CRI 中国国际广播电台 2010-04-10

Broadcasting Time: 07:00-08:00, GMT+08:00, 2010-04-10 Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This Edition Signs of instability linger in Kyrgyzstan as President Kurmanbek Bakiyev refuses to relinquish power after clash

This Land Is Your Land

This Land Is Your Land (Chorus) This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York island; From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, This land was made for you and

玩转商务英语900句 第406期:控制成本(1)

Since they have no foreign competition they could pass on extra costs to their customers. 因为他们没有外国竞争者.他们可以将额外的成本转嫁给消费者。 Since they have no foreign competition, they could pass on extra costs to

CNN 2011-12-20

In fact,the bill of rights was ratified on this very day back in 1791.There are 27 amendments to the US constitution.The bill of rights includes the first 10.You know some of the big ones:freedom of religion and speech,protection from having to testi

新西兰英语 789 The cost of housing

A new OECD report shows that New Zealanders pay more for their housing than most other developed countries. On average, New Zealanders spend 26% of their income on a place to live either paying rent or paying a mortgage. The average for all OECD coun

新西兰英语 772 Housing in the Budget

Yesterday, the Minister of Finance, Bill English, read the Budget in Parliament. One important matter in the Budget was a plan to bring down house prices, especially in Auckland. In the last year, house prices have increased by 8% throughout the whol

VOA慢速英语-Development Report - Could Women Solve the Food Cris

The U.N. holds a high-level conference on world food security this week in Rome. In Washington, a research group says greater investment in female farmers would increase agricultural productivity. Transcript of radio broadcast: 01 June 2008 This is

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-07-15

A new report has found that introducing a new land tax is the answer to repairing deteriorating state and territory budgets. The Grad Institute says a property levy of just two dollars for every 1000 dollars of unimproved land value would raise seven

VOA常速英语2008年-US Rice Farmers Boost Production as World Faces

By Greg Flakus Dayton, Texas 15 April 2008 A dramatic surge in the international price for rice has U.S. producers planting more fields in an effort to increase profits. But, as VOA's Greg Flakus reports from the rice-growing area of Dayton, Texas, h

VOA常速英语2008年-Farmers Face Problems Despite Higher Food Price

By Brian Padden Washington 24 April 2008 Farmers around the world would seem to benefit from rising food prices. But as VOA's Brian Padden reports, rising costs, limited natural resources and government restrictions prevent many farmers from getting

China allocates 20,000 hectares for low-income housing

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China has allocated more than 20,000 hectares of land to support the construction of low-income housing this year, an official with the Ministry of Land and Resources said Tuesday. The nation plans to distribute 47,600 hec

VOA标准英语2008年-High Crop Prices Squeezing US Farmland Conserva

By Brian Wagner Miami 14 May 2008 As crop prices remain high, farmers and other landowners are working to expand their output and take advantage of big profits for wheat, corn and soybeans. The boom is creating pressure to begin farming on lands enro

VOA标准英语2008年-UN Report: Bio-Fuels Adding to Food Crisis

The U.N. Special Investigator on the Right To Food says soaring food prices have declined somewhat, but the crisis remains and the problems are exacerbated by the production of bio-fuels. The expert submitted a report to the U.N. Human Rights Counci

Stricter measures issued to cool China's property market

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Amid expectations of rising housing prices, China's central government on Friday rolled out specific rules to further tighten control of the property market. The government said in an online notice that homeowners who sel

VOA双语新闻 ---国际大米需求上涨美国农民增产量

A dramatic surge in the international price for rice has U.S. producers planting more fields in an effort to increase profits. But, in the rice-growing area of Dayton, Texas, high costs could limit their margins. 国际大米价格显著增加使美国

VOA双语新闻：联合国：食品价回落粮食危机仍在

The U.N. Special Investigator on the Right To Food says soaring food prices have declined somewhat, but the crisis remains and the problems are exacerbated by the production of bio-fuels. The expert submitted a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council

英闻天下——322 China to Keep Property Market in Check

The National Bureau of Statistics is reporting housing prices in major Chinese Cities for January increased 2.2 percent month on month. New house prices gained an average 0.8 percent over the same period than a year earlier. CRI's Shen Ting takes a c

英闻天下——350 Property Tax, Land Tipped to Curb Home Prices

The State Council's recent adjustment policies on the Chinese property market, dubbed 'The 5 new regulations' is said to have fueled the land supply and trial property tax expansion to a new level. Analysts say they're expecting detailed measures and

经济学人505:英国规划法 英国人之家

Leaders 社论 Britain's planning laws 英国规划法 An Englishman's home 英国人之家 The shortage of housing is a gathering national crisis. Rev up the bulldozers 英国住房匮乏，危机重重，应大兴土木！ NOW that the economy is a

经济学人294:城市土地 空间和都市

Urban land 城市土地 Space and the city 空间和都市 Poor land use in the world's greatest cities carries a huge cost 糟糕的土地利用方式已经成为世界大都市不能承受之重 BUY land, advised Mark Twain; they're not making it a