BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Beijing Mayor Wang Anshun on Wednesday said the capital will work hard to cool down rapid urban expansion in order to address traffic congestion, pollution and resource scarcity. We will make efforts to control Beijing's...
今天我们要学的词是expansion。Expansion 扩展，扩充。The Kennedy Arts Center unveiled a $100 million expansion plan. 肯尼迪艺术中心宣布扩展计划，耗资一亿美元。President Obama supported the expansion of H1B visas fro...
STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the history of radio and the latest technology. (MUSIC) SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Our story begins in Britain in eighteen seventy-three. A scientist named James Max...
Residents on the Pacific island of Guam are bracing for big changes. Four years from now, the U.S. military plans to transfer thousands of Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa. The move is part of a larger military realignment in the region an...
By Greg Flakus New Orleans 09 November 2009 The National World War Two Museum in New Orleans has opened a new $60-million building that houses a musical theater, a restaurant and a large movie theater for what is billed as a four-dimensional multime...
By Sonja Pace London 01 April 2008 Leaders from the 26-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization hold their summit this week in Bucharest, Romania. Topping the agenda will be what to do to help stabilize Afghanistan and what additional countries NATO...
Anchor: The business report continues our look at the United States and China. Anchor: If your town seems to have a Starbucks in every corner, you would feel at home in some parts of China. Starbucks has 140 Chinese stores designed much like their Am...
On Mondays, our business report focuses on technology. Google has transformed itself from the little search engine that could into a major information hub, email service, software developer and more. It's already the place where most people go to fin...
By Al Pessin Vientiane 20 July 2006 The defense minister of Laos has rejected a proposal to expand military contacts with the United States. The offer was made Thursday in Vientiane by the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, who was on his firs...
By Jeff Swicord Kandahar, Afghanistan 23 June 2006 Watch NATO Report British, Dutch, and Canadian troops are arriving by the thousands in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan as NATO prepares to take responsibility for security in the southern region in...
