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The Geographic Board wants New Zealanders to choose whether to use a Maori or an English name for the North and South Islands. The Board has recommended this to the Land Information Minister, Maurice Williamson. It is now his decision. If he agrees,

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A new cold war may be erupting over one of the coldest places on earth and there are billions of dollars at stake. NBC's Kerry Sanders is On The Money tonight at the North Pole. The Arctic cap, a vast white blanket of ice the size of a continent, ho

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Negotiators seeking to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue are making progress on how to verify Pyongyang's own account of its nuclear activities. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing. S. Korean envoy Kim Sook speaks to reporters in Beijing, 11 Jul

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By David Gollust State Department 22 December 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thursday rejected linkage between talks on North Korea's nuclear program and U.S. penalties on Pyongyang for illicit financial activity. North Korean efforts

2006年VOA标准英语-S. Korea's Controversial Engagement with North,

By Kurt Achin Mount Kumgang, North Korea 31 October 2006 South Korean leaders have celebrated two massive projects they built in communist North Korea as symbols of peaceful inter-Korean cooperation. The Kaesong Industrial Complex and the Kumgang To

VOA标准英语2013--North Korea Offers Direct Talks with US

North Korea Offers Direct Talks with US North Korea says it is offering direct talks to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula. The United States says North Korea must first meet its international obligations to end its nuclear program. North Korea mu

英语单词大师：Sound Change1

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sounds of change. RS: If you want a good example of how language changes, just picture a mouse. Are you thinking of a rodent -- or a device for moving the cursor on a computer

VOA常速英语2007-North Korean Crew Overpowers Hijackers Off Somal

By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 30 October 2007 Gunmen who seized a North Korean ship late Monday off the coast of Somalia were overpowered by the crew hours later. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the hijacking was the latest incident in what has becom

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Data released this week by a team of explorers who trekked through the Arctic for three months this spring shows that North Pole will be an open sea during the summer months within 20 years. The Catlin Arctic Survey team, led by explorer Pen Hadow, m

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As the vast sphere reaches / maximum speed, something incredible happens. Huge lines of magnetism arc in and out of the model core. Well, we can't see the magnetic field coming out of the experiment, we can measure them, we can put many different mag

2007年VOA标准英语-US, North Korea Begin Talks on Normalizing Rela

By David Gollust Washington 05 March 2007 U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill Senior U.S. and North Korean diplomats have begun landmark talks in New York on normalizing relations as part of the agreement under which Pyongyang has agr

VOA标准英语2008年-Japan Plans Partial Lift Of North Korea Sanctio

By Kurt Achin Seoul 13 June 2008 Japan says it is lifting some of the sanctions it imposed on North Korea following Pyongyang's nuclear test about two years ago. The announcement comes amid apparent progress in talks on the North's abduction of Japa

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Hillary Clinton arrives Monday in Japan, the first of four stops in Asia - her first official foreign travel as secretary of state. She will also visit South Korea, Indonesia and China to build partnerships she says will transcend geographic and poli

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Today, the Geographic Board decided that the town of Wanganui should be spelt with an h: Whanganui. This will make it the same as the river which flows through the town. The port is on the mouth of the river. The town is on the west coast of the Nort

2007年VOA标准英语-US Official Says Lifting Sanctions on North Kor

By Catherine Makino Tokyo, Japan 02 March 2007 John Negroponte, the deputy U.S. secretary of state, says North Korea will have to comply with its promise to shut down its nuclear reactor before the United States lifts financial sanctions it imposed.

VOA常速英语2007年-Al-Qaida in North Africa Claims Responsibility

By VOA News 11 December 2007 Al-Qaida's North African wing has claimed responsibility for two deadly car bomb blasts Tuesday outside U.N. offices and a government building in Algeria's capital. Algerian government officials say at least 26 people wer

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 09 November 2006 A de facto spokesman in Tokyo for North Korea says Pyongyang now regards Japan as the most hostile nation in the world. The spokesman also says ethnic Koreans affiliated with the North have increasingly been th

新西兰英语 136 New Zealand Place Names

The New Zealand Geographic Board is thinking about changing the names of the North Island and the South Island. The Board members think that these two islands should have Maori names instead. Certainly, North Island and South Island are not very inte

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First broadcast: January 12, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sounds of change. RS: If you want a good example of how language changes, just picture a mouse. Are you thinking of a rodent -- or a device f