voa 2015.4.29
Nepal has declared three days of mourning for the victims of Saturday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake that left nearly 5,000 dead and thousands more in desperate need of aid.
In a televised news conference Tuesday, Nepalese Prime Minister Koirala thanked donors for their assistance. He added that getting help to remote areas remains a major challenge.
The United Nations says the disaster has affected eight million people with 1.4 million in need of food. The U.N. says it would draw $15 million from its emergency fund for relief operations.

A man walks through rubble of houses damaged by the earthquake in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, Nepal, April 28, 2015.
Officials said Tuesday the death toll had climbed to more than 4,600 people. About 9,000 others are injured. They said those numbers could go higher as workers clear more of the damaged areas.
Indonesia executes eight drug convicts, spares one
Indonesia has executed eight drug convicts, including several foreign nationals, despite strong opposition abroad.
The convicts included two Australian members of a heroin trafficking ring, a Brazilian national, and an Indonesian citizen.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo refused to reduce the severity of the convicts' punishment, despite opposition and appeals from the international community. The president described the executions as necessary to control what he calls Indonesia's "drug emergency."
Local media reports say a ninth convict, a woman from the Philippines, was to be executed, but suddenly was not. Officials say her execution was delayed because of a request from the Philippine president. The Filipina convict has been asked to testify in the trial of a person suspected of human trafficking in the Philippines.
Obama, Abe pledge to complete Pacific Rim trade pact
U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Tuesday to complete a 12-nation Pacific Rim trade agreement. Mr. Abe is in the middle of a state visit to the United States.
Mr. Obama and Mr. Abe spoke at a news conference Tuesday at the White House. Mr. Obama said the trade bill would boost U.S. exporters and the country's labor market. But he also accepted that there is opposition to a Pacific Rim trade agreement in both the U.S. and in Japan.
The two leaders did not announce any details about the remaining difficulties to completing an agreement. The proposed trade bill would open up exports for both Japanese and American manufacturers, along with those in 10 other nations that border the Pacific.
____________________________________________________________
Words in the News
donor - n. a person or group that gives something (such as money, food, or clothes) in order to help a person or organization
severity - n. the condition of being serious or unpleasant
boost - v. to increase the force, power, or amount of (something)
voa 2015.4.29的更多相关文章
- 2015.12.29~2015.12.30真题回顾!-- HTML5学堂
2015.12.29~2015.12.30真题回顾!-- HTML5学堂 吃饭,能够解决饥饿,提供身体运作机能.练习就像吃饭,强壮自己,提升编程技能,寻求编程技巧的最佳捷径!吃饭不能停,练习同样不能停 ...
- voa 2015 / 4 / 25
When English speakers talk about time and place, there are three little words that often come up: in ...
- 2015/9/29 Python基础(20):类的授权
类的授权 1.包装包装在Python编程世界中时经常会被提到的一个术语.它是一个通用的名字,意思是对一个已存在的对象进行包装,不管它是数据类型,还是一段代码,可以是对一个已存在的对象,增加新的,删除不 ...
- voa 2015 / 4 / 27
As reports of the death toll rise in Nepal, countries and relief organizations around the world are ...
- voa 2015 / 4 / 26
Now, Words and Their Stories, a VOA Special English program about American expressions. I'm Rich Kle ...
- voa 2015 / 4 / 14
Even with falling oil prices and strong U.S. growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund sai ...
- Murano Weekly Meeting 2015.09.29
Meeting time: 2015.September.29th 1:00~2:00 Chairperson: Serg Melikyan, PTL from Mirantis Meeting s ...
- Forth scrum meeting - 2015/10/29
今天下午,我们终于要到了MOOC服务器端开发人员的联系方式,于是我们小组派了三名同学去实验室与他们进行了交流,并咨询了他们一些关于API接口的问题.他们也对我们这个客户端的开发提出了一些建议. 开发团 ...
- iOS 学习笔记 七 (2015.03.29)code snippet操作
1.code snippet 备份路径:~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/CodeSnippets/
随机推荐
- 使用ThreadLocal实现的读写分离在迁移后的偶发错误
最近莫名的会有错误日志,说有写操作因为走了读库而报了read only的异常,由于并没有造成应用使用的问题,开始我以为哪的配置错误就没当回事让程序员自己去查了,然而... 背景:之前的博客里提到过,读 ...
- spring MVC 乱码问题
(转) spring的字符集过滤通过用于处理项目中的乱码问题,该过滤器位于org.springframework.web.filter包中,指向类CharacterEncodingFilter,Cha ...
- Java 后台创建word 文档
---恢复内容开始--- Java 后台创建 word 文档 自己总结 网上查阅的文档 分享POI 教程地址:http://www.tuicool.com/articles/emqaEf6 方式一. ...
- 移动端页面以rem为单位设置字体大小不生效解决方法
这个问题在前端H5页面开发可以说是一个老生常谈的问题了.由于以前所有遇到的问题以及解决方法都会以文档的形式记录在电脑里,而非github或者blog,所以现在才一点一滴的整理上来,就当是一个心路历程吧 ...
- Struts2结合Ajax实现登录
前言:Struts2作为一款优秀的MVC框架,和Ajax结合在一起,用户就会有良好的体验,本篇博文我们来模拟一个简单的登录操作,实现Ajax的异步请求,其中Struts2进行的是链接处理,Action ...
- Java经典编程题50道之三十三
打印出杨辉三角形(要求打印出10行如下图)11 11 2 11 3 3 11 4 6 4 11 5 10 10 5 1 public class Example33 { public static v ...
- 用JQuery写的滚动条,可以改变样式哦!
很早之前在做项目的时候要用到自定义的滚动条,可是现在的CSS2只能改改颜色什么的,对于改变形状或者更高级的用法根本不可能实现,没办法只能自己写一个了.(好像CSS3可以该形状,不过没研究过有兴趣的童鞋 ...
- sleep()
sleep() 方法可以使当前线程(即调用该方法的线程)暂停执行一段时间, 让其他线程有机会继续执行, 但它并不释放对象锁: 所以当sleep()方法结束时: 当前线程还是拥有对象锁: 当线程拥有对象 ...
- php面向对象1
类和对象的关系 首先看一段代码 var_dump()后的结果 注意 一个对象系统自动分配一个对象标识符!
- less函数
问题描述: 在编写页面时,有以下几种按钮: 这时候我们CSS代码毫无疑问写一个公共类,然后再为每个按钮增加独自的样式如下: HTML: <div class="common a&quo ...