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lets hear from this lady, Veronica Needa. Where does Veronica live? Hello there, my names Veronica Needa, I have a Chinese name too, my Chinese name is Li Wi Kei, which is in Cantonese because I come from Hong Kong, and I make my home in London now.W

经济学人:一周经济要闻18

The world this week-Business 本周经济要闻 In its biggest acquisition yet, Apple agreed to pay 3 billion for Beats Electronics, a specialist in pricey headphones and music-streaming. 在迄今最大的一笔收购中，苹果公司斥资30亿美元

Take Away English-Universities in the UK 英国的大学

How would you like to study at a university in Britain? Universities in Britain are a magnet for overseas students. There are currently over 200 000 from outside Britain studying at British universities. The largest single group is Chinese students.

VOA慢速英语2012 Economics Report - British Banks Pays $340 Million Fine for Iran Dealings

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西方官员寻求对伊朗协议的支持

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Despite the excitement the inauguration of Barack Obama generated around the world, overseas markets continued their downward slide. Man walks past electronic stock board in Tokyo, while showing President Obama at inauguration ceremony, 21 Jan 2009

VOA标准英语2010年-British Charities Launch Campaign Advo

A group of British charities has teamed up with British film actor Bill Nighy and producer Richard Curtis to campaign for what they call a new deal between banks and society. They want to put a .05 percent tax on financial transactions between banks

VOA标准英语2009年-US Stimulus Compromise Produces Little Overseas

Stocks are down on the world markets where traders are less than enthusiastic about the $798 billion U.S. compromise economic stimulus package hammered out between congressional negotiators. And in London, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has strongly cr

英语听力精选进阶版 6050

Universities in Britain are a magnet for overseas students. There are currently over 200 000 from outside Britain studying at British universities. The largest single group is Chinese students. There are currently 50 000 in the UK. The British govern

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Now the Chancellor has accused banks of lending money too freely, and has told them to take a more cautious approach. Commenting on the on-going global credit crisis, Alistair Darling told the Daily Telegraph, in crude terms they need to know who th

British Vision Issue 71, 网络犯罪愈演愈烈

Now with banks losing more than 30 million pounds to online crime last year, consumers are being warned today that they must start taking responsibility for their own security or possibly lose out. It comes as a report claims there is a new victim o

VOA常速英语2008年-Bank of England to Improve System Liquidity

By Tom Rivers London 21 April 2008 Britain's central bank, the Bank of England, has announced a plan aimed at preventing the unfolding international credit crisis from causing more damage to the British economy. Under the deal, lending institutions w

上海自贸区企业可自主境外融资

The People's Bank of China, China's central bank, has moved to allow all financial institutions in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone to raise capital from overseas markets. Zhang Xin, deputy director of the Shanghai headquarters of the People's Bank of Ch

VOA标准英语10月-Britain Unveils Huge British Bank Bail-Out Plan

Britain announced Wednesday a huge, comprehensive government plan that will pump nearly $90 billion of taxypayers' money into the British banking system to shore it up. For VOA, Tom Rivers in London has details. The British government has moved in t

Moody's Downgrades 12 British Banks

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the credit ratings of 12 British banks over concerns that the government will not provide adequate support to the institutions if they become financially troubled. The credit rating firm said Friday that the d

英文短篇故事（纽约）314 The Wrong Web Site

Connie works in real estate in Manhattan. Her listings were on Craigslist and other web sites. One day she decided to consolidate all her listings onto one site. That site was Naked Apartments. She called one of her new clients. She said, Please visi

英国金融业高管不多聘女性将被减薪

Finance bosses have agreed to hire more female executives -- or face cuts to their pay. 金融业的老板们同意聘用更多女性高管，否则他们将面临减薪。 The UK biggest banks and insurers -- as well as some leading US banks and inv

英国接收更多的海外游客

LONDON, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The official figures released on Thursday showed that Britain received more overseas visitors in the first half of this year. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said foreign residents made 15.24 million visits to Bri

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经济学人:新兴银行 扰乱时机正当时

New banks 新兴银行 Ripe for disruption 扰乱时机正当时 A rush of new entrants hope to shake up banking 新兴银行这股狂流欲重组银行业 I PROMISE to open a bank account for a British citizen in just two minutes, says Nazzim Ishaqu