Some New Zealand MPs who returned from the Copenhagen conference are disappointed. The Green Party MP, Jeanette Fitzsimons, said the conference was a failure because there were no legal promises. The conference decided to limit temperature increases...
The 7th World Potato Conference was held in Christchurch this week. This is the first time it has been held in New Zealand. A large number of scientists from many different countries attended the conference. New Zealand is a good country to host a po...
The National Party held their annual conference this weekend in Wellington. This was an important conference because it was their last one before the elections in November. The National Party had not said very much about their policies before this we...
Today is the last day of the World Food Conference in Rome. New Zealand has sent 11 people to this conference, with Jim Anderton, Minister of Agriculture, as the leader of this group. Along with Jim Anderton are other politicians, a climate scientist...
More than 2,000 representatives of world oil and gas companies, academics and industry experts are in Houston this week for the 30th annual conference(会议) sponsored by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, or IHS-CERA. With prices rising, partly...
In July 2012, the world's largest AIDS conference comes to Washington, D.C. It's the first time the gathering will be held in the United States since 1990 and preparations are already underway. Despite the massive U.S. financial, medical and scientif...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated a previous demand that Israel halt all settlement building before direct peace talks can resume, during a meeting Thursday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. It was a day of intense diploma...
Ms. Vasquez: Hello, Mr. Polo. Im Ms. Vasquez. Please have a seat. Mr. Polo: Thank you. Ms. Vasquez: In this parent-teacher conference , I want to go beyond Marcos report cards and his standardized test scores to talk about his general performance in...
The report issued by the WHO shows birth-related mortality declined by 34 percent during the past decade - from about 546,000 deaths in 1990 to an estimated 358,000 deaths in 2008. That is an annual rate of decline of about 2.3 percent. Although the...
Emiliano: Im not sure about this video conference today. Its the next best thing to having a meeting face-to- face, but Ive never used most of this equipment before. Fatima: Its a piece of cake. Do you want to do a run-through with me? Emiliano: Do y...
