VOA标准英语2013--Multi, Social Media Play Huge Role in Solving Boston Bombing

Multi, Social Media Play Huge Role in Solving Boston Bombing Millions across the world saw these photos instantly. And this video of the suspects on a surveillance tape from a store across the street from the marathon finish line. Today we are enlist

VOA标准英语2013--Floods Challenge Midwest Farmers

Floods Challenge Midwest Farmers On his land outside Peoria, Darrel Kammeyer is keeping one eye on the rising Illinois River and another on the only thing standing between it and his farmland, a seven-meter-tall levee. It was constructed to hold back

VOA标准英语2013--Music Fans Mourn Country Legend George Jones

Music Fans Mourn Country Legend George Jones In 1955, Jones recorded Why Baby Why, his first hit for Starday Records. Born in Saratoga, Texas, he began performing in local clubs at age 10. In the late 1940s, he worked as a disc jockey at various radi

VOA标准英语2013--Washington Week: Obama Trip to Mexico Keeps Focus on Immigration Reform

Washington Week: Obama Trip to Mexico Keeps Focus on Immigration Reform President Obama had hoped to go to Mexico touting new gun-control laws that would impede the flow of American firearms to Mexicos notoriously vicious drug cartels. The drug war h

VOA标准英语2013--Landmark Election Could Bring Big Change to Malaysia

Landmark Election Could Bring Big Change to Malaysia It is shaping up to be the closest election in Malaysias history. The campaign is pitting the National Front, headed by Prime Minister Najib Razak, against the opposition Peoples Pact, led by forme

VOA标准英语2013--Somalia Hospitals See Fewer War Victims

Somalia Hospitals See Fewer War Victims For over 20 years, the Medina Hospital in Mogadishu has treated the victims of Somalias war. With the biggest emergency care facility in the city, Medina serves as a referral hospital for trauma and surgery cas

VOA标准英语2013--FBI Interviews Boston Area Chechens About Bombing Suspects

FBI Interviews Boston Area Chechens About Bombing Suspects At a picnic with friends, Maryam Baieva and her brother Islam talked about coming to the Boston area as refugees from their native Chechnya more than a decade ago. They are about the same age

VOA标准英语2013--Russians, Americans Build Musical Bridges

Russians, Americans Build Musical Bridges MOSCOW In the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, the Yale Russian Chorus came to Moscow to break the ice between the Soviet Union and the United States. Fast forward 50 years and Americans and Russia

VOA标准英语2013--'Play Lady' Encourages Everyone to Play

'Play Lady' Encourages Everyone to Play On a recent Sunday afternoon, a street in a neighborhood outside Washington has been closed to traffic and transformed into a playground. Children and adults of all ages came outside. That is my exercise. It is

VOA标准英语2013--Militants Target Pakistan's Candidates in Run-up to Elections

Militants Target Pakistan's Candidates in Run-up to Elections Shops in Karachi, Pakistans economic center, shut down following a bloody attack on the regional Muttahida Qaumi Movement party. Targeted by the Taliban for its anti-militant stance, dozen

VOA标准英语2013--2012 Sees Record Number of Internally Displaced

2012 Sees Record Number of Internally Displaced The number of people displaced within their own countries by armed conflict, violence and human rights violations totaled nearly 30-million in 2012. Many of the newly displaced were in Syria and the eas