News & Reports 2012-02-11

Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This EditionA senior U.N. official meets the current and former presidents of the Maldives, in an attempt to end political stalemate in the country. Greek workers begin a public s

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问：关于猪流感的问题，美国政府对中国政府宣布停止从美国进口猪肉产品表示不满。你对此有何反应? Q: About the swine flu. The US Government voiced dissatisfaction over Chinese Governments banning the imports of

英闻天下——514 New Shenzhen Admission Mechanism Sparks Heated Discussion

A new admission rating mechanism for students in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is sparking heated discussions here in China. As CRI's Li Dong reports, the system has been put in place to try to break away from the rules surrounding the househ

英闻天下——537 New Shenzhen Admission Mechanism Sparks Heated Discussion

In China, pulbic schools are established to accommodate children with local residency registration, known as Hukou. However, as the population becomes much more mobile now, in big cities like Shenzhen, there is a huge number of people from other part

China to Allow Social Capital in Railway Sector

The central government here in China has outlined how it intends to allow social investment into the railway sector. CRI's He Fei has more. A guideline has issued by the central government on how to innovate railway funding and speed up railway const

VOA标准英语2013--Gun Control Debate Firing Up Local Communities

Gun Control Debate Firing Up Local Communities Scenes of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut are seared in the minds of many. Twenty students and six teachers died in the December mass shooting. Yet it has only been in the past two w

VOA标准英语2015--Burundi Violence Centers on Media Control

Burundi Violence Centers on Media Control BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI The battle for Burundi has centered on control of the countrys influential radio stations. That private and government media have both been casualties of the recent political violence. Radi

TED演讲:我们的大脑是如何交流的?(9)

This one sentence before the story started was enough to make the brain responses 故事开始前的一句话就足以决定大脑的反应， of all the people that believed the wife was having an affair 所有相信妻子不忠的人， to be very

China to increase income control in monopolized sectors

BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- China will increase its control over high earnings in monopolized sectors next year amid efforts to address income disparities, Minister of Finance Xie Xuren said Thursday. The government will improve its control policies

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Following the incident, several officials responsible have been sacked or suspended. Local police found a suicide note left by the eldest of the four siblings, a boy, saying he had been thinking of death for many years. The four children, one older b

英国机长假肢脱落 飞机失控险坠毁

A pilot lost control of a passenger plane after his artificial arm became detached as he was coming in to land, an accident report has said. 据事故报告称，在着陆期间由于人造假肢脱落，一名客机飞行员驾驶失控。 图片1 T

Senior Chinese official urges more efforts to transform economy

BEIJING, July 20 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese official has urged local governments to make more efforts to transform the economic development pattern and maintain steady economic growth. He Guoqiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Politica

China's education ministry reiterates school bus safety

BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Education on Tuesday reiterated it will fully implement the school bus safety regulation after some local schools were not aware of the new rules. A number of illegal kindergartens are still using disq

Greece battles wildfires on eve of general polls

ATHENS, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Greek authorities battled several wildfires burning near Athens and southern Greece on Saturday, on the eve of critical general elections. Two fire-fighters were slightly injured while trying to extinguish blazes at the se

英闻天下——372 Lawmakers Call for Revised Air Pollution Control Law

Beijing and other parts of northern China have been battered by smog starting from the beginning of this year. The capital was blanketed by smog for 26 days in January, while eastern China's Jiangsu Province saw 13 days of heavy pollution in February

2017年CRI Risk of gov't debt controllable in China: expert

China's National Audit Office has released a new report on how budgets across China last year were managed. The report is suggesting the overall risk in China's local government debt remains controllable. To find and solve problems, the National Audi

CCTV9英语新闻：China marks 8th Disaster Prevention & Reduction Day

Today is also China's 8th annual National Disaster Prevention and Reduction Day. It marks the day of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan. The Ministry of Civil Affairs says during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, disasters of all sorts affected 310

China to boost local gov't debt clean-up

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- China will boost the clean-up of thousands of millions of local government's debt in 2012, so to guard against possible defaults that would hurt its banks, the country's banking regulator said Thursday. The country will f

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The four children, one older brother and three younger sisters, were living by themselves without any guardian taking care of them. Both parents had gone to Guangdong to search for work in different cities, making the four siblings left-behind childr

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Following the incident, several officials responsible have been sacked or suspended. Local police found a suicide note left by the eldest of the four siblings, a boy, saying he had been thinking of death for many years. The four children, one older b