VOA标准英语2010年-Physician Uses Cell Phones to Bring He

Epidemiologist Joel Selanikio has used the explosion in mobile phone technology and the World Wide Web to deliver more effective public health services throughout the developing world. Dr. Selanikio and his organization DataDyne.org are making a diff

VOA标准英语2010年-Foreign Olympic Hopefuls Head to USA T

Next month, Vancouver and Whistler, Canada will host athletes from more than 80 nations at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Some of the countries sending athletes might surprise you. Not only will the Jamaican bobsledders be back, but so will skiers from co

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama Vows To Fight For Jobs, Health R

U.S. President Barack Obama says he will not stop fighting to create jobs, reform health care or clean up the financial industry. The president took his populist appeal to the recession-battered central state of Ohio Friday. President Obama's energet

VOA标准英语2010年-Haiti Buries Thousands of Its Dead in

Soon after the earthquake struck, and the search for the living had begun in Haiti, there were bodies, thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Then the burials began, not ordinary burials with traditional rituals and grief, but burials in mass graves

VOA标准英语2010年-Al-Shabab Denies Threatening Attack ag

A spokesman for the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab on Friday denied issuing a new threat against Kenya, saying that a recording posted online is a fake. Tensions in Kenya has increased. Kenya is reported to have detained as many as 2000 peo

VOA标准英语2010年-Fears Increase Over Insurgents in Soma

At least three lawmakers have been assassinated in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland in recent months, increasing fears that radical Islamist insurgents in the south may be expanding their effort to weaken the government in Puntland. One r

VOA标准英语2010年-Guinea Interim PM Says He is Not Bound

Guinea Interim PM Says He is Not Bound by Transitional Government Deal The deal states that all members of the 101-member transitional government and the existing ruling military council are barred from running in elections planned for June. Scott St

VOA标准英语2010年-India Tightens Security Amid Warnings

President Obama Praised for Sticking to American Values on Counter-Terrorism India has puts its airports on high alert following intelligence warnings of a possible hijacking attempt by Islamic militants. The security alert comes days before India ce

VOA标准英语2010年-Indonesia Uses 'Soft Approach' to Cont

Terrorism tied to Islamic fundamentalism seems to be on the rise in many parts of world -- from Yemen and Pakistan to southern Thailand and the Philippine island of Mindanao. But, in Indonesia -- a country that security experts worried might become a

VOA标准英语2010年-Scientists Explain Haiti Earthquake

This was a very shallow earthquake, which means it would tend to be more destructive. Stuart Sipkin, USGS Tuesday's earthquake hit Haiti hard, with extensive damage and many casualties. Compared to the well-known seismic areas like the Pacific Rim, t

VOA标准英语2010年-Tougher Times Ahead for Yemen's Somali

During the past 20 years, hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled from Somalia to Yemen, where they are granted automatic asylum. The Yemeni government now says it may change that, saying the Somalis are a burden and a security risk. But new laws

VOA标准英语2010年-3 Suicide Bombers Attack Baghdad Hotel

Officials concerned insurgents could stage high-profile attacks to disrupt national parliamentary elections scheduled for March 7 Elizabeth Arrott | Cairo 25 January 2010 Iraqi police evacuate a victim of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan.

VOA标准英语2010年-Turkish, Pakistani, Afghan Presidents

Those Taliban who are not part of al-Qaida or other terrorist networks are welcome to come back to their country and lay down arms and resume life under the constitution of Afghanistan. - Afghan President Hamid Karzai Afghan President Hamid Karzai sa

VOA标准英语2010年-Sri Lanka Tense on Eve of Presidential

Sri Lanka's government and the political opposition are trading accusations their respective rivals are preparing to use force to overturn the results of Tuesday's presidential election. Independent monitors, meanwhile, contend, the electoral process

VOA标准英语2010年-Ballot Counting Underway in Sri Lanka

Voters, including Tamils displaced by the civil war, decided whether to extend the tenure of the incumbent president or replace him with his former top military chief. Steve Herman | Colombo 25 January 2010 Policeman giving instruction to voters at p

VOA标准英语2010年-2009 American Roots Music Grammy Nomin

The 52nd annual Grammy Awards will be handed out in Los Angeles on January 31. Once again, Roots performers are showing up in many different categories. Bob Dylan's performance of Beyond Here Lies Nothin' could earn the folk legend his second Grammy

VOA标准英语2010年-Country Music Well Represented With Gr

The 52nd annual Grammy Awards will be presented on January 31 in Los Angeles, California. The Zac Brown Band received three Grammy Award nominations, including Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals for its 2008 Number One debut singl

VOA标准英语2010年-US Central Bank Chief Reconfirmation E

The Obama administration and a top Republican lawmaker agree U.S. Central Bank Chief Ben Bernanke is likely to be confirmed for another term as the nation's top monetary official. To some in Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is the ma

VOA标准英语2010年-Haiti's 'Forgotten City' Lost in the R

The historic earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, changed it's capital city Port-au-Prince forever. And while the American military has secured it's damaged port and streets, international aid organizations supply medical and food supplies and ca

VOA标准英语2010年-Iran Threatens to Produce Own Nuclear

Iran's president says his country is resolved to produce its own highly enriched uranium if the West is unwilling to accept Iran's counter-proposal to a U.N. deal worked out last November. After presenting his his budget proposals to parliament, Iran