VOA慢速英语2011--Girls Lacrosse Team Raises Hopes at Scho

Education Report - Girls Lacrosse Team Raises Hopes at School This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Ballou High School in Washington might not seem the mostly likely school to have a lacrosse team. (SOUND) But lacrosse has grown beyond th

VOA慢速英语2014 Shinzo Abe's Victory Likely Raises Conflict with Neighbors

AS IT IS 2014-12-18 Shinzo Abe's Victory Likely Raises Conflict with Neighbors Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his allies easily won a two-thirds majority in Parliament on Sunday. The victory was large although the Japanese economy has fallen in

VOA标准英语2009年-Gas Drilling Plan Raises Water Contami

Environmentalists claim the drilling could contaminate New York's unfiltered drinking water sources with dangerous chemicals and radioactivity Carolyn Weaver | New York 24 December 2009 Photo: Sabine Aronowsky Manhattan borough president Scott String

VOA标准英语2010年-Oil Spill Raises Public Health Concern

The Gulf oil spill could lead to some serious public health problems, according to a new report released this week. As the environmental and economic disaster continues to unfold in the Gulf of Mexico following the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater

VOA标准英语2010年-Chill Between Koreas Raises Cost of Wo

South Korea's Suwon Samsung Bluewings' Lee Sang-ho, right, fights for the ball against China's Beijing Guoan's Wang Chang Qing during their AFC Champions League soccer match at Suwon World Cup Stadium in Suwon, South Korea, 11 May 2010 The start of s

VOA标准英语2010年-Resettling Darfur's Displaced Raises Q

The blue helmets of UN peacekeepers distinguish them from the many armed groups in Darfur. As Sudan's government and Darfur rebels move closer to a final peace, efforts are under way to build housing for some of the estimated 2.7 million people uproo

VOA标准英语2010年-Islamic Group Raises $850 Million for

Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, is right seen as he co chairs the opening of the International donor conference for the development and the construction of Darfur in Cairo, Egypt, 21 Mar 2010 An Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)

VOA标准英语2011--Study: New Drug Boosts 'Good' Cholesterol

Study: New Drug Boosts 'Good' Cholesterol A new drug raises good cholesterol by as much as 130 percent, according to a new study. Drugs called statins are already taken daily around the world to help lower LDL, or bad cholesterol. Cholesterol is a fa

VOA标准英语2011--Drug War in Mexico Raises Human Rights C

Drug War in Mexico Raises Human Rights Concerns The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, is concluding a weeklong visit to Mexico, where she expressed concern over abuse of citizens by police and soldiers fighting organized crime gro

VOA标准英语2011--Sustained Irregular Heartbeat Raises Mor

Sustained Irregular Heartbeat Raises Mortality Risk for Middle Aged Women Many doctors see atrial fibrillation (AF), an abnormal heart rhythm, in their elderly patients. But a new study indicates that a surprising number of middle aged women, who are

VOA标准英语2011--ONE Campaign Raises Awareness for Somali

ONE Campaign Raises Awareness for Somali Famine More than 12 million people are believed be at risk in the Horn of Africa and the advocacy group ONE wants to raise awareness of the crisis as a first step to action. Kimberly Hunter, the U.S. press sec

2015年CRI Announcement of Xi-Ma Meeting Raises Expectations

The meeting is scheduled to take place in Singapore on Saturday. Zhang Zhijun, head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, says the event will be the first of its kind in 66 years. This is the first meeting of le

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Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This EditionPresident Xi Jinping calls on China and Germany to work together to build a modern-day Silk Road economic belt. North Korea vows not to rule out new form of nuclear te

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VOA标准英语2008年-Bhutto's Assassination Raises Questions about U

By Ravi Khanna Washington, D.C. 04 January 2008 Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's political party continues to call for a United Nations investigation into her assassination. Opposition parties have condemned the government's decision t

2007年VOA标准英语-Terrorist Leader Confession Raises Questions

By Gary Thomas Washington 15 March 2007 According to a just-released U.S. transcript, accused al-Qaida operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammad has confessed to a leading role in at least 31 alleged terrorist plots, including the attacks of September 11, 200

"Lean gene" raises risk of heart disease, diabetes

BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhuanet) -- A lean gene that helps people keep slim was found closely related to diabetes and heart disease, according to a study pulished in Nature Genetics journal on Sunday. The scientists from Britains Medical Research Council

英闻天下——342 Balloon Tragedy Raises Concerns over Egypt's Tourism

With vacant hotel rooms and empty cruise ships, the tourism market in Luxor has been hit hard by Egypt's unstable politics. The boat business is very slow these days. In other words, tourism is not like before the revolution. Before, we used to get t

2016年CRI Younger generation raises expectations of ice hockey in China

This is one of the games of this year's international youth ice hockey tournament in Beijing - Tiger Ice Hockey Team from China against Ice Lion from South Korea. Both teams consist of kids who are around 8 years old, but already have been skilled an

2015年CRI Failed Project Raises Concern over Lottery Fund Use

The massive Starlight Project was launched around 14-years ago. Three years after its launch, the project was credited with funding more than 30-thousand senior care centers in residential communities across China through some 14-billion yuan, which