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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Russia's Pavlovsk Experimental Station houses one of the oldest seed and plant collections in the world. But this month a court agreed to let the Russian Housing Development Foundation take control
By Kent Klein Washington 31 March 2008 The top U.S. housing official, who is under criminal investigation, has announced he is resigning. VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson says he will
US Housing Prices, And Confidence, Rise Five years after the collapse of the U.S. housing market, Americans seem ready to buy again. Pending home sales are up 7 percent over last year, foreclosures are at a seven-year low - and the number of homes fo
Here in China the housing maintenance fund is also known as the pension for apartments. Apparently, the fund is to be used for the maintenance and repair of property. However, applying to use the money is an extremely difficulty process. Li Dong has
英语作文 Direction:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition in three paragraphs.You are given the first sentence of the three paragrapgs.Your part of the composition should be no less than 100 words,not including the words giv
Homebuyers nationwide are watching housing prices go up, up, and up. How high can they go? is the question on everyones lips. As long as interest rates stay around 5 percent, theres no telling, remarked one realtor in Santa Monica, California. Its cr
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: A repossessed home in Denver, Colorado, in May 2008 And I'm Fritzi Bodenheimer. This week on our program, we examine some of the causes of the financial crisis
Affordable Housing Growing Scarce in US Paola Nunez, is a childcare worker in Washington. Until recently, she lived with her mother. But she decided it was time to move out and get her own apartment. She quickly learned there are few housing options
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Republicans are set to unveil their tax bill compromise later today. And people who build affordable housing are desperate to see what is in this bill. That's because the House version would scrap a tax incentive that underpins a
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: There's a lot of money to be made in affordable housing. Banks and developers are making millions of dollars by building housing for the poor under a federal incentive program. And at the same time, each year, fewer poor people a
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This is the day in 1954 that the Supreme Court issued its famous ruling desegregating schools, Brown versus Board of Education. Today, schools remain largely segregated, and the author Richard Rothstein argues that's because housin
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: For people who are a step away from homelessness, getting a housing voucher can feel like a way to a better life, but it isn't a guarantee. NPR and the PBS show Frontline have been examining the billions that taxpayers spend to h
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The housing market is cooling. Sales of both new and existing homes are dropping. What does that mean for homebuyers and the overall economy? NPR's Camila Domonoske explains. CAMILA DOMONOSKE, BYLINE: This summer, Sara Murawski's r
Chinese President Xi Jinpinbg meets with Carrie Lam, Chief Executive-elect of the Hong Kong SAR, on April 11th, 2017 in Beijing. [Photo: gmw.cn] Carrie Lam, Chief Executive-elect of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), said that bolster
Home construction projects contracted by Chinese companies are now said to be improving local people's livelihood in the Maldives, where people have been facing serious housing shortages. Maldivian film director Ahmed Sajid is filming a documentary a
By Barry Wood Washington 24 October 2007 Financial experts addressing a home builders conference in Washington Wednesday issued grim forecasts, suggesting that the U.S. housing slump is likely to get worse and continue for at least another year. VOA'
Realtors' Association Welcomes GOP Debate on Housing Market More than four years after the housing bubble burst, the U.S. housing market is still struggling to recover. Among the hardest hit states are California, Nevada and Florida, where foreclosur
China to Further Promote Housing System Encouraging Renting and Purchasing A recent survey by the Global Cities Business Alliance, a London-based non-profit, has found Beijing is - by far - the most expensive city in the world to rent an apartment. C
The top U.S. housing official, who is under criminal investigation, has announced he is resigning. 美国负责住房事务的最高官员宣布辞职。与此同时,他正在接受司法调查。 Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Ja
8 big cities in China have rolled out further property tightening measures in the latest efforts to rein in housing price rises. Those second-tier cities have tightened housing controls since Friday, with most banning home sales within 2 to 3 years a