Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories .迷你倉出租..Lawmakers briefed on reform of travel agenciesMembers of the Legislative Council’s economic development panel are expected to be briefed on the latest proposals to tighten controls over travel agencies that operate mainland inbound tour groups. It is part of a plan to overhaul the regulatory system by replacing the Travel Industry Council with a travel industry authority. The government hopes the authority can start operations as soon as 2015. Panel members will also be given updates on marine safety measures prompted after the Lamma boat collision in October that claimed 39 lives.Jasper Tsang to review Legco’s workThe president of the Legislative Council, Jasper Tsang Yok-sing, is expected to review the legislature’s relations with the government and the work of the lawmaking body over the past year in an end-of-legislative-session press conference today.EU discusses blacklisting HezbollahEuropean Union foreign ministers are set to decide whether or not to add the military wing of Lebanon’s Hezbollah to its black list of terrorist groups, according to diplomatic sources. Unanimity is required to add the Lebanese group to the dozen people and score of groups currently subject to an EU asset freeze – including Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Colombia’s FARC guerillas. Another diplomatic source said Ireland and Malta were holding out but that儲存倉Austria appeared to have dropped objections to the push led by Britain, France and the Netherlands. The positions of the Czech Republic, which has changed government, and Slovakia were unclear.Pope seeks to inspire young in land of sambaPope Francis, who became the Catholic church’s first pontiff from the Americas in March, will turn the crescent-shaped shoreline of Copacabana beach in Brazil into a giant stage for his first international trip as pope as he presides over the church’s World Youth Day festival. More than a million young Catholics are expected to flock to Rio to celebrate their new pope. The city overseen by the giant Christ the Redeemer statue has mobilised thousands of soldiers and police to make sure the visit goes smoothly, even as violent anti-government protests continue to erupt a month after Brazil saw mass demonstrations nationwide.Second anniversary of mass killings in NorwayNorway marks the second anniversary of the bombing and mass shooting at a youth camp on Utoya Island, in which 77 people were killed. The Oslo government has invited artists around the world to submit ideas for memorials to mark the attacks. Two are planned, one in the government quarter in Oslo where eight people were killed and 209 injured on July 22, 2011, when a car bomb planted by Anders Behring Breivik exploded, and the other in the Hole district within sight of Utoya island, where Breivik shot dead 69 and injured 110.迷你倉沙田
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