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IN THE NEWS - October 12, 2002: Bush Invokes Taft-Hartley in Port Shutdown By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS. Twenty-nine industrial ports in the west

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CAIRO, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Both the security and governorate's headquarters in Egypt's Port Said were set on fire on Monday as protesters hurled Molotov cocktail at the buildings, state-run Ahram online reported. The protesters also blocked fire engi

ENVIRONMENT REPORT - Eastern U.S. Drought

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AS IT IS 2016-01-26 Refugees Storm British Ferry at French Port

AS IT IS 2016-01-26 Refugees Storm British Ferry at French Port About 200 refugees attacked the French port of Calais on Saturday, and about 50 got on a passenger ferry. A spokeswoman for the ships operator confirmed the refugees gained entry to an o

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 27 November 2006 United Nations officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are calling for an end to hostilities in the eastern region bordering Rwanda. U.N. peacekeepers earlier intervened to block forces loyal to renegade

VOA标准英语2008年-Hungary Opens Eastern Europe's First Sun-Powere

Government officials from more than 30 countries gathered in Hungary Friday for the opening of Central and Eastern Europe's first conference center powered by renewable energy. The building of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Easter

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After more than a week of reporting on the earthquake from Port-au-Prince, a team of VOA journalists traveled south of the capital to see how people in other parts of Haiti are surviving. Jeff Swicord reports along the road to Jacmel, a beach town so

VOA标准英语2009年-Eastern Europe Faces Freezing Temperatures and

With freezing temperatures across most of Europe, there was heated anger, especially in Eastern Europe on Wednesday, about the suspension in natural gas deliveries from Russia through Ukraine. The gas crisis comes at a difficult time for leading pol

VOA标准英语2011--Eastern Congolese Gear Up for Election

Eastern Congolese Gear Up for Election The eastern provinces are some of the most volatile parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and have been plagued by war and humanitarian crisis for decades. This week, as they gear up to vote in Congo's seco

2017年CRI Kenya and Tanzania step up port rivalry

Kenya and Tanzania step up port rivalry [Source: Railway Pro] Kenya and Tanzania are presently caught in a head-to-head race to become the most preferred transport hub amid massive expansion projects in sea ports, connecting railway and road networks

2016年CRI Chinese companies to help Malaysia build deep sea port

PowerChina International, Shenzhen's Yantian Port Group and Rizhao Port Group have been selected to help a Malaysian company build the 1.9-billion US dollar port. The project itself is part of the larger Melaka Gateway Project that China and Malaysia

2018年CRI Zhoushan Port, a bounded fuel filling center

The Streaming down the Yangtze team is now at Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, which is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road. In 2017, the port's throughput capacity was registered at 1 billion tons, and was the busiest port in the world in terms of car

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 13 September 2006 At least 23 people were killed and two wounded by landmines in two separate incidents in eastern Sudan. A UN contractor uses a metal detector to search for mines planted along a dirt road in Juba, Sudan Ac

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By Jim Stevenson Washington 04 January 2006 Snowboarding's halfpipe competition has quickly evolved to become one of the more popular winter Olympic events. One of the early stars of the sport was Ame

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Chinese naval escort task force calls at Singapore port

SINGAPORE, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Two Chinese Navy ships called at Singapore's Changi port on Sunday on their way back to China from an escort mission in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somali. The destroyer Wuhan and the frigate Yulin were part of

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As rescue operations accelerated to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti, correspondent Brian Wagner flew into Port-au-Prince Wednesday to begin covering the story for VOA. He did not have to travel far to give a detailed account of the devastatio

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A little over a year ago, a fully automated container terminal began operation in the Chinese port city of Qingdao, using only robots and machines to load and unload shipping containers. Now the terminal, the first of its kind in Asia, has already se

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China has taken over the management of a strategic deep-water Pakistani seaport. The port of Gwadar on Pakistan's southwestern coast has been transferred to China state-owned Overseas Ports Holding Company. The company will be fully responsible for o