Watchdog Group Calls for Anti-Corruption Crackdown in Global Construction Sector The watchdog group Transparency International says on a worldwide basis, corruption is greater in the construction indu

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Philippines Typhoon Aid Begins Transition to Long-Term Recovery 菲律宾台风援助开始过渡到长期复苏 MANILA Thirteen million people affected. Four million of them displaced, with one million homes destroyed. Two-and-a-half million individ

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The first train arriving at the newly opened WTC Cortlandt platform was met with cheers and excitement Saturday. I cant believe that the 17 years now it gonna stop here once again. The renovated station features a marble mosaic titled Chorus by artis

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One year after the earthquake in Haiti, reconstruction is still in its infancy. No one expected the poorest country in the Western hemisphere to bounce back quickly from the quake that killed more than 200,000 people and left more than a million home

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德国法兰克福现二战巨型炸弹 6万余人被要求撤离 Frankfurt, Germany, is a city of more than 700,000 people in the west central part of the country. And more than 60,000 of them will have to leave their homes this weekend because a bo

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Meredith Buel President Bush on Monday will outline what the White House is calling a clear strategy for Iraq, in a speech less than six weeks before the scheduled handover of sovereignty to an interi

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By Kari Barber Dakar, Monrovia 18 August 2007 Many families living along Liberia's coast are moving to safer areas after flooding and high tides destroyed scores of homes and structures by the sea. Some say mining beach sand, which is used for buildi

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By Al Pessin Amsterdam 24 October 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in the Netherlands for a NATO defense ministers' meeting, where he says he will press member countries to live up to the commitments their leaders made last year to increas

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 02 May 2007 Liberia has announced it will again export diamonds, using the profits to finance reconstruction, instead of conflict, as was the case in the past. But experts caution that transparency is still crucially important,

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By Paul Sisco Washington, D.C. 28 August 2007 Two years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast of the United States, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans. The rebuilding process has been slow and painful for many, and more than 160,00

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 26 December 2007 Areas of Indonesia devastated by the Indian Ocean Tsunami are marking the third anniversary of one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. As the effort to build housing and roads wraps up, reconstr

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By Daniel Schearf Islamabad 08 October 2007 Pakistan is commemorating the second anniversary of a devastating earthquake that took the lives of more than 73,000 people and left millions homeless. The government and aid workers have declared reconstru

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AS IT IS 2013-12-04 Critics Raise Concerns About Vietnam's New Constitution Welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Mario Ritter. Vietnam is changing its constitution. But critics say the document does not include reforms that will improve

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The European Union has strongly condemned Russian action in Georgia and agreed to suspend talks with Moscow on a wide-ranging partnership agreement until Russian troops withdraw from Georgia. VOA's Sonja Pace reports from London. EU leaders at news

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Scores of aftershocks have battered Chile after the most powerful earthquake in decades inflicted massive damage and killed more than 700 people. Tthe rest of the Pacific region appears to have been spared from tsunamis that were feared after the qua

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Summer Heat Stifles Tokyo as Japan Rebuilds Economy The Japanese economy was hit hard by the huge earthquake in March, with the twin disasters of the tsunami and the ensuing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant impacting severely on economic output.

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74 卢旺达寻求国际力量解决国内种族争端 Rwanda Promotes Reconciliation Abroad Lisa Schlein Geneva 26 Jun 2001 21:27 UTC Rwandan officials are touring Europe to gather international supp

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RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Now to a lesser known story about race relations in this country. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, the U.S. looked West to the unresolved conflicts over land rights and sovereignty with the country's native peoples. In the Pa

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The Chinese government has outlined the main priorities for Chinese President Xi Jinping's forthcoming attendance at the G20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia this weekend. The Foreign Ministry says the president is expected to focus mostly on the state

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The Islamic militant group Hamas has won important victories in West Bank municipal elections. prompting concern for both the Palestinian Authority and Israel. 伊斯兰激进组织哈马斯在约旦河西岸的城市选举中赢得重大胜利。巴勒

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