◎茅毅
All things considered, May ended well for Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister. Mr Abe basked in the reflected political glow. That gave the prime minister ample cover to announce, on June 1st, that he would put off raising Japan’s consumption tax from 8% to 10% from April of next year to October 2019.
◎魏國金
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time the devastating physiological and behavioral effects on fish exposed to the tiny bits of plastic pollution clogging the world’s oceans.
科學家首度證實，塞滿全球海洋的塑膠微粒污染，將對暴露其中的魚類產生毀滅性的生理與行為效應。
◎陳正健
More than half of women in Japan and South Korea put their careers before their marriages, a survey showed. Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo and Japan’s business and economic news daily The Nikkei conducted a survey about career and parenting involving 1,000 Koreans and 1,158 Japanese aged in their 20s to 40s.
◎孫宇青
Katy Perry, Bryan Adams and Christina Aguilera are among hundreds in the music industry pressing lawmakers to reform US online piracy law.
凱蒂．佩芮、布萊恩．亞當斯和克莉絲汀等上百位美國歌手，聯合向國會議員施壓，希望改革線上音樂侵權法律。
◎張沛元
When a burglar attempted to break into her home, the 104-year-old woman stood her ground and scared him off.
當一名盜匪企圖侵入她的家，這名104歲的老婦毫不退縮並將之嚇跑。
◎孫宇青
Florida has further burnished its reputation for deadly wildlife with the discovery of three predatory Nile crocodiles near Miami.
當3頭掠食性尼羅鱷在邁阿密附近被捕獲後，佛羅里達州有致命性野生動物的名聲更加響亮。
◎陳正健
According to this new study, there could actually be a link between mobile phones and cancer. The study, conducted by the US government, experimented on more than 2,500 rats over a two-year period.
根據這份新研究，手機與癌症之間確實可能有所關聯。這份研究是由美國政府執行，在2年期間針對超過2500隻老鼠進行實驗。
