Three Methods to Improve Your Presentations

Giving a presentation can be a scary task. It can be even more worrisome when the presentation is not in your native language. You may forget the English words for what you want to say. Or, like a lot of people, you may get nervous. But, the good new

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Beijing's environment authorities last Friday vowed zero tolerance to falsification of environmental figures, after Net users complained that mist cannons, or the magic smog cleaner, are used around the capital's air quality monitoring stations so th

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government announced Sunday it will add Mali to the list of Ebola-affected countries for which enhanced screening and monitoring measures will be taken. Effective Monday, Nov. 17, people arriving in the United

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TED演讲:医生们可以互相学习(3)

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The explosion generated a shockwave so massive it wasdetected over 15,000 kilometres away. The low-frequency waves were picked up bymonitoring stations. So it is kind of like a listening network around theworld. Thats right. Theyre not set up for fir

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BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China has set a goal of equipping at least half of the country's county-level administrative regions to monitor various contaminants and harmful ingredients in food by the end of 2013. A new work plan, released on Friday

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Chinese are becoming more aware of the air pollution and its danger. An ordinary man in Beijing has been charting the change of air quality in the city for the last three years. Every morning, the first thing Zou Yi does is take a photo out of the wi

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Lawmakers propose banning arbitrary environmental monitoring

BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese lawmakers on Friday suggested formulating an environmental monitoring law to prohibit disorderly, arbitrary monitoring of the environment. China lacks a special law or regulation on the management of environmental

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LONDON, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- A British military healthcare worker arrived back into Britain from Sierra Leone for Ebola monitoring, Public Health England (PHE) confirmed on Saturday. PHE said the person, suffered a needle-stock injury when treating a

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To talk more about China's environmental protection targets, we have Wu Changhua, the Greater China Director of the Climate Group. But before we start, let's take a look at a set of numbers to have a clearer picture of how bad the environment is. Air