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Farming and Agribusiness Brad: Is this your first visit to this area? Irene: It is and Im surprised to see so many farms. I thought farming was a dying industry. Brad: Family farms and small-scale farming are disappearing, but agribusiness is alive a
Line by line, page by page, Nobuki Mitani has been eking out a living for six years. Every day I work about 10 to 12 hours, says the 27-year-old animator, often we work on Saturday and if it's busy we work Sunday, too. Japanese animation is a more th
And it's been a rocky year for Fairfax and today's annual general meeting in Melbourne could create even more turbulence. Shareholders are expected to hold a protest vote over the lucrative pay deals given to its bosses. They were paid despite the fa
The federeal government's Royal Commission into child abuse could take several years to complete. Prime minister Julia Gillard announced the wide range inquiry late yesterday will investigate the way institutions like churchs and schools have handled
今天我们要学的词是 gambit. gambit 是指精心策划的一步棋,特别是带有风险的策略。$150 million in aid to El Salvador marks China's latest gambit to make inroads in Central America. 中国向萨尔瓦多提供1.5亿美元援助
So, I know this--that whether you're an actor, you offer your talent in the way that most inspires aret. If you're an anatomist, you look at your gift as knowlege and service to healing. Whether you've been called, as so many of you here today gettin
142 lumberjacks Jack gave a sigh of regret, Ah, to be sitting in a lodge up in the mountains, the luminous stars above, the law of the lumberjacks used to be full of tails of hard chip and adventure, but they were a healthy lord and managed to live
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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 09 September 2007 Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan is seen lying in a bathtub filled with pink and red rose petals in a first-ever promotional campaign for Lux beauty soap India's beauty and grooming industry is targeting a
South Korea Emerges as Unlikely Source of Caviar The unfertilized eggs of the sturgeon have made the fish one of the worlds most valuable wildlife resources. Some 90 percent of the worlds caviar comes from sturgeon in the Caspian Sea, but uncontrolle
1. For the second straight day, the Lebanese army and militants clashed in Tripoli. The military says the militants have ties to al-Qaeda. It's the worst eruption of internal violence since the country's civil war ended in 1990. 2. The number of peo
Hollywood Celebrates Holidays With Great Films Director Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, based on the Tolstoy novel, is a quintessential holiday production. It offers rich costumes, enchanting music, and stellar actors. The rules of a period film have bee
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: By most accounts, the majority of people who experience sexual harassment or assault never report what happened to them. High tech may have a solution - apps that can help survivors come forward. NPR's Tovia Smith reports. TOVIA
East Timor's international court action against Australia over the rights to lucrative oil and gas fields begins in the Hague later today. Now the case has been overshadowed by ASIO raids on the Canberra lawyer representing East Timor, and aslo on a
More foreign dairy firms have announced plans to cut their baby formula prices in China. It comes after Chinese authorities launched investigations over alleged price-fixing of a handful of manufacturers. Despite the promised price cuts, customers re
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 08 October 2007 Tens of thousands of highly qualified Indian professionals migrated to Western countries in recent decades for better job opportunities. But as India's economy booms, a lot of them are now opting to return
A factional leader in Somalia's Eritrea-based opposition group is denying allegations by a piracy specialist in Kenya that he is aiding radical Islamists by providing them with weapons bought with money earned from piracy. Yusuf Mohamed Siad, better
In a nationwide survey by the China Dining Industry Association, high-end restaurants whose income mainly comes from business dinners fell by about 20 percent during the Spring Festival period. Liu Wei, a manager of a high-end restaurant in Beijing,
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Perhaps you'd like to sample fine cuisine in France, experience the ancient splendour of the Egyptian pyramids, or breathe the pristine air of the Himalayan mountain range? Well, if you s
With the final Harry Potter movie premiering next week, fans of the wizard may be wondering where to go next. Well, on 31 July Harry Potter's birthday the website Pottermore will go live. The site will allow users to rediscover the Harry Potter saga.