What Is a 'Bomb Cyclone?'

This is Whats Trending Today When it comes to weather, it is hard to sound more frightening than to call a storm a bomb cyclone. 谈到天气，很难听到什么比炸弹旋风更可怕的了。 But that is how weather experts are describing a huge

voa标准英语2008-Bangladesh Mobilizes Security Forces Ahead of Cr

Bangladesh is putting hundreds of thousands of uniformed personnel and civilian monitors onto the streets in hopes of securing a fair and peaceful election Monday. The national parliamentary balloting is to clear the way for the government caretaker

VOA标准英语2009年-Death Toll Rises in Bangladesh Mutiny

Tanks rolled unchallenged into the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles Friday as government officials, soldiers and police began surveying a scene of carnage in wake of a two-day mutiny that may have left more 100 people dead, mostly Army officers

365个英语简短小故事-357. The Cyclone in Myanmar

The first report was that hundreds in the delta had died. But by the third day, estimates were that 40,000 people could be dead or missing, and perhaps one million might be left homeless. Bodies were floating in rivers that were mixed with ocean wate

VOA慢速英语2014 AS IT IS 2014-04-25 Bangladesh Building Collapse Leads to Safety Measures 孟加拉国改进建筑物的安全措施

AS IT IS 2014-04-25 Bangladesh Building Collapse Leads to Safety Measures 孟加拉国改进建筑物的安全措施 Hello and welcome back to the program that helps you learn and improve your American English. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. Today we r

AS IT IS 2016-02-27 Infant Swept From Father's Arms In Fiji Cyclone

AS IT IS 2016-02-27 Infant Swept From Father's Arms In Fiji Cyclone After Cyclone Winston blew through Fiji last weekend, 42 people were dead, and four were still missing, including an infant. The winds of Cyclone Winston reached more than 285 kilome

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Several days after Columbia University's Edmund Phelps won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his theories about the relationship between inflation and unemployment, the Noble Peace Prize was awarded to a man with some useful ideas about economics. Mu

新西兰英语 707 Fiji after Cyclone Evan

Although the cyclone was category 4 the second highest level gusts of wind were 270km an hour at times. Both the wind and the rain caused damage. Many houses in Fiji are not strong and can easily be destroyed in a storm. Some houses blew away in the

新西兰英语 708 Cyclone in the Pacific

Cyclone Evan hit Samoa on Thursday evening with strong winds and heavy rain. Four people are dead and eight in fishing boats are missing. The captain of one fishing boat managed to swim to a nearby island and was found by a Royal New Zealand Air Forc

2007年VOA标准英语-Heavy Rains Kill 99 People in Bangladesh

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 12 June 2007 In Bangladesh, rescue and relief operations are underway in the port city of Chittagong, where torrential rains have killed nearly 100 people. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi on the havoc caused by two

2007年VOA标准英语-Leadership Battle in Bangladesh Turns to Courts

By Steve Herman New Delhi 23 April 2007 Bangladesh's former prime ministers Khaleda Zia, left, and Sheikh Hasina Judges in Bangladesh are stepping into a dispute the country's interim government and two former prime ministers that has threatened to s

VOA标准英语2009年-Court Ruling Could Sink Bangladesh Shipbreaking

Environmentalists are hailing a Bangladesh High Court decision to order the closure, in two weeks, of all ship-salvaging yards which do not have environmental clearances. The judges also have banned toxic ships from entering Bangladeshi waters. The

2006年VOA标准英语-Bangladesh Makes Progress in Providing Sanitati

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 12 November 2006 Indian girl collects drinking water from a tank at a slum in New Delhi (File photo) In its latest human development report, the United Nations says one of the world's poorest countries, Bangladesh, has m

2006年VOA标准英语-Bangladesh Opposition Ends 13-Month Boycot

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 13 February 2006 Riot police, top, escort Bangladesh Awami League activists marching during a general strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh (File photo - Jan. 22, 2006) In Banglades

VOA标准英语2008年-UN Humanitarian Chief in Burma to Boost Cyclone

By Ron Corben Bangkok 18 May 2008 The United Nations' efforts to increase assistance in cyclone-battered areas of Burma are to be stepped up with arrival of the U.N. humanitarian affairs chief, in Rangoon. Burma's military has put the official death

VOA标准英语2009年-Bangladesh Pins Economic Hope on Garment Indust

Despite the global financial meltdown, the garment export industry in Bangladesh has yet to see a downturn. The industry is remaining competitive because of falling cotton and yarn prices, as well as low labor costs. But many industry leaders say th

VOA标准英语2009年-Bangladesh Launches Negotiations to Quell Borde

Bangladesh's government is negotiating with mutinous border guards who have clashed with their Army superiors in Dhaka. Heavy gunfire and the booms from mortar shells caused chaos in the densely populated streets of the Bangladeshi capital. A ricksh

VOA标准英语2009年-Bangladesh Border Guards Returning to Post Afte

Hundreds of paramilitary soldiers have returned to their barracks in Dhaka. Many claim they were not involved in the mutiny at the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles, but fled the violence that is believed to have left more than 100 of their comm

VOA标准英语2009年-BangladeshHolds Mass Military Funeral for Army

Bangladesh's army has held a mass funeral to bury officers slain in last week's mutiny by paramilitary troops. The United States is expected to assist Bangladesh in probing the massacre while the military begins a manhunt for more than 1,000 suspect

VOA标准英语2008年-Burma Agrees to US Aid for Cyclone Victims

By Scott Stearns Washington 09 May 2008 Burma's military government has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo plane to deliver relief supplies for victims of Saturday's killer cyclone. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Burmese offici