Sky's Charlotte Hawkins outlines what's at stake for the candidates on the biggest day in the run-up to the US presidential elections. The states are up for grabs today, count for just half of the delegates at the party conventions in the late summe

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The State Council here in China has detailed a new list of targets to try to support small and micro-sized businesses here in China. CRI's Hu Jia with the details. China's Cabinet is throwing more support behind small and micro-sized businesses by em

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EDUCATION REPORT - July 4, 2002: Medical Residents This is the VOA Special English Education Report. To become a doctor in the United States, students usually attend four years of medical school after

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