英闻天下——476 "Is China's Cost of Funeral Service Too High?"

As the Qingming Festival, also known as the Tomb Sweeping day, approaches and people get ready to honor their departed loved ones, funeral services have once again become a hot topic. Some people complain about the rising cost of funerals and say the

美国国家公共电台 NPR Philadephia's New DA Wants Prosecutors To Talk Cost Of Incarceration While In Court

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Every day, judges around the country decide the fate of criminal defendants by trying to strike the right balance between fairness and public safety. A new progressive district attorney in Philadelphia is asking his prosecutors to

英闻天下——544 "Is China's Cost of Funeral Service Too High?"

As the Qingming Festival, also known as the Tomb Sweeping day, approaches and people get ready to honor their departed loved ones, funeral services have once again become a hot topic. Some people complain about the rising cost of funerals and say the

VOA常速英语2008年-Haiti's Rising Cost of Food Worries Aid Groups

By Brian Wagner Port-au-Prince 17 April 2008 Foreign aid groups in Haiti say they are hurt by the high cost of food just as much as ordinary citizens whose anger over the rising prices led to violent protests in the Caribbean nation last week. In Por

2006年VOA标准英语-Child Mortality Rate Increases in Zimbabwe

By Tendai Maphosa Harare 25 October 2006 Silver Packry, right, feeds one of her children while her mother, left, looks on in Harare, October 17, 2006 Child mortality is on the increase in Zimbabwe, according to the country's health minister. Health

2006年VOA标准英语-Child and Maternal Mortality High in Devel

By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 14 May 2006 Makai, a 40-year-old Afghan woman, looks at her baby boy a few hours after giving birth at public hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif Families around the world celebrate

VOA常速英语2007-London's Maternal Conference Ends on Hopeful Not

By Tendai Maphosa London 20 October 2007 The three-day Women Deliver conference, which focused on maternal and infant mortality, ended Saturday in London. As Tendai Maphosa reports, the organizers and delegates hope it will give new momentum to effor

VOA标准英语2010年-Sudanese Children First Victims of War

More than 300,000 children in Sudan die every year from preventable causes, about 26,000 mothers die each year giving birth, says UNICEF Lisa Schlein | Geneva 14 June 2010 UN mission dubs Southern Sudan as the hungriest place on earth with a recent s

VOA标准英语2010年-Maternal Mortality Remains Serious Thr

Worldwide, giving birth is far less dangerous than it was even two decades ago. A new report shows that maternal mortality, however, remains a serious threat - even in wealthy, industrialized nations. A report released by New York City's health depar

VOA标准英语2009年-Investing in Child And Maternal Health Mak

A consortium of United Nations and private aid and financial organizations are calling for urgent investment in the health of mothers and children in Asia and the Pacific. The consortium, called the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child-Health

VOA标准英语2015--Giving Kids Equal Chance at Survival

Giving Kids Equal Chance at Survival A new report says too often a childs survival depends on place of birth, parents income and ethnicity. Save the Children calls it an unfair lottery of birth that violates every childs right to an equal start in li

2007年VOA标准英语-Groups Vow to Address Staggering Infant Mortali

By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 15 January 2007 watch Infant Mortality report Every year, four million newborns die in their first month of life. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest infant mortality rate of any region of the world. Now there is a n

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Forces Driving Middle-Aged White People's 'Deaths Of Despair'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: For years, it was almost a given - the annual mortality rate in the United States would generally decline. So it was a pretty big shock when a report came out more than a year ago showing death rates were actually going up for mid

VOA常速英语2008年-Survive to Five Campaign Aims to Reduce Infant

By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 09 March 2008 The charity Save the Children USA is starting a campaign to dramatically decrease the number of children who die before the age of five. VOA's Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports the campaign will focus o

VOA标准英语2013--Conference to Foster Mother, Child Health

Conference to Foster Mother, Child Health The 1st International Conference on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Africa got underway Thursday in Johannesburg. Organizers say while much has been done to reduce mortality rates, those rates still rem

2006年VOA标准英语-Women's Health an Obstacle to Reducing Poverty

By Jordan Davis Dakar 17 October 2006 Nomad woman stand in a food line at a village near the small town of Dakoro, Niger As the international community marks World Poverty Day Tuesday, health experts say one of the keys to reducing poverty is improv

把一个孩子养大需要多少钱

把一个孩子养大需要多少钱 Our children， of course， are priceless． But they do have a cost： about a quarter－million dollars。 我们的孩子当然是无价之宝。但养育他们确实是需要成本的：大约25万美元。 A

VOA标准英语2009年-West, Central Africa Fall Behind Global Im

The U.N. children's fund says infant morality around the world has dropped nearly 30 percent during the past two decades. But that improvement in child survival is far smaller in West and Central Africa where growing populations are straining health

VOA常速英语2007年-UN Says India Must Reduce Child Mortality Rates

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 10 December 2007 The United Nations says India needs to reduce child mortality rates. A new report by the U.N. Children's Fund or UNICEF, says one-fifth of the worldwide deaths of children under the age of five occur in t

China mulls mortality database for health assessment

FUZHOU, April 11 (Xinhua) -- China is preparing to set up a national mortality database to obtain cause-of-death information, marking a step toward establishing a monitoring network for health risk factors across the country, an official said Wednesd