中英双语新闻——My ears hurt! Send us a decent commentator

Soccer fans across China moaning about the quality of commentary during this World Cup should remember: Youre not alone. 本届世界杯期间，每位对赛事解说怨声载道的中国球迷要记得：你不是一个人。 All over the world, if

英语新闻视频 Don't be too CNN

The wave of anger and patriotism generated by CNN's recent offensive coverage of China has produced a smash hit song and stirred millions of Internet users into an online show of solidarity. Don't Be Too CNN, a track that lampoons the network for it

经济学人:印度中央银行(1)

Sometime in the 1990s Jagdish Bhagwati, one of India's most distinguished economists, encountered Swaminathan Gurumurthy, 在20世纪90年代某时，印度最杰出的经济学家贾格迪什巴格沃蒂遭遇了斯瓦米那坦古穆绥 a financial

Credit crunch

Callum: Hello Im Callum Robertson and with me today for 6 Minute English is Jackie Dalton hello Jackie. Jackie: Hello Callum. Callum: Now Jackie, Im going to play you something and I wonder if you can guess what is being talked about. This is Ian Ma

Monday-Morning Quarterbacking: Expressions of Looking Back

Monday-Morning Quarterbacking: Expressions of Looking Back Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Each week we take a closer look at words and expressions commonly used in American English. We explain how to use them in conver

小米宣布投资优酷土豆

Xiaomi, a privately owned Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing, announced today it has invested over 10 million dollars in Youku and Tudou.com, major video hosting services in the Chinese Internet video sector. That was just after Chi

乐视体育打造奥运频道

LeTV Sports, the fast-growing digital sports broadcaster in China, has recently announced the launch of an Olympic channel that will broadcast live next month's Rio Olympics. The announcement was made following LeTV Sports' new partnership with Amway

北京世锦赛,中国田径队取得重大突破

Chinese athletes have cast off the shadow of star hurdler Liu Xiang's retirement to restate the country's challenge to world powers in track and field. 中国运动员已从栏王刘翔退役的阴影中走了出来，并重新向世界展现中国田径

国务院设400亿创投基金

China's State Council has announced it will create a 40 billion yuan or 6.5 billion U.S. dollar fund to spur innovation. The government-initiated scheme aims to attract social capital investment. After an open bidding process, several fund management

阿里巴巴集团投资新浪微博

阿里巴巴集团投资新浪微博 E-commerce giant Alibaba has purchased an 18-percent stake of China's popular micro logging service Sina Weibo for 586 million US dollars. Alibaba also holds the option of increasing its share of Weibo to 30-perce

A股有望进入国际主流指数

Chinese authorities are taking another step toward opening up the capital markets to foreign investors. The Shanghai Stock Exchange and China Financial Futures Exchange have agreed to set up a joint venture with Deutsche Boerse. The new company, base

网络时代催生“窥探”狂人

MSN和QQ签名、开心和人人的状态栏、个人博客、微博，我们忽然之间好像多了很多展示自己状态和心情的空间。某一天的某一个签名可能会招来朋友们一通狂轰滥炸，或者爱心泛滥的劝慰。这大

中国足球中长期发展规划

It is the first time China has revealed a specific timetable for the country's football industry development. Published by the country's top economic planner on Monday, the plan will be carried out in three stages, aiming to make China a first-class

'Credit crunch'

'Credit crunch' is an expression which has only recently become widespread. When is the first mention that Callum finds of it on the BBC website? 信用紧缩这个词今年来很流行。BBC网站何时第一次提及卡勒姆发明了这个词？ Callum: Hello Im Callum Robertso

微软小冰入职东方卫视当主播!

There's a new meteorologist on Dragon TV. 东方卫视日前起用了一位新的气象预报员。 The newbie takes no vacations or holidays. She's never late to work and never stumbles on air. Of course, it's easy to be the star employee when you'r

Italians want to have a say in the way their country is run

MILAN, Italy, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- After traveling his country far and wide for years, Italian Paolo Galimberti stepped back as head of young entrepreneurs of Confcommercio business association in order to give a helping hand to the upswing of nationa

经济学人332:土耳其采矿进行时 地下墓地

Mining in Turkey 土耳其采矿进行时 Death underground 地下墓地 The tragedy in Soma will also be felt in politics 在索玛镇发生的悲剧将在政治斗争中再次上演 TURKEY'S prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, faces public fury a

经济学人389:诗歌的力量

Books and arts;book review; 文艺；书评； James Fenton's poetry;Flower power; 詹姆士.芬顿的诗；诗歌的力量； A modern master goes from strength to strength; 一位逐渐成长起来的当代诗坛巨匠； Yellow Tulipspoem;by JAMES

中国推动绿色产业的发展

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is preparing to release a new program meant to try to reduce pollution across the country. Under the new plan, companies are expected to use around 4-million fewer tons of coal by the end of

经济学人367:温暖的火花

New poetry 新诗集 Sparks of warmth 温暖的火花 Love's Bonfire. By Tom Paulin. 《爱之篝火》汤姆 坡林著 TOM PAULIN, an Anglo-Irish poet and Oxford academic, is no stranger to the evocative power of words. He was born in Leeds in 1949