NEW YORK, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday on Japan's nuclear disaster and lower-than-expectation economic reports, with the Standard Poor's 500 Index and the Nasdaq erasing their gains for the year. All three major indexes ende...
SEOUL, March 15 (Xinhua) -- South Korean（韩国） movie and music stars, who enjoy wide popularity in Japan, rally to help victims of Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Actor and singer Kim Hyun-joong, who rose to stardom in Japan a...
NEW DELHI, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The Indian government has ordered food originating from（发源于） Japan to be tested for radiation in the wake of explosions at a Japanese nuclear plant following a devastating earthquake-tsunami last Friday, repo...
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhuanet) -- The number of Alzheimer patients is growing rapidly, so is that of unpaid caregivers（照顾者看护人）, says a report released Tuesday by the Alzheimer's Association. Nearly 15 million caregivers, most of them f...
SUVA, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Some 300 diabetes patients（有耐心的 ） undergo amputations every year in Fiji and the trend is worrying the authorities. This is according to research carried out by the country's Physiotherapy Associations which sho...
U.S. President Barack Obama says he believes nuclear power is an important source of energy in the United States. Mr. Obama said in a television interview Tuesday that nuclear plants are designed to withstand certain levels of natural disasters, incl...
World oil prices are dropping because of fears the earthquake and tsunami in Japan will weaken the country's economy and curtail（缩减） its demand for oil. Oil recently has been trading at two-year highs. The violent conflict（冲突,矛盾）...
NEW YORK, March 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks dropped on Tuesday amid concern over Japan's nuclear disaster（灾难）, even though Fed said the economy recovery was on a firmer footing.The major indices on Tuesday were lost more than 1 percent. The Do...
Workers at a nuclear plant in Japan are battling to prevent a meltdown in one of the reactors, following the massive earthquake that struck the north-east part of the country on Friday. The latest government figures figures put the death toll from th...
The U.S. space agency NASAs Messenger probe（正直的，廉洁的 ） is scheduled to reach Mercury later this week, and become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet closest to the sun. During Messengers year-long orbital mission, scientists exp...
Japans devastating 8.9-magnitude earthquake last Friday was so powerful that experts say it slightly increased the Earths rotation（旋转） speed, making the day a fraction of a second shorter. U.S. space agency scientist Richard Gross said the qu...
VOA News March 09, 2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated（提名,任命） Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as the new ambassador to China. In remarks at the White House Wednesday, Obama said Locke is the right person to continue America's e...
NEW YORK, Mar 10 (Reuters) - YouTube, the popular video site owned by Google Inc, said on Thursday it is adding 200 jobs, boosting its staff by more than 30 percent in its biggest hiring year. In a blog posting, the company also said more than 35 hou...
VOA News March 11, 2011 - The first tsunami(海啸) waves have reached the U.S. West Coast after sweeping past the country's Pacific island state of Hawaii. There have been no immediate reports of casualties in the U.S. Waves of a meter or more hit t...
Mil Arcega March 11, 2011 - The worst quake to strike Japan in 140 years sent shock waves through financial(金融) markets around the world. The 8.9 magnitude earthquake（地震） struck toward the end of the Asian trading session, sending Japan's...
