He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.

他第一次作为电视记者出国采访时就被扣作人质。

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About 70% of all household and business debt is denominated in foreign currencies, mainly Swiss francs, making the country hostage to a currency over which it has limited control.

大约所有住户和商业的债务的70%是以外币计价的(主要是瑞士法郎)，这就使国家受困于其有限控制的货币。

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Japan's foreign minister, Seiji Maehara, complains that a tiny number of farmers hold the rest of the economy hostage.

日本外长前原诚司抱怨道，一小撮农民绑架了日本的经济。

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Mark Grant, from Grangemouth, is believed to have been among the foreign nationals taken hostage at the gas plant.

BBC: Algeria siege: Alex Salmond confirms Scots among hostages

As a result, Nadjia Bouaricha writes in El Watan , "national public opinion has been the hostage of foreign media outlets distilling snippets of information gleaned from this or that news agency or this or that often doubtful source".

BBC: Algerian press defends army action in hostage crisis

British special forces are on standby to stage a rescue mission in Algeria, after foreign gas plant workers were taken hostage, says the Times.

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