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国际英语新闻:Oil prices break 124 dollars
NEW YORK, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Crude oil topped 124 U.S. dollars a barrel Thursday afternoon after European Central Bank decided to leave interest rates unchanged. Light, sweet crude for June deliver
国际英语新闻2008-05-09国际英语新闻:Oil prices hit new high despite rising U.S. inventories, stronger dollar
NEW YORK, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Oil futures surged to break 123 U.S. dollars a barrel Wednesday, despite bearish data on U.S. crude inventories and stronger dollar against major currencies. Light, swe
国际英语新闻2008-05-08国际英语新闻:Clinton takes early lead in Indiana Democratic primary
WASHINGTON, May 6 (Xinhua) -- As polls closed in the Democratic primary in Indiana, early results showed Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York ahead of rival Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. With 5 perce
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国际英语新闻:Crude futures top 120 USD for first time
NEW YORK, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Crude futures topped 120 U.S. dollars a barrel for the first time Monday on supply concerns. Light, sweet crude for June delivery rocketed to 120.36 dollars on the New York
国际英语新闻2008-05-06 国际英语新闻:New poll finds Clinton leads Obama nationwide
WASHINGTON, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A new USA Today/Gallup poll out Monday found U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York leads her rival Senator Barack Obama of Illinois by 7 percent nationwide ahead of Tu
国际英语新闻2008-05-06国际英语新闻:Asian countries agree to pay $80 bln for regional foreign reserve swap
MADRID, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Finance ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as well as China, Japan and South Korea agreed Sunday on the minimum scale of a regional foreign res
国际英语新闻2008-05-05国际英语新闻:Eliot Spitzer's rise and fall to be told by Penguin
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer stands next to his wife Silda Wall Spitzer as he announces his resignation at his office in New York, March 12, 2008. A book about former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's
国际英语新闻2008-05-04国际英语新闻:U.S. Republicans split in preferences for Obama, Clinton
WASHINGTON, May 2 (Xinhua) -- There are almost as many Republicans who want to see Hillary Rodham Clinton become Democratic presidential nominee as those who prefer Barack Obama, according to a poll r
国际英语新闻2008-05-03国际英语新闻:Chinese banks report lowest ever NPL ratio in 2007
BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The non-performing loans (NPL) ratio of Chinese commercial banks fell to its lowest-ever level of 6.2 percent in 2007, according to the China Banking Regulatory Commission (
国际英语新闻2008-05-02国际英语新闻:U.S. Fed cuts key interest rate to 2%
WASHINGTON, April 30 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve decided Wednesday to cut a key interest rate by one quarter percentage point to 2.0 percent to prevent the economy from slipping into recessio
国际英语新闻2008-05-01国际英语新闻:UN and World Bank to tackle food crisis
BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) -- UN agencies and the World Bank pledged on Tuesday to set up a task force to tackle an unprecedented rise in global food prices that is threatening to spread social unrest
国际英语新闻2008-04-30国际英语新闻:Obama's lead over Clinton in national poll shrinks to zero
WASHINGTON, April 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama's lead in the national poll has shrunk to zero after his rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, won the Pennsylvania prima
国际英语新闻2008-04-29国际英语新闻:Iranian, Venezuelan presidents vow to strengthen ties
TEHRAN, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez on Sunday emphasized the need to strengthen relations between the two countries, Iran's M
国际英语新闻2008-04-28国际英语新闻:Google: Deal with Yahoo is not a merger
BEIJING, April 27 -- Google Inc believes regulators would not bar a potential deal with Yahoo Inc because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, claim sources fam
国际英语新闻2008-04-27国际英语新闻:China stocks ease 0.7% as tax-cut euphoria fades
BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares ended the week on a lower note, closing down 0.7 percent on Friday after seesaw trade, just a day after the market soared on share-trading tax cuts. Th
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国际英语新闻:Bush, Abbas confident of Palestine-Israel agreement
WASHINGTON, April 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush met with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas here Thursday, with the two leaders expressing confidence that Israel and the Palestinians ca
国际英语新闻2008-04-25 国际英语新闻:Clinton to net $10 mln after Pa. win
WASHINGTON, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York is on track to collect 10 million U.S. dollars of donations in the 24 hours after she won the April 22 Democratic presidential primar
国际英语新闻2008-04-24国际英语新闻:North American leaders defend free trade agreement
NEW ORLEANS, The United States, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada defended the 14-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at the conclusion of an an
国际英语新闻2008-04-23国际英语新闻:Clinton rating up again on eve of Pennsylvania primary
WASHINGTON, April. 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democratic presidential contender Sen. Hillary Clinton saw her rating rebound on the eve of Tuesday's pivotal primary in Pennsylvania, according to polls releas
国际英语新闻2008-04-22国际英语新闻:Former bishop Lugo wins Paraguay's presidential election
BUENOS AIRES, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo, candidate of the opposition Patriotic Alliance for Change, has won Sunday's Paraguayan presidential elections, preliminary ele
国际英语新闻2008-04-21国际英语新闻:Bank of England to swap 50bln pounds bonds for mortgages
BEIJING, April 20 -- The Bank of England will this week announce plans to swap 50 billion pounds (99.8 billion U.S. dollars) of government bonds for United Kingdom bank mortgages in an effort to break
国际英语新闻2008-04-20国际英语新闻:Chinese shares dive nearly 4%, approach half of record high
BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares continued dropping on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index diving nearly 4 percent to almost half of its highest level. The index, which
国际英语新闻2008-04-19国际英语新闻:Latest Merrill loss follows writedown
BEIJING, April 18 -- Merrill Lynch & Co posted its third straight quarterly loss and will cut about 3,000 jobs after at least $6.5 billion of writedowns and a 40 percent drop in investment-banking
国际英语新闻2008-04-18国际英语新闻:Crude oil settles at 114.93 dollars
NEW YORK, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Crude oil for May delivery on Wednesday closed at nearly 115 dollars a barrel, the third straight day of records, on supply concerns on the New York Mercantile Exchange
国际英语新闻2008-04-17国际英语新闻:Nike hopes for strong Olympic performance
BEIJING, April 16 -- Nike Inc's chief executive officer Mark Parker knows how demanding Olympic athletes can be. If his company could provide equipment that takes a single gram of weight off thei
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