VOA标准英语2012--Jailed Activists Mostly Left Out of Burma's Latest Prisoner Amnesty

Jailed Activists Mostly Left Out of Burma's Latest Prisoner Amnesty Burma's President Thein Sein has won international praise for recent political reforms and engagement with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. But the country's traditional prisoner

VOA标准英语2012--US Presidential Candidates Fire Verbal Assaults at Iran

US Presidential Candidates Fire Verbal Assaults at Iran Republican candidates competing for their partys U.S. presidential nomination are firing verbal assaults at Iran, amid new tensions in the Persian Gulf. Irans military has sharply escalated its

VOA标准英语2012--After Iowa, How Far Can the Candidates Go?

After Iowa, How Far Can the Candidates Go? There were three strong finishers in the Republican half of the Iowa presidential caucuses Tuesday night. A surprising and new top-tier emerged in Tuesday's caucuses in Iowa. There was the winner, former Mas

VOA标准英语2012--Humanities Fight to Survive in Hi-Tech World

Humanities Fight to Survive in Hi-Tech World Tim Clark is a senior at Amherst College, a small liberal arts school in western Massachusetts, where hes studied Latin, Greek and archeology. Thanks to those classes, he says, hes not the same person he w

VOA标准英语2012--Jamaican Plan to Abandon Queen Raises Questions

Jamaican Plan to Abandon Queen Raises Questions Independence Jamaica is celebrating 50 years of independence from Britain. At her inaugural address, newly elected Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said the anniversary provides an opportunity for J

Rome's Chinese Community Mourns Deaths

Rome's Chinese Community Mourns Deaths The Chinese community in Italy wants justice and more security. The brutal killing, last week, of Zhou Zeng and his baby, Joy, was too much even for people who are used to keeping to themselves and not complaini

VOA标准英语2012--New Coalition Promotes Investment in Health Workers

New Coalition Promotes Investment in Health Workers Sixteen major non-governmental organizations have launched a new initiative to add one million health care workers in developing countries. The new Frontline Health Workers Coalition says training m

VOA标准英语2012--Sales of Luxury Cars 'Booming'

Sales of Luxury Cars 'Booming' Despite the financial uncertainty in Europe or the slowdown in China, the market for luxury cars has never been better. Last year, British automaker Rolls Royce sold more than 3,500 ultra-luxury models like a $450,000 P

VOA标准英语2012--Bird Counts Show Species Decreasing

Bird Counts Show Species Decreasing Huntley Meadows Park in Fairfax County, Virginia, is home to a wide variety of birds. That's where Ana Arguelles and her husband, Jeff Wneck, who live next to the 588-hectare wetlands, take part in the annual count

Doomsday Clock Moves Forward末日钟被调前

Doomsday Clock Moves Forward末日钟被调前 Efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons continue to meet obstacles, and that is one main reason why the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock forward to five minutes to midnight.

VOA标准英语2012--Pressure Mounts on Nigerian Government Over Fuel Prices

Pressure Mounts on Nigerian Government Over Fuel Prices Tens of Thousands of Nigerians took to the streets for a third straight day Wednesday in the main commercial city of Lagos and the capital, Abuja, to protest soaring fuel costs, sparked by a gov

VOA标准英语2012--Game of Jai Alai Struggles to Attract US Fans

Game of Jai Alai Struggles to Attract US Fans Jai Alai is not child's play. The ball weighs about 150 grams and flies at high speed around a playing court, called a fronton. That speed is dangerous and it is what powers the sport. Long time player Jo

US Energy Production Facing Limits of Water Scarcity

US Energy Production Facing Limits of Water Scarcity Nearly all forms of energy production use large amounts of water. Coal, which generates nearly 50 percent of the electricity in the U.S., needs water for mining and transport, and to cool and lubri

VOA标准英语2012--'Virtual Village' Helps Elderly Stay in Own Home

'Virtual Village' Helps Elderly Stay in Own Home At 91, Philip Theil lives in a century-old house in Seattle's University District and that's the way he wants to keep it. As far as I'm concerned, I would not like to leave this place, says the naval a

Book Cooks Up Recipe for Innovation

Book Cooks Up Recipe for Innovation During his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama called innovation the key to America's rebuilding and growth in the century ahead. Inspired by the message, Steven Johnson set out to identify the

VOA标准英语2012--Soccer Helps Haiti Earthquake Amputees Heal

Soccer Helps Haiti Earthquake Amputees Heal At times, it doesn't look like a regular soccer field. It is someone's desperate home. It is not a manicured pitch - cattle sometimes saunter by - but the players are not regular soccer players, either. The

VOA标准英语2012--尼日利亚抗议运动表示不会停止

Occupy Nigeria Movement Says it Wont Stop Fighting Government Corruption 尼日利亚抗议运动表示不会停止 Executive Director of Nigerias Enough is Enough coalition, Yemi Adamolekun was on her way home from an Occupy Nigeria protest in Lagos

VOA标准英语2012--Woman Masquerades as 19th Century Dublin Man in 'Albert Nobbs'

Woman Masquerades as 19th Century Dublin Man in 'Albert Nobbs' It's the morning routine in the kitchen of Morrison's Hotel, a fine Dublin establishment where slender, ruddy-faced Albert Nobbs has worked for almost two decades. But that kind little ma

VOA标准英语2012--MLK Holiday Celebrates Late Civil Rights Leader

MLK Holiday Celebrates Late Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s rise as a civil rights leader began in 1955 when he spearheaded the drive to desegregate public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. By August 1963, Reverend King's push for equal righ

VOA标准英语2012--Heart Attack Risk Soars After Loved One Dies

Heart Attack Risk Soars After Loved One Dies The risk of heart attack goes way up in the hours and days after the death of a loved on, according to new research. Researchers surveyed almost 2,000 heart attack survivors and asked whether someone close