By Challiss McDonough Kuwait City 30 June 2006 A Kuwaiti woman, left, casts her vote at a polling station in Salwa, Kuwait City, June 29, 2006 Women candidates have failed to win a single seat in the Kuwaiti parliament in the first election where th

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(六月)

The spring season of the latter years of high school are an anxious time when students will , choose one: fall in love, drink too much, or whatever's available, work really hard, slack off, make your hopes soar, dash them to the depth or all of the a

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New analysis by the China National Coal Association through the first 7-months of this year is pointing to overcapacity still remaining a serious problem in this country's coal industry. CRI's Li Dong has more. The CNCA report shows that the country'

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Last week, the Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith, gave permission for a new open-cast coal mine on conservation land on the West Coast. The Environment Court last month said it would probably give permission for the mine. Now the Forest and Bird o

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SHIJIAZHUANG, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Coal inventories in Qinhuangdao, Tangshan and Huanghua, China's major coal ports, have reached record highs in recent days, sparking safety concerns for the Chinese energy market. According to the latest figures, coal

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India's government is hitting back at corruption allegations and urging opposition lawmakers to end protests that have shut down parliament for a fourth day. Opposition members have been calling for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation

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BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A spokesman for China's work safety regulator said on Friday that coal mining remains a high-risk industry in the country despite improvements over the past decade. Speaking at a press conference in Beijing, Huang Yi, of

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BEIJING, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- China proposes to further reshuffle its coal industry by setting higher thresholds for the scale of coal producers and encouraging mergers to form industrial conglomerates, the government said Monday. The minimum standard

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英语短文:Coal-fired power plants The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill,

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Well now the sky, it grows dark The night, it grows cold The winds, they blow sharp The year, it grows old And all ends have their starts Every half has its whole There is fire in our hearts We'll have timber and coal Timber and coal Well now the bir

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 March 2006 At least three aid agencies received letters from the Eritrean government this week directing the agencies to terminate their work in the country. The letters c

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 21 May 2006 Aung San Suu Kyi (2002 photo) Burma's political opposition, the National League for Democracy, is hopeful of progress on democratic reform after the three-day visit o

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By Challiss McDonough Kuwait City 29 June 2006 In Kuwait, women turned out in large numbers to exercise their newly won right to vote. VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough has more from Kuwait City on the parliamentary election, in which 28 women al

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Britain says Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe can expect more pressure from the international community due to the deteriorating situation in his country before Friday's presidential runoff vote. A senior official in London also says Britain supp

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It is a four-day weekend in the U.S. capital city of Washington, with a holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., on Monday and Inauguration Day on Tuesday. The significance of the back-to-back holidays honoring the slain civil rights leader and the

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By Michael Bowman Washington 12 April 2007 A U.S. citizen has been arrested in Ohio and charged with conspiring to support terrorist activities both at home and abroad. VOA's Michael Bowman has details from Washington. Photograph of Christopher Paul,

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 03 January 2006 Uganda's main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye hit the campaign trail Tuesday following his release from prison on

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 07 June 2007 A massive security operation is being organized in Rome for the arrival of U.S. President Bush on Friday evening. Thousands of police officers will be deployed in the city and the air space will be closed as a

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By Efam Dovi Accra 07 February 2007 In Ghana, Monday's sentencing of an opposition member of parliament to 10 years in prison for fraud has raised political tension between the government and the biggest opposition party. The National Democratic Con

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BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China will work to control coal consumption this year in the face of strained coal supplies, the country's energy chief said Saturday. Putting a cap on total coal consumption will help to hasten industrial restructuring a

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