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By George Dwyer Washington, D.C. 31 July 2006 watch Living Wage report Lawmakers in the Midwest U.S. city of Chicago have approved a measure requiring large-scale discount stores to pay their employees a so-called living wage. As VOA's George Dwyer

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 31 October 2006 South Africa's National AIDS Council is to be restructured as part of a new plan to strengthen the country's response to HIV/AIDS and will now include a deputy chairperson drawn from civil society. The

2006年VOA标准英语-US Investment in Africa is on the Rise

By Nathan King New York, NY 07 November 2006 watch South Africa Business Conf After years of trailing European investors on the continent, American business is now taking a serious look at African investment opportunities. U.S. trade with the contin

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By Nico Colombant Dakar 27 April 2007 Several groups of West Africans, attempting to cross by boat from Senegal to Spain, were caught this week. Some of them are now back in Senegal after their boat began to sink and they were rescued at sea. More th

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 29 November 2006 As people around the world mark World AIDS Day, December 1, the government of South Africa is to announce an ambitious five-year plan to combat the disease, which is estimated to infect 11 percent of the p

2006年VOA标准英语-New Concern Over Human Smuggling in Africa

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 January 2006 The U.N. Refugee Agency, UNHCR, says the death this week of 20 Africans smuggled on a boat heading for Yemen underscores the urgent need for international action

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Lack of Civility Hampers S. Africa's Sanitation Efforts Lucky Manyisi inspects his jurisdiction, as he calls it. Diepsloot, section 1: its laughing school children enjoying their summer break, its makeshift shacks, its unpaved roads where pointy rock

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Anti-government leader Arisman Pongruangrong escapes from the hotel, being helped by others as Thai police try to arrest him in Bangkok, Thailand, 16 apr 2010 The Thai government's new offensive against anti-government protesters got off to a bad sta

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Africa's Bright, Dark Economic Spots Get Attention As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank spring meetings kick off in Washington this week, Africa's economies are the talk of both guarded optimism and cause for concern. Since the mid

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People Power Movements Rise in Sub-Saharan Africa In recent weeks, Senegal has had repeated protests, some of them deadly, in which demonstrators are denouncing incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade and his decision to run for a third term on February 2

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Japanese prosecutors say they will release a Chinese trawler captain who has been detained since his boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels in disputed waters. The incident enraged China, which retaliated by canceling meetings with Japanese offic

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Iraq War Veteran Battles Rhino Poachers in Africa Two years ago, after surviving 12 tours of duty in Iraq, former Australian Special Forces soldier Damien Mander was searching for a fresh challenge. He found it in an unlikely place. A week before I a

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 01 April 2008 North Korea has singled out South Korea's president for harsh criticism, for the first time since he took office. Meanwhile, the chief American envoy to talks aimed ending North Korea's nuclear weapons is in Seoul,