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Broadcast: Jan 20 2003 Australia's budget airline Virgin Blue has placed orders for up to 50 Boeing 737 jets - in a deal worth about $3 billion. Australia's second largest air carrier says it plans to
Zillionaire refers to a person who has an extremely large but unspecified amount of money. Zillionaire is an immeasurably wealthy person. 超级富翁指的是有非常多的财富,但数额并不确切的富豪。他们的财富通常不可计数。
The world this week-Business 一周新闻报道 商业 Bank of America was reported to have reached a settlement with American regulators to pay around 17 billion for mis-selling mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. 据
By George Dwyer Washington 13 March 2006 Watch Dwyer report The controversy over a Dubai-owned company's purchase of a British ports operations firm that manages several U.S. seaports has highlighted
Alice: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English: the programme in which we talk about a story in the news and learn some vocabulary while were doing it. Im Alice and joining me today is Neil. Hi there, Neil. Neil: Hi Alice. Ali
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing for $72.5 million to support a three-year emergency and recovery program for victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma. The Red Cross says hundreds of thousands of poor peopl
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 July 2007 The UN refugee agency is appealing for $48 million to provide badly needed assistance until the end of next year for thousands of Somali refugees who have recently fled conflict in Somalia. Lisa Schlein reports for
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 17 July 2007 The United Nations reports less than half of its $4.4 billion appeal has been received, six months after it was launched on behalf of 19 countries in crisis. The United Nations says lack of money is hampering the e
The International Monetary Fund, the European Union and World Bank have agreed to a $25 billion economic rescue package for Hungary to strengthen confidence in its economy. It has been described as the largest financial aid measure for an emerging-m
A U.S. congressional committee on Monday held the first of what is expected to be numerous hearings on an alleged massive financial fraud by New York asset manager Bernard Madoff. Bernard Madoff (file photo) Madoff is alleged to have defrauded billi
The Asian Cup football (soccer) tournament kicks off in Doha, Qatar, Friday, January 7, with defending champion Iraq to play North Korea, Iran and the United Arab Emiterates in Group-D play. Iraqi football fans are also looking forward to 2013, when
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, is launching a Gaza Ramadan Appeal for $181 million to provide food, jobs and other assistance for one million Palestinian refugees. Seven months after the Israeli Operation in Gaza, UNRWA says very
Finance and Economics;India's economy;The fightback; 财经;印度经济;反攻; Undercurrents of optimism about reform, and some fighting talk, in India; 在印度经济改革势头良好、但仍存靡靡质疑之声的背后; After a storm
After a one-week delay, Alibaba is to start its IPO roadshow this week. The company is reportedly going to go public on the New York Stock Exchange next week. Last Friday, Alibaba disclosed its initial public offering price range for the first time,
Let's talk about this more now with Mr. Jia Xiudong, Senior Research Fellow from the China Institute of International Studies. Q1: Let's start with the multi-billion-U.S.-dollar currency swap pact between China and Chile. How will this pact benefit b
Lions Gate Entertainment, a Hollywood studio, is planning a 1.5 billion US dollar film project with Hunan TV, China's second largest broadcaster, as part of an effort to tap that fast-growing motion picture market. Lions Gate will distribute Chinese
BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's foreign exchange reserves fell to 3.44 trillion U.S. dollars at the end of November, the central bank announced on Monday. The reserves dropped by 87.2 billion dollars from October, according to the People's Bank o
CHICAGO, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange slipped for the sixth consecutive session on Thursday, as the dollar's rally muted demand for precious metals as an alternative investment. The most a
British Petroleum has announced it has reached a multi-billion-dollar agreement with fishermen and other plaintiffs who sued over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill off the U.S. coast. BP says the $7.8 billion deal represents a partial settlement in t
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 06 October 2009 The United Nations is appealing for $74 million to provide emergency assistance to hundreds of thousands of victims of two catastrophic typhoons that have struck the Philippines in less than two weeks. A reside