WASHINGTON, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The United States and China on Monday held the third round of Consultations on Asia-Pacific at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The closed-door consultations were co-chaired by U.S. Assistant Secretary o...
Agriculture Report - Experts Link East Africa Drought to La Ni?a in the Pacific 农业报道 - 专家认为东非干旱与拉尼娜现象有关 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 East...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: The War in the Pacific 建国史话- 太平洋战争 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. (MUSIC) American military planners had to make...
Writer Takes Trans-Pacific Journey in New Novel The writer Lisa See takes readers on a trans-Pacific journey in her latest novel, Dreams of Joy. The book is a sequel to See's 2009 novel Shanghai Girls, which tells the story of two sisters, Pearl and...
Pacific Northwest Looks to Jump-Start Green Jet Fuel Industry The U.S. Navy's F-18 fighter planes ran test flights last year using jet fuel partially made from plant oils. In May the U.S. Air Force's famed Thunderbirds unit of F-16 fighter/bombers be...
By Mil Arcega Washington 11 November 2009 The venue of the APEC summit, in Singapore, 08 Nov 2009 Singapore has called for the creation of an ambitious Asia-Pacific free trade zone that it says would comprise nearly half of all global trade. The cal...
32 ． Journey To The Bottoms Of The Pacific Ocean The journey two naval officers made some time ago to the very deepest point on the earth makes us realize how much of the world still remains to be explored. The two men went down seven miles to the...
A new report finds the Asia-Pacific region is facing a triple threat, as a consequence of the present global economic situation. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has just unveiled its annual Economic and Social Survey for Asia...
The top travel industry group in Asia expects a modest recovery in travel to the region late this year, despite the global financial downturn. Travel analysts say the industry faces business closures as part of the economic rebound. The Pacific Asia...
U.S. President George Bush is launching one of the biggest conservation efforts in the world. He is designating large tracts of the Pacific as national monuments - meaning they are protected from commercial fishing, mining and other uses. President...
