Monday, 17 December 2007

趙薇

趙薇(生于1976年3月12日)是一名中國影视女演員、流行音樂歌手。2000年,趙薇从北京電影學院毕业。赵薇因出演電視劇《還珠格格》中小燕子一角一飛沖天,成为当红的偶像艺人,在大陸一下竄紅到一線女星地位,在台灣和香港也人氣頗旺。她是在現代中國的影視行業的第一個擁有國際聲譽的超級明星。成名后赵薇的演艺事业向多方向发展,包括接拍电影,发售唱片,为多种商品作广告代言。然而,她的演艺事业因2001下半年发生的“軍旗裝事件”曾一度受到很大打擊,个人形象饱受争议;时至今日,军旗装事件所造成的争议渐趋平息,赵薇目前仍为中国大陆地区最受欢迎的偶像艺人之一。在中国大陆的媒体与关心娱乐界的社会大众中,赵薇與章子怡、周迅、徐靜蕾这四位女明星约定俗成地被並稱为四小花旦。而趙薇的追隨者自稱薇迷。

Monday, 16 July 2007

At least 80 killed in Kirkuk bomb attacks



One car bomb went off in a market near an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the party of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and the second exploded in a commercial area near shops and a bus garage.

US troops have begun another new offensive south of Baghdad against insurgents today, aiming to cut off another staging ground for attacks on the Iraqi capital. The new sweep is the latest around Baghdad as part of the "surge" of 28,000 new US troops sent to Iraq this year.

For the past month, US and Iraqi forces have been waging offensives in the region south-east of Baghdad and in the city of Baquba, 50 kilometres to the north-east.

At the same time, the US military has been carrying out a security sweep in Baghdad, hoping to bring calm to the capital and boost the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.

A number of attacks hit Baghdad this morning. In the deadliest, a roadside bomb exploded as an Iraqi army patrol passed in the Boub al-Sham area on the city's north-east outskirts, killing five soldiers and wounding nine others.