Japan concerned at China's growing military reach

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100910/wl_asia_afp/japanmilitarychina


The yahoo news website doesn’t have very unique style; conversely, it just looks a little bit disorder with all kinds of ads tumbling between titles and categories. The main color of this website is white and blue. However, the colors for dividing different columns are not very obvious. The picture for helping descript the news was too small to get clear information about the idea of the story and the light grey description of the picture does not works very well for its own sake. The font size of the word is also too small for reading in a comfortable way.



The design of placing the sharing ways of yahoo news, dislike the website of SBS, which places both in the front and the end of the article. This kind of design gives more impressive ideas of sharing to readers and increases the chance of being shared. Another interesting thing worth to mentioning is every place name in this article was highlighted and linking to other news related.



Talking about the articles itself, the first feeling rushed into my mind is that it is informative but rather long and dull and boring. The news is talking about the concern of Japan, worrying about the stronger Chinese military because Chinese government didn’t give a transparent spent on military construction. The story start with an introduction of annual Defense of Japan report, I don’t believe it is a good beginning because most of the readers would probably feel boring about reading an analysis of report. The opening of a news story should be eye-catch and induce the curiosity of the readers and let them have interest of moving on.

The information is not well-organized because the statistics, the names of places and the interview are disordered. In a word, although the military news are very difficult to be wrote interesting, this news make it worse with information cluttered in the article.

Anger in HK over Manila hostage deaths

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http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1334712/Anger-in-HK-over-Manila-hostage-deaths

I really like the design of the SBS website because the light blue makes the whole website looks very vivacious, even it is a hard news sites. Coupled with the news story is not a photo related to the event but a video, which makes the audiences get to know and understand the news easier. The highlights under the video linked to more information contribute the perfection of the original intention of the news.



This is a news shocked the whole Chinese world. And news about this event spread almost all the media vector and all kinds of activities about denouncements and mourn are held in both the cyber and real world.

The perspective of this news is no other than writing about all kinds of boycott activities, which gives a side description of the significant influence of this hostage death. Such as “The Hong Kong government raised a "black" travel alert for the Philippines, urging against all travel to one of Southeast Asia's most popular tourist spots.”



Voices from the entire world suspect that this tragedy could definitely be avoided if it were not for the failure decision of the Philippians policemen. And nothing could be made to compensate the lost of the families.



After the description of the process of the tragedy, the news angle changed to the governments’ attitude about this death and the detailed illustration of the moral action of the survivors, which can greatly impressive the readers because at this moment how to deal with the post processing seems became the focus of the public.



This news story seized two important aspects of this hostage death with an overall introduction video help to induce the constant attention about the factoids. And under the article there are several ways to share the whole article make sure the effective communications.

ABC NEWS lipstick? It could be full of beetle juice! （share）

你的唇膏里有甲壳虫汁吗
Do you love your bright, red lipstick? It could be full of beetle juice! After being boiled, dried out and crushed, cochineal beetles produce an enzyme that creates a beautiful crimson color that can be used as a powder or liquid called carmine to add to lipstick. Beetle juice can be found in more than 300 lipstick products, including lip liners, lipsticks and mascaras. Pictured here is a Dogbane leaf beetle。

The following are colours which are recommended to avoid: CI 45425, Brilliant Blue FD&C (CI 42090), Acid Yellow 23 (CI 19140) and Sunset Yellow (CI 15985). However, there are so many questions hanging over synthetic and coal tar colours that it is certainly not exhaustive.


The most common brands of lipstick, like Maybelline, Cover Girl, and Revlon, are produced using ingredients that are questionable at best and horrifying at worst. Natural makeup companies offer safer, healthier varieties of lipstick, but they are harder to come by and often more expensive. If your makeup bag contains a tube of conventional red lipstick, here's what you're unknowingly ingesting.

China's Massive Traffic Jam Could Last for Weeks

News source


http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=11465800



Very different from the simple and clear style of the website designs of CNN and BBC, the website of ABC international news seems very “colourful”, however, from an other perspective, it also can been seems as a promiscuous combination of all kinds of news stories. And the main colours of the website-dark grey and dark blue are not so apparent for highlighting the main story. As a popular design almost all the news website would place the classification column under the title of the website, and in the ABC‘s case, it then followed by not the main story content but by a series of clips of hot news videos, which may lead to a eyes confused.



In the other hand, a significant point of the website worth to mention is it has a very close connection of the other hot-button websites, such as the facebook, twitter and email, serving as a good way to enlarge the news popularity as more and more people can share and save their favourite news story to their personal space.



After news title, the author use a sentence to summary the news story itself, simple but eye-catching by using a specific number, which greatly induces the curiosity of readers to move on.



A photo of the scene about the traffic jam makes the whole story more vivid, and in the description of the photo, the news content was also highlighted



Traffic jam is a very common phenomenon in most of countries and seems has no news value, however, in the very beginning of the story it gives a introduction of the whole news, which at the same time , can be seen as a introduction of the specialty of the this news. In the story, the author used a wide rage of numbers to show the serious of this traffic jam and make the news more convinced. Besides, the detailed illustration of” walking around, or playing cards and chess” the traffic jam makes the whole news more interesting and impressive.

US officials visit man jailed in North Korea

News source


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10992369



BBC has its own style of website design with red and dark red as the background main colours and white to category different columns and titles.

This news title was comprised by eight words that clearly depict the main idea of the whole story, using dark grey to emphasis and to make a distinction between the news story and the title. Following the title is a summary of the event coloured by dark but much smaller font size which can be apprehended in a glance of who involved in this event, what, when, where and how did it happened.



In the right side of the article, also the middle of the whole website is a close shot of photo of the protagonist, an US man jailed in North Korea which we known from the description under the photo.



At the beginning of the article we get a general idea of the background of this man and the reason of his being put into jail. Then there is a brief introduction of this news story—the grant of permission from the North Korea bought forward by US, illustrated by a series of interview of the US state department spokesman. We can also know from the story other additional information such as how the US consular office are dealing with the application of releasing Aijalon Mahli Gomes and the unfathomable enigma of his suicide in chrismas.



This is a well-described news because it tells the whole story very apparently, however it left like no ending story for it didn’t unclose questions in the news, and no analysis can be found in the news which makes this news lack of something profound. Even answers guessed from experts will enrich the article.

Japan apologizes again for colonial rule of Korea

News source


http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/10/japan.korea.apology/index.html#fbid=n7Pv3F1tfe8&wom=false



The website of CNN world news is designed very compact and clear, with the red column to categorize news from different areas and the white background serves as a good set up for making hard news more reliable and persuasive.



A big picture of a close-shot of the president of Japan is very eye-catch packed with the interpretation of the picture and readers a general idea of what this news is talking about. The story highlights in the left side of the page uses four sentences summarizing the core idea of this news story, which is also follow the style of the website.



This news story only has 230 words but is divided into 10 paragraphs. the structure is simple and very clear to scan the whole story.



However, strictly speaking, this story more likes a history review rather than a hard news or world news because there are three paragraphs related to the Japanese and Korean history and with two paragraphs’ interviews talking about the history.



Admittedly, this news happened based on the history and would be well illustrated if we reported from the historical perspective, but if the story contained with too much information about history without other analyze or talking from a single angle or personal angle, the borderline seems be blurred. That is why I think this news is kind of a little bit off the topic.



Besides, the interview and the history review interlaced together, which makes the structure of the whole story seemed disorder, especially for those who don’t know very well about the relationship between Japan and Korea.



And it would be better if the author focus on one angle and add more experts’ opinion or the expectation of the future of Japan and Korea.

South Korea begins massive anti-submarine drills

News source:


http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/05/south.korea.submarine.drills/index.html?iref=allsearch#fbid=3dIV5lblt_u&wom=false



This is a hard news about the international relationship between Korean peninsula, China, American and Japan.

The relationship of Korean peninsula has been in a tension since the March sinking of the Cheonan, the two neighbors has fought a war from 1950 to 1953 and this drills also has caused wide international public concern. From the perspective of news value, the news story highlighted the latent conflict of South and North Korea through reporting the massive anti-submarine drills. Consequently, a lot more attention from the government of these countries, the people who work, live and study in Korean peninsula will be drawn to this event. Looking backwards to the world war and world warⅡ, tragedy was always begun from a little conflict between nations. This news story help people to compare the history and the status quo and prevent the tragedy happen again.

From the perspective of writing structure, it is a traditional hard new writing with a brief introduction of the whole event and more details and analysis in depth in the following articles. Precisely, the main body of this news story is comprised by four parts: a review of the past event- the March sinking of Cheonan- and the impact of this event; a list of numbers of submarines, military braches and people involved in the drills; the interviews, analysis and views from experts, which make this new story more persuasive. In the final parts of this news, it reveal the hidden truth of this submarine drill, that is, this dills was actually supported by American, who is deliberately pressuring China to clarify its position. It is not only a simply antagonize and from South Korea to North Korea, but also a trick American playing on China.

In a word, this news story draws a clear relationship framework about those four countries to reader and can be seen as an important reference about international relationship to people.

Introduction

life likes a string

              the more we experienced,

the smaller the experience will be
  
             when life ends, we will find that

every moment , no matter how cherish it was
                  
             was just a little dot in the string!

인생은 길이 정해진 한 줄이다

인생의 경력마다 이 줄에서 표현 되어있다

경력이 많을면 많을수록

이 줄에서 경력을 표현 하는 길이 작아지고있다

인생 끝았을때 돌아서 보면

우리 겪었던 그 기쁨, 그 슬픔

오직 아주 작은 점일 뿐이다!