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内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English program, IN THENEWS.Graphic ImageAbout six-hundred business,professional and governmental leaders gathered in Barcelona, Spain,last week for the Global Summit of Women. The three-day meetingdealt with ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program In The News.Values of American stocks have fallen sharply in recent tradingon United States markets. One measure of the value of Americanstocks is the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It follows th... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Graphic ImageThe United States Congress haspassed a new trade bill. The Senate passed the bill Thursday by avote of sixty to thirty-four. Opposition was stronger in the Houseof Representatives where the bill passed by only three votes. It hasgone to ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.The International Monetary Fund has agreed to provide anadditional thirty-thousand-million dollars in loans to Brazil. I-M-FManaging Director Horst Koehler announced the agreement W... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program IN THENEWS.Severe weather is affecting people in many countries. In areas ofsouth and east Asia, about seven-hundred people have been killed infloods and resulting landslides during the past mo... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember theVOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.On Monday, the United Nations will open an importantenvironmental conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. At leasttwenty-thousand people plan to attend the ten-day event. Theyinclude mo... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program In TheNews.SaddamHusseinAmerican officials and the publicare debating if the United States should take military actionagainst Iraq. Officials say Iraqi President Saddam Hussein isexpanding his ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THENEWS.Delegatesobserve a moment of silence at the opening of the fifty-sixthGeneral Assembly meeting, September 12, 2001.The General Assembly of the UnitedNations will officially open its... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program In TheNews.Graphic ImageThere is a dispute about a majorwomen's beauty competition to be held in Nigeria. The Miss Worldcompetition is to take place November thirtieth in Abuja, thecapital. Wom... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THENEWS.The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are holding theiryearly meetings in Washington. Representatives from more thanone-hundred-eighty countries have gathered for the talks... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program In The News.A labor dispute in the United States closed twenty-nine portsalong the West Coast at the beginning of this week. The ports areextremely important to the economy. Aboutthree-hundred-t... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program IN THENEWS.Twenty-nine industrial ports in the western United States areoperating again. A judge in California this week ordered the PacificMaritime Association to re-open the ports. The associ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program IN THENEWS.Indonesian officials are investigating the bomb attacks in Bali.A powerful car bomb exploded last Saturday in Kuta... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program In The News.Leaders from many nations are attending the Asia-Pacific EconomicCooperation conference in the holiday area of Cabo San Lucas,Mexico.Graphic ImageAPEC was established innineteen-eigh... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.Brazilians elected a new president this week. Luis Inacio Lula daSilva won sixty-one percent of the vote to defeat Jose Serra, theruling party candidate. The man popularly known as L... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is STEVE EMBER with the VOA Special English program IN THENEWS.For the first time in many years, one party will control bothhouses of the United States Congress and the White House. Members ofPresident Bush's Republican Party regained control of... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program IN THENEWS.Iraq has announced its acceptance of a United Nations resolutionon weapons inspections. All fifteen members of the U-N SecurityCouncil passed the resolution last Friday. The measure ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English Program, IN THE NEWS.Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization met in Praguethis week. NATO member nations officially invited seven countries ineastern and central Europe to join the alliance. T... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THENEWS.Graphic ImageSunday is World AIDS Day. WorldAIDS Day was first declared at a conference innineteen-eighty-eight. Each year, the observance gives governments,other organizations and ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program IN THENEWS.This week, the government of Saudi Arabia announced measures toprevent money from reaching terror groups. The Saudi government alsodisputed accusations that it has failed to do this ... >>详细内容