The Fijian Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama thinks that Australia and New Zealand have been interfering in Fijian politics. Last year Fiji was expelled from the Pacific Islands Forum because Bainimarama did not hold elections by the end of the year.

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

This weekend is the final rugby game of the 2009 Super 14 season. The Super 14 rugby tournament is the largest rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere and is made up of teams from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. New Zealand has fi

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The Corrections Minister, Judith Collins, says that smoking in prisons will be banned from July 2011. Prison will be safer because there will be no cigarettes, no lighters and no matches. At the moment, prisoners are allowed to smoke in their cells a

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The Minister of Labour, Kate Wilkinson, has announced that there is going to be a review of the Holidays Act 2003 to see if any changes are needed. The review could mean that in the future, instead of taking a holiday, employees could ask for money i

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Last week there were protests outside the Auckland womens tennis tournament. A small group of people were protesting against a 22-year old tennis player, Shahar Peer. She is from Israel and the protesters were supporters of Palestine. They wanted her

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Two hours after the 8.8 earthquake in Chile last night, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that a tsunami had started. It hit parts of Chile and moved across the Pacific. The New Zealand Civil Defence and police moved quickly to send messages on

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

A major earthquake 8.3 on the Richter scale followed by a tsunami, struck Samoa around 7am this morning. The tsunami hit the south coast of Samoa and destroyed holiday resorts and a new hospital as well as many homes. People ran to high hills but som

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June 20th is World Refugee Day, a day to remember refugees world wide who have had to leave their homes and may never return. A refugee is a person who has had to escape from their country because they could be imprisoned or killed for their beliefs.

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Transparency International, which is an organization based in Germany, gives 180 countries each year a score for having no corruption or very little corruption. New Zealand was top this year with a score of 9.4 out of 10. Somalia was bottom with 1.1.

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue (Usar) team which went to Japan, returned home today. They said there was nothing more they could do in Japan. There is no hope of finding any survivors now because of the extreme cold. This is different from t

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Australia has a problem with boat people from Indonesia trying to enter Australia illegally. Many of these people come from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. They wait in Indonesia until they can find a boat which will take them to Australia. Recently, Aust

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

A philanthropist is a person who helps others. Usually a philanthropist gives money although people who volunteer their time to help others are also philanthropists. New Zealand is lucky to have many volunteers, many people who give donations of mone

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Yesterday the District Court in Christchurch fined a company for selling tourist products which looked like New Zealand products but were made in China. A Christchurch company, ProKiwi International, imported body care products from China but labeled

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

On Thursday morning, Australians were surprised to find they had a new Prime Minister. She is Julia Gillard, Australias first woman Prime Minister. On Wednesday, Kevin Rudd was still PM of the Australian Labour government, a position he has held for

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

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

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

On September 18th, all New Zealand bread was going to have folic acid added to it. However, now the government has decided to wait three years. New Zealand and Australia have an agreement about food standards. Australia is going to add folic acid to

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Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This Edition Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping says China is committed to settling territorial disputes with neighboring countries via negotiations. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshih

发表于:2019-02-28 / 阅读(196) / 评论(0) 分类 2012CRI中国国际广播电台

Rebecca Hume with you on this Monday, August 5th, 2013. Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital. Coming up on our program this morning... China halts all New Zealand dairy imports over wide tainted reports US extends

发表于:2019-03-05 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 The Beijing Hour 新闻纵贯线

Rebecca Hume with you on this Tuesday, August 6th, 2013. Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital. Coming up on our program this morning... Fonterra apologizes for tainted milk powder scare Turkey's former army chief s

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Rebecca Hume with you on this Wednesday, August 7th, 2013. Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital. Coming up on our program this morning... New Zealand Probes Fonterra's Handling of Food-Safety Scare Japanese Ministe

发表于:2019-03-05 / 阅读(166) / 评论(0) 分类 The Beijing Hour 新闻纵贯线