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Chinese Patriotism Classes Fuel Protest in Hong Kong This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Thousands of protesters -- including teachers, students, parents and pro-democracy activists -- marched in Hong Kong last Sunday. They were protest
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 21 May 2006 Anti-reservation demonstrators shout slogans during a protest rally in New Delhi An Indian government plan to raise college quotas for lower castes and disadva
By Ron Corben Bangkok 23 September 2007 Thousands of Buddhist monks have been joined by an equal number of civilians, marching in Burma's commercial capital, Rangoon, for a sixth consecutive day. Ron Corben reports from VOA's Southeast Asia bureau in
By Marissa Melton Washington 27 January 2007 Peace activists have held another anti-war rally on the National Mall in Washington Saturday, the first such event since Democrats assumed control of Congress. Organizers say they hope participants will st
By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 24 August 2007 Reports from Burma say protests over a doubling of fuel prices appear to be spreading beyond the main city, Rangoon, to other parts of the country. Witnesses say security forces have fanned out across Rangoon to
By Victoria Cavaliere New York 24 September 2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at Columbia University created a furor in New York City. Victoria Cavaliere reports from VOA's New York Bureau protests reverberated all the way to U.S. C
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 25 May 2006 In Egypt, at least 300 pro-reform judges on Thursday stood in silent protest outside the high court, demanding an end to government interference in the judiciary. Several other peaceful protests also took plac
Actor George Clooney Arrested During Sudan Protest Clooney was the star attraction at a protest outside the Sudanese embassy. The demonstrators accuse Sudans President Omar al-Bashir of provoking a humanitarian crisis by blocking food and aid deliver
Protesters Join Funeral of Former British Prime Minister As the funeral procession made its way to the cathedral, opponents of Thatcher lined the route... Turning their backs on her coffin as it made its way through central London. They chanted waste
LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: We'd like to introduce you to the number 82, an especially significant number at this year's Cannes Film Festival because 82 is the number of female directors who've been selected to compete at Cannes - 82 compared with more than
AZUZ: A state of emergency was declared over the weekend in the U.S. state of Virginia. What that does is speed up the help that's needed to a particular area. It could be after a natural disaster, it could be after an outbreak of violence. Tensions
Joyce was one female Brazilian singer who dared to write her own songs. There were no women song writers at all in Brazilian music, so the first, very first time when I appeared on stage, I was booed off stage. That was 1967, I was 19 years old, and
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 27 November 2007 There were more protests Tuesday in the Palestinian territories and in Tehranagainst the Mideast peace conference now under way in Annapolis, Maryland. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem protests in the W
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 09 December 2006 There have been violent protests in the Gaza Strip and West Bank against the Palestinian government led by the Islamic militant group Hamas. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, it is the
By Bill Rodgers Washington, D.C. 07 March 2007 watch Iraq War Protest report A coalition of anti-war groups is planning a march on the Pentagon to protest the Iraq war. The March 17th protest will come on the 40th anniversary of a 1967 march on the
At least 13 people have died as Indian security forces opened fire on protests led by Muslim separatists in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Shahnawaz Khan reports for VOA from Srinagar that police killed four people Monday who were trying to lead a march
By Dorian Jones Istanbul, Turkey 11 October 2007 The vote in a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives calling the massacre of Armenians in World War I by Ottoman Turks a genocide has caused outrage in Turkey. The Bush administration opposed t
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 12 April 2006 South African labor unions and other organizations are forcing a slowdown in cross-border traffic at three of the country's five border posts with Swazila
U.S. President George Bush has arrived in Seoul, South Korea, the first stop on a week-long Asian tour that will also take him to Thailand and China for the opening of the Beijing Olympics. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the South Korean capital,
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Insulin is getting more and more expensive, and that's costing lives. Some people with Type 1 diabetes have died because they couldn't afford the insulin they needed to live. Diabetes activists like Angela Lautner of Elsmere, Ky.