VOA双语新闻 Child Laborers Worldwide

A new report by the International Labor Organization, ILO, says child labor, especially in its worst forms, is in decline for the first time across the globe. Between 2000 and 2004, the ILO report finds the number of child laborers worldwide fell by

VOA双语新闻 Bush Says Katrina Lessons Learned

President Bush says the federal government has learned lessons from the mixed response to last year's killer hurricane along America's Gulf Coast. 布什总统表示，联邦政府已经从去年横扫美国墨西哥湾沿岸的卡特里娜飓风中得

VOA双语新闻 Final Election Results

Shiite religious parties in Iraq came up short of securing a majority in the new parliament according to final results announced Friday by the Election Commission. The results, which mean the Shi'ite parties will have to form a coalition, came as a l

VOA双语新闻：印尼总统把经济列为头等大事

During his first term in office, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono oversaw a period of robust economic growth based on exports. This year exports have slowed as a result of the global recession. As the president gets set to begin his seco

VOA双语新闻 - 美官员：不会迅速撤离阿富汗

Days after President Barack Obama unveiled a new U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan, U.S. officials are stressing an eventual drawdown of American troops will be done gradually and in a manner that allows Afghan forces to assume security responsibiliti

VOA双语新闻 Khartoum Government Needs to Go

The Sudanese government has charged that the 16-month-old rebellion in Darfur is aimed at toppling the government. The rebel Justice and Equality Movement has implied as much, telling VOA that a regime change in Khartoum would be the best and the qui

VOA双语新闻 Iraqis Favor Kerry over Bush

A new public opinion poll shows more Iraqis favor Democratic challenger John Kerry than President Bush, who launched the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. But more than half of the 2,000 peopled polled throughout Iraq don't care who wins the U.S.

VOA双语新闻 Bush Wins Florida

Republican President George Bush won a convincing victory in Florida, the state where the vote was disputed four years ago, leading to a lengthy delay in declaring Mr. Bush the winner of that election. A number of absentee ballots, overseas ballots a

VOA双语新闻 Arafat Leaves Mixed Legacy

The leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, died Thursday in France where he was ailing for several days. Mr. Arafat, born August 24, 1929, had devoted his life to establishing a Palestinian homeland. It was a dream he would n

VOA双语新闻 US Commerce Secretary

President Bush has chosen a Cuban-born business executive to be his new Secretary of Commerce. Carlos Gutierrez made his name in corporate America as head of the Kellogg Company, a Michigan-based manufacturer of breakfast cereals and snacks that has

VOA双语新闻 US Helicopters Deliver Supplies

A combined U.S. civilian and military aid effort in the tsunami-ravaged region of Asia moved into high gear Monday. Helicopters from the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln delivered, and in some cases air dropped, supplies in remote parts of

VOA双语新闻 Powell Surveys Tsunami Devastation

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has visited the tsunami-wrecked region of Indonesia's Aceh Province Wednesday pledging to help the devastated area. 美国国务卿鲍威尔星期三访问了海啸重灾区印尼的亚齐省，他表示，美国将

VOA双语新闻 US Senators Visit Iraq

A U.S. Congressional delegation is in Iraq to meet with the country's interim government leaders and U.S. military commanders. Amid continuing violence, the senators say Iraq still needs U.S. and coalition support, and vowed to see the job through. 一

VOA双语新闻 - 印度尼西亚即将步入经济大国行列

Some economists say Indonesia is poised to become an emerging economic power similar to China and India. Economic growth slowed slightly during the worst of the global economic crisis, but now it is again expanding at a rate of over six percent a yea

VOA双语新闻：美中关系缓和 挑战依然巨大

Two senior U.S. advisers have wrapped up talks in Beijing with top officials that included a rare meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. While both sides stressed the importance of expanding cooperation and promoting healthy U.S.-China relations,

VOA双语新闻：潘基文：未能见昂山素季很失望

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says it was a deep disappointment that he was unable to meet imprisoned democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during his recent visit to Burma, saying the decision of authorities there not to let him meet with her was a

VOA双语新闻：许多人不信911袭击是基地所为

Seven years after terrorist attacks killed several thousand people in the United States, a new global public opinion poll shows that many people do not believe the attacks were the work of the al-Qaida terror network. 7年前发生的911恐怖袭击事

VOA双语新闻 - 国际市场原油价格下跌

Oil prices in Asia slipped briefly below $60 a barrel for the first time in more than 18 months, then rallied to $61, after a two-day plunge. 亚洲市场原油价格在过去18个月里首次降到每桶60美元以下。经过两天的大幅度下跌后

VOA双语新闻 - 伊拉克议会辩论美伊安全协议

Iraq's parliament has begun debate on a new military pact with the United States that was approved Sunday by the country's Cabinet. Among other things, the deal calls for coalition forces to withdraw from Iraq in three years. But radical Shi'ite cler

VOA双语新闻：俄与北约合作被冻结关系降至低点

Despite long-standing opposition to NATO, Russia cooperated with the Western defense alliance on a number of military, political and humanitarian projects. But Russia says it feels threatened by NATO's eastward expansion and the prospect of possible