VOA常速英语2017--美国称制裁伊朗有理有据

While the Trump administration reviews U.S. policy toward Iran, the United States will continue to counter Iran's malign activities and hold Iran strictly accountable to the requirements of the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Ac

英闻天下——523 World Military Expenditure Falls: SIPRI

World military expenditure has fallen for the first time since 1998, amounting to 1.75 trillion US dollars. In real terms spending is down half a percent from 2011. These latest figures on spending have been released by Stockholm International Peace

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British Navy Submarine Designs Look Like Real Sea Creatures New images released by Britains Royal Navy show how future submarines could look and move like real sea creatures. The designs were created by young British engineers and scientists. They we

日本打算重启TPP

Japan is ready to relaunch the Trans-Pacific Partnership minus the US in a shift of position that could bring the huge trade deal back from the dead. 日本准备在美国缺席的情况下重启《跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》(Trans-Pacific Part

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After three months of working under Jobs, Apple's head of operations decided he could not bear the pressure, and he quit. 在和乔布斯工作了3个月之后，苹果公司的运营主管因为不堪压力而辞职。 For almost a year Jobs ran ope

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暂无音频 Remarks by the President on Procurement Room 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building 10:20 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Even if these were the best of times, budget reform would be long overdue in Washington. And we have

HP to keep PC business

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Hewlett-Packard(HP) on Thursday announced that it will keep its personal systems group ( PSG) and continue to sell personal computers. HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spin

越南出口中国的农产品稳定增长

Pingxiang City in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region borders with Vietnam and is home to many companies trading Vietnamese agricultural products. Chen Kangli manages a company in Pingxiang that mainly engages in trade of Vietnamese fruits

Gov't to curb corruption in medical procurement

Gov't to curb corruption in medical procurement BEIJING, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Authorities have pledged to further crack down on illegal activity regarding procurement procedures at local hospitals that are under the supervision of local governments, m

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According to the report published by the National Audit Office, the problematic money constituted more than a quarter of the lottery funds reviewed in the audit. Authorities say irregularities included embezzlement, fraud, illegal subsidies for staff

Foreign software equally treated in government procurement: official

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese copyright official said on Tuesday that foreign providers received equal treatment during a massive government procurement of licensed software. From late 2010, the Chinese central and provincial governme

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To the alphabet soup of international development banks (ADB, AfDB, CAF, EBRD, IADB), add one more set of initials: AIIB, or for the uninitiated, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. On October 24th, representatives from 21 Asian nations signed

Chinese ICT Companies Going Abroad

Now, the last piece of series on the US government decision to restrict the procurement of Chinese information technology products over fear about so-called cyber security. Insiders and experts are making their suggestions on how Chinese companies ac

China government 2011 procurement totals 1.13 trln yuan

BEIJING, June 29 (Xinhua) -- China's government procurement amounted to 1.13 trillion yuan (179.37 billion U.S. dollars) in 2011, or 11 percent of the country's fiscal expenditure, the Ministry of Finance announced on Friday. The figure showed a huge

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Military reform 军队改革 No go, GOCO 政府拥有、承包商运营计划被搁置 Why a bold plan to privatise military procurement fell apart 国防采购私有化的壮举为何惨遭失败 Can we turn this thing around? 这事行得通吗？

私营企业引领中国海外投资

BOAO, Hainan, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese private firms are seeing new expansion abroad and already lead China's investment overseas, Chris Lu, CEO of Deloitte China, said on Saturday at a forum in south China's Hainan Province. The 2013 Boao Forum f

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The European Union and Vietnam have reached an agreement in principle for a new free trade agreement after two and a half years of negotiations. The agreement is the first of its kind the EU has concluded with a developing country. EU Trade Commissio

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BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- China will try to expand the scope and scale of its government procurement program and continue to push for reforms in the area this year, China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Friday. While pledging to further improve l

EU says 2011 will be economically painful year

BRUSSELS, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- The year 2011 will be economically challenging(挑战的) and painful, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned here Wednesday. After two years of economic recession（衰退）, Barroso expects a difficul

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