By Nico Colombant Dakar 20 February 2007 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf attends opening session of ECOWAS summit, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 19 Jan 2007 The leaders of Liberia and Sierra Leone met in Guinea with embattled President Lansa...
By Suzanne Chislett London 16 November 2006 watch World Music report 'World music' is a phrase used to describe songs and music that originate outside Western Europe and English-speaking countries. In the past three decades it's become a genre in it...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 13 November 2006 South Korea says it will not formally join a U.S.- led coalition aimed at preventing international traffic in weapons of mass destruction. Seoul declined the U.S. request as it announced its plan for implementing...
By Andre de Nesnera Washington 06 November 2006 Outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been pushing for reform of the institution throughout his decade-long tenure. In this report from Washington, Senior Correspondent Andr de Nesnera looks a...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 16 October 2006 The United Nations' drug agency says there has been another sharp fall in opium cultivation in the area of Southeast Asia known as the Golden Triangle, where Burma, Thailand and Laos meet. But, U.N. officials ar...
Strangers 陌生人 [以下一节的对话选自三部现代电影,对话发生在陌生人之间,有问候,有请求,也有初相识时的客套和含蓄,更有对陌生人的毫不客气。其中的一些表达和句子或幽默或智慧,实在是难得一见。] NO.1 Colonel Meeting Young Girl 上校初识女孩 选自电影:Scen...
By Brian Padden Irbil, Iraq 21 August 2006 Saddam Hussein's second trial on charges of genocide is being watched closely in the northern Kurdish region, where Saddam's forces accused of killing more than 180,000 Kurds nearly two decades ago. What wa...
By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 10 August 2006 watch Small Business Contracts Some U.S. lawmakers want the government to investigate whether large businesses intentionally misrepresented themselves in order to win federal contracts. The request comes a...
By Catherine Drew Berlin 12 June 2006 watch World Cup Racism report Trinidadian fans celebrate their team's scoreless draw at the 2006 World Cup A time to make friends --- that's the official motto of the 2006 World Cup, which got underway Friday, J...
By Stefan Bos Budapest 08 April 2006 Hungarians choose Sunday between the continuity of a center-left government, which says the country needs to embrace globalization, and a center-right opposition t...