ChinesePod Today: Overwork Kills More than 270 Indonesian Election Staff (simp. characters)

2019-04-30 11

ChinesePod News (April 29, 2019)

In Indonesia, 272 election staff have been reported dead and 1,878 more ill after Indonesia’s combined presidential and legislative election held earlier in April. The KPU have been criticized for overworking their election officials throughout the night under sweltering conditions.

NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/c-bOkxFuuDo

This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:

选务人员 election staff
成本 cost
监督 to monitor
赔偿 to compensate

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