VOA标准英语2012--No US-Pakistan Breakthrough at NATO Summit

No US-Pakistan Breakthrough at NATO Summit Zardari and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared cordial at their brief meeting at the NATO summit in Chicago. But relations between the two countries remain at an impasse. Pakistans presidential

VOA标准英语2012--Egyptian Women Contemplate Future Under New Leaders

Egyptian Women Contemplate Future Under New Leaders Women's rights conference A recent women's rights conference in Cairo attracted a cross section of Egyptians - Muslims, Christians, leftists and conservatives. Organizers of the new An Egyptian Woma

VOA标准英语2012--'Last Call' Sounds Water Alarm in Dry World

'Last Call' Sounds Water Alarm in Dry World You dont have to be a scientist to understand if you take more water out of the bathtub than you put into the bathtub, the bathtub will eventually go empty, marine biologist Tim Barnett says in the film. Th

VOA标准英语2012--Lebanese Fable Follows Female Fight For Peace

Lebanese Fable Follows Female Fight For Peace Where Do We Go From Here? opens with a group of black-clad women moving slowly from the village toward the cemetery. But, instead of walking, they sway and slide in a mystical dance, establishing the film

VOA标准英语2012--Handbook Explains How to Create Durable and Inclusive Constitutions

Handbook Explains How to Create Durable and Inclusive Constitutions The book is called Constitution-Making and Reform: Options for the Process. Its authors say the process for designing and implementing a constitution is important: it is instrumental

VOA标准英语2012--Activists Urge NATO to Protect Afghan Women's Rights

Activists Urge NATO to Protect Afghan Women's Rights Like so many Afghans, Manizha Naderi has concerns about the fate of her country after 2014, when international forces complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan after more than a decade of war. The

VOA标准英语2012--Election Surge by Egypt's Old Guard Frustrates Revolutionary Youth

Election Surge by Egypt's Old Guard Frustrates Revolutionary Youth Egypt's revolution primarily was an uprising of the young -- a rejection of the old, stifling, decades-long government. So it is particularly galling to many activists that two of the

VOA标准英语2012--NGO Dispute Means Fewer Monitors for Egypt Vote

NGO Dispute Means Fewer Monitors for Egypt Vote Egypt's historic presidential campaign comes to a close with the first round of voting to choose a new civilian leader. The Elections Commission says there will be monitors from the Arab League, the Afr

VOA标准英语2012--PACs Boosted by Supreme Court Ruling

PACs Boosted by Supreme Court Ruling The contest for control of the White House is not limited to just the presidential candidates' own campaigns. There are also outside groups that want to affect the results of the election. And in the 2012 presiden

VOA标准英语2012--Khmer Rouge Labor Camp Survivor Learns to Cry

Khmer Rouge Labor Camp Survivor Learns to Cry Arn was only a child when the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia. Sent to the labor camps, he survived by learning how to play revolutionary songs on his flute. He watched as those around him were murd

VOA标准英语2012--Women's Rights Activists Encouraged by New French President

Women's Rights Activists Encouraged by New French President The easy part of Olivia Cattan's day ends at lunchtime, when she leaves her work as a pre-school assistant and starts her other job as a journalist and founder of the feminist organization P

VOA标准英语2012--Funding Shortfalls Threaten Polio Eradication

Funding Shortfalls Threaten Polio Eradication The WHO-sponsored World Health Assembly ended recentedly in Geneva, Switzerland, with the announcement of a new strategy to wipe out the polio virus forever. Organizers said global polio eradication has s

VOA标准英语2012--Clothing Company Ties Sales to Ocean Cleanup

Clothing Company Ties Sales to Ocean Cleanup Volunteers and company employees keep that promise by descending upon temporary garbage dumps that contain just about everything youd find in a typical landfill. But instead of the trash being properly dis

VOA标准英语2012--Some Accuse US of Hypocrisy Over Pakistan Doctor Case

Some Accuse US of Hypocrisy Over Pakistan Doctor Case U.S. forces found and killed Osama bin Laden after Dr. Shakil Afridi gathered some information for them. He was accused of running a fake vaccination campaign designed to help the CIA collect DNA

VOA标准英语2012--Making Farming Better in Developing Countries

Making Farming Better in Developing Countries The new head of a major research organization says the key to food security is to farm smarter, not to plow more land. The strains on agriculture are growing as the global population rises and emerging ec

VOA标准英语2012--Wartime Resistance Fighter Leads Greek Anti-Austerity Battle

Wartime Resistance Fighter Leads Greek Anti-Austerity Battle At 90 years of age, Manolis Glezos is still putting himself on the front line. During anti-government protests in March 2010 and again in February this year, he was tear-gassed by riot poli

VOA标准英语2012--India's Agriculture Boom Fuels 'Rural Urbanization'

India's Agriculture Boom Fuels 'Rural Urbanization' Life in India's countryside still involves plenty of hard work. But standards of rural living have gone up dramatically in recent years. Inflated food prices - otherwise a headache for politicians a

VOA标准英语2012--Chinese-American Recalls POW Past

Chinese-American Recalls POW Past Japan entered World War II in December 1941, attacking British-controlled Malaya and Singapore almost at the same time as Pearl Harbor. Paul Loong, a young Malaysian, was fighting with the British. When they surrende

VOA标准英语2012--Tallgrass Still Waves Undisturbed on the Plains

Tallgrass Still Waves Undisturbed on the Plains One-third of North America - stretching from what is now Indiana in the Midwest westward to the Rocky Mountains - and northward from Texas deep into Canada - was once uninterrupted prairie, where Plains

VOA标准英语2012--Ethiopian Diaspora Media Compete Over Message

Ethiopian Diaspora Media Compete Over Message At a recent anti-Ethiopian government rally in the city of Thurmont, Maryland, many of the journalists and citizen journalists recording material were from the Ethiopian diaspora. Photos and videos of the