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EDMUND HO REPORTED HIS WORK IN BEIJING Macao's Chief Executive, Edmund Ho, has met top mainland officials for a progress report in a lead up to the territory ’ s handover anniversary on Wednesday. M

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news sporlight [00:01.02]新闻聚光灯 [00:02.04]Macao's Chief Executive ,Edmund Ho,has meet top mainland officials for a progress report in a lead up to the territory's handover anniversary on Wednesday . [00:06.67]在澳门回归一周年前夕，澳

World Cup Stories: Argentina-2

Buenos Aires, the Monumental Stadium. It was here that Argentina's decade of dominance began when it hosted the 1978 World Cup. But behind the confident spectacle of the opening ceremony, there was ne

VOA慢速英语--缅甸的企业支持重建若开邦

Myanmars business leaders are supporting Aung San Suu Kyis plan to resettle Rohingya refugees and to rebuild Rakhine State. Last August, Rohingya militant attacks on the police caused a military response that sent more than 650,000 Rohingya fleeing i

NPR 2011-02-15

President Obama says his budget proposal would help the US cut its deficit and become a stronger global competitor with targeted investments in crucial areas. NPR's Paul Brown reports on how the president is staking out his position as the budget bat

NPR 2012-04-08

Activists in Syria say government forces are shelling rebel-held towns across the country today. They say at least 74 civilians have been killed. The BBC's Jim Muir is monitoring events from Beirut. Theres been in many areas, but specifically Latamne

英语名人堂：昂山素季

昂山素季（台湾译为翁山苏姬，港澳译为昂山素姬，马新译为昂山舒吉，拉丁转写：Aung San Suu Kyi，1945年6月19日－）生于缅甸仰光，是缅甸非暴力提倡民主的政治家。 1988年9月，缅甸全国民主联

NPR 2012-01-15

Evangelical Christian leaders meeting in Texas are throwing their support behind Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination. NPR's Joel Rose reports the attendees are hoping to give Santorum's candidacy a boost heading into the South Ca

VOA常速英语2008年-Burma's Junta Leader Says He May Relinquish Pow

By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 27 March 2008 The head of Burma's military junta, General Than Shwe, says he intends to give up control of the government to whoever wins elections in 2010. However, members of the opposition in Burma doubt the military will a

经济学人59:爱的代价 The price of love

Books and Arts; Book Review;Fiction from Argentina；The price of love； 文艺；书评；阿根廷小说；爱的代价； The junta's policy of eliminating its enemies still fascinates Argentina's novelists； 军政府清除异己的政策至今仍

PBS高端访谈:反对军政府的阿根廷诗人逝世

JUDY WOODRUFF:Finally tonight: remembering a poet who challenged his country's military dictators. Jeff is back with that. JEFFREY BROWN: Juan Gelman was an Argentine poet who became a major literary figure throughout Latin America and in Spain. He w

泰国军方扣留前内阁部长

BANGKOK Thailand's ruling military has detained a minister in the ousted government, minutes after he denounced last week's coup as illegitimate. Soldiers burst into the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Thailand Tuesday and took former education minis

China welcomes progress in Mali's constitutional crisis

BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- China said on Monday that it welcomes the positive progress made in the settlement of Mali's constitutional crisis and appreciates the mediating efforts of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Foreign M

奥巴马发布行政命令 宣布美国解除对缅甸制裁

President Barack Obama has formally eased long-standing sanctions on Myanmar. 奥巴马总统于日前宣布，已经正式解除对缅甸的长期制裁。 Mr Obama issued the executive order weeks after meeting Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San S

Mali Rebels Gain Ground in North

Separatist Tuareg rebels in Mali attacked the northern garrison town of Gao on Saturday, one day after taking the town of Kidal. The advances come as the military government scrambles to avoid sanctions by the regional bloc ECOWAS. Residents of Gao t

CNN 2008-05-06

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Nicole Lapin. Here are some headlines in NOW IN THE NEWS. First lady Laura Bush is calling on Myanmar's military rulers to accept aid from the US and from the rest of the world. The State Department says that the

泰国军方继续镇压抗议人群

BANGKOK Thailands military is organizing a public event in support of the May 22nd coup led by the armys chief. It is to occur Wednesday, following a series of small, illegal protests in the capital against the military regime that has voided the con

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YANGONMyanmar President Thein Sein has congratulated opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy Party (NLD) for their apparent landslide victory in this week's parliamentary elections over the military-backed Union Solid

前缅甸军政府三号人物愿与昂山素季合作

A former top general in Myanmars military junta has pledged to work with Aung San Suu Kyis opposition after landmark elections, in a sign of the likely political flux that will follow Sundays historic parliamentary vote. 缅甸前军政府的一名高级

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But Dhammakaya has fierce opponents both within the Buddhist establishment and outside it. 但是Dhammakaya在佛教内部和外部都有强劲的对手。 Critics denounce it as a cult that peddles wacky theology, and warn that it misleads wealthy u