VOA常速英语2008年-Reports Say Britain Considering Banning Zimbabw

By Tendai Maphosa London 04 March 2008 The British government may be considering barring Zimbabwean athletes from competing in the United Kingdom. As Tendai Maphosa reports from London, the government may be looking at this as a step to prevent Zimba

VOA常速英语2008年-Britain Unveils Security Strategy

By Sonja Pace London 19 March 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown unveiled a broad security strategy of how the government, security and health services would deal with national emergencies, including terrorist attacks, outbreaks of disease and

VOA标准英语2010年-Movie Theater Construction Booming in

As China's middle class grows, the demand for entertainment is being met with a boom in cinema construction. In a country where 300 million people are said to be able to afford movie tickets and where many want to see films like Avatar in new plush m

VOA常速英语2008年-Scientists Fit Elusive Leatherback Turtles With

By Paul Sisco Washington 09 April 2008 Leatherback turtles fascinate ocean researchers. The largest of sea turtles roams the world's oceans, nesting and feeding in coastal regions. Scientists say leathernecks have been doing so for at least 65 millio

2007年VOA标准英语-Bush Faces Challenge in Changing Public Opinion

By Jim Malone Washington 11 January 2007 Reaction in Congress and among the American public suggests President Bush has an uphill battle in trying to win support for his new strategy in Iraq, a strategy that includes deploying more than 21,000 addit

2006年VOA标准英语-West African Nations Fight AIDS by Easing Borde

By Efam Dovi Accra 08 November 2006 Five neighboring West African countries have agreed to shorten traveling time between their countries borders, in a move to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS infection among migrants and inhabitants along the route. T

2006年VOA标准英语-Rumsfeld's Tenure Marked by Accomplishment, Con

By Al Pessin Pentagon 08 November 2006 President Bush announced Wednesday that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is leaving the administration. VOA Pentagon Correspondent Al Pessin reports on the man and his career. ------- Donald Rumsfeld Wednesday

VOA常速英语2007-British Author Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize fo

By Kevin Billinghurst Stockholm 11 October 2007 In Stockholm, the Swedish Academy has chosen the British author Doris Lessing for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Kevin Billinghurst is in the Swedish capital. The selection of Doris Lessing for a N

VOA常速英语2007-Nobel Spurs Gore Supporters to Urge Presidential

By Jim Malone Washington 12 October 2007 Former Vice President Al Gore's new status as a Nobel Peace Prize winner is encouraging some of his political supporters in the United States to urge him to run for president next year. But as VOA National cor

VOA标准英语10月-Nobel Medicine Prize Awarded for HIV, Cancer Rese

Three European scientists who discovered the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer shared this year's Nobel prize for medicine. Lisa Bryant has more on the prestigious award for VOA from Paris. French scientists Luc Montagnier (file photo) The Nob

VOA标准英语10月-US Economist Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize

American economist Paul Krugman won this year's Nobel economics award, the last in a series of 2008 Nobels handed out over the past week. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports for VOA that Krugman was cited by the Nobel committee for his analysis of how e

2006年VOA标准英语-Red Cross Leaves Darfur Region after Attack

By Noel King Khartoum 09 December 2006 In another blow to emergency aid operations in Sudan's embattled Darfur region, the International Committee of the Red Cross says it has been forced to evacuate staff from the town of Kutum in northern Darfur d

2007年VOA标准英语-Red Cross Agencies Share Lessons from Terrorist

By Kane Farabaugh New York City 12 February 2007 watch Red Cross Terrorism report Emergency responders Representatives from Red Cross agencies in Spain and Britain joined American colleagues in New York at a recent symposium to share the lessons the

VOA标准英语2010年-Influential American Novel Turns 50

It's been 50 years since the classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published. Set in a fictional town in the American South in the 1930s, Mockingbird is one of the best-loved books in the United States. Its story of a failed quest for racial just

2006年VOA标准英语-Iraqi Politicians Flesh Out Details of Plan To

By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 03 October 2006 Violence continued in Baghdad one day after Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced a new plan intended to stem sectarian strife. Nouri al-Maliki Iraqi political leaders met Tuesday trying to flesh o

2007年VOA标准英语-UNHCR Delivers Relief Supplies to Thousands of

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 April 2007 The U.N. refugee agency says trucks are now delivering relief supplies to some 20,000 people internally displaced in Somalia. The UNHCR says 28 tons of supplies were airlifted into southwestern Somalia this week f

voa标准英语2008-Indian Maritime Forces Rebuff Criticism in Wake

India's maritime forces are defending themselves in wake of criticism they could have prevented the terror attack on Mumbai, which left about 175 people dead. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman in New Delhi reports on the response from the Indian navy a

2007年VOA标准英语-WWF Says World's Mightiest Rivers Are at Risk

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 20 March 2007 Bangladeshi woman clean dirty polythene shopping bags in polluted waters of Buriganga river in Dhaka, 19 Mar 2007 The World Wide Fund for Nature says some of the world's mightiest rivers are dying, threateni

VOA标准英语2009年-Cross-Examination Begins in War Crimes Tri

By Scott Stearns Dakar 10 November 2009 Prosecutors at the U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone have begun their cross-examination of former Liberian President Charles Taylor who is facing charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Former Lib

VOA常速英语2007年-US Envoy Makes Rare N. Korea Visit to Preview N

By Kurt Achin Seoul 03 December 2007 A senior U.S. envoy is in the North Korean capital to discuss Pyongyang's cooperation in efforts to peacefully end its nuclear weapons capabilities. The focus of the visit is to preview a promised declaration of a