Why Park Geun-hye should resign 朴謹惠密友干政

MANY members of the party of South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye, want it. So does the opposition, which controls South Korea’s parliament. So do most ordinary Koreans: they have been marching for it by the millions. Even Ms Park says she is ready to do it. So why has she not yet resigned?

Ms Park is hopelessly mired in an ever-deepening influence-peddling scandal (see article). She admits that she shared too much information about affairs of state with a close confidante, Choi Soon-sil, including advance drafts of many of her speeches. Ms Choi, prosecutors say, went on to use her clout with the president to extort money and favours from big companies and other organisations. Ms Park, the prosecutors allege, was an active participant in this racket, ordering her aides to help Ms Choi extract her payouts.

why:She admits that she shared too much information about affairs of state with a close confidante, Choi Soon-sil, including advance drafts of many of her speeches. 

what:they have been marching for it by the millions. Even Ms Park says she is ready to do it. So why has she not yet resigned?

who:Park Geun-hye,South Korea’s president

where:South Korea

how:Ms Park is hopelessly mired in an ever-deepening influence-peddling scandal.

key words:

parliament:議會

peddling scandal :商業醜聞

prosecutors:告發者

payouts:支出

prosecutors:檢察官

網址:http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21711051-president-has-duty-spare-her-country-months-drift-why-park-geun-hye-should-resign

burkini

I created the burkini to give women freedom, not to take it away Aheda Zanetti 

In late July, the Mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, banned the burkini on public beaches, calling them “the uniform of extremist Islamism.” Since then more than 30 other French municipalities, many of them along the French Riviera, have followed suit.

A few weeks later, on August 26, the French Council of State, France’s highest administrative court, overturned the ban and ruled that mayors do not have the right to ban burkinis. The ruling was in response to a challenge that had been filed against the ban imposed by the mayor of Villeneuve-Loubet. Many of the mayors involved vowed to ignore the court ruling.

The ban joins an already existing French ban on the burqa, a full body covering that covers the lower face and has a meshed cloth over the eyes, and a niqab, which is identical except that a veil covers the lower face and the eyes are uncovered. The ban went into effect in April 2011, and mandates fines of 150 euros (165 dollars). Burqas, niqabs, headscarves and other “conspicuous religious symbols” were banned in French schools in 2004.

The issue has sparked a worldwide media frenzy. In France, Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared that he supported banning burkinis. Pouring fuel on the fire, Vallis, on August 29, pointed out that France’s national symbol, Marianne, had her “breasts exposed and ... that she wasn’t wearing a veil.” Just to be clear, the statue of Liberty at the Marianne Monument in Paris has one breast exposed while in Delacroix’s iconic painting, Liberty Leading the People, Liberty, which is often used as a depiction of Marianne, has both breasts exposed. Whether Vallis is proposing to ban the burkini in favor of the monokini is unclear. His comment was widely dismissed as moronic.

Not to be outdone, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who is widely expected to challenge Françoise Hollande for the presidency next year, declared that if elected, he would immediately ban the burkini. Predictably, Marine Le Pen, the president of France’s anti-immigration National Right party urged that the ban be immediately adopted nationally. According to a BBC report, recent polls indicate that 64 percent of the French public supported the ban and that another 30 percent had no opinion.

when:  In late July

what:  the Mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, banned the burkini on public beaches, calling them “the uniform of extremist Islamism.

where: French

who:    David Lisnard, the Mayor of Cannes

how:    The issue has sparked a worldwide media frenzy. In France, Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared that he supported banning burkinis 

key  words 

burkini:伊斯蘭泳衣

depiction :描寫,敘述來源

anti-immigration:反移民

moronic:愚蠢至極

headscarf:頭巾

 frenzy:狂熱

 veil:面紗

niqab:面紗

Burqa:伊斯蘭女袍

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