Key Trial of Khmer Rouge Leaders Starts in Cambodia On Monday the United Nations-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh will open its hearing into the four surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge movement. Cambodians have waited three decades for this day

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(六月)

Todd: So what was the hardest thing about the trip? Julia: The hardest thing was seeing this country which is so beautiful with such amazing people but struggling in so many different ways with so many different things. You know, historically the leg

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Todd: So on your bike trip, how did you feed yourself. What did you eat? Julia: Hydration was a thing that we worried about. We were able to stop every few kilometres and get fresh young coconuts with the straw in the top. Did you remember doing that

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Todd: So Julia, I was looking at your website and I noticed that you did a bike trip in Cambodia. Julia: Yes, that's right. I joined an organization called Pepi and we did a ride from Siem Reap to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City. Todd: Wow, that's pretty c

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Todd: What were the road conditions like that you were riding on? Julia: I'd say at least half, maybe more than half were unpaved roads. Thankfully Cambodia is very flat so it wasn't so difficult. We averaged about seventy, eighty kilometres a day bu

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(France is known for its hundreds of) cheeses. The most famous is perhaps the soft round Camembert, now enjoyed all over the world, but to be considered a real Camembert, the cheese must be made in Normandy, in northwestern France from the milk of No

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 2005年NPR美国国家公共电台

Skies are crying I am watching Catching teardrops in my hands Only silence, as it's ending Like we never had a chance Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have You can break everything I am Like I'm m

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The rainy season in Haiti begins shortly and the government is rushing to complete a new camp for those left homeless by the earthquake Sylva Louis has lived in the sprawling refugee camp of Champs de Mars in downtown Port au Prince, Haiti's capital,

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(三月)

By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 July 2006 Nigeria's anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has warned Internet service providers that they risk 20 years imprisonment if they aid online scams. -------- The newly introduced Advan

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By Teresa Sullivan Washington 30 May 2006 US football goalie Kasey Keller The U.S. Men's National Soccer Team heads to Germany this week for the 2006 World Cup to compete with 31 other nations for the sport's ultimate prize. This will be the first t

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 23 June 2006 Preparations are under way for transfer of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula from Nigeria to Cameroon. Initial outrage over the decision seems to have died down, and residents are agreeing to be resettled in Niger

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A wearable camera is increasingly a routine part of police officers' uniforms. That's despite a shortage of solid research on how the technology affects policing. Now a large study in the nation's capital has turned up some unexpec

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LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The plotline in CW's Jane The Virgin is just a little bit complicated. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, JANE THE VIRGIN) ANTHONY MENDEZ: (As narrator) All right, here we go. As you know, Jane was accidentally artificially insemina

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 01 December 2007 Voters in Russia go to the polls Sunday in a parliamentary election that follows a campaign dominated by President Vladimir Putin and his United Russia Party. VOA Moscow correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports M

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)

By Michael Bowman Washington 16 April 2008 Candlelight vigils and somber ceremonies marked the one-year anniversary of a shooting spree on the campus of a U.S. university, Virginia Tech, that left 32 people and the gunman dead. From Washington, VOA's

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 25 February 2008 A simulated refugee camp has been set up in Melbourne to show Australians the sort of hardship suffered by millions of people around the world. Refugee Realities is the work of the charity Oxfam. The camp is set

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By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 03 April 2007 Preliminary results indicate that the ruling Cambodian People's Party has won a landslide victory in recent local elections. The margin of victory was similar to the result of the last election and was widely fo

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(四月)

今天我们要学的词是scam。 Scam, 是骗局的意思。一个佛罗里达的女子因为假称怀了四胞胎,接受商家的免费财物而受到指控。The woman accused of the pregnancy scam was indicted on seven counts of theft, 这个涉

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The major party candidates for president of the United States are campaigning almost non-stop in the final hours before Election Day. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports both Democrat Senator Barack Obama and Republican Senator John McCain are focusing on a

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)