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VOA标准英语2013--Banks in Cyprus Remain Closed After Bailout

Banks in Cyprus Remain Closed After Bailout Banks in Cyprus closed their doors on March 15, and they have not yet re-opened. The trickling cash flow already has taken its toll on the economy. Small businesses say they are doing very little trade, and

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Presses have defined the national trend climbing by more than half a percent in the December quarter.A survey by RP Data shows Sydney remains the most expensive city with a medium house price 485,00 dollars Perth was the worst performing capital.Hous

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the importance of the euro currency to Germany and the wider European Union in her New Year's address. Some analysts have predicted the crises in the Euro Zone, however, could force the union to break up in th

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2007年VOA标准英语-North Korean Workers Get a Raise - From South K

By Kurt Achin Seoul 06 August 2007 South Korean authorities have agreed to raise wages at a North-South joint venture in North Korea for the first time since the experimental zone was opened three years ago. The Kaesong venture is hailed in South Kor

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Hewlett Packard are announcing plans to lay off 27,000 employees looking for annually savings of $3 billion. The world's NO.1 computer maker also reported a 3% decline in quarterly revenue. A source told Reuters the New York Stock Exchange is quoting

2007年VOA标准英语-Green Zone Hospital at Forefront in Treatment o

By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 29 June 2007 At the Ibn Sina Hospital inside Baghdad's heavily protected Green Zone, medical professionals with the U.S. military treat coalition forces and Iraqi nationals with some of the most complex injuries. From Bagh

VOA标准英语2009-Australia Moves to Protect the Coral Sea

Australia has agreed to protect one million square kilometers of ocean off its northeast coast. The Coral Sea Conservation Zone will help safeguard an area described by conservationists as a spectacular marine jewel while the region is assessed for

VOA标准英语2009-International Appeals for LTTE Surrender, Army C

Both sides in Sri Lanka's civil war are brushing off a non-binding statement of the U.N. Security Council demanding they protect the lives of tens of thousands of civilians trapped by the fighting. Medical and humanitarian workers say shelling in th

VOA标准英语2009-UN Official Hints at War Crimes in Sri Lanka

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2007年VOA标准英语-Relief Efforts Begin in Indonesian Quake Zone

By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 13 September 2007 Relief efforts are underway on Indonesia's Sumatra Island after the country was hit by four powerful earthquakes and a succession of large aftershocks in less than 24 hours. The tremors toppled buildi

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China maps out its first air defense ID zone. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, has urged Japan to stop undermining China's territorial sovereignty. This was following Japanese protests over Chinas establishment of a Air Defense Identification Zon

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Russia has agreed to withdraw its troops from controversial buffer zones it had set up around Georgia's breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports the announcement by the Russian president was

2007年VOA标准英语-Five Years Into Ivorian Conflict, International

By Phillip Wellman Dakar 19 September 2007 United Nations peacekeepers and French rapid reaction forces are gradually pulling back from front lines of the Ivory Coast conflict, giving more of a role to Ivorian forces, five years after the conflict be

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Italy hosts top world leaders this week for the G-8 summit of major industrialized nations. These meetings are held every year, but this year's site is somewhat unusual in that the summit takes place in a part of central Italy that was struck by a d

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North Korea has withdrawn its insistence on massive wage increases from South Korea at a jointly-run factory zone in the North. The move is widely seen as part of a broader charm offensive by Pyongyang, but comes as South Korea remains angry at a flo