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NOEL KING, HOST: Before Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, it was a big tourist destination. It was best known for its glowing bay. Mosquito Bay is home to one of the world's brightest bioluminescent bays. NPR's Merrit K
JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG PART1 THE DREAM AND THE PLAN My name is Wang Kun. Ever since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip. Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she persuaded me to
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By Peta Thornycroft Harare 31 March 2008 Zimbabwe's electoral commission has begun releasing official results from the nation's presidential and legislative elections. The announcement of the preliminary tallies, showing the ruling and main oppositio
AMERICAN MOSAIC - Building Begins On Long Awaited African American Museum in Washington JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im June Simms. Today, we speak with writer Susan Orlean, who has a new book about the inter
By Jim Malone Washington 25 October 2007 The lengthy and complicated process of choosing the next president of the United States begins in early January when voters attend party caucuses and cast ballots in primaries to select the presidential nomine
By Phillip Wellman Dakar 10 September 2007 Police keep crowds back from the polling stations after the vote is over Votes are being tallied from Sierra Leone's runoff election Saturday to determine the country's next president. Both the opposition an
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 16 November 2006 Former South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon has arrived in New York to begin preparations for his new job as U.N. secretary-general. He takes over when Kofi Annan completes his 10 years in offic
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 September 2007 The U.N. refugee agency reports the first two out of 40 camps for internally displaced people are to be closed Tuesday in Uganda's northern Lango region as most of the IDPs there have gone home. The UNHCR says
Fort Hood Shooter Trial Begins Tuesday The mass shooting and the arrest of one of its own was devastating to the military base and to the nearby town of Killeen. Most residents are connected directly or indirectly to Fort Hood. They are angry about t
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Joyce Carol Oates is also taken aback by the relevance of her fiction these days. She's written dozens of books, won piles of literary prizes, and she joined our co-host Ari Shapiro to talk about her latest novel, which begins wi
By Melinda Smith Washington 16 September 2009 Part 1 of VOA's 5-part series on Health Care The American health care system has been called one of the best and worst in the world. Many experts say it is certainly the most expensive, costing $2.5 tril
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 20 June 2007 Most parts of Nigeria are quiet as many schools and banks closed, following the start of a general strike to protest government price hikes on fuel. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa reports that the new administration
By Brian Wagner Miami 15 May 2007 A U.S. court has begun hearing testimony from witnesses in the terrorism trial of Jose Padilla, an American convert to Islam. From Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports the alleged al-Qaida recruit is accused of planning
By Barry Wood Washington, D.C. 18 February 2008 The Serbian province of Kosovo, with 90 percent of its population ethnic Albanian, declared independence from Serbia on Sunday. VOA's Barry Wood reports that this latest break with what was once the hea
By Liam Cochrane Kathmandu 19 June 2007 Commencement of the second phase of registration of Maoist army personnel in Ilam, 19 June 2007 The United Nations has begun checking the age and date of recruitment of Maoist fighters in a camp in eastern Nepa
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 19 September 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has begun a two-day peace mission to the Middle East. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, her visit coincided with an unexpected Israeli announcem
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 06 March 2007 Iranian-born Fred Nassiri travels back to his native country for the first time in more than 26 years. For the songwriter and philanthropist who travels the world with his musical message of peace, it will be
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 19 September 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has begun a two-day peace mission to the Middle East. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the talks will focus on the establishment of a Palestinian st
Afghan election officials have begun recounting disputed ballots from the August 20 presidential election. The recount amid fraud allegations leaves open the possibility of a second round for the disputed election. Workers count ballots at the Indep