CCTV9英语新闻：云南中缅边境陆空实弹演习:空中地面打击齐开展

China's army and air force have started an air-ground live-fire drill in southwest China's Yunnan province, close to the border with Myanmar. China's armed forces have started an air-ground live-fire drill in Yunnan Province, close to the border with

CCTV9英语新闻：Key facts on accident, rescue operation

On May 27th, 458 people boarded the ship, starting their cruise tour from Nanjing to Chongqing. After six days of voyage, at around 9:30 pm on Monday night, the ship capsized during a storm in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River. More than three

CCTV9英语新闻：Shanghai gives official nod to taxi-hailing apps

Shanghai has launched its online taxi-hailing services platform. The city becomes the first in China to legalize car-hailing smartphone applications via an official public services function. 160 million, thats the number of people using the two bigge

CCTV9英语新闻：12名乘客获救其中包括85岁老太太获救

12 people have so far been rescued as search efforts continue after a passenger ship sank late on Monday night on a section of the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province. And this 85-year-old woman was among them. A CCTV cameraman captured t

CCTV9英语新闻：Report: Tibet's glaciers at their warmest

Recent decades have likely been the warmest and wettest on record in the Tibetan Plateau, known as the 'Third Pole' for its ice fields. The Tibetan Plateau and surrounding mountains represent one of the largest ice masses on earth. But the glaciers a

CCTV9英语新闻：China sends rescue vessel to help locate black boxes

China's Ministry of Transport says it has sent the rescue vessel Nan-hai-jiu 101 to help retrieve the black boxes of flight 8501. The ship set sail at ten AM today from south China's Haikou City. It is heading for the sea area where the wreckage is l

CCTV9英语新闻：Premier officiates first loan issued by China's first e-bank

Premier Li Keqiang pressed the 'enter' button on a computer on Sunday to finalize the first loan by WeBank, a new online bank and one of five privately funded banks given approval to open in China. During a visit to China's first Internet-based bank,

CCTV9英语新闻：多数希腊人希望留在欧元区

According to a new opinion poll in Greece, 79 percent of Greeks want to remain in the eurozone. The poll also says 59 percent are satisfied with the way the government is negotiating with its lenders, but nearly half of them want a deal to be struck

CCTV9英语新闻：Institutions forecast on inflation, trade and new loans

This week will see the release of a slew of economic data for May. The Bank of Communications expects May inflation to edge up 1.4 percent on rising pork price. PPI would continue falling but at a slower rate. PMI may climb to 50.2 percent. Trade is

CCTV9英语新闻：Mega railway firm expecting investor enthusiasm

It's a long anticipated moment by stock investors in China. Railway mega-firm CRRC starts trading today. The company is born from a merger between China's two giant railway company CNR and CSR. Since news of the merger broke at the end of last year,

CCTV9英语新闻：澳大利亚人积累高额的个人债务

Pressure is mounting for Australias banks to lower the interest rates on their credit cards. Critics point out that the nations cash rate has been cut twice this year to a historic low, but credit card fees remain high, pushing some people deeper int

CCTV9英语新闻：数千名抗议者试图扰乱G7会议

Outside the G7 Summit, thousands of protesters have been trying to disrupt the meeting. Convening on upscale resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen from different directions, they have been trying to get as close as possible to the hotel at which world lea

CCTV9英语新闻：Schools suspended, tourism affected in S. Korea

Affected by the MERS outbreak, many places in South Korea have cancelled large-scale activities including face celebrations and marathons. Over 1,300 schools and kindergartens have suspended classes. Surgical masks have sold out in many places. Meanw

CCTV9英语新闻：Dozens of families displaced after floods in Ghana

In Ghana, government teams are still working to clean up debris left after Wednesday night's severe flooding in the capital. As many as 200 people are estimated to have died, as they sought shelter at a petrol station, which caught fire before explod

CCTV9英语新闻：中国保证公民的公正审判的权利

For more on the newly released white paper on human rights in 2014, we are joined on the phone by Professor Lu Zhi'an, the deputy director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Fudan University in Shanghai. Q1. How do you assess the current

CCTV9英语新闻：Chance of passing slim before session ends in Japan

Intense debate on two controversial security bills continues in Japan's parliament. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pushed the bills that would allow Japanese forces to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two. But the country's legislative

CCTV9英语新闻：利比里亚埃博拉病毒脱毒状态

Related reading: MONROVIA, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Liberia discharged the last confirmed Ebola patient on Thursday from a Chinese-run Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU). There are now no confirmed Ebola cases in all of Liberia's nineteen ETUs across the whole co

CCTV9英语新闻：克里保证海湾国家对伊朗的核谈判

RIYADH, March 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asserted to Gulf countries on Thursday that any deal on Iran's nuclear program will strengthen the non-proliferation of atomic weapons. .S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, gestures d

CCTV9英语新闻：李克强总理指挥救援行动

Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday continued to direct the Eastern Star rescue operation. Li observed work near the capsized ship, saying 100 percent efforts should be put into the rescue work if there is even a glimpse of hope of finding survivors. Chi

CCTV9英语新闻：China-CELAC Forum begins in Beijing on Thursday

Beijing is to play host to a ministerial meeting between officials from China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC. The two-day forum will begin on Thursday. A dialogue across continents. The first China-CELAC forum will