International News from Iconic publications
【文/企管碩一 Emily】
This is a world trend that the housing prices of urban areas keep in higher and higher.
Will these high housing prices decline in the future?
A news from Daily Mail reports that rising house prices have created “million pound towns” outside London for the first time. Three towns in the Home Counties now have average house prices of more than £1million, according to research by Lloyds Bank.
In lakeside Virginia Water, Surrey, the average home costs around £1.16million, while the figure for homes in Cobham, close to the Chiltern Hills in Surrey, has risen to £1.04million. Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire, now has an average house price of just over £1million.
If you want to know more about it, you can click the following websites.
(1)In lakeside Virginia Water, Surrey, the average home costs around £1.16million
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How about some magic from Daily Mail & BBC?
We would like to introduce some famous iconic publications which are good at reporting International News. The first is Daily Mail which is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Daily Mail now has a Facebook fan page. Maybe everybody can find this official website from google, and subscribe it. Then you can get the first-hand information, and won’t be worry about missing any big issues. Doesn’t it sound great, right?
Besides, you also can subscribe BBC news which is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organization and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. If you have a phone or pad, you can download the BBC news app so that you can read the news all the time.
After sharing the resource of international News, don’t forget to keep reading it. Let us enhance the importance of English; establish the international perspective and be a good global villager to concern about our dynamic world trend.
(2) The logo of BBC world news.
China, now, the two-child policy
Does the policy catch up with the aging population?
China has released the one child policy since 1979, but it neglected the underlying problems. China’s economic development becomes prosperous, so some potential problems which include the rising of elder populations, the declining of working age population appear gradually. However, China has to confront the situations. In order to solve the pressure of aging population and lacking of workforce, China decided to introduce the two child policy to ease those. When this country’s economic development prospers day by day, it also has to prepare some concrete measures to solve the following problems.
China who is growing faster and faster, but the question is whether China is ready to solve the underlying problems or not. When the time comes, China is just ready to introduce to policy. Does this policy catch up with the rising aging population? If you want to know more the details, here are some web links that you can check.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34665539
(3) A small town offers a glimpse of what a two-child China might look like
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Vocabulary
Iconic 標誌性的
Decline 下降;衰退
Subscribe 訂閱;追蹤
correspondent 通信記者
perspective 觀點
dynamic 動態
ease 減輕;舒緩
Resources: Wikipedia, Google, BBC News, Yahoo, Daily Mail, CNN, the Economist
