By CharlotteGreenfield. WELLINGTON (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck central New Zealand just after midnight, the U.S.Geological Survey said, causing widespread damage and generating a tsunami. New Zealand'sMinistry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management warned of the risk of destructive waves along the country's entire east coast and urged residents in low-lying areas to evacuate and seek higher ground ... ....
A new, powerful tremor has taken place in New Zealand just hours after a massive earthquake hit the same area, at one point triggering tsunami warnings in parts of the country. The BBC reports that the second quake happened northeast of Christchurch, on the South Island, at a depth of 10 kilometers. The tremor came at around 1.45 p.m ... There have been multiple strong aftershocks following the midnight quake, according to the report ... ....
(CNN)Welcome to Donald Trump's America. In the aftermath of his improbable victory and on the cusp of a presidency fueled by a movement that could signal a generational realignment in American politics, the country emerges deeply divided -- and with so many feeling that there are further reckonings to come ...For all his idiosyncrasies, Trump had one thing very much in common with other outsized cultural figures ... 1. The U.S ... Read More ... 2 ... 3 ... ....
Hillary Clinton was reportedly inconsolable after the announcement that Donald Trump had beat her in the presidential election. Clinton “couldn’t stop crying,” conservative author Ed Klein said a source told him November 9 on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show.”. "About 6.30 [the] morning [of November 9] she called an old friend," he said. "She was crying, inconsolably.” ... Trump is unfit to serve ... ....
Magzum Mirzagaliev stressed that this year a number of important decisions on major projects, which would allow Kazakhstan to economically develop not only oil and gas sector but also other industrial sectors, had been taken in the industry of Kazakhstan, and the SPECaspian Technical Conference and Exhibition would have a multiplier effect on other sectors of the economy....
In a bid to promote languages other than English, Australia on Monday announced national rollout of an online programme for preschoolers to learn foreign languages, including Hindi, from next year onwards. The Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) Polyglots applications will help students and their teachers to learn new languages... students are studying the vital languagesChinese and Japanese," he added....
The secretary of the trust Upgupta Mahathero, said, "The government should open an exclusive university for Palilanguage. It is one of the widely studied languages in the subcontinent, especially, in the countries dominated by BuddhistsThailand, Sri Lanka and Myanmar... for the language....
The anthology consists of 527 poems in 53 languages mainly Telugu, English, Hindi, Malayalam and Assamese. The meet was inaugurated by ZP Chairperson Gadde Anuradha who congratulated the poets on participating in the meet ... While a majority of poems focused on multiple issues relating to the respective language and culture, some poems reflected contemporary issues ... K ... Paddam Anasuya of Khammam penned a poem in Koyalanguage ... ....
GUWAHATI ... "I downloaded and installed around 10 similar apps which were developed in various parts of the country and for various languages. But I was not completely satisfied with any of them ... For an Assamese user who wishes to search Assamese words, a keypad in the language is a godsend. The app is not free, however ... The software made it possible for students and language facilitators to pursue their activities in Assamese ... RELATED....
Lin Huiqing, vice-minister of education, was quoted by Qianjiang Evening News on Nov 13 as saying at the 2nd InternationalSymposium on Language Assessment and Evaluation that the draft of the rating system has been completed and will be officially released next year, and a detailed plan about the national tests will be carried out step by step before 2020....
Inauguration ... The programme aims at enabling the teachers to handle Englishlanguage with improved proficiency ... Siddique, District project officer, SSA ... The students will be encouraged to read books other than textbooks and to write in class newspapers in a bid to improve their proficiency in the language ... ....
Andrew Shaw greeted the media throng awaiting him in the hallway of the United Center with a hearty "bonjour.". The forward's transition from the Blackhawks, with whom he won two Stanley Cups before being traded to the Canadiens last summer is ongoing. Learning a new language is just one step in the process ... So far, Shaw is loving Montreal and the challenge of playing for a new team - and learning a new language....
First introduced in 2010, the Ebacc is a government-mandated suite of GCSE subjects that includes English, maths, sciences, foreign languages, history and geography ... But the survey also revealed a welcome surge in take-up of modern foreign languages, with 59% reporting an increase in entries. Since foreign languages were removed as a compulsory ......