薄冰实用英语语法详解A课程-lesson78

15、定冠词用于表示机关，团体的名词全比如： The State Department国务院 the Communist Party of China中国共产党 The National People's Congress全国人民代表大会 the Ministry of Education 教育部 The State Department 美

新西兰英语 803 No ‘man ban’ for Labour

The Labour Party will not ban men from becoming candidates for election in some seats. The Labour Council wants to discuss the idea during the Labour Party conference in November of having 50% women MPs. However, David Shearer, the leader of the Labo

新西兰英语 113 Government to buy new trains

When the Labour government bought Kiwi Rail last year (see May 10 2008) the National Party said this was a big mistake. However, now the National government has to find some money to improve the trains. Today, we heard that the government will spend

新西兰英语 61 Parliament Ends

Last week was the final session for Parliament before the elections on November 8th. During the session last week, MPs who were retiring gave their farewell speeches. One well-known National MP, Katherine Rich, decided to retire from Parliament as sh

新西兰英语 89 New Government, New Laws

During the past two weeks, Parliament has been in urgency. That means they sit every day until late in the evenings and they even had a session last Saturday. Usually Parliament sits Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, although MPs meet for committee

新西兰英语 64 Small Political Parties

It is not just the American Presidential elections in early November. Four days after the Americans have chosen their new President, we will vote but we cannot choose our leader. We can only vote for one person in our local area, our electorate, and

新西兰英语 70 MMP

MMP may be responsible for a delay in deciding whether National or Labour gets to form the new government. With 120 seats in parliament, the winning party needs 61 to have a majority. After the last elections, Labour had 50 seats while National had 4

新西兰英语 74 National Party Wins

It was not a surprise last night to learn that the National Party won the election. The telephone polls had been telling us for a long time that National would get around 45% of the vote and Labour about 34% and that was exactly right. National has 5

新西兰英语 75 Maori Party Holds Hui

After talks with John Key, the co-leaders of the Maori Party, Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples, have agreed to hold many hui (meetings) throughout New Zealand. It is likely that John Key has offered the Maori Party a chance for one or two of their mem

CCTV9英语新闻：Religious relations in Xinjiang very complicated

For more on this topic, we are joined by Victor Gao, our current affairs commentator. Q1: Hello Victor, we understand that religious relations in Xinjiang are very complicated. What does religious freedom mean to people there? Q2: The paper said resp

新西兰英语 157 Review of Holidays Act 2003

The Minister of Labour, Kate Wilkinson, has announced that there is going to be a review of the Holidays Act 2003 to see if any changes are needed. The review could mean that in the future, instead of taking a holiday, employees could ask for money i

新西兰英语 279 British Elections

Britain may like to find out about more our voting system in elections. Our system gives smaller political parties a chance to be part of the government. We have MMP which is one kind of proportional representation. If a party gets a proportion of th

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-02-23

The Federal government will appoint a national terrorism coordinator as part of new measures to beef up national security.Prime minister Tony Abbott will detail the plan during a speech today.The measure will include a new anti-extremism strategy and

新西兰英语 525 ACT may win in Epsom

ACT party member John Banks had a cup of tea with Prime Minister John Key this morning in a caf in the Epsom electorate in Auckland. Although John Key cannot say, Vote for John Banks, he said that if Banks wins, the National Party will be happy to ha

新西兰英语 527 Balancing the books

What does this mean? The books means the budget or the money that we earn and spend. If we balance the books we have enough money coming in to pay for what we spend. The same happens with our government. However, at the moment New Zealand has a very

新西兰英语 530 National plans new welfare benefits

362,400 people aged between 18 and 64 are on welfare benefits. (June 2010 figures). The Prime Minister, John Key, said today that if National is re-elected, there would be changes to the benefits. Sole parents who have children aged 14 and over will

新西兰英语 518 Election Results

As was expected, National won the most seats in the election and will form the government for the next three years. National won 48% of the party vote and 60 seats. The Prime Minister, John Key, plans to form a coalition with ACT party MP John Banks

新西兰英语 521 Minor Political Parties

Dont forget to vote next Saturday if you are eligible to vote. Did you receive your voting package last week? The envelope contains a list of all parties and candidates as well as your voting card which you take to the polling booth. Are the minor po

新西兰英语 130 Michael Cullen to resign

Michael Cullen was Deputy Prime Minister for nine years under the Labour government led by Helen Clark. He has announced that he will leave Parliament at the end of April. Like Helen Clark, he has been an MP since 1981. He was Finance Minister during

Obama Calls on Congress to Act on Gun Control

WHITE HOUSE Acting less than a week after the massacre of 26 people, including 20 young children and six adults, in a school in Newtown, Connecticut, President Barack Obama has ordered creation of a government-wide task force to come up with solution