People-to-people exchange between China and New Zealand has been on the rise in recent years. CRI's Min Rui has more. Zhang Luwen is a senior student at Massey University in Wellington. She says studying in New Zealand has been a wise move. I came to

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 2017CRI中国国际广播电台

The railway line from Wairarapa to Wellington was closed at about 6.20pm last Thursday night after a train crashed into a mud slip just north of Upper Hutt. The slip was caused by heavy rain that also closed roads around the Wellington region. Around

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

My Waterloo advanture begins in C* in the southeast of England. These history enthusiasts rehearsing for huge reenactments of the battle some a*'s 200 anniversary. Some have ancestors who were there. When the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte's looke

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2015年

Asylum seekers sent to Papua New Guinea who are refused refugee status could remain locked up indefinitely. PNG is refusing to resettle them. The Immigration Minister Tony Burke says they'll stay in detention if they can't be sent home or resettled i

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2013年

Coming up next...The battle begins, and I'm rolled up in to join the Waterloo gun group. I'm finding out what it was like to be a soldier at Waterloo 200 years ago. And now I'm heading for one of the key locations on the battle field. -We are going t

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2015年

He wants to break through Wellington's defences before nightfall, and finally he could wait no longer. Just before noon, he ordered his cannons to open fire. -Gun captain, when you're ready, the first thing a ** wanted going to do is order the gun to

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2015年

There's one thing playing soldiers with replica, the genuine Waterloo cannons without laughing matter. We persuaded the royal armies to let us fire this 200-year-old gun, using live ammunition. With test in the army approved range and s*, under the s

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2015年

The battle that suppressed here was the first in history to be recorded in so much detail by so many soldiers. The eye-witness has told stories with incredible bravery. The reviewer what was alive to be a soldier of Waterloo that make sense of the ca

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2015年

Monday 19th January is Anniversary Day for Wellington and Southland. Each province has an Anniversary Day holiday to remember the day that the first Europeans arrived there to settle and live there. In Southland, the Anniversary is a celebration of w

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Forty years ago today was our worst tragedy at sea in living memory. The inter-island ferry, the Wahine, with 734 passengers, struck rocks in the Wellington harbour and sank. 51 people died. This was the Easter holiday and many people were travelling

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(102) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Last Monday, the government announced that it will buy back the railways for $665 million. That sale includes the inter-island ferries that sail between Picton and Wellington. We have to say buy back because the government used to own the railways bu

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Three air force men were killed and one was seriously injured when their helicopter crashed early yesterday morning near Wellington. They were on their way to the ANZAC service in Wellington. The plan was for three air force Iroquois helicopters to f

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Now the Speaker of the House, Dr Lockwood Smith, has decided that all MPs and their partners will lose the right to have cheap international holidays. This is called a perk. Most workers do not get perks as part of their job. Most workers do not get

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The Statistics Department has just given us the figures for how people commute to work. They gave percentages of people who drive, walk, cycle or take public transport to work. These figures come from the census in 2006. Every five years, we have a c

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, said yesterday that some railway lines will probably be closed. The line between Napier and Gisborne, the northern Wairarapa line and the inland Taranaki line usually have just one train a week. It is possible

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Today is Labour Day. Most of us celebrate the day by enjoying a holiday. However, the reason for Labour Day at first was to celebrate the eight-hour working day. The story about the eight-hour working day in New Zealand is about a carpenter called Sa

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The head of the International Airways Volcano Watch group, Peter Lechner who lives in Wellington, said today that their group has been warning about volcanoes for the last 10 years or more. There are nine volcanic ash warning centres around the world

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语