Linking: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/11/18/keystone-xl-protest-washington.html

The Keystone XL pipeline is the line transport crude oil from Alberta to Texas. The pipeline

did a considerable amount of contribution to the economy while the time of economic

downturn. While the issue came out to block the pipeline, the heated debate happened.

Detail:

link http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/23/f-keystone-xl-pipeline-oilsands.html

Ten month ago, Obama came out the project to block the pipeline because it was

concerned to threat an environmentally sensitive area in Nebraska. Also because Obama

elected to a second term, the project back on the agenda. Detail: link

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/11/15/keystone-obama.html

Sunday, thousands of protesters gathered to protest the project in Washington. Also

Stephen harper supported the building of the pipeline. He considered that this project will

create thousands of job opportunities and income for Canada.

Linking : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20389490

Last year, in order to cool the property market, the government raise the bank reserve ratio and came 

out the policy of controlling costumer buy house for investment. That has already shut many ordinary 

buyers out of the market. It was found out that the current economy slowdown, because of the policies. 

In the past few month, the People’s Bank of China has cut down the amount of bank reserve in order 

to rerise the bank loan. For this aim, the central bank also cut its interest rates twice in the latter half of 

this year.

According to the official figures, the demand of the housing increased in 35cities during the last month,

 because of the relaxing restrictions and the decline of the interest rate and the bank reserve rate.

 As we all known that Europe is facing the financial crisis, in the aftermath of the Global Economic Recession of 2008. 

It starts from Iceland and Ireland, and now also affects such a lot members of the bloc, such like Greece, Hungary

 and Spain. 

The crisis was caused by fiscal irresponsibility on the part of governments and banks. Now, the crisis is still affecting

 the economy of Eurozone even the whole world.

According to the official figures by Nov 15th, Eurozone back in recession as official figures show 0.1 percent quarterly 

contraction in Q3. Eurozone once avoided the recession of the economy while the US sub-prime crisis because of the strength of the Germany economy. However, over the past year, Germany’s annual growth 

rate declined. Netherlands might be the most sharply decline among the Eurozone members. The unemployment rate

 in Eurozone also continuously climb.

Eurozone always try to find out the way to get out of this situation. Cutting to pensions and increasing to taxes both are 

the measures that be taken in Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Cyprus, the five Eurozone countries  which are in 

recession. However, it still caused the decline of economic output and sharo increase in unemployment rate.

Linking: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/eurozone-back-recession-q3-100356213.html

Smart meters are intended to improve efficiency, reliability, and allow the electric utility to change different 

rates for electricity at different times of day. However, the reality shows that the smart meter will do so 

much more than just showing how much electricity that they used. Smart meter can see everything 

happened in your home, like whether you are at home, whether you are at a vacation or whether you

 have a visitor. The smart meter data shows the own daily life system and that will stored in the power 

company’s computer forever. Anyone wanna know about your life, hacking in the power company 

system or just asking it about the employees in the power company is the way to get the information. 

Or maybe the power company would sell the personal data to anyone who wants.The sense of the 

invasion of the privacy will definitely make people refuse to used the smart meters instead of the 

old meters.

Here are some points of the invasion of privacy of smart meters.

Firstly, all the companies has the relationship with your power company, such as insurance company, 

could easily get the data of the householders’ personal life behaviour. Also, selling the privacy information 

to others is another way to exposure the privacy.

Secondly, in the Net of smart meters, the smart meter of your house will not only send the data to the

 cell tower, but also exchange the data with other thousands of other smart meters around your house.

Linking video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8JNFr_j6kdI

Article Link:http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/10/05/business-us-jobs.html

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 per cent last month, dropping to the lowest point during the four years. The rate declined bucause of the economy reborn and the increase the demand of the workforce.Also the wage rose was another  reason that people started to work.

The employers added 146,000 jobs per month from July through September, up from 67,000 in the previous three months. The unemployment rate fell from 8.1 per cent in August.

After the roport,the stock futures rose modestly immediately. That indicates that the economy recovers. This will help Obama to facing the coming debate even the presidential election in the futrue.

Artical Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/10/08/china-tech-firms-security-risk.html

Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp are China’s two leading technology firms. The article shows that the House Intelligence Committee warned that Huawei and ZTE pose a national security threat to the United States. So that they announced that merican companies should avoid doing business with these two companies.

“China has the means, opportunity, and motive to use telecommunications companies for malicious purposes,” the report says.

While the Chinese representative said that US should do more things for the both benifit of  both countries, not opposite. Because of globalization, the international trade became a common thing in our daily life. China also developed the own technolodge to face  the high competition of the international trade.

Huawei also do business with Bell in Canada. In the past two years, there are similar attacks from China happened in Canada. detail:

Dubing industry started in China for dubbed film in the first place. Shanghai film dubbing factory, which was founded in 1957, is one of the factories of making debbed film. Nowadays, because of the globalization, original movies become easy to come into the China and more and more popular. Dubbing industry noticed that it cannot survive depend on only dubbed film any longer. Dubbing industry expanded to carton industry , advertisement and TV series industry for developing.

Dubbing industry in Japan is mainly support for the ACG. Voice actors in Japan are just like super stars, because of the boom of ACG industry. However, in China, the ACG industry didnot make any progress even it declined during the past several years. Although the carton industry in China still can offer the dubbing industry a great market, the carton industry still cannot satisfy the Chinese voice actors’ ambintious.

All above shows that the dubbing industry in China is still developing. Also in China ,there are a lot of fan of voice acting. They are interested in voice acting but they are disappointed to the ACG industry in China. In their mind, because of the slump of ACG industry in China, the dubbing industry is also in its downturn. Although they love this industry, they are still not willing to choose dubbing as their job.

The analyse show that the most serious problem that dubbing industry is facing is that less people are willing to choose to becoming a professional voice actor. In my a point of veiw, the more advertisement about the dubbing to let the puplic learn about the industry will be helpful to the development of the Chinese dubbing industry.

some of the information of the dubbing industry are told by the professional voice actors in Shanghai film dubbing factory,during the last summer vercation.

The employees from Foxconn keep jumping off the building has already become the heated news in China during these years. Last night another male Foxconn employee jumped off the building to end his life. The similar cases has occured countless times during these years. For details: click here

Foxconn is a Taiwanese multinational electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan. It manufactures and assembles consumer electronic products for companies like Apple, Nokia, Dell, and so on.

One of the journalists undercover into Foxconn and find out that employees in Foxconn working under the terrible environment and high pressure. ‘Accommodation for emplyees cannot be worse, that even sleeping is a nightmare’ the journalist described. Employees are also forced to work for extra time, otherwise they will be punishment by their supervisor. However, the employees cannot get a considerable income for their overload work. Obviously, although Foxconn has reperted the business ethical repoerters for fourth time, the situation still has not changed yet.