producer, and far more than the traditional 500,000
barrels for that time of the day.

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Subject: weather
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In weather ... according to the central weather bureau ... showers and
thundershowers north and center expected to continue through today and into
tomorrow ... possibly clearing up come Sunday.

Daytime temperatures today and tomorrow 26 - 33 north, south and center.

Currently its cloudy islandwide ... 30 degrees in Taipei, 27 in Taizhong and
29 in Gaoxiong.

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Subject: 3PM Outro
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That's the ICRT News at 3. I'm _____