泰式“卷冰霜”冰淇淋风靡美国

Thai-Style 'Rolled Ice Cream' Getting Popular in U.S. This is Whats Trending Today. The weather in the Northern Hemisphere may be getting cooler, but there is still time left to enjoy frozen desserts typical of summer. One of the most traditional war

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P2P并不是一个新鲜的词汇，但是现在它有了新的应用。个人信用贷款咨询服务机构宜信率先从国外引进了先进的信用管理理念，结合中国的社会信用状况，推出了个人对个人（又称P2P）的信用

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Topics: Soccer in the United States; Famous Americans-Robert Frost; to suck versus to lick; to leave (someone) to his/her own devices; to cross someone and talking-to Words: standard association to govern tournament confusion to bid elegy to publish

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货物寄销帐 goods sent on consignment account 票面值 par value 接纳 accept 净流动资产 net current assets 速动比率 liquidity ratio 寄销 consignment 寄销人 consignor 寄销帐 con

China provides dictionaries for rural students

BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- China's General Administration of Press and Publication has urged further efforts to ensure the accessibility of dictionaries for the students in the country's rural and less-developed areas. The administration's appeal cam

298 mln more rural Chinese to have safe drinking water by 2015

298 mln more rural Chinese to have safe drinking water by 2015 BEIJING, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- About 298 million more rural residents in China are hopefully to have access to safe drinking water by 2015, according to a water resources official Monday. R

民工分离撕裂中国家庭(Rural Exodus for Work Fractures Chinese

第一次在纽约时报上看到这篇文章，记得是在一个晴朗冬日的午后。懒懒的阳光穿过图书馆陈旧的木窗，洒落在一排排报纸杂志上，我正犹豫着该拿份什么

China to expand rural medical insurance coverage

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China will include more serious diseases in its existing rural medical insurance system in 2013, the Ministry of Health said in an annual work agenda published on Friday. According to the agenda, pilot programs will be la

Urban-rural income gap gets bigger: report

BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The ratio of income earned by urbanites to that of rural residents is about 5.2, said a blue paper released by a major government think tank on Tuesday. According to The Urban Blue Book: China City Development Report No.

CCTV9英语新闻：Urban-rural gap in China

In his report, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said at least 10 million rural residents will be lifted out of poverty this year. And the country will lift 70 million people out of poverty by 2020, according to the draft outline of Chinas 13th Five-Year Pl

Chinese farmers net 150 bln yuan a year from rural tourism

CHENGDU, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Rural tourism in China benefited 15 million farmers who earn at least 150 billion yuan (23.81 billion U.S. dollars) a year, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said Sunday. By the end of 2011, China has at least 1.5 millio

China to support renovation of rural rundown homes

BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government said on Saturday it will subsidize 4 million poor rural households through a pilot scheme to renovate their dilapidated houses in rural areas this year. Subsidies allocated by the central government

China, Africa gather to discuss rural development

BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Officials and delegations from China and African countries have gathered at a seminar being held in Beijing to discuss rural development and economic growth. The seven-day seminar kicked off on Sunday, attracting represen

Grondona to retire in 2015 from Argentina' s association

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The President of the Argentinean Football Association (AFA), Julio Grondona, Tuesday announced he will leave the post in 2015, which he has occupied since 1979. I have to finish my term by 2015. The experience is tel

More gov't subsidies for rural medical insurance system

BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government will raise its subsidies for rural residents' medical insurance in 2013, Minister of Health Chen Zhu announced on Monday. Under the new rural cooperative medical program, the annual government subsid

China to improve rural students' nutrition

BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- China plans to build enough school canteens to provide safe and nutritional meals for all primary and junior high school students in impoverished rural regions by 2015. According to a circular, jointly released Saturday by

China earmarked 4.5 bln yuan for rural teachers in 2012

BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- China allocated 4.5 billion yuan (715.5 million U.S. dollars) to teachers in rural areas working for compulsory education in 2012, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said on Saturday. The money subsidizes teachers that serve in

China subsidy mechanism drives rural projects construction

BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- China's central and local governments had invested 105 billion yuan (16.6 billion U.S. dollars) in its award and subsidy mechanism for village-level public projects by 2011, and around 985,000 public projects were built in

Rural Consumption Boosts Indian Economy

New Delhi -- As growing wealth fuels spending in thousands of villages across India, rural communities are emerging as new commercial frontiers, raising hopes that the nation's vast countryside will become an engine of future economic growth. For Aru

英语博客(A cup of English):Going out of business

Beginners. There are signs of the financial crisis in different parts of the town where I live. We hear on the news about people losing their jobs and their houses. Certain shops have closed, and so the buidings are empty. But, in another way, there