英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable - 食堂没肉菜，问题多严重？

Topic 1: School Tragedy On the first day of the new semester, a man wielding a knife killed three students and one teacher. He also managed to injure 5 other students before jumping to his death from the fifth floor of the school.

What happened? Why did he do it?

Topic 2: Flight crew turn blind eye to smoking passengers China's civil aviation authority is investigating two smoking incidents on board a recent domestic flight that caused passengers to complain about their safety.

Passengers on a China United Airlines flight from Chengdu to Beijing on Sunday lodged a protest, after discovering other passengers smoking on the plane.

Crew members on the plane were criticized for turning a blind eye to passengers smoking in the lavatory and outside the cabin door.

China United Airlines has agreed to apologize and compensate.

What happened?

Topic 3: Unqualified foreign teachers in China On Aug 29, the head of two foreign language training agencies in the city of Harbin were been questioned by police for allegedly allowing foreign teachers without proper qualification on their payroll. This revealed a current situation that some foreign teachers in China have no qualification to teach in school.

Is there a problem with foreign teachers not having proper qualification/documentation?

Topic 4: China allows foreign-owned hospitals in more cities People in China will soon have another option when they need to go to the hospital.

China has relaxed its limits on foreign investment in hospitals on the mainland allowing hospitals in 7 cities and provinces to be wholly foreign owned.

Is it big news?

Topic 5: Official canteen has not meat For some, if only one meal is not satisfying, it can be cause for hot tempers. It seems that some officials in Jiangxi province are these type of people. They even went so far as to release an official document criticizing a canteen for not having enough meat for lunch.

Is this a reasonable thing to do?