Week of June 11

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You have probably heard these news terms being discussed in the papers or on TV. This is how to use them in English:

1. 持不同政見者 - dissident

Activists remembered mainland dissident Li Wangyang one year after he was found hanged in a hospital.

2. 諮詢組織 - advisory council

Beijing has for the first time established an advisory council of multinational heavyweights to help the leadership keep a finger on the pulse of major corporations in vital industries.

3. 指控 - allegation

US President Barack Obama is expected to raise allegations of Chinese hackers targeting US networks when he meets President Xi Jinping.

4. 傳媒審查制度 - media censorship

Netizens - anxious about mainland media censorship - experienced envy and excitement after privately-owned daily newspapers hit Myanmar's streets for the first time in decades last week.

5. 獨立調查 - independent inquiry

Instead of an independent inquiry into Timothy Tong Hin-ming's lavish banquets, gifts and business trips, the chief executive only ordered a review of regulations and compliance during Tong's time as head of the ICAC.


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