VOA双语新闻 --- India, Burma to Formalize Transport Pact

India and Burma are set to formalize an agreement next week for New Delhi to fund a Burmese port project that will allow India's landlocked northeastern states strategic access to the sea. 印度和缅甸将于下个星期正式达成一项交通运输

VOA双语新闻 --- Rising Price of Rice Triggers Concern in

The cost of rice has risen up to 50 percent on world markets, raising concerns among aid agencies in Asia. The agencies say they are facing shortfalls in efforts to feed the hungry in the region. 世界市场上大米价格暴涨引起亚洲救援机构

VOA双语新闻 --- 赖斯再访中东以推动以巴和谈进程

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks Sunday with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders during her second trip the Middle East in less than a month. Israel says it will ease some restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank in a b

VOA双语新闻 --- Zimbabwe Waits to Learn Outcome of Electi

Zimbabweans are anxiously waiting for the results of four elections held Saturday. Election monitors in say tensions are rising as people wait for the release of official results. Political parties have been announcing the outcome at many individual

VOA双语新闻--2010为中东和平外交带来新动力

Middle East diplomacy is moving into high gear this month in a fresh effort to revive stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Cairo this week and proposed that Egypt host a three-way

VOA双语新闻--中国成头号出口大国，产品安全倍受

New numbers from China's customs agency say the country's exports for 2009 were more than $1.2 trillion, slightly ahead of Germany. 中国海关的新数据显示，中国2009年出口总值超过12万亿美元，略高于德国。 Exports in Decembe

VOA双语新闻 ---美国牛肉成美韩自由贸易协定关键

The United States and South Korea are each gearing up for a crucial vote to ratify a major trade liberalization deal. In South Korea, opponents of the pact are trying to block a separate compromise to open up the country to American beef imports - a

VOA双语新闻 ---密西西比河水位上涨至近年最高点

The Mississippi river, which drains more than 40 percent of North America's river flow into the Gulf of Mexico, is at its highest point in years, leading to concern that levees protecting the city of New Orleans could be compromised. A few weeks ago,

VOA双语新闻 --- 美民主党初选内斗相争利共和党

In the U.S. presidential race, a growing number of Democrats are worried that the long and bitter nomination fight between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be helping the presumptive Republican candidate, Senator John McCain. 在这次美国

VOA双语新闻 --- 东帝汶总统批国际部队抓刺客不力

East Timor's president has criticized Australian-led forces for failing to capture the rebels who shot him outside his home in Dili last month. For the first time, Jose Ramos-Horta has described how he walked into an ambush and watched as a gunman li

VOA双语新闻 ---美官员促印度与美达成民用核协议

A senior American official has urged India to move quickly to wrap up a civilian nuclear deal with the United States. The request comes as India's prime minister says his government is trying to build a political consensus on the controversial agreem

VOA双语新闻：奥巴马参选的势头获得了新的推动

Presidential contender Barack Obama won the endorsement of a former rival Tuesday in his battle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination. Obama also got some good news in national polls as he and Clinton prepare for a debate later Tue

VOA双语新闻 --- 北韩首次批韩总统李明博为卖国贼

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, warning time is running out for the

VOA双语新闻--录像：炸美特工杀手要为塔利班头目

A Pakistani private television station and international networks have apparently aired Saturday the final video message of the man believed to be the suicide bomber who killed seven U.S intelligence agents in eastern Afghanistan more than a week ago

VOA双语新闻--克林顿在夏威夷评价美国亚太政策

The secretary's speech at the U.S.-sponsored East-West Center in Honolulu comes as the Obama administration nears the end of a first year in office that Clinton says gave substance to its pledges to re-engage with Asia-Pacific nations. 克林顿国务卿

VOA双语新闻--白宫：面对基地威胁 美驻也门使馆

U.S. President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor says a threat from an al-Qaida affiliate led to the closure of the American embassy in Yemen. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports this same group has been linked to the attempted Christmas Day bombi

VOA双语新闻 --- 美国促中国废除环保产品进口限制

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has urged Beijing to scrap barriers on imports of pollution-reducing technology. The secretary praised China's appreciating its currency, but said it should continue. 美国财政部长保尔森星期四在北京发

VOA双语新闻 ---Biofuels One Factor in Rising Food Prices

Soaring food prices are causing big problems in many parts of the world today. One factor in the ballooning costs may be the increasing global demand for biofuels - vehicle fuels made at least partly from corn (maize) or other food crops. 粮价的猛涨

VOA双语新闻 ---粮农组织呼吁紧急行动缓北韩饥荒

The United Nations World Food Program says urgent action is needed to prevent what it calls a serious tragedy because of food shortages in North Korea. A bad harvest and soaring world food prices may be creating one of the leanest years in the North

VOA双语新闻 --- 布什普京结束峰会未达成重要协议

U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin have ended their farewell summit without agreement on missile defense, but with a blueprint for their successors. They conferred at Mr. Putin's presidential retreat in the Black Sea r