移动广告业务抢眼 Facebook营收飙升

After taking two months off to spend time with his newborn daughter, Mark Zuckerberg is back to business. And business is good. 休了两个月产假来陪伴刚出生的女儿之后，马克扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)回归工作。事实证明，生

3D电影和IMAX带来了全新的体验

Bigger screens, higher-definition images, and three-dimensional effects, IMAX and 3D films are giving audiences a brand-new way of experiencing the movies. With Chinese movie-goers looking for a higher standard of entertainment, 3D and IMAX films are

中国预计旅游业投资将增加

NANCHANG, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's tourism industry will play a growing role in the country's economic growth, with direct investment in the sector expected to hit three trillion yuan (490 billion U.S. dollars) in the coming three years, according

2013年巴西进一步加强预算削减

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 22 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government will further trim its 2013 budget by 10 billion reais (about 4.5 billion U.S. dollars), Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Monday. It is the third budget cut this year since May, in add

Banking sector causes collapse of Spanish stocks

MADRID, June 29 (Xinhua) -- The Spanish stock market suffered this year's third major downfall on Tuesday (-5.45 percent) as a result of the banking sector's liquidity problems. Fears of a double dip world recession grew sharply ahead of U.S. jobs re

Japan's exports up 32.1 % on year in May

TOKYO, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Japan's exports rose in May from a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said in a preliminary（初级） report on Thursday. The 32.1 percent increase in the recording month marks the sixth successive（连续的）

元旦期间全国共接待游客1.2亿人次

China's official estimates show the New Year travel rush saw 120 million visitor trips in the country. 据官方估算，元旦出行高峰期全国共接待游客1.2亿人次。 China's tourism sector pocketed 67.9 billion yuan (about 9.8 billion U.

经济学人460:唱片业 环球公司的赌博游戏

Business. 商业。 The music business. 唱片业。 Universal's gamble. 环球公司的赌博游戏。 A musical merger could create anew model, or a dozy mammoth. 唱片行业的并购案可能会催生一种新的商业模式，亦或者是一个行

中国的铁路走向全球

CRRC, the new company created from the merger of train makers CSR and CNR, will start trading in the Chinese A-share market today. The two railway giants completed a stock swap last week. Earlier, Germany's national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, a

每日一词【295】traffic：交通、路况

今天我们要学的词是traffic。 Traffic 是交通、路况的意思。在美国，开车上班最让人头痛的就是 traffic. 专门报告路况的记者是 traffic reporter, 上班时段的路况是 rush-hour traffic，正好赶上塞车是

China's healthcare reform tasks completed

BEIJING, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Missions set in a three-year plan for China's healthcare reform program in the 2009-2011 period have been completed on schedule, according to a new official report. The report said the reform efforts have brought about pr

热门单词：“保险渗透率”用英文怎么说？

中国保险企业在天津港危险品仓库8月12日爆炸事故后或将面临大额索赔要求，承保损失金额可能超过10亿-15亿美元。较高的保险渗透率可能使天津港爆炸事故成为中国近几年索赔金额最高的灾难

研究表明 中国人已成为美国房产最大海外买家

Chinese nationals became the largest foreign buyers of US homes last year as they pour billions into American real estate, seeking safe offshore assets, according to a new study. 根据一项最新研究表明，中国人去年成为了美国房地产的

Sino-Russia ties enter new chapter with booming trade

HARBIN, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The volume of trade between China and Russia in 2012 will hit 90 billion U.S. dollars, close to the 100-billion target for 2015 set during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China earlier this month, a Russian tra

意大利贫困人口减少

ROME, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Poverty indicators improved in Italy in 2013 and the number of seriously deprived families fell, the annual report by National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) showed on Wednesday. The ISTAT data indicated that the number of s

China to support renovation of rural rundown homes

BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government said on Saturday it will subsidize 4 million poor rural households through a pilot scheme to renovate their dilapidated houses in rural areas this year. Subsidies allocated by the central government

Canada's trade with China triples in decade

OTTAWA, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Canada's international merchandise trade with China has more than tripled in the past decade, according to data released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday. Canada's imports from China amounted to 48.2 billion Canadian doll

周星驰《美人鱼》成票房之王

Director Stephen Chows fantasy comedy movie Mermaid grossed 2.45 billion Yuan ($375.6 million) by early Friday evening, making history as the highest-grossing film ever in Chinese box office history. 截止至上周五傍晚早时，周星驰的奇幻喜

Australia, U.S. to hold discussion on energy

CANBERRA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Australia and the United States will have a bilateral discussion on energy supply and security in 2013, Australian Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson said in a statement on Friday. This bilateral discussio

China subsidy mechanism drives rural projects construction

BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- China's central and local governments had invested 105 billion yuan (16.6 billion U.S. dollars) in its award and subsidy mechanism for village-level public projects by 2011, and around 985,000 public projects were built in