ENGLISH will be widely promoted on the city’s public transport system to better serve expatriates and visitors attending the Universiade.

Metro companies would set up English information counters at stations and the customer service department of bus companies will open multiple-language hotlines to provide information, hear complaints and other services, the Shenzhen transport commission said yesterday.

Public transport employees would undergo five months of oral English training and all buses, bus stops, expressways and trunk roads would have bilingual signs installed by July.

The commission would replace plastic screens with glass screens on Shennan Road. The locations of nearby bus stops within walking distance of 15 minutes would be indicated on a map inside the glass screens.

Public transport will serve 20,000 athletes and officials, 20,000 volunteers and 3 million spectators during the Universiade

ENGLISH will be widely promoted on the city’s public transport system to better serve expatriates and visitors attending the Universiade.

Metro companies would set up English information counters at stations and the customer service department of bus companies will open multiple-language hotlines to provide information, hear complaints and other services, the Shenzhen transport commission said yesterday.

Public transport employees would undergo five months of oral English training and all buses, bus stops, expressways and trunk roads would have bilingual signs installed by July.

The commission would replace plastic screens with glass screens on Shennan Road. The locations of nearby bus stops within walking distance of 15 minutes would be indicated on a map inside the glass screens.

Public transport will serve 20,000 athletes and officials, 20,000 volunteers and 3 million spectators during the Universiade

THREE veterans who were once stationed in Zhongying Street reunited Sunday, 25 years after they served at the border between Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

Yao Zhiming, the former station sergeant of the former Hong Kong Royal Police Force, Zhong Jun and Zhang Qiuhua, former soldiers of the Zhongying Street Unit of the Sixth Detachment of the Guangdong Border Police Division, walked along Zhongying Street again Sunday, recalling their early years and observing the great changes that had taken place over the decades紗窗.

In front of the boundary stone marker, the veterans once again faced the camera of He Huangyou, now the chairman of Shenzhen Photographers Association.

The idea of a reunion took root when Yao saw a photo displayed in the Zhongying Street Museum during a visit Jan. 15.

“I was one of the four officers patrolling the street, where were the other three?” Yao pointed to the photo taken by He, then a photographer, in 1985塑料回收.

The museum started searching and found Zhong, who is working for a security company in Bao’an and then Zhang Qiuhua, who runs a business in his hometown, Shaoguan.

But they could not find the Hong Kong officer named Feng Feng.

“When we were stationed in Zhongying Street, we were tasked to seize smugglers and stowaways,” said Zhong.

The Zhongying Street Unit was awarded as the national model unit by the State Council in 1996bridal make up.

SOUTH KOREA’S defense minister resigned Thursday, two days after the two Koreas exchanged fire, killing four people on a small island in the South.

The move came as President Lee Myung-bak vowed to send more troops to the island. North Korea warned of additional attacks if provoked.

Yim Tae-hee, presidential chief of staff, said Lee accepted the resignation of Defense Minister Kim Tae-young and said a new chief was to be announced Friday. The outgoing minister will keep his job until his replacement is announced, he said. The South Korean president also replaced his aide in charge of defense affairs, Yim said.

China opposes “any provocative military acts” on the Korean Peninsula and urges all sides to show restraint, Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday during a visit to Moscow. He called for a resumption of six-nation talks on dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapon programs.

Wen’s comments are the first public statement by China’s top leadership on the escalating tensions on the peninsula.

Hong Lei, spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said Thursday that China is concerned about South Korea’s planned joint military exercise with the United States. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi had delayed a plan to visit Seoul this week due to scheduling disputes, Hong said.

The South Korean defense minister’s resignation came after fierce criticism of the government’s response to the incident. Lawmakers demanded his dismissal as well as those of military leaders and some presidential aides.

EUROPEAN Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday that the European Union (EU) stood ready to support Ireland “in case of need,” after Irish bond yields soared to record levels on public debt fears.

“What is important to know is that we have all the necessary instruments in place now to support Ireland if necessary,” he told reporters, when asked whether the EU would bail out Ireland as it did Greece earlier this year五金回收.

Irish bond yields saw their biggest one-day leap Wednesday since the launch of the euro in the face of mounting investor unease at the country’s shaky public finances, placing the European bond market under serious strain.

Barroso, who heads the EU’s executive arm, said that “in case of need, the EU is ready to support Ireland.”

“We are monitoring the situation closely,” he said. “But we support the efforts of the Irish authorities” to combat a deficit that has ballooned thanks to bailouts of cash-strapped banksugg boots.

Irish 10-year bond yields Wednesday jumped at one point to 8.180 percent, the highest since 1999, despite assurances by Ireland’s prime minister that the country would not be forced to access a European bailout fund.

Eurozone bonds came under serious strain Wednesday as investors took flight, with Portugal and Ireland ? besides Greece ? struggling to rein in public debtlaptop bag.

Ireland’s crisis has raised the spectre of a repeat of Greece’s near-bankruptcy護衛員.

In May, Athens’ plight forced European governments to endorse a 110-billion-euro (US$150 billion) bailout package and raised questions over the future of the euro織髮.

Ireland’s government insists it can avert disaster. It is due this month to unveil a four-year program of austerity budgets that will involve a 15-billion-euro correction to rein in a gaping public finances deficit.

EUROPEAN Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday that the European Union (EU) stood ready to support Ireland “in case of need,” after Irish bond yields soared to record levels on public debt fears.

“What is important to know is that we have all the necessary instruments in place now to support Ireland if necessary,” he told reporters, when asked whether the EU would bail out Ireland as it did Greece earlier this year.

Irish bond yields saw their biggest one-day leap Wednesday since the launch of the euro in the face of mounting investor unease at the country’s shaky public finances, placing the European bond market under serious strain.

Barroso, who heads the EU’s executive arm, said that “in case of need, the EU is ready to support Ireland.”

“We are monitoring the situation closely,” he said. “But we support the efforts of the Irish authorities” to combat a deficit that has ballooned thanks to bailouts of cash-strapped banks.

Irish 10-year bond yields Wednesday jumped at one point to 8.180 percent, the highest since 1999, despite assurances by Ireland’s prime minister that the country would not be forced to access a European bailout fund.

Eurozone bonds came under serious strain Wednesday as investors took flight, with Portugal and Ireland ? besides Greece ? struggling to rein in public debt.

Ireland’s crisis has raised the spectre of a repeat of Greece’s near-bankruptcy.

In May, Athens’ plight forced European governments to endorse a 110-billion-euro (US$150 billion) bailout package and raised questions over the future of the euro.

Ireland’s government insists it can avert disaster. It is due this month to unveil a four-year program of austerity budgets that will involve a 15-billion-euro correction to rein in a gaping public finances deficit.

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