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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: I'm also pretty good at organizing things and I'm fluent in Spanish and Italian. 我对于管理上很在行,而我的西班牙语和意大利语都很流利 Well, that's perfect, because we ar
IN THE NEWS - On World AIDS Day, Governments Are Urged to Keep Their Promises By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, December 03, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. World AIDS
By Anjana Pasricha The United Nations is urging governments in South Asia to intensify efforts to tackle the growing problem of child sexual exploitation. UNICEF says the problem has worsened since So
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project to prevent hunger in twenty-one countries in Africa. In the project, the United Nations agency works with small farmers to grow more
Technology Report - Privacy Concerns Over Facial Recognition Systems This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Today we take another look at facial recognition systems. These can tag friends in Facebook photos or help police identify suspect
By Sean Maroney Washington 21 February 2007 watch OnLine Information report Online Information An elite few -- newspapers, television networks, major corporations -- used to control the bulk of information. But with the spread of the Internet, more
A senior U.N. health official warns that governments must better prepare themselves to fight an influenza pandemic should one break out. Citing a new World Bank report that says the economic price tag of an influenza outbreak could top $3 trillion,
Shedding Light on Extraction Industries Europe is a step closer toward curbing corruption in extraction industries in developing countries. A European Parliamentary committee has approved proposed legislation that would require European companies to
Global Fund and Big Business Partner against AIDS As donor countries tighten budgets to reduce debt, organizations like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria are feeling the effects. The fund announced last November it would not make any new
Amnesty International interim Secretary-General Claudio Cordone holds copy of 2010 Human Rights report There is still no scarcity of poverty and human degradation around the world. But Amnesty International says in its latest annual human rights repo
Kerry: Lives May be Lost Due to Snowden's Betrayal With Snowden on the run from Hong Kong, Secretary of State John Kerry said there will be consequences for countries that help him escape U.S. justice. All appropriate countries have been notified wit
奥巴马国情咨文演讲受到恐怖主义袭击挑战 The ceremonial pageantry of Tuesday's presidential speech before a joint session of Congress comes against a backdrop of ramped-up security on both sides of the Atlantic. 周二礼仪庆典总统
By Chad Bouchard Yogyakarta, Indonesia 15 December 2006 Government leaders from around Asia have pledged to boost air quality control programs in some of the most polluted cities of the world. As Chad Bouchard reports from the Indonesian city of Yog
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 10 December 2007 To mark Human Rights Day on 10 December, the United Nations kicked-off a year-long campaign leading up to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 2008. The campaign aims to
Thousands March for Climate Action in Durban Activists, rights groups and citizens from around the world took to the streets of Durban Saturday to urge government negotiators at the U.N. climate change conference to take their demands seriously. In a
The world's major economies have spent trillions of dollars in government money to ease a severe global slump. That spending has led to huge budget deficits in some countries, including the United States, but it also is credited with recent signs of
Although the Australian elections were held yesterday, there is no still no decision about which party won. Labor won about 72 seats and the Liberals won about 73. Some seats are still too close to know who won. There are 150 seats in the Federal par
今天我们要学的词是ratify。 Ratify, 是批准、认可的意思。澳大利亚新总理陆克文本周签署了《京都议定书》。He urged the United State to follow Australia's lead and ratify the Kyoto Protocol, 他同时敦促美国效
Paul James with you on this Tuesday, July 9th, 2013. Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital. Coming up on our program this morning... Video is being reviewed to see if one of two Chinese teens killed in the weekend p