Cubans Prepare For Hurricane Ivan

By Jim Teeple The center of Hurricane Ivan passed to the south of the Cayman Islands, and appears headed for a direct strike on Cuba. The storm has killed more than 50 people as it passes through the

South Korean Businesses Again Look to North's Joint Industrial Center

A group of South Korean businesses are interested in visiting an industrial center they once operated jointly with North Korea. The group wants to see the condition of the center in North Korea in preparation for a possible reopening. As diplomatic a

VOA标准英语2011-Child's Self Control Predicts Future Heal

From a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others. Now, a new study has tracked how low self control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years. The study began with 1,000 childr

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Push From Activists, Chicago's South Side Gets An Adult Trauma Center

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Next week, the south side of Chicago gets something it hasn't had in decades - a high-level adult trauma center at the University of Chicago Hospital. Trauma centers treat people with the most acute wounds, including gunshot injuri

VOA慢速英语--iOS 11为iphone、ipad提供了新功能

iOS 11 Offers New Features for iPhones, iPads Last week Apple released iOS 11, the update to its mobile operating system for iPhone and iPad. This update has features that may make your current device feel like a new one. iOS 11 is free to download n

校园英语 unit 21

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2007年VOA标准英语-Mali's Army Takes Control in Northeast Part of

By Selah Hennessy Dakar 27 September 2007 Army troops in Mali have retaken an area in the northeast of the country that was controlled by rebel Tuareg fighters. The largely nomadic, Berber Tuareg have carried out a series of raids in the isolated des

VOA标准英语2013--New Director of Johnson Space Center Faces Cutbacks, Uncertainty

New Director of Johnson Space Center Faces Cutbacks, Uncertainty When the U.S. space shuttle was still flying, the Johnson Space Center in Houston was a busy place. But now, all the shuttles are in museums and the Johnson Space Center has laid off hu

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

Preparing Shuttle for Space Flight

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VOA标准英语2009年-New US Warship's Bow Contains Steel from W

By Nathan King New York 03 November 2009 USS New York A U.S. warship built with steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center has arrived in New York. The USS New York stopped alongside Ground Zero to fire a 21-gun salute honoring those who died in

CCTV9英语新闻12月：嫦娥3任务使用尖端的深空跟踪

By CCTV reporte Han Bin The Change-3 lunar probe will be the countrys first attempt at a soft landing on any extra terrestrial surface and the first moon landing by any country in almost 40 years. The extreme distances present new challenges for the

Kazakhstan has 17,266 registered HIV carriers

ALMATY, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan's Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS said Friday that the country had 17,266 registered HIV carriers as of Oct. 1,compared with 15,908 as of Feb. 1, 2010. Of the HIV-positive people, 1,432 were diagnosed w

Russia's Mission Control raises ISS by 10.2 km

MOSCOW, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Mission Control announced on Wednesday it had raised the International Space Station (ISS) by 10.2 km to 374.7 km with the help of the Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler. The Mission Control conducted the correction(修

2015年CRI Second-hand Smoke Causes Over 100,000 Deaths in China Annually: WHO

The World Health Organization has called on China to enact a national tobacco control law. WHO, the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project, and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, jointly released a report on Monda

China National Children's Center marks 30th founding anniversary

BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- A grand gathering was held Monday to mark the 30th founding anniversary of the China National Children's Center. Chinese President Hu Jintao said in a congratulatory letter to the center that the facility has made special

CCTV9英语新闻：4 officials dismissed over poor crowd control

China has dismissed four officials over a stampede at a mosque in the country's northwest region that left 14 people dead. The Sunday tragedy in Xiji county of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is blamed on poor organization and management. It happen

北京首条无人驾驶地铁线路燕房线于日前'试跑'

The Yanfang line, Beijing's first driverless subway line connecting the city's southwest suburbs to its central urban district started its first pilot run last Wednesday morning. 上周三早上，连接西南郊区和中心市区的燕房线--北京第

2016年CRI Imported Zika Cases in China Rise to Five

The two new cases involve a 38-year-old man and his eight-year-old son from Yiwu City in Zhejiang Province. Xiong Huang with the National Health and Family Planning Commission has an update on all of the patients. Currently, a Zika patient in Jiangxi

2016年CRI World's Largest Nuclear Security Center Opens in Beijing

China Atomic Energy Authority head Xu Dazhe says the project will help promote international cooperation and exchanges in nuclear safety. We can see that the completion of construction of the world's largest nuclear safety centre-of-excellence, with