据香港文汇报报道称，美国汽车业巨擘通用破产进入倒数阶段，预计6.1向法院申请破产保护，成为美国史上最大宗制造业破产案。
报道称，逾半数通用债权人在限期前投票赞成以债换股，为破产保护清除最后障碍。华府希望通用可于30日内重组，届时政府将持股72.5%，成为最大股东。过去，美国蓝领能成为通用一分子便代表生活无忧，并有机会跻身中产阶级；随通用申请破产保护，亦代表这个“蓝领王朝”最终被时代巨轮淘汰。
报道还称，通用已先后与全美汽车工人联合会(UAW)达成削减成本协议，以及同意出售旗下德国欧宝车厂，为公司重组铺路。到了前日，持有通用272亿美元债券的债权人进行投票，超过5成人支持通用提出的“债换股”方案，包括由一批持有约20%债券的投资者组成的委员会。
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A South Korean military official tells CNN that North Korea testified another short-range missile this morning. This would be the 6th missile fired since North Korea did an underground nuclear test on Monday. Meantime, two Pentagon officials tell CNN that new US satellite imagery has spotted vehicle activity at a North Korean ballistic missile site. The activity simulated the actions before a previous long-range missile launched by the North Korea earlier in the year.
GM will probably still file for bankruptcy as soon as Monday despite a deal with its biggest bondholders, that's also when its US workers will find out which plants are closing as part of the restructuring plan. Twenty-one thousand more people are expected to lose their jobs.
Students and teachers from a private school in Maryland to a quarantine in China because of fears over swine flu have now been released. A student's mom said she heard from both her daughters and one of the teacher chaperones. The Chinese government confined the 21 kids and their three teachers in their hotel on Monday because a passenger on their plane to China was suspected of having the H1N1 virus.
Thousands of people turned out today to mourn the death of the former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun. Last week he committed suicide by jumping from a hill behind his home, he was being investigated after allegations he took six million dollars in bribes while he was in office.
Today is Jay Leno's last day as host to the "Tonight Show", but it didn't stop him from keeping the last coming last night, Conan O'Brien takes over The Tonight Show on Monday, this fall Jay Leno will be back with his own prime time comedy talk show.
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