Some may find Jan Fabre’s work interesting — but placed among the Old Masters, it just looks silly
By Lynn Barber
THE GUARDIAN, LONDON
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008, Page 15
Apparently, the Louvre has a new policy of showing bits of contemporary art but, until now, they have been small, mixed shows taking not much space. Now, for its first solo show by a living artist, it has chosen a Belgian, Jan Fabre, and given him the whole of the Northern School wing — 40 rooms containing top-notch van Eycks, Bruegels, Rembrandts, Rubenses, Vermeers — to play with. He was allowed to move pictures and rearrange rooms to place his work among the Old Masters — i.e. he was given just about the most flattering commission any artist could receive and the big question is: why Jan Fabre?
The catalogue informs us that he was born in 1958 in Antwerp, where he has lived ever since, and that he was one of the pioneers of the Flemish New Wave of the 1980s, which I admit passed me by. He first came to public attention with his “Bic Art” drawings in blue ballpoint. He has his own theater troupe in Antwerp and describes himself as “dessinateur, plasticien, performeur, auteur, homme de theatre, choregraphe, editeur” which I think translates as jack of all trades.
He also claims to be a descendant of the famous entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915), which he likes to advertise by including insects and beetles in his work. Several of his large objects — I hesitate to call them sculptures — are completely covered with iridescent, blue-green scarabs — an eye-catching conceit the first time you see it and very, very boring thereafter.
Beetles are just one medium he favors — he also works in Biro, bone, gold sequins, drawing pins, skulls, vertebrae, synthetic hair, armor, feathers, stuffed birds and animals. He claims the bone is human bone, but this is probably one of his “jokes.” A typical work is Nature morte avec artiste, a full-size coffin covered with blue-green beetles with a peacock’s head, tail and wings sticking out, which he describes as “a reflection on death, night, absence and the materiality of the body.” The largest and mercifully last work takes up the entire floor of the vast Rubens Medici gallery and consists of 470 granite tombstones lying higgledy-piggledy on plastic grass surmounted by a giant worm with a human face vaguely resembling Fabre’s. The title is Self-Portrait as the Biggest Worm in the World or, more excitingly in Flemish, Zelfportret als grootste worm van de Wereld. But couldn’t he have at least made a decent worm? I would have thought any first-year art student would leap at the chance of making a giant worm for the Louvre, but Fabre gives us the sort of standard-issue, beige draught-excluder you could find at any craft fair.
In the evening, he gives a performance in which he supposedly demonstrates his skill as a “master of disguise,” i.e. he dons a cloth cap or a stuck-on beard and wig. This is held in the galerie Daru, which has some fabulous Etruscan sarcophagi and the Winged Victory of Samothrace. When the audience enters, Fabre is hiding behind one of the sarcophagi shouting: “Art kept me out of jail!” Then he runs around for a bit shouting: “Lord protect me from my friends — my enemies I will take care of them!” Finally, he runs up the stairs to the Winged Victory of Samothrace shouting: “Art kept me out of jail” and disappears. I hope I haven’t spoiled the plot.
Seriously, what is the Louvre thinking of? The commissioner in charge, Marie-Laure Bernadac, explained that they want to use contemporary art to attract younger people, and also to liven up some of the less-visited galleries. In this I suppose they might be successful — I’ve been to the Louvre dozens of times but never set foot in the galerie Daru before. But the effect of Fabre’s gimcrack installations in the Dutch and Flemish Old Master rooms is less benign. The whole place begins to feel like some dusty theatrical props storeroom and the great paintings on the walls are reduced to just another form of prop. It is sad. And what is really sad is that in a few years time, the Louvre will probably say: “Oh, we tried having contemporary art and it didn’t work.” Whereas what they should really say is: “Why on earth did we choose Jan Fabre?”
1. Louvre: It is a famous art museum in Frence.
2. wriggle: squirm.
3. commissioner: It means an officer that work in politic apartment.
This article is about the new art in Louvre.
2008年4月30日 星期三
Give Taiwan credit for democracy
By Charles tannock
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008, Page 8
While protests over China’s crackdown in Tibet and the debate about Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence continue to fester, the injustice of Taiwan’s ongoing international isolation has barely stirred a flicker of interest despite Taiwan’s recent presidential election and referendums on UN membership. This neglect is not only shortsighted, but may also prove dangerous.
This seeming double standard can be explained partly by a sense of guilt: The West has, for the most part, embraced Kosovo’s independence in an effort to assuage its own culpability for not preventing late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic’s campaign of ethnic cleansing there. Similarly, much of the world is protesting on behalf of Tibet because countless millions have witnessed China’s brutal suppression of Tibetan culture.
Taiwan, on the other hand, does not grab our attention, because it is stable and flourishing economically. But it has never been part of the People’s Republic of China. Taiwan is an unrecognized independent state with a vigorous democracy and high standards of human rights. Because Taiwan has not allowed itself to become a victim, the world simply does not feel guilty about it, and so ignores it.
But perhaps we should feel some guilt. Taiwan deserves great credit for standing on its own two feet, despite the international isolation imposed. China blocks it from participating fully in the international arena, whether through the WTO, the Olympics, or UN agencies, including the WHO. To its shame, China allows its political goal of excluding Taiwan from membership in all international organizations to trump even urgent public health concerns.
The small number of countries that recognize Taiwan diplomatically has dwindled owing to a mixture of Chinese pressure and blandishments. On top of all this, Taiwan’s nearly 23 million people go about their daily business knowing that about 1,400 Chinese missiles are ready to be launched at them at a moment’s notice.
It is not for me to say that Taiwan should be recognized as an independent country. To all intents and purposes, Taiwan is already independent, albeit without formal recognition. Equally, there are plenty of Taiwanese who would like the island eventually to reunify with China, particularly if China democratizes and ceases to be a one-party communist dictatorship. However, we cannot deny that Taiwanese are unjustly being refused their place in the wider world.
The global community should do more to usher Taiwan into the international mainstream. Western powers have helped champion human rights and self-determination within the bounds of international law. The campaigns that the West waged throughout the 1980s in solidarity with democratic forces in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe helped bring about the end of communist domination. A similar commitment to the democratic rights of Taiwanese could have salutary effects in China. Moreover, Taiwan is a natural ally of any party that espouses the values of pluralist politics, free markets and human rights.
It seems particularly shortsighted, indeed hypocritical, for the US and Britain to seek to spread democracy and human rights throughout the world while failing to recognize and reward the Taiwanese, a people who have embraced these concepts wholeheartedly.
Unquestioning recognition of the “one China” policy sends the message that we appreciate more a country that is a big, communist dictatorship rather than a small, multiparty democracy. For the record, there are clear precedents for divided countries to enter the UN as separate states and then eventually to reunify: West and East Germany, North and South Yemen, and perhaps one day, the two Koreas.
Ultimately, it is for Taiwan and China to regulate and resolve their relations. There are already some positive signs of a bilateral thaw as a new administration prepares to take office in Taiwan, with high-level talks taking place between Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) and vice president-elect Vincent Siew (蕭萬長). The democratic world has an obligation to support this process — not only because Taiwan deserves its support, but also because engaging more with Taiwan could potentially be a powerful instrument of leverage for broader change in China.
Charles Tannock is the British Conservative Party’s foreign affairs spokesman and the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the eastern dimension of the European Neighborhood Policy.
1. declaration: To announce.
2. isolation: To separate.
This article is talk about Taiwan's democracy, and the relationshipbetween Taiwan and China. And a little of European Neighborhood policy. It is a very important issue to us.
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008, Page 8
While protests over China’s crackdown in Tibet and the debate about Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence continue to fester, the injustice of Taiwan’s ongoing international isolation has barely stirred a flicker of interest despite Taiwan’s recent presidential election and referendums on UN membership. This neglect is not only shortsighted, but may also prove dangerous.
This seeming double standard can be explained partly by a sense of guilt: The West has, for the most part, embraced Kosovo’s independence in an effort to assuage its own culpability for not preventing late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic’s campaign of ethnic cleansing there. Similarly, much of the world is protesting on behalf of Tibet because countless millions have witnessed China’s brutal suppression of Tibetan culture.
Taiwan, on the other hand, does not grab our attention, because it is stable and flourishing economically. But it has never been part of the People’s Republic of China. Taiwan is an unrecognized independent state with a vigorous democracy and high standards of human rights. Because Taiwan has not allowed itself to become a victim, the world simply does not feel guilty about it, and so ignores it.
But perhaps we should feel some guilt. Taiwan deserves great credit for standing on its own two feet, despite the international isolation imposed. China blocks it from participating fully in the international arena, whether through the WTO, the Olympics, or UN agencies, including the WHO. To its shame, China allows its political goal of excluding Taiwan from membership in all international organizations to trump even urgent public health concerns.
The small number of countries that recognize Taiwan diplomatically has dwindled owing to a mixture of Chinese pressure and blandishments. On top of all this, Taiwan’s nearly 23 million people go about their daily business knowing that about 1,400 Chinese missiles are ready to be launched at them at a moment’s notice.
It is not for me to say that Taiwan should be recognized as an independent country. To all intents and purposes, Taiwan is already independent, albeit without formal recognition. Equally, there are plenty of Taiwanese who would like the island eventually to reunify with China, particularly if China democratizes and ceases to be a one-party communist dictatorship. However, we cannot deny that Taiwanese are unjustly being refused their place in the wider world.
The global community should do more to usher Taiwan into the international mainstream. Western powers have helped champion human rights and self-determination within the bounds of international law. The campaigns that the West waged throughout the 1980s in solidarity with democratic forces in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe helped bring about the end of communist domination. A similar commitment to the democratic rights of Taiwanese could have salutary effects in China. Moreover, Taiwan is a natural ally of any party that espouses the values of pluralist politics, free markets and human rights.
It seems particularly shortsighted, indeed hypocritical, for the US and Britain to seek to spread democracy and human rights throughout the world while failing to recognize and reward the Taiwanese, a people who have embraced these concepts wholeheartedly.
Unquestioning recognition of the “one China” policy sends the message that we appreciate more a country that is a big, communist dictatorship rather than a small, multiparty democracy. For the record, there are clear precedents for divided countries to enter the UN as separate states and then eventually to reunify: West and East Germany, North and South Yemen, and perhaps one day, the two Koreas.
Ultimately, it is for Taiwan and China to regulate and resolve their relations. There are already some positive signs of a bilateral thaw as a new administration prepares to take office in Taiwan, with high-level talks taking place between Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) and vice president-elect Vincent Siew (蕭萬長). The democratic world has an obligation to support this process — not only because Taiwan deserves its support, but also because engaging more with Taiwan could potentially be a powerful instrument of leverage for broader change in China.
Charles Tannock is the British Conservative Party’s foreign affairs spokesman and the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the eastern dimension of the European Neighborhood Policy.
1. declaration: To announce.
2. isolation: To separate.
This article is talk about Taiwan's democracy, and the relationshipbetween Taiwan and China. And a little of European Neighborhood policy. It is a very important issue to us.
TSMC’s net income up 50 percent
Revenues will likely stagnate or drop slightly, but the depreciation of the US dollar means that the company’s bottom line is likely to perform well
By Lisa WangSTAFF REPORTER Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008, Page 12
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), the world’s biggest chipmaker on a contract basis, said yesterday that net income had increased almost 50 percent after demand recovered from an inventory-driven slowdown.
TSMC said messages from customers helped it get a clearer picture of the second quarter.
“We are seeing a steady increase in demand,” chief executive Rick Tsai (蔡力行) told an investor’s conference, adding that demand mostly came from the consumer segment.
Net income grew 49.4 percent to NT$28.1 billion (US$924 million), or NT$1.1 per share in the first quarter after deducting employee bonuses, compared with NT$18.8 billion, or NT$0.71 a share, the previous year.
“The first quarter was a good quarter. The results were in line with [our] goals,” chief financial officer Lora Ho (何麗梅) said.
She said that the results were achieved despite the faster-than-expected appreciation of the New Taiwan dollar against the US dollar and a lower gross margin resulting from employee profit sharing.
Starting this year and to comply with new accounting rules that recognize employee bonuses as spending, TSMC is allocating 15 percent of its quarterly earnings for employee profit-sharing.
PROSPECTS
Looking ahead, Tsai said: “After talking with our customers and ascertaining our billing situation, the outlook for the second quarter appears quite good.”
Revenues are expected to remain flat, or to increase by 2 percent to between NT$87 billion and NT$89 billion in the current quarter, from NT$87.5 billion in the January to March quarter, the company said.
Aside from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, TSMC revenues would grow 4 percent to 6 percent quarter-on-quarter, Tsai said.
“Both [first quarter results and the outlook for the second quarter] are very impressive. Margin is increasing,” said Steven Pelayo, a senior analyst at HSBC, on the sideline of an investor conference.
Gross margin may remain unchanged or improve mildly to between 43 percent and 45 percent this quarter, with a possible 1.7 percentage point erosion resulting from a stronger NT dollar, from 43.7 percent last quarter, the chipmaker said.
DOLLAR FACTOR
Pelayo said that revenue would either be flat or drop slightly, but that once the depreciation of the US dollar was factored in, the tendency would likely remain positive.
“I think [TSMC] is really weathering the currency pressures … [and doing] better than expected,” Pelayo said.
He said, however, that rising inflation in some areas could have a negative impact on demand for consumer electronics.
Echoing comments by analysts such as Citigroup’s Andrew Lu (陸行之), Pelayo said he would keep an eye on inventory levels for TSMC’s major markets, including handset chip suppliers Texas Instruments Inc and Qualcomm Inc, which have accumulated substantial stockpiles.
Pelayo had an “outperform” rating on TSMC, with a target price of NT$72 for the next 12 months, an 11 percent upside from the stock’s closing price of NT$64.7 yesterday.
Separately, Tsai said the company would not rule out the possibility of tapping into the light-emitting diode (LED) industry in search of new growth.
“If we see applications that have opportunities to drive revenue and profit growth by leveraging our current resources, then TSMC will look into it seriously,” Tsai said.
The LED industry is “one of the possible areas” for expansion, he said.
1. revenue: It means tax income.
2. gross= total.
3. margin= the money that you earn from a business.
This article is talk about TSMC's net income. It is more than last year.
By Lisa WangSTAFF REPORTER Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008, Page 12
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), the world’s biggest chipmaker on a contract basis, said yesterday that net income had increased almost 50 percent after demand recovered from an inventory-driven slowdown.
TSMC said messages from customers helped it get a clearer picture of the second quarter.
“We are seeing a steady increase in demand,” chief executive Rick Tsai (蔡力行) told an investor’s conference, adding that demand mostly came from the consumer segment.
Net income grew 49.4 percent to NT$28.1 billion (US$924 million), or NT$1.1 per share in the first quarter after deducting employee bonuses, compared with NT$18.8 billion, or NT$0.71 a share, the previous year.
“The first quarter was a good quarter. The results were in line with [our] goals,” chief financial officer Lora Ho (何麗梅) said.
She said that the results were achieved despite the faster-than-expected appreciation of the New Taiwan dollar against the US dollar and a lower gross margin resulting from employee profit sharing.
Starting this year and to comply with new accounting rules that recognize employee bonuses as spending, TSMC is allocating 15 percent of its quarterly earnings for employee profit-sharing.
PROSPECTS
Looking ahead, Tsai said: “After talking with our customers and ascertaining our billing situation, the outlook for the second quarter appears quite good.”
Revenues are expected to remain flat, or to increase by 2 percent to between NT$87 billion and NT$89 billion in the current quarter, from NT$87.5 billion in the January to March quarter, the company said.
Aside from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, TSMC revenues would grow 4 percent to 6 percent quarter-on-quarter, Tsai said.
“Both [first quarter results and the outlook for the second quarter] are very impressive. Margin is increasing,” said Steven Pelayo, a senior analyst at HSBC, on the sideline of an investor conference.
Gross margin may remain unchanged or improve mildly to between 43 percent and 45 percent this quarter, with a possible 1.7 percentage point erosion resulting from a stronger NT dollar, from 43.7 percent last quarter, the chipmaker said.
DOLLAR FACTOR
Pelayo said that revenue would either be flat or drop slightly, but that once the depreciation of the US dollar was factored in, the tendency would likely remain positive.
“I think [TSMC] is really weathering the currency pressures … [and doing] better than expected,” Pelayo said.
He said, however, that rising inflation in some areas could have a negative impact on demand for consumer electronics.
Echoing comments by analysts such as Citigroup’s Andrew Lu (陸行之), Pelayo said he would keep an eye on inventory levels for TSMC’s major markets, including handset chip suppliers Texas Instruments Inc and Qualcomm Inc, which have accumulated substantial stockpiles.
Pelayo had an “outperform” rating on TSMC, with a target price of NT$72 for the next 12 months, an 11 percent upside from the stock’s closing price of NT$64.7 yesterday.
Separately, Tsai said the company would not rule out the possibility of tapping into the light-emitting diode (LED) industry in search of new growth.
“If we see applications that have opportunities to drive revenue and profit growth by leveraging our current resources, then TSMC will look into it seriously,” Tsai said.
The LED industry is “one of the possible areas” for expansion, he said.
1. revenue: It means tax income.
2. gross= total.
3. margin= the money that you earn from a business.
This article is talk about TSMC's net income. It is more than last year.
China stages massive Olympic security drill
Police, army, paramilitaries, anti-chemical squads and SWAT teams took part in the drill, while in Vietnam, police grappled with protesters ahead of the Olympic torch relay
AGENCIES, BEIJING, HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM, AND HONG KONG Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008, Page 5
Chinese forces foiled mock riots and rappelled from buildings to free hostages in Olympic security drills yesterday designed to display the country’s readiness for anything at the Beijing Games.
The show of force comes days after the head of Interpol warned there was a “real possibility” that the Games would be targeted by terrorists, and as the Olympic torch is dogged by anti-Chinese protests as it makes its way around the world.
“The Beijing city commission will firmly carry out the Olympic directives given by President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤),” Vice Minister of Public Security Liu Jing (劉京) told the ceremony. “We will impose high standards and strict requirements on ourselves and do the job with first-class standards.”
China’s top security official, Zhou Yongkang (周永康), and Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu (孟建柱) also attended the event, presiding over an “oath-taking” rally that included police, army and paramilitaries, and anti-chemical squads and SWAT teams.
CAR CHASE AND HOOLIGANS
Special forces clad in black kicked and punched their way through choreographed martial arts routines, and police staged a car chase, tires screeching as they wheeled around to entrap a stolen car, whose driver was yanked to the ground and handcuffed.
In another scene, complete with sets of a sports ground and a city street of bars and restaurants, soccer hooligans surrounded a team bus, prompting riot police to emerge to take control.
“Attention please! The game is over. Please be calm and abide by instructions. Leave the scene as soon as possible,” an officer yelled at the crowd through loudspeakers, in English and Chinese.
“Your behavior has already violated the laws of the People’s Republic of China and disturbed the public order. You must follow police instructions. Leave the scene immediately!” he said.
The prospect of such an event is all too real — during a 2004 Asian Cup match in China, Chinese fans rushed the bus of the Japanese side, forcing it to leave without two players.
In yesterday’s scenario, the fans confronted each other outside a bar, throwing chairs and setting a car on fire, before riot squads fired tear gas and water cannons to restore order.
But the climax of the show was the anti-terror drills.
In one, security forces dressed up as a road maintenance crew and hid in trash cans, popping up in time to intercept a hijacked bus.
In another, men in black descended from helicopters and rappelled down buildings in a display worthy of a Hong Kong action film to free tourists taken hostage by a group demanding China release from prison followers of their unspecified cause.
In related news, Vietnamese police broke up a demonstration in Hanoi yesterday ahead of the final international leg of the Olympic torch relay, witnesses said.
VIETNAM
Officers detained seven people for unfurling a banner and shouting “Boycott the Beijing Olympics” through a loudspeaker in a market in the capital Hanoi, two witnesses said on condition of anonymity.
Police refused to comment on the incident.
Scores of riot police also blocked the road in front of the Chinese embassy in Hanoi.
The torch relay was scheduled to begin at 6pm last night in Ho Chi Minh City. Several police officers were stationed close to the starting point outside the city’s 19th century opera house.
Earlier, a group of pro-Chinese supporters rallied there, waving flags and shoutingslogans.
HONG KONG
In other developments, actress Mia Farrow may be barred from entering Hong Kong to give a speech about human rights on Friday, the day the torch is carried through the city, pro-democracy Legislator Emily Lau (劉慧卿) said yesterday.
Lau said she had heard that the actress, who has criticized China for failing to stop genocide in the Sudan, would not be allowed into the territory.
Danish artist and rights activist Jens Galschiot and his sons were sent home on Saturday after arriving to take part in protests on Friday.
“If we do that, we are going to turn ourselves into an international laughingstock. These are people with a very, very high international profiles. They are not the Taliban of al-Qaeda — so what is going on here?” Lau said on RTHK radio.
1. squad: It means a group of an army.
2.SWAT= Special Weapons and Tactics.
3.drill: It means training.
This article is talk about Olypic's security. It tells us China how to training their police and army that provide the best security for people.
AGENCIES, BEIJING, HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM, AND HONG KONG Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008, Page 5
Chinese forces foiled mock riots and rappelled from buildings to free hostages in Olympic security drills yesterday designed to display the country’s readiness for anything at the Beijing Games.
The show of force comes days after the head of Interpol warned there was a “real possibility” that the Games would be targeted by terrorists, and as the Olympic torch is dogged by anti-Chinese protests as it makes its way around the world.
“The Beijing city commission will firmly carry out the Olympic directives given by President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤),” Vice Minister of Public Security Liu Jing (劉京) told the ceremony. “We will impose high standards and strict requirements on ourselves and do the job with first-class standards.”
China’s top security official, Zhou Yongkang (周永康), and Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu (孟建柱) also attended the event, presiding over an “oath-taking” rally that included police, army and paramilitaries, and anti-chemical squads and SWAT teams.
CAR CHASE AND HOOLIGANS
Special forces clad in black kicked and punched their way through choreographed martial arts routines, and police staged a car chase, tires screeching as they wheeled around to entrap a stolen car, whose driver was yanked to the ground and handcuffed.
In another scene, complete with sets of a sports ground and a city street of bars and restaurants, soccer hooligans surrounded a team bus, prompting riot police to emerge to take control.
“Attention please! The game is over. Please be calm and abide by instructions. Leave the scene as soon as possible,” an officer yelled at the crowd through loudspeakers, in English and Chinese.
“Your behavior has already violated the laws of the People’s Republic of China and disturbed the public order. You must follow police instructions. Leave the scene immediately!” he said.
The prospect of such an event is all too real — during a 2004 Asian Cup match in China, Chinese fans rushed the bus of the Japanese side, forcing it to leave without two players.
In yesterday’s scenario, the fans confronted each other outside a bar, throwing chairs and setting a car on fire, before riot squads fired tear gas and water cannons to restore order.
But the climax of the show was the anti-terror drills.
In one, security forces dressed up as a road maintenance crew and hid in trash cans, popping up in time to intercept a hijacked bus.
In another, men in black descended from helicopters and rappelled down buildings in a display worthy of a Hong Kong action film to free tourists taken hostage by a group demanding China release from prison followers of their unspecified cause.
In related news, Vietnamese police broke up a demonstration in Hanoi yesterday ahead of the final international leg of the Olympic torch relay, witnesses said.
VIETNAM
Officers detained seven people for unfurling a banner and shouting “Boycott the Beijing Olympics” through a loudspeaker in a market in the capital Hanoi, two witnesses said on condition of anonymity.
Police refused to comment on the incident.
Scores of riot police also blocked the road in front of the Chinese embassy in Hanoi.
The torch relay was scheduled to begin at 6pm last night in Ho Chi Minh City. Several police officers were stationed close to the starting point outside the city’s 19th century opera house.
Earlier, a group of pro-Chinese supporters rallied there, waving flags and shoutingslogans.
HONG KONG
In other developments, actress Mia Farrow may be barred from entering Hong Kong to give a speech about human rights on Friday, the day the torch is carried through the city, pro-democracy Legislator Emily Lau (劉慧卿) said yesterday.
Lau said she had heard that the actress, who has criticized China for failing to stop genocide in the Sudan, would not be allowed into the territory.
Danish artist and rights activist Jens Galschiot and his sons were sent home on Saturday after arriving to take part in protests on Friday.
“If we do that, we are going to turn ourselves into an international laughingstock. These are people with a very, very high international profiles. They are not the Taliban of al-Qaeda — so what is going on here?” Lau said on RTHK radio.
1. squad: It means a group of an army.
2.SWAT= Special Weapons and Tactics.
3.drill: It means training.
This article is talk about Olypic's security. It tells us China how to training their police and army that provide the best security for people.
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