VOA标准英语2008年-Hillary Clinton Suspends Campaign, Backs Barack

By Kent Klein Washington 07 June 2008 Senator Hillary Clinton has abandoned her quest to become the first woman elected President of the United States. VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington, where Clinton called on an enthusiastic crowd of suppor

VOA标准英语2008年-Rock 'n' Roll Guitar Legend Bo Diddley Dies

By Doug Levine Washington 02 June 2008 Early rock 'n' roll guitar wizard Bo Diddley died near Jacksonville, Florida, Monday, 2 June, of heart failure. He was 79 years old. One of the most primitive of the early rockers, Bo took the blues and folk mu

VOA标准英语2008年-Sri Lanka Vows Secure SAARC Summit Despite Incr

By Steve Herman New Delhi 05 June 2008 The 15th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is scheduled to be held in less than two months, in the Sri Lankan capital. The government there is reassuring member countries it

VOA标准英语2008年-Iraqi Parliament Members Discuss US-Iraq Agreem

By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 05 June 2008 Two members of Iraq's parliament have testified before a congressional committee about future U.S. - Iraq relations. As VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill, in their testimony, the two members of Ir

VOA标准英语2008年-India Reactivates Air Base Close to China in Ka

By Shahnawaz Khan Shrinagar 02 June 2008 India has reactivated a strategic air base close to the Chinese frontier in Indian administered Kashmir, more than 40 years after it was abandoned. As Shahnawaz Khan reports, India plans to revive more bases

VOA标准英语2008年-Envoys Say Prospects Dim for Substantive Peace

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 05 June 2008 Special United Nations and African Union envoys on Darfur say prospects for substantive peace talks aimed at ending the crisis in Sudan's conflict ridden province of Darfur are dim. The diplomats failed to get pea

VOA标准英语2008年-China Draining 'Quake Lake' to Ease Threat of F

By Daniel Schearf Beijing 07 June 2008 Chinese workers have started draining a massive, unstable lake formed by the Sichuan earthquake. Chinese officials say the water level is still rising but the threat of the lake bursting has been eased. Daniel

VOA标准英语2008年-China's Quake Lake Halfway Drained

By Daniel Schearf Beijing 10 June 2008 China has said a massive lake formed by China's Sichuan earthquake is halfway drained and now poses less of a threat. China says it has won a decisive victory in its battle to drain the lake; drainage efforts b

VOA标准英语2008年-UN Devotes Day to Human Trafficking

By Barbara Schoetzau New York 03 June 2008 The United Nations aimed the spotlight on human trafficking Tuesday. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau reports the General Assembly devoted the entire day to discussing the issue o

VOA标准英语2008年-UN: Nearly Half of Burmese Cyclone Victims Don'

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 03 June 2008 The United Nations reports only about half of the 2.4 million survivors of Burma's devastating Cyclone Nargis have received assistance. But, it says that aid is generally spotty and not enough. Lisa Schlein report

VOA标准英语2008年-Air Travel a Curse in the Minds of Many

By Ted Landphair Washington, DC 04 June 2008 Subject a caged laboratory rat to unrelenting stress, and bad things happen. It snarls, bites its tail, trashes its cage. U.S. domestic airline passengers are starting to feel like trapped rats, paying mo

VOA标准英语2008年-Hearing Begins for 5 Suspected 9/11 Co-Conspira

By Al Pessin Guantanamo 05 June 2008 Six-and-a-half years after the September 11 terror attacks, the accused mastermind and four other co-conspirators are facing a war-crimes tribunal at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The arraign

VOA标准英语2008年-N. Koreans Face Famine, Applause South's US Bee

By Kurt Achin Seoul 13 June 2008 North Korea's official news media have recently been praising South Korean anti-U.S. beef protests, describing them as a popular struggle against a traitor president. But as VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, the p

VOA标准英语2008年-Famine Warning Network Says Zimbabwe's Food Cri

By Peta Thornycroft Harare 09 June 2008 Zimbabwe's current food crisis is the worst since government records began and is expected to worsen as summer crops will feed no more than 28 percent of the population according to an alert just issued by the

VOA标准英语2008年-Revenge for Danish Cartoons Blamed for Pak Blas

By Gary Thomas Washington 02 June 2008 The uproar over the 2005 publication of Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad may have faded in the West, but analysts believe angry Islamic militants may still be seeking revenge. VOA correspondent Gary Thom

VOA标准英语2008年-Thoroughbred 'Big Brown' Goes for Triple Crown

By Teresa Sullivan Washington 06 June 2008 Champion thoroughbred Big Brown is a strong contender to become the first horse in 30 years to win U.S. horse racing's Triple Crown on Saturday when he runs in the Belmont Stakes in New York. Big Brown alre

VOA标准英语2008年-Costly Fuel, Anger at President Drive South Kor

By Kurt Achin Seoul 17 June 2008 South Korea's biggest labor confederation says its members will go on strike, next month, to protest the policies of the country's president. The labor troubles heap new crisis on an administration facing mass street

VOA标准英语2008年-Tourists Embrace an Unexpected Destination: Ira

By Suzanne Presto Irbil 16 June 2008 A group of American tourists just wrapped up a two-week trip to Iraqi Kurdistan. Local tourism officials say they are the first American tour group, and only the second tour group ever, to travel through northern

VOA标准英语2008年-Rice Winds Up Mideast Visit With No Sign of Pro

By Robert Berger Jerusalem 16 June 2008 The United States' top diplomat has concluded a peace mission to Israel and the Palestinian territories. But she has little to show for it, as we hear from Robert Berger at the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. US Secr

VOA标准英语2008年-Activists Press UN Security Council to End Darf

By Margaret Besheer United Nations 17 June 2008 Human rights activists are urging the U.N. Security Council to turn up the pressure on the Sudanese government and quickly complete the deployment of 26,000 U.N. peacekeepers to Sudan's war-torn Darfur