More Funding for Iraq's Minorities

In July 2015, at the behest of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, and with the support of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, the United Nations Development Programme established the Funding Facility for Stabilization, or FFS. USAID provided the

Preserving Cambodia's Cultural Treasures

The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh announced this month that the Cultural Heritage Center for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State has awarded $350,000 from the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation to

英文歌曲：Cover Drive - Explode

It's not a science, no It's just a way it goes You spin me all around No gravity, no ground My world is your snow globe You turn me upside down You know I like the shake You make my heart break You speak and I'm rumbling You move and I'm blundering S

CNN 2010-02-18

How the heck do you miss nearly a million jobs during the recession? Boom, just vanished. Apparently our experts did. Just minutes ago a new measure of just how bad the economy is, and it isn't good, folks. CNN's Christine Romans in New York. So how

万花筒 2013-01-18&01-21 2013美国CES消费电子展瘦身减肥产品风行

That fork, called happy folk. It's the fork to tell you to eat more slowly. It tells you to eat more slowly.Where are you from? Where are you from? I'm from Paris. France. So you come up with this in France where you eat cheese and wine. As you hold

留美老师带你每日说英文 第77期:Vibrating

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： Indeed adults as well as teens report that they feel their phones vibrating.Even when they are not.This is a well known phenomenon, it's called the phantom ring. 确实是，成人和青少年们说

【电影预告片填空】家园

The universe is a pretty big place. The funny thing is each of us who live here occupy our own little world. Take the case of Tip, an ordinary girl with a mom who loves her and a cat named Pig. Now she never imagine that a million miles away was a lo

CNN 2008-10-25

Hello, from the CNN Center here in Atlanta, I'm Melissa Long. It's Friday, Oct 24. Here's a look at some of the stories happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Recession fears in Wall Street on a slide this afternoon. The Dows' drop follows similar performances

VOA常速英语--对萨赫勒地区的安全援助表示支持

Support for Security Assistance in the Sahel Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has announced that, pending consultation with Congress, the United States will provide up to $60 million dollars to support a promising and developing regional counterterro

海地因巴西飞机事故暂停航班

海地因巴西飞机事故暂停航班 SANTO DOMINGO, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Most of the flights to and from Haiti's main airport, in Port-au-Prince, were still suspended Monday due to the accident of a Brazilian military airplane last Sunday, which blo

CNN 2010-02-06

Well, it's helped us, but we're a little different in the sense of the amounts of money that we have received thus far. Ours has been about $22 million. We received money basically in categorical grants. We got CDDB or community development funds, we

委内瑞拉宣布90天电力应急

委内瑞拉宣布90天电力应急 CARACAS, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The Venezuelan government on Tuesday declared a 90-day state of emergency for the electricity sector to address the challenge of growing power demand and better protect the country's p

VOA慢速英语 2008 1003a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Wednesday night, the United States Senate passed a rescue bill for the financial industry. A wide majority sent the bill for debate in the House of Representatives. The House rejected its own version

国际货币基金组织:西方制裁可能会损害俄罗斯经济

AS IT IS 2015-08-07 IMF: Western Sanctions Could Hurt Russias Economy 国际货币基金组织:西方制裁可能会损害俄罗斯经济 The International Monetary Fund says sanctions linked to the crisis in Ukraine could end up hurting Russias econ

VOA标准英语2012--European Leaders Take Partial Step Toward Stabilization

European Leaders Take Partial Step Toward Stabilization European leaders gathered in Brussels from all parts of the region and nearly as many points of view. In the end, they agreed to move toward tighter control of banks in countries that use the eu

如何挺过新工作的试用期

如何挺过新工作的试用期 In today's world of flexible work and intensive performance assessment, careers are often measured in months rather than decades. 在当今这个工作灵活多样、业绩评估又十分苛刻的世界里，职业生涯

中国股市或将触底反弹

An investor walks past an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, July 2, 2015. [Photo: Asianewsphoto] A string of supportive measures came out during the weekend, in response to the slumping stoc

新iPad揭神秘面纱 苹果神话一脉传承

For the new iPad display is 2048 x 1536 pixels. Put it in another way. Many of you all have an HDTV at home. These televisions, 50 inches, 60 inches, have a resolution of 1920 x 1080. Here's an iPad, scaled properly next to it. It has more pixels. Le

报告显示 美国投行看好中国股市

The likelihood of a new bull run in China's A-share market has increased as the country is believed to be capable of managing its debt problem and avoiding financial shocks, US investment bank Morgan Stanley said in a report. 美国投行摩根士丹利

G20 Agrees to Boost IMF Resources

The Group of 20 leading economies have agreed to boost the resources of the International Monetary Fund to help curb the European debt crisis. European Union President Herman Van Rompuy said the decision was reached Friday at the G20 summit in the Fr