Today, the minimum wage has increased by 25c from $12.75 to $13 an hour. For young people who are still being trained for the job, their pay has increased by 20c from $10.20 to $10.40. At $13 an hour, this comes to $520 for a 40-hour week. The median

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

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发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2010年

> 68 国际红十字会为震后秘鲁请求援助 Red Cross Appeals for Peru Quake Aid Lisa Schlein Geneva 25 Jun 2001 20:00 UTC The International Federation of Red Cross Societies has issued a 1)prel

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2001-国际风云(1)

The Ministry of Land and Resources has issued urgent notices to help educate the public on how to react to potential disasters that could follow Mondays quake. 国土资源部已经发布了紧急公告,以帮助公众学习如何应对震后的潜在

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2013年07月

AS IT IS 2015-06-16 After Quake, Nepal Reopens Centuries-Old Structures 尼泊尔震后重新开放古建筑 Nepal has reopened its major World Heritage Sites in an effort to get tourists to return. Nepal depends heavily on money spent by overseas vi

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(六)月

New Zealand's second-biggest city, Christchurch, is facing an enormous clean-up after being struck by the country's worst earthquake in 80 years. The magnitude 7 quake devastated parts of Christchurch early Saturday. 新西兰第二大城市克赖斯特

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2010年9月

During the last week, three major murder trials came to an end. The first one to end, last Wednesday, was a trial of an immigrant from Zimbabwe, George Gwase, for the murder of his niece, 10-year old Charlene, in Christchurch. He was found Not Guilty

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The agricultural company PGG Wrightson Ltd signed an agreement today with Silver Fern Farms Ltd for the two companies to join together. Silver Fern Farms is a meat processing company which kills farm animals for meat and sells the meat in NZ and over

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

A Maori, Gerrard Otimi, has been arrested by the police for selling false visas to Pacific Island people. He offered to adopt them into his hapu, or tribe. They paid him $500 for this and he put a stamp in their passport which he said gave them a vis

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

50 years ago this week, television was introduced to New Zealand. Then there was only one channel available, in black and white, and New Zealanders with tv sets had to pay the government an annual licence fee of £4. There have been many changes sin

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

On Thursday night, in Christchurch, two people were killed by a car which was being chased by a police car. Around 8pm, the police saw a car travelling at about 90kmh in a 50kmh zone. They followed the car. Thirty seconds later, the driver drove thro

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The Prime Minister, Mr Key, announced that a Maori flag was chosen for Waitangi Day. It will fly on the Auckland Harbour Bridge and Parliament along with the New Zealand flag. The Maori flag is black, red and white with a koru design. The koru is a y

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

New Zealand is experiencing a hot summer this year. The East Coast of both the North and South Islands have had temperatures in the 30s. Central Otago has also had a heat wave and even Northland has had higher temperatures than normal. While Auckland

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Last night at 8.30pm on 28th March 80 countries took part in Earth Hour by turning off lights and other things which use electricity. The idea began in Sydney in 2007. Last year, Christchurch was the only New Zealand city to observe Earth Hour but th

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Tomorrow is ANZAC Day, a day when New Zealanders and Australians remember soldiers who died in Gallipoli on 25th April 1915. See April 25th 2008 . 1915 was during the First World War. ANZAC Day, however, is a day to remember all New Zealand soldiers

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Today was the beginning of New Zealand music month. Every May for the last 10 years, New Zealand has celebrated our own music. The Auckland band, Opshop, decided to do something different to celebrate 10 years of New Zealand Music month. They hired a

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(182) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

On October 1st, GST will increase from 12.5% to 15%. This is a 2.2% increase. At the same time, we will have tax cuts on our pay. Benefits will also increase a little to help with the higher GST. Listen to May 20th 2010 for more about tax cuts and th

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The Big Day Out is a Rock Music Festival that lasts 12 hours, starting at 11am tomorrow. It is held once a year towards the end of January in Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland and then in some of the bigger cities in Australia. There are about 40 acts. Th

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

In April, the Law Commission gave the government a report on alcohol problems in New Zealand. The report recommended 152 changes. The government now has decided to accept 126 of these recommendations. The main changes affect young people under the ag

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Listen first to yesterdays podcast, What is the Budget? There were only a few surprises in todays Budget. One was about tax cuts. All workers, the rich and the poor, will pay less income tax. People earning less than $14,000 a year will pay 10.5% inc

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(162) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语