今天我们要学的词是turmoil。 Turmoil, 是动荡、混乱的意思。 美国财政部长保尔森说，The global economy is strong despite recent market turmoil, 意思是虽然最近市场出现了混乱，但全球经济依旧强劲。 日本...
The annual gathering of political, economic and government leaders comprising the World Economic Forum has opened in Davos, Switzerland. That participants are buzzing about the fear of recession and the dramatic falls in world equity markets. 世界经...
今天我们要学的词是turmoil。 Turmoil, 是动荡、混乱的意思。 美国财政部长保尔森说，The global economy is strong despite recent market turmoil, 意思是虽然最近市场出现了混乱，但全球经济依旧强劲。 日本...
One of Haiti's most well known exports and a symbol of national pride is back in business. Barbancourt's rum was first distilled in Port au Prince in the 1860's by Dupre Barbancourt, a French cognac maker. The company maintained production through Ha...
A team of American investors currently touring Africa looking for opportunities says the U.S. financial crisis could sharply restrict western investment in emerging economies. But VOA correspondent Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports Africa's best...
By Ravi Khanna Washington 31 December 2007 Hundreds of thousands of mourners paid their last respects to Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as she was buried on Friday beside her father at the family mausoleum, a day after allegedly a suicide...
By Gary Thomas Washington 21 September 2007 The U.S.-led ouster of Saddam Hussein in Iraq had the side effect of removing Iran's biggest enemy. But things have not gone as smoothly in post-Saddam Iraq as the U.S. had hoped. U.S. officials have compla...
By Barry Wood Washington 10 July 2007 The Washington-based World Bank, the planet's biggest anti-poverty agency, has been in turmoil--its president forced out amid a staff revolt. VOA's economics correspondent Barry Wood reports that the bank--owned...
By Aida Akl Washington, D.C. 10 May 2007 Despite signs of progress in resolving some of the Horn of Africa's festering disputes, a range of conflicts extending from Sudan to Somalia and from Eritrea to Uganda threatens to further destabilize the reg...
By Ross Dunn Political unrest and violence against the authority of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat continues to sweep through the Gaza Strip on Sunday. A group of armed Palestinians in the southe...
