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Daily News… US BACKS ANTARCTIC RESERVE AMID CALLS FOR FISHING BAN Hailing the waters of Antarctica as a living laboratory, the United States has joined Australia and New Zealand in appealing for the creation of marine sanctuaries in the most remote and pristine part of the world. The United States and New Zealand have drawn up a proposal for a marine sanctuary covering 1.6 million square kilometers (640,000 square miles) of the Ross Sea, which would be the world’s largest reserve. Nations led by Australia, France and the European Union also want to protect 1.9 million square kilometers of critical coastal area in the East Antarctic. But the proposals were blocked when talks in November at the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) -- comprising 24 countries and the European Union -- ended without resolution amid concerns from Russia and China. Now the nations in favour are boosting their efforts to get the two sanctuaries approved at a special meeting of the group in Germany in July. «Antarctica is a collection of superlatives. It’s the highest, coldest, the windiest, the driest, the most pristine and the most remote place on Earth,» US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday at a gathering organized by the Pew Charitable Trusts. «And it has beguiled humankind for centuries as people have sought to understand it,» he added, arguing that the waters of the Southern Ocean, home to 16,000 species, are a «living laboratory.» Kerry told the gathering at the National Geographic Society he believed the world can «work together to ensure that Antarctica remains a place devoted to peace and devoted to expanding human understanding of this fragile planet.» «This is one of the last places we could do this, and I think we owe it to ourselves to make it happen.» Australia’s Environment Minister Tony Burke said the CCAMLR would be «the biggest game in town» for the protection of oceans in the coming 12 months.
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International News… FAKE BUREAUCRAT Authorities in China are hunting a man who posed as a high-ranking government official and took part in all-expenses-paid junkets for years despite not holding the post. Middleaged, clearly well-fed, and clad in the black suits beloved of Chinese bureaucrats, Zhao Xiyong posed as an official from the State Council, China’s cabinet, touring factories and local governments, with free banquets thrown in. But authorities in southern China’s Yunnan province, where Zhao conducted most of his tours, apparently got wise to his deception, which apparently lasted over two years.
POLKA-DOT THE RAGE IN N. KOREA Polka-dot dresses and manual threshing machines were among the hottest consumer products in North Korea last year. The arrival of the boldly-patterned dresses in the top 10 list was down to North Korean leader Kim JongUn’s wife, Lee Sol-Ju, who was seen wearing them to public functions on state television. «Young North Korean women are keenly interested in the first lady’s fashion style and try to follow her example» Dong Yong-Seung, a senior research fellow at the Samsung Economic Research Institute in Seoul, told AFP on Tuesday.
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