Joe DeCapua 29 April 2010 They beat all odds and succeeded in business. Now, UNCTAD is honoring two African businesswomen for their innovation. The award winners relied on resilience, hard work and determination. The red carpet was rolled out and two

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(四)月

Appeal for Next US President to Help Women in Business Before Americans knew who would become the next president, a group of business leaders sent a letter to the two main candidates. Elizabeth Gore wrote the letter, and 85 business leaders, both men

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Eighteen-year-old Shahad al-Qahtani is excited about sales of Rihannas makeup products in Saudi Arabia. Rihanna, known for her hit songs and fearless spirit, is popular among Saudi women. Many are expected to buy her new makeup, called Fenty. Rihanna

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BEIJING, Aug 9 (Xinhuanet) --Jennifer Aniston's new movie The Switch is coming up and so is her new point of being a mom. Aniston plays a 40-year-old woman who uses an anonymous sperm donor to get pregnant, then finds out years later that her male be

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AS IT IS 2014-09-16 Women Use Twitter to Support Jihad The tweets show pictures of baby cats, nice shoes and bloody battlefields. The so-called Umm network produces the tweets. They claim to be foreign female jihadists on Twitter. Many Arabic people

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The international community meets at the United Nations this week to make financial commitments to earthquake-ravaged Haiti's reconstruction. Haitian President Rene Prval is expected to ask for some $11.5 billion to rebuild his country. Haiti's long-

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Astronauts aboard the orbiting space station and the shuttle Atlantis spent most of the day relaxing after long hours of unloading cargo and working on building the International Space Station. The astronauts spent some time November 24 talking to r

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Women Becoming Larger Percentage of Drunk Drivers Along with greater social equality, better pay and more positions of power, women are gaining on men in another, less desirable measure: arrests for drunken driving. Arrests of men who drive under the

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Voice 1 Hello. Im Elizabeth Lickiss. 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 1 It is early

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A group of more than 50 organizations providing humanitarian assistance in Somalia called for increased international attention to the situation in the country. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the groups assert that

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By Kari Barber Dakar 25 October 2007 Human rights group Amnesty International released a report Thursday calling on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to rein in its security troops and prosecute those accused of torture, murder and r

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One-quarter of Japanese women are aged 65 or over, official figures indicate(指示), highlighting fears of a looming demographic crisis in the country. According to government estimates(估计), more than 16 million Japanese women have reached 65, t

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By Barry Unger Washington 14 December 2007 The year 2007 saw the passing of many well-known international figures who left a lasting impression. VOA's Barry Unger takes a look back at some of these people. Jim Bertel narrates. Former Russian Presiden

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LONDON, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- For those, who came to see a close game in table tennis women's final of the London Olympic Games on Tuesday, they may get a little disappointed. The match is intense, but by no means close. Chinese women players dropped on

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BBC Learning English People and Places Women and football Jackie:Hello, welcome to People Places from bbclearningenglish.com. Today: women's football is there any hope for it? Major competitions for women, such as the World Cup, tend to go barely no

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday announced as part of the department's plans to remove gender-based barriers to service, the Pentagon is to rescind a 1994 rule that prohibits women from assignment to dir

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Differences Between Men and Women 男女间的差异 Bathrooms 盥洗室里 A man has 6 items in his bathroom: a toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving cream, a razor, a bar of Dial soap and a towel from a Holiday Inn. 一个男人通常只在盥洗室里放

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ModernWell is a shared workspace in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Outside the building, the city is covered with snow and the temperature is well below freezing. But ModernWell is warm and inviting. Comfortable chairs and footrests surround the warmth of t

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May 3 marks the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, better known as the Tokyo Trials. To honor the occasion, China released a series of books related to the transcripts of the proceedings in Shan

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