Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!

I'm Ryan Drillsma…

And I'm Nancy Sun.

In today's news:

Kaohsiung hosts WorldPride, honeybees scream, and California sues Kanye.

All that and more, coming up next.

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高雄將主辦2025年世界同志遊行

Kaohsiung Hosts WorldPride 2025

Kaohsiung is going to host WorldPride in 2025!

That's a big deal!

Pride is an event that happens every year to celebrate freedom for LGBT people.

同志遊行是每年都舉辦的活動，慶祝同志的自由。

Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung all have Pride events.

Over 200 thousand people attended Taipei Pride in 2019.

But that's still not as big as people think WorldPride 2025 will be.

The people that organize Kaohsiung Pride think the event will attract (吸引) millions of tourists!

Instead of just one day, the event will last 10 days.

It will have parades (遊行), concerts (音樂會), and many more activities.

But an even bigger reason to celebrate it that Taiwan will be the first country in East Asia to host WorldPride.

And LGBT people in many countries of this region do not have equal rights.

在東亞，很多同志缺乏平等的權利。

The president of the WorldPride organization said it will bring "awareness" (提升注意) to the human rights (人權) situation in East Asia.

And people can attend from countries close to Taiwan, like Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and China.

There was some controversy (爭議) about how the WorldPride organization wrote about Taiwan.

It called Taiwan a "region" (區域) and not a "country".

Many people said this was unfair. The organization said it was trying to follow rules by the United Nations.

But it has changed its website now, and does not call Taiwan a "region".

世界同志遊行原本按照聯合國的規則，稱呼台灣為"一個區域"而不是國家。但是很多人抱怨這不公平。這個活動後來就不再稱呼台灣為區域。

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亞洲蜜蜂尖叫

Asian Honeybees Scream

Hey!

Stop screaming!

You're hurting my ears!

It's not you? It's the bees?!

Scientists recently found out that Asian honeybees (亞洲蜜蜂) "scream" when they are under attack (遭遇攻擊時會尖叫).

But they don't scream like people do.

They make a "screaming" sound by rubbing their wings against their bodies.

跟人類不一樣的是，蜜蜂用磨擦翅膀來發出尖銳的聲音。

Honeybees are likely to use it when they are attacked by the Giant Asian Hornet (大虎頭蜂).

Giant Asian Hornets can destroy a honeybee hive in just a few hours.

And they kill honeybees with their sharp jaws, and feed them to their young.

亞洲蜜蜂被大虎頭蜂攻擊時，就會[尖叫]，想要嚇阻敵人。大虎頭蜂不用幾個小時就能毀掉蜜蜂窩，用強壯的下顎咬死蜜蜂，然後餵食牠自己的幼蟲。

Bees use their "scream" as a warning (警告).

It helps let other honeybees know that a hornet is attacking.

One scientist said that the noise almost sounds human!

She recorded (錄音) the bee sounds by placing recorders inside and around hives (蜂窩).

She recorded a total of 30 hours of honeybee sounds.

When she listened back, she was confident (確定) the bees made much louder, higher and faster sounds when they thought hornets were attacking.

Honeybees are important creatures.

They help make more and more plants through pollination.

The pollination of wild honeybees is also helpful to farmers growing crops

Trees need bees - and we need them, too!

蜜蜂是很重要的昆蟲，不但能傳播花粉，增加植物的數量，也可以幫助農夫培育農作物。

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加州政府告肯伊

Kanye Sued by California

A US state has filed a lawsuit against a famous singer.

California has sued Kanye because of his business practices.

The state government alleges (辯稱) that Kanye's website is not delivering products to customers fast enough.

This goes against California's business rules.

肯伊·威斯特被美國加州州政府告，辯稱他的網站違反線上商務規定。

California's laws require online stores to send items to customers within 30 days of the order being placed.

Kanye's site has a bad track record when it comes to making deliveries on time.

California lawyers want the site to improve its operations.

It also wants penalties for previous violations, and compensation (賠償) for affected customers.

檢方要求肯伊改善網站，罰款，賠償。

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So, in today's News Bites:

Kaohsiung is going to host WorldPride in 2025!

That's a big deal!

Pride is an event that happens every year to celebrate freedom for LGBT people.

It will have parades, concerts, and many more activities.

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And,

Scientists recently found out that Asian honeybees "scream" when they are under attack.

They make a "screaming" sound by rubbing their wings against their bodies.

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And,

California has sued Kanye because of his business practices.

The state government alleges that Kanye's website is not delivering products to customers fast enough.

This goes against California's business rules.

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And that's today's episode of News Bites!