ChinesePod Today: Saudi Sisters Granted Asylum (simp. characters)
  • 5 years ago
ChinesePod News (March 26, 2019)

Saudi sisters Reem and Rawan (pseudonyms) fled their family and attempted to seek asylum in Australia last September. After being stopped by Saudi authorities in the Hong Kong international airport, the sisters hid in the city for six months.

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/Wxb6dGem724

This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:

庇护: asylum
保密: to keep something secret
拦截: to intercept
注销: to cancel
施暴: to use violence
使领馆人员: consular authorities

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