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The character "黑" ("black") has been chosen as the character of the year in Taiwan.
(ECNS) -- "黑" ("black") has been chosen as the character of the year in Taiwan following a series of food safety and political scandals.

This is the seventh annual poll to choose a character best representing the island's year. After 21 days 62 Men's Air Max 2018.5 All Black Australia Sale ,607 votes were collected via phone, with "黑" accounting for 20% of the total.

"黑" reflects the depression and restlessness felt by people in Taiwan, said the United Daily News, a newspaper that co-organized the survey.

"We should find the right way forward and walk out of darkness to a bright future," the newpaper's editor-in-chief commented.

This year is also the first time that the Chinese character "爱" or "love" was absent from all 60 candidates.

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The top 10 characters all relate to negative events over the past twelve months and include: 黑 (black), 馊 (sour), 油 (oil), 怒 (anger) Mens Air Presto Flyknit Ultra High White Australia Outlet , 食 (food), 假 (falsehood), 伪 (fake), 混 (chaos), 怨 (resentment) and 崩 (collapse).

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Fierce clashes erupted in Anbar province between gunmen and the Iraqi army in the northeastern edge of the militant-seized city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, leaving 20 militants dead, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

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Also in Fallujah, two civilians were killed and six wounded by mortar barrages on several neighborhoods, a medical source from the city hospital told Xinhua.

Anbar province has been the scene of intense clashes that flared up after Iraqi police dismantled an anti-government protest site outside Ramadi in late December last year.

Separately, a member of a government-backed Sahwa paramilitary group was killed and another wounded when a sticky bomb attached to their car exploded in the Abu Ghraib area, some 25 km west of Baghdad, a local police source said.

In Salahudin province Mens Air Presto QS Grey Australia Outlet , gunmen broke into a police checkpoint in al-Hajaj area, just north of the provincial capital city of Tikrit, and shot dead a policeman before they fled the scene, a provincial police source told Xinhua.

Another policeman was wounded when gunmen opened fire on him in the northern part of Tikrit, the source said.

The violence came just 16 days ahead of the landmark parliamentary elections on April 30, which is the first in the country since the withdrawal of U.S. troops in late 2011.

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SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's central bank on Thursday decided to freeze its benchmark interest rate at a record low, keeping a wait-and-see stance for four straight months as the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to raise its policy rate within a couple of months.

Bank of Governor (BOK) Lee Ju-yeol and six other monetary policy board members agreed to keep the seven-day repurchase rate on hold at an all-time low of 1.5 percent. They cut it by a quarter percentage point in March and June respectively.

Despite concerns about lackluster economic data at home and economic slowdown abroad, experts predicted the rate freeze by the BOK ahead of the expected rate hike in the United States.

According to a Korea Financial Investment Association survey of 113 fixed-income analysts, 85 percent expected a BOK rate freeze this month. The remaining 15 percent projected a rate cut on worries over the economic slump at home and abroad.

Exports, which account for around half of the economy Sale 2017 Women's Air Max Flair Pink Australia , continued to decline for nine months through September when the outbound shipments tumbled 8.3 percent compared with a year earlier.

Amid the slowing exports, production in the mining and manufacturing sectors inched up 0.3 percent in August from a year earlier. Manufacturers posted an average factory utilization rate of 74.3 percent in August, lower than an average of 76.1 percent tallied in 2014.

Further rate cuts can weaken the South Korean currency to the U.S. dollar, fuelling price competitiveness of South Korean exporters and increasing corporate earnings overseas when repatriated.

However, the BOK refrained from altering the rate as the U.S. Fed is widely expected to hike rates in early 2016 at the latest. The contrast in monetary policies between Seoul and Washington could trigger foreign capital exodus from the South Korean financial market.

Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said the Fed's first rate increase this year would be "an expectation, not a commitment." His comments boosted expectations for the delayed monetary tightening NikeLab Air VaporMax Flyknit Betrue 2017 Blue Australia Sale , but widespread forecast remained for the rate hike within a couple of months. Governor Lee sought to relieve such market expectations for further rate cuts in South Korea, saying last Monday during the parliamentary audit that the economy's third-quarter growth was in line with the economic forecast of the BOK.

Asked about possibilities for the BOK to cut rates further amid the expected delay in the U.S. rate hike, Governor Lee said he had a different idea from such expectations, showing his hawkish stance on monetary policy.

A surge in household debts prevented the BOK from considering furthe.