英闻天下——614 China Protests over Japanese Fishing Boats, Shrine Visits

The Chinese government is protesting a trip made by a group of Japanese activists to the Diaoyu islands. Su Yi has more. China's foreign ministry is calling the trip by the Japanese activists illegal and troublemaking. Foreign ministry spokesperson H

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Tuesday night, the Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean took another hit from an Atlantic Hurricane. This one is named Maria and it's powerful. And the 24 hours before it started lashing the islands of Martinique and Dominica, this hurricane had

2008-12-29 南极臭氧层空洞面积创新高

Researchers have made some interesting discoveries near Antarctica. A team of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg have published the first comprehensive inventory of sea and land animals near the tip of the Antarct

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Experts Meet to Understand Decrease in Humpback Whales Off Hawaii Every winter, thousands of humpback whales migrate from Alaska to the warmer waters near the Hawaiian Islands. There, they have sex and give birth before making their return trip north

2015年CRI 外交部回应希拉里涉钓鱼岛言论 表坚决反对

China says it is firmly opposed to comments made by the United States about the Diaoyu Islands. 中方对美方关于钓鱼岛的言论表示坚决反对。 Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang was answering media questions relating to comments U.S. S

美国有线新闻 CNN 2012-12-18

Senkaku and Diaoyu, two different names for the same set of islands at the center of some tension between China and Japan. You can see those two countries on this map, and right in between them, that's where you find these islands in the East China S

英语听力：自然百科 南极臭氧层空洞面积创新高

Researchers have made some interesting discoveries near Antarctica. A team of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg have published the first comprehensive inventory of sea and land animals near the tip of the Antarcti

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Inside the shell of the cocoanut is white meat, and inside of that is a kind of milk. 椰子壳里面就是白色的椰肉，在椰肉里面有一种牛奶样的椰汁。 The natives eat the meat of the nut as we would bread, and drink the milk, so t

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A volcano that started erupting on one of the Galapagos Islands last week may be changing the landscape of the island. According to the Associated Press, rangers and tour guides spotted lava flowing down the northeastern flank of the Cerro Azul Volc

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Walk through any town or village in the Faroe Islands, located between Iceland and Scotland, and it will be hard not to notice the green grass roofed houses on every street. A local historian says, because of the lack of natural building resources o

CCTV9英语新闻：奥巴马称钓鱼岛适用日美安保条约

US President Barack Obama says that the countrys mutual security treaty with Japan applies to the Diaoyu islands, which are at the center of a territorial dispute between Japan and China. In a statement made ahead of his visit to Japan, Obama said th

CCTV9英语新闻：中方反对把钓鱼岛作为《日美安保条约》适用对象

Full coverage: Diaoyu Islands: Chinas Inherent Territory Chinas Foreign Ministry has reiterated its opposition to the US-Japan joint statement, which said that the Security Treaty between them included the Diaoyu Islands. The islands are at the cente

VOA慢速英语2009-THIS IS AMERICA - Alaska and Hawaii Mark 50 Year

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. The United States has had fifty states for fifty years. Alaska and Hawaii both joined the Union in nineteen fifty-nine. They were the fi

VOA标准英语2012--Small Island States Tackle Climate Change

Small Island States Tackle Climate Change Experts from more than 50 small island countries are meeting this week in Mauritius to discuss climate change and food security. The so-called Small Island Developing States are home to more than 50 million p

2014年CRI 越南对中方作业非法干扰最终损害越自身利益

The Chinese government is again condemning Vietnam's interference of a Chinese oil rig near the Xisha Islands. Reports are suggesting the Vietnamese boat tried to enter the waters around the oil rig on Tuesday, but was cut off by Chinese boats patrol

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Walk through any town or village in the Faroe Islands, located between Iceland and Scotland, and it will be hard not to notice the green grass roofed houses on every street. A local historian says, because of the lack of natural building resources on

英语听力：自然百科 北极熊 冰上间谍 Spy_Bear—7

She leaves little behind. Males are still on the lookout for females. For her cub's safety, she heads back to the hills. But as spring continues, lengthening days bring sudden and dramatic change. The highest tides of the year combine with the rising

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The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hassaid the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will haveto drop his unity pact with Hamas, if he wantsUS-backed peace negotiations to continue. In aninterview with the BBC, Mr. Netanyahu said he would never

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2016年CRI Unveiled documents evidence China's jurisdiction over South China Sea

The more than 50 volumes of photographed archives were made public on Thursday as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences showcased its latest progress in the research about the history of the South China Sea. The documents were collected by Professor