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Sky News:薪水高低与身材高矮有关
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Study: Tall men earn more money than shorter colleagues
个子高的挣钱多？
From knives to size, it turns out my tiny salary's in direct relation to my tiny self. According to a study of nearly 7,000 men and women by the Australian National University which is in Australia.
事实证明，我微薄的薪水和我矮小的身高有关。根据澳大利亚国家大学对近7000名男女进行的意向调查，这一点是成立的。
Really?
为什么？
An extra couple of inches can add nearly 820 dollars per year to one's salary, says Professor Leigh of these anti-tiny findings. "Perhaps it's because of this discrimination with shorter people getting the same treatment in the labor market (as) women and minorities have experienced in the past." The worst part is short men are way smarter than minorities and women. Combine that time 12. I don't know what I am saying.
身高每高两英寸，年薪就会增加820美元。Leigh教授表示。他的研究得出了这些对矮小体型不利的结论。“或许这是因为对身材较矮小的人的歧视导致他们在就业市场遭遇了与女性和少数民族过去同样遭遇的不幸。”最糟糕的是，矮小的人比少数民族和女性多的多，大概是12倍的样子。我不知道我在说什么。
Ann, you are super tall. If you were short, do you think you would be less successful?
Ann，你的个子非常高。如果你比较矮的话，你认为你还有这么成功吗？
Especially short and heavy?
尤其是又矮又肥？
Yeah.
是的。
Apparently.
显而易见不会这么成功。
Yeah. Good. That's a direct insult at me.
是的，很好。这对我来说是直截了当的侮辱。
Short and heavy shabby. They are very misery-presented group.
又矮又胖的家伙。他们是非常痛苦的群体。
But I think you're making too much of this, but short men also save money on things like dating.
但是我认为你们顾虑的太多了。矮小的男性在约会等方面更容易省钱。
Clearly unnecessary. Short men…but a short man also are more sucessful, because they try harder, because they are short.
这不一定。矮小的男人更容易成功，因为他们比较矮小，他们会更努力。
Are you taking this story a little too personal?
你们这个话题是不是太个人了？
I pitched this story. I wanted to leave the show with this story.
我竭力向大家推荐一个故事，然后就离开节目。
He was two of the sources in that story.
他是故事中两个人物之一。
This story was made up by me. I wrote about it in the bathroom and then I published it on my own blog.
这个故事是我编撰的。是我在浴室中写的，发表在自己的博客上。
It's not a coincidence that the other of that story is Breg Butt-feld. Do the maths.
这个故事的另外一个人物是Breg Butt-feld，这并不是巧合。
Yeah. Carl, will there be a day that short people can sue for discrimination?
是的，卡尔。是否有一天身材矮小的人可以因受到歧视而投诉？
Well, you can hope, the thing. But think about it this way, it's only 1.5%, you know, say, screw the 1.5%, take the big settlement. On the other hand, you shouldn't go fret,Greg,I mean, with the passing of Cronkite, you have moved up the ladder as a journalist. We all think of you as a giant. You are the giant.
你可以希望如此。但是你要这样想，只有1.5%的比例，吝啬的1.5%，最终会和解。另一方面，你不应该焦虑，我的意思是，随着克朗凯特的上台，你已经顺利成为一名记者。我们都认为你是一位大人物，确实是大人物。
Thank you very much. God knows I need a ladder. A very short man. Hey, you know, Barret, I gotta move on. But I want to ask, you don't date short people, do you?
非常感谢。上帝知道，我确实需要一架梯子。我非常矮小。你知道，我要继续其他话题了。但是我还想问一个问题，你不会约会身材矮小的人，是吗？
I do. I totally date short people.
不，我约的都是比较矮的人。
Oh, you do not.
哦，你才没有。
Yes, I have. I've dated a short man.
有，我曾经约过一个比较矮的人。
Name a short person you dated.
说出一个你曾经约过得比较矮的人的名字。
..... A menu, I will do it.
我会的。
CCTV9:中国鼓励母乳喂养
China encourages breast-feeding
中国鼓励母乳喂养
The Chinese government is considering an amendment to ban products claiming to partly, or completely substitute for mother's milk. So how will the restriction of baby formula advertising affect China's huge market.
The new amendment says that "Dairy products, drinks and other food advertisements that claim to partly or completely substitute for mother's milk shall be banned from mass media or public venues".
The maximum fine for a violation can be as much as 1 million yuan, and some formula distributors have now put notices on their web sites promoting breast-feeding for babies under six months.
China has about 16 million of new-borns every year, and one advertising expert says that with such a big market, the new regulation may not be strictly enforced.
"The big dairy companies may not be able to change the law, they could use their big public relations influence to avoid punishment. For medium and small companies, the penalty for violating the rule is very low, and they can make a lot of money by violating it," said Zhang Dianyuan, Professor of Journalism, Fudan University.
Data from UNICEF show that only 28 percent of infants younger than 6 months were 100% breastfed in China in 2008, while the global average is about 40 percent. China hopes to raise that number to 50 percent by 2020.
The government has introduced measures to encourage breastfeeding, such as building dedicated rooms in public venues for new mothers.
Hospitals are also encouraging new mothers to feed their baby themselves.
"In our hospital, unless the mothers need medication or a baby needs treatment, we encourage new mothers to breastfeed their babies as soon as possible. 90% of the mothers in our hospital breastfeed their babies," said Tang Zheng, Deputy Director of Neonatology Dept., Int'l Peace Maternity Hospital.
Doctor Tang says that most babies need at least six months of breast milk. After six months, mothers' milk would not always be sufficient, so they need to use formula milk or other products.
Some mothers we talked to say they will still buy formula products, as they are not really affected by ads. Their knowledge about baby formula products mostly comes from friends and peers.
"My baby was born today, at 4:30 in the morning. I will breastfeed her as long as I stay at home, for at least six months. The ads for baby formula products won't affect me, I talk to my friends and then decide whether to use milk powder," said Zhou Linan, new mother.
"My baby is 20 months old. For the first 8 months, we fed her breast milk, and in the ninth month, we started a mixture of breast milk and formula milk. After that it's pure formula. My friends and I share experiences about formula milk. I've also looked for some information online," said Ni Zhiwei, new mother.
The change in the law only restricts ads on mass media, but Professor Zhang points out that there isn't a clear definition of just what mass media are.
More and more formula products are using new marketing techniques employing new media and peer to peer marketing.
"Dairy products tend to use fewer ads on mass media. They like to use the Internet, new media, self-made media. This kind of advertising falls outside the range of the new law, and so it won't be supervised," Zhang Dianyuan said.
CCTV reporters have tried to reach some baby formula manufacturers, but they refused to comment on the new law, which will come into effect in September of this year.
CCTV9视频:外国银行受中国经济低迷冲击
China's economic slowdown hits foreign banks
外国银行受中国经济低迷冲击
China's economic slowdown has hit bank earnings hard. Last week, the country's top five banks all reported a first quarter profit growth of under two percent. Asset quality deterioration and interest margin contraction will continue to weigh on their growth through the year.
China's Big Five state-owned banks all racked up double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2014, and now they've all seen that figure plummet to under 2 percent in the same period this year. Consultants at PwC say that while the big local banks are off to a weak start in 2015, foreign banks in China could have their market positions seriously shaken.
"I also heard in 2014, foreign bankers have revised, or tightened loan underwriting and loan monitoring policies, so as to ensure that there's no more deterioration in asset quality. I expect that the foreign banks will also have a difficult year for 2015," said Jimmy Leung, senior partner of PWC China.
The People's Bank of China has joined other nations' central banks in loosing monetary policies by cutting interest rates and reserve requirement rates more than once in the past 6 months.
These moves, according to Leung at PwC, may wind up hurting the foreign banks in China more than the Chinese banks, because the foreign banks are relevantly smaller in size here.
They may have to give up more interest rate margin in order to retain existing customers by offering deposit rates higher than the central bank's reference rates.
"Foreign banks have been struggling in the past on their deposit base so as to fund the business. They are much more vulnerable to changes in interest rate," said Leung.
"If in a lower interest rate environment, the customers of the foreign banks will not be satisfied with current interest income, so they will look for alternatives. As a result the foreign banks will have to raise the floating part of the interest rate, so as to retain the customer deposits. They need to go to alternative funding, such as interbank and parent company. All these will be more costly than customer deposits."
Unlike the big Chinese banks that required quarterly reports of which all shows profit growth under 2% , foreign banks are not listed locally and so are only required to announce earnings on a yearly basis.
Last year most of them reported much weaker growth than their Chinese peers, and have not reported at all for this year. But if they're all in trouble, Singapore-based OCBC may be the most aggressive in adjusting to the new situation.
The bank saw its net profits growth in the Chinese mainland more than triple in 2014 from a year earlier. Its China chief executive officer Kng Hwee Tin says China's strategy of encouraging businesses to expand abroad has expanded the bank's cross-border business as well, while a more liberalized Renminbi has created new currency hedging demands.
"The other trend is of course, we noticed the RMB changes. That is actually a good trend, because it encourages a lot of corporates to hedge their risks. Previously they didn't want to hedge their risks. Now they do hedging," he said.
"That's actually prudent risk management from their perspective. We have played a large part because we offer our forex services, and therefore the clients take advantage of this to hedge their positions. So that has contributed to some of our profits."
Smaller branch networks have always been foreign banks' weak spot in China.
To expand its presence in China, OCBC last year bought Hong Kong-based Wing Hang Bank to strengthen its network by adding Wing Hang's 70 branches spanning Hong Kong, Macau and the Chinese mainland.
Both PwC and OCBC say 2015 will not be an easy year for the foreign banks, but that taking advantage of Chinese policies like the One Belt, One Road initiative, and new Free Trade Zones could prove to be the foreigners' silver lining for the next few years.
Even if things are tough, they stay engaged with China, as it's a market too big to ignore.
