ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Two thousand, nine hundred and seventy-five - that's the estimated number of people who died because of Hurricane Maria in the first six months after the storm struck Puerto Rico. This new death toll was released today, nearly a ye

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 06 July 2007 New estimates by the Indian government and international agencies show that the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India is between two and three million - far less than previously estimated. However, a

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Vietnam Could Become World's Biggest Rice Exporter Long ranked second in terms of rice exporters, Vietnam is expected to export around seven million tons of rice this year. Estimates put Thailand at around 6.5 million tons. Nguyen Van Don, general di

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This is probably your smart phone or that one, or maybe this one. The point is, statistically speaking, it's likely to be a Samsung. The tech-giant catapulted to the top spawn in terms of global smart phone shipment last year. And its trajectory rema

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 July 2006 The U.N. refugee agency is sending the first convoys of aid for Lebanon from Syria today. The UNHCR says it plans to deliver 400 tons of emergency relief supplies to Beirut over three days. ---------- Lebanese Red

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund expect the world economy to shrink this year for the first time since World War Two. As recently as January, the I.M.F. had predicted growth of

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But their energy use is the subject of growing concern and criticism. Transcript of radio broadcast: 11 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Internet is sometimes described as a cloud -- a big, borderless area of computing

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuesday was World AIDS Day, and the latest report on the epidemic provided some reason to celebrate. Experts say new H.I.V. infections have fallen by seventeen percent since two thousand one. Estimates f

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Health Report - A UN Warning About Chemical Dangers This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The United Nations Environment Program is calling for urgent action to reduce what it says are growing risks from chemicals. The agency says in a new r

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How much will it cost to spend the U.S. economy back to health? And who will pay the bill? VOA's Kent Klein in Washington asked economists for their insights on those questions. The U.S. government is spending an unprecedented amount of money to res

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Teleconferencing Promotes Sense of Community Among Hmong Call-in radio Each day around the world, thousands of Southeast Asians pick up their telephones to listen to the radio. They tune in to one of at least 20 different teleconferences, which broad

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By Vidushi Sinha Washington 15 November 2009 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that counting related illnesses the number of deaths from the H1N1 virus is about four times earlier estimates. Federal health officials now say nearly

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By Melinda Smith Washington 14 March 2008 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week released a study estimating that one out of every four teenage girls in the United States is infected with a sexually transmitted disease. The rat

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By Mil Arcega Washington 05 December 2007 Thousands of Iraqis who fled the fighting in their country are now returning home as the violence declines. The Bush administration sees this as proof that the U.S.-led troop surge is working. But a top U.S.

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 05 February 2008 More than 300 Kenyan business leaders are offering their support for former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's mediation effort in the country's political crisis. During a meeting in Nairobi, the group called

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