Shares in the British Banks Standard Chartered have fallen sharply after financial regulators in New York, accused it of hiding more than 250 billion dollars in an illegal transaction with Iran. Standard Chartered denies the allegations. Shares in the bank dropped by more than 16% in London on Tuesday.
英国渣打银行的股价急剧下降,原因是纽约金融监管部门指控该行掩藏了与伊朗非法交易的2500多亿美元。渣打银行对指控进行否认,周二该行的股价在伦敦下降了16%以上。
A province in Afghanistan is experiencing the second day of strikes on Tuesday as people continue their protest about growing insecurity, especially a recent surging kidnappings. Many shops and business in Huran remain closed.
阿富汗某省周二开始的罢工进入了第二天,人们继续就安全状况恶化尤其是最近多发的绑架事件进行抗议。阿富汗Huran的许多商店和公司仍在关闭。
The accomplished American’s composer Marvin Hamlisch has died. He was 68. He won many awards in his long career, including 3 Oscars and Pulitzer Prize as Wincent Dowd reports.
出色的美国作曲家马文·汉利许去世,终年68岁。在他漫长的职业生涯中,他赢得了多个奖项,包括三个奥斯卡奖和普利策奖。文森特·多德报道。
Marvin Hamlisch came from the middle class New York Jewish background, which has produced so many of the great Broadway song writers. After chorus line, he went on to a degree of success with shows such as They Are Playing Our Song and the Goodbye Girl. That theatre works sometimes overshadowed his films. He won 2 Oscars for The Way We Were in 1973 and the 3rd for adapting Scott Joplin's ragtime music for the Sting. In 1977, he co-wrote Nobody Does It Better for the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.