News & Reports 2010-12-26

Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This Edition China's central bank announced that it will raise the one-year lending and deposit interest rate for the second time this year, as the government continues its battle

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-12-21

1. In Newtown, Connecticut, students returned to class with tightened security after last week's school massacre. While funerals are also being held for the 20 children shot to death by a gunman along with 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary. That scho

美国国家公共电台 NPR Teaching Parents Of Kids With Disabilities To Fight Back

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For parents, when a child is born with a significant disability, their world is turned upside down. There's joy just as there is with any child, but that parent enters a different world - special education, health care, governmen

英闻天下——463 Beijing Homework Rule Put in Practice

Eight new measures introduced to ease the burden on primary and middle school students in Beijing have been rolled out as the spring semester began. According to the policy, students in Beijing's primary and middle schools will have much less homewor

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-01-01

U.S politicians appear close to reaching a deal on spending cuts and tax rises to avoid sending America over the dreaded fiscal cliff. President Barack Obama says some issues still need to be resolved, but an agreement is close. People around the wor

CNN 2011-08-04

Checking top stories. The debt deal expected to send stocks higher when Wall Street opens in just a couple of minutes. Both the Senate and the House could vote on the debt deal today. And new this morning, a big change to health coverage. The federal

新西兰英语 63 High School Issues

The PPTA is holding their annual conference this week. PPTA means Post-Primary Teachers Association and it is the union for high school teachers. Discussion today was about the Labour governments plan, called Schools Plus, for keeping all young peopl

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-12-03

1. Lawmakers don't appear to be moving any closer to an agreement on avoiding so-called fiscal cliff in January. Republican leaders are suggesting the White House is failing to outline specific spending cuts that could be made. But democrats say it's

VOA慢速英语2015 柬埔寨:严查考试作弊是有效的

Cambodia: No-Cheating Exam Rule Is Working 柬埔寨:严查考试作弊是有效的 The top education official in Cambodia is praising efforts to prevent final-year high school students from cheating on their exams. Minister of Education Hang Chuon N

英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0309 - 小学招生要求家长学历

Topic 1-Telecom carriers to cancel roaming fees China's mobile service operators will eliminate charges for domestic roaming and long-distance calls from October 1, as internet data service become their major source of revenue. How shall consumers be

每日一词【945】mounting：逐渐加大的

今天我们要学的词是mounting。 Mounting, 意思是逐渐加大的。 The school refused to change its policy despite mounting pressure from the parents, 面对来自家长越来越大的压力，学校依旧拒绝改变政策。 The city is u

中国夫妇考虑生二胎的成本

A survey by the China Youth Daily shows over 80-percent of those asked are mostly concerned about the high cost of a 2nd child. Even though we are eligible to have a second baby, we can't afford it. It is too expensive to send a second child to a goo

广东一中学史上最严'男女交往校规'被叫停

A middle school in Guangdong Province last Wednesday announced it would halt a policy that restricted socializing between boys and girls after facing backlash from local residents and on social media. 广东省一所中学上周三宣布，在遭到当

二孩时代或致'幼儿园荒' 2021年预计缺口11万所

China's implementation of a universal two-child policy will impose higher requirements on pre-school education resources, resulting in a possible shortage of kindergarten spots, according to a survey by China Youth Daily. 根据《中国青年报》的

AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-01-14)

1 If you are flying Delta in the new year, expect to pay more for check bags. It will now cost you 23 dollars for the first bag and 32 for the second. That's an increas of eight dollars for the first bag and seven for the second. 2 Relief from the co

CCTV9英语新闻：李总理：促进中国在世界经济益处

Premier Li Keqiang says the improvements in quality and efficiency of the Chinese economy are important contributions to maintaining stability and development of the world economy. Li made these remarks during a meeting with the founder and executive

China changes three central bank advisors

BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- China will change three members of the central bank's monetary policy committee, according to a circular released Wednesday by the State Council, or the Cabinet. The circular said the State Council has approved the appoi

CCTV9英语新闻：Second child policy creates new challenges

Now for more on this, we are joined in the studio by CCTV's Jin Yingqiao. Q1, Yingqiao, tell us more about what's being discussed about children and women this political season. A1, Well, they are definitely hot topics during the two sessions. One NP

2016年CRI Scholars Discuss Social Institutions' Development under the Coming Charity Law

The seminar was organized by the Institute for Philanthropy at Tsinghua University, which is behind the drafting of China's first Charity Law. Professor Deng Guosheng says public institutions, social organizations, and enterprises will be key players

英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0304 - 正在消失的澡堂子

Topic1-new policy on School district entrollment The Ministry of Education has announced a new policy that states: for school admission, each school district will allow student enrollment to several schools, instead of one school district, one school