Most of us may still hold a happy memory in our minds when we were young, the spring festival was celebrated with the company of the flaming box and the loud explosions of firecrackers, but because of the numerous disasters caused by them, govenments

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Ban Ki-moon became the eighth UN General Secretary in 2006. Before then, he was a diplomat in South Korea, where he served as Foreign Minister. His diplomatic service started after graduating from college. His first post was at his nations embassy in

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Broadcast: July 15, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. On July second, the European 1)Parliament agreed to let new 2)genetically changed products enter the Europe

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After Nearly 2 Decades, Californians Revisit Ban On Bilingual Education play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0004:17repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update you

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A crime novel set in Ramallah has been outlawed there and in other Palestinian cities. The Palestinian Authority's attorney general banned the book. He said it contains indecent terms that threaten public morality. Now the author's

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Demand Grows for Global Ban on 'Killer Robots' A human-sized robot joined campaigners outside the British Parliament last month to highlight what they say are the imminent dangers of automated weapons systems - or killer robots. Among them was Americ

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By Melinda Smith Washington 24 April 2007 One of the largest groups of milk producers in the United States has set an August first deadline for its members to stop treating their cows with a growth hormone, or pay more to get their milk to market. Th

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The Asian Development Bank has developed a new benchmark to measure poverty in Asia. The ADB says in a region that has seen stellar growth rates and rising income inequality, its new Asian poverty line can help policy makers measure and compare pove

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Court Overturns California Gay Marriage Ban Those who back the right of same-sex couples to marry cheered the ruling by the three-judge panel in San Francisco. In their 2-1 decision, the judges upheld the ruling of a lower court, saying Proposition 8

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This week marked the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. In two South Asian countries, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, women seeking equality have seen some surprising gains despite ongoing setbacks. VOA's Sarah Williams spoke with Carol Yost

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump's travel ban is back on, partially, after an appeals court ruling over the third version of it. Here's NPR's Richard Gonzales. RICHARD GONZALES, BYLINE: The ruling comes from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In Puerto Rico, cockfighting has been a tradition for centuries. Now it's on the brink of being declared illegal. The farm bill, passed by the U.S. Congress and sent to the president's desk earlier this week, includes a provision

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According to the law as it stands, citizens of late marriage and late childbirth can have an extension of their marriage and maternity leave. That means besides the due marriage leave, men over 25 years old and women over 23 enjoy a bonus leave of 10

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By Dorian Jones Istanbul 07 February 2008 Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling Justice and Development party has won the first of two votes in parliament to change the country's constitution to lift a ban on the wearing of religious headscarves at universi

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By Shahnawaz Khan Srinigar 29 October 2007 The International Committee to Ban Land Mines has been urging nations around the world to ban land mines. While India has resisted the ban because of security issues on its borders, an alliance of insurgents

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By Lisa Schlein Juba, Sudan 04 September 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he fully supports the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ended Sudan's decades-long civil war. He says he told southern Sudan's president th

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The Corrections Minister, Judith Collins, says that smoking in prisons will be banned from July 2011. Prison will be safer because there will be no cigarettes, no lighters and no matches. At the moment, prisoners are allowed to smoke in their cells a

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From today it is illegal to hold your cell phone and talk or text while driving. If you need to use a phone in the car, you must pull over to the side of the road and stop. You may instead use a hand-less phone which works when it hears your voice. T

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Roughly one in every four doctors that work in the United States comes from a foreign medical school. President Trump's travel ban, while suspended for now, puts a spotlight on these physicians who often serve in areas where there

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By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 22 October 2007 Political opposition parties in Pakistan are denouncing a government proposal to ban large political rallies following Friday's deadly attack in Karachi. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that for

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