The 8,000 volunteers who will welcome international visitors to London 2012 have been issued with a 66-page instruction manual, covering everything from foreign etiquette to uniform care and advice on dealing with journalists. But what of the visitor

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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a loan of $160 million to finance a power project in India, the bank said last Wednesday. 亚洲基础设施投资银行(亚投行)上周三声称,该行已批准为印度一个电力项目

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MARRAKECH, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Cameroonian Issa Hayatou was unanimously re-elected on Sunday president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for a new term until 2017. Hayatou, 66, has run unopposed at the 35th ordinary general assembly of

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As Russia continues to raise its natural gas prices to Ukraine, some people are looking to American gas as a way to ease Europe's energy dependence on Russia. But it's a solution that's still several years off. In their home near Kyiv, Svetlana Kules

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama wants two more years out of FBI Director Robert Mueller, whose 10-year term expires this September 4. He plans to ask Congress to let Mueller stay on the job longer because of what he de

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西门子将在全球裁员1.5万人 MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- The German engineering giant Siemens plans to cut 15,000 jobs, including 5,000 in Germany, by autumn 2014, a spokesman said here on Sunday. Cutting 15,000 jobs is part of a 6-

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国防预算削减将危及美国安全 WASHINGTON, March 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said here on Wednesday that the Congressional failure to fund the Defense Department (DOD) above levels required by sequestration in fiscal yea

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Question:How advanced are Chinese high-speed rail trains? 问题:中国高铁有多先进? Answered by Robin Daverman(upvote|3.3k): 罗宾?达韦尔曼的回答: The Chinese high-speed rails have a quality all on its own, because its so

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Business. 商业。 Eike Batista. 埃克-巴蒂斯塔。 Batista battered. 巴蒂斯塔的出击。 The dwindling fortune of a Brazilian magnate. 一位巴西商业巨头的财产缩水。 INVESTORS have lost their appetite for Brazil in recent month

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Some jobs these days require little more than a laptop and an internet connection, allowing many digital nomads the opportunity to live and work in cities across the world. But because they often only stay in a place for a few weeks or months at a ti

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Finally, the long-awaited flying car is almost here. 终于,人们期待已久的飞行汽车就要面世了。 AeroMobil, a Slovakian company, plans to start selling its creation, the AeroMobil 3.0, in 2017. 斯洛伐克公司AeroMobil计划在201

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Xi Jinping says his government is expecting trade volume between China and countries involved in the Belt and Road initiative to surpass 2.5 trillion U.S. dollars a year in the next 10-years. The Belt and Road Initiative is a land-based Silk Road Eco

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Shanghai and Beijing were included among the top 20 financial hubs in the world by an index. 上海、北京跻身全球20大金融中心的行列。 Shanghai and Beijing ranked as the 13th and 16th top financial hubs in the world, according to a Glo

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Madrid 马德里 Stinky 臭气熏天 Cleaners on strike in Spain's capital 西班牙首都马德里的清洁工罢工了 THE paint is fresh at Creme Delacreme, a chic new restaurant on the fringes of Madrid's bustling Chueca district. But a rancid, s

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They appoint three board members between them, matching the government's quota. 他们从中指定3名董事会成员,与政府配额相匹配。 A final three, also chosen by the government, must be from outside politics. For a 4G project to get F

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It costs more to send a 40-foot container by road from Bogot, Colombia's capital, 通过陆路将一个40英尺的集装箱从哥伦比亚首都波哥大 to Buenaventura on its Pacific coast than to ship it on from Buenaventura to Shanghai. 运往太平

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联合国对菲律宾的救援行动 UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- As the magnitude of the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan unfolds in the Philippines, the United Nations and its partners are mounting a massive humanitarian operation, batt

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A senior Chinese official is calling on the US government to join the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank. Zhang Jun is in-charge of China's international economic portfolio. His comments have come on the heels of suggestions by US authorities that t

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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is due to announce the full list of its founding members later today. Egypt, Norway and Russia became the latest prospective founding members of the bank this week, bringing the initial number of countries to

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China is to invest about 77 billion yuan ($11.7 billion) this year on the construction of civil aviation infrastructure, especially airports, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China. 近日中国国家民航总局表示,我国今年计

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