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Agriculture Report - US, EU to Increase Fight Against Illegal Fishing 农业报道 - 美欧签署共同协定加强打击非法捕捞 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 European Union
At least 80 Filipino seafarers are being held hostage by Somali pirates - the highest number from any nation. The Philippine government has banned ships carrying Filipino crew members from sailing near Somalia. But as Heda Bayron reports from Manila
Line by line, page by page, Nobuki Mitani has been eking out a living for six years. Every day I work about 10 to 12 hours, says the 27-year-old animator, often we work on Saturday and if it's busy we work Sunday, too. Japanese animation is a more th
The basic premise is the music industry is in a crisis. Tell us about it. Well,what's,what has replaced, physical product sales is an illegal peer to peer file sharing across the Internet, and that means that the industry which is decreasing in volu
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American government lawyers this week brought criminal charges against a young Somali man in connection with a ship hijacking earlier this month. They say Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is the only survivor of a
AS IT IS 2014-05-18 Does a Fast-Growing Economy Mean Healthier Children?经济快速增长意味着孩子更健康吗? Hello again, and welcome to As It Is! Im Jonathan Evans in Washington. Today on the program, we take a look at how Somalia is worki
U.S. Admiral Mark Fitzgerald says commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean should carry armed guards to help defend against Somali pirates. The area is enormous and we just do not have enough assets to cover every place in the Indian Oce
New details are emerging of a link between rising piracy off the coast of Somalia and insurgent activities on shore. A Kenyan piracy expert says a prominent Somali factional leader turned Islamist helped the country's militant Shabab group seize the
Some estimates say pirates collected more than $100 million in ransoms in last two years alone Cathy Majtenyi | Nairobi 21 May 2010 An upscale house in Nairobi Real estate prices in Kenya's capital have doubled, even tripled, in the past few years, a
Welcome back, now the world of digital download where top of the pops is dead and pop stars complain about piracy. The good old days are making a comeback. The Live Gig is now the biggest money maker in the industry with revenues from tours often mat
The European Union has launched an anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia, following an increase in pirate attacks this year. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports on results of an E.U. ministers' meeting in Brussels. The 27-member European Union is
US, Somalia Renew Diplomatic Ties After 20 Years African peacekeepers are patrolling the streets of Mogadishu, helping secure the capital for a new government bent on overcoming decades of chaos after the collapse of Siad Barre's rule in 1991. At the
U.S. President Barack Obama is promising new Navy and Marine Corps officers that he will only send young Americans into battle when it is absolutely necessary. The president spoke Friday to the graduating class of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis,
Former foreign minister Alexander Downer has taken a swipe at Indonesia just days before the Prime Minister Tony Abbott travels there. He's accused the Indonesia government of pious rhetoric over Australia's asylum seeker policies. Indonesia's Foreig
The United Nations World Food Program's director for Somalia says attacks on aid workers and threats to ships delivering food aid to Somalia are putting in danger the lives of the millions who now need urgent food assistance. He also called for a bo
Said Ali al-Shihri, deputy chief of al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen in a 2009 file photo taken from undated video posted on a militant-leaning Web site, and provided by the SITE Intelligence Group A Yemen-based al-Qaida group is calling for regional coo
Somali Pirates Take Hostages 索马里海盗扣押人质 You might have been forgiven for thinking that piracy on the high seas was the stuff of Hollywood movies or historical novels, but Somali pirates have made 92 attacks this year, resulting in 36
The recent rescue of an American cargo ship captain held hostage for five days by pirates off the coast of Somalia has heightened awareness of the piracy issue throughout the world. 美国货船船长菲利普斯被海盗扣押在索马里近海5天后
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on pro-Russian separatists in southern andeastern Ukraine to postpone a referendum on autonomy, which is due at the weekend. Healso said this months presidential elections in Ukraine were a move in the
今天我们要学的词是 uptick. Uptick 作为名词,是增长,上扬的意思。U.S. officials suggested that drought and famine could be the cause of the uptick in piracy off Somalia. 美国官员表示,干旱和饥荒可能是索马里沿海