2015年CRI 澳大利亚正式成为亚投行意向创始成员国 游轮爆发诺如病毒（在线收听）

China's Finance Ministry has confirmed Australia has been approved as a prospective founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

This brings the number of prospective founding members of the organization to 47.

Founding members of the bank will have a say in how the organizational structure of the AIIB will be laid-out.

Countries that applied after March 31st will still have voting rights only but they will not have much of a say in the rules of the bank.

The final list of who will be founding members is due to be released tomorrow.

The AIIB is expected to be established by the end of this year to finance infrastructure projects in Asia.

More than 100 people have become ill as part of an outbreak of the Norovirus on a cruise ship currently docked in the city of San Diego, California.

The outbreak began as part of a 15-night cruise, which ran along the North American west coast.

In February, another ship run by Celebrity Cruises suffered a Norovirus outbreak which sickened more than 140 people.

The Norovirus creates flu-like symptoms in its victims.

While uncomfortable, the virus is generally not deadly.

However, it his highly virulent, which makes cruise ships particularly vulnerable as hundreds of people are confined in a small space for days on-end.