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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 () -- For Californian NBA fan Todd Szalley, Sunday's match between Los Angeles Lakers and visiting Denver Nuggets means more to him. He was ushered into the ball court to accept a free round-trip air ticket to Beijing as he was the winner of a lucky draw conducted by the Beijing Municipal Tourism Bureau Sunday. "I was more than happy for this," an elated Szalley said after he received the special gift from Zhang Huiguang, chief of the Beijing Municipal Tourism Bureau, at the court inside the Staples Center where Lakers were battling the visiting Nuggets players on a scorching Sunday afternoon. "It totally unexpected," he added. As part of a massive campaign launched by the Beijing municipal government to draw more visitors from abroad, the city has gone all out over the last few years to establish Beijing as one of the major visiting destinations for American tourists. Holding luck draws and handing out free tickets to winners are part of the campaign. This is the third time the city was holding a brief presentation ceremony at a NBA court. Last April and December, two winners were awarded with tickets to Beijing with free accommodation for a period of five nights and six days. Many interesting Americans participated in the lucky draw, which was conducted online and the result was made known at the NBA match. On signboards over the court and around the seatings, "Beijing Welcomes You" flashed periodically and, at the interval after the first quarter, Zhang Huiguang and other officials as well as cheer leaders stepped onto the court, holding "Beijing Welcomes You" signs and posters depicting Beijing tourism attractions. Zhang, through a microphone, said to some 19,000 fans: "Beijing Welcomes You!" 1 2 1 2
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LOS ANGELES, April 4 () -- The California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse gathered here Wednesday to call for legal reform as more Americans in the lawsuit-happy culture have realized the seriousness of the problem.Themed "Create Jobs, Not Lawsuits," the California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA) intended to bring more Americans to focus on the problem which has cost the government, businesses and individuals billions of dollars and other sufferings.According to the 2009 Update on U.S. Tort Cost Trends, the latest statistics available now, tort costs were 838 U.S. dollars per U.S. citizen in 2008, meaning a family of four paid a "litigation tax" of 3,352 dollars for the U.S. civil justice system, a cost driven up due to increased costs from lawsuits and other liability expenses that force businesses to raise the price of products and services.America' s civil justice system is the world' s most expensive, with a direct cost in 2008 of 254.7 billion dollars, or 1.79 percent of the U.S. GDP, according to the 2009 Update on U.S. Tort Cost Trends.Small businesses paid 105.4 billion dollars in tort liability costs in 2008, according to the Tort Liability Costs for Small Business.Small businesses are responsible for 64 percent of all new jobs created in the U.S. economy. More jobs, higher wages, and better benefits could be provided if the average small business earning 1 million dollars in revenue didn' t have to spend 20,000 dollars each year on an out of control lawsuit system, according to the Tort Liability Costs for Small Business.Local states have started to introduce legislation bills to reduce lawsuit abuse. California has recently proposed AB 1610 at the state assembly.Under the existing law, a person, firm, or corporation that interferes with the access rights of a disabled individual is liable for the actual damages of each offense and any amount determined by a judge or jury of up to 3 times the amount of the actual damages, but in no case less than 1,000 dollars.AB 1610 would establish notice requirements for an alleged aggrieved party to follow before bringing an action against a business for an alleged violation of the above-described provisions.The bill would require that party provide specified notice to the owner of the property, agent, or other responsible party where the alleged violation occurred.The bill would require that owner, agent, or other responsible party to respond within 30 days with a description of the improvements to be made or with a rebuttal to the allegations, as specified.U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein warned California' s legislature in a letter sent recently to state Senate President Pro Tem, Darrell Steinberg, that if it did nothing to curb abusive lawsuits revolving around the Americans for Disability Act (ADA), she would sponsor federal legislation.According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, small businesses (defined as businesses with 10 million dollars or less in annual revenue) pay more than 98-billion dollars in lawsuit related liability costs every year.In California, the Lawyers Against Lawsuit Abuse calculate that between 25,139 and 34,763 ADA/access lawsuits have been filed over the past few years.The California Senate passed a bill, SB 1608 in 2008 which was designed to promote and increase compliance with laws providing equal public access in places of business to individuals with disabilities, while reducing unwarranted litigation that does not advance that goal.But press reports said SB 1608 is only supposed to study the ADA litigation issue and present a report to the Legislature within the next two years. It will not stop the lawsuits.On the private part, the Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) in California has launched a public education campaign -- the first of its kind -- specifically targeting Latino businesses in the United States.The national campaign consists of paid media on Spanish language television, Spanish language radio, and on-line advertising, underscoring the vulnerabilities that exist for Latino businesses.Partnering with groups such as the Latino Coalition and the Civil Justice Association of California (CJAC), ILR will help educate Latino entrepreneurs and businessmen and women about the impact of lawsuit abuse through a public education and awareness campaign by highlighting the stories of Latino business owners who have been the targets of lawsuit abuse.According to the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, America's legal crisis is putting employees out of work, raising consumer prices, driving down shareholder value and bankrupting companies.Many plaintiffs' lawyers are exploiting flaws in the U.S. legal system in search of jackpot justice, according to the Institute for Legal Reform. Meanwhile, frivolous lawsuits clog U.S. courts, denying those most deserving of justice their right to a speedy trial.
NAIROBI, Dec. 2 () -- Two Kenyans, world marathon record holder Patrick Makau and Vivian Cheruiyot, the double world champion, have been short listed for the prestigious 2012 Laureus World Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award.The Laureus Sports Foundation said in a statement on Friday, the winners will be unveiled during a globally televised Awards Ceremony in London on February 6, 2012.This comes barely a month after both were overlooked by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Athlete of the year award. Jamaican Usain Bolt and Australian Sally Pearson won the award.Bolt beat compatriot and 100m world champion Yohan Blake, along with Kenyan David Rudisha while Australian Sally Pearson piped Cheruiyot and world shot put champion Valerie Adams of New Zealand.The Laureus World Sports Awards is recognized as the premier honours event in the international sporting calendar and the Awards Ceremony provides a high profile focus as stars of the sporting world come together to salute the finest sportsmen and sportswomen of the year.The Laureus Sports Foundation is giving the two Kenyans a new lifeline for recognition after a spectacular year of sport, which has set up an exciting contest for the 2012 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award.The duo will have to battle it out with young lions like Novak Djokovic, Lionel Messi and Sebastian Vettel will be competing with a wide-ranging line-up of champions for sport' s most prestigious honour.Jamaica' s sprint star Usain Bolt is probably best remembered in 2011 for the false start, which disqualified him from the World Championship 100 metres in Daegu.However, it was still a highly successful championship as he won two gold medals, the 200 metres and the 4x100 metres relay, in which the Jamaican team set a new world record of 37.04 seconds.Other outstanding athletics performances came from Germany' s Robert Harting, who successfully defended his discus title in Daegu, despite a knee injury, and Kenya's Patrick Makau, who beat the legendary Haile Gebrselassie in September in the Berlin Marathon and broke the world record by 21 seconds.Cheruiyot and Makau are among 26 nominees for the award and is the favourite amongst the clutch of gold medal winners from the World Athletics Championships in Daegu.Laureus described the diminutive runner as the 'most impressive candidate, who established herself as one of the great distance runners of this generation after winning the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres gold medals.Alongside the gold medal from Daegu, Republic of Korea, Cheruiyot also won the World Cross-Country Championship in Punta Umbria in Spain achievements that have also placed her as the front-runner for the Kenyan Sports Personality of the Year Awards.
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YANGON, March 19 () -- A media conference, organized by the Myanmar Ministry of Information and the UNESCO, opened here Monday aimed at development of the media sector.The two-day media conference, attended by scholars, journalists and resource personnel from across the world, is taking place amid Myanmar's media reform.The outcome of the conference, which will help draft a new print media law that ensures press freedom, will be submitted to the next session of Myanmar's union parliament, Minister of Information U Kyaw Hsan told the opening ceremony of the conference.According to Kyaw Hsan, Myanmar is making a three-step media reform with the first step being taken as relaxing restriction on press phases by phase. The step has paved way for domestic periodicals to practice press freedom with responsibility and accountability, making it possible for 173 journals and 124 magazines to be able to publish without prior approval by the Press Scrutiny Board, he said.In the second step, he said, a new print media law which ensures press freedom, is being drafted to replace the existing Registration of Printers and Publishers Law-1962.The third step deals with the ministry's role in supporting private media sector for harmoniously exercise freedom and accountability and freedom and rationality under the new print media law, he added.He highlighted that the goal of current media reform is the emergence of a genuine fourth estate in Myanmar's democratic society where journalists have the right to seek, receive and impart information and news that are accurate, objective, fair and balanced without endangering the Myanmar society.He expressed the belief that Myanmar media sector will have more transparency and freedom in the future but along with challenges which need to be overcome.He disclosed that a new broadcast media law is also to be drafted in light of changing media environment to help state-owned media to become public service media.
? Violent altercations broke out Tuesday throughout the West Bank as Palestinians mark "Nakba Day".???Clashes were abundant at other major Palestinian cities, including Ramallah, Nablus, and Hebron.???Palestinian violence against Israeli troops and civilians on Nakba Day has become more common. Palestinians attend a rally marking al-Nakba Day in the West Bank city of Nablus, on May 15, 2012. Palestinians took to streets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to mark al- Nakba Day when thousands of Palestinians were forced to leave their homes during the Arab-Israeli war in 1948. (/Ayman Nobani)by Gur Salomon, Dave BenderJERUSALEM, May 15 () -- Violent altercations broke out Tuesday throughout the West Bank and in east Jerusalem as thousands of Palestinians set out to mark "Nakba Day" (the "Day of Catastrophe" mourning Israel's creation and Palestinian displacement) with rallies and demonstrations.Earlier in the day, Border Police were called to disperse several dozen Palestinians in Bethlehem who hurled stones at Jewish worshippers who gathered for morning prayers at Rachel's Tomb, a heavily-guarded shrine sacred to both Jews and Muslims.Palestinian police intervened in the melee, although some 200 Palestinians were allowed to hold a demonstration at the site, Army Radio reported.There were no reports of injuries to either side in the clash, which follows a similar event on Monday, in which security personnel stationed at the site hurried worshippers to safety.Clashes were abundant at other major Palestinian cities, including Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Tul Karem, Kalkilya and Halhul, where mass marches were organized in squares and mosques.At noon, Palestinians sounded a siren for 64-seconds to mark the years since Israel's establishment in the 1948 war.In clashes that took place at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah, groups of masked Palestinian youths burned tires and hurled stones at troops, who responded with tear gas and other crowd-control measures in an attempt to disperse the protestors.Earlier in Ramallah, the Palestinian National Authority called on residents to assemble at Yasser Arafat Square for a major rally, and announced that it was canceling work and studies to allow as many people as possible to attend.Confrontations had also erupted in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc south of Jerusalem, where troops deployed at the Jewish community of Carmei Tzur came under heavy barrages of stones thrown by protestors from the village of Beit Omar, which borders the community, Israel's Channel 10 TV reported.Similar stone throwing incidents were also reported elsewhere in the vicinity, including at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, but there were no reports of injuries to either side.In east Jerusalem, where security forces are regularly deployed in large numbers to head off confrontations between Arabs and Jews, police were called to disperse Palestinian protestors in the village of Issawiyeh, located several hundred meters from the Temple Mount and other sensitive religious sites in the Old City.Despite calls to join the events in the Palestinian territories, Arab communities in Israel chose to mark Nakba Day with symbolic, non-violent events.In March, the Israeli parliament approved the "Nakba Law," which enables the government to deny funding to organizations and local councils that actively protest the state's core values as Jewish and democratic.Concerned over events spilling out of control, the Israeli army and police have already beefed up forces and riot gear on Monday in an attempt to avoid a repeat of last year's Nakba Day events, in which some 15 presumed Palestinian refugees were killed while attempting to cross the mined no-man's land between Syria and Israel, as well as trying to rush the fenced border with Lebanon.All three countries dispute the numbers killed and wounded, and whether they died as a result of Israeli or Lebanese gunfire, or from Syrian mines which detonated as protestors traversed territory to reach the border fence.While additional forces had been deployed along the Syria- Lebanon borders this time around, officials did not expect events similar to those that unfolded in the area last year.Concerned over events spilling out of control, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz reportedly told GOC Central Command Brig.-Gen. Nitzan Alon: "We are hoping for the better and getting ready for the worst."Gantz's remarks were made prior to Monday night's Egyptian- brokered deal between Israel and some 1,600 Palestinians security prisoners to end a month-long hunger strike over conditions and a demand to end administrative detentions.Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas congratulated the strikers, calling the move the first step towards ensuring their eventual release, and military sources told Army radio that the agreement helped quell the scale of the rioting.Palestinian violence against Israeli troops and civilians on Nakba Day, as well as on other dates commemorating the struggle against the Jewish state, has become more common in recent years, forcing Israel to devise and deploy an assortment of non-lethal riot control gear.The army said Monday it was readying the use of a sonic projector nicknamed "The Screamer," which emits a fast-pulsed tone which causes nausea and disorientation, as well as skunk spray, to disperse demonstrators. The army has also distributed retrofit parts for M-16 and sniper rifles that enable the use of smaller, softer rounds, meant to injure and not kill. Related:Palestinians clash with Israeli troops on "Nakba Day"JERUSALEM, May 15 () -- Several dozen Palestinians in Bethlehem hurled stones at Jewish worshipers at one of Judaism's holiest sites during "Nakba (catastrophe) Day" protests Tuesday morning, as demonstrators clashed with Israeli troops elsewhere in the West Bank.The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) police intervened to stop the rock attacks at Rachel's Tomb complex, although they allowed some 200 Palestinians to hold a demonstration at the site, local Army radio reported.? Full storyPalestinians mark 64th Nakba DayGAZA, May 15 () -- A yellow van drove through Gaza City's densely populated streets on Tuesday, with a loudspeaker calling on residents to mark the 64th anniversary of Nakba Day, or "the day of catastrophe" in Arabic.Hundreds of young men and women waving small flags of Palestine marched through the city's main street Omer al-Mukhtar, led by eight young men carrying a huge map of historic Palestine with names of towns and villages on it.? Full storySpecial Report: Palestine-Israel Conflicts
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