Talking Sport: Merlin Diamond

Hi I'm Natalie and welcome to Talking Sport. Today we're hearing about a Namibian sprinter and learning the word 'frustration'. The road to the Olympics isn't always easy. Some athletes train for years and still don't make it to the Games. Today Matt

2017年CRI Ancient Chinese trade port attracts global visitors

As the final preparations get underway for a major international conference in Beijing next month connected to the Belt and Road initiative, authorities in Fujian's coastal city of Quanzhou are moving to revive interest in its historical links with t

2017年CRI China-Pakistan Economic Corridor improves local infrastructure, people's life

Local residents in Pakistan are said to be witnessing significant changes in their live, 2-years after the launch of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor program. The project, a key element of the Chinese government's Belt and Road initiative, was of

IN THE NEWS - Bush Invokes Taft-Hartley in Port Shutdown

IN THE NEWS - October 12, 2002: Bush Invokes Taft-Hartley in Port Shutdown By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS. Twenty-nine industrial ports in the west

Haiti Rebel Leader Enters Port-au-Prince

Haiti Rebel Leader Enters Port-au-Prince Michael Bowman A Haitian rebel leader whose forces overran more than half of the country entered Port-au-Prince Monday and promptly made contact with the count

Protesters set governorate's headquarters on fire in Egypt 's Port Said

CAIRO, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Both the security and governorate's headquarters in Egypt's Port Said were set on fire on Monday as protesters hurled Molotov cocktail at the buildings, state-run Ahram online reported. The protesters also blocked fire engi

AS IT IS 2016-01-26 Refugees Storm British Ferry at French Port

AS IT IS 2016-01-26 Refugees Storm British Ferry at French Port About 200 refugees attacked the French port of Calais on Saturday, and about 50 got on a passenger ferry. A spokeswoman for the ships operator confirmed the refugees gained entry to an o

VOA标准英语2010年-Outside Port-au-Prince Quake Victims R

After more than a week of reporting on the earthquake from Port-au-Prince, a team of VOA journalists traveled south of the capital to see how people in other parts of Haiti are surviving. Jeff Swicord reports along the road to Jacmel, a beach town so

VOA标准英语2012--NATO Trucks Remain Stalled in Pakistan’s Southern Port

NATO Trucks Remain Stalled in Pakistans Southern Port Some trucks and drivers have been waiting for months to return to the road. Entry points to Afghanistan were closed after the United States mistakenly killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in an airstrike

2017年CRI Kenya and Tanzania step up port rivalry

Kenya and Tanzania step up port rivalry [Source: Railway Pro] Kenya and Tanzania are presently caught in a head-to-head race to become the most preferred transport hub amid massive expansion projects in sea ports, connecting railway and road networks

2016年CRI Chinese companies to help Malaysia build deep sea port

PowerChina International, Shenzhen's Yantian Port Group and Rizhao Port Group have been selected to help a Malaysian company build the 1.9-billion US dollar port. The project itself is part of the larger Melaka Gateway Project that China and Malaysia

2018年CRI Zhoushan Port, a bounded fuel filling center

The Streaming down the Yangtze team is now at Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, which is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road. In 2017, the port's throughput capacity was registered at 1 billion tons, and was the busiest port in the world in terms of car

2018年CRI Chongqing's national and international roles

The Streaming Down the Yangtze team has arrived in Chongqing. This is where the team will officially begin its 2-week trek down the Yangtze River. The team will make stops in the cities of Yueyang, Wuhan, Jiujiang and Nanjing before reaching the fina

一带一路引发印度矛盾心理

Talk of a new Silk Road may be intended to evoke romantic, non-threatening images of desert caravans, ancient ships and trade in exotic commodities. But Chinas grand plan for a network of railways, highways, pipelines and ports across central Asia, a

Chinese naval escort task force calls at Singapore port

SINGAPORE, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Two Chinese Navy ships called at Singapore's Changi port on Sunday on their way back to China from an escort mission in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somali. The destroyer Wuhan and the frigate Yulin were part of

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As rescue operations accelerated to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti, correspondent Brian Wagner flew into Port-au-Prince Wednesday to begin covering the story for VOA. He did not have to travel far to give a detailed account of the devastatio

2014年CRI 中德合作推动丝绸之路经济带建设

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Brussels Sunday for a state visit to Belgium, the first ever made by a Chinese head of state to the country in 27 years. Belgium is the last leg of Xi Jinping's four-nation European trip. Before Belgium, he vis

2018年CRI Automated port terminal in Qingdao marks remarkable first year

A little over a year ago, a fully automated container terminal began operation in the Chinese port city of Qingdao, using only robots and machines to load and unload shipping containers. Now the terminal, the first of its kind in Asia, has already se

英闻天下——291 China Takes over Operation of a Pakistani Port

China has taken over the management of a strategic deep-water Pakistani seaport. The port of Gwadar on Pakistan's southwestern coast has been transferred to China state-owned Overseas Ports Holding Company. The company will be fully responsible for o

新西兰英语 434 Picton may lose ferry

The inter-island ferry between the North and the South Islands at the moment travels between Wellington and Picton. The ferry carries people, cars, trucks and trains (without the engine). It takes about three hours. The government is looking at chang