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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Bank says most developing countries have made important progress toward the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Last week the international lender released its yearly World Devel

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. CIA analysts are going through documents and other information taken from the raided compound in Pakistan where US special operations team killed Osama bin Laden. NPR's Rachel Martin says the data could

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The 2018 Beijing Forum on Human Rights has kicked off, with the theme Poverty Elimination: Seeking Common Development to Build a Community of Shared Future for Human Beings. The two-day event this year has over 200 attendees from over 50 countries, r

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When Stefano Boeri imagines the future of urban China he sees green and lots of it. Office blocks homes and hotels decked from top to toe in a verdant blaze of shrubbery and plant life; a breath of fresh air for metropolises that are choking on a tox

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Indias parliament has approved a long-awaited overhaul of the countrys fragmented tax system to create a genuine single market in one of the most significant reforms to the Indian economy since liberalisation began 25 years ago. 印度国会已批准对

SSS 2009-04-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? At Antarcticas Blood Falls, the ice is stained red by ancient, iron-rich water pouring out of subglacial lakes formed millions of years ago. The cascading water is e

VOA标准英语2009-US, China May Set Emissions Reduction Goals

During talks in Beijing, U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao endorsed a package of energy projects, including deals on clean coal and electric vehicles. Environmental analysts say the talks offer new hope the two countries wi

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2016年CRI Overcapacity reduction still faces challenges: official

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2018年CRI Delegates urge more Africa-China poverty reduction cooperation

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Ecologists Call for Action on Biodiversity Loss

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Obama calls for debt reduction in balanced manner

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2015年CRI 2015 Global High Level Forum on Poverty Reduction and Development

The 2015 Global High Level Forum on Poverty Reduction and Development convenes in the Great Hall of the People, in China's capital city of Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the event. CRIENGLISH.com now brings you a live broadcast of th

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CCTV9英语新闻：New strategy of targeted poverty reduction

Now for more analysis, let's bring in Tang Min, Counsellor at the State Council, and our senior reporter Xu Zhaoqun. Welcome, both of you, to our discussion. Q1: Let me start with you Xu Zhaoqun. You've been to a lot of villages in poor regions, and

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U.S. President Barack Obama and key congressional leaders are meeting Friday in their first face-to-face effort to resolve crucial government financial issues before the end of the year. As the talks started, President Obama said he and the lawmakers