President Bush today signed a five-year plan to triple the amount of US funding to globally fight AIDS. Mr. Bush called the 48-billion-dollar package the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease in human history. HIV/AIDS is still

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An increase in world oil prices is helping Vietnam speed economic growth and build new roads and bridges. But it also means higher fuel prices for its own people. Vietnam is not a major oil-producing nation like some Middle Eastern nations. However,

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Sean McMenamin says he's unsuccessfully tried to go smoke free for 16 years, but he's not ready to give up. He says his father's early death was cigarette-related . The thing that scares me right now is I'm the same age as when my father passed away.

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AS IT IS 2013-05-10 NASA Looks at Earth Hello. I'm Jim Tedder in Washington. On our program today, fuel prices are about to take a big increase in Indonesia. We'll hear about a mixture of politics and economics. Then diplomacy of a musical kind in Mo

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AS IT IS 2016-02-06 Old Age, Debt Threaten Vietnam Economy Vietnams population is growing old at the fastest rate of any nation in recorded history. In about 15 years, Vietnams share of people aged 65 years or older will rise from 7 to 14 percent of

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Supervised Independence Ends in Kosovo As international and local authorities marked the end of the supervised portion of Kosovos independence - the ceremony put the countrys government largely in charge of its own affairs. Daniel Serwer, at Johns Ho

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For 92-year old Glafcos Clerides, a British-educated lawyer and the first speaker of the Cypriot parliament, memories remain vivid of the young inexperienced first government of Archbishop Makarios. I can't describe that there were young politicians

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Burma Hopes for US Return to Textile Industry Shaking off the dust It is the first time Aung Win has returned to a former textile factory since U.S. sanctions forced it to close down a decade ago. The vice chairman of the Myanmar Garment Manufacturer

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The meeting among President Xi and U.S. delegates in Beijing is part of a regular round of talks held among Chinese and U.S. business leaders and former officials. Addressing the meeting, Xi Jinping has told the group the relationship between China a

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Bush Signs Major Energy and Transportation Bills By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, August 12, 2005 I'm Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Bush has

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Hi, everybody. As Im sure youve noticed over the past few weeks, the price at your local pump has been going up and up. And because its an election year, so has the temperature of our political rhetoric. What matters most to me right now is the impac

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Hi, everybody. Earlier this week, I spent some time with the hardworking men and women of the American auto industry, who are busy writing a new chapter in Americas story. Just a few years ago, their industry was shedding hundreds of thousands of job

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China recorded a nearly 25% increase in exports and imports during the first nine months of this year, while the trade surplus shrunk due to sluggish global demand and rising costs in domestic markets. Shuangfeng has the story. The first three quarte

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Voice 1 Hello. Im Ruby Jones. Voice 2 And Im Marina Santee. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 3 I made big mistakes

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