VOA标准英语2009年-World Bank Official Calls for Coordinated Globa

The World Bank's chief economist, Justin Yifu Lin, on Monday repeated his call for coordinated global stimulus to get the global economy out of deep recession. World Bank's chief economist, Justin Yifu Lin, 28 Jan 2009 Lin told an audience at Washin

VOA标准英语2009年-Pentagon Says More Afghanistan Troops May Await

The World Bank's chief economist, Justin Yifu Lin, on Monday repeated his call for coordinated global stimulus to get the global economy out of deep recession. World Bank's chief economist, Justin Yifu Lin, 28 Jan 2009 Lin told an audience at Washin

VOA标准英语2009年-Ukraine Hit With Gas Cut-Off

Russia has stopped delivery of natural gas to Ukraine after the failure of last minute talks to reach agreement on a price for 2009. Both sides offer assurances that gas will continue to transit from Russia through pipelines in Ukraine to consumers

VOA标准英语2009年-India's Economy Grows at Fastest Pace

India's economy grew by 7.9 percent in the three months through September - its fastest pace since last year's global financial crisis. Anjana Pasricha | New Delhi 30 November 2009 Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (file photo) The initiatives

VOA标准英语2009年-Top UN Human Rights Official Calls Min

The U.N. High Commissioner believes this action risks putting Switzerland on a collision course with its international human-rights obligations Lisa Schlein | Geneva 01 December 2009 Demonstrators light candles next to a banner that reads This is not

VOA标准英语2009年-Asian Markets Rebound After Dubai Scar

Asia reacted positively Monday to word from the United Arab Emirates' central bank that it would inject money into the banking system Kurt Achin | Seoul 30 November 2009 The Gate building, left, of Dubai International Financial Center, DIFC, in Dubai

VOA标准英语2009年-Dubai Government Will Not Back Debts o

A top finance official in Dubai says the emirate's government will not guarantee the debts of the heavily-indebted, state-owned conglomerate Dubai World. VOA News 30 November 2009 Lenders bear some responsibility for the current crisis Finance Depart

VOA标准英语2009年-Reports: North Korea Revalues Currency

N. Korea has sharply raised the value of its currency, causing confusion, and a sudden spike in demand in for Chinese yuan and US dollars Kurt Achin | Seoul 01 December 2009 North Korean banknotes are displayed at a souvenir shop in the Imjingak Pavi

VOA标准英语2009年-Logistics Play Key Role in US War Effo

Infrastructure to support U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan is already strained, posing challenges to the troop surge announced by President Obama David Axe | Bagram, Afghanistan 01 December 2009 Scene at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan You just don'

VOA标准英语2009年-US President Has Been Considering Afgh

Mr. Obama's focus on Afghanistan began during the 2008 presidential campaign when he visited the country for the first time Siri Nyrop and John Walker | Washington, DC 01 December 2009 President Obama's decision on a new strategy for Afghanistan was

VOA标准英语2009年-Obama Discusses New Afghan Strategy wi

U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai regarding the new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan early Tuesday via video conference. Sean Maroney | Kabul 01 December 2009 US President Barack Obama at the White House (file photo) T

VOA标准英语2009年-South African President Announces Expa

South Africa's president says his government will expand testing and treatment for the HIV/AIDS virus that afflicts an estimated 5.7 million people in his country. Scott Bobb | Johannesburg 01 December 2009 South African President Jacob Zuma, second

VOA标准英语2009年-Kenya Pledges New Funds for HIV / AIDS

Kenyan government says the percentage of people contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has been cut almost in half from 14 percent of the population in 2000 to 7.1 percent in 2007 Alisha Ryu | Nairobi 01 December 2009 A Kenyan Turkana woman in

VOA标准英语2009年-Sex Workers in Southern India Practice

Prostitutes demanding clients wear condoms Linda Blake | Bangalore 01 December 2009 An estimated 15 percent of female prostitutes in Southern India are HIV-infected No condoms. No sex has become a mantra for around 4,500 sex workers operating near In

VOA标准英语2009年-Global Markets Edge Higher as Dubai's

The government-owned company, Dubai World, has reassured investors abroad by revealing details of its restructuring plans, nearly a week after hinting it may not have enough money to repay its debts. Phillip Wellman | Dubai 01 December 2009 Watch: Re

VOA标准英语2009年-A Grassroots 'Charter for Compassion'

Faiza Elmasry | Washington 01 December 2009 British scholar Karen Armstrong says the Charter for Compassion is a grassroots movement Two decades of studying the world's major religions and writing more than 20 books about them led British scholar Kar

VOA标准英语2009年-Have You 'Given Up the Ghost' or 'Cast

Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 01 December 2009 This book connects many stories and sayings that we use in everyday life with their biblical antecedents The Hebrew and Christian bibles are quoted thousands of times a day across America. Not just by m

VOA标准英语2009年-Seeing History Through Arab-American E

Mohamed Elshinnawi | Washington, DC 01 December 2009 Author Alia Malek says she wrote A Country Called Amreeka to put a human face on the Arab-American community, and to counter the public fear and misunderstanding fueled by the 9/11 terrorist attack

VOA标准英语2009年-Obama Afghan Decision Has Far-Reaching

President Barack Obama's decision to deploy another 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan - and to also ask for more troops from coalition partners - has far-reaching strategic implications for the global effort to defeat violent extremists like the Tali

VOA标准英语2009年-World AIDS Day Finds Improvement in AI

Advances in HIV/AIDS research unprecedented, but vaccine remains elusive. Art Chimes | Washington, D.C. 01 December 2009 We need to move out of the emergency mode, the hand-to-mouth approach to AIDS, which has characterized the last decade. Robert He