Farm Ministers Call for Commodity Market Regulation Wild swings Woody Barth has been farming and raising cattle in North Dakota for about 30 years. He says he always looked to the commodity markets for stability. But that's changed in recent years. W

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(六月)

The latest stats from the National Bureau of Statistic shows apartment rental rates have increased by some 3.7-percent in March across China. CRI's Wang Xiao has more on the rental market in the major cities, including Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing.

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

Recently announced major Chinese investments in London are prompting more and more Chinese interest in potential investments in the UK capital. CRI's London correspondent Tu Yun has more. Haidi Dai is a property market analyst from Shanghai. She's in

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Isnt food one of lifes greatest pleasures? Do you know anyone who doesnt like food? I dont. There is so much delicious food in the world. You could spend a whole lifetime eating a different dish every day. Whats the tastiest food in the world? This i

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Intrade: a Market That Trades on Future Events By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, November 04, 2005 I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Intrade is a kin

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And while some Chinese are experimenting with Frappuccinos, others are interested in buying their first car. China has quickly become the world's third largest car market and it keeps getting bigger. Automakers like what they see and are looking to i

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An early-morning explosion at a Baghdad vegetable market killed four people and wounded 13 in the second attack at the same market in just over two weeks. Despite Monday's bloodshed, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said that civilian deaths were down dr

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Despite falling 140 points before the market opened, because of disappointing corporate earnings, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed more than half a percent higher on Tuesday. A Wall Street economist says the mixed signals reflect an exaggerate

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Smuggling costs billions of dollars in lost tax revenues Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 11 August 2010 A truckload of black market cigarettes could be worth $2 million in profits for smugglers. Lawmakers across the U.S. have raised taxes on cigarette

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BBC Learning English London Life Christmas at the Market Jackie:Hello! This is London Life, I'm Jackie Dalton. Christmas is approaching and, as usual, I haven't done my Christmas shopping yet I suppose thats because I hate doing it: the huge crowds,

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High food prices have pushed an estimated 44 million more people into poverty in the past year, according to the World Bank. France says taming food price volatility is one of its major goals as current head of the Group of 20 leading and emerging ec

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俗话说:舒服不如倒着。在美美大餐一顿后,不由得会感到倦意袭来,很想倒下去舒服地睡一觉。这就叫作food coma(饭气攻心). Food coma refers to the feeling of listlessness, bordering on sleep, that one feels

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And for more on this, joining me now in the studio is CCTVs Jin Yingqiao. Q1. Yingqiao, its called price liberalization for telecom services. Is it going to have a big impact on the telecom market and consumers in China? A1. Well. Yes and no. Yes bec

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The Bruma Flea Market is located in a suburb of Johannesburg, on the site of a former drainage basin. Now, six days a week, locals and tourists alike come looking for bargains. Local artists sell traditional African arts and crafts. But like most of

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Heather: Whats the matter? You look terrible. Paul: Havent you seen the paper? The stock market went down a lot yesterday. The NASDAQ is down 100 points and the Dow is down 30! My portfolio is in big trouble. Heather: I knew you had some stock option

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LOS ANGELES, June 20 (Xinhua) -- About 8 percent of children, or nearly 6 million in the U.S., have a food allergy, a much higher rate than previously estimated, a new study suggests. Not only is this estimate higher than some previous research has r

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Figures from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security reveal that this year, an estimated 25 million people will be looking for jobs. The employment market pressure is still big. In some labor intensive industry concentrated areas, like Gu

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The world's top honor in food and agriculture this year goes to two former presidents who led dramatic reductions in hunger and poverty in their countries in the past decade. Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor and Brazilian President Luis Inacio L

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KATSINA, Nigeria May 31 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 secondary school teachers are reported to have died of food poisoning, and several others hospitalized in northern Nigeria's Katsina State, the News Agency of Nigeria reported on Tuesday. The incident o

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The market always gets panic with all of this kind of overreaction and panic, even worse than the overreaction, and the market expected the other party would react... So the calculation from market is not only on what the U.S. take, but also what Chi

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