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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Many powerful men in Washington, including here at NPR, are facing sexual harassment allegations in the court of public opinion. But in actual court, such cases filed by workers against their employers are often dismissed. The way

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VOA慢速英语2012 Education Report - Making Friends Not Always Easy for Foreign Students

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韩国MERS疫情造成第七人死亡

AS IT IS 2015-06-10 Seventh Person Dies of MERS in South Korea 韩国MERS疫情造成第七人死亡 The South Korean Health Ministry has reported the death of a seventh person from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, also known as MERS. Health ministr

VOA标准英语2009年-Thailand Puts Flu Cooperation on ASEAN For

Thailand plans to call for stepped up cooperation from regional governments to contain the spread of the H1N1 flu. The Thai government will present the issue at an annual gathering of foreign ministers from Southeast Asia and the region's main partn

VOA标准英语2014--WHO: Ebola Cases Will Top 9,000 Soon

WHO: Ebola Cases Will Top 9,000 Soon The World Health Organization reported the number of cases in the West Africa Ebola outbreak will top nine-thousand this week. As of October 14, there have been 8,914 Ebola cases and 4,447 deaths have been reporte

2016年CRI China-Canada agreement on returning and sharing crime-related assets ＂milestone＂: diplomat

The agreement signed last week during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Canada is focused on the returning and sharing money generated through criminal activity. Under the deal, if the courts in either country determine the legal ownership of the

2018年CRI China moves on trial reform of IPR cases

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Florence Wanjiku lived that life for 10 years with her husband, an alcoholic. She describes one drunken night. He went to the kitchen, grabbed the wooden spoon, came with it, started beating me up the way you beat a little child, using a stick or som

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Landing a well-paid job in a foreign company is something millions of China's jobseekers dream of, but the findings of a recent survey may change their minds. Nearly 90 percent of Chinese staff in foreign companies suffer from work-related illnesses,

Tokyo has first swine flu cases

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CCTV9英语新闻：Occupy co-organiser made significant donation to HKU

One of the Occupy Central movement organisers anonymously donated 1.45 million Hong Kong dollars to the University of Hong Kong. However, some members of the local media have revealed they received documents showing that the donor was Tai Yiu-Ting, w

CCTV9英语新闻：Some serious school bullying cases in China

School bullying is a major problem worldwide, and China is no exception. This problem has become rampant in recent years in primary and middle schools nationwide. It has been estimated that there have been 43 cases of severe school bullying in this c

Police crackdown resolves 185,000 fake drugs and food cases

BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Police have resolved 185,000 criminal cases during a one-year sweep of counterfeit and substandard food and drugs, the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday. A total of 147,000 underground facilities, which manufac

947 sentenced for food-related crimes

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Venezuela confirms 482 A/H1N1 influenza cases

CARACAS, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The number of confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 influenza in Venezuela has risen to 482 this year, Health Minister Eugenia Sader said on Wednesday. According to the latest report, the state of Merida in southeastern Venezuel

2016年CRI Imported Zika Cases in China Rise to Five

The two new cases involve a 38-year-old man and his eight-year-old son from Yiwu City in Zhejiang Province. Xiong Huang with the National Health and Family Planning Commission has an update on all of the patients. Currently, a Zika patient in Jiangxi

CCTV9英语新闻：China concludes 1.42 mln private lending cases in 2015

Head of China's Supreme People's Court, Zhou Qiang, says the country's courts at various levels handled a total of 1.42 million cases involving private lending in 2015. Zhou said while delivering a work report to the third plenary meeting of the NPC