News & Reports 2011-01-01

Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This Edition Chinese President Hu Jintao gives a New Year address, calling for strengthened global cooperation to better meet the world's challenges in the year 2011. People aroun

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Zhou Xingcui makes buttons for export, at a time when China's trade has become a hot-button issue itself. She can't believe it when told of that some in the United States see China as a threat.

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund will meet in Washington, D.C. Saturday and Sunday. One subject for discussion will be falling expectations for world economic growth. A new report b

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South African Singer Starts Black Education Fund In March 2011 Simphiwe Dana embarked on a tour of rural and township schools to increase awareness of the dire state of public education, and to identify key problems such as the lack of libraries, sci

Housing Maintenance Fund Hard to Apply

Here in China the housing maintenance fund is also known as the pension for apartments. Apparently, the fund is to be used for the maintenance and repair of property. However, applying to use the money is an extremely difficulty process. Li Dong has

Mutual Funds

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: October 24, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. People invest money in the hope their wealth will grow over time. Some have financial adv

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IN THE NEWS -January 12, 2002: International Monetary Fund By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In the News. A team from the International Monetary Fund completed a

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The move is part of a new effort aimed at bringing peace and security to war-torn Afghanistan. Selah Hennessy | London 28 January 2010 Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech during the Opening Session of the Afghanistan Conference in

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Five nations will receive the first grants from a new fund aimed at helping developing-world farms like this one in Haiti. Five nations will receive the first grants from a new and unusual fund aimed at helping developing-world farmers. Bangladesh, H

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The 24-member board of the IMF approves billions of dollars in loans for countries hit by the global financial crisis. A third of its seats are held by European countries, including small ones like Belgium and the Netherlands. But that's expected to

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By Efam Dovi Accra, Ghana 06 September 2006 Ghana's President, J.A. Kufuor, has launched a debt relief project that aimed at benefiting small businesses in the poverty-stricken country. Efam Dovi reports for VOA from Accra the deal is part of a $200

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 19 November 2007 Senior finance officials from the world's 20 major economies say they share responsibility for stabilizing rising commodity prices and are calling on countries with large foreign currency reserves to adopt

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 19 December 2007 Australia says it intends to send planes and a customs ship to monitor Japanese whalers off Antarctica. The government says the surveillance mission will collect video and other evidence that could be used in an

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Tianhong Asset Management, the Chinese fund company that transformed the way millions of Chinese invest their savings, plans to enter the exchange traded fund market for the first time. 天弘基金管理有限公司(Tianhong Asset Management)第一次

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