- [VOA双语]中国取消伊拉克大部分债务2010-02-27
- Iraq says China has agreed to cancel 80-percent of the debt Baghdad owes Beijing.The Iraqi finance ministry says Iraq owes China $8.5 billion. It says the debt agreement was reached after talks between top Iraqi and Chinese officials.
- [VOA双语]奥巴马政府寻求支持增加开支2010-02-27
- Key members of the Obama Administration are trying to rally support for a controversial $3.8 trillion budget that projects massive deficits, and calls for large spending increases to fight unemployment and improve education.
- [VOA双语]香港住宅楼倒塌1人丧生2010-02-27
- A small apartment building in Hong Kong collapsed Friday, killing at least one person and leaving several others trapped.Firefighters were dispatched to a residential block in Hong Kong's Kowloon district where the building collapsed to rescue residents trapped in the rubble.The five-story building was more than 50 years old
- [VOA双语]美国经济第四季度增长5.72010-02-27
- Friday's report from the Commerce Department says the U.S. gross domestic product expanded at a 5.7 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter.That is more than double the growth rate in the previous quarter, and faster than most experts had predicted.
- [VOA双语]国际社会承诺一亿四千万美元帮助阿富汗重归计划2010-02-27
- British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says countries attending a London conference on stabilizing Afghanistan have pledged more than $140 million to a fund designed to reintegrate Taliban militants into the country's society.
- [VOA双语]奥巴马在发表国情咨文后推动创造就业机会2010-02-25
- U.S. President Barack Obama is hoping to show Americans that he plans to fulfill promises in his State of the Union address to create more jobs.
- [VOA双语]巴格达自杀爆炸炸死18人2010-02-25
- Iraqi authorities say a suicide car bomb attack has killed at least 18 people and wounded 80 others in a strike against a police crime lab in central Baghdad.
- [VOA双语]坠机后埃塞俄比亚宣布全国哀悼日2010-02-25
- The Ethiopian government has declared Monday a national day of mourning after an Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 people on board crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. A statement from the country's foreign affairs ministry says Prime Minister Meles Zenawi expressed shock and sadness over the crash, which took place after the Boeing 737 took off from Beirut.
- [VOA双语]伊拉克首都三名自杀炸弹杀手袭击36人死亡2010-02-25
- Three suicide bombers attacked hotels in Baghdad Monday, killing at least 36 people in the Iraqi capital and wounding 71 others. Iraqi officials say the attackers drove cars packed with explosives and set off their bombs in quick succession outside Baghdad's Ishtar Sheraton, Babylon and al-Hamra hotels.
- [VOA双语]奥巴马银行监管提议令全球股市重挫2010-02-25
- World Markets Fall After Obama Proposes Tighter Regulations for Banks
- [VOA双语]联合国儿童基金会警告海地儿童出现失踪2010-02-12
- The United Nations Children's Fund says some Haitian children are missing from hospitals, raising concerns of child trafficking after last week's earthquake separated thousands of families.
- [VOA双语]海地救援人员报告救援海地取得进展2010-02-12
- Aid workers in Haiti say they are making progress getting food and water to those affected by last week's devastating earthquake, but the death toll could increase because of untreated injuries and disease.More than 12,000 U.S. troops are part of the international effort to provide supplies, medical treatment and security to the victims, nine days after the quake left the capital, Port-au-Prince, in ruins.
- [VOA双语]中国经纪2009年最后三个月大幅增长2010-02-12
- China says its economy experienced a blistering 10.7-percent growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, boosting it past the annual target of eight percent for the full year.
- [VOA双语]联合国:亚洲将引领全球经济复苏2010-02-12
- The United Nations says East and South Asia will lead a mild recovery in the global economy in 2010.The world body makes the prediction in its annual economic report, issued Tuesday in Bangkok. The report says the global economy should experience 2.4 percent growth this year, if supportive policies continue.But the U.N. says the global economy could go through another slump if governments withdraw stimulus measures too early.
- [VOA双语]美军向海地幸存者运送收音机2010-02-12
- The U.S. military is delivering 50,000 hand-held radios to Haiti for survivors of the recent earthquakes.The U.S. Department of Defense said Wednesday it expects the radios to arrive later this week. It said the joint task force will then distribute the radios to the public.
- [VOA双语]美向海地空投救援2010-02-09
- The U.S. military has begun airdropping desperately needed food and water to Haitian earthquake survivors in an effort to overcome congestion at the airport and other obstacles to delivering aid.A U.S. Air Force plane dropped more than 14,000 "ready to eat" meals and 15,000 liters of water into an area north of the capital, Port-au-Prince. It was the U.S. military's first such airdrop since the deadly earthquake one week ago.
- [VOA双语]富裕国家加速取消海地债务2010-02-09
- A group of countries that have made loans to other nations has called on its members to speed up the process of canceling debts owed by Haiti.The Paris Club Tuesday urged its members to finish a process that began last year, out of consideration for "the financing needs Haiti will face reconstructing the country."Members of the informal group of rich nations agreed last July to cancel all of the $214 million owed by Haiti.
- [VOA双语]欧盟保证向海地提供5亿7千5百万美元地震救援2010-02-09
- The European Union has offered Haiti more than $575 million to help the Caribbean nation recover from last week's earthquake.
- [VOA双语]海地救灾取得进展但沮丧情绪仍在增加2010-02-09
- Aid workers in Haiti say earthquake relief efforts are starting to make an impact, but frustration is mounting in Port-au-Prince, where Haitians say they lack food, water and a government.
- [VOA双语]外资大量流入中国市场2010-02-09
- Foreign companies and individuals appear to be betting on China's economic recovery, more than doubling their investments in China last month.A Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesman (Yao Jian) said Friday that foreign direct investment rose to $12.1 billion in December, a 103 percent over the same month last year.
- [VOA双语]美航飞机滑出跑道造成多人受伤2009-12-28
- Jamaican officials say 91 people were taken to the hospital after an American Airlines jetliner overshot the runway in the island's capital of Kingston late Tuesday.The Boeing 737 was carrying 154 people when it skidded off the runway at Norman Manley International Airport after landing during a heavy rainstorm.
- [VOA双语]参院接近通过历史性医保法案2009-12-28
- The U.S. Senate is moving closer to passing landmark health care reform legislation later this week.
- [VOA双语]伊拉克北部自杀式炸弹炸死区议会长官2009-12-28
- Iraqi officials say a suicide bombing in the north of the country has killed two people, including a district council chief.
- [VOA双语]伊朗反对派:数以十万计的伊朗人参加异议教士葬礼2009-12-28
- Iranian opposition Web sites say hundreds of thousands of people have turned out for the funeral of dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.
- [VOA双语]伊朗军队占领伊拉克油井2009-12-28
- Iraqi security officials say Iranian forces have occupied an oil well in southern Iraq in a disputed section of the two countries' border. Reports from the scene, about 300 kilometers southeast of Baghdad (near the city of Amara) say the Iranian troops raised their country's flag in a portion of the Fakka oil field - several hundred meters from the border as it is demarcated by Iraq.









